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Seeking Safety in Turkey: Syrian Refugees Describe Horrors of Assad Crackdown

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Der Spiegel - By Hasnain Kazim - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Syrian President Bashar Assad is driving away his own people, say refugees who have fled into Turkey. Eyewitnesses describe executions, random violence and bodies in the streets. But despite the exiles' suffering, many Turks are suspicious of their motives for crossing the border.

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Deaths as fresh protests rock Syria

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 17 (News) - Anti-government protests have begun in several towns and cities across Syria, with the army reportedly entering a town in the rebellious northwest. Rallies started in Homs, Hama, Deraa, Jableh and other cities after Friday prayers.

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Syrian troops 'widening' crackdown

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 14 (News) - Syrian security forces are reportedly widening an operation in the north of the country aimed at cracking down on anti-government protests.

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A hollow victory for Turkey's Erdogan?

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK party won a third term in Sunday's parliamentary elections. It secured just under 50 per cent of the vote, with 326 of the 550 seats in parliament. But the AKP will not be able to make unilateral constitutional changes as it is 40 seats short of the two-thirds majority needed to re-write the constitution without the co-operation of other parties.

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WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Andrew Brown, Heather Brooke - Dec. 11 (News) - Vatican diplomats also lobbied against Venezuela's Hugo Chávez and wanted 'Christian roots' enshrined in EU constitution The pope is responsible for the Vatican's growing hostility towards Turkey joining the EU, previously secret cables sent from the US embassy to the Holy See in Rome claim. In 2004 Cardinal Ratzinger, the future pope, spoke out against letting a Muslim state join, although at the time the Vatican was formally neutral on the question. The Vatican's acting foreign minister, Monsignor Pietro Parolin, responded by telling US diplomats that Ratzinger's comments were his own rather than the official Vatican position. The cable released by WikiLeaks shows that Ratzinger was the leading voice behind the Holy See's unsuccessful drive to secure a reference to Europe's "Christian roots" in the EU constitution. The US diplomat noted that Ratzinger "clearly understands that allowing a Muslim country into the EU would further weaken his case for Europe's Christian foundations".

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WikiLeaks give rare glimpses of how royals are viewed

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Andrew Carey - Nov. 30 (News Report) - The diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks throw up revealing details about how the world looks at Britain's royal family, as well as highlighting the occasional episode when erstwhile-royal behavior forces its way on to the agenda of international meetings.

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Anchors aweigh

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Oct. 21 (Special Report) - Turkey has made astonishing progress in the past decade, says John Peet. But how will it fare if the IMF and the EU are not there to keep it on the straight and narrow?

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Armenians worship in eastern Turkey, and for some it's bittersweet

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Gokce Saracoglu, Borzou Daragahi - Sep. 20 (News) - A Sunday service at a historic church in eastern Turkey underscored both the desire for reconciliation between Turks and Armenians and the hurdles that remain nearly a century after a violent massacre of Armenians. It was the first service held in the 1,100-year-old Armenian Church of the Holy Cross since 1915, when a wave of violence nearly destroyed one of the largest Christian communities in the Middle East.

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Turkish Reforms Pass by Wide Margin

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sebnem Arsu, Dan Bilefsky - Sep. 12 (News) - Turkish voters approved a sweeping package of constitutional reforms by a wide margin on Sunday, handing a major victory to the Islamist-rooted government that continued the country’s inexorable shift in power away from the secular Westernized elite that has governed modern Turkey for most of its history.

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IDF blames intelligence for Gaza flotilla 'mistakes', but defends use of commandos

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Haaretz - By Anshel Pfeffer - Jul. 12 (News Report) - The Israel Defense Force committee investigating the navy's deadly raid on a Turkish-flagged aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip found the incident to be the consequence of failed intelligence and a lack of proper preparation for the operation, according to its report released on Monday.

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Blockade on Gaza eased – but diplomatic fallout from flotilla attack grows

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Catrina Stewart - Jul. 06 (News) - Turkey has threatened to sever ties with Israel over the deadly raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, undermining Israeli efforts to end its deepening international isolation by launching a new policy in the Gaza Strip.

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Turkey wants Israel apology, but Israel rejects demand

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Ibon Villelabeitia - Jul. 05 (News Report) - Turkey will cut ties with Israel unless it receives an apology over a deadly Israeli raid on a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza, the Turkish foreign minister said, but Israel on Monday said it had no intention of doing so.

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Supreme Court upholds law against advising terrorists

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By David G. Savage - Jun. 22 (News Report) - In a 6-3 vote, justices say human rights advocates can be prosecuted if they advise members of a foreign terrorist group, even if they urge them to settle their disputes through peaceful means.

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Turkey Goes From Pliable Ally to Thorn for US

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Sabrina Tavernise, Michael Slackman - Jun. 09 (News Analysis) - The change in Turkey’s policy burst into public view last week, after the deadly Israeli commando raid on a Turkish flotilla, which nearly severed relations with Israel, Turkey’s longtime ally. Just a month ago, Turkey infuriated the United States when it announced that along with Brazil, it had struck a deal with Iran to ease a nuclear standoff, and on Tuesday it warmly welcomed Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Russian prime minister, Vladimir V. Putin, at a regional security summit meeting in Istanbul.

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Israel's seizure of Gaza aid boat Rachel Corrie sparks further condemnation

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Harriet Sherwood - Jun. 06 (News) - Autopsy reports on the dead activists yesterday revealed that five had gunshot wounds to the head. The US joined the growing international chorus for the siege to be eased.

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American, 19, Among Gaza Flotilla Dead

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Zoe Magee - Jun. 03 (News Report) - A U.S. citizen who lived in Turkey is among the nine people killed when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship heading for the Gaza Strip, officials said today. The victim was identified as Furkan Dogan, 19, a Turkish-American. A forensic report

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Israeli troops raid aid flotilla headed for Gaza, killing nine

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Janine Zacharia - Jun. 01 (News Report) - Flotilla organizers, who for a week had been girding for a confrontation with Israel, said that the troops used excessive force and that those killed were unarmed, while Israeli officials insisted that the commandos acted in self-defense. Israel now faces widespread international condemnation and fresh calls for it to end its blockade of Gaza, which is intended to isolate the Islamist Hamas movement that rules the territory.

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Deadly Israeli raid on aid fleet

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - May. 31 (News Report) - Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board.

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BBC News - Israel faces flotilla raid fallout

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Jonathan Marcus - May. 31 (News Report) - This was always going to be a high-risk operation for Israel, both in terms of reputation and diplomatic repercussions. Taking over vessels at sea is no easy task, even if the units carrying out the mission are well trained, and it is especially difficult if the people already on board the vessels resist. The full details of what happened will emerge in time, but in political terms the damage has already been done. The deaths threaten to make what was always going to be a potential public relations disaster for Israel into a fully-fledged calamity. But the political ramifications could be even more serious. A Turkish charity had a major role in organising this flotilla.

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Iran's nuclear move may derail U.S. efforts on sanctions

Tue, 18 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Paul Richter, Christi Parsons, Borzou Daragahi - May. 18 (News Report) - An agreement by Iran to send much of its nuclear fuel abroad clouded prospects for U.S.-led plans to impose further economic sanctions on Tehran over its controversial nuclear development program.

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Turkey recalls ambassador after US resolution on 'Armenian genocide'

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Yigal Schleifer - Mar. 05 (News Report) - Turkey has recalled its ambassador to Washington after the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives today passed a resolution that described the mass murders of Armenians during World War I as the “Armenian genocide.”

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The Bomber's Wife

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By Adem Demir, Chritopher Dickey - Jan. 07 (News Report) - In an exclusive interview with Newsweek Türkiye, the wife of the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan talks about her husband's life and beliefs.

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Istanbul: sultans and shopping beside the Bosphorous

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Barbara Ellen - Jan. 02 (Special Report) - Balanced between faiths and continents, Istanbul is the 2010 Capital of Culture, and the year?s must-do city break It?s more than a little embarrassing that one of our first experiences in Istanbul was being ripped off in a "rookie tourist sting". It happened to me, and my travelling mate, Emma, as we took a night cab back to our hotel, the Ciragan Palace Kempinski, on the western (European) shore of the Bosphorus. Cabs were already proving expensive – the Ciragan is some way from the main sightseeing areas, and the traffic was particularly dire because our visit coincided with Istanbul?s annual marathon. As much as this made the city difficult to navigate, it was worth it to see the streets festooned with colourful bunting, bearing ...

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Turkey's Guilty Conscience

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Christian Caryl - Oct. 13 (Special Report) - One of the world's thorniest historical conflicts is on the verge of being solved. But long-term peace between Turkey and Armenia might be as hard to achieve as a lasting Middle East truce.

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As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Jun. 21 (News Report) - Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds.

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