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Naval Open Source INTelligence (Free subscription) | yesterday
Rejecting a news report suggesting that Turkey has cancelled a deal with Israel for purchasing unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül, has announced that Turkey has given Israeli contractors 50 days to fulfill the long-delayed deal for the delivery of the Israeli-made surveillance drones, known as Herons. The delays in the project, launched in 2005, have come...
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Tangible Information (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
BÜLENT KORUCU They were really going to see off the AK Party The Taraf daily has dropped yet another bombshell. The details of the allegations which can be found in the pages of the paper are blood curdling. If the report is correct, then the naked truth is this: Someone or some people were determined to see off the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), and they were willing to risk everything...
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Tangible Information (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Arı sponsors pro-Ergenekon conference at US Congress Gareth H. Jenkins, the author of �?Between Fact and Fantasy: Turkey�?s Ergenekon Investigation,” which many pundits find to be too one-sided, spoke yesterday at a conference in Washington on the Ergenekon trial sponsored by the Ari Foundation. The Arı Foundation, a civil society organization previously known for its...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
CHATHAM HOUSE Briefing Paper Gareth Winrow, November 2009 Download Paper here Ankara's rapprochement with Moscow has come under question after the August 2008 Russo-Georgian conflict. Turkish officials had believed that they shared common interests in preserving the territorial integrity of states in the Caucasus. The effectiveness of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party's good-neighbourhood...
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Al-Manar "17/11/2009 The Islamic party and other groups in Morocco are preparing to rally against the upcoming visit of Israeli opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni , and a protest focusing on the former Israeli foreign minister's part in Operation Cast Lead is scheduled to take place in Tangier on Thursday . Saad Al-Din Al-Othmani, the secretary general of the Islamic-leaning Justice and Development...
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The organization sends appeals to the residence of Turkish prime minister and the central committee of Justice and Development Party.
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Islamism or Islam'—Islamist or Islamic? By Dr. Andrew Bostom Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan (with his colleague, Iranian President Ahmadinejad): “There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it” During the autumn of 1843, in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey, Sir Henry Layard [1], the British archeologist, writer, and diplomat, witnessed the punishment mandated...
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Mac|Life all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Where can I get a keypad for my MacBook Pro? Targus states that theirs is Mac compatible, but it will not work with the Mac version of Excel. Is anything else available? We haven’t tried that Targus keypad, but we’ll take your word for it. The Adesso 19-Key Mobile USB Numeric Keypad with Retractable Cable (model AKP-150) retails for $24.99 at www.adesso.com , but we found it on Amazon...
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Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Pro-opposition MPs criticized the AKP's decision to discuss the Kurdish move on Nov. 10.
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Council on Foreign Relations (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Turkey hopes to be a global power, but it has not yet become even the regional player that the ruling AKP declares it to be.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated that he would be a candidate in parliamentary elections for the last time, Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported Monday. Turkey is scheduled to hold its next general elections in the year of 2011. Erdogan told a tourism award ceremony in the Turkish largest city Istanbul on Sunday that the bylaws of his ruling Justice and Development Party...
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Narrator (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
OPINION EUROPENOVEMBER 5, 2009, 5:20 P.M. ET Ankara's Islamist government is turning away from the Western alliance. By DAVID SCHENKER The European Union has long debated the merits of Turkish EU membership. But now, nearly a decade after Islamists took the reins of power in Ankara, the central question is no longer whether Turkey should be integrated into Europe's economic and political structure,...
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Istanbul Calling (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I have a new piece up on the Christian Science Monitor about how Turkey's foreign policy ambitions are forcing it to confront some of the "domestic" problems that for decades have been no go areas for the country. Without solving these issues (Kurdish, Armenian and Cyprus problems, in particular), Ankara's ability to achieve many of its foreign policy goals in the region could be severely...
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Snuffysmith's Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Serious Turkish diplomacy By: Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann Leverett October 29, 2009 Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was expected to come to the White House on Thursday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Erdogan’s visit has now been postponed, and the decision to postpone comes on the heels of the Turkish leader’s high-profile visit to Iran this week. When...
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Middle East and Other Musings (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Thanksgiving without Turkey, but we still have Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, Boxer, Barney, Dodd and Murtha. (See 1 and 1a below.) Get ready for the debate whereby the U.N. to be given more control over our nation's destiny. (See 2 below.) Meanwhile, Obama is doing a pretty good job of dismantling our nation. Wake up America! (See 2a below.) The author writes war with Iran is something Obama wants because...
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