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Iraqi president expresses support for Turkish govt 6 Jul 2008 15:10 GMT
... Iraqi president expresses support for Turkish govt on Sunday expressed support for the ... and the AKP, which won a decisive re-election victory last year despite a divisive campaign ... have often appealed for our Kurdish brothers in Turkey to stop the war and join the ...
Malaysia: Deja Vu all over again 6 Jul 2008 13:31 GMT
... politics went into overdrive. In the March election, the ruling National Front lost the two-thirds ... sodomy. Anwar immediately took refuge in the Turkish embassy, fearing that the next step would ...
Anwar's opposition holds rally as Malaysia's political turmoil deepens - UPDATE 6 Jul 2008 10:31 GMT
... deepened his unpopularity after disastrous March general elections. Anwar, who is fighting back against new ... him, causing Anwar to flee to the Turkish embassy, saying he feared for his life. ...
Anwar's opposition holds rally as Malaysian turmoil deepens 6 Jul 2008 09:32 GMT
... deepened his unpopularity after disastrous March general elections. Anwar, who is fighting back against new ... him, causing Anwar to flee to the Turkish embassy, saying he feared for his life. ...
Waltz with Nasrallah 6 Jul 2008 08:12 GMT
... The dialogue with Israel is progressing; another "Turkish round" took place last week, and Syrian ... stating that the discussions held last week in Turkey were intended to lead to direct negotiations. ... States joins the discussions after the presidential elections, Syria and Hezbollah will have to reexamine ...

Hezbollah chief's rivals criticize handling of prisoner swap. 6 Jul 2008 08:12 GMT
... The dialogue with Israel is progressing; another "Turkish round" took place last week, and Syrian ... stating that the discussions held last week in Turkey were intended to lead to direct negotiations. ... States joins the discussions after the presidential elections, Syria and Hezbollah will have to reexamine ...
Turkey arrests retired generals in coup probe 6 Jul 2008 07:55 GMT
... The IHT's managing editor, Alison Smale, analyzes European and ... Smale, discusses international interest in the U.S. elections. ...
The Struggle for Civilization 6 Jul 2008 06:32 GMT
... The "War on Terror" is over, even as combat ... a defeat in Algeria. Frustrated when their election win was abrogated by the government in ...
Malaysia's Anwar to address rally as turmoil deepens 6 Jul 2008 06:17 GMT
... whose government is reeling from March general elections that produced the worst showing in its ... him, causing Anwar to flee to the Turkish embassy saying he feared for his life. ...
Ole - Ole, Ole, Ole 6 Jul 2008 06:16 GMT
... a Jew from London was captured by Turkish pirates, the Jews of Istanbul were obliged by their religion to pay ... They seem to talk about peace. The Turks are inviting negotiators from Israel and Syria ...
Little-known Magee memorial in Oakland links political boss, famous sculptor (07/04/2008) 6 Jul 2008 05:15 GMT
... Little-known Magee memorial in Oakland links political boss, ... sewers, he could in turn get the voters' undying political loyalty." In the end, Muller ...
Erdo�an and Kemalist establishment trade blows at each other 6 Jul 2008 04:26 GMT
... in politics. (AsiaNews) – The fight between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ... that they plan to introduce Islamic law in Turkey. Whilst Mr Erdoğan has another new party ... Code. It is no therefore accident that Istanbul is plastered with posters saying: “We have ...
Sunday, July 13 6 Jul 2008 01:30 GMT
... after his death. 1822 - Greeks defeat Turks at Thermopylae in Greece. 1854 - Abbas I, ... in three days of disorder. 1878 - Russo-Turkish War ends, resulting in gradual expansion of Russian ... after his party is humiliated in parliamentary elections. 1999 - In Peru, President Alberto Fujimori ...
Zimbabwe election turned into a denial of democrac 6 Jul 2008 01:13 GMT
... As the Presidency stated on 28 June 2008, the ... to vote freely in the run-off presidential elections, which the UN Secretary-General had asked to ...
where the cod have had their chips 6 Jul 2008 00:50 GMT
... name of a woman he knew from Turkish wars whose relationship to Smith, whom she ... mayors as Gloucester tortures itself with an election every two years – Carolyn Kirk, has ...
Lebanon's new status quo of contradictions 6 Jul 2008 00:50 GMT
... BEIRUT — Hezbollah's armed insurrection in May, which ... accord, negotiated in Doha, Qatar, providing for election of a president after a long stalemate, ...
Turkey's 'Brutuses': Betrayal in Turkish political culture 6 Jul 2008 00:50 GMT
... illness present in the right wing of Turkish politics, in which the "second men" rise ... Zaman, Professor Abdülkadir Çevik, who teaches at Ankara University's faculty of psychiatry, notes that the ... he does acknowledge that in recent years in Turkey the frequency of these sorts of situations ...
Overcooked by politics 6 Jul 2008 00:23 GMT
... dropping out. Second, seeking refuge at the Turkish Embassy focused international attention on Anwar's plight. ... that he was about to announce a by-election, that four MPs were about to jump ...
Turkey crisis: Hopes of democracy are hanging in the balance 5 Jul 2008 23:32 GMT
... political scientists call tutelary democracy. In the Turkish context, they mean a democracy in which ... supported the AKP in the last two elections. They did so because they saw it ...
[G�LEN AND THE AK PARTY] A common quest for democracy or something more? (2) by Mehmet Kalyoncu* 5 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT
... is the headscarf ban, which has traumatized Turkish society time and again over the last ... lifted only when true democracy is achieved in Turkey. Therefore, from his perspective, there is no ... one can expect that in the next elections the Gülen movement would favor a political ...
[G�LEN AND THE AK PARTY] A common quest for democracy or something more? (1) by MEHMET KALYONCU* 5 Jul 2008 23:30 GMT
... the AK Party with one another, most Turks see the two as natural allies in ... … [breaching] the country's secular constitution." Many Turkish intellectuals and academics point rather at the ... Party, as an attempt to consolidate democracy in Turkey. However, the controversy over the relationship between ...
The ARS Meeting in Asmara and the Voice of Profound Somalia 5 Jul 2008 20:50 GMT
... intelligence � even only until the US elections in November) may prolong the Abyssinian army ... Duroselle, and defended the rights of the Turkish, Pomak, Macedonian, Vlachian, Arvanitic, Latin Catholic, and ... Turkish origin, Prof. Megalommatis studied and/or worked in Turkey, Greece, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Syria, Israel, ...
Asian churches celebrate Pauline Year 5 Jul 2008 19:15 GMT
... This evening, June 27 the vigil of the feast ... capital, Ulan Bator, following last weekend's parliamentary elections Now awaiting signing by President Musharraf, a ... food crisis. Ruling Communists are accused of voter fraud The planned Olympic sailing competition at ...
Roots of cracks in NRM 5 Jul 2008 18:50 GMT
... While on a recent tour of Kabale, President Yoweri Museveni ... partly been characterised by especially the young Turks in the party, has been joined by the ... has opted to appoint people defeated in elections thus creating two power centers. “When someone ...
Sean-Paul Kelley: Municipal Wireless, The World and Obama 5 Jul 2008 17:50 GMT
... The future doesn't happen in America now. I can ... was also an extensive free network in Istanbul. Denmark, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and several ... work to be done than just one election. This isn't an encomium for Obama, no ...