I’m not often surprised by news stories of major international significance. Typically such stories build over time. The sinking of a South Korean ship by the North has its roots … [Keep reading >>]
The Swedish parliament on Thursday recognised the massacres of Armenians during World War I as genocide, immediately sparking a diplomatic row with Turkey.
Its resolution, which the government had opposed, “signifies … [Keep reading >>]
Danny Ayalon seems not to have understood Charlie Chaplain’s famous “my chair is bigger than your chair” scene in The Great Dictator, in which Adenoid Hynkel tries to humiliate Benzoni … [Keep reading >>]
If Eric Holder, the Department of Justice and the President of the United States can not get a hold of the smoking hot Sibel Edmunds allegations about corruption, possible treason, … [Keep reading >>]
Even the high and mighty can’t escape it; the real world of suffering intrudes.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey walked off the stage after an angry exchange with the … [Keep reading >>]
This is the way Ankara’s Turkish Daily News covered the bombings: “The first images broadcast by NTV showed scenes of panic, with people covered in blood and disoriented as they … [Keep reading >>]
As with much of Middle-East news, Juan Cole and associates, is the place to turn for information about Turkey. The news of an ultranationalist coup-in-the-making being busted up made … [Keep reading >>]
“Kurdish rebels could launch suicide attacks against American interests to punish the U.S. for sharing intelligence with Turkey after Turkey bombed rebel bases, a spokeswoman for a wing of a … [Keep reading >>]
Turks are rallying behind the government’s decision to send air and ground troops into Kurdistan. Writing in Ankara’s The New Anatolian, Ilnur Cevik lays out what he sees as … [Keep reading >>]
Turkish artillery shelled northern Iraq on Friday morning, but there were no immediate reports of any casualties or material damage, a Kurdish government official said.
Reuters
Juan Cole picks up similar reports … [Keep reading >>]
While too many are all in a tittering dither about Congressman Charlie Wilson’s go-it-alone seat-of-the-pants foreign policy in Afghanistan in the 1980s too few have been curious at all about … [Keep reading >>]
Al Jazeera is reporting that Turkey has launched another raid into PKK controlled areas in Iraq: “Tuesday’s air attack came despite leaders of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region calling for an … [Keep reading >>]
