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H1 Ha’aretz Secret understandings reached between representatives from Israel and Syria Draft includes Israeli withdrawal to 1967 line; Syria would end support for Hamas, Hezbollah, distance itself from Iran. By Akiva Eldar From Turkey, via Europe, to Syria The full text of the document Timeline of talks

IraqSlogger US Papers Tuesday: Death and Protest

Guardian Iraqis will never accept this sellout to the oil corporations Kamil Mahdi: The US-controlled Iraqi government is preparing to remove the country's most precious resource from national control.

A hollow surge Rosemary Even if security is restored to the streets of Baghdad, the weakness of the Iraqi government could spell failure for Bush's plan.

We are not leaving, Gates warns Iran Tehran sends out diplomatic feelers amid row over arrests.

New York Times Top U.S. General in Iraq Says New Plan to Pacify Baghdad May Take Months to Show Results

Los Angeles Times Iraq edges closer to Iran, with or without the U.S. Despite White House efforts to confront Iranian influence in Iraq, Iraqis echo Tehran's calls for release of five men caught in raid.

Financial Times

COMMENT: Simplify, then exaggerate:the neo-cons' route to disaster The current debacle in Iraq is what you get when you turn op-ed columns into foreign policy. Does that conclusion strike you as simplified and exaggerated? Maybe so – but that’s journalism, writes Gideon Rachman.

The Times Allies 'go after' Iran as beefed-up naval force sails for Gulf In an effort to blunt Iranian influence, US forces are told to detain Iranian agents in Iraq and to strengthen American military presence in the Gulf

The immediate obstacle lies in Baghdad, not Tehran

Washington Post Rivkin and Casey: Rules for Congress on Iraq

Richard Cohen: Tunnel Vision on Iraq Our Tunnel Vision Iraq is not Vietnam, but America is still America -- and we still don't know what in the world we're doing.

Rice Announces 3-Way Talks on Palestinian State: Meeting With Olmert and Abbas Would Address Issues Informally

Major Investment Bank Warns Against Israeli Attack on Iran

Porter Bush's New Iran Policy: War Plan or Propaganda?

Christian Science Monitor How the United States is deferring war costs As war spending on Iraq and Afghanistan nears the levels for Vietnam and Korea, concern is rising over the 'borrow now, pay later' approach.

Iran: driving new Saudi diplomacy?

In an unprecedented meeting, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah met with members of Hizbullah.

Israel buzzes over notion of attacking Iran The country promises intensified diplomatic actions if Iran fails to comply with a UN resolution on its nuclear activities.

H2 TODAY's ZAMAN News Op-Ed Columnists Interviews

Turkey Ponders Cross-border Operation

[NEWS ANALYSIS] Turkey abandons ‘hands-off’ policy on Iraq

Soli Özel Turkey Faces West
by Soli Özel Will the European Union’s recent rebuff deter Turkey from the path of Westernization charted by its Islamist government? (attachment)

UK Ambassador Baird: Fluent in ‘imperative Turkish’

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Turkey’s intelligence-gathering dilemma

Turkish, Armenian Businesses Demand Border Opening

WP Use of Kurdish Troops in Baghdad Debated

Kirkuk Is Exploding

Kerkük Kürtlerin ve Kürt kalacak

Yusuf KANLI Rhetoric vs. capability

Google News Kurdish Kurdish Media

Bir büyük yazarın küçük hesapları
Nuray Mert

Cüneyt Ülsever Yaşar Kemal’in gafı!

Türkiye'de barışa dair umutlar MEHMET UZUN

Nasuhi Güngör Kerkük tuzağından korunmak gerek

Berat Özipek Anadil, resmi dil ve sağduyu

Hasan CEMAL Kerkük'te zaman!

Aksiyon Töre Değil, Cehalet - Tuba Kabacaoğlu

İki 'çözüm arama' toplantısı... İkisinde de taraflardan biri yok...
Altan Öymen

İlnur Çevik Discussing Kirkuk without the Kurds?

Iraklı siyasî gruplar Ankara'da Kerkük'ü tartıştı

Ertuğrul Özkök Başyazarla bir tartışma

Kürtler’in petrol payı yüzde 21’e kadar çıkabilir

Hüseyin Bağcı Are Kurdish intellectuals free of political sin?

Güneri CIVAOĞLU
Kurban olam Kerkük!

DTP olağanüstü kongreye gidiyor

'Barış Konferansı' Kürtleri ikiye böldü

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Önce rehine Kürtleri kurtarmak gerek

Yunanistan'daki PKK'lılara inceleme

Turkish State’ racism and the Kurdish websites KurdishMedia.com - By Hadi Elis When it comes to a word “Kurd", Turks do not know what to do.

Turkish threats will not undermine the hopes of Kurdish people By Mufid Abdulla Turkey is a country that needs to put its own house in order before attempting to enter any other domain.

Öcalan’a suikast girişimi

Can Ataklı Türkler değil Kürtler barışı aramalı

Ankara panel: Kirkuk's future up to all Iraqis

Oktay Ekşi Barışı herkes ister...

Google News Greece - Cyprus

Gül: AB'ye önce biz kendi içimizde inandık Funda Özkan

Barroso and Prodi back continuation of Turkey's EU talks

İlter Türkmen Tablo iç açıcı değil

Cengiz Aktar AB müzakereleri ve Yunanistan

ERDAL ŞAFAK Ufuktaki bela

Ali Bayramoğlu Kıbrıs’taki asker-sivil kavgasının anlamı...

Ankara’dan AB’ye sessiz baskı

Almanya’da başörtü yasağına onay

"Vatandaş Dimitri" Turgut Tarhanlı

Şahin Alpay "Derin Katalunya"

Ahmet Taşgetiren Küresel insanî kriz

Başbakan'ın iki önerisi de uygulanamaz İsmet Berkan

Ercan Kumcu Şehirlerde taşıt adedini sınırlamak rant ve yolsuzluk yaratır

Today's Zaman için ne dediler?

H3 Ruşen Çakır ABD’de bir devir kapanırken/2 Demokratların seçim zaferinin ardından Türk-Amerikan ilişkilerinin geleceği

Peter Galbraith: “Bush Irak işgalinden önce Sünni-Şii ayrımını bile bilmiyordu”

ASLI AYDINTAŞBAŞ Bir konferansın anatomisi

Kürtçe ve siyasi af talebi

Taha AKYOL Yaşar Kemal'i eleştiriyorum

Teşbihte hata Gündüz Aktan

The Kurds will get all of us in trouble GÜNDÜZ AKTAN

Ümit ÖZDAĞ Irak’a asker yollamak mı yoksa (1)

NAZLI ILICAK Tayyip Erdoğan veya Abdullah Gül Cumhurbaşkanı olacak

M. Ali BİRAND Erdoğan kızınca, Irak politikası karıştı

MUHARREM SARIKAYA Kırmızı sınırı aşmak...

Mr. Bush'a açık mektup
Hasan Celal Güzel

Enis Berberoğlu Karayılan hastanede ihbarını kim yaptı?

Bayar Ermeni yasası geçecek, mühim olan kamuoyunu hazırlamak

Former US envoy predicts 'genocide' resolution will pass

Türkiye'nin kaygıları önemli

Cengiz Çandar TOBB'un Filistin seferi Rice'ın İsrail temaslarını gölgeledi

Murat Yetkin Ortadoğu'da barışa engel çok, ama umut tükenmiyor

MEHMET OCAKTAN Ankara'nın K. Irak'taki 'stratejik korkutma kartı…'

İBRAHİM KARAGÜL İsrail komutasındaki peşmergeler sınırda!

Derya SAZAK Asker yetkisi

AKP, Irak için genel görüşme isteyecek

Sami KOHEN Farklı bir "yeni Ortadoğu"...

Gila Benmayor ’Barış İçin Sanayi’ Projesi Ortadoğu’da yeni umut ışığı

Aksiyon MİT’in yeni vizyonu istihbarat,

Fikret BİLA Baykal'dan Erdoğan'a 'kapalı oturum' önerisi

İç Basında Türk Dış Politikası

Dış Basında Türkiye-AB İlişkileri - Dış Basında Güncel Türkiye Bülteni

Dış Basında Irak BBC Turkish 0700

Dış Basında Türkiye Turkish Press Review Google News Turkey Turquie Türkei TurcoPundit

Amerikan F-16'ları eğitim için İncirlik'te

Mahir Kaynak Kim kimin dostu?

Şamil Tayyar MİT’in adam öldürme yetkisi var mı?

FEHMİ KORU Bir şeyler oluyor, ama ne?

TAHA KIVANÇ Bana düşmez, ama...

AKİF EMRE AB'nin sınırı, Türkiye'nin geleceği

Hadi Uluengin Irak gerçeği ve hayali

HAKAN ALBAYRAK "Ben bilmem paşaport maşaport!"

Savaş SÜZAL
Cumhurbaşkanlığı için Washington’dan destek aramak

[Yorum - Doç. Dr. Birol Akgün] Yeni Irak stratejisinin başarı şansı ne kadar?

Fikret ErtanBağdat operasyonu

Bilal Çetin Küçük sağ partilerde ortak cephe arayışı

Tamer Korkmaz Çankaya'nın Yazgısı Beyaz Saray'ın Elinde Değil

Nuh Gönültaş Başbakan’dan “Süper” oyalama taktiği...

MİT'in gizli belgesi basına nasıl sızdı

ABD'de yeni Ermeni tasarısı geliyor

Seyfettin Gürsel Haziranda erken seçim

Asaf Savaş Akat 2007 tahminleri

Ekonomi üzerine ahkâm kesmek
Mahfi Eğilmez

İşsizlik oranı yüzde 9.3’e geriledi

Enerjide yanlışlık başka yerde
Korkmaz İlkorur

Güngör URAS / Elektrikte özelleştirmenin ertelenme nedeni

Hurşit GÜNEŞ Petrol fiyatlarının düşmesinin getirdikleri

Japonya, Türkiye’nin gizli IMF’si, Japonya’nın Türkiye’ye yaptığı hibe ve kredi yardım miktarı 5,1 milyar doları geçti. Japonya, 2007’de enerji ve ulaşım sektörlerinde yeni işbirliği ve yatırımlar hedefliyor.

Azerbaycan’ın özendiren yükselişi,

H4 New York Times Top U.S. General in Iraq Says New Plan to Pacify Baghdad May Take Months to Show Results

Democrats Seek the Middle on Social Issues Democrats in Congress say they are committed to governing from the center, even on divisive social issues.

EditorialEnergy Time We cannot continue to hold our national security and the health of the planet hostage to our appetite for fossil fuels.

Rice Plans a Joint Meeting With Mideast Leaders

Defense Secretary, in Afghan Capital, Scolds Iran

France Proposed Merger With Britain in ’56

Second Hanging Also Went Awry, Iraq Tape Shows The execution of Saddam Hussein’s half brother ended with the noose decapitating him after he dropped through the gallows trapdoor.

Rice Speaks Softly in Egypt, Avoiding Democracy Push The secretary of state’s visit indicated that the United States has decided that stability, not democracy, is its priority in the region.

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Car Washes and Genocide Genocide may be the worst of crimes, but historically it has also brought out the best in some people.

Editorial

H5 Washington Post Rivkin and Casey: Rules for Congress on Iraq

E.J. Dionne Jr.: Huckabee's War Edge in '08

Richard Cohen: Tunnel Vision on Iraq Our Tunnel Vision Iraq is not Vietnam, but America is still America -- and we still don't know what in the world we're doing.

Rice Announces 3-Way Talks on Palestinian State: Meeting With Olmert and Abbas Would Address Issues Informally

Ending an Opium War Anne Applebaum | Poppies and Afghan Recovery can both bloom.

Some Detainees Fall Into Limbo Five years later, Guantanamo fails to fairly and quickly handle the cases of hundreds of prisoners.

Interrogation Research Is Lacking, Report Says

H6 GuardianBrown's doctrine has to be more than 'Neither Washington nor Brussels'
David Clark: Tony Blair is unlikely ever to have to face trial for war crimes, but he has left his successor a challenge that cannot be ducked.

Iraqis will never accept this sellout to the oil corporations Kamil Mahdi: The US-controlled Iraqi government is preparing to remove the country's most precious resource from national control.

We are not leaving, Gates warns Iran
Tehran sends out diplomatic feelers amid row over arrests.
Ahmadinejad's future in doubt as MPs rebel

A hollow surge Rosemary Hollis Jan 15 07, 03:34pm: Even if security is restored to the streets of Baghdad, the weakness of the Iraqi government could spell failure for Bush's plan.

Cords that cannot be broken Dilip Hiro: President Bush has said the Pentagon will track down Iranian networks in Iraq, but he appears not to understand two of the main factors.

Decapitation during execution of Saddam's henchmen provokes new wave of Sunni anger

An insufficient surgeAlan Mendoza Jan 15 07, 08:01pm: President Bush's troop surge risks inflating expectations without necessarily providing the firepower to deliver.

Incroyable, but true ... France's 1956 bid to unite with Britain

MI6 dispute Blair's Saudi claim
Britain's secret intelligence service, MI6, has challenged the government's claim that a major corruption inquiry into Saudi Arabian arms deals was threatening national security.

A not-so-special relationship
Simon Tisdall, world briefing: When Ségolène Royal met a Hizbullah MP in Beirut last month, her relatively limited experience of foreign affairs almost caused an international incident.

A prayer with no meaning
Joe Moran: The market summary at the end of the news has become a ritual daily tutorial in neo-liberalism.

Bomb failure foiled tube attacks
Men fled after home-made explosives did not detonate, court hears.
July 21 suspects under surveillance

Germany bids to outlaw denial of Holocaust in Europe Nazi symbols and racist speech 'should be banned'.

EU warned of new wave of illegal immigrants European commission warns of fresh wave of illegal migrants arriving on beaches of southern Europe this summer

Yushchenko stripped of power by parliament · 'Lame duck' Ukraine president plans to appeal
· Former orange revolution ally votes with opposition

H7 Major Investment Bank Warns Against Israeli Attack on Iran

What's next -- war with Iran? (By H.D.S. Greenway)

BBC Confronting Iran
Both with rhetoric and actions George Bush is squeezing Tehran

Porter Bush's New Iran Policy: War Plan or Propaganda?

Juan Cole Iraq for Land: Can Jordan, Egypt and other Sunni Arab States Get a Real State for the Palestinians, Peace for Israel, and Peace for Iraq all at Once? Will Bush even let them Try? 1/15/2007 06:29:00 AM

Mullahs are Vulnerable By: David Waddington | The Washington Times Mr. Ahmadinejad's wild rhetoric, his regime's fomenting of crises in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine and its determined pursuit of nuclear weapons are signs of weakness and not strength.

From Salon, an interview with Michael Ledeen on Iranian regime change: "Faster, please!"

Impending energy threat

A Time for Middle East Peace By: Clifford D. May | National Review
At this moment, given the current Palestinian leadership and the support it receives from Tehran, the chance of resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict is as low as it’s ever been. Why those who style themselves as foreign-policy “realists” claim otherwise is a mystery; as is their bizarre insistence that the road to peace in Iraq runs through Jerusalem

The Irrelevance of Military Victory by Rep. Ron Paul

H8 Google News Iraq Iran Syria Mideastwire.com - NPR Iraq

Analysis: Differences Snarl Iraq Plan

'Time is Running Out' In Iraq
ABC News Ray Odierno, the top commander of US ground forces in Iraq, says the current surge of 21500 troops is not "open-ended" and warned that "time is running out"

BBC Criticism of Iraq hangings grows UN and EU leaders criticise the executions in Baghdad of two of Saddam Hussein's top aides.

Questions raised by hangings

Rice seeks Saudi backing on Iraq

A review of The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn.

Want to know whether Bush's new Iraq strategy will work? Just check the Kalashnikov Index in Baghdad. Or world opinion.

Residents say snipers are firing at random on Haifa Street

Restoring Order: Conquering Iraq in the 13th and 21st centuries. Could Genghis Khan teach the US?

Egypt Backs US Strategy on Iraq

Iraq Balks at US Plans for Iran, Syria

H9 Ha’aretz Secret understandings reached between representatives from Israel and Syria

Yedioth Ahronoth Understandings reached'
Document of understandings for peace deal formulated in series of unofficial meetings between representatives from Israel, Syria and Europe, Haaretz reports. According to document, Israel will withdraw to lines of June 4, 1967

Ha’aretz Get set for the earthquake A survey that appeared in Haaretz shows a clear political shift: Likud has risen from 12 seats to 29, while Kadima has shriveled into a party smaller than Shinui.

Moscow's Mideast myopia Iran's influence in the Mideast has been strengthened partially due to diplomatic protection it has received from Russia and China.

Oren Ayalon can do it, Barak cannot Barak is waiting in the wings, in anticipation of the Winograd Committee's report. This may well bring down the entire defense leadership. But he will have difficulty presenting himself as the new broom to sweep away the debris left by the Winograd Committee.

Jerusalem Post 'There was no breakthrough with Syria'
PMO, Steinitz, Shalom deny report of agreements in talks between 2004-06

Our World: Olmert's heirs apparent
[ CAROLINE GLICK

Betting on wrong horse/ Breiman

Daily Alert.org - EJC Israeli Press Review Google News Israel

Rice to preside over meeting with Israelis, Palestinians

BBC No breakthrough
Rice's Mid-East tour expected to bring little immediate change

Hamas 'planned to murder Abbas'

Fatah accuses Hamas of plotting to kill its leaders, after tunnels filled with explosives are found in Gaza.

From The New York Times Magazine, does Abe Foxman have an anti-anti-Semite problem? He has spent his life fighting bigotry. But how he fights, and whom he’s fighting, are now the issues.

review of A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance.

H10 Christian Science Monitor How the United States is deferring war costs As war spending on Iraq and Afghanistan nears the levels for Vietnam and Korea, concern is rising over the 'borrow now, pay later' approach.

Iran: driving new Saudi diplomacy?

In an unprecedented meeting, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah met with members of Hizbullah.

Israel buzzes over notion of attacking Iran The country promises intensified diplomatic actions if Iran fails to comply with a UN resolution on its nuclear activities.

Bush's troop 'surge' shapes 2008 race

Opinion: America's role in Somalia

In Spain, bitter rift over fighting terror

For the first time since the 1970s, a major political party decided not to join in an anti-ETA march.

ASIAIs Bangladesh the Next Afghanistan? By: Joshua Kurlantzick and Anirudh Suri | The New Republic Left unchecked, Bangladesh could become another Afghanistan--a base for regional terrorism--and damage America's growing relationship with South Asia. Yet the United States and other major powers are paying little attention to the crisis in Dhaka.

Central Asia’s Other ‘Turkmenbashis’ By: F. Stephen Larrabee | The Japan Times In the next few years, Central Asia will face leadership change on many fronts, with security apparatuses -- which, as in Turkmenistan, have been crucial to buttressing these countries' regimes -- likely to be important players.

Trade Deal Will Link Beijing and ASEAN By: Carlos H. Conde

H11 IHT BP may have to cede some control of Russian venture

Gazprom and Rosneft are jockeying for the right to buy out BP's Russian partners, a move that could come by this spring.

Sarkozy, France's tough guy, files down his rough edges
The presidential hopeful's message is getting softer, and vaguer.

Germany seeks to modernize policing across EU

Attack on U.S. embassy jolts Greek complacency on terror

EUROPE BBC Spain's PM admits Eta 'mistake'

The Spanish PM says he made a "clear mistake" by pinning his hopes on peace talks with the Eta Basque separatists.

Basque country's broken peace

Spanish march against Eta attack

Who are Eta?

From Open Democracy, why a European Union dependent on energy supplies from states that violate human-rights norms must not abandon principle to self-interest. A look at how Germany's role in Europe is changing. From German Law Journal, a special issue on What Future for Kosovo? The former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia made 18,000 people disappear in the blink of an eye. Now it wants the world to forget its experiment in ethnic cleansing

H12 RFE/RL

Google News Azerbaijan

Russia: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery By: Charles Wolf | The Daily Star
Fifteen years after the Soviet Union collapsed and split apart, Russia still fits Winston Churchill's characterization of Stalin's USSR nearly seven decades ago: "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

H13 The Times Ready to Talk An Israeli-Palestinian summit provides reason for hope

Outrage as executioners bungle hanging of Saddam's brother
The last moments of Saddam Hussein's half-brother are a gruesome piece of footage. See Stephen Farrell's latest video diary from Baghdad

Allies 'go after' Iran as beefed-up naval force sails for Gulf In an effort to blunt Iranian influence, US forces are told to detain Iranian agents in Iraq and to strengthen American military presence in the Gulf

The immediate obstacle lies in Baghdad, not Tehran
Bronwen Maddox: World Briefing
President Bush is accusing Iran of working against the US and is threatening that it will face unspecified consequences if it does not stop

French Connection Where might we be today if France had formed a union with Britain in 1956?

Libby Purves
Could it have lasted, a United Kingdom stretching from Shetland to the Mediterranean?

Wall Street Journal The Poor Get Richer
Incomes in the developing world start to catch up.
By MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY

Reviving Japan's Military A postwar taboo lying in the path of a resurgent Japan has been removed.
By MICHAEL J. GREEN

H14 Financial Times

COMMENT: Simplify, then exaggerate:the neo-cons' route to disaster The current debacle in Iraq is what you get when you turn op-ed columns into foreign policy. Does that conclusion strike you as simplified and exaggerated? Maybe so – but that’s journalism, writes Gideon Rachman.

Iranian leaders speak out against US

Bush ally hopes to win over Islamic world

COMMENT: Cycles of optimism and pessimism There are great entrepreneurs on every continent. But there has been something sinister about Europe’s ability to smother the ambitions of its entrepreneurs, says Julie Meyer, of Ariadne Capital

COMMENT: Cycles of optimism and pessimism It is not inconceivable that the US economy wil get stuck for a while in a ‘pessimistic equilibrium’ while the opposite occurs in the eurozone, writes Paul de Grauwe of the University of Leuven.

Keep pouring oil on troubled watersIt must be galling for Opecs oil ministers to watch prices slide in spite of their hawkish words. But short-term price volatility is no reason for production cuts on top of those the cartel has already agreed to.

Europe's opportunity

COMMENT: Let Scotland vote on the Union The tercentenary of the Act of Union is as good a time as any to ask whether the marriage has a future. We should give the Scottish National party its referendum, writes Philip Stephens.

COMMENT: The influx of workers demands welfare reform

COMMENT: Japan's future looks brighter than Germany's

Sarkozy gains new momentum over Royal

A France-UK political union? Dream on

H15 Los Angeles Times Iraq edges closer to Iran, with or without the U.S. Despite White House efforts to confront Iranian influence in Iraq, Iraqis echo Tehran's calls for release of five men caught in raid.

Bring in the blue helmets Niall Ferguson: For Iraqis to recognize the legitimacy of any force, Bush has to hand over the country's security to the United Nations.

Apple Pie and the Middle East By: Michael Oren | Los Angeles Times
Realists claim that replacing a faith-based policy with an agenda based solely on economic and strategic interests will return the United States to its traditional posture in the Middle East. In fact, long before the rise of radical Islam and even the discovery of oil, Americans worked to bring liberty and human rights to the Middle East. For well over 200 years, U.S. citizens have sought to endow Middle Eastern peoples with the same inalienable liberties Americans enjoy at home.

Anger greets bodies of executed in Tikrit

History's warning to Hugo Chavez

By Alexandra Starr The last Venezuelan president whose appeal depended on high oil prices saw his power crumble when prices dropped.

H16 American Politics

WP Bush Shifts Deficit Burden to Democrats President is calling the bluff of Democrats, who won control of Congress in part by accusing Bush of reckless fiscal policies, political analysts say.

NYT Democrats Seek the Middle on Social Issues Democrats in Congress say they are committed to governing from the center, even on divisive social issues.

I Have a Dream - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Iraq Plan Tricky for '08 Presidential Aspirants

Politics at Forefront in Libby Trial

realclearpoliticsABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec

Another chance for Gore?

(By Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist)

Washington Times The Reagan example As the presidency of George W. Bush enters its seventh year, Mr. Bush has to carefully consider how he can be an effective wartime president when both houses of Congress are controlled by the opposition party.

GOP lawmakers dispute purported cost of border fence

H17 Daily TelegraphThe threat from Iran

Iran has been actively involved not only in supplying the Iraqi insurgency with arms and manpower but also in a more sophisticated programme of political infiltration.

Iran 'taking control of Basra by stealth' Iranian intelligence prepares to dominate southern Iraq.

H18 Independent Gypsy-haters, holocaust-deniers, xenophobes: the EU's new political force Europe's far-right parties have crossed a new threshold, winning more influence in the European Parliament than ever before.

Leading article: Misfits, bigots and malcontents

Zapatero admits 'clear mistake' in trying to negotiate with Eta

British troops may leave within a year, says Iraqi Vice-President

Washington trial forces Cheney into the spotlight

An unlikely marriage: how France proposed to the UK

Foreign ministers attempt to revive EU constitution

Miguel Angel Moratinos and Jean Asselborn: This enlarged Europe needs a new constitution

The big question: What would happen if Scotland achieved its independence?

Blair dismisses civil liberty dangers of super-database

H19Military Intelligence Terrorism

Naval Transformation, Ground Forces and the Expeditionary Impulse: The Sea-Basing Debate
SSI This 69-page monograph reviews the past, present and future contribution of maritime forces to the conduct of expeditionary operations

Challenging Transformation's Cliches SSI

New security body may form policymaking core The Japan Times

Pakistan will close four camps to foil Afghan terror

Europe Hopes to Thwart Terrorists With a High-Tech Aircraft That Snoops

Growing Role of Military Irks US Allies

The New Post-Conflict Strategy: Building Domestic Capacity for Reform
CIPE A 10-page article arguing for approaching post-conflict reconstruction by building it around local groups

H20 Slate

A review of Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the AQ Khan Network

From The New Yorker, an article on Azzam the American: The making of a homegrown jihadi.

A review of American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion.

Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility after 9/11: A Handbook for Scholars and Teachers
Source: Task Force on Middle East Anthropology

H21 PAPER: For first time, more American women living without a husband than with one...

Ruins in Northern Syria Bear the Scars of a City’s Final Battle

Technology's Web of Eyes Ordinary Americans leave a trail of digital data that is being gathered, stored and analyzed while they seldom realize it.

Now is the time to rediscover John Maynard Keynes’s revolutionary ideas for an international trade organisation and adapt them to rebalance the world’s economies in the 21st century

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Cengiz Çandar


"... fantastic .... an outstanding and unique service, not just for those who follow Turkey closely, but those who follow international trends and ideas. ... selection of material is some of the best anywhere ... coverage of the Turkish press and Turkish issues is truly unsurpassed .... outstanding and intelligent service"

Graham Fuller


"... extremely useful"

Andrew Mango


"FPR olmadan ne yapardım ya da bugüne kadar ne yapmışım bilemiyorum"

Soli Özel


"Güne başlamak için FPR’den daha iyi bir yol düşünemiyorum"

Hasan Ünal


Makaleler


Ankara ve Güneydeki Riskler 29 Aralık 2011
İslamcı Dalga Üzerine 5 Aralık 2011
Ankara’ya Suriye ile İlgili Bazı Tahlil, Tahmin, Uyarı ve Öneriler 2 Kasım 2011
İran ile İlgili Son Amerikan İddiaları ve Türkiye 16 Ekim 2011
Ankara Suriye’de “Rejim Değişikliği” Politikasına Geçerken 28 Eylül 2011
Türk Dış Politika Gündemine Dair 7 Kısa Not 6 Eylül 2011
“Zafer İlan Et ve Kaç:” ABD ve Afganistan’dan “Sorumluca” Çekilmenin Mantığı 23 Haziran 2011
Orta Doğu'da Durum Raporu 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine Notlar 25 Mayıs 2011
Bin Ladin’in Öldürülmesi Üzerine 15 Kısa Not 3 Mayıs 2011
ABD ve Karadeniz Nisan 2011

Türkiye Beşar’a Ne Demeli? Suriye'de “52 Cuma” Reformsuz Geçmez 20 Nisan 2011
Amerika-Sonrası Dünyanın Provası Olarak Libya Krizi ve Türkiye 22 Mart 2011
“Demokratikleştiremediklerimizden misiniz?”: Orta Doğu’daki Değişim Dalgasının Neden, Şekil ve Olası Sonuçları 10 Şubat 2011
Analiz Üzerine Notlar 14 Ocak 2011
Wikileaks Üzerine Notlar ve Yorumlar 23 Aralık 2010
Enerji ve Güvenliği Üzerine Notlar 29 Kasım 2010
Amerikan Travması ve Kongre Seçimleri 23 Kasım 2010
Füze Savunması Üzerine 20 Soru ve 5 Seçenek 20 Ekim 2010
Obama Ekibinde Yaprak Dökümü - Beyaz Saray’dan Kaçış mı? 12 Ekim 2010
"Kürt Devleti" Üzerine Notlar ve Çeşitlemeler 23 Eylül 2010
Mullen’ın Ankara Ziyareti 7 Eylül 2010
ABD’nin Afganistan’daki Seçenekleri 24 Ağustos 2010
Financial Times Haberinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Düşündürttükleri 18 Ağustos 2010
İsrail-ABD-İran-Türkiye Dörtgeni 26 Temmuz 2010
Bay Netanyahu Washington’a Gitti: Böyle mi Olacaktı, Obama? 16 Temmuz 2010
Stratejik Dehlizlerde Derinlik Sarhoşluğu: Bir AKP Dış Politikası Eleştirisi Temmuz 2010
Rus Casusluk Olayı: "John Le Carre mi, Austin Powers mı?" 5 Temmuz 2010
“Mahalleye Hoş Geldin”:Türkiye’nin Orta Doğu’da İlk Günü 02 Haziran 2010
Nükleer Takas: “Savaşı Bitiren Anlaşma” mı, “Acem Oyunu” mu? 20 Mayıs 2010
ABD Irak’tan Çekilirken Riskler ve Hesaplar 1 Mayıs 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Normalleşme” Sancıları 22 Nisan 2010
Obama’nın Nükleer Cazibe Taarruzu: Bardağın Üçte Biri Dolu 9 Nisan 2010
ABD-İsrail İlişkilerinde “Tektonik Kayma” mı? 5 Nisan 2010
Irak Seçimleri: Sonun Başlangıcı, Başlangıcın Sonu 19 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010
Ermeni Karar Tasarısı Üzerine Notlar, Yorumlar ve Öneriler 8 Mart 2010 (word)
Bütçe Açığı ve Amerikan Gerilemesinin Ekonomi Politiği 19 Şubat 2010
Cemaat-skeptic 6 Ocak 2010
AKP bir seçim daha kazanırsa burası FC olur 4 Ocak 2010
ABD bu işin neresinde? 29 Aralık 2009
Türkiye-Ermenistan Protokolü Üzerine Düşünceler 3 Eylül 2009
"Obama’nın Savaşı":AfPak Üzerine Notlar 20 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Ardından 17 Nisan 2009
Obama’nın Türkiye Gezisi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 19 Mart 2009
ABD ve Orta Doğu Barış Süreci Mart 2009
Obama’nın “Kırkı Çıkarken” Mart 2009

ABD-PKK “İlişkisi” Üzerine Notlar Şubat 2009
Mahşerin Üç Atlısı: Ross, Holbrooke ve Mitchell 5 Şubat 2009
SOFA ABD için Irak’ta “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Ocak 2009
Obama Döneminde ABD ve Asya 15 Ocak 2009
Obama’nın Güvenlik Kabinesi Üzerine Notlar 4 Aralık 2008
Yeni ABD Başkanı Obama ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri 6 Kasım 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimlerinin Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerine Muhtemel Etkileri 30 Ekim 2008
ABD Başkanlık Seçimleri Ekim 2008
Obama’nın Biden’ı Tercihinin Bir Tahlili 26 Ağustos 2008
Amerikan Sağı Üzerine Notlar Ağustos 2008
Gürcistan Krizi, ABD ve Türkiye 11 Ağustos 2008
Obama'nın Dış Gezisi 29 Temmuz 2008
Başkan Bush’un Avrupa Gezisi ve Transatlantik İlişkileri 18 Haziran 2008
ABD Seçimleri (ppt) - 10 Haziran 2008
"Sessiz Tsunami": Global Gıda Krizi (ppt) - 29 Nisan 2008
Amiral Fallon'un İstifası 13 Mart 2008
ABD ve PKK İlişkisi Üzerine Notlar 22 Kasım 2007
“İçeride Liberal, Dışarıda Şahin”: K. Irak’a Harekat Üzerine Notlar 25 Ekimy 2007
K.Irak'a Ekonomik Müeyyideler Üzerine Sorular 25 Ekimy 2007
Irak "Hamle"sinin Muhasebesi Eylül 2007
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri - Yeni Dönemin Gündemi Eylül 2007
ABD, K. Irak ve Türkiye Üzerine Notlar ve Sorular Haziran 2007
ABD ve Orta Doğu: "Müflis mirasyedi" mi "stratejik deha" mı? Mayıs 2007
Recommendations for Strengthening U.S.-Turkish Relations February 26, 2007
ABD'nin Irak'taki Seçenekleri Ocak 2007
'Topal Ördek'le İki Yıl Daha: 2006 Kongre Seçimleri Aralık 2006
U.S.: Empire, Gulliver or the “First Among Unequals” (ppt) - ASAM 2023 Conference - October 2006
Türk-Amerikan İlişkilerinde “İkinci Bahar” mı, “Sonun Başlangıcı” mı? Stratejik Analiz - Haziran 2006 -
Irak’ta Direnişin ve İşgalin Gölgesinde Demokrasi Deneyi Avrasya Dosyası - İslam ve Demokrasi Özel Sayısı
Gurur ve Önyargı: ABD İran Gerginliği ve Türkiye Stratejik Analiz Nisan 2006 - (pdf)
Arzın Merkezine Seyahat: ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Konseyi - Journey to the Center of the World: U.S. National Security Council Avrasya Dosyası 2005
Dört Tarz-ı Siyaset: Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Başbakan Erdoğan’ın Washington Ziyareti Temmuz 2005
11 Eylül’den Sonra Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri: Eski Dostlar mı Eskimeyen Dostlar mı? Avrasya Dosyası - 2005
“Dört Yıl Daha”: Yeni Bush Yönetimi ve Dünya Aralık 2004
2004’ten 2005’e Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Aralık 2004
Türkiye, Iraklı Kürtler ve Statükonun Meşruiyeti Nisan 2004 - eksik
Askerî Alanda Devrim: Askerî Bir Senfoni Ocak 2004
Çirkin Amerikalı’ ile ‘Güven Bunalımı’: ‘Süleymaniye Krizi ve Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Temmuz 2003 - ( pdf )
The Middle East: A Land of Opportunity and Peril for Turkey - May 2003
Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri Üzerine Notlar: Ataerkil Yapıdan Tüccar Mantığına mı? Mayıs 2003
Türkiye, ABD ve Irak Harekâtı: Hayır Diyebilen Türkiye? - Şubat 2003
Değişim, ‘Sense of Proportion’ ve Tarihin Yararları ile Sınırları Üzerine Nisan 2003
ABD Güvenlik Politikalarında Güç Kullanımı ve Caydırıcılık Ağustos 2002
“Yalnız Kovboy” ya da “Eşit Olmayanlar Arasında Birinci”: ABD Dış Politikasında Tektaraflılık-Çoktaraflılık Tartışmaları Mart 2002
İyi, Kötü ve Çirkin: ABD'nin Orta Doğu Politikaları Ocak 2002
Unilateralism corrupts, absolute unilateralism corrupts absolutely Turkish News, May 21, 2002
ABD ve Afganistan: Çıkış Var mı? Kasım 2001
Realism and Change
Crime and Punishment - Deterrence and its Failure in Theory and Practice 2001
“Tüketebileceğimizden Daha Fazla Değişim” ya da Eskimeyen Dünya Düzeni Ekim 2001
“ABD-AB İlişkilerinde Metal Yorgunluğu” Haziran 2001
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