Month: July 2010

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July 29, 2010
Bryza Wrongly Tells Senators: Armenian Patriarch is Dead

Barack Obama ran for the Presidency on a platform of “change” and promised to bring a fresh approach to domestic and foreign policy issues. After the election, however, he disappointed his supporters by continuing many of his predecessor’s policies.

One example of Pres. Obama’s failure to break with the past is his nomination of Matt Bryza as the next Ambassador to Azerbaijan. Bryza is a relic from the Bush Administration with a checkered and controversial past. He is a liability rather than an asset to the Obama administration and the United States.

For several months, Bryza had been going around Washington, dropping not so subtle hints that he will become the next Ambassador to Azerbaijan. The fact that it took almost a year before he was actually nominated to that post, indicates that there were serious complications, including concerns by Russia about Bryza’s role in the Georgian-Russian war, Azerbaijan’s objection to his backing of Armenia-Turkey protocols, conflict of interest allegations about his wife’s work, and questions about his wedding expenses.

Given all of these controversies, Bryza would have never been nominated as Ambassador to Azerbaijan, were it not for some powerful friends at high places. According to press reports, Dan Fried, former Assistant Secretary of State, had personally recommended Bryza to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the post of ambassador.

Bryza’s marriage to Zeyno Baran, a native of Turkey, generated the most controversy. The issue was not her ethnic origin, but what she did for a living, as Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think thank that reportedly receives funding from ExxonMobile and other energy companies. According to Washington Times, “Turkish and Azerbaijani business interests funded a major conference at the Hudson Institute, which was organized in part by Mrs. Bryza.” The newspaper quoted ANCA as stating that “the policy positions that Mrs. Bryza has advocated have often been aligned with … the interests pursued by the Azerbaijani government and energy corporations with interests in the Caspian [Sea] region,” and that “Mr. Bryza might be in violation of federal ethics rules because of his wife’s connections to Turkish and Azerbaijani business interests.”

Bryza was extensively questioned about his possible conflicts of interest during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s July 22 hearing on his nomination as Ambassador to Azerbaijan. In response, Bryza told the Senators that the U.S. government had thoroughly checked his family’s finances and “uncovered no conflicts of interest.” He further told the Senators that his wife “Zeyno has undertaken a pledge to refrain from bringing any issue related to the Hudson Institute before…the State Department or before the U.S. Embassy in Baku.” Needless to say, his wife’s reported “pledge” is not a legally binding commitment.

Another controversial issue addressed by Bryza at the hearing was the serious allegation that Heydar Babayev, former Azeri Minister of Economic Development, helped pay for the Bryzas’ lavish 2007 wedding in Istanbul. Infuriated by the accusation, Babayev sued the Azeri newspaper that had published the story. The journalist who had written the report was arrested and beaten, before fleeing the country. He has since filed a lawsuit against Azerbaijan in the European Court of Human Rights.

Bryza assured the Senators that it is “absolutely untrue” that Minister Babayev had financed his wedding. Nevertheless, should the European Court find that Minister Babayev had in fact helped pay for the wedding, Bryza could face several serious charges, including violation of U.S. government’s gift acceptance and disclosure policy, non-reporting of such contribution to IRS as income, and perjuring himself during Senate testimony.

Bryza proudly announced to the Senators that he and his wife had invited to their wedding people they had known during the course of their work over the last decade — including government officials, diplomats, opposition leaders, NGO’s, and religious leaders in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cyprus and Greece. Bryza stated that among the invitees to the wedding was “the Armenian Patriarch Mesrob, now deceased!”

As is widely known, the Armenian Patriarch of Turkey is very much alive, even though he suffers from dementia. It is simply astounding that Bryza does not know that Patriarch Mesrob is still alive — someone he felt close enough to invite to his wedding! One hopes that this error is not indicative of how misinformed Bryza is about key people and events in that critical part of the world, where he seeks to represent the United States.

Bryza Wrongly Tells Senators: Armenian Patriarch is Dead Barack Obama ran for the Presidency on a platform of “change” and promised to bring a fresh approach to domestic and foreign policy issues. After the election, however, he disappointed his supporters by continuing many of his predecessor’s policies. One example of Pres. Obama’s failure to break with the past is his nomination of Matt Bryza as the next Ambassador to Azerbaijan. Bryza is a relic from the Bush Administration with a checkered and controversial past. He is a liability rather than an asset to the Obama administration and the United States. For several months, Bryza had been going around Washington, dropping not so subtle hints that he will become the next Ambassador to Azerbaijan. The fact that it took almost a year before he was actually nominated to that post, indicates that there were serious complications, including concerns by Russia about Bryza’s role in the Georgian-Russian war, Azerbaijan’s objection to his backing of Armenia-Turkey protocols, conflict of interest allegations about his wife’s work, and questions about his wedding expenses. Given all of these controversies, Bryza would have never been nominated as Ambassador to Azerbaijan, were it not for some powerful friends at high places. According to press reports, Dan Fried, former Assistant Secretary of State, had personally recommended Bryza to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the post of ambassador. Bryza’s marriage to Zeyno Baran, a native of Turkey, generated the most controversy. The issue was not her ethnic origin, but what she did for a living, as Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based think thank that reportedly receives funding from ExxonMobile and other energy companies. According to Washington Times, “Turkish and Azerbaijani business interests funded a major conference at the Hudson Institute, which was organized in part by Mrs. Bryza.” The newspaper quoted ANCA as stating that “the policy positions that Mrs. Bryza has advocated have often been aligned with … the interests pursued by the Azerbaijani government and energy corporations with interests in the Caspian [Sea] region,” and that “Mr. Bryza might be in violation of federal ethics rules because of his wife’s connections to Turkish and Azerbaijani business interests.” Bryza was extensively questioned about his possible conflicts of interest during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s July 22 hearing on his nomination as Ambassador to Azerbaijan. In response, Bryza told the Senators that the U.S. government had thoroughly checked his family’s finances and “uncovered no conflicts of interest.” He further told the Senators that his wife “Zeyno has undertaken a pledge to refrain from bringing any issue related to the Hudson Institute before…the State Department or before the U.S. Embassy in Baku.” Needless to say, his wife’s reported “pledge” is not a legally binding commitment. Another controversial issue addressed by Bryza at the hearing was the serious allegation that Heydar Babayev, former Azeri Minister of Economic Development, helped pay for the Bryzas’ lavish 2007 wedding in Istanbul. Infuriated by the accusation, Babayev sued the Azeri newspaper that had published the story. The journalist who had written the report was arrested and beaten, before fleeing the country. He has since filed a lawsuit against Azerbaijan in the European Court of Human Rights. Bryza assured the Senators that it is “absolutely untrue” that Minister Babayev had financed his wedding. Nevertheless, should the European Court find that Minister Babayev had in fact helped pay for the wedding, Bryza could face several serious charges, including violation of U.S. government’s gift acceptance and disclosure policy, non-reporting of such contribution to IRS as income, and perjuring himself during Senate testimony. Bryza proudly announced to the Senators that he and his wife had invited to their wedding people they had known during the course of their work over the last decade — including government officials, diplomats, opposition leaders, NGO’s, and religious leaders in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cyprus and Greece. Bryza stated that among the invitees to the wedding was “the Armenian Patriarch Mesrob, now deceased!” As is widely known, the Armenian Patriarch of Turkey is very much alive, even though he suffers from dementia. It is simply astounding that Bryza does not know that Patriarch Mesrob is still alive — someone he felt close enough to invite to his wedding! One hopes that this error is not indicative of how misinformed Bryza is about key people and events in that critical part of the world, where he seeks to represent the United States.

July 28, 2010
NHS accused of racism

The NHS has been accused of racism after figures showed applicants from ethnic minorities find it harder to get a job, are more likely to be bullied if they do and have more grievances taken out against them.

Figures from the South East Coast NHS, one of ten regions in England, found that although black and minority ethnic groups made up almost a third of applicants for jobs they only represented 16 per cent of appointees.

Rob Berkeley, deputy director of the Runnymede Trust, a racial equality think tank, told the Health Service Journal: “The patterns are broad enough to suggest it’s about institutional racism. The NHS has been slower to address it.”

The data show three per cent of the 193 executive directors were black and ethnic minority in origin along with only 2.5 per cent of non-executive directors.

Candy Morris, chief executive of NHS South East Coast, said: “We recognise that we need to do more to address the needs of black and minority ethnic patients and members of the public as well as provide greater leadership opportunities for black and minority ethnic staff members.”

A spokesman for the Department of Health said The Race Equality Service Review had shown there were still areas of concern.

The Telegraph

July 28, 2010
The neocon mistranslation game now trains its sights on Putin

By Wayne Madsen

The neocons, who can always be relied upon to lie, cheat, steal, fabricate, have also refined the propaganda art of mistranslating foreign language quotes of various foreign leaders for their own insidious purposes.

In 2006, the corporate media hyped the supposed statement in Farsi by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad that Israel should be “wiped off the map.” In fact, what Ahmedinejad actually said was”the regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.” Certainly, regime change, something the neocons advocate against governments hostile to their global designs, is not the same as wiping a nation off the map.

The mistranslations of Ahmedinejad’s speeches were largely courtesy of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Mossad front operation that operates out of a post office box in Washington, DC.

It now appears that Reuters, taking a page from MEMRI, is conducting the same kind of mistranslation operations against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In a July 24 report from Foros, Ukraine, Putin is quoted that he recently met the so-called Russian spies, arrested in the United States and swapped for four Western agents imprisoned in Russia. The article claimed that Putin said he “sang Soviet songs” with the expelled agents told them he admired what they did. However, one of the expelled agents, Anna Chapman is only 29 years old and she would have only ten years old when the USSR collapsed.

Reuters was apparently playing as fast and loose with translations of Russian as MEMRI does with Farsi and Arabic. RIA Novosti reported that what Putin actually said was he and the expelled agents “sang patriotic songs accompanied by live music and talked about life during the meeting.” That is certainly different than Putin, an ex-KGB agent, singing “Soviet songs” as part of some sort of nostalgic remembrance of the former Soviet Union and KGB. But that is the picture painted by Reuters from Ukraine, a nation that is embedded with operatives of the CIA’s master-manipulator of disinformation tactics in the former Soviet bloc, George Soros.

The neocon Wall Street Journal also ran with the “Soviet song” story, when, in fact, one of the songs was from a 1968 series that ran on television in Moscow. The Guardian (UK), which has suspiciously hyped the Wikileaks’ leak of tens of thousands of classified documents dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan and had to point out that it did not pay Wikileaks for the material, described the TV show theme song as a “sentimental Soviet song.” Putin did not call the song Soviet — that task was taken up by certain Western media like The Guardian, which are more interested in propaganda dissemination than in news reporting.

A former U.S. intelligence analyst who tracked Russian government communications told WMR, “The Russian word for Soviet is советский (Sovetskiy). The Russian word for patriotic is отечественный (otechestvennyy). Putin either said Soviet or he said patriotic. If Putin was speaking in Russian, as of course he would, then these words could not have been ‘mistranslated’ by Reuters. Patriotic Russians these days do not sing the Soviet anthem.”

Putin was also reported to have told the alleged Russian agents, “As far as those people are concerned — everyone of them had a tough life.” Reuters reported that Putin was referring to the expelled agents. However, according to the former U.S. intelligence analyst, Reuters, again, appears to have mistranslated Putin’s comments. The ex-analyst said, “When Putin spoke of ‘their life being hard,’ he was not referring to the alleged hard life of the so-called Russian spies. He was speaking generically about the difficulty of being a spy.” Putin was a KGB agent assigned to East Germany during the Cold War.

Reuters and RIA Novosti agreed on one of Putin’s comments to the swapped agents. Putin said he knows those who betrayed the agents by name. Putin said of the scandal, “As I said earlier, this came as a result of betrayal. They [the betrayers] always end up badly taking to drink or drugs, in a gutter’ he said, adding that he knew all betrayers by their names.”

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has also been a victim of mistranslations from the same “usual suspects.” In 2006, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles launched a polemic against Chavez claiming he said, “the world has wealth for all, but some minorities, the descendants of the same people that crucified Christ, have taken over all the wealth of the world.” The canard of Chavez’s anti-Semitism was echoed by the neocon Weekly Standard, as well as the Voice of America. In fact, Chavez was not talking about Jews but the Romans and Spaniards.

Chavez actually stated, “The world has an offer for everybody but it turned out that a few minorities — the descendants of those who crucified Christ, the descendants of those who expelled Bolivar from here and also those who in a certain way crucified him in Santa Marta, there in Colombia — they took possession of the riches of the world, a minority took possession of the planet’s gold, the silver, the minerals, the water, the good lands, the oil, and they have concentrated all the riches in the hands of a few; less than 10 percent of the world population owns more than half of the riches of the world.”

The neocons would have the world believe that Chavez said the Jews expelled Simon Bolivar from Venezuela, when in fact he was referring to the Romans who crucified Christ and the Spaniards who expelled Bolivar. Facts matter little to the neocons whose stock in trade is comprised of mistruths, half truths, and blatant forgeries.

Ousted President Manuel Zelaya was also subjected to mistranslations after he re-entered Honduras and was given refuge in the Brazilian embassy. Again, the culprits were the “usual suspects,” particularly the Miami Herald.

WMR exposed this disinformation tactic: “The Herald reported on a telephone interview with Zelaya and said the Honduran leader said he was being subjected to ‘high-frequency radiation’ from Israeli mercenaries who are supporting the Honduran junta. The paper also reported that Zelaya said that the Israelis were using ‘mind-altering’ gas and radiation. In actuality, that is not what Zelaya stated in his conversation on September 24 with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was attending the UN General Assembly session in New York. Chavez said he spoke to Zelaya by phone at 1:00 pm EDT and the Honduran leader said a piece of equipment on the rooftop of a neighboring home had been recovered and brought into the embassy by Zelaya loyalists. When Zelaya checked the gear’s serial number on the Internet, it turned out the equipment was a cell phone jamming device manufactured in Israel. What Zelaya stated to Chavez and presumably to the Miami Herald is that the junta and its Israeli private security company advisers were jamming the cell phones of those holed up inside the embassy. Zelaya never spoke of radiation death rays but that is the impression the Herald gave and it was quickly picked up by various neocon and Zionist-controlled media outlets.”

The cold warriors and their allies — the Zionists, the right-wing Cuban exiles, and other retrogressive elements in the Obama administration — appear hell-bent on re-creating the Cold War. Putin joins Ahmedinejad, Chavez, and Zelaya in the neocon mistranslation arena of lies and distortions. The latest ploy of the neocons is to paint Putin as an unrepentant Soviet KGB agent.

Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.

Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report

, Jul 28, 2010,

July 28, 2010
CYPRUS: WHAT PEACE?

by Rauf R.DENKTAS

“Peace is not merely the absence of war, but presence of the rule

of law, justice democracy and human rights” is the view of Mr. Andreas

S.Kakouris who is accepted by the US Government as “the ambassador

of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States”, and he laments “all of

these elements are missing because of the continuing Turkish occupation

of nearly 37 percent of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and

massive violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, the direct

result of an armed illegal invasion by Turkey in 1974;”(!)

Since, Mr. Kakouris is championing “the rule of law, justice,

democracy and human rights” it becomes relevant to query his

credentials as “the ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United

Nations”. I am sure both Kakouris himself and the US authorities who

have accepted him as “the ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the

United states” know too well, that this appointment is flawed from a

legal point of view because the consent and signature of the Turkish

Cypriot Vice-President of the Republic of Cyprus, whose existence was

denied by Archbishop Makarios back in 1963 when he declared that he

no longer recognized a vice-president because all aspects of the 1960

constitution which had established a partnership Republic between the

Turkish and Greek Cypriots had been changed was rejected by the Greek

Cypriot Administration (the usurpers of the title of the Republic since

1963) as from that date. Turkish Cypriot partner community was offered

minority status: They could only come back to the “Cypriot fold” if only

they accepted minority rights in a Greek Cypriot Cyprus.

In other words the usurpers of power in the island had put

themselves in a position which could not be defended constitutionally,

legally or morally. In fact the onslaught on Turkish Cypriots was for

uniting the island with Greece the prohibition of which was the essence

of the 1960 Agreements! In other words, long before Turkey came to

Cyprus as a guarantor, in order to prevent the declaration of Enosis and

the destruction of the Turkish Cypriot partner, it is the Greek Cypriot

leaders and their government who defied the rule of law, justice,

democracy and human rights, by destroying the partnership Republic in

the name of Enosis.

The fact that in this era of big-power politics, the rule of law and

constitutionality of appointments can be easily and lamentably ignored,

does not absolve Mr. Kakouris from his obligation to be truthful while

projecting the Cyprus problem to the world.

The title of his article to CNN on July 9, 2010 is “Cyprus is not at

peace with Turkey” and naturally his story begins with the arrival of

guarantor Turkey in July 1974. Forgetting that Turkey intervened in

order to prevent Enosis and protect Turkish Cypriot partner from further

atrocities. The amnesia of the ambassador “to the events between

December 1963 and July 1974” is a national disease but even this does

not give the ambassador a free license to lie to the world at large. This is

not a wild accusation-anyone who conveniently forgets the beginning of

a true story and tells his own version of it may be a good story-teller but

his lies will soon be discovered by truly interested, independent

observers. A cursory look at the Genocide Files by Gibbons, a four

hundred plus page book and a look at the Akritas Plan will suffice to put

Mr. Kakouris on the top-list of story-tellers in the world. But, after all,

that is what he is paid for by his masters back at home, called “the

Republic of Cyprus” which in fact is what is left of this partnership

Republic after Greek Cypriot side destroyed it in the name of Enosis.

The Turkish intervention in 1974 did not only prevent the

declaration of Enosis, by the arch-murderer Nicos Sampson, but it also

saved thousands of AKEL members from summary execution while it put

an end to the colonel’s rule in Athens; that, 20th July 1974 was, in fact,

the day Turkish Cypriots were saved from mass graves or from forced

migration as in the case of the island of Crete in 1900’s is an undeniable

fact in the light of Makarios’ statement that “if Turkey comes to save the

Turkish Cypriots, Turkey will find no Turkish Cypriot to save”.

By the time Turkish soldiers moved to the Famagusta area the

unarmed civilians of Muratağa, Sandallar and Aloa, were killed and

buried in mass graves, without sparing 16 day old babies, one to

fourteen year old children and grand parents in their eighties or nineties.

Until saved by Turkey, 40,000 of Turkish Cypriots, the inhabitants

of 103 villages, who had fled to safer areas were forced to live in 3% of

the area of Cyprus, denied all their constitutional and human rights from

1963 to 1975. How can Mr. Kakouris talk about denial of Justice to his

people, just because Turkey, acting under the Treaties of 1960 saved

Turkish Cypriots from this fate and prevented the handing over of the

island to Greece?

“Peace is not merely the absence of war”, true! But in the case of

Cyprus peace between the two ex-partners requires absolute honesty

about the causes of the conflict and not story tellers trying to convince

the world that a Greek Cyprus has been occupied by Turkey. What is

needed is a permanent settlement, therefore putting an end to these lies

and allowing the two ex-partners to live in security in their respective

states while agreeing to cooperate on matters of mutual interest is the

way to a permanent settlement. Good neighbourliness is the ultimate

answer!

July 28, 2010
Turkey Sees Hidden Hand in Kurd Riots

By MARC CHAMPION And ERKAN ÖZ

ISTANBUL—Turkey’s escalating battle with Kurdish insurgents has become caught up in the country’s fiercely partisan domestic politics, as the government charged Tuesday that opponents of democratic change had triggered ethnic riots at both ends of the country.

Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin said Tuesday that intelligence services were investigating whether two episodes of unrest Monday had been engineered. In eastern Turkey, suspected guerrillas (sic.) from the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, killed four policemen, triggering riots. In Turkey’s west, riots that followed a knife fight involving ethnic Kurds left dozens injured and detained.

“In both cases we have to take into account the probability of provocations, and the intelligence services are investigating these probabilities,” Mr. Ergin told a group of reporters in Istanbul, through simultaneous translation.

Turkey is in the midst of a power struggle between its Islamic-leaning government and the military-backed, secularist establishment that effectively ruled the country for decades. Conspiracy theories abound on both sides about the machinations of the other, and are impossible to prove.

However, the accusation that members of Turkey’s so-called deep state are fueling conflict with the PKK in an effort to undermine trust in the government is explosive. Turkey’s war with the PKK has cost 30,000 to 40,000 lives since it began in 1984.

Mr. Ergin declined when asked to name who he suspected of provoking Monday’s riots, but he said they were groups “who favor the status quo” in Turkey. Those groups, he said, were trying to block the government’s efforts at democratization, including a referendum on constitutional amendments to be held Sept. 12.

The proposed changes to the basic law, which would remake the country’s top courts and subject the military to civilian law, could significantly alter the balance of power in the government’s favor.

The PKK stepped up attacks in the spring after their jailed leader, Abdullah Ocalan, said he was calling off talks with Turkey’s government, explaining that Ankara’s stated goal of improving conditions for Turkey’s large Kurdish minority was going nowhere.

From the outset, columnists in Turkey’s pro-government media speculated that the PKK’s move was being orchestrated with deep state members in an effort to discredit the government and unseat the AKP. Hundreds of Turkish bureaucrats, journalists and military officers are currently awaiting trial as alleged deep-state conspirators in proceeding that opponents see as a witch hunt.

On Monday, the pro-government daily Bugün published the transcript of a wiretapped phone conversation from 2007, in which two men the newspaper identified as Turkish air force officers discussed whether to eliminate or relocate an unmanned aerial vehicle that was flying over eastern Turkey to spot PKK terrorists, because “There were casualties in the last event, I received serious pressure because of this.”

The two men don’t mention the PKK, but the context of the conversation suggests they are talking about enabling Kurdish attacks.

The General Staff issued a statement confirming that an investigation into the wiretapped phone call was started in 2007. The statement didn’t deny the authenticity of the transcript, but denied the probe had been delayed on purpose. The statement said voice analysis that would match the recording with the suspected officers had yet to be done.

Another pro-government newspaper, Vakit, last week published a picture of Murat Basbug, the son of Turkey’s Chief of the General Staff Ilker Basbug, posing with a convicted PKK member. The newspaper said the picture was one of many of the two young men together.

In a separate statement, the General Staff acknowledged the authenticity of the photograph of Murat Basbug, which Vakit said was found at the apartment of convicted PKK member Hasan Lala when he was arrested on April 9, 2009. The statement said the picture was taken at a casual meeting of friends and that facts cited in the Vakit story were “lies.” The statement didn’t specify which facts were inaccurate.

On Monday, riots left dozens detained and police cars burned just outside Bursa, a city of two million south of Istanbul with a Kurdish population of about 300,000. The riots followed a knife attack by a group of ethnic Kurds on non-Kurds, after which a crowd surrounded the police station where the attackers were being held.

The riots were the result of disappointment over the government’s failed Kurdish initiative, said Ayla Yildirim, chairwoman of the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, in Bursa.

Also Monday, rioters set fire to the BDP office in Hatay province, on Turkey’s border with Syria, after suspected PKK fighters killed four policemen, according to Anadolu Ajansi, the state news agency. There, too, a crowd surrounded the police station, this time on incorrect rumors that three suspects were being held inside.

“It’s like somebody pushed the button, we see those kind of events all over the country,” said Ms. Yildirim.

Write to Marc Champion at [email protected] and Erkan Oz at [email protected]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703292704575393233492763798, JULY 28, 2010

July 28, 2010

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Month: July 2010

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Bryza Wrongly Tells Senators: Armenian Patriarch is Dead

NHS accused of racism

The NHS has been accused of racism after figures showed applicants from ethnic minorities find it harder to get a job, are more likely to be bullied if they do and have more grievances taken out against them.

The neocon mistranslation game now trains its sights on Putin

CYPRUS: WHAT PEACE?

Turkey Sees Hidden Hand in Kurd Riots

By MARC CHAMPION And ERKAN ÖZ