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A Turkish Awakening on Armenian, Kurdish Issues?
Posted on April 29, 2013 | No CommentsHuman rights activists sit behind pictures of Armenian victims at Taksim square in central Istanbul, April 24, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Osman Orsal) By: Cengiz Çandar for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse... -
Turkey building refugee camps for Syrian Christians, Kurds
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsBy Jonathon Burch ANKARA | Wed Apr 10, 2013 10:21am EDT (Reuters) – Turkey is building two camps along its far southeastern border with Syria to house a growing number... -
Turkish Minister Makes Economic Case for Peace With Kurds
Posted on April 6, 2013 | No CommentsBy JOE PARKINSON ISTANBUL—Turkey’s finance minister on Friday made the economic case for a rapprochement with Turkey’s Kurdish minority, saying it could free up billions in military spending and spur... -
Turkey’s Peace Process with Kurds Hits Bumps
Posted on April 5, 2013 | No CommentsBy Ayla Albayrak ISTANBUL–The jubilant mood which met Kurdish militants’ call to lay down arms last month has in recent weeks been replaced by a more complex reality: that Turkey’s... -
Turkey asks ‘wise people’ to help Kurd peace talks
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsANKARA: Turkey said Wednesday it has set up a consultative body of “wise people” to help shape public opinion on the latest peace process with Kurdish rebels. The initiative —... -
Kurds, Turkey Face Impasse Over Withdrawal
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsThousands of PKK supporters demonstrate with flags and posters of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, in southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, March 21, 2013. ISTANBUL — Turkey’s peace process... -
A Spring Surprise in Turkey? New Movement on the Kurdish Issue
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No CommentsMarch 31, 2013 By Valeria Giannotta On 21 March 2013, the beginning of spring was celebrated in Turkey. During the Nevruz festival in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, Abdullah Öcalan... -
PEACE COMES TO TURKEY
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsPosted by Jenna Krajeski For nearly thirty years, the P.K.K. and the Turkish Army have been fighting in the remote mountains on the border of Turkey and Iraq, along the roads... -
Turkey sees accords with Israel, Kurds as first step to greater regional role
Posted on March 24, 2013 | No CommentsBy Roy Gutman — McClatchy Newspapers ISTANBUL, TURKEY — After two major breakthroughs in less than a week – an accord to end a three-year squabble with Israel and a landmark step... -
Commentary: Is Turkey Ready for a Kurdish Peace?
Posted on March 13, 2013 | No CommentsAbdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged a 28-year war against the Turkish state, is an unlikely candidate for peacemaker. Yet recently he... -
A decade after US-led invasion, Kurds look to Turkey, the West, mull future without Iraq
Posted on March 11, 2013 | No CommentsIRBIL, Iraq – At an elite private school in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, children learn Turkish and English before Arabic. University students dream of jobs in Europe, not Baghdad. And... -
Could a Kurdish PM of Turkey lead the Movement to redraw the Boundaries of the Middle East?
Posted on March 9, 2013 | No Commentsby Hamma Mirwaisi and Alison Buckley March 8, 2013 In 1962, when Nelson Mandela was given a life sentence for his attempts to free his country from oppression, few thought... -
Turkey and the Kurds: the era of mass hypnosis is over
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsThere are no taboos left on the Kurdish issue and Recep Tayyip Erdogan knows the geopolitical importance of resolving it Yavuz Baydar guardian.co.uk, A pro-Kurdish demonstrator gestures during a protest... -
Merkel’s Visit to Turkey Marks a Positive Change of Mind
Posted on February 28, 2013 | No CommentsAs the eurozone crisis shows signs of further deepening with the new uncertainties in the wake of Italian ‘non-elections’, Germany is increasingly under strain to keep the European Union intact.... -
Turkey’s Kurdish Question: a neverending story?
Posted on February 19, 2013 | No CommentsTurkey’s Kurdish Question: a neverending story? Tags: Russia, Politics, World, Radio, Radio Listen Radio Yekaterina Kudashkina, Ian Sumter 18.02.2013, 19:55 Kurdish protesters have taken to the streets in Turkey and... -
Turkey, Syria and the dynamics of ‘cold war redux’
Posted on February 19, 2013 | No CommentsTurkey, Syria and the dynamics of ‘cold war redux’ Karabekir Akkoyunlu 17 February 2013 Subjects: Conflict Civil society Democracy and government Economics International politics Russia Iraq Iran EU United States... -
Turkey builds closer oil links with Kurds, angering US
Posted on February 15, 2013 | No CommentsISTANBUL // Turkey is pushing ahead with plans to extend economic cooperation with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, brushing aside warnings from the United States that this approach could lead to the... -
Arabs, Turkey Want to Control Serekaniye for Strategic Advantage, Kurdish Leader Says
Posted on February 11, 2013 | No CommentsFighters of the Farouq brigade in Serekaniye. Photo: PYD. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The close proximity of the Syrian city of Serekaniye (Ras al-Ain) to the Turkish border is the... -
Opposition Leader Says ‘Turkey Wants to Harm the Kurdish Cause’ in Syria
Posted on February 9, 2013 | No CommentsAbdulhakim Bashar, the first president of the Kurdish National Council (KNC) and the secretary of the Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria (Al Party) Photo: Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Abdulhakim... -
Greetings from Istanbul
Posted on February 7, 2013 | 1 CommentBy BEJAN MATUR I have been living in Istanbul since 1994. I live in a house with a view of the Bosphorus Straits. I was once criticized by a journalist...
