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[Silent Turkey-3] Nationalists
by
EKREM DUMANLI
Many justifications may be found to defend a counter argument, but how Turks perceive the notion of “nationalism” (milliyetçilik) is different from the widely accepted definition of nationalism and from the popularly held idea of racism.

Fait accompli strategy against non-Muslims
by
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ
Michel Foucault says you can understand a society from what it excludes. We generally tend to look at what a society includes, what they are willing to embrace.

[Silent Turkey-2] Kurds
by
EKREM DUMANLI
There is benefit in making an assessment of an event that recently took place but was not mentioned in the press. The Kurdish problem was discussed at length in a meeting held in a southeastern province.

[OPINION]A tale of two American economies
New York -- While the United States recently reported 3.5 percent GDP growth in the third quarter, suggesting that the most severe recession since the Great Depression is over, the American economy is actually much weaker than official data suggest.

[OPINION] Turning North Korea around
SEOUL -- Negotiations over the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula look set to resume. Sadly, they are unlikely to end soon. Talk of a “grand bargain” remains just that -- talk.

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Virginia inmate who killed two people eight years ago executed A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair on Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first US inmate to die by electrocution in over a year.

Karzai takes oath, US president vows early exit from Afghanistan US President Barack Obama aims to bring the Afghan war to an end before he leaves office, he said on Wednesday, the eve of a swearing-in ceremony Western officials hope can help salvage Hamid Karzai’s tattered reputation.

[Silent Turkey-1] Alevis by EKREM DUMANLI One of the most distinctive qualities of our society is silence. Our ancestors said, “If words are silver, then silence is gold.”

Change of axis in foreign policy and Israeli problem (2) by ALİ YURTTAGÜL* The crisis around the bilateral relations between Turkey and Israel would not have been so grave had the Gaza attack taken place a decade ago because back then, Turkey’s foreign policy lacked of vision and was unable to address the regional problems and appreciate the importance of the issues in the Middle East.

Change of axis in foreign policy and Israeli problem (1) by ALİ YURTTAGÜL* Recent comments published in Europe and the US on Turkish foreign policy argue that Turkey is moving away from the Western world and changing its axis.

Travels behind the Iron Curtain: before the fall of the Berlin Wall by KLAUS JURGENS Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall much has been written about the significance of this event and how it changed the political and ultimately economic world order.

Caucasus and Balkans, Karabakh and Bosnia by Hajrudin Somun* Much that has transpired these days has led me to recall once more my meeting in Baku with former Azerbaijani President Haydar Aliyev.

The real tragedy of the Fort Hood massacre by Christopher Vasillopulos* “All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all.” -- Cecil Alexander

‘Red lines’ of the democratic initiative by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE “Red lines” is a military term referring to the borders of the “forbidden zone.” The military tends to set certain red lines beyond which it allows no one to pass, thereby declaring that zone to be forbidden.

Emergence of new political space in Kurdish domain by EMRE USLU With the government having brought its proposal to address the Kurdish question to Parliament, Turkey has been concentrating on the details of the proposal.

Killing another Armenian by ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ I was originally only planning to write an entertaining story, but then I came across a piece of news in Today’s Zaman. I said to myself Turkey is like a family that has a psychopathic father who does extremely disturbing things whenever the children feel happy -- all just to kill their happiness. Why I use this metaphor in which I portray psychopaths as the father figure and myself as a child needs to be analyzed separately.

European Union and the Cyprus issue by ALİ YURTTAGÜL* The talks in Cyprus over the last year have come to a halt; all eyes were turned to a probable decision, long awaited by the Cypriot Greeks, to be taken at the December summit in Brussels on Turkey.

[OPINION] The twilight of France’s republican aristocracy PARIS -- No tumbrils have appeared in Paris’s Place de la Concorde, but a revolution may be under way in France nonetheless. Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the conviction of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua.

Zero problems with minorities? by ALİ ASLAN A meeting with the US president in the White House, a meeting with the vice president and a formal dinner in his honor at the vice presidential residence, a dinner hosted by the secretary of state honoring his visit, a lunch in his honor hosted by the House of Representatives and Senate leaders at US Capitol and conferences organized at Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution.

The main fault of Turkish intellectuals by ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ What would you say if I were to ask you what your biggest fault was? Try to answer this question, but keep the answer to yourself or, better yet, write it down to compare with those I will mention below.

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Fait accompli strategy against non-Muslims by ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ

[Silent Turkey-3] Nationalists by EKREM DUMANLI

[Silent Turkey-2] Kurds by EKREM DUMANLI

Change of axis in foreign policy and Israeli problem (2) by ALİ YURTTAGÜL*

[Silent Turkey-1] Alevis by EKREM DUMANLI

Change of axis in foreign policy and Israeli problem (1) by ALİ YURTTAGÜL*

Travels behind the Iron Curtain: before the fall of the Berlin Wall by KLAUS JURGENS

Caucasus and Balkans, Karabakh and Bosnia by Hajrudin Somun*

The real tragedy of the Fort Hood massacre by Christopher Vasillopulos*

‘Red lines’ of the democratic initiative by MÜMTAZ’ER TÜRKÖNE



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