Category Archives: Intelligence
Congressional Report says Turkish Govt Managed Kurdish Opening Poorly
By WLADIMIR VAN WILGENBURG US Congressional Report says Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has not been so successful in his “Kurdish opening” policy. Photo/http://undhimmi.com Brussels, Belgium: Carol Migdalovitz, a Middle-East expert, has written a new report for the US congress, suggesting that the government of the ruling Justice and Development Party of Turkey (AKP) have [...]
The Imperial Anatomy of Al-Qaeda. The CIA’s Drug-Running Terrorists and the “Arc of Crisis”
Part I by Andrew Gavin Marshall As the 9th anniversary of 9/11 nears, and the war on terror continues to be waged and grows in ferocity and geography, it seems all the more imperative to return to the events of that fateful September morning and re-examine the reasons for war and the nature of [...]
Turkey’s Crises over Israel and Iran
Istanbul/Brussels While suspicions in Western capitals about its relationship with Iran and tensions with Israel have dealt setbacks to its “zero-problem” foreign policy, Turkey shares many of the goals of its Western partners and should continue to play an important role in resolving Middle Eastern and other conflicts. The latest report from the International [...]
Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform under Occupation
Ramallah/Jerusalem/Brussels Security reform is one of the Palestinian Authority’s most notable successes, but recent attacks on West Bank settlers, coinciding with resumed Israeli-Palestinian talks, illustrate the difficulties in sustaining such progress as long as the occupation and internal Palestinian divisions persist.
Former army chief slams Blair and Brown
Patrick Hennessy, London THE former head of the British army has accused Tony Blair and Gordon Brown of letting down the armed forces during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a damning verdict, General Sir Richard Dannatt accuses Mr Brown of being a ”malign” influence by failing to honour guarantees on defence spending during [...]
Sudan: Defining the North-South Border
Sudan’s North and South must take political action to define their mutual boundary if they hope to avoid future complications, including a return to conflict. Sudan: Defining the North-South Border,* the latest briefing from the International Crisis Group, analyses how the still undefined boundary line has hindered implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), [...]
Surveying Turkish Influence in the Western Balkans
by Elvis Barukcic Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at a conference on European integration in Sarajevo on April 5 Summary Turkish President Abdullah Gul will visit Bosnia-Herzegovina from Sept. 2-3, amid rising tensions in the lead-up to Bosnian elections. Turkey has been able to use tensions among Bosnia-Herzegovina’s ethnic groups to exert influence [...]
Turkey’s frontline foreign policy
By Shlomo Avineri* A few months before he became Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s chief adviser, met with a group of Middle Eastern academics and policy experts, including Arabs and Israelis. With his academic background and immense erudition, he succeeded in painting, on a wide canvass, the new directions [...]
The forthcoming elections in Bosnia and Herzrgovina
By Predrag Vukovic Research Assistant, Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs The Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA), initiated on 21 November 1995 and signed in Paris on 14th December 1995, by the governments of Bosnia, Croatia and rump-Yugoslavia brought the three and a half year Bosnian war to an end. Fifteen years have passed and [...]
Price of diplomacy is worth paying
Rowan Callick From: The Australian HOW valuable, in today’s world, is Australia’s diplomacy – compared, say, with its military spending or with its official, governmental aid? How about the former being worth 36 times our spending on diplomacy in the coming few years, and the latter heading towards 11 times? This is an area in [...]
Turkey asks Greece to drop claim on Aegean
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu says bilateral steps taken by Turkey and Greece would improve the two countries’ attitudes toward each other. DAILY NEWS photo, Selahattin SÖNMEZ
Endless War, Humanitarian Crisis, and Perpetual Resistance: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
by Michael Schwartz In 2009, the mainstream U.S. media reported with satisfaction that the Pakistani government had finally responded positively to the United States and NATO’s demands[1] for an aggressive military policy aimed at depriving the resurgent Taliban of “safe havens” in Pakistan.[2] The subsequent offensive, featuring a Pakistani invasion of these areas and aerial [...]
All Out: China Turns on the Charm
by Helle C. Dale
Smile and Smile: Turkey’s Feel-Good Foreign Policy
by Claire Berlinski
Will Israel attack Lebanon to steal its gas?
by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme*
