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• Iran set to Execute Kurdish Political Prisoner Ehsan Fattahian on November 11

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 501
  Ehsan Fattahian’s lawyer, Nassrollah Nasri, was notified on November 6 that his client will be executed on Wednesday morning, November 11, 2009, Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) reported today. Ehsan, 27, was arrested in July 2008 and first sentenced to 10 years in exile by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court ...
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• Should US Troops in Iraq Be Held Hostage to the Next Election?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  So why does the US still have 120,000 troops in Iraq? They arent for the most part doing patrols anymore. They are just being kept in place so that they can swing into action as soon as the election... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Iraqs Provincial Budget Expenditures - 2009

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 125
  One of the major problems with the Iraqi government is its inability to spend its budget effectively. The country’s eighteen provinces do much worse than the central government in Baghdad. The new Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction’s quarterly report to Congress has the latest numbers on how ...
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• UPDATES FROM DIYARBAKIRS IHD OFFICE

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "Todays human rights violations are the causes of tomorrows conflicts." ~ Mary Robinson. Here are a couple of statements from the Diyarbakır IHD office. The first is an update on the human rights situation in the Kurdish region of Turkey: PRESS STATEMENT 27 October 2009 (Give the Republic’s biggest ...
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• Iraq Election Law Stalls

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 514
  The Huffington Post is reporting that the Iraqi Council of Representatives ended their session today without approving a new election law. According to the article, “the head of Iraq’s Independent High Electoral Commission, Faraj al-Haidari , earlier this week warned lawmakers that if they did not have an ...
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• Destabilizing Baluchistan, Fracturing Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 529
  A strong, stable, and powerful Pakistan, especially one that would be independent, is not looked at in good terms by the Pentagon and NATO for many reasons. Within an Orwellian framework, Pakistan and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan are deliberately being destabilized while there is talk about stabilizing them. Many ...
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• History Will Teach Us Nothing!

  
  robpetrini.com — Authority: 99
  " I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes " (Sir Winston Churchill).  History is truly a subject that people just dont seem to want to take to heart! If not, you would think that the idiotica of the past would not be ...
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• Abdullah Ocalan: The Kurdish People Want An Honourable Peace.

  
  Hevallo. Turkey and The Kurdish Question. — Authority: 416
  ABDULLAH OCALAN 28.10.2009 PEACE NEEDS SERIOUSNESS This is not a game, it needs a serious approach. It needs respect. Everything has been understood. The arrival of the peace groups and the Kurdish peoples’ reception and honourable stance has uncovered the government’s real face and intentions. The ...
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• War is hell

  
  kansas reflections — Authority: 117
  From The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army .  The book chronicles the careers of four different generals (GEN John Abizaid, GEN George Casey Jr, GEN Peter Chiarelli, and GEN David Petraeus).: A few weeks before he was scheduled to depart, Abizaid was ...
  6 days ago

• Photo Archive of Turkey, Middle East, and Ottoman Empire

  
  Kamil Pasha — Authority: 471
  Kurdish chief, between 1890-1920 The US Library of Congress is a wonderful online resource for historic photographs of  Turkey and the Middle East: Introduction to LC Prints and Photographs Middle East materials, click here . Subject overview of LC Prints and Photographs images related to Turkey, click here .
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• Turkey Moves Toward Regional Leadership

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 121
  In a Mideast region being ripped apart by greed, short-sightedness, arrogance, refusal to compromise, a growing addiction to violence, and the virtual absence of wise leadership, Turkey appears to see itself as the leader of a new moderate regional coalition. Can Washington maintain pace? On October 30, Foreign ...
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• Should U.S. Care about Iraqi Elections?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 514
  Juan Cole questions the purpose of keeping so many American troops in Iraq to protect the  upcoming elections : “why should the Obama administration care if the election is held or not? Saudi Arabia hasn’t held any elections lately and it is our ally.” Besides, previous elections were “highly flawed and ...
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• Two Provinces Respond To The Drought

  
  The Ground Truth in Iraq — Authority: 125
  Basra in southern Iraq and Irbil in Kurdistan are responding to the drought in different ways. Basra wants to be declared a disaster area and is calling for immediate relief, while Irbil is thinking more long-term and trying to create a water policy. According to the United Nations, 46-56% of Irbil’s cropland ...
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• Political Threats to Iraq

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 514
  Iraq  arrested dozens of security officials  in the aftermath of the bombings that killed 155 people this week. Meanwhile, the  parliament once again  failed to pass an election law , after a Kurdish boycott prevented a quorum from being reached. The Kurds have been at the center of recent developments in Iraq. ...
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• WOMEN IN TURKISH POLITICS

  
  Rast — Authority: 411
  "We take action both for the woman raped in Istanbul or the woman stoned to death for adultery in Iran. But this is not enough. For this is not simply womens problem, the source of this politics is the male mentality." ~ Sebahat Tuncel . Hürriyets English news is moaning over the lack of women politicians ...
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• No Hêvî.

  
  Kamil Pasha — Authority: 471
  One step forward, one step back. Much hoopla in the news about a “Kurdish Opening”, giving Kurdish villages their original names back, allowing Kurdish to be spoken openly, even taught as a language, opening a Kurdish language TV station. And yet… A week or so ago a new father, Kenan Kirkaya, went to register ...
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• What Exactly Is UNAMI Up To in the Iraqi Parliament?

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 483
  What Exactly Is UNAMI Up To in the Iraqi Parliament? Posted by Reidar Visser on October 28, 2009 Claims and counterclaims have abounded for a couple of days with regard to the fate of the election law in the Iraqi parliament. In the early hours yesterday it seemed there was consensus on a package with a limited ...
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• New Kurdish Government Sworn In

  
  Mideast Youth - Thinking Ahead — Authority: 501
  Erbil, Kurdistan — And so begins the Barham Salih era… Today Dr. Barham Salih was sworn in as the prime minister of the sixth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government. In a ceremony attended by the president of the region, Mr. Massoud Barzani, the outgoing PM, Mr. Nichervan Barzani as well as the Iraqi first ...
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• PKK Women

  
  Kamil Pasha — Authority: 471
  Photo from Timesonline Slide show of photos of the PKK in the Iraqi mountains. A caption: 40% of PKK fighters are women because of their views on equality. click here.
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• PKK Decriminalised Overnight!

  
  Hevallo. Turkey and The Kurdish Question. — Authority: 416
  One aspect of the strategically brilliant move by Abdullah Ocalan was to effectively de -criminalise the Kurdish Freedom Movement almost overnight. It has left some observers and so called experts completely and utterly speechless. Literally. Take the example of the blogger Mr Wilgenberg at Transnational ...
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