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Müzakere için tarafların birbirini yenemeyeceğini anlaması gerek
Birleşik Krallık'ta Kuzey İrlanda barış süreci müzakerelerini yürüten Jonathan Powell, "Müzakerelerin başarılı olması için en önemli ön koşul tarafların askeri olarak kazanamayacağını, birbirini tamamen yenemeyeceğini anlamasıdır" dedi.
A crisis PM Erdoğan could have done without
Developments in China’s restive region of Xinjiang are causing a stir in Turkey, where pressure is mounting on the government of Prime Minister Erdoğan to do something about Beijing’s brutal suppression of the Uighurs; a close relative of the Turks who speak a language close to Turkish.
China’s leaders vow to punish Xinjiang rioters
URUMQI - China’s top leaders vow to maintain stability in the riot-hit Xinjiang-Uighur Autonomous Region and promise punishment to those responsible for bloodshed. The statement comes as residents in Urumqi tentatively emerge to go about daily life after the worst ethnic violence in decades.
Syrians here in Mardin to take part in film fest
MARDİN - Award-winning writer Khaled Khalifa, director Ossama Mohammad and festival organizer Orwa Nyrabia arrived in Mardin at the weekend and brought 12 students from Syria with them to participate in the SineMardin International Film Festival that focuses on bringing together Arab cinema and Turkish audiences this year.
4 more minors handed jail sentences in Adana
ISTANBUL-Four more minors are sentenced to stiff prison terms in the southern province of Adana for participating in unsanctioned rallies in support of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party and throwing rocks at the police. A human rights activist is also charged for engaging in PKK propaganda.
Turkish and British top diplomats urge for swift Cyprus settlement
ANKARA - While declaring strong commitment to the vision of Turkey becoming an equal member of the European Union, a stance reinforced during last year’s visit of Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s foreign secretary said Wednesday that 2009 was the year for a settlement to the Cyprus dispute, one of the stumbling blocks before Ankara’s EU membership.
Pope ends visit with Mideast plea
ISTANBUL - Pope Benedict calls for an end to a decades-old fighting between Israelis and Palestinians as he ends his ’peace pilgrimage’ to the Holy Land. ’Let the two-state solution become a reality, not remain a dream,’ the pope says, adding the Holocaust must never be denied
Pope in Nazareth: 'Reject hatred and prejudice'
NAZARETH, Israel -Pope Benedict XVI greeted tens of thousands of adoring followers in Jesus' childhood hometown with a message of reconciliation yesterday, urging Christians and Muslims there to overcome recent strife and "reject the destructive power of hatred and prejudice."
Trial of Turkish author starts
ISTANBUL - The trial of a novelist accused of inciting religious hatred in his last novel "The daughters of Allah" opened and adjourned in Istanbul yesterday. Nedim Gürsel, who lives in Paris and is being tried in absentia, faces between one and three years in jail if convicted.
So it’s ’Shoah,’ not ’Holocaust’
It was a calm, blue evening when I took a taxi on Rue Duquesnoy in Brussels last week. During the peaceful drive to the airport, the cab driver told me about the 23 years he had spent in the Belgian capital and about his disillusionment with world politics and the never-ending wars in every corner of the map. "Where is your homeland?" I asked him. "I am a Lebanese Armenian," he answered.
New boycotts hit anti-racism meet
GENEVA - New boycotts by Western nations raise concerns over the credibility of a UN conference in Geneva as Australia and the Netherlands also declare that they will boycott the meeting like the United States, Canada, and Israel amid fears that it will serve as a platform against Israel.
Good education
While watching Mr. Obama deliver his speech in the Turkish Parliament, a thought came to my mind. About 30 years ago clairvoyants in the U.S. had foreseen that an African-American president would one day rule the country. Actually the predictions of the clairvoyants turned out to be true, or a perfect product named Mr. Barack Hussein Obama has been introduced to the American people.
Armenian citizen at the crossroads
ISTANBUL - The emotional dilemmas of an Armenian citizen living in Istanbul have become the subject of a book by Bercuhi Berberyan. The character is not regarded as a citizen in the place where she lives, Turkey, and doesn’t feel herself in Armenia, which is said to be her country