Archive for September, 2009

  • Leftist roundups, newspaper purges, cleansing of university faculties, destruction of culture, destroying the cultural habit and constitutional right of street demonstrations... Pinochet called it “cleaning the streets of human garbage.” Here, his bully-boy buddies call it “ Turkey cleaning its intestines.”

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    Leftist roundups, newspaper purges, cleansing of university faculties, destruction of culture, destroying the cultural habit and constitutional right of street demonstrations... Pinochet called it “cleaning the streets of human garbage.” Here, his bully-boy buddies call it “ Turkey cleaning its intestines.”

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  • Armenia — Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian meets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York. 29.09.2009 Emil Danielyan U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Armenia and Turkey to...

    U.S. Expects Quick Results From Turkish-Armenian Talks

    Armenia — Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian meets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in New York. 29.09.2009 Emil Danielyan U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed Armenia and Turkey to...

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  • Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov spoke with Trend News in an exclusive interview. Trend News: How do you assess your visit to the U.S.? With whom were the meetings held,...

    Opening of Turkish-Armenian borders now contradicts Azerbaijan’s national interests: FM

    Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov spoke with Trend News in an exclusive interview. Trend News: How do you assess your visit to the U.S.? With whom were the meetings held,...

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  • Participants at a conference of Tatar associations in Russia in July 2009. September 28, 2009 KAZAN — The World Tatar Congress has resolved to hold a worldwide census for Tatars,...

    Tatar Congress Vows To Hold Own Global Census

    Participants at a conference of Tatar associations in Russia in July 2009. September 28, 2009 KAZAN — The World Tatar Congress has resolved to hold a worldwide census for Tatars,...

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  • A Turkish boy walks along railroad tracks disused since the closure of the Turkish-Armenian border. The new agreement foresees the border reopening. September 29, 2009 By Antoine Blua Turkey and...

    Turkish-Armenian Diplomatic Ties In The Offing?

    A Turkish boy walks along railroad tracks disused since the closure of the Turkish-Armenian border. The new agreement foresees the border reopening. September 29, 2009 By Antoine Blua Turkey and...

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  • Protesters Await Pres. Sargsyan in L.A. By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Up to 10,000 protesters held a public rally on September 27 in Glendale against the Armenian government’s...

    Thousands Rally Against Protocols;

    Protesters Await Pres. Sargsyan in L.A. By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier Up to 10,000 protesters held a public rally on September 27 in Glendale against the Armenian government’s...

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  • Behold Turkey! The land where the innocent go to jail and the criminals go to parliament. A land wracked by poverty and unemployment, a land whose young people seethe with...

    THESE OUTRAGES

    Behold Turkey! The land where the innocent go to jail and the criminals go to parliament. A land wracked by poverty and unemployment, a land whose young people seethe with...

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  • Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Trend News in an exclusive interview. Trend News: According to the western media reports, Turkey is getting prepared to rebuild diplomatic ties...

    Turkey will never betray Azerbaijan: Turkish PM

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke with Trend News in an exclusive interview. Trend News: According to the western media reports, Turkey is getting prepared to rebuild diplomatic ties...

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  • At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country`s prior actions, here`s a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments...

    AMERICANS: Good old reminders

    At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize for our country`s prior actions, here`s a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled negative comments...

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  • Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Don’t Israel’s nuclear weapons count? Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state Influential Europeans – including many Muslims –...

    Don’t Israel’s nuclear weapons count?

    Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Don’t Israel’s nuclear weapons count? Netanyahu has what he wants to keep up the idea of his plucky, vulnerable little state Influential Europeans – including many Muslims –...

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  • By Sami Moubayed, Special to Gulf News The historian inside me sometimes muscles down the analyst, and I tend to view political players as how history will judge them 10,...

    Turkey’s ‘Henry Kissinger’

    By Sami Moubayed, Special to Gulf News The historian inside me sometimes muscles down the analyst, and I tend to view political players as how history will judge them 10,...

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  • Turkish Rabbi Yitzchak Haliva reportedly met with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Kav HaChadash reports. It appears Turkey’s prime minister invited religious leaders from Turkey to join him and al-Assad in...

    Turkish Chief Rabbi Haliva Met with al-Assad

    Turkish Rabbi Yitzchak Haliva reportedly met with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Kav HaChadash reports. It appears Turkey’s prime minister invited religious leaders from Turkey to join him and al-Assad in...

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  • We invite you to a public discussion on   Back to the Future Armenian-Turkish Relations   Wedesday, September 30, at 3.30 pm Golden Tulip Yerevan Rossini Restaurant   Participants: Turkish...

    Back to the Future: Armenian-Turkish Relations

    We invite you to a public discussion on   Back to the Future Armenian-Turkish Relations   Wedesday, September 30, at 3.30 pm Golden Tulip Yerevan Rossini Restaurant   Participants: Turkish...

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  • New York nurses speak out against the mandatory swine flu vaccination.

    New York Nurses Protest Mandatory Vaccinations

    New York nurses speak out against the mandatory swine flu vaccination.

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  • By ROBERT MACKEY Reasonable, concise and measured, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas demonstrated how not to get attention during an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on...

    Is Ahmadinejad a ‘Gift’ for Israel?

    By ROBERT MACKEY Reasonable, concise and measured, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas demonstrated how not to get attention during an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on...

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  • General Debate of the 64th Session (2009) Turkey H.E. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister 24 September 2009 Statement summaryTAYYIP Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey, said that in order to...

    UN GA (2009) statements by Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran

    General Debate of the 64th Session (2009) Turkey H.E. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister 24 September 2009 Statement summaryTAYYIP Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey, said that in order to...

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  • General Debate of the 64th Session (2009) Azerbaijan H.E. Elmar Maharram oglu Mammadyarov, Minister for Foreign Affairs 25 September 2009 Statement summaryELMAR MAMMADYAROV, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, said...

    UN GA Session: Statement of Elmar Mammadyarov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan

    General Debate of the 64th Session (2009) Azerbaijan H.E. Elmar Maharram oglu Mammadyarov, Minister for Foreign Affairs 25 September 2009 Statement summaryELMAR MAMMADYAROV, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, said...

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  • Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned the international community that the status of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) as an independent state will have to be acknowledged...

    Erdoğan warns world about KKTC’s future status

    Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has warned the international community that the status of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) as an independent state will have to be acknowledged...

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  • Economists predict huge boost for Armenian economy if ties between Yerevan and Ankara are normalised. By Hasmik Hambardzumian in Yerevan (CRS No. 512, 25-Sep-09) Economists have welcomed the progress Yerevan...

    Armenians Lick Lips at Prospect of Turkish Trade

    Economists predict huge boost for Armenian economy if ties between Yerevan and Ankara are normalised. By Hasmik Hambardzumian in Yerevan (CRS No. 512, 25-Sep-09) Economists have welcomed the progress Yerevan...

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  • Trend News Middle East Desk Commentator, Ulviyya Sadikhova Perhaps, after the end of the Israel – Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in January, 2009, Turkey did not seek to...

    Is Turkey new light ray in darkness of Middle East?

    Trend News Middle East Desk Commentator, Ulviyya Sadikhova Perhaps, after the end of the Israel – Hamas war in the Gaza Strip in January, 2009, Turkey did not seek to...

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