- Erdogan takes off gloves: Kurds pay the price
- Aug 28 '11 Analysis By Sharon Shaked and Yochanan Visser Since mid-July hundreds of Kurdish civilians in Iraq have fled bombings by the Iranian and Turkish armies, and set up refugee camps that are situated along the northern part of Iraqi Kurdistan (which borders Turkey and Iran). Up to a hundred Kurds have…
- Turkey’s ‘stealth revolution’
- Jun 15 '11 Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party has won a resounding third consecutive election victory in the national elections that took place on Sunday 12 June, 2011. Preliminary results based on 99.8 percent of the vote showed AKP winning 49.9 percent, or 325 seats, just below the 330 required for a…
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