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Posted on Tue, July 19, 2011 at 23:30 pm CEST

Sudan’s “Two-State Solution”

Good news from the Middle East is that rarest of all things… Continue reading

Posted on Thu, June 30, 2011 at 00:26 am CEST

Fading Hopes, Rising Demands: Kurdish Problem Moves Closer To the Point of No Return

In the general election of June 12, 2011, candidates backed by the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) won 36 seats in Turkey… Continue reading

Posted on Mon, May 9, 2011 at 16:20 pm CEST

Clinton: Israel a Beacon of Hope and Freedom

Remarks by U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton on the occasion of Israel’s 63rd Independence Day, praising the Jewish state’s… Continue reading

Posted on Sat, March 12, 2011 at 01:17 am CET

Squaring the Circle: The PKK Return to Violence and Turkey’s Intractable Kurdish Problem

On February 28, 2011, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced that it was abrogating its unilateral ceasefire first declared on… Continue reading

Posted on Mon, January 17, 2011 at 00:57 am CET

Concerns in Iran over South Sudan Referendum

This week, Iran’s conservative press expressed dissatisfaction with and concern over the referendum held in Sudan, in which the African residents of southern Sudan will decide if they… Continue reading