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December 30, 2008

From: DoD News <dodnews@subscriptions.dod.mil>

The Navy’s newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush will be commissioned Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, during an 11 a.m. EST ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Va.

President George W. Bush will deliver the principal address. Dorothy “Doro” Bush Koch, daughter of the ship’s namesake, is the [...]

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Cyprus that is located in Eastern Mediterranean has a great strategic importance for European countries as much as other North Africa and Middle East have. Sovereign states made big wars especially to keep the artery of commerce under control and the island was occupied by so many forces throughout the history. Cyprus that consistently passed [...]

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Turkey: Makes Moves In EU Acession Process - FM
December 19, 2008

Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said Dec. 19 that Turkey opened two new “policy chapters” in the accession process to join the European Union, Agence France-Presse reported. The two policies were involved with “free movement of capital” and Information society and media.” Babacan added that [...]

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As Britain prepares to pull its troops out of Iraq, former BBC Baghdad correspondent Andrew North looks back to a previous military campaign and considers whether history is destined to repeat itself?
As the insurgency spread, the letters from the British diplomat in Baghdad grew bleaker.
“We are in the [...]

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Strasbourg, 25 Nov. (AKI) - Europe’s top human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe on Tuesday urged national legislatures to pass laws to protect women from domestic violence. The watchdog’s parliamentary assembly (PACE) issued a statement to mark International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
“Too many women in Europe are battered and killed [...]

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Ramday Javed Iqbal (lead)
Alistair Corbett
October 2008

http://www.da.mod.uk/colleges/rcds/CollegeNews/papers/CSI%20Turkey.pdf
 
The Royal College of Defence Studies

RCDS 2008 – CONTEMPORARY STRATEGIC ISSUES

Key Judgements

• Turkey is likely to internally consolidate its democracy, resolve conflict between secularism and political Islam and sustain economic growth. Some tension between democratic forces and secular elite will remain.
 
• The Kurdish problem [...]

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Police forces in much of the UK could be forced to destroy the DNA details of hundreds of thousands of people with no criminal convictions, after a court ruled today that keeping them breaches human rights.
The European court of human rights in Strasbourg said that keeping innocent people’s DNA records on a criminal register breached [...]

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The New Republic Blog, 24.11.2008
At the core of the international liberal elites is a hollow.  Nothing confirms this so much as an advertisement published in Thursday’s New York Times that costs anywhere from $50,000 to $150,000 depending on the ideological proximity of the sponsors to the editorial positions of the paper.  Now, I don’t really [...]

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TURKEY PUSHES FOR CLOSER POLITICAL TIES WITHIN THE TURKIC-SPEAKING WORLD
http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2373559
By Saban Kardas
Monday, November 24, 2008
 

The speakers and delegates of the parliaments of the Turkish-speaking countries—Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Turkey—met in Istanbul on November 20 and 21 for a Conference of Turkic-Speaking Countries’ Parliamentary Speakers. Turkish Speaker of Parliament Koksal Toptan, Azerbaijani Speaker of [...]

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After the collapse of USSR, necessaries of new states were that economic, politic, military and educational relations with each other and other international platforms and countries. On that way all former Soviet countries created Commonwealth of Independence States union. With creation of CIS, these countries which were unificated on old Soviet map will create new [...]

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