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		<title>Navy to Commission Aircraft Carrier George H.W. Bush</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/navy-to-commission-aircraft-carrier-george-hw-bush/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/31/navy-to-commission-aircraft-carrier-george-hw-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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No. &#8230;.
December 30, 2008














From: DoD News &#60;dodnews@subscriptions.dod.mil&#62;



The Navy&#8217;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 &#8220;Doro&#8221; Bush Koch, daughter of the ship&#8217;s namesake, is the  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyprus Dimension of Turkish Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/cyprus-dimension-of-turkish-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/29/cyprus-dimension-of-turkish-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehmet Fatih</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq presents a lesson from history</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/15/iraq-presents-a-lesson-from-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/15/iraq-presents-a-lesson-from-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

 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. 
&#8220;We are in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FUTURE OF TURKEY?</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/11/the-future-of-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/12/11/the-future-of-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Military Relations of Azerbaijan and Turkey</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/24/military-relations-of-azerbaijan-and-turkey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/24/military-relations-of-azerbaijan-and-turkey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehmet Fatih</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish History: Truman Doctrine, Carter Doctrine and 1980 Turkish coup d&#8217;état</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/24/turkish-history-truman-doctrine-carter-doctrine-and-1980-turkish-coup-detat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/24/turkish-history-truman-doctrine-carter-doctrine-and-1980-turkish-coup-detat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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Truman Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Truman_Doctrine
Carter    Doctrine
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Carter_Doctrine
1980    Turkish coup d&#8217;état
http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ 1980_Turkish_    coup_d%27% C3%A9tat

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		<title>Kurds in N. Iraq Receive Arms From Bulgaria</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/23/kurds-in-n-iraq-receive-arms-from-bulgaria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/23/kurds-in-n-iraq-receive-arms-from-bulgaria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[3 Planeloads of Munitions Worry Officials in  Baghdad
By Ernesto Londoño
Washington Post Foreign  Service
Sunday, November 23, 2008; A01

BAGHDAD &#8212; Kurdish officials this fall took delivery of three planeloads of  small arms and ammunition imported from Bulgaria, three U.S. military officials said, an acquisition that occurred outside  the weapons procurement procedures of Iraq&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian defense minister warns of another, worse Georgian war</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/18/russian-defense-minister-warns-of-another-worse-georgian-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/18/russian-defense-minister-warns-of-another-worse-georgian-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[



 














 
 








ANKARA, November 18 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian defense minister warned on Tuesday that Georgia&#8217;s military buildup and drive to join NATO could cause a conflict worse than the five-day war over South Ossetia in August.
Russia and Georgia fought a brief war in August after Tbilisi launched an offensive in an attempt to regain control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: Blocking Cyprus Cooperation With NATO</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/08/turkey-blocking-cyprus-cooperation-with-nato/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/11/08/turkey-blocking-cyprus-cooperation-with-nato/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 02:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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Turkey:  Blocking Cyprus Cooperation With NATO
November 7, 2008


Turkey on Nov. 6 rejected EU proposals for ways to move forward with a  deadlocked plan for Cyprus to participate in NATO-led military operations,  Hurriyet reported Nov. 7, citing French Foreign Ministry political director  Gerard Araud. Turkey said it is does not oppose cooperation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Air strike kills Afghan soldiers</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/22/air-strike-kills-afghan-soldiers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/22/air-strike-kills-afghan-soldiers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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Nine Afghan soldiers have been killed and four others hurt in an air strike by international forces in the eastern part of the country, officials say.
Helicopter gunships reportedly fired on an Afghan army post in Khost province.
The US said Afghan soldiers had been killed and injured in a possible case of &#8220;mistaken identity&#8221;.
Separately, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Focus on Turkey Project (SFT)</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/02/strategic-focus-on-turkey-project-sft-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/02/strategic-focus-on-turkey-project-sft-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tolga Cakir</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.turkishforum.com/content/?p=5107</guid>
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This project is designed to adopt a distinctive approach on Turkey. Most of the research and policy work undertaken on Turkey in the US and Europe concentrates either on the complications for bilateral US-Turkey relations of the US intervention in Iraq, or on Turkey&#8217;s internal economic and political developments and their impact on the negotiations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culpabilities and Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/02/culpabilities-and-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/02/culpabilities-and-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tolga Cakir</dc:creator>
		
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Culpability matters. We cannot be ‘forward-looking’ unless we know who we
are dealing with, what is driving them and what they are capable of. We also
need to know ourselves, particularly when we share culpabilities with others.
Culpabilities are shared in this conflict, but they are different in scale and in
nature.
The culpabilities of Georgia’s President, Mikheil Saakashvili, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Türkiye uzmanı Bülent Alirıza: Ankara, McCain&#8217;i istiyor</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/02/turkiye-uzmani-bulent-aliriza-ankara-mccaini-istiyor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/10/02/turkiye-uzmani-bulent-aliriza-ankara-mccaini-istiyor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:32:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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Türkiye uzmanı Bülent Alirıza: Ankara, McCain&#8217;i istiyor













CSIS Türkiye programı Direktörü Bülent Alirıza, Ankara’da siyasiler ve bürokratları n, Cumhuriyetçilerin adayı John McCain’in seçimi kazanmasını istediklerini söyledi. Alirıza, ‘başkan’ McCain’in, Türkiye’nin İran nüfuzuna karşı Irak’ta daha etkili olmasının isteyebileceğini, PKK’ya karşı işbirliğinin süreceğini savundu.






Kasım CİNDEMİR / WASHINGTONABD başkentindeki Stratejik ve Uluslararası Etüdler Merkezi’nin (CSIS) Türkiye Programı Direktörü [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Armenia Strives to Maintain Balanced Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/25/armenia-strives-to-maintain-balanced-foreign-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/25/armenia-strives-to-maintain-balanced-foreign-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yerevan to host NATO exercises as it chairs Russian-backed security body.
By Ara Tadevosian in Yerevan (CRS 461 25-Sep-08)
The August war between Armenia’s close ally Russia and close neighbour Georgia rocked its foreign policy of “complementarity”, but analysts say President Serzh Sarkisian is working hard on maintaining a balance between Russia and the West.
Following Moscow’s recognition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STRATFOR: The New President and the Global Landscape (Open Access)</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/25/stratfor-the-new-president-and-the-global-landscape-open-access/</link>
		<comments>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/25/stratfor-the-new-president-and-the-global-landscape-open-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kb@turkishforum.com</dc:creator>
		
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The New President and the Global Landscape (Open Access)
 
 



September 23, 2008 &#124; 1028 GMT







Editor’s Note: This is part one of a four-part report by Stratfor founder and Chief Intelligence Officer George Friedman on the U.S. presidential debate on foreign policy, to be held Sept. 26. Stratfor is a private, non-partisan intelligence service with no preference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEBKA:Russia lines up with Syria, Iran against America and the West</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/21/debkarussia-lines-up-with-syria-iran-against-america-and-the-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Summary of DEBKAfile Exclusives in Week Ending Sept. 18, 2008



Russia lines up with Syria, Iran against America and the West 
Sept 12.: Moscow announced renovation had begun on the Syrian port of Tartus to provide Russia with its first long-term naval base on the Mediterranean.
As the two naval chiefs talked in Moscow, Russian foreign minister [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WORLD TRIBUNE:  Turkey military reports major gains against terror</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/20/world-tribune-turkey-military-reports-major-gains-against-terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WORLD TRIBUNE:  Turkey military reports major gains against terror 
ANKARA — The Turkey military has determined that the Kurdish insurgency was heading for a breakdown. Turkish Chief of Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug said the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, has been severely harmed by a Turkish military offensive over the last year. Basbug, who assumed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia on Our Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/17/georgia-on-our-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ncanikli@yahoo.com</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Morton Abramowitz
09.16.2008
Whether provoked or entrapped, President Saakashvili’s folly cost the United States $1 billion and counting. But that is only money. He has changed the world in ways neither he nor the West ever dreamed. If any compensation is found to tame Putin’s Russia, it will not likely be by the actions of Western [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia and Turkey tango in the Black Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/11/russia-and-turkey-tango-in-the-black-sea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tolga Cakir</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid the flurry of diplomatic activity in Moscow last week over the Caucasus, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took time off for an exceptionally important mission to Turkey, which might prove a turning point in the security and stability of the vast region that the two powers historically shared.
Indeed, Russian diplomacy is swiftly moving even as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAVAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN CRISIS</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishforum.com/content/2008/09/10/naval-implications-of-the-south-ossetian-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John C. K. Daly 
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
 

Last month’s confrontation between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia had a maritime dimension that continues to expand. Russia deployed elements of its Black Sea fleet to Georgia’s coast during its military operations and subsequently sank several Georgian naval vessels in Poti. During the clash Russia dispatched [...]]]></description>
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