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Written by dailyclarity on Jan-1-09 11:11am
From: mydailyclarity. com

According to Turkish sources Hezbollah has said it will attack Israel from Southern Lebanon if ground troops are sent into the Gaza. Israel must be wary of this development given their experiences in the 2006 war against Hezbollah. If Hezbollah does get drawn into [...]

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Summary of DEBKAfile Exclusives in Weeks Ending Dec. 25, 2008

Kidnap, glider attacks in Jerusalem foiled. Two Palestinians arrested 14 Dec.: DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources report that two residents of the Jerusalem village of Isawiya, Iyad Abid, 20, and Abdullah Abid, 21, were indicted before Jerusalem district court Sunday, Dec. 14, on charges [...]

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Newfound Riches Come With Spiritual
Costs for Turkey’s Religious Merchants

Lynsey Addario for The New York Times
Ferhan Kadiroglu played with her 3-year-old daughter, Ayse, in their Istanbul home. Their family is part of Turkey’s powerful new class of wealthy Muslims.

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ISTANBUL - President-elect Barack Obama, who pledged to visit a Muslim capital during his first 100 days in office, should choose Turkey or Indonesia, two key Muslim-majority countries going through a steady democratic transition, according to the Washington Post.
In an article published Saturday, Egyptian sociologist Saad Eddin Ibrahim said delivering a message of U.S. reconciliation [...]

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OFFICE-TKG

Belcikada neler oluyor? Asagida gelen Türkce ve Ingilizce e-postalari dikkatlere sakince okumak amaci ile sunuyoruz. Asagida yazi ‚dogrular ile yanlislarin birbirine karistirildigi’ va amaci karalama ve camaura cekme girisimi olan bir propaganda calismasi olabilri. Dogru ise cok üzücü bir gelisme ile karsi, karsiyayiz. Asgidaki yazi Türkce ve Ingilizce AB ülkelerinin her tarafina yollandigini tahmin ediyoruz! [...]

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December 8, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
 
By ROBERT D. KAPLAN

Washington
THE divisions we split the world into during the cold war have at long last crumbled thanks to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. No longer will we view South Asia as a region distinct from the Middle East. Now there is only one long continuum stretching from the Mediterranean to [...]

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Washington
During the campaign, President-elect Obama put the goal of repairing America’s image abroad – and in particular in the Muslim world – at the top of his foreign-policy agenda. Mr. Obama began defining how he intends to do that this week by discussing his plans to deliver a major speech in an Islamic capital, perhaps [...]

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Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev –APA. “Every Muslim who can afford to do, sacrifices their best domestic animals (usually sheep, but also camels, cows, and goats) on the day of Gurban Bayrami (Festival of Sacrifice), but pilgrims conducting Hajj are certain to do sacrifice in Mecca”, chief of the Education and Science Department of the Caucasian Muslims [...]

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Roger Boyes in Berlin
The building of huge mosques throughout Germany is nothing short of a “a bid for power and influence, a land grab”, according to Ralph Giordano, 85, the German Jewish writer and Holocaust survivor, in an interview with The Times that is likely to stir Muslim anger.
The comments from Mr Giordano came [...]

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ISTANBUL - Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight in the region. It is the sister event to Switzerland’s Art Basel, the most prestigious internatıonal art show for the past 39 years
Turkish artist Gülay Alpay will create worlds within [...]

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