Iran: Larijani To Visit Turkey For Conference
January 5, 2009

Iranian parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani is set to visit Turkey on Jan. 14 for a meeting of the Islamic Inter-Parliamentary Association, Iranʼs Mehr News Agency reported Jan. 5, citing a spokesman for the Iranian parliamentʼs National Security and Foreign Policy Commission. The meeting [...]

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Fact Sheet
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
January 5, 2009

The United States Government continues to support the delivery of urgently needed food, health, shelter and other emergency assistance to the people of Gaza through our ongoing support for international organizations such as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in [...]

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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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LET GAZA LIVE!
Stop the U.S./Israeli War
Against the Palestinian People
National March on Washington
Saturday, January 10
Assemble at the White House (north side) at 1:00 PM

Tens of thousands have marched across the country.
Above: Chicago, January 2

Sponsoring organizations: ANSWER Coalition, Muslim American Society Freedom, Free Palestine Alliance, American Muslim Task Force, [...]

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An explosive device that was placed inside the house of Judge Abdul-Mahdi Najar who lives in Tuz Khormatu went off about three o’clock this afternoon on the 2nd of January 2009.
The blast occurred in the Aksu neighbourhood in Tuz Khormatu district which is one of the Turkmeneli districts; it is located on the highway between [...]

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On the 1st January 2009, 25 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the town of Yusufiya south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, reported Turkmeneli TV.
 
About 67 Turkmen Qaragol tribes were also injured in the attack at a gathering of Turkmen Qaragol tribal leaders in Yusufiya, 20km (12 miles) from Baghdad. The Qaragoli [...]

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/10659207.asp

ANKARA - As Turkey’s first full-time Kurdish TV Channel, TRT-6, is about to be launched, bans remain on the use of letters in the Kurdish alphabet such as w, q, and x, which are absent in the Turkish language.
The head of the Kurdish Writers’ Association, Ýrfan Babaoðlu, dismissed the channel [...]

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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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http://www.cbc.ca/arts/media/story/2008/12/16/turkey-petition.html?ref=rss
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A group of 200 Turkish intellectuals is tackling one of the great taboos of Turkish society — the 1916 massacres of Armenians in the country.
A group of writers, journalists and academics, many of them prominent members in their fields, has posted [...]

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Turkey Confronts a Disputed Period in Its History

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 5 Issue: 240
December 17, 2008
By: Saban Kardas

A group of Turkish intellectuals have taken a bold step to open a public debate on the disputed events of 1915, when the Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were forced to relocate, leading to the death [...]

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