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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The word “billions” is being bandied around every day now. I would like to put this number in perspective before I start my market letter.
                   A billion seconds equals 32 years. A billion seconds ago puts us back to December 1977. A billion minutes ago [...]

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Written by www.daily.pk
Sunday, 21 December 2008 00:27
Haydar Karakurt, a young man from Kayseri, voluntarily joined the first brigade going to the Korean War in 1950. He returned as a war veteran and with a diary. He had recorded what he saw and experienced day by day in the Korean War. In the diary, he wrote [...]

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Chingiz Aitmatov
December 12, 2008
By Tyntchtykbek Tchoroev
 
This week marks the culmination of a yearlong celebration in Kyrgyzstan of the writer and thinker Chingiz Aitmatov, who died on June 10, a few months short of his 80th birthday.
Aitmatov is revered for building a bridge between the world of traditional Kyrgyz folklore and modern Eurasian literature. [...]

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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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Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 5 Issue: 233
December 8, 2008 05:57 PM Age: 18 min
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Turkey, Foreign Policy, Home Page, Featured
By: Saban Kardas

A Turkish newspaper has reported that Rashid Dostum, the leader of ethnic Uzbeks in Afghanistan, was flown to Turkey as part of a special operation arranged by the Turkish government. [...]

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By Andrew G. Marshall
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11313
Introduction
 
The recent attacks in Mumbai, while largely blamed on Pakistan’s state-sponsored militant groups, represent the latest phase in a far more complex and long-term “strategy of tension” in the region; being employed by the Anglo-American-Israeli Axis to ultimately divide and conquer the Middle East and Central Asia. The aim [...]

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On 2nd December 2008, Human Rights Without Frontiers (Mr Willy Fautré), the ALDE and the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy organized a conference on Human Rights in China at the EU Parliament.

Mr. Dokun Isa, Secretary General of World Uygur Congress spoke about Uygur Human Rights issue.

Mr. Willy Fautré of HRWF, Mr. Dokun Isa of WUC

UNPO [...]

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Gul Hosts Karzai and Zardari for a Trilateral Summit in Istanbul
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 5 Issue: 232
December 5, 2008 02:19 PM Age: 3 hrs
Category: Eurasia Daily Monitor, Turkey, Foreign Policy
By: Saban Kardas
Turkey is hosting another major international gathering, marking its growing profile in regional and international diplomacy. Turkish President Abdullah Gul has brought together [...]

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Turkey: Pakistan’s Zardari In Trilateral Meeting
December 4, 2008
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari arrived in Istanbul on Dec. 4 for a trilateral summit involving Turkey and Afghanistan, where peace efforts for the region were to be discussed, GEO TV reported. Zardari’s schedule called for separate meetings with Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip [...]

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