Tag Archives: Kurdistan Regional Government

Turkey: NATO’s Neo-Ottoman Spearhead in the Middle East

August 8, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Turkey already has troops in Syria and has threatened military action to protect the site they guard. A 1921 agreement between Ottoman Turkey and France (the Treaty of Ankara), the latter at the time the colonial administrator of Syria, guaranteed … read more »

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The Return of Pan-Arabism Amidst Upheaval: An end to Balkanization?

March 14, 2011 by benim

Protests and revolts have swept across the whole of Arabdom, from the Atlantic coastline of Morocco to the shores of the petro-sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf. In this regard, U.S. and E.U. double-standards are being applied to these events. There … read more »

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Christians in Iraq living in fear of ‘pogrom’ after bomb attacks

November 13, 2010 by benim

For the second time in four years, Linda Jalal and her family are on the run inside their own country. On Tuesday afternoon, they abruptly packed their meagre belongings and abandoned their house in east Baghdad.The family had been fixing … read more »

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