Blogian interviews the acting U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, Chargé d’Affaires Joseph Pennington. In an extended entry, the blog details some of the main points from the interview which includes reference to Armenian-Turkish relations, the post-election situation in the country and a recent visit by...
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Obama is visiting the middle East soon insh Allah and with a quick look to his scheduled visit ,I found that my country Egypt , a leading power in the region is not included. The countries that he is going to visit are : Iraq “to meet with the troops”, Israel “to calm down the Jewish lobby...
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Jillian York
· 1:44 pm
· Algeria · Turkey
On June 6, 2008, Michael Rubin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he referred to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as "Turkey's Putin" and a dictator. The piece, re-posted on the Middle East Forum, refers to ...
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Michael Rubin’s WSJ op-ed on why the US should support the removal of Turkish PM Tayyip Erdogan is bothersome. Having followed Turkey for the last two years somewhat closely (I make a conscious effort to listen to Turks in Boston and to look at Turkish newspapers and websites in my daily rotation ...
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Blogian comments on the misrepresentation of the words of a journalist partly of Turkish descent speaking in Yerevan, the Armenian capital, by the local pro-opposition A1 Plus news agency. The blog says that a combination of factors such as anti-Turkish sentiment and sexism might have something to d...
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Hrag Vartanian remembers an unconventional action staged thirty-nine years ago by American-Armenian artist Kardash Onnig outside an Armenian Church in New York. The protest which called on ethnic Armenians to “Un-hate a Turk” was held on 24 April, the day Armenians worldwide remember the...
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The U.S. Constitution once stated that the President was the person with the most votes and the Vice-President the person with the second most.
And just yesterday, Barack Obama conceded that "all three leading presidential contenders would be better than President Bush - including Republican oppo...
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The Pope is finally here. The Alitalia flight just touched down at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. And President Bush, who's not Catholic but claims to be a religious man, personally greeted the Pope on the tarmac, the first time ever this President has ever done so to any world leader.
I wo...
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 7:17 pm
· Israel · Turkey
As Pope Benedict XVI
makes his first papal visit to the United States this week, the media and blogosphere are in a frenzy - primarily due to the
sexual abuse scandal that shook the foundation of the American Catholic church six years ago. The Pope addressed the issue in Washington D.C. on Thursday, speaking with victims of sexual abuses, which pleased some bloggers but for others was too little too late.
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