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August 8, 2008

Armenia: Blogger Interviews Acting U.S. Ambassador

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

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...

July 31, 2008

Keep The Change . . .

Aggregated from: Turkey Talk

Obama and Change? Synonymous? Ask Ron Paul . . ....

July 9, 2008

Obama is not on the Nile

Aggregated from: Egyptian chronicles

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...

June 16, 2008

What About Obama's Race? The Turkish (and Other) Perception of Obama

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 ...

June 14, 2008

Turkey, anti-Americanism and Obama

Aggregated from: The Moor Next Door

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 ...

May 31, 2008

Armenia: Bigoted Journalism

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

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...

April 30, 2008

Armenia: Alternative Genocide Action

Aggregated from: Global Voices Online » U.S.A.

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...

April 29, 2008

McCain-Obama Ticket?

Aggregated from: Turkey Talk

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...

April 21, 2008

Pope Arrives in the U.S.

Aggregated from: Turkey Talk

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...

April 18, 2008

U.S. Papal Visit: The World Reacts

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.