Major powers must act now to prevent disaster in Syria, says Turkey 22 octobre 2012
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The Guardian (UK) Monday, October 22, 2012, p. 28
Simon Tisdall in Istanbul
Turkey has called on the US, Britain and other leading countries to take immediate action to intervene in Syria to prevent a looming humanitarian « disaster » that it says threatens the lives of millions of internally displaced people and refugees as winter approaches and could soon ignite a region-wide conflagration. (suite…)
A diplomatic catastrophe 22 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in France, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: conflicts, diplomacy, foreign policy, Iran, Middle East, Peter Hain, Syria, Turkey, UK, USA
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The Guardian (UK) Monday, October 22, 2012, p. 24
Peter Hain *
The only way forward for Syria is to broker a political settlement, in consultation with Russia and Iran. If Russia and Iran have been culpable, there has been a catastrophic failure of diplomacy by the west and its allies. (suite…)
La Turquie, en première ligne de nos intérêts 22 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in EU / UE, France, Turkey / Turquie, Turkey-EU / Turquie-UE.Tags: Ahmet Insel, Hélène Flautre
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Libération (France) lundi 22 octobre 2012, p. 21 Türkçe
Rebonds
Par Hélène Flautre et Ahmet Insel *
En Turquie, il est loin le temps où, rivés aux moindres bribes de rumeurs sur le rapport annuel attendu et redouté de la Commission européenne, les politiques et les commentateurs faisaient assaut de spéculations pour anticiper l’avenir ! (suite…)
Turkey’s Press Freedom Crisis 22 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Committee to Protect Journalists, journalist, press, press freedom, Turkey
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Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) October 2012, 53 p. Türkçe
A special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists
Turkish authorities are engaging in widespread criminal prosecution and jailing of journalists, and are applying other forms of severe pressure to promote self-censorship in the press, a CPJ analysis shows. (suite…)
New Ottomans 22 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Aykan Erdemir, Gareth Jenkins, Neo-Ottomanism, Turkey, İlhan Tanır
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RT.com (Russia) October 22, 2012
Cross Talk
Peter Lavelle
Are the Turks dreaming of a new Ottoman Empire? Given this region’s instability, is this desirable or even reasonable? Can Turkey become an ideal Islamic model for the Muslim world? Or are its relations with Syria undermining this strategy? And where is the Turkish democracy heading? Cross Talking with Gareth Jenkins, Aykan Erdemir and Ilhan Tanir. (suite…)
How Led Zeppelin helped to pay for dreaming spires 22 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Academic / Académique, Art-Culture, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Ahmet Ertegun, England, Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities, Mica Ertegun, Oxford, scholarship, Turkey, University of Oxford
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The Times (UK) October 22, 2012, p. 13
Richard Morrison
Sex,drugs, rock’n’roll…and the University of Oxford. From now on, two disparate worlds are eternally linked. This term, 16 postgraduate humanities students are taking up scholarships at Britain’s oldest seat of learning — courtesy of a £26 million gift from Mica Ertegun, the widow of the Turkish-American record mogul who founded Atlantic Records (suite…)
Turhan Bey. Actor who worked with Hepburn and Montez 22 octobre 2012
Posted by Acturca in Art-Culture, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: actor, Austria, Hollywood, photographer, Turhan Bey, Turhan Gilbert Selahattin Sahultavy
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The Independent (UK) Monday, October 22, 2012, p. 49
Obituaries
Tom Vallance
Turhan Bey was a screen heart-throb of the 1940s, whose slick black hair and exotically handsome features (often with a pencil moustache, which gave an added touch of suavity), made him a popular romantic lead. (suite…)
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