Enemy at the gates: why Syria’s disaster threatens war in Turkey 10 octobre 2014
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Hugh Pope, PKK, Syria, War
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The Guardian (UK) Friday, October 10, 2014, p. 37
Hugh Pope *
The advance of Isis on Syria’s Kurds is undermining the peace process between Turkey and the PKK. Turkey feels as if it’s reliving an old nightmare. (suite…)
Why We Must Arm Syria’s Opposition 11 juin 2014
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Al-Qaeda, Ambassador, Bashar al Assad, Free Syrian Army, Robert S. Ford, Syria, War
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The New York Times (USA) Wednesday, June 11, 2014, p. A 23
By Robert S. Ford *
Washington — In February, I resigned as the American ambassador to Syria, after 30 years’ foreign service in Africa and the Middle East. As the situation in Syria deteriorated, I found it ever harder to justify our policy. It was time for me to leave. (suite…)
Is it 1914 all over again? 5 janvier 2014
Posted by Acturca in Books / Livres, History / Histoire, Middle East / Moyen Orient, Russia / Russie, South East Europe / Europe du Sud-Est, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: Austro-Hungarian Empire, China, conflicts, Germany, Margaret MacMillan, War, World War I
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Independent on Sunday (UK) Sunday, January 5, 2014, p. 24
Ian Johnston
We are in danger of repeating the mistakes that started the Great War, says a leading historian. Ian Johnston reports (suite…)
Historian out to explode our take on the Anzac legend 18 avril 2012
Posted by Acturca in History / Histoire, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: ANZAC, Australia, Çanakkale, Dardanelles strait, Gallipoli, History, History / Histoire, Hugh Dolan, military history, Turkey / Turquie, UK, War, World War I
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The Age (Australia) April 18, 2012, p. 3
Bridie Smith
The popular story of the Gallipoli landings – long credited as a young nation’s coming of age – is studded with factual errors, according to an Australian historian and former RAAF intelligence officer. (suite…)
A ‘frozen conflict’ that could boil over 9 mars 2012
Posted by Acturca in Caucasus / Caucase, France, Russia / Russie, Turkey / Turquie.Tags: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, conflicts, France, Internally displaced people, International Crisis Group, Iran, Kelbajar, Lawrence Scott Sheets, Minsk Group, Nagorno-Karabakh, Russia, Russia / Russie, South Caucasus, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, War
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International Herald Tribune (USA) Friday, March 9, 2012, p. 6
By Lawrence Scott Sheets *
One frigid day nearly 19 years ago, I found myself standing along a muddy, rutted road in the foothills of Azerbaijan’s 3,000 meter-high Murov mountain range. Hundreds of Azerbaijani internally displaced persons – from the strategic Kelbajar region – were arriving on foot, some nearly frozen to death after a multiday trek through the icy mountain passes. (suite…)
In Heavy Waters: Iran’s Nuclear Program, the Risk of War and Lessons from Turkey 23 février 2012
Posted by Acturca in Middle East / Moyen Orient, Turkey / Turquie, USA / Etats-Unis.Tags: International Crisis Group, Iran, Middle East, nuclear policy, sanction, Turkey, Turkey / Turquie, USA, War
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Middle East and Europe Report (International Crisis Group) N°11623, 41 p.
23 February 2012, Istanbul/Washington/Brussels
The dramatic escalation in Israel’s rhetoric aimed at Iran could well be sheer bluff, a twin message to Tehran to halt its nuclear activities and to the international community to heighten its pressure to that end. (suite…)
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