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AKP CONDEMNS JUDICIAL ATTEMPTS TO CLOSE KURDISH PARTY
Leading members of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) have condemned attempts by the country's judiciary to close down the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP). On November 16 Public Prosecutor Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya formally applied to the Turkish Constitutional Court for the closure of the... MORE
NEWSPAPER: PUTIN’S ENTOURAGE SEES NO ALTERNATIVE TO A THIRD TERM
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently gave the strongest hint to date that he plans on remaining at the helm of the ship of state following the end of his second and final constitutionally mandated term next May. Putin, who will head the federal list of... MORE
RUSSIA-LED BLOC EMERGES IN OSCE
Moscow is lining up the member countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) -- Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan -- in a Russia-led bloc within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. This bloc has emerged in the run-up to the... MORE
OSCE STUMBLING OVER UNRESOLVED CONFLICTS AHEAD OF YEAR-END MEETING
Insofar as its words still matter (admittedly an increasingly dubious premise), the OSCE seems set to defer to Russia at the year-end meeting in late November in Madrid regarding the post-Soviet unresolved conflicts. The political declaration, drafted by the Spanish chairmanship, reflects Russia’s overall position... MORE
NEW TURKISH INTERNET REGULATIONS SIGNAL FURTHER RESTRICTIONS ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Amid fading hopes of EU membership, there are increasing signs that the Turkish authorities are tightening restrictions on freedom of speech. A new set of regulations for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) published in the Turkish Official Gazette on November 1, 2007, makes it compulsory for... MORE
RUSSIA STRUGGLES TO SUSTAIN PARTNERSHIP WITH INDIA
During Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s November 11-12 visit to Moscow, Russia and India signed agreements on space cooperation -- including a possible joint lunar program -- rupee debt investment, drug trafficking and transnational crime, as well as a deal on joint development and production... MORE
KYRGYZ POLITICAL PARTIES SHOW RAPID DEVELOPMENT
Almost all of Kyrgyzstan’s political parties that registered for the parliamentary elections on December 16 have now identified their top five candidates. Each political party had to come up with a list of 100 candidates for their official party lists. The top five slots tend... MORE
KAZAKHSTAN ADJUSTS ITS RELATIONS WITH ARAB STATES
On November 5 Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrived in Damascus for a three-day visit. Both Nazarbayev and his Syrian counterpart, Bashar al-Assad, seemed satisfied with the talks, which covered investments, bilateral trade, and political ties. Beset by chronic economic and political troubles in the turbulent... MORE
EUROPE TO START BUYING AZERI GAS VIA TURKEY BYPASSING RUSSIA
Monday, November 18, leaders from Greece, Turkey, the United States, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Italy will officially launch a new Turkey-Greece pipeline project along the Maritza River. The 300-kilometer-long natural gas pipeline will carry Azerbaijani gas to Europe, bypassing Russia. According to Turkish Energy Ministry officials,... MORE
RUSSIAN SOLDERS LEAVE SOUTH GEORGIA, OTHERS DEPLOYED IN THE NORTH
This week Russian military officially transfer control of Russia's last significant permanent military base in southern Georgia. The base was located along the Black Sea at Batumi, home of a major Caspian oil-exporting terminal near the Turkish border. On Thursday November 15, the last train,... MORE