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Daily Star, and Director of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut, in Beirut, Lebanon. Anicle 4. The Jerusalem Post What the Patriarch Abraham can teach us about land and peace S. Daniel Abraham 31 March, 2014 -- It sometimes se

ency Mustafa Akyol EFTA00705808 4/5/2014 -- After yet another election victory of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its leader, Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey is now turning its focus to the next battle: the presidential elections that will be held on Aug. 10, and if a second round is necessary, o

-to-air missiles and a consignment of Sukhoi 24 aircraft. Militarily, Iran tried to get its allies — namely, its proxy militia groups Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza — to enter the conflict on its behalf. "All our help to you over the years," the Israeli playing Ahmadinejad (a former colonel i

dimir Putin developed an excellent relationship with the outgoing Chinese leadership. Until recently he was buddies with the Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, and is a good friend of the former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi. Unlike Obama, he gets along with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a

ssue. They fear, I think rightly, that the United States puts a much higher stake on the nuclear issue than on rolling back Iranian power in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and other places that the Saudis are concerned about. So that's a major difference. The United States wants Syrian president Bashar al-Assad

ballots Mustafa Akyol March 30 -- last Sunday's elections, without any doubt, went into history as yet another election victory for Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) with a solid 43 percent of the votes. Why this was the case needs to be studied well by all part

and charities in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere for needy Palestinians. Last year, he said he delivered $8 million to Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. "In Gaza, I do the same now," he said. ". collecting money for desalination in Gaza. It's unbearable. Fifty percent of the water in the houses is

ty the feds could threaten or squeeze." Some observers predict Erdogan will be unable to undo the damage done by the corruption affair. "The era of Tayyip Erdogan is about to end," columnist Cengiz Candar wrote in the Radikal newspaper on the Prime EFTA00684334 Minister's birthday on Feb 26th. "What we don'

h impotence as Assad bulldozes whole neighborhoods, tortures with impunity and summarily executes the innocent as well as the guilty? Why, indeed? Lebanon totters. Jordan drowns in refugees. Iraq has descended into ethnic chaos and its border with Syria is a mere rest stop for Islamic radicals. A EFTA

e time being, there are only two candidates to the two-term elections to be completed by Aug. 27, 2014, in roughly six months' time: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan or incumbent President Gill for a second term. In this first presidential election through popular vote, a candidate has to get at least 50 percent

lwark against Israeli and American hegemony. With backing from Washington, Israel has sought to smash Hezbollah (notably through its 2006 invasion of Lebanon) and detach Syria from Iran, a country Israel views as its most dangerous regional rival. Neither objective has so far been realized. But now that Sy

kara's ambitious Arab policy. Turkey-Syria relations have flourished in recent years as Turkey-Israel relations have grown cold. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, have actively sought to mediate local conflicts and bring much-needed stability to the region by forging c