July 29, 2013
The Gezi Park protests (click here) in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, which shook Turkey at the end of May, represent a turning point in Turkey’s contemporary political history. Although their main target was Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his style of government, the protests, in combination with developments in Syria’s civil war, will have significant consequences for the ongoing peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). At the same time, the need to effectively address the Kurdish issue could accelerate recent shifts in Turkey’s stance on the Syrian crisis....
Stabilizing the Middle East is not as daunting a task as it seems. Not really. There is more wealth in peace than there ever was in war.
Turkey: War to last until PKK leave
Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:36PM GMT
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (click here) has said that the Turkish Army will continue its war with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters until they withdraw abroad.
"The terror organization (the PKK) must give an end to its actions, withdraw abroad, and lay down their arms. And we will give our best support to the process," Endogen said in southern Gaziantep province on Sunday.
He added that the Turkish Army would not launch attacks against PKK fighters if they were leaving the country.
Erdogan stated that the government would not allow any kind of separatist movements to work in the country....
Prime Minister Erdogan does not have to make extremist statements, he has to negotiate a place for the Kurds within the sovereign nation of Turkey and then allow the establishment of a peaceful Kurdish state. In that lies the understanding the Kurds themselves will maintain the peace including disarming the extremists such as PPK.
Taliban call on Kurds and Turks to join the Afghan jihad (click here)
The Taliban are horribly terroristic in their methodology and seek complete disruption of peaceful measures. It is not in the Taliban's interest to destroy non-government organizations that vaccinate people to assist their longevity, but, they are doing it anyway. The closest kin to refusing medical treatment in the USA are the Jehovah Witnesses and they don't carry out jihad to do it.
July 30, 2013
by Haider Javed Warraich, a resident in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
I do not believe Mr. Warraich has a clue about global jihad, but, more or less is frustrated with the ideological concept for the right reasons. There is just no political answer with the Taliban. They are a brutal regime that lacks any ethnic purpose on Earth.
The coordinated murders (click here) of community health care workers in Pakistan, most of them women, in May has once again put into jeopardy the global polio eradication initiative. While the movement initially experienced exponential progress, it now finds itself trapped in an increasingly bloody battle with Islamic fundamentalists. When a female health worker wakes up in the morning, puts on her shalwar kameez, covering her head and most of her face in a dupatta, she is getting in gear to step out on to the front lines of one of the most important and dangerous wars of our time....
There is just no ethnic group that would seek such a brutal regime as a partner unless there was an answer for them as well. The Taliban has no answer that equates to peace and there is no reason to continue to provide reasons for radicalization of any ethnicity. They need homelands, otherwise, their futures are as violent as those that recruit them for their own purposes.
The Gezi Park protests (click here) in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, which shook Turkey at the end of May, represent a turning point in Turkey’s contemporary political history. Although their main target was Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his style of government, the protests, in combination with developments in Syria’s civil war, will have significant consequences for the ongoing peace process with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). At the same time, the need to effectively address the Kurdish issue could accelerate recent shifts in Turkey’s stance on the Syrian crisis....
Stabilizing the Middle East is not as daunting a task as it seems. Not really. There is more wealth in peace than there ever was in war.
Turkey: War to last until PKK leave
Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:36PM GMT
presstv.ir
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (click here) has said that the Turkish Army will continue its war with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters until they withdraw abroad.
"The terror organization (the PKK) must give an end to its actions, withdraw abroad, and lay down their arms. And we will give our best support to the process," Endogen said in southern Gaziantep province on Sunday.
He added that the Turkish Army would not launch attacks against PKK fighters if they were leaving the country.
Erdogan stated that the government would not allow any kind of separatist movements to work in the country....
Prime Minister Erdogan does not have to make extremist statements, he has to negotiate a place for the Kurds within the sovereign nation of Turkey and then allow the establishment of a peaceful Kurdish state. In that lies the understanding the Kurds themselves will maintain the peace including disarming the extremists such as PPK.
Taliban call on Kurds and Turks to join the Afghan jihad (click here)
The Taliban are horribly terroristic in their methodology and seek complete disruption of peaceful measures. It is not in the Taliban's interest to destroy non-government organizations that vaccinate people to assist their longevity, but, they are doing it anyway. The closest kin to refusing medical treatment in the USA are the Jehovah Witnesses and they don't carry out jihad to do it.
July 30, 2013
by Haider Javed Warraich, a resident in internal medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
I do not believe Mr. Warraich has a clue about global jihad, but, more or less is frustrated with the ideological concept for the right reasons. There is just no political answer with the Taliban. They are a brutal regime that lacks any ethnic purpose on Earth.
The coordinated murders (click here) of community health care workers in Pakistan, most of them women, in May has once again put into jeopardy the global polio eradication initiative. While the movement initially experienced exponential progress, it now finds itself trapped in an increasingly bloody battle with Islamic fundamentalists. When a female health worker wakes up in the morning, puts on her shalwar kameez, covering her head and most of her face in a dupatta, she is getting in gear to step out on to the front lines of one of the most important and dangerous wars of our time....
There is just no ethnic group that would seek such a brutal regime as a partner unless there was an answer for them as well. The Taliban has no answer that equates to peace and there is no reason to continue to provide reasons for radicalization of any ethnicity. They need homelands, otherwise, their futures are as violent as those that recruit them for their own purposes.
