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Obama Must Unleash Hillary
 Obama Must 
 Unleash 
 Hillary 
OPINION
Jul 16, 2010 12:40 PM CDT

Obama Must Unleash Hillary

Campaign feud gets in the way of foreign policy

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton visited Armenia last week, trying to settle the Nagorno-Karabakh disagreement and resolve the country's dispute with Turkey over the massacres of 1915. “You’ve got to salute Hillary,” writes Roger Cohen of the New York Times . “It’s a heck of a job being secretary...

Israel Admits Fatal Blockade 'Mistakes'

But praises 'professional and courageous' commandos

(Newser) - Israel's own inquiry into the May 31 Gaza flotilla raid has admitted commandos were under-prepared and mistakes were made at a senior level, but stopped short of calling the mission a failure or recommending any dismissals in response to the raid. The report criticized the operation's planners for not having...

Turkey Threatens to Cut Ties With Israel

Says it must apologize for flotilla raid or face consequences

(Newser) - Turkey will cut diplomatic ties with Israel unless it apologizes for the flotilla raid that killed 9 Turks or accepts an international probe into the deaths, said the country's foreign minister. The statement was the most explicit to date from a high-level Turkish official about the conditions for improving strained...

Israeli Plane Blocked From Turkish Airspace

Military officers en route to Auschwitz memorial forced to make detour

(Newser) - Turkey has closed its airspace to Israeli military flights following the deadly May 31 raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship, Turkish officials said today. The announcement came after an Israeli newspaper reported yesterday that a plane carrying Israeli military officers to a tour of memorial sites in Auschwitz, Poland, had...

UN Slaps New Sanctions on Iran

Measures target Revolutionary Guard, but not oil

(Newser) - The UN Security Council has approved new sanctions against Iran over its suspected nuclear program that target the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard, ballistic missiles, and nuclear-related investments. The resolution was approved with 12 "yes" votes, two "no" votes from Brazil and Turkey, and one abstention from Lebanon.

US Citizen Killed in Raid on Gaza Aid Flotilla

White House had urged restraint, warned of Americans on board

(Newser) - An American citizen who'd been living in Turkey was among the nine people killed in Israel's raid on aid ships bound for Gaza. Forensic reports say the man, 19-year-old Furkan Dogan, was shot in the head four times, and once more in the chest, ABC News reports. The revelation comes...

Sarah Palin: Let Israel Know We Stand With 'Em

Media's full of it: 'Islamist' Turkey backs 'pro-terror convoy'

(Newser) - Israel has at least one international supporter of its attack on a Gaza aid flotilla: Sarah Palin posted a message on her Facebook page saying that "We need to let Israelis know we stand with them in their fight against terrorists." Calling the flotilla a "pro-terror convoy,...

Israel: We're Not Sorry
 Israel: We're Not Sorry 
Jun 2, 2010 6:00 AM CDT

Israel: We're Not Sorry

New flotilla en route to Gaza

(Newser) - Amid harsh international criticism of its deadly raid on a humanitarian aid ship headed to Gaza, Israel took a hard line yesterday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the raid and said Israel will continue its Gaza blockade. Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon declared: "We do not need to apologize...

UN Calls for Probe Into Israeli Raid on Aid Ship

Israel releases video baring confrontation

(Newser) - The UN Security Council has called for an immediate investigation into the deadly Israeli raid on an aid ship headed to Gaza, and is demanding the release of all civilian activists arrested on board. At least 10 pro-Palestinian protesters, most of them Turkish, were killed when troops stormed a ship...

10 Killed as Israelis Storm Gaza Aid Ships

Dozens of mostly Turkish protesters injured

(Newser) - At least 10 pro-Palestinian activists were killed and dozens injured early today when Israeli troops stormed ships laden with aid for Gaza. The troops clashed with some 600 mostly Turkish protesters who confronted soldiers attempting to halt the 6-ship flotilla in international waters. The convoy was attempting to deliver aid...

Iran Agrees to Refine Uranium in Turkey

Deal designed to temporarily prevent it from building a weapon

(Newser) - Iran agreed today to ship most of its enriched uranium to Turkey in a nuclear fuel swap deal that could ease the international standoff over the country's disputed nuclear program and deflate a US-led push for tougher sanctions. The deal was reached in talks with Brazil and Turkey, a new...

Ash Cloud Reaches Africa
 Ash Cloud Reaches Africa 
May 12, 2010 4:31 AM CDT

Ash Cloud Reaches Africa

Airport closed in Morocco, Spain, Turkey

(Newser) - Drifting ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano has closed airports as far away as the Sahara. Authorities in Morocco, which wasn't affected by last month's closures, shut down 10 airports today as an ash cloud moved south. Some Spanish airports were also forced to close and Turkey briefly closed a section...

Evidence Points to Noah's Ark Hoax

Scientist quit group after 'Kurds staged find'

(Newser) - A purported Noah's Ark discovered by a team of Chinese evangelists in Turkey may be a hoax created with old timber by local Kurds, reveals the Christian Science Monitor . "Proper analysis may show this to be a hoax and negatively reflect how gullible Christians can be," said American...

Evangelist Explorers Say They Found Noah's Ark

Group says it found planks on Mount Ararat

(Newser) - A team of evangelical explorers (who knew?) say they've found Noah's Ark on a mountain in Turkey. The Turkish and Chinese archeologists found remains of a wooden structure 13,000 feet up on Mount Ararat. The team believes it couldn't be remains of a human settlement because none are known...

Deadly 6.0 Quake Rattles Turkey
 Deadly 6.0 Quake 
 Rattles Turkey 
UPDATE
Mar 8, 2010 1:18 AM CST

Deadly 6.0 Quake Rattles Turkey

51 killed in earthquake east of Ankara

(Newser) - At least 51 people were killed early today when a 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Turkey. Minarets toppled, buildings crumbled, and panicked residents fled their homes in 6 villages near the epicenter some 350 miles east of the nation's capital of Ankara. Rescuers were rushing to free people trapped...

Turkey Recalls Ambassador to US
Turkey Recalls Ambassador
to US 
Mar 4, 2010 5:27 PM CST

Turkey Recalls Ambassador to US

Move follows House panel's declaration of genocide in Armenia

(Newser) - Turkey is recalling its ambassador to the US following a resolution declaring the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I to be genocide. The move came minutes after the House Foreign Affairs Committee endorsed the nonbinding resolution with a 23-22 vote, even though the...

Unlikely Allies Help Obama in Afghanistan

White House engages with Russia, China, and more, and gets results

(Newser) - Diplomacy has become a major part of Barack Obama’s strategy in Afghanistan; the administration has been proactively recruiting regional allies, even ones that seem like strange bedfellows. Russia, for example, which suffered its own defeat in Afghanistan in part thanks to US covert operations, recently gave a general authorization...

USC Prof Fights Terror Charge for Backing Kurds

Supreme Court case puts law to test

(Newser) - A USC professor and human rights activist heads to the Supreme Court next week to fight terror charges for supporting Turkey's Kurdish minority. Ralph Fertig, 79, is a self-described pacifist who says he counseled local leaders on how to peacefully pursue their cause. Those leaders, however, may have been members...

Turkish Teen Buried Alive for Talking to Boys

(Newser) - A 16-year-old girl was buried alive in a Turkish village as punishment for talking to boys. Police discovered her body after a tipoff. She was found sitting up, with her hands tied and soil in her lungs, buried in a hole behind her family's home in Kahta in southeastern Turkey....

Man Who Shot Pope John Paul Freed

Agca promises to reveal truth behind shooting, claims to be messiah

(Newser) - The Turkish man who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981 was freed yesterday after nearly 30 years in jail and has promised to tell the full story about the assassination attempt. Mehmet Ali Agca claimed after the shooting that Soviet agents were behind the attack—a theory...

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