Stories about Turkey from November, 2006
Kurdistance: It's Quiet Out Here
One of the hardest things about reporting on various blogospheres is the natural ebb and flow of people's writings. The past two weeks in the Kurdish blogosphere have been strangely quiet, the kind of quiet that is found before a great storm. Hiwa from Hiwa Hopes writes about the rampant...
Ukraine: Kyiv No Istanbul
Carpetblogger explains why Istanbul is not Kyiv.
The Balkans: EU Hopes
Neretva River writes of what may be “the end of Turkey's EU accession hopes” and the “implications for the Western Balkans.”
Russia: Hairdressers
The Turkish Invasion compares Russian and Turkish hairdressers.
Russia: Russo-Turkish Wars
The Turkish Invasion lists 11 Russo-Turkish wars.
Kurdistance: Picking up the pieces
After a month's hiatus, Kurdistance is back up and running…and attempting to pick up the pieces of Kurdish opinion floating out there in the blogosphere. The big issues this month have been the Saddam Hussein verdict, the US in Iraq, and the flooding in Northern Kurdistan/Southeast Turkey. The Saddam Verdict:...
Former Yugoslavia: Can video play a part in truth, justice and reconciliation?
It fell to the controversial figure of Carla del Ponte, prosecutor at the UN war crimes tribunal in the Hague, to lament the slow progress of justice in the Former Yugoslavia in a lecture she delivered last week. del Ponte picked out Serbia as a country “removed from the European...