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...distinct as historians portray it, and that emancipation was a longer and more gradual process. Hahn emphasized the importance of looking at the Civil War period with this fresh point of view, in order to explore ideas usually overlooked. For example, rather than looking at the Northern emancipation and the Southern emancipation as distinct phases, they should be seen as one long, connected process, he suggested. In an interview before the lecture, Hahn explained his take on this part of history. “I’m interested in playing around with one of the central frameworks of American...
...First came Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seeking U.S. assistance against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and help advancing Turkey's pursuit of entry into the European Union. Some might have thought it an odd moment for Anakara's premier to pay a courtesy call on Washington, what with the recent recall of the Turkey's ambassador to Washington in protest over moves in the U.S. Congress to label the massacre of Armenians in 1915 a genocide. And then there are the mounting fears of a Turkish incursion into Iraq to stop cross-border raids into southeastern Turkey...
...Even if we have never set eyes on a Peruvian yellow-tailed woolly monkey before, the species' well-being may affect our own. "Things may not change very much if we lose one more primate species," says Tilo Nadler, director of the Endangered Primate Rescue Center in northern Vietnam. "But where is the limit? ... It is our environment, and primates are part of the biodiversity ecosystem...
...crisis, and on the government in Baghdad, which leapt to the defense of the Kurdish region. And since many Kurdish observers suspect that Iraqi Kurdish independence - not just the PKK - is the target of Turkey's efforts, the Turks may have already won this skirmish in the battle of northern Iraq...
...While the Turks drive their tanks through Barmani in broad daylight once a week, the PKK guerillas are more elusive. Although the Turkish army claims that the PKK is using northern Iraq as a staging ground for attacks inside Turkey, the PKK's main bases are in the Qandil mountains, near the border with Iran and beyond the easy reach of a large Turkish force. The few PKK bases near the Turkish border are also difficult to reach, located long distances on single-track dirt roads high in classic insurgency country. One camp that's home to some 300 fighters...