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Weapons issued to Iraqi security forces are starting to show up in Turkey, finding their way into the hands of Turkish Kurdish separatists and criminals. Most recently, a van with 660 pounds was found in Ankara on September 11, possibly meant to be detonated on September 12, the twenty-seventh anniversary of a Turkish military coup. The Turkish generals are counting on things getting worse in Iraq, with more chaos spilling across the border into Turkey. Erdogan told them he can work with the Iraqi Regional Kurdish Government to staunch the smuggling, as well as close down Kurdish separatist bases...
...generals have heard it all before; they know Erdogan cannot deliver. No one can do anything about Iraq. The generals also know that whether Maliki stays or goes, the Iraqi government cannot exert control over its armed forces and police, enough at least to secure Turkey's border. But this is not the point - a failing Iraq is mounting justification to unseat Erdogan...
...cost about $20 billion and take five years to repair and modernize the industry, whose infrastructure had been rotting for decades because of international sanctions and Saddam's mismanagement. Insurgents have been attacking oil pipelines since 2003. A key northern line that leads to the export terminal in Ceyhan, Turkey, has lain idle for months since it was blown up. The industry also faces skills shortages. Years of suicide attacks and kidnappings have drained the country of its oil engineers, who have fled...
...following momentous visits to Turkey and Brazil, the 80-year-old Pope begins a three-day September swing that looks similar - on paper - to his low-key itinerary back a year ago. He hopped back just across the Alps on Friday, this time for three days in Austria, which sits just on the border of his native Bavaria. He will again deliver a series of speeches in German, including an address Friday evening to a gathering of international diplomats in Vienna that touched on some hot-button issues facing world leaders. Speaking with a slightly hoarse voice, the Pope delivered...
Plenty of criticism of the U.S. there. On the other hand, the famous lunch that George W. Bush stood Sarkozy in Kennebunkport, Maine, this summer seems to have been worth it. Sarkozy pledged 150 new French troops for Afghanistan and softened his opposition to Turkey's entry into the European Union, a membership the U.S. favors. And he promised active French diplomacy in Iraq and Lebanon while pledging that France would help prevent the emergence of an Islamist ministate in the Gaza Strip. No U.S. President should ever expect his French counterpart to agree with everything he says...