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...Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for Middle Eastern states to take the lead in their own democratization in a speech at Harvard last Friday...
Erdogan’s address to a crowded JFK Jr. Forum at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), which came two days after he met with President Bush in Washington in an effort to improve U.S.-Turkish relations, described what he believed to be favorable prospects for democracy in the Middle East...
During the speech, members of the Kurdish community in New England stood outside the KSG with signs protesting the Turkish government’s treatment of ethnic minorities...
...suicide bombings, which U.S. officials have so far thought were mainly the work of foreign fighters. The video features testimonials from five "martyrs"; two speak with Saudi accents, says an interpreter who watched the video, but two others have Iraqi accents. One man, the video claims, bombed the Turkish embassy in Baghdad. Another is identified as a Kurd who bombed a CIA office in Arbil. The video aims to motivate recruits by showing footage of Iraqis being forced to the ground and handcuffed by U.S. troops. A voice-over urges, "Go to help your brothers in Iraq...
...Hussein over the past two decades. A Kurdish statelet in the north is anathema to the Shiites and Sunni, and Turkey - which regards Kurdish self-determination as a mortal threat to its own naitonal security - has signaled that it would be prepared to invade to prevent such an outcome. Turkish prime minister Recip Erdogan left Washington last Wednesday plainly unconvinced by President Bush's assurances on the issue of Kurdish autonomy. And the weekend's bombings in Irbil are expected to strengthen the secessionist impulse among Iraqi Kurds...