By Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen
Newsweek International
July31, 2006 issue - Israel launched airstrikes on Lebanon in response toattacks by Hizbullah earlier this month, and George W. Bush called it"self-defense." But what to tell the Turks, who over the last week lost15 sol-diers to terror attacks launched by sepa-ratist Kurds fromneighboring Iraq?
March 5, 2008 | By John D. McKinnon
WASHINGTON -- The perception that the U.S. troop surge in Iraq has succeeded is changing some public views of the war, potentially blunting Democrats' political edge on the issue.
ANKARA - Wednesday, February 9, 2005
'My advice to all Iraqi political leaders is this: Such rhetoric would lead them nowhere. What they should do is turn their faces towards Baghdad,' says Gül
March 12, 2008 | By SABRINA TAVERNISE
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey’s government is planning a broad series of investments worth as much as $12 billion in the country’s largely Kurdish southeast, in a new economic effort intended to create jobs and draw young men away from militancy, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
The Sunday Times July 16, 2006 
Thursday, February 28, 2008 | By Ellen Knickmeyer | Washington Post Foreign Service
Did Incursion Just Happen to Coincide With Easing of Ban on Head Scarves?
ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 27 -- Turkey's military offensive in northern Iraq has clear objectives: attack Kurdish separatist guerrillas in their mountain bases, destroy their camps and weapons caches, and show them they can be pursued anywhere, anytime.
Friday, March 7, 2008 | Mehmet Ali Birand
Some things are changing in Turkey. I am sure it has come to your attention, too. We're witnessing some unusual developments.
