APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from October 2007

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from October 2007

The Challenges Of Terrorism - Iraq, Part 26 - Turkey.
October 22, 2007... Two obsessions in Ankara - a surge in Kurdish militant attacks and the killing of 1.5m Armenians in 1915-17 - have fused as a tipping point in US-Turkish relations affecting Iraq. After the killing of many Turkish soldiers and civilians since...

The US Position.
October 22, 2007... US Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Dan Fried and Under-Secretary of Defence Eric Edelman on Oct. 15 ended talks in Ankara. They urged the Turkish government to exercise restraint. The US Ambassador to Ankara, Ross Wilson, and...

Kurdistan's Position.(Kurdistan Workers Party )
October 22, 2007... The Erbil-based Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) - controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of Ma'soud Barzani, who is president of Kurdistan, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Jalal Talabani, who is president of Iraq -...

The Armenian Issue.
October 22, 2007... The complication between Washington and Ankara began on Oct. 10 with a US Congressional committee's approval of a resolution calling the 1915-17 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks a "genocide". Ankara called the decision "unacceptable",...

A Trap For Turks - Or USA?
October 22, 2007... Demir says: "Some people claim the PKK is doing these attacks to pull Turkey into the northern Iraq swamp, in order to harm Turkey's relationship with the US and to isolate Turkey. If you add an Armenian genocide bill onto this ongoing turmoil...

US Gunner Sees War Win.
October 22, 2007... The Christian Science Monitor on Oct. 16 quoted veteran US Marine Gunner Terry Walker, 51, as saying the Iraq war was still America's war to win. The paper said Walker, on his third tour in Iraq, was a "wiry intellectual with glasses and a...

The Neo-Salafi Front.
October 22, 2007... US and Iraqi forces, meanwhile, are concentrating on the pursuit of Neo-Salafi insurgent groups, including al-Qaeda, in Iraq's north-western province of Ninewah and its capital Mosul. This is where the next big battle is to take place, as...

US Holds More Detainees.
October 22, 2007... Sixty prisoners - 10 of them youths - on Oct. 10 raised their hands and swore to live a peaceful life at Camp Victory, a major US base near Baghdad airport. In return, US authorities set them free. More than 25,000 Iraqis still in American...

Shi'ites Disillusioned With Sadr & JaM.
October 22, 2007... In a number of Shi'ite areas across Baghdad, residents are beginning to turn away from Jaysh al-Mahdi (JaM), or the Mahdi Army, the Shi'ite militia they once saw as their only protector against Sunni militants. Now they resent it as a band of...