TZ Habip Guler 30.10.2008-Turkey's biggest Kurdish party, the Democratic Society Party (DTP), has collected its proposals for a solution to the long-standing Kurdish problem in a book.
The 64-page book, available in Kurdish and English in addition to Turkish, was sent to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and all ministers and deputies on Oct. 23. The book is a compilation of the "Political Attitude Document," which was announced in a November 2007 DTP convention and foresees autonomy for Kurds living in Turkey. It provides answers to the question "What do Kurds want?"
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Yigal Schleifer : Turkey tightens controls on Internet speech
The Christian Science Monitor 30.10.2008-The country's courts and governments have banned 850 websites this year, including YouTube and Blogger.For pioneering Turkish blogger Erkan Saka, these are dark days. Last week, he found himself cut off from a group of blogs that he belongs to and from hundreds of other websites he regularly reads.
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Prosecutor's office prepares brief to lift DTP leader's immunity
Zaman 29.10.2008-The Diyarbakir Prosecutor's Office is preparing to request that the parliamentary immunity granted to pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Chairman Ahmet Türk be lifted over charges that he disseminated the propaganda of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday.
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John C. K. Daly :Turkey Pursues Its Own Foreign Policy Line
The Jamstown Foundation -If there is one constant of Turkish foreign policy, it is that Ankara puts the nation’s interests first and foremost, which occasionally discomfits neighboring countries and allies, who believe that their perceptions and interests should have more impact on policy formation than is often the case.
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