Bringing warring terrorist groups to the negotiating table and using them to help deliver aid is a desirable means of reducing conflict. But a US Supreme Court ruling has just made it a whole lot harder.
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Turkey on the brink of tumbling into Iraq
With General Petraeus declaring the surge a success - only 1000 civilians recorded murdered this month - just as the car bombs begin again, the whole Iraq thang may go into a whole new phase thanks to two issues facing Turkey, one a tragedy, the other farce,
writes Guy Rundle.
Moderate incumbents returned to government in Turkey
By 9pm Sunday night Istanbul time, the most boring question of last night’s Turkish election – who would win – had been answered, with the ruling AKP party romping it in with 48.5% of the vote, while the most interesting question – would they get the magic two-thirds majority in the 550 seat parliament – remains unanswered.
Turkish tensions rising over northern Iraq
While America’s role in Iraq is being fiercely debated, facts on the ground are making it increasingly irrelevant with the situation in northern Iraq rapidly becoming a purely regional question.
