The road ahead for TurkeyTurkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is steering the country closer towards realistic prospects of joining the European Union, and has had his package of constitutional EU-friendly reforms endorsed by a majority of voters. However, some commentators argue that a great deal more will be needed to embolden Turkey’s future.
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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.
Tarring democrats with the “Islamist” brush
A range of observers keep telling us that Australia and other western countries face a terrorist threat from “Islamists”. No doubt the threat is real, but I’ve been saying for years that this term for it is unhelpful and offensive.
