Barry Rubin is one of the world’s foremost experts on Turkey and the director of the Global Research for International Affairs Center (GLORIA Center) in Herzliya. When Barry speaks, people listen.
In fact, a Turkish newspaper based in Istanbul interviewed Prof. Rubin to get his views on the latest Turkish elections. You can read the interview here:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=117857
It [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
With all the hubbub and ballyhoo over Iraq and Iran, we aren’t hearing much about Turkey. That’s a problem.
For instance, did you know that Justice and Development Party (AKP) won the Turkish elections on the 22nd of July? Did you know that they are a moderate Islamic party? Did you know that, over the last [...]
Treppenwitz - Wisdom of the Stairs
Posted in Blog Reviews on Jul 27th, 2007
Israel is special.
Really.
(I heard that gasp of surprise and will ignore it.)
Unfortunately, Israel Outlook doesn’t capture more than a fraction of that special quality. My blog is all about terrible people doing terrible things to a country that I care deeply about. But, terrible people have done terrible things to other countries since there were countries [...]
What Sane Person Would Want To?
Posted in America, Personal Notes, Society on Jul 25th, 2007
The fourth thing that I do every morning is turn on my computer and go through my tabbed list of start pages on Internet Explorer. First, it’s the Jerusalem Post, and they’re good for at least one article idea - at least one.
Then, I go to Marallyn’s blog, Shalom from Jerusalem. She has a ‘view from [...]
Today is Tisha b’Av, the ninth day of Av - a month in the lunar Hebrew calendar.
It is the saddest day in the Jewish year because it marks the day in which the first and second temples were destroyed by the Babylonians and then by the Romans. Both temples were destroyed more than five hundred years apart, yet on the same [...]