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This is going to be a different type of article from my usual reports.
My american news headlines are about Walmart, Texas schoolbooks, and basketball.
(The links provided are all to stories written in english language.)
Meanwhile, daily strikes continue in Greece. Today it will be the taxi drivers on strike, and
all gas stations will be closed. They charged 3 men with the assault on a union boss last week.
Yet what really merits my attention, is the weird stuff going on in news about Turkey .
The US and international community have been (pressuring) working to encourage
Armenia and Turkey to “normalise ties” as this BBC article headline from October 2009.
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Now jump to March 2010, and the BBC article “Turkish anger at US Armenian ‘genocide’ vote”
with Turkey withdrawing an ambassador from Washington DC.
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Less than 1 month ago, news surfaced of a failed military coup in Turkey. story
Continuing with the ‘bad press’ stories, on March 16 2010 we had:
Turkish corvette tests Greek waters a short article found on
story whole article is
Turkish warships have been testing the patience of the Hellenic Navy by increasing their transit through Greek waters, it emerged yesterday.
In the sixth incident this year, the corvette Bozcaada on Sunday set off from the Lebanese coast for Izmir in Turkey – via Cape Sounion south of Athens. Defense officials worry about the message Turkey wants to convey with these legal yet ostensibly aimless transits. Defense Minister Evangelos Venizelos spoke of “the barely innocent passage of a Turkish warship through our territorial waters.” The Bozcaada, part of an international operation in the Aegean, was relieved by another Turkish vessel on Sunday. But upon its return voyage, instead of taking the shorter route along the Turkish coast to Izmir, it went northwest toward Rhodes, from there to Serifos and on to the strait between Sounion and Kea before heading east, past Evia and Skyros.
Today, March 18th, we see from the same news service:
Turkish Interference
Helicopter gets radar warning at
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Turkish authorities yesterday sent radar warnings to a Greek coast guard helicopter participating in a patrol of the eastern Aegean organized by Frontex, the European Union’s border monitoring agency, Greek defense officials said. The helicopter had been patroling the area between the islands of Symi and Farmakonisi when it received the signal from Turkey. The warnings came just a day after similar signals were sent to a Greek Chinook helicopter, also close to Farmakonisi.
And then we have the “Iran nuclear programme ‘solely civilian’ – Turkish PM” on the BBC at
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and
“Turkey threatens to expel 100,000 Armenians” BBC at story .
There was also an interesting piece about the dispute between FYROM and Greece over the naming of
what most of the world calls Macedonia in “US eyes solution in name dispute”
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And last, there was also the gaffe between Israel and the US relations after Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden,
and President Obama each, separately where quoted by press agencies as criticizing the Israeli settlement plans.( my words)
So while the news media in the US bombards people with stories about car recalls from Toyota, Honda, and Chevy,
Tiger Woods, several celebrity deaths, Texas schoolbooks, and the incessant bunk about healthcare …
the world is showing some growing pains.
Do not panic, I wanted to share these stories. Yet the world as we know it is not going to dissolve any time soon.
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