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Mavi Marmara Articles

Allies apart

Turkey and the west are drifting apart by degrees. Turkey is at war with the Kurds, has  an out of date constitution and journalists in jail. Without an improvement in its domestic situation Turkey’s progress toward EU membership will continue to slow down. Prime...
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Keep individual freedom to commence private prosecutions

Wes Streeting is wrong to countenance with such ease letting go of the citizen right to commence a private prosecution in war crimes cases, as the coalition intends to do. It is an important right in a way beyond how Wes characterises it in his piece on Progress.

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Is Turkey part of the problem in the Middle East?

What is the direction of Turkish foreign policy? The antagonism expressed by prime minister Erdogan on many occasions towards Israel of late was reaffirmed in a recent speech in Pakistan in which he stated that ‘Israel must apologise to Turkey and pay compensation for the state terrorism in the Mediterranean. If it does not, it will be doomed to remain isolated in the Middle East.’

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‘Weapons out, everything else in’

Today Tony Blair talked to Richard Angell from Progress about Israel’s decision to liberalise its policy on Gaza and his hopes for Middle East peace.

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