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LAUSANNE PEACE TREATY I. Treaty of Peace Treaty with Turkey and other Instruments signed at Lausanne FINAL ACT The Governments of the British Empire, France and Italy, in agreement with the government of Japan, being desirous of finally re-establishing peace in the East, and having invited on the one hand Greece, Romania, the Serb-Croat-Slovena State, and also the United States
Read moreAre we all listening to Nazi engineered music? Nazi music? What? Let me explain… First, if you’re reading this then you are quite special. Since the story was posted it has been almost completely avoided by readers. I don’t think I can say it has been ignored — how can you avoid seeing the swastika and the descriptive paragraph? No,
Read moreVLADIMIR PUTIN’ İN RUS PARLEMENTOSUNDAKİ KONUŞMASI (İNGİLİZCE VE TÜRKÇE ) Vladimir Putin’s speech On February 4th, 2013, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, addressed the Duma (Russian Parliament), and gave a speech about the tensions with minorities in Russia He said: “In Russia live Russians. Any minority, from anywhere, if it wants to live in Russia, to work and eat in
Read moreWSJ – Turkey’s Once-Golden Economy Buffeted from All Sides Updated September 6, 2013, 4:00 a.m. ET By JOE PARKINSON EMRE PEKER ISTANBUL—Four months ago, as Turkish assets won an investment-grade credit rating and soared to new highs, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan boasted that the world was infatuated with Turkey’s economy, which he said would soon become one of the
Read moreWSJ – Turkey’s Spymaster Plots Own Course on Syria Hakan Fidan Takes Independent Tack in Wake of Arab Spring October 10, 2013, 9:44 a.m. ET By ADAM ENTOUS in Washington and JOE PARKINSON in Istanbul Official White House Photo by Pete Souza President Obama and John Kerry met with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and Turkish intelligence chief Fidan, second and
Read moreThe Economist – 7 September 2013 – The capital-freeze index Stop signs The capital-freeze index Stop signs Which emerging markets are most vulnerable to a freeze in capital inflows? Sep 7th 2013 |From the print edition REPLACEMENT: Some errors were identified in a previously published version of this index. We have revised our calculations and this page now displays the
Read moreChatter in Cyprus that there has been a significant uptick in bilateral diplomatic intercourse between that country and Russia over the last couple of months. The Russians are looking for use of port facilities at Limassol and access to airbase facilities at Paphos. Signs are that they may well get it. This may be in reaction to Russia’s perception of
Read moreTODAY’S ZAMAN AMANDA PAUL Russia’s military: Heading for Cyprus? Russia and Cyprus have close ties both economically and politically. In a recent interview by the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, Cypriot Parliament Speaker Yiannakis Omirou expressed his gratitude to the Russian government for its solidarity with Cyprus over the past five decades, particularly “the support that Russia has been giving within
Read moreGail Kavanagh November 1, 2012 The perfectly preserved mummy known as the Sleeping Beauty of Loulan is one of 200 mummies found in the Western Deserts of Xinjiang, in China. Though they eternally sleep, their startling looks are a source of mystery and controversy. These mummies show the diversity of ethnicity in the area, where the Uyghur people of the
Read moreBy Barbara Demick Sunday, November 21, 2010; A06 URUMQI, CHINA – Almost invariably when visitors approach the middle-age woman enshrined in a climatized exhibit case in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Museum, they pause and do a double take. What gets the most attention is her nose: high-bridged, slightly hooked, the sort of nose that reminds one of Meryl Streep.
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