Turks will bring chaos, say Kurds
Michael Howard in Irbil
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian
The Bush administration is in danger of scoring a disastrous own goal with
its decision to bring Turkish peacekeeping troops into Iraq, a Kurdish
leader has warned.
Necirvan Barzani, prime minister of
Title: Turkey & Iraq
from SLATE: >According to pieces in the [Washington] Post and LA [TIMES]... there is growing Kurdish opposition to
Turkey's plans to send troops into northern Iraq. "No one should think we are bluffing," one top Kurdish official told the Post. "
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Jim wrote:
> how's my font?
Your font is beautiful.
Sabri
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31755] Re: Re: Re: Turkey-Iraq
On the other hand, if Turkey has a weak unemployment insurance system (and a weak welfare state in general), it's extremely hard for anyone to survive while being unemployed. So they are driven to the informal sector or agriculture to su
Ahmet wrote:
> I would never take the figures that Sabri used, i.e.
> 11% unemployment rate or the labor force, seriously.
> They are literally harmful!
We are in complete agreement. My rule of thumb when it comes to
official Turkish numbers is to use a huge fudge factor. In the
case of unemploym
Mostly in the informal sector, which is huge, and agriculture. Regarding
the informal sector we all know that there are some many measurement related
problems. However, one of my former students from Middle East Technical
University is currently writing his thesis on this topic at UMass and I
Sabri Oncu wrote:
The official unemployment is around 11% as far as I know. It is
based on a work force of roughly 25 million and which means that
officialy the rest of the nation are not actively seeking work.
So, officially we have about 2.8 or so million unemployed in a
population of 68 millio
I said:
> DEHAP is a very heterogeneous formation not only
> of the above parties but also of many small
> groups/parties that encompass postmarxists,
> postmodernists, Stalinists (a term I try to use
> with care), Trotskysts, what have you. There are
> even some free-market types in this formatio
> Unemployment, in a population of 68 million, is well
> over 10%, and inflation is running at 35%.
The official unemployment is around 11% as far as I know. It is
based on a work force of roughly 25 million and which means that
officialy the rest of the nation are not actively seeking work.
So, o
Crucial US allies on Iraq fall out over oil
Owen Bowcott in Ankara
Friday November 1, 2002
The Guardian
Two of the United States' closest strategic allies in its campaign against
Saddam Hussein - Turkey and the autonomous Kurdish enclave in northern
Iraq - have fallen out amid a chorus of bellige
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