May 13, 2015

Cameron wins British election with slim majority

THIS

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EUROPE

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AMERICAS

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OPINION

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ASIA

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MIDDLE EAST&AFRICA

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ARTICLE OF THE WEEK

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TURKEY

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SOCIAL

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EDITORIAL

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M Cameron says he will "go on working hard" after his Conservative party defies expectations and

wins thin majority.

Issue 9, Volume 9

Kenan Evren dead

Kenan Evren, Turkey‟s former coup leader and seventh president, died at a military hospital

in Ankara late on May 9 due to multiple organ failure.

Evren was the leader of the Sept.

12, 1980, military coup d’état, as

the Chief of Staff at the time.

The 1980 military coup, Turkey’s

third, prompted a wide-ranging

crackdown that left deep marks

on society. Fifty people were exe-

cuted, an estimated half a million

were detained, many were tor-

tured, hundreds died in prison

and many more disappeared dur-

ing the three years of military

rule. The coup leaders argued

that they were forced to intervene

to restore order after years of cha-

os, in which an estimated 5,000

people died in factional violence

between leftist and rightist

groups. Continue to page 10...

British Prime Minister David

Cameron's Conservative party

looks set to continue in power

after it defied expectations and

won the 323 seats needed to

command a parliamentary

majority.

The results confirmed a shock

exit poll projection published

by British broadcasters late on

Thursday night that put the

party way ahead of the opposition

Labour Party with 316 seats.

Updated projections put the

Conservatives on 329, an

absolute majority.

The poll also predicted Labour

winning 239 seats, the Scottish

National Party (SNP) winning

58 and the Liberal Democrats

winning 10. Labour's tally was

further revised down to 233 as

the vote counts came in. The

party's leader, Ed Miliband, is

expected to resign his

position, sources within the

party told Al Jazeera on

condition of anonymity.

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EUROPE

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Greece says it faces bankruptcy in

weeks

Fighting has again shaken

a nearly three-month

ceasefire deal between

Ukrainian forces and pro-

Russian separatists in

eastern Ukraine, leaving

five Ukrainian troops dead

in a 24-hour period,

Ukrainian officials said

Wednesday. CNN/ May 6,

2015

The leaders of ethnically

divided Cyprus have agreed

to restart peace talks on

May 15 under the auspices

of the United Nations.

euronews/ May 12, 2015

Eight police officers and 14

alleged members of an

armed group have been

killed in fighting in a

northern Macedonian town,

authorities have said, amid

increased concern about

the political stability in the

Balkan nation that has a

history of ethnic hostilities.

Guardian/ May 10, 2015

Cameron wins British election with slim majority

No firm agreement yet on critical rescue loans, but euro zone minis-

ters keep tough line on final tranche.

Greece has won limited support from the euro zone for the progress it has made in difficult bailout talks, but warned that it faces a cash crunch with-in a fortnight without a deal. Greece's new government scraped together enough cash to order the repayment to the International Monetary Fund of 750m euros ($840m) and avoid a default which could send it crashing out of the euro. But euro zone finance ministers meeting in Brussels on Mon-day kept their tough line, saying Greece could not hope for any of the final 7.2bn-euro ($8bn) tranche of its 240bn-euro EU-IMF bailout until they make key reforms. Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the euro zone's top official, said "more time is needed" to reach a deal on the reforms Greece must make in

exchange for more loans. Al Jazeera/ May 11, 2015

David Cameron has told the first all-Tory cabinet meeting for 18 years that they must focus on "bread and butter" ways of improving people's

lives.

Addressing his top team for the first time since his victory, he promised a "down-to-earth" Conservative agenda focused on extending opportunity. He also insisted all changes to public services must be rooted in "true social justice and genuine compassion". The new gov-ernment is expected to prioritise laws on work and childcare. His party, he said, will offer "the chance to get on, with the dignity of a job, the pride of a pay cheque, a home of their own and the security and peace of mind that comes from being able to support a family" BBC/ May 12, 2015

Cameron tells Cabinet to focus on

opportunity and compassion

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Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister under the outgoing coalition government, announced his

resignation as leader of the Liberal Democrats after his party's "catastrophic" defeat. Clegg called the loss

of more than 40 of the party's seats "the most crushing blow to the Liberal Democrats" since it was

founded. In Scotland, the nationalist SNP has taken a near clean sweep of seats in the region, picking up

56 of 59 seats. The gains came at the expense of the Labour and the Liberal Democrats, which were

reduced to just one seat each in the region. Labour lost 40 seats in Scotland and saw its regional head,

Jim Murphy, and shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander lose their seats.In Wales, the nationalist

Plaid Cymru held its three seats, and in England the right-wing UK Independence Party is expected to

pick up only one seat, despite gaining around 12 percent of the votes cast. Party leader Nigel Farage

failed in his attempt to take the Thanet South seat from the Conservatives. The Green Party's Caroline

Lucas is expected to hold its only seat. Al Jazeera/ May 8, 2015

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French President Francois Hollande has met Cuba’s 1959 revolutionary leaders Fidel and Raul

Castro on a historical trip to Havana.

Mr. Hollande called for an end to the decades long US trade Embargo against Cuba. He said that the embargo had badly damaged the development of the island. Mr. Hollande is the first French president to visit Cuba since 1898 and the first Western European leader on island since the 1980s. He met with Fidel‟s brother and current President Raul Castro after having a one hour conversation with Fidel. Hollande said France would do its utmost to ensure that the measures which have so badly harmed Cuba‟s development can finally be repealled. Unlike other European countries Hollande told the reporters that France sought to be the first among European nations, and first among Western nations, to be able to say to the Cubans that will be at their side if they decide themselves to take

needed steps toward opening up. BBC/ May 12, 2015

Bernie Sanders proposes breaking

up ‘too big to fail’ banks

Chilean president asks cabinet to

resign

A US marine helicopter

involved in disaster relief

efforts in Nepal has been

declared missing by the

Army. BBC News, May 12,

2015

Guyana has voted in

general elections described

by police as steady and

peaceful. Donald Ramotar,

whose party has been in

power for more than two

decades was competing

with David Granger. BBC

News, May 12, 2015

The United States and its

Gulf allies will try to agree

on new security measures

at a summit in Washington

next week to guard against

destabilizing actions by

Iran in the region, U.S.

Secretary of State John

Kerry said on Friday.

Reuters, May 8, 2015

France‟s Hollande meets Fidel and

Raul Castro in Havana

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has asked all her ministers to

resign and says she will choose a new cabinet in the coming days.

In an interview with broadcaster Canal 13, Ms Bachelet said changes were needed to promote reforms. Ms Bachelet's approval ratings have recently slumped amid a series of political scandals. In February her son resigned as head of a government charity over allegations of influence-peddling. The BBC's Gideon Long in Santiago says Ms Bachelet's dismissal of the entire cabinet is without precedent in recent Chilean history. The move gives some indication of the gravity of the crisis she faces, he says. "A few hours ago I requested the resignation of all the ministers, and I will take 72 hours to decide who will stay and who will go," Ms Bachelet said on Wednesday evening. "This is the time for a cabinet change." she said. BBC/ May 7, 2015

Presidential hopeful unveils plans for strict curbs on Wall Street, distancing his

stance from that of Hilary Clinton.

Senator Bernie Sanders wants to break up some of the world‟s bigges financial institutions into smaller entities, a move unlikely to get much traction in Congress, but one that could help frame a flattering contrast between Sanders and his rival for the Democratic presidential nod, Hilary Clinton. On Wednesday, the ranking minority member of the Senate Budget Committee and Democratic presidential candidate joined with Republican Brad Sherman, D- Calif., to unveil legislation aimed at pulling apart „too big to fail‟ banks. The Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act directs the Treasury Department‟s Financial Stability Oversight Council to create a

list of financial institutions “whose failure would serve a catastrophic risk to the United States economy without a bailout,” said Sanders during a Wednesday press conference. The Treasury Secretary would then have one year to break up those entities on the list into separate businesses that would be small enough to collapse without posing a systemic risk to the rest of the economy. Al Jazeera, May 6, 2015

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OPINIONS

EUROPE

Migrant Lives Matter

Last week, in two separate incidents in the Mediterranean Sea, around 1000 migrants feared to be

killed due to their boats capsizing, en route to Europe, in hope for a better life. 2015’s death toll from mi-

grant boat sinkings on Mediterranean Sea surpassed 1500, making it highly possibly far deadlier than

2014, which itself was a record year with more than 3000 deaths.

Europe’s way of handling this crisis is under heavy criticism because of its reluctance to open its

borders more and inefficient rescue missions. From human rights organizations, the criticisms raised to

European countries and the USA increased sharply, after the beginning of Syrian civil war causing an

unprecedented refugee crisis. Not surprisingly after this, migration movements increased in the Mediter-

ranean and so did the casualties. Europe, alongside its reluctance to host refugees and immigrants, al-

tered its rescue missions with Italy abandoning Mare Nostrum operations, believing that it is causing an

“unintended pull effect” as a British Minister Baroness Anelay argues. Yet the facts suggest otherwise.

Most migrants suggest that the perils they are fleeing from are much worse than the danger of

drowning in the Mediterranean. In this sense, abandoning rescue operations systems really doesn’t make

much sense in terms of deterring migration. What needs to be done requires a broader perspective with

both ensuring a safe haven for everyone who wants to come and curbing anti-immigrant sentiments

which are likely to be enhanced with far-right parties, because most immigrants’ –who managed to reach

the land- accounts divulge the racist attacks directed towards them. Deterrence, as a collateral issue re-

quires more cooperation with countries like Syria, Turkey, Egypt and mostly, as seen in recent cases Lib-

ya, on the issues of human smugglers and limiting their operation area as much as possible. But, essen-

tially, Europe should be more open to refugees fleeing from regional crises and work in cooperation with

countries in those regions that are already hosting a significant number of refugees.

Europe’s current policies are certainly unsustainable. Yet, the problem, being much bigger than

maritime crises makes it harder to solve. Unless immediate actions are made based on proper legal

ground, migrants’ casualties will keep making headlines with worse occasions.

Yavuz Yavuz

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OPINIONS

AMERICAS

IS THE ERA U.S.-DOMINATED GLOBAL

ECONOMIC ORDER ENDING ?

After the diplomatic fiasco of the United States that it have failed to dissuade its allies, even the closest

ones such as the United Kingdom and Israel, from not to join China-led the AIIB (Asian Infrastructure

Investmen Bank), a question which is asked for many years among policy makers and econonomists has

risen again : Who is in charge of global economic governance ?

This question can readily be answered that the US‟ financial superiority over the globe is still available.

Considering AIIB is a regional project, some may claim that it will not change the global equation. Is that

so ? It is true that AIIB will merely operate on Asia. However, it is also possible that a succesfull China-

led financial initiative may lead something bigger. If the bank accomplish to stablize the region

financially and to strengthen region‟s financial infrastructure prominently, then it becomes an effective

diplomatic tool of Beijing which is the exact point that worries Washington. Such an outcome would be

perfectly compatible with China‟s intentions of establishing multilateral world institutions. Besides,

thinking the US dominance on global financial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank, and its

careless manner regarding calls for reforms on such insitutions gives absolute justification to China.

Another significant issue here is : What will be Washington‟s next move about AIIB ? Will it keep

boycotting the bank ? It can be evidently seen that it doesn‟t work and all those energy expended to

manipulte its allies by White House to keep them out of the AIIB was in vain. Now, there are two possible

choices in that regard for the Obama administration. First option is to join the AIIB, which is a decline of

an absolute failure for the US, in my opinion. Second one is to accept the failure and drop the issue.

Besides, it does not necessarily have to join every regional organization. Washington can keep its

observer position, which also gives it the right of the critisizing China. Despite of its skills, considering

China‟s lack of experience of operating such an assertive initiative, Washington may gain considerable

gains from a possible failure.

In conclusion, Beijing seems quite confident and ambitious to expand its possible extention financialy, in

a way that cultivates its political and military elevation, by shouldering this regional responsibility. But,

do we clearly assert that a successful China-led AIIB project cannot evolve into a global Word

Infrastructure and Investment Bank initiative in long-term ? It seems that such questions will be

unanswered at least for decades.

Burak Tıraş

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ASIA

ASIA

India accuses Maoist rebels of

abducting 250 villagers The People's Bank of China

announced new interest

rate cuts over the weekend,

the third such action since

November. The central

bank's benchmark one-year

lending and deposit rates

were both cut by 0.25%,

effective Monday. CNN/

May 11 2015

Two ambassadors and the

wives of two other

ambassadors were among

seven people killed when a

helicopter crashed Friday

into a school in northern

Pakistan. Others --

Pakistanis and foreigners

alike -- were injured.

CNN / May 11, 2015

A secular blogger has been

hacked to death in north-

eastern Bangladesh in the

country's third such deadly

attack since the start of the

year. Ananta Bijoy Das was

attacked by masked men

with machetes in Sylhet,

police say. He is said to

have received death threats

from Islamist extremists.

BBC/ May 12, 2015

Australian teenager arrested in Melbourne 'bomb

plot' Police arrest 17-year-old on terrorism charges, saying three homemade bombs were found at his

upmarket Melbourne home.

Police arrested a 17-year-old and accused him of plotting to detonate three homemade bombs in the Aus-tralian city of Melbourne, officials said, in the latest scare blamed on a teenager. The teen was arrested on Friday afternoon in a joint federal-state police operation at his home in the upmarket suburb of Greenvale where the explosive devices were found, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Mike

Phelan said. The bomb squad rendered the devices safe, he said. Melbourne is Australia's second largest city and is the capital of Victoria state. Last month, five Australian teenagers were arrested on suspicion of plotting an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group-inspired attack at a Veterans' Day ceremony also in Melbourne that included targeting police officers. Al Jazeera/ May 9, 2015

Rebels reportedly abduct villagers in Chhattisgarh state, hours before

Prime Minister Modi was scheduled to tour region.

Indian officials have accused Maoist rebels of abducting 250 villagers in the restive state of Chhattisgarh, hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to tour the region. Chhattisgarh state's chief minister, Raman Singh, said on Saturday that 250 villagers were kidnapped in Sukma district late on Friday, some 80 kilometres from where Modi addressed a public rally. "250 villagers have been abducted by the Maoists. We are trying our best to secure their release," Singh told the AFP news agency without giving further details. Poltician Kawashi Lakma said the rebels had taken the villagers through deep forests to a nearby hill. Al Jazeera/ May 9, 2015

The US Secretary of State John Kerry has had what he calls “frank” talks with President Putin during a landmark visit toRussia – his first

since the start of the Ukraine crisis.

The hot topics were numerous: not just Ukraine, but Iran’s nuclear pro-gramme, Syria, Yemen and Libya. However perhaps the most important as-pect was Kerry’s very presence in Sochi at a time when US-Russian rela-tions are at their worst since the Cold War. A US official spoke beforehand of the importance of keeping communication channels open. Also speaking before the talks began, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, welcomed the meeting as a positive step. “Through dialogue, it is possible to find ways for a normalisation, closer coordination in deal-ing with international problems,” he said, alt-hough adding: “Russia was never the initiator of this cooling of relations.” Earlier, Kerry spent more than four hours in talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The pair attended a World War II memorial in So-

chi. Euronews/ May 12, 2015

Kerry holds „frank‟ talks with Putin

in Russia

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA

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CNN has learned that White House National Security Council staffers recently took the unusual step of meet-ing in the West Wing with Tariq Khdeir, the Tampa teenager of Palestinian descent beaten unconscious by

Israeli police last summer during a protest in East Jerusalem.

According to cell phone video, after Tariq was in custody and lying on the ground, clearly not resisting arrest, an Is-raeli police officer kicked and punched him in the head and upper body."The U.S. government has remained closely engaged with Tariq and his family since his return from Jerusalem," a White House official confirms to CNN. "As part of the follow-up on pending issues related to his case, National Security Council staff met with the Abu Khdeirs recently." The meeting, which took place April 15, came as Tariq and his family preparing to return this summer to visit other relatives in the Shuafat neighborhood of Jerusalem; they sought assurances from the White House that there would be no Israeli retaliation against Tariq, who is now 16. Tariq said he had been watching but not participating in the protests. In January the Israeli gov-ernment confirmed that there would be no charges against Tariq. CNN/ May 11, 2015

Saudi Arabia‟s proposed five-day humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen is due to start later on Tuesday after more than six weeks of airstrikes in

the Arab country.

The truce, which was first announced during a mutual press conference between the Saudi foreign minister and U.S. Secretary of State, is expected to begin at 11.00 p.m. "We have made a decision that the ceasefire will begin this Tuesday, May 12, at 11.00 p.m (2000 GMT) and will last for five

days subject to renewal if it works out," Saudi’s Adel al-Jubair said last during the conference. Jubair said the proposed five-day humanitarian truce depends on the Houthis respecting the ceasefire. Houthi militias accepted the proposed truce to “open the gate for humanitarian aid,” a spokesman for Yemen’s rebel-controlled mili-tary, Sharaf Luqman, said. Al Arabiya/ May 12, 2015

Yemen humanitarian ceasefire to

begin

South Africa's high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of

more than 300 undocumented migrants.

Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than 700 suspected ille-gal migrants following recent deadly xenophobic violence. Police say they made the arrests during crime prevention operations. The authorities have been under pressure to both bring an end to the attacks on foreigners and to introduce tighter immigration controls. The African migrants detained at the Lindela repatriation centre, 25km (15 miles) west of Johannesburg, were due to be deported on Wednesday, reports the BBC's Nomsa Maseko. They had been arrested over the past few weeks during night time raids in and around Johannesburg. But their deportation has been halted for at least two weeks after the organisation Lawyers for Human Rights went to the Jo-hannesburg High Court to prevent it from taking place. The lawyers have also been given permission to consult with their clients after being barred

from doing so by the government. BBC/ May 12, 2015

Gen Henry Odillo and his

former deputy, Lt Col

Clement Kafuwa, are

accused of arranging a

contract to supply military

equipment which was

never delivered. The Anti-

Corruption Bureau (ACB)

has detained them as part

o f a n o n g o i n g

i n v e s t i g a t i o n i n t o

government corruption

known as "cashgate". BBC/

May 12, 2015

Burundi's President Pierre

Nkurunziza has rejected

EU and US calls to delay

controversial elections set

for June. BBC/ May 11,

2015

Syria said Turkish Prime

Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

committed an act of

" flagrant aggression"

Sunday by crossing the

border without Syrian

consent in order to visit a

historic tomb. Voice of

America/ May 10, 2015

Teen beaten by Israeli police meets at White

House as he prepares to return to Jerusalem

South Africa court halts migrants' deportation

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ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Alistair Crighton is head of Special Project at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation. Before moving to the Middle East and entering the

world of first magazine and then book publishing, he was a jour-nalist in his native Scotland, where he worked for newspapers in-

cluding the Sunday Times' Scottish edition.

Why the SNP's unprecedented landslide victory means an end to Union.

It didn't have to be this way. Less than a year ago, with the United Kingdom facing break-up as Scot-

tish nationalists edged closer than expected to a win in an independence referendum, the Westmin-

ster big guns hustled north to promise the Scots that all would be well if they chose to stay together.

Scotland, after all, has its own parliament, sitting in Edinburgh, which decides on most of the mat-

ters that affect the electorate, such as health and education.

That the nation chose to stay as part of the UK may have been celebrated by the political classes, but

it was viewed by the many, many people in the rest of the UK, who had no say in the referendum, as

proof that the Scots were happy to have their cake, and eat it too.

After the referendum's loss, the SNP, by rights, should have been a spent political force in Westmin-

ster; happy to hole up and govern its rump of the UK from the Scottish parliament in Holyrood; leav-

ing the "real" parties to get on with governing down south.

The party's long-standing leader, Alex Salmond, even resigned on the day of the announcement, his

dream of an independent nation crushed for at least another generation.

Different political landscape

What a difference eight months makes. Today, the UK woke up to a very different political landscape.

The SNP managed a near-clean sweep, winning 56 of the 59 Scottish seats, to become the third big-

gest party in Westminster.

The worst fears of the English - hyped up by ever more bigoted and jingoistic headlines in Britain's

right-wing press - that the SNP would be kingmakers in a hung parliament, a be-kilted cabal of

shady Scotsmen dictating the country's future - have been averted by the Conservatives squeaking a

narrow outright majority.

But the SNP's victory will still have seismic effect on the nation's political scene. While Labour won't

have to come begging to the Scots for support in a minority government (something Ed Miliband had

been vehement in saying he would not do) a combined Labour and SNP bloc in opposition, however

informal, will make governing very tricky indeed for David Cameron.

The national parties in Scotland are not so much in disarray as totally annihilated. Labour's Scottish

leader, Jim Murphy, had a disastrous campaign, culminating in the humiliating loss of own seat; the

LibDems' highest profile causalities, including former Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexan-der and former LibDem leader Charles Kennedy, were on the Scottish battlefields. (The Scottish To-

ries actually ran a good campaign, with Ruth Davidson emerging as a refreshing political force, but

their single seat north of the border reinforces their irrelevancy.)

The UK is now a failed

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How did it come to this? How can a party that should have been on the political ropes less than a year ago do so well? The answer is that the national political parties, in winning the referendum, all but sowed the seeds of the nation's inevitable split. Inevitable split As the referendum date drew near, shock polls predicted a win for the "Yes" campaign for independ-ence, the major parties launched a massive campaign for Scotland's hearts and minds. In a vanishingly rare show of unity the Labour, LibDem and Tory leaders rushed north to pledge their undying love for their Scottish neighbours, and promising the Scots pretty much the Earth - provided they stayed in the Union. Promises made in haste, they say, are broken at leisure. In this case the promises were discarded in even more obscene haste than they were made - and the Scots have punished the parties for what they see as egregious deceit. The swing to the SNP is political pragmatism at its best - the Scots electorate - a politically savvy bunch at the best of times - are simply ensuring they have the best representation at Westminster you can possibly have; a bloc that will fight to get what they were promised at the referendum. An independent Scotland But what of the future? The SNP, canny operators that they are, insist that another referendum isn't on the cards. Don't believe that for a second - the party's entire raison d'etre is an independent Scot-land. Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, has engaged the electorate in a way her predecessor could never have dreamed of doing. The Scots, disgusted with how they have been demonised by a hysterical national media, angry at betrayal from the key parties, and stoked on the "Sturgeon effect" will seek, and win, another referen-dum in 5-10 years. The major national parties, already banished from the political scene in Scotland, will have no real interest in fighting a "No" campaign in the same way as 2014. And the English electorate, angered by Scots influence over their affairs, will be glad to say "goodbye" to their cousins. The so-called "West Lothian Question" - the thorny issue of Westminster MPs sitting in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland being able to have a say over matters that affect only England - will finally be settled, once and for all, with the dissolution of the United Kingdom. Alistair Crighton Al Jazeera/ May 11, 2015 Alistair Crighton is head of Special Project at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation. Before moving to the Middle East, he was a journalist in his native Scotland, where he worked for newspa-pers including the Sunday Times' Scottish edition. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. The article is taken from http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/05/uk-failed-state-150508081114858.html

TURKEY

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Continues from page 1...

The body of the leader of Turkey‟s 1980 military coup and former president was taken to the military

headquarters inAnkara on May 12, for a funeral service that was boycotted by the government and

opposition politicians. The body of Kenan Evren, who presided over a coup that led to the deaths of

hundreds of citizens, was carried to the Turkish General Staff headquarters in central Ankara prior to his

burial in the capital‟s state cemetery. As Turkey‟s seventh president, Evren was entitled to a state

funeral, but his role in the brutal coup saw members of all four parties

represented at parliament and most public figures stay away. The

ceremony at the armed forces HQ was closed to the media and Evren‟s

corpse was due to be taken later to the cemetery, where he will lie

alongside the republic‟s former presidents, prime ministers and senior

military officials. Hürriyet Daily News/ May 12, 2015

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reportedly disapproved of his predecessor’s visit to Armenia in 2008 as part of reconciliation efforts

between the two countries, despite supporting the initiative at that time.

Erdoğan‟s surprising statement came May 7 at a luncheon with a group of academics and historians known for their expertise on the conflict between Turkey and Armenia over the 1915 incidents. Talking to reporters after the meeting, Mustafa Armağan, editor-in-chief of Deep History magazine, said, “I have observed criticism and reproach about Gül‟s term. He [Erdoğan] emphasized moves like Gül‟s visit to Yerevan to watch the football match gave an upper hand to the other side and paved the way for them to exert pressure on us.” Hürriyet Daily News/ May 12, 2015

Kenan Evren dead

Former President Gül‟s visit to

Yerevan in 2008 was wrong,

Erdoğan says

Turkey's top judicial body has dismissed from the profession four prosecutors and one judge, who had been involved in the country's

biggest-ever corruption investigation in December 2013.

The second chamber of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) decided to dismiss prosecutors Zekeriya Öz, Muammer Akkaş, Celal Kara and Mehmet Yüzgeç, as well as judge Süleyman Karaçöl, on May 12, according to private broadcaster CNN Türk. The five figures were dismissed from their profession due to their roles in the corruption investigations launched on Dec. 17, and Dec. 25, 2013, which targeted four former ministers and three of those ministers‟ sons. Hürriyet Daily News/ May 12, 2015

Prosecutors, judge of Turkey's

massive graft probe dismissed from

profession

Turkey and Greece have

expressed hope over soon-to

-begin reunification talks in

Cyprus, welcoming a

decision by both parties to

restart negotiations after

pro -so lut ion Musta fa

Akıncı’s election as the new

Turkish Cypriot president.

Hürriyet Daily News/ May

12, 2015

P o l i c e i n T u rk e y ’ s

southeastern province

o f Di ya rb ak ı r have

mistakenly raided the

apartment of the Kurdish

problem-focused Peoples’

Democratic Party (HDP) Co-

Chair Selahattin Demirtaş,

c i t i n g m i s l e a d i n g

information regarding a

smuggling case from an

a n o n y m o u s

informer. Hürriyet Daily

News/ May 12, 2015

T u r k i s h P r i m e

M i n i s t e r A h m e t

Davutoğlu has crossed into

S y r i a t o p a y a n

unscheduled visit to the

historic tomb of Süleyman

Şah. Hürriyet Daily News/

May 10, 2015

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Yüksekkaya ve Deniz Perçin‟e teşekkürü bir borç

bilirim. Gazetemizin büyük zorluklarla kaşılaştığı

bu dönem, gazetenin geleceği için kuşkulanan,

News Report‟un aralıksız sürmesi için yoğun

uğraşlar veren Meriç Yaşar‟a; iki yıla yakın bir

süredir yazdığı köşe yazıları ile gazetenin kalitesini

daha da arttıran, bu dönemde yardımcı editör

olarak gazetenin yükünü azaltmaya çalışan Yavuz

Yavuz‟a; farklı görüşlerin zenginlik olduğunu bir

kez daha gazetemize gösteren, yoğun iş temposuna

rağmen büyük bir özveri ile Amerikalar bölümünü

hazırlayan İrem Göl‟e; kadro sıkıntısı çektiğimiz

anda yardıma koşan, gazetemizde daha uzun yıllar

yazmalarını temenni ettiğim İrem Sunal ve Özgür

Özgün‟e; sadece gazetemizin değil topluluğumuzun

da diğer topluluklarla ilişki kurmasında çok

yardımı olan Burak Tıraş‟a; hazırlık rehavetine

karşı gazetede yer alıp emeklerini ortaya koyan

İbrahim Karaaslan‟a ve bu gazetede bu yıl bir kez

dahi olsa toplantılara gelen, haber yapan, köşe

yazısı yazan herkese canı yürekten teşekkürleri

sadece bir editör olarak değil aynı zamanda News

Report‟un bir okuyucusu olarak da bir borç bilirim.

News Report‟un 10. yılında da bir şekilde bu

gazetenin bir parçası olmaya çalışacağım fakat esas

yükü omuzlayacak olan yeni editörümüze, yardımcı

editörümüze ve sayfa koordinatörlerimeze şimdiden

bol şans...

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Yavuz Yavuz

EUROPE

Meriç Yaşar

AMERICAS

İrem Göl, İbrahim Karaaslan

ASIA

İrem Sunal, Özgür Özgün

M. EAST & AFRICAS

Yavuz Yavuz, Burak Tıraş

TURKEY

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