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Stratejik hata

Cumhurbaşkanı Tayyip Erdoğan, Taliban’ın liderini kabul edebileceğini televizyondan duyurdu. Ancak devlet başkanı düzeyinde Taliban’la muhatap olan ülke yok. Eğer Erdoğan görüşürse, bu devlet başkanı düzeyinde ilk görüşme olacak. Böyle bir görüşmenin Türkiye açısından stratejik bir hata olacağı deneyimli diplomatlar ve askerler tarafından dile getiriliyor Türkiye, bir cehenneme dönmüş olan Afganistan’da …

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Beschützt Kabul!

Der Westen ist in Afghanistan gescheitert. Ein neuer Militäreinsatz, um die Taliban zu vertreiben, ist unrealistisch. Trotzdem haben die westlichen Truppen noch eine Aufgabe: Sie müssen Friedensverhandlungen erzwingen. Der Westen ist gescheitert, in Afghanistan gescheitert. Das ist die bittere Wahrheit. Und jetzt? Das Scheitern ist seit Langem klar – aber …

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What’s Next for Tunisia’s Transition?

The only solution to Tunisia’s political crisis is a roadmap for getting back to inclusive politics and a renewed social contract. Long heralded as the sole success story of the Arab uprisings, Tunisia was thrown into political tumult on July 25 when President Kais Saied dismissed the prime minister, suspended …

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Algeria sentences journalist to 8 months in jail

Algerian journalist Rabah Kareche, who reported on a protest movement by the Tuareg minority, was sentenced Thursday to serve eight months behind bars, his newspaper Liberte said. It said a court in the southern town of Tamanrasset handed Kareche, who was arrested in April, a one-year term with four months …

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Can Lebanon be cured by Hezbollah’s crisis?

With Lebanon falling apart after decades of Shi’ite domineering, the rest of Lebanon is smelling weakness yet again. Our future is as the Suez [Canal] of banking” a proud Lebanese finance minister Pierre Edde once told The New York Times. It was winter 1965, and the country that was still …

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