Leaders of the G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy pose for a family portrait at the National Building Museum in Washington on November 15, 2008. Back row, left to right, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. Front row, left to right, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, U.S. President George W. Bush, and President Hu Jinta of China. (UPI Photo/Ekaterina Shtukina)
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Headlines from the Arab press
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Turkey bourse shaken by legal onslaught
Turkish shares and currency regained some of their losses in trading Tuesday after falling more than 7 percent the previous day over investor shock by an attempt of the country's top prosecutor to ban the Islamist-rooted ruling party for undermining the nation's secular system.
The Real World: US-Turkey Kurdish dilemma
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was in Ankara this week asking his Turkish counterparts to limit the scope and length of their operation against the Kurdish rebels in Iraq. U.S. decision makers are worried that continued violence in Iraqi Kurdistan could destabilize the region and spill over into the other Kurdish-populated areas of the Middle East.
Turkey okayed, attacks PKK in Iraq
The Turkish military said Friday it has launched ground operations into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels, but did not mention the scale and intended duration of the assault that could last long enough to destabilize the only relatively peaceful area in war-torn Iraq.
