[DAWN] ISN’T President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... -- with full respect to him -- debasing himself by being a complainant in a case that involves one of democracy’s fundamental principles: media freedom? On Friday, a Turkish court ordered that two of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s leading journalists, Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet, and Erdem Gul, its Ankara bureau chief, be tried in camera and agreed to have the president as a complainant. The two have been accused of espionage because they published a report that said Turkish intelligence agencies were sending arms to Syria under cover of humanitarian aid, though the government says the trucks were carrying relief goods for ethnic Turkmen. According to President Erdogan, the report was part of an attempt to undermine the country’s international standing. The court accepted the prosecutors’ plea that evidence to be produced in court involved state secrets.
There is no denying President Erdogan’s popularity. The fact that the November re-election gave his Justice and Development Party (AKP) an absolute majority in parliament testifies to a popular approval of his economic policies, which have given the Turks a higher standard of living and made Turkey the world’s 15th largest economy. These assets should help the president develop greater confidence in his ability to stand dissent. Instead, his policies over the years have been characterised by strong authoritarian tendencies, with the media and judiciary coming under intense state pressure. Earlier this month, the state took over Zaman, its sister publication Today’s Zaman and news agency Cihan. Seen in the light of the crackdown on Cumhuriyet the world wouldn’t be wrong if it considered the AKP regime as waging war on Turkey’s vibrant media. There is no doubt Turkey needs political stability more than ever before, especially because of the Syrian civil war and a spate of terror attacks in Istanbul and Ankara. But political stability is not incompatible with freedom of expression. If the Cumhuriyet journalists have violated any laws, they must be given an open, fair trial.
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[DAWN] BRUSSELS is a world away from here. Different reasons, different trajectories. Plus, we’ve already had our Gay Pareees and Brussels several times over.
But Brussels is important because it confirms what Gay Paree had revealed: a fourth wave of jihad. As we tamp down our own third wave of jihad, might we too face a fourth down the road?
Speculation is a dirty game, but worse is to be caught unawares and unprepared.
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Oh yeah, Boboy, then how come actress CHLOE MORETZ is already in the "FIFTH WAVE"???
[Daily Caller] Since Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced in December that all combat positions must open up to women across the services, military officials have insisted standards for mental and physical fitness will not lower to accommodate women, but countless experts and former military servicemembers consider all such promises to be little more than empty words.
Here's exactly how a shift in standards in the infantry and elite special operations could happen.
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Well, combat arms should only have one set of PT standards. I generally don't care about an individual catching the big one when the bullets and lead start flying but I do care that endangers everyone else in the team because that's one less to cover for everyone else. Yep, them support people work just as well in a mobile environment. (do I need to put a /sarc on the last one?)
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I wonder if the US Military Academies will lower their standards on their football teams to allow woman to play on the gridiron. Oh, that’s right they play football to win, not to be equal!! We only fight wars these days to be equal…
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The clerks and jerks not needing to be a combat proficient is a good theory but when the feces hit the fan that could be a big problem.
Just ask Charlie Wheeler and HHC 173 Light Infantry about clerks and jerks fighting like tigers on the first night of the 1968 Tet
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Iff one is wondering why the Madonna Fan from Guam sezzes the US in FutWar may send an All-Femme Sub to attack-n-destroy China's heavily defended Three Gorges, WEHELL WONDER NO MORE!
WELCOME TO US-LED ANTI-US OWG-NWO + US-LED ANTI-US GLOBALISM.
Perhaps youse 'hoid of it.
NO MORE "GREAT POWER" OR MAJOR WARS THUR YEAR 2050 IFF NOT 2100 = OWG UN PEACEKEEPING ACTIONS = WOMEN IN COMBAT, as the issue is being debated now.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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