Archive for the ‘Turkey’ Category.
August 19, 2010, 8:54 pm
Although the Gulf of Mexico oil spill recently highlighted the ways in which world governments, especially that of the United States, are overly subservient to the interests of multi-national corporations, it was 50 years ago that the US overthrew a government at the behest of BP. That coup took place in Iran and was the first in a series of US backed actions to install regimes more suited to the needs of corporations.
Stephen Kinzer is the author of All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror and Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala.
This interview was broadcast on Radio Adelaide on the 18th of August.
July 7, 2010, 11:24 am
Back Story spoke to John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute of Policy Studies about the economic and political significance of Turkey in light of the country recently asserting itself, perhaps beyond that of an unwavering US ally. The Israeli flotilla attack which killed nine Turkish nationals was strongly condemned by Turkey to the extent of jeopardising Turkish/Israeli relations.
This interview was broadcast on Radio Adelaide on the 7th of July.
April 20, 2008, 1:37 am
The Headscarf has become a polorising issue for all political parties in Turkey and is proving to be a divisive instrument of both the right and the left of the political spectrum.
To talk to us about the debates in Turkey is professor of global and international studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, she also writes for Middle East Report.
