Turkish nationalists and Kurdish activists clashed in Istanbul Sunday, leaving at least one person injured from a gunshot during street battles, an AFP reporter said.

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The political unrest in the country threatens to set back the efforts by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to improve relations with the Kurdish minority in the country. The European Union and the United States have expressed concern over the DTP's ban.

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Turkey's Constitutional Court has voted to ban the country's largest pro-Kurdish party because of alleged links with Kurdish separatist rebels.

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Barack Obama is fast becoming an accessory after the fact to the war crimes that the Bush Administration has committed.

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Investigations conducted by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and other oversight agencies have found that the Bush Administration is "burrowing-in" despite being soundly rejected by the voters.

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Military voting rights not democratic

Eight years ago I was in boot camp at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif. It was election season then as it is now, but back then voting meant something different for me.

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While much has been written about the Indo-US nuclear deal, a central question remains unasked: "Why is the deal important enough to precipitate a crisis in the government?".

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Germany's most senior judge has suggested that ............a key innovation involving national parliaments does not go far enough and member states have no guarantee that EU powers will not continue to grow.

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"This Executive Order reaches far beyond criminal activity to activity that may be entirely innocent," said Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU National Security Project.

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Some question the political expediency of initiating impeachment proceedings against Dick Cheney. I say it is better to examine the long-term consequences and fallout if we do not do so.

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In many countries with large Muslim populations the pendulum of power is swinging away from secular (but mostly undemocratic) government back to where it was for many centuries: to Islamist regimes, and Islamic law.

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