World press on Iran, Turkey and the Caucasus (April 17, 2012)

The Washington Post published an article headlined 'Iran strikes a new tone on nuclear talks'. "The most positive aspect of the negotiations with Iran that opened Saturday was the contrast with the previous, disastrous encounter of the United States and its five partners with Tehran’s negotiators 15 months ago," the article reads. "Then, Iranian representative Saeed Jalili refused even to discuss the country’s nuclear program, insisting that all sanctions be lifted as a precondition to further dialogue. On Saturday in Istanbul, Mr. Jalili made no such demand. Instead he made clear that his government accepts the connection between an accord on its nuclear activities and sanctions relief."

The Guardian published an article about the Julian Assange recent interview on Russia Today. The interview highlighted the Arab Spring and the role Islamist groups allegedly play in it. The author of the article, Luke Harding, calls Russia Today a Kremlin's propaganda TV channel and underlines how it praises Assange. "It seems extraordinary that Assange – described by RT as the world's most famous whistleblower – should team up with an opaque regime where investigative journalists are shot dead (16 unsolved murders) and human rights activists kidnapped and executed, especially in Chechnya and other southern Muslim republics. Strange and obscene", the article reads .

Hurriyet published an article by Mehmet Ali Birand devoted to the February 28 coup trial. The article is headlined 'Why I am against a witch hunt'. According to Birand, supporters of the February 28 coup shouldn't be detained during the trial, if they didn't commit any certain crimes. "If these people committed a concrete crime, then they should be tried; however, detaining them and making them suffer in court just because they supported something will only increase the polarization in the society, nothing else," the article reads.