The Washington Post published one more article devoted to Osama bin Laden’s death. In the article, headlined “Now that he’s dead, let’s end bin Laden’s grip on us”, Eugene Robinson expresses the opinion that, even though bin Laden’s death is not the end of the struggle against international terrorism, it’s definitely a remarkable step that will lead to a final victory over terror. “The threat of terrorism is still with us, but the man who embodied that threat is gone. We can think more clearly now — about our mission in Afghanistan and our relationship with Pakistan, about the trade-offs between liberty and security, about which of our fears are rational and which are not,” the author says.
The crisis in the Middle East is discussed in an article entitled "Reversals challenge hope of Arab Spring", published by the same newspaper. The author underlines that spring turns to summer, while events across the region are taking an altogether darker and more sinister turn, one in which the prospect of a brighter future no longer seems so readily assured.
The Los Angeles Times published an article devoted to the situation in Syria, where protesters are trying to force President Bashar al-Assad to resign. According to participants in demonstrations the government is going to continue using violence and even to take harsher measures. The situation is the same as in Iran in 2009, Syrian protesters say.
The Guardian published an article about the recently-held UN conference on the world's poorest countries, at which Turkey, the host of this year's conference, presented a plan aimed at halving the number of least-developed countries to 24 over the next decade through a significant rise in aid, favourable market access for all developing countries and building up their productive capacity. According to the author, the plan is ambitious, but hard to fulfil, as the tempo of development is slowing down.
Turkey’s Hurriyet Published an article devoted to Prime Minister Erdoğan's recent interview, in which he said that he doesn’t consider Hamas to be a terrorist organization. “Let me give you a very clear message, I do not see Hamas as a terror organization. Hamas is a political party, it emerged as a political party that appeared as a political party. It is a resistance movement trying to protect its country under occupation," Erdoğan said. At the same time, there are Kurdish organizations in Turkey similar to Hamas, and such organizations are considered terrorist and are prohibited, the author of the article notes.
