The Guardian published an article providing its readers with advice as to when and where in Turkey it is best to spend one’s vacations. The article, composed of the paper’s readers’ tips, describes several places of interest and resort spots such as Dalyan, Adrasan, Cirali, etc.
The Washington Post published an article entitled ‘Armenians urged to settle in border lands’. A former foreign minister of the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in the South Caucasus wants to distribute land in border areas to Armenians who fled Azerbaijan two decades ago when war broke out. Arman Meliqyan says this would be compensation for the property they lost when they fled — and it would also, intentionally, help to wreck the proposed peace deal that is on the table. According to the author, Azerbaijan, which still claims Nagorno-Karabakh, would be certain to see such a move as an enormous
provocation. It says that, as the result of wide-scale ethnic cleansing, a million Azerbaijanis fled the territory now held by Karabakh forces, and that they want to return to their homes. Meliqyan’s idea is to move settlers into territories adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh itself that were seized by Armenian and Karabakh
fighters during the war and have been held ever since. Those territories are now nearly empty of people, and most of the villages within them have been left in ruins. A framework peace agreement that Russia, France and the United States — together called the Minsk Group — have been trying to sponsor envisions the return of most of these lands to Azerbaijan.
According to the Hurriyet Daily News, Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera has claimed in a report that a bombing in Istanbul's Etiler district on May 26 that injured eight people was not organized by the outlawed PKK but by Lebanon's Hezbollah to strike at Israel. Citing a Washington-sourced report, the Italian daily reported that Hezbollah was targeting the Israeli Consul General in Istanbul, Moshe Kamhi, in retaliation for Mossad’s alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear physicist Masoud Ali Muhammedi in Tehran in 2010. Also, Israel’s defense establishment is showing increased support for resolving the crisis between Israel and Turkey following the Mavi Marmara affair, even at the price of an apology to Ankara by Jerusalem. According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, internal discussions between defense officials and Justice Ministry officials over the past few weeks have suggested that a cautious apology could stop possible lawsuits by
Turkish organizations against officers of the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, and bring the affair to an end.
