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. | “In Iran I was a professional footballer and played for many South Azerbaijani football clubs Motogen, Atlas Pood, Machinsazi, Tractorsazi, Saipa FC and South Azerbaijani youth and the under-21 national team. I was a student of PE at the University of Iran in Orumiyeh, and a football coach, training children and young people. This was from 1996-2002 but I started playing football when I was 6 years old.” |
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. | It’s been two years since the Syrian uprising led to the most violent of all the “Arab spring” revolutions. The ongoing bloodshed shows no sign of appeasement and Syria has reached an impasse. Any development in the situation implies so many political and religious consequences for the Syrians, as well as for the neighboring countries, that it jeopardizes the whole and fragile regional status quo.[1] The deterioration of what is now a civil war into a sectarian conflict between opposing |
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. | Head of the ECOSOS project Bakytzhan Bazarbek said that Kazakhstan could face an ecological disaster in the nearest 10-20 years if it fails to solve the issue of joint use of the Ili and Irtysh rivers with China. Balkhash lake may become the second Aral Sea, Almaty will become the second Atlantis, the citizens of Astana, Temirtau, Karaganda, Ekibastuz, Pavlodar, Ust-Kamenogorsk and Semey will be cut off from fresh water, Irtysh will turn into a chain of bogs and slack waters, while Bukhtarminskaya and Shulbinskaya hydro-power stations will stop, the ecologist told Megapolis. |
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. | U.S. Ambassador positions are for sale to the highest bidder. This unsavory policy, which accelerated under President Bill Clinton, continues under President Barack Obama. For the past four years Senator John Kerry has sought to curry favor from the Obama Administration by rubber-stamping this corrupt practice. As |
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. | As close political collaborators for over a decade, President Abdullah Gül and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an built the Justice and Development Party into Turkey’s dominant political force. But now, the two men appear poised to part ways.
“It is all about the presidency. It is all about Gül’s position and his political career,” observed political columnist Kadri Gursel of the daily Milliyet. “He wants |
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. | You might not think that money from oil would be a problem for Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet Union’s largest energy producers. But when oil production drops, and election-year demands for money increase, the picture changes.
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. | They were supposed to be Azerbaijan’s cash cows. But the imported cattle apparently had other ideas.
Over the past three years, the government in Baku has spent $23 million importing some 4,500 pedigree cows from Germany and Austria in an effort to improve livestock quality |
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. | The 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will herald a transition of executive power from President Hu Jintao to Vice President Xi Jinping. The pending changeover to the fifth generation of Chinese leaders resonates across the nation and presents a once-in-a-decade opportunity for the CCP to genuinely embrace political reform. |
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. | Traditional opposition political forces in Azerbaijan are at risk of being eclipsed by Islamists who are willing to push back when the government resorts to repressive measures, Baku political observers say.
Mainstream, secular opposition parties, including the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFP) and the Musavat Party, are fragmented and have struggled in recent years to |
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. | What I have tried to say to this Congressman is that “please do not interfere in our affairs”. You indicated that during the II WW how the Iranian Army, under the guidance of U.S. Colonel Schwarzkopf, moved in to South Azerbaijan and ousted the local Azerbaijani government. Do we want a similar situation in Azerbaijan again? When are we going to learn from the history?
Dr Ansari – you know well that foreigners are after their own strategic interests – they |
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. | Dr. Shapoor Ansari, a well-known and respectful Azerbaijani intellectual has addressed his opposition to Dr. Moridi’s letter to Rep. Rohrabacher. BayBak believes that because there are very few English articles are produced by Azerbaijanis; the letter by Dr. Ansari will set a good example and will encourage other activists to pay attention on the importance of English language in international affairs. We, Azerbaijanis, need to inform the world about our suffering, use of international language and political sources are necessary. |
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. | You could call them the yin and yang of Azerbaijani politics. For nearly the past 20 years, whenever an Aliyev has been president of Azerbaijan, poised against him have been 55-year-old Isa Gambar and 47-year-old Ali Kerimli, leaders of the country’s two largest opposition forces, the Musavat Party and the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. |
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. | Though this may not be a quarter of dramatic changes, three evolving issues will require particularly close scrutiny: the European crisis, the Syrian conflict and China’s political struggle. From Brussels to Damascus to Beijing, hard realities are setting in, threatening to dismantle decadeslong political constructs. Though the biggest cracks |
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. | In a display of muscle-flexing, Turkish tanks this week carried out military exercises on the Syrian border, just a few kilometers away from towns that Syrian Kurds had seized from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
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. | For decades, the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Republic of Turkey’s first president, has served as the country’s guiding force. Yet, amidst an unprecedented debate on the role of secularism, has Turkey begun to steer away from Atatürk?
Hero-worshipped like a Vladimir Lenin or George Washington, Atatürk, even more than 70 years after his death, remains an inescapable feature of daily life in Turkey |
