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Turkey Plays Hostage Diplomacy with OSCE
April 26, 2018
Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is playing hostage diplomacy with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), threatening to block the dates of the annual OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting unless the OSCE agrees to Turkey's demand to bar the anti-Ankara Gulenist movement from participation.
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Saudi Sectarianism Increases Mideast Instability
April 26, 2018
Bruce Riedel of the Brooking Institution writes on Saudi Arabia's intensification of Sunni-Shiite sectarianism in the Mideast in an effort to contain Iran and consolidate Saudi regional hegemony, while destabilizing the Mideast and threatening US strategic interests by enabling jihadi groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaeda and aggravating state fragility.
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US Legislation Recognizes Hezbollah as Transnational Threat
April 26, 2018
The "Disarm Hezbollah Act," introduced with bipartisan support in the US Congress, calls for the US Director of National Intelligence to report on the transnational activities and threats of Hezbollah, a Shiite Islamist party dominating Lebanon's politics and utilizing narcotics trafficking and other illegal activities in a global network from North America to the Middle East.
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UNESCO Meeting Seeks Education to Combat Extremism
April 25, 2018
A consultation hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the prevention of violent extremism highlights UNESCO's focus on "the transformative power of education" in combating the proliferation of violent extremist ideology around the world.
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Welch: Turkey Does Not Belong in NATO
April 25, 2018
David Welch of the Centre for International Governance Innovation argues that the "increasingly authoritarian" Turkey, which is resorting to Islamist crackdowns on civil, political, and religious liberties, no longer belongs within the ranks of the successful alliance and "club of like-minded states" the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
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