DN!: US-Turkey Relations Deteriorate After House Vote on Armenian Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:05:49 -0400 DEMOCRACY NOW! DAILY EMAIL DIGEST October 15, 2007 = = = = = = = = = * DN! is hiring * Full-Time Broadcast Engineer http://www.democracynow.org/jobs.shtml = = = = = = = = = TODAY'S DEMOCRACY NOW!: * Turkish Military Shells Northern Iraq & Amasses 60,000 Troops on Border as U.S.-Turkey Relations Deteriorate Over House Vote on Armenian Genocide * Turkey's top general warned this weekend that US-Turkey relations would "never be the same again" if the United States House votes to declare the World War I-era mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians a genocide. Despite President Bush's plea, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 27-21 Wednesday to call the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks "systematic," "deliberate," and amounting to "genocide." Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1351243 * Dahr Jamail: "Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq" * As the UN calls for a vigorous investigation into a U.S. air raid that killed at least 15 women and children in Iraq, we speak to Dahr Jamail about his new book, the 2004 attack on Fallujah, the U.S. use of white phosphorous weapons, the role of Iran in Iraq and more. Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1351251 * Headlines for October 15, 2007 * - Military Junta Detains Four Prominent Burmese Dissidents - Turkish Troops Shell Northern Iraq - Washington Post Journalist Killed In Baghdad - Former U.S. General: War in Iraq is "Nightmare With No End In Sight" - Al Gore: Global Warming Is "Planetary Emergency" - Report: Bush Administration Sought Phone Records Before 9/11 - Justice Department Official: "Minorities Don't Become Elderly" - Iraq War Veteran Returns War Medals To Protest War Listen/Watch/Read http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1351236 = = = = = = = = = Democracy Now!'s daily news summaries are now available in Spanish: Read Monday, October 15, 2007: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/15/1849211 To subscribe to these "Titulares de Hoy" by email, send a blank message to: boletin-sub@list.democracynow.org = = = = = = = = = COMING UP ON DEMOCRACY NOW! 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