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Turkey Has Declared War On Syria – Does This Mean That World War 3 Is About To Erupt In The Middle East?
Turkey Has Declared War On Syria – Does This Mean That World War 3 Is About To Erupt In The Middle East? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has just announced that the only reason Turkish military forces have entered northern Syria is to “end the rule of the tyrant al-Assad”. By publicly proclaiming that Turkey intends […]
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations Turkey’s geopolitics is increasingly at the center of attention after the failed coup of July 2016. The era of Kamalism, with the army as “guardian of secularism” has ended. The AKP and its revered chief Erdogan are free as never before to go ahead in their ideological project of […]
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations Turkey’s geopolitics is increasingly at the center of attention after the failed coup of July 2016. The era of Kamalism, with the army as “guardian of secularism” has ended. The AKP and its revered chief Erdogan are free as never before to go ahead in their ideological project of […]
The Turkish Witch-Hunt Begins: Erdogan Begins Arresting Government Critics
The Turkish Witch-Hunt Begins: Erdogan Begins Arresting Government Critics Having arrested those who were supposedly directly involved in the attempted coup, which at last count this morning amounted to over 6,000 individuals of which 3,000 members of the army (or less than 1% of Turkey’s 315,000-strong forces) and the Turkish legal system, including judges and prosecutors. […]
Turkey Convulsed By Failed Coup: Turkish Voters, Not Soldiers, Should Toss Erdogan
Turkey Convulsed By Failed Coup: Turkish Voters, Not Soldiers, Should Toss Erdogan Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled Turkey for more than a decade. He should be enjoying his time of triumph. He towers above the political system, able to create and dismiss governments at will. The mayor turned prime minister turned president created a new, […]
If You Value Life, Wake Up!
Great Danger: US-NATO Missiles Threatening Russia. Putin: “We Know and they Know that we Know…People do not Understand how Dangerous the Situation Really Is” http://www.globalresearch.ca/great-danger-us-nato-missiles-threatening-russia-putin-we-know-and-they-know-that-we-know/5531955 If You Value Life, Wake Up! Do you remember how close we came to Armageddon in the early 1960s when Washington put nuclear missiles in Turkey on the Soviet Union’s […]
Turkey Moving Close to Civil War
Turkey Moving Close to Civil War Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the Turkish opposition leader of the social democratic CHP, has sharply criticized the push by the Turkish government to remodel Turkey into a presidential system. The CHP chief expressed concern about the future of the country. He warned that the rising discontent may lead to a civil war. “What a presidential […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship
Turkey’s Erdogan Clears Path to Dictatorship The ouster of Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu marks another troubling milestone in President Erdogan’s consolidation of dictatorial power, a development that Alon Ben-Meir sees as further enflaming the region. The forced resignation of Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu suggests only one thing — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is […]
May Day rallies turn violent in Europe, Turkey as police & protesters clash (VIDEOS)
May Day rallies turn violent in Europe, Turkey as police & protesters clash (VIDEOS) German police use pepper spray against right-wing protestors during a demonstration in the town of Plauen, Germany, May 1, 2016 © Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Thousands have taken to the streets globally to mark International Workers’ Day. In several European countries […]
The Death of Free Speech: The West Veils Itself
The Death of Free Speech: The West Veils Itself The West has capitulated on freedom of expression. Nobody in the West launched the motto “Je Suis Avijit Roy,” the name of the first of the several bloggers butchered, flogged or jailed last year for criticizing Islam. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, sided with the Turks. She […]
Turkey bars entry to foreign journalists, gives no explanation
Turkey bars entry to foreign journalists, gives no explanation Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul © Murad Sezer / Reuters Turkey is refusing entry to foreign journalists without providing any explanation for its actions. In the past few days a Greek photojournalist on assignment from the German tabloid Bild and an American journalist have been sent […]
Affairs of State
Affairs of State Insulting Mr. Erdoğan Can Be Dangerous Most of our readers are probably aware by now that the German government finds itself in a rather awkward situation over its relations with Turkey’s government again – with which the EU has just struck a widely criticized and very expensive deal to help it stem the flood […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet
Turkey’s Erdogan Goes Full-Dictator: Arrests Dutch Journalist For Critical Tweet One month ago, we cited Turkey’s president Tayyip Recep Erdogan who said that “it is not only the person who pulls the trigger, but those who made that possible who should be defined as terrorists, regardless of their title,” when was urging parliament to include journalists, politicians, academics, and […]
Erdogan’s war on media: Sputnik Turkey chief banned from entering Istanbul, told to fly to Russia
Erdogan’s war on media: Sputnik Turkey chief banned from entering Istanbul, told to fly to Russia Russian news agency Sputnik’s Turkish bureau chief has been blacklisted by Ankara, who refused him entry to the country in an airport, and seized his residence permit and press credentials. “I landed in Istanbul at 0:40 today with Aeroflot’s […]
Germany Could Charge Comic for Insulting Turkey’s President
Germany Could Charge Comic for Insulting Turkey’s President AMERICANS WONDERING WHAT life might be like in the near future — after a President Donald Trump acts on his promise to “open up our libels laws,” so that politicians with easily bruised egos can sue reporters or commentators for hurting their feelings — should pay attention to what is […]
