(Der Spiegel, abstracted) Remember the Cuban missile crisis? Syria is the Cuba of 2016 and the risk of an international confrontation there is growing by the day. … Moscow and NATO member state Turkey are squaring off in the Syrian conflict, and the potential consequences for the trans-At[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Turkey’
February 10th, 2016 - 11:02 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Of Kurds and Jews, Two Peoples Fighting For Their Homeland
Mirel Goldenberg The rift between Turkey and the U.S. widened late Tuesday when Ankara summoned the American ambassador, John Bass, to protest remarks by a State Department spokesman who said Washington does not consider Syria’s Kurdish Democracy Union Party (PYD) a terrorist organization. A T[...]
December 13th, 2015 - 12:51 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Russia fires on Turkish vessel!
Russia Fires Warning Shots At Turkish Ship In Aegean Sea Maybe the turks ought to close off the Bosposrus for a few weeks?[...]
President Vladimir Putin is fully mobilized to tackle Turkish Threats
By Andrew Osborn and Polina Devitt MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin is fully mobilized to tackle what the Kremlin regards as an unprecedented threat from Turkey following the shooting down of one of its warplanes by a Turkish F-16, the Russian leader’s spokesman said on Saturd[...]
October 12th, 2015 - 1:10 am § in Misc.
Did the Koran and Crescent Get To The New World Before the Bible and Crescent?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in 2014 that the Americas were discovered by Muslims in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus set foot there. “Contacts between Latin America and Islam date back to the 12th century. Muslims discovered America in 1178, not [...]
October 1st, 2015 - 8:06 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
Origins of the Conflict In Israel/Palestine
October 1, 1917, Ottoman soldiers surrounded the Jewish village of Zichron Yaakov. Their goal was to arrest Jews working to to help the British take over Ottoman Palestine. The captured Jews were jailed and tortured. The Ottoman Kamikam (governor) threatened to do to the Jews what was done t[...]
June 7th, 2015 - 7:35 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Democracy Works in an Islamic State!
ERDOGAN HUMILIATED AT POLLS If Turks can do this, maybe Israelis will cleanse themselves of Netanyahu. Imagine the Middle East with two, well-led democracies … Maybe three if this leads Turkey to support full statehood for Kurdistan! This is no longer far-fetched. The new Saudi regime is awa[...]
May 14th, 2015 - 8:49 am § in Politics
Turkish President teetering on insanity?
DAILY BEAST: Turks Are Wondering if Their President Is Insane After 12 years in power with unprecedented economic success and a replacement oif military with civil authority, Turks are worried that Erdogan, 61, is teetering over the precipice of megalomania. ” The Turkish constitution s[...]
May 7th, 2015 - 10:01 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS: Turkey and Saudi Arabia Alliance
The two major forces in the history of Islam have been Arabia and Turkey. Islam arose in Arabia, in less than a decade conquered a world bigger than the Roman Empire and centuries later was deposed by the Turks. The succession of the prophet, the appointment of a Caliph as leader of Islam, move[...]
November 29th, 2014 - 11:30 am § in Politics
ISIS Launches Attack On Syria’s Kobani From Turkey
BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group launched an attack Saturday on the Syrian border town of Kobani from Turkey, a Kurdish official and activists said, although Turkey denied that the fighters had used its territory for the raid. The assault began when a suicide bomber driving an armored vehicle[...]