Turkey
Turkey Downs Plane, Joins With Islamic State: U.S. Should Drop New Ottoman Empire As Ally
By Doug Bandow, Contributor Turkey’s rash decision to shoot down a Russian plane for allegedly violating its airspace isn’t likely to trigger World War III. But Ankara has demonstrated where it stands. With the Islamic State and against the West. The justification for Turkey’s membership in NATO and America’s defense guarantee for Ankara long ago […]
The stab in the back
By Sener Levent* The Russians are a calm and patient people. Any Russian that you may ask will tell you that “our best characteristic is our patience”. Once I asked some of them, “why patience?” They gave me as an example the writer Alexander Solzenytsin. He also, they said, was always talking about patience. The […]
Adding insult to injury: Paying Turkey for a problem that she had a big hand in creating!
By Tocqueville* The upcoming EU-Turkey summit regarding the Syrian refugee (decided long before the downing of a Russian bomber over Syria) risks adding insult to injury.
An open letter to Barack Obama by a Turkish journalist
By EMRE USLU Mr. Obama, I am writing this letter as a journalist leading a life in exile in the United States of America.
ICH: Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey’s President
By Tyler Durden, Information Clearing House November 26, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Zero Hedge” – Russia’s Sergey Lavrov is not one foreign minister known to mince his words. Just earlier today, 24 hours after a Russian plane was brought down by the country whose president three years ago said “a short-term border violation can never be […]
Columbia University researchers confirm Turkey’s links to ISIS
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com
Kotzias rejects claims PM agreed to open EU chapters with Turkey
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias rejected on Monday claims by opposition MPs that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras agreed to open more chapters in Turkey’s accession negotiations without the agreement of Cyprus, during a session of the parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence.
Cyprus problem an issue of invasion and occuption, Voutsis tells Cyprus Parliament
NICOSIA (ANA-MPA/ A. Viketos) Greece believes that Ankara holds the key to reaching an agreement on the Cyprus issue, Greek Parliament President Nikos Voutsis said on Monday while addressing Cypriot lawmakers, during a visit to the island.
Tsipras, Davutoglu announce measures to tackle refugee flows (ADDS)
ANKARA (ANA-MPA/ A. Abatzis) Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday announced specific measures – such as closer cooperation between coast guards in Greece and Turkey and cooperation mechanisms between their respective ministries – to curb illegal migration and the action of refugee traffickers along their shared borders.
Guarding of Greek-Turkish border discussed with Davutoglu, Merkel says
BERLIN (ANA-MPA/ F. Karaviti) German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said that one of the issues she discussed with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey was the guarding of the Greek-Turkish border.