Tag: Turkey

In 2014, Vice President Joe Biden told a Harvard audience that Turkey and others had been giving “hundreds of millions of dollars [and] tons of weapons” to Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS

Jim W. Dean - For anyone wanting to do business with Erdogan, I would wish them luck and advise them to stash some emergency money.

Jim W. Dean - It looks like geopolitical 'whack-a-mole' is here to stay.

Pompeo has accused Turkey of undermining NATO, and is not the only one within the current US “deep state” who think Turkey has gone rogue.

Jim W. Dean - While Erdogan tries to hustle the emirs and the princes, they are attempting the same with him.

Jim W. Dean - VT has known for a long time that Idlib has a lot of oil, part of a formation that comes ashore from the Mediterranean, which would give Syria the rights to it.

Jim W. Dean - I will predict that anyone teaming up with crooked Erdogan will end up similar to those who might have thought hooking up with deeply flawed Trump was the key to a guaranteed seat at the unipolar sharing of the loot.

Ankara reveals its double standards by buying oil from the Syrian Kurds, who are considered terrorists by the Turkish authorities.

The region has experienced 29 earthquakes with a magnitude of 6.0 or higher in the last 100 years

David Boyajian - Just days ago, in our nation’s capital, Azeri demonstrators chanted “jihad, jihad, jihad” and flashed the hand signal of Turkey’s homicidal, neo-fascist Grey Wolves.

...from PressTV, Tehran First published ... October 19, 2020  Six years after her suspicious death, Press TV reporter Serena Shim is remembered as one of the...

Jim W. Dean - Turkey's Erdogan is playing the EU for a fool now, as it knows it is under Covid stress and the Brexit battle showdown is coming to an end, where it might get stiffed by Boris Johnson.

Erdogan's latest actions and statements concerning the crisis around Nagorno-Karabakh clearly demonstrate that he continues to handle his blunders and Turkey’s problems from a position of strength and foolhardiness.

With the COVID pandemic, the world economy is no longer in focus. In America, millions of jobs are more than lost, the industries themselves have contracted or disappeared. No one knows what the world economy will be, what will survive, and what nations may well crumble economically as well.

Jim W. Dean - A mystery to me is how Erdogan can be funding the geopolitical chaos he is creating under his currently stressed economic situation.

NATO has taken a low profile in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, leaving the impression that it may have decided to let matters take their course, which would be the antithesis of NATO's charter mission.

Jim W. Dean - Both sides seem to be picking off forward units, where artillery already have the approach ranges.

Salman Rafi Sheikh -- If violence begets violence, alliance produces a counter-alliance.

Andre Vltchek's purpose in life was to royally piss off the people who misrule the world.

Turkey may have agreed to cede control of territory in southern Idlib to pro-Assad forces in a meeting with Russia on September 16.  If the reports of a deal are true...

The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has called on Turkey to rein in allied militants in northern Syria, who may have committed a range of war crimes against civilians, including hostage-taking, rape and torture.

By championing ‘the Palestinian cause’, Erdogan intends to channel the anti-Israel energy towards the UAE and other Arab countries that are apparently willing to recognize Israel.

Jim W. Dean - The good news is the 'live fire' drills, another Erdogan showmanship ploy, will probably not go on and save its military from wasting ammunition.

The European Union has threatened to slap sanctions on Turkey if it continues with what Brussels has called "illegal drilling". Greece launched naval drills this week in the area where Turkey is prospecting for oil and gas, and France, Cyprus, and Italy said they would join Athens.

Turkey is in Libya with both feet, one on the sand and one in the Mediterranean where it is claiming vast oil and gas drilling rights, with warships currently sailing with exploration drilling rigs. Erdogan asked no one's permission, and NATO has been silent on the issue.

Jim W. Dean - VT is back up after being hacked for several hours when one of two key stories were up -- on the Saudis shifting tactical nukes to Turkey to be closer to the NW Syrian battleground, and the NATO tripwire to drag the US into a wider conflict.

Turkish intervention in Libya has not only significantly shifted situation in Libya, but also brought a new challenge for regional security and put MENA on the brink of war.

Can Turkey help liberate Arabia from the Ibn Saud crime family?

Alaeddin Saleh - Experts believe that mysterious death of the Libyan spy-master Al-Tuhami might be a byproduct of the power struggle among the militias competing for the grip over oil.

Under the influence of combat drugs, Uyghur combatants committed crimes against humanity in Syria, murdering hundreds of men, women and children, while de-populating entire villages and towns. They have been cooperating with various terrorist groups...

The coronavirus will not force Recep Erdogan to withdraw troops from Syria, he will be forced to do this by the Kurds with the skillful help of Russia, said Konstantin Sivkov, a doctor of military sciences and an observer of the Military-Industrial Courier.

Jim W. Dean - With the Covid-19 train barreling down the tracks, the last thing the EU wants is a big surge in refugees.

Jim W. Dean - So once again we have Erdogan possibly snookering the Russians into another agreement that he has no intentions of honoring, using the jihadis as patsies.

Turkey has reportedly decided to activate its Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system in April despite warnings from the US that if it does so, it will be unable to acquire America’s Patriot missile-defense batteries.

With over 1,000 personnel, Turkey has launched a new anti-terror operation in three eastern provinces, the Interior Ministry announced on March 13.

Jim W. Dean - The idea of pussy footing around in not closing the door to all illegal immigration is insanity under the current virus spreading conditions.

'Sochi 2.0' agreement has brought about a pause in fighting its chances of lasting are slim. Russia seems keen to avoid open conflict with Turkey and is accordingly giving Turkey one last chance to act against the extremist groups in Idlib, especially Hayat Tahrir Ash-Sham.

Greece should follow Turkey's suit and simply “open the gates” for migrants massed at the Turkish-Greek border, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, insisting that thousands of people would simply go to other EU countries.

Erdogan’s forces continue their bloody battle for peace and prosperity for al-Qaeda groups in the Syrian region of Greater Idlib.

The only thing that Vladimir Putin can say to Recep Erdogan on March 5 in Moscow is: "If you are not a fool, then stop everything you do in Idlib," said expert Vladimir Anokhin.