The Turkish President should have consulted the prophecies of St. Paisius of the Holy Mountain rather than whatever kitaps he was reading before embarking on his risky provocation. In plain Greek, several decades ago St. Paisius was educating Turkish leaders about the sequence of events that the reconversion of Hagia Sophia would set in motion: “When the cathedral of Hagia Sophia is turned into a mosque, Turkey will disintegrate”.
Once again it was Russia that just prevented the threatened ‘Muslim invasion’ of Europe advertised by Erdogan
Pepe ESCOBAR
At the start of their discussion marathon in Moscow on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with arguably the most extraordinary diplomatic gambit of the young 21st century.
As Putin meeting looms, no one in Moscow believes any word, promise or cajoling from Erdogan anymore
Pepe ESCOBAR
The latest installment of the interminable Syria tragedy could be interpreted as Greece barely blocking a European “invasion” by Syrian refugees. The invasion was threatened by President Erdogan even as he refused the EU’s puny “offer you can refuse” bribe of only one billion euros.
President Tayyip Erdoğan said: “Whoever says, ‘What business does Turkey have in Syria?’ is either unaware or intentionally an enemy of this people.”
Erdogan de facto supports al-Qaeda remnants while facing either humiliating retreat from or total war against Syria
Pepe ESCOBAR
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, neo-Ottoman extraordinaire, is not exactly inclined to commit seppuku, the Japanese act of ritual suicide.
But if not through the perspective of neo-Ottomanism, how to explain the fact he is de facto supporting al-Qaeda remnants in Syria while facing two unsavory options – a humiliating retreat from or total war against the Syrian Arab Army?
Turkish President Reccip Tayyip Erdogan is wasting no time in exercising his new supreme powers, granted to him in a controversial referendum on the 16th of April, 2017.
Both domestically and abroad, people are feeling what can only be described as Erdogan’s wrath.
The Sultan’s Neo-Ottoman Adventure is Opposed by the US.
In Syria, the US is becoming increasingly exacerbated by Turkish troops and the Turkish proxy jihadist force FSA firing on Kurdish led SDF forces.
21st Century Wire says…
Not a minute goes by in the West without hearing some politician, or loud-mouthed media pundit claiming to know or understand something about the current hot-button issue of refugees. The reality is, they know nothing.
