Turkish media have begun reporting on the high probability of Iran and Turkey establishing a long term task-force for joint cross-border military operations against Kurdish militants including the Turkey based PKK and the Iran based Kurdish group PJAK.
MOSCOW, (Sputnik) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on the Muslims of the world to show solidarity in issues related to Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, stressing the importance of Jordan being involved in the protection of the city’s holy sites.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has opened up the Foreign and Expatriates Minister Conference with a speech clarifying Syria’s position in respect of internal and international developments at a time when the fight against terrorism in Syria continues to be won by Syria and its partners.
A couple of days ago marked the one-year anniversary of the failed coup attempt in Turkey. This event has been substantially commemorated in Turkey in recent days; although, even now, it really isn’t clear precisely what happened a year ago. Some still think the ‘coup’ attempt was staged by the government as a means for […]
Turkey’s President Erdogan has marked the one year anniversary of a failed coup against his leadership.
Marking an attempted coup against one’s own government might be considered something of a bold or even risky public statement. While there is still no international consensus on who orchestrated the coup, the mid-level Turkish Army personnel who on the 15th of June, 2016, attempted to overthrow Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan almost certainly aimed to assassinate the Turkish President.
Today marks the one year anniversary of a coup in Turkey which briefly threatened to topple the rule of Turkey’s strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Over the years, Russia has fought more wars against Turkey than any other country, even more than Poland. Likewise, between 1904 and 1905 Russia fought a war with Japan whose devastating outcome for Russia lead to a destabilising revolution at home. Russia’s relations with Japan did not get much better as the century rolled on. The Soviet Union was on the opposite side of the Second World War vis-a-vis Japan and territorial disputes over the Kuril Islands remain unresolved into the 21st century.
Russia’s agreement with the United States to create new de-escalation zones in south-west Syria is very similar to Russia’s creation of the Astana group which has helped bring Turkey into an effectively Russian lead political peace process in Syria.
In July of 2008, Barack Obama, then a candidate for the US Presidency, delivered a campaign style speech in Berlin. Most of his audience were German, but many US nationals living in central Europe enthusiastically attended. Such individuals would of course be eligible to vote in a US election in spite of not living in America.
During his second term in office, Obama again returned to Berlin to speak before a large audience, this time from behind the safety of a bullet proof glass panel.
Saudi Crown Price Mohammad Bin Salman is a classic example of the ideological dogma that often clouds the minds of a young man whose ambition exceeds his circumspection, let alone his intelligence. By all accounts Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) is profoundly lacking in both circumspection and intelligence.
