PFYT2Interesting piece from The Cradle. And the claim is completely unsurprising to myself. It was always obvious. One would have been a complete fool to believe the US ever fought ISIS. They armed them. Dropped weapons to them. Etc., But they did not fight them! https://thecradle.co/Article/Interviews/19989 Selected excerpts below; Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian commander of […]
An interesting perspective on Syria’s importance in the region particularly as it relates to Israel’s wanting to dominate the Arab people and their lands Link to article Former diplomat Frederic Hof explores how Damascus is Tel Aviv’s last frontier in overcoming the Arab ‘problem’ As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
First, a trip down memory lane. Years back I’d hoped for this type of an outcome with regard to Syria. Yup, I wanted to see Turkey, Syria and Iran work this out, for themselves. If Russia was going to help, that was okay with me. Turkey and Syria should be good neighbours, the neighbours they […]
original url https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2019/01/pt-2-lavrov-adana-agreement-understood.html via the wayback machine as it looked in 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190128184911/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2019/01/pt-2-lavrov-adana-agreement-understood.html Putin said: “The treaty between Syria and Turkey of the year 1998 is still valid. And it deals, in particular, with the fight against terrorism. I think that this is the base that closes many issues in terms of ensuring Turkey’s security […]
https://web.archive.org/web/20190127013159/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2019/01/russiaturkeysyria-2019-adana-agreement.html https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/russia-positive-on-turkeys-plans-to-secure-its-borders-fm-cavusoglu-140741 I’ve written about and mentioned the Adana agreement on more then one occasion here at the blog- One extensive post on the topic, from 2016, will be re-linked at the bottom of this report. Cavusoglu is suggesting the 1998 Adana Agreement was discussed at the Erdogan(Turkey) – Putin (Russia) talks. Russia positive on […]
Turkey has begun retaliatory strikes against PKK targets in northern Syria. The media is treading carefully on the reporting. However, it’s clear that Turkey struck a military base in occupied Syria. One of the many military bases the US shares with it’s PKK counterparts Turkey carries out deadly strike on base used by Kurdish group […]
Faisal al-Mekdad, the regime’s top diplomat, is visiting Moscow days after a meeting with Cavusoglu. “I did not use the phrase reconciliation between the Syrian regime and the opposition, but I said that a settlement of the crisis must be reached.” This is how the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, has tried to contain the […]
Interfax The leaders of Russia, Turkey, and Iran have denounced attempts to seize and transfer oil revenues belonging to Syria. Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia, Ebrahim Raisi of Iran, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey issued a joint statement following an Astana-format summit in Tehran. Russia, Iran, and Turkey, “discussed the situation in the north […]
At my censored blog this was one of the core topics, which has been picked up here as well. Turkey, Iran ink MoU in presence of Erdogan, Raisi The ceremony of inking the agreement of joint cooperation was held at Sa’daabad Historical Palace in capital Tehran on Tuesday before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his […]
Pepe Escobar via the Cradle This is the concise story of how a suicide bombing may carry the potential to subvert the whole, ongoing, complex process of Eurasia integration. Recently, the Balochistan Liberation Movement (BLA) had released an ISIS-influenced video threatening “Chinese officials and installations” in Pakistan’s vast province. Yet what actually happened in late […]