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Iran Hails Thaw in Turkish/Syrian Relations

Link– Digital Journal Interesting? Amir-Abdollahian in Ankara right after a visit to Damascus. Cavusoglu said he intended to hold his first official meeting with Mekdad “in the upcoming period”. “Today, we emphasised that Iran’s contribution to this process is very important,” Cavusoglu said.  US Concerns Washington’s relations with Ankara are already strained by US support […]

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A US tool against Iran: Kurdish militancy on the Iran-Iraq border

https://thecradle.co/Article/Investigations/19494 US and Israeli-backed armed Kurdish separatists on the Iraqi border have participated in every incident of Iranian domestic strife, from 2009 to 2022. ” Since April 2003, after the illegal US invasion of Iraq, West Asia transformed into a vast playground for an array of foreign states and entities. Among them are Iranian Kurdish […]

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FlashBack: Iran’s Forgotten Kurds Step Up the Struggle

https://web.archive.org/web/20171028184128/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2016/04/irans-forgotten-kurds-step-up-struggle.html From the past to the present ( the present featured in the second report for today) original url https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2016/04/irans-forgotten-kurds-step-up-struggle.html Still viable url! https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/iran-s-forgotten-kurds-step-up-the-struggle-1.140788 KDPI PJAK, PKK, KDPI So the present day problem in Iran with the alphabet Kurdish groups has been present for a very long time Far longer than this nearly 7 year […]

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‘The Americans did not fight ISIS’

Interesting 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 […]

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“Why Syria is vitally important to Israel’s regional calculations”

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 […]

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Turkish, Russian strategy for Syrian endgame emerging

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 […]

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Flashback: Pt 2 Lavrov- Adana Agreement Understood To Be In Force

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 […]

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Flashback: Russia/Turkey/Syria 2019 & the Adana Agreement of 1998 Still Valid

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 […]

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Turkey and Iran Target US backed PKK in both Syria and Iraq

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 […]

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More on Potential Turkey-Syria Rapprochement

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 […]