https://www.wsj.com/articles/turkey-epitomizes-the-wests-russia-sanctions-dilemma-5b20a451 https://archive.ph/u20B0 Sanctions and other trade restrictions are very difficult to enforce alone, even for a country as large as the U.S. A certain amount of badgering of friends and allies—along with veiled threats and inducements—comes with the territory. And not so veiled threats too! But the case of Turkey is particularly confounding. Turkey is […]
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Democracy Summit- eyes roll Obviously this is the Dictatorial summit Turkey and Hungary have not yet accepted Sweden’s and Finland’s bids to join the US-led military bloc US President Joe Biden’s administration has left NATO allies Turkey and Hungary off the invitation list to next week’s pro-democracy summit, Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday, citing […]
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/turkish-russian-defense-chiefs-discuss-grain-deal-syria-/2853073 Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar and his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu on Wednesday spoke over the phone and discussed the Black Sea grain deal and Syria. Akar emphasized that Türkiye is pleased with the cooperation in the extension of the grain initiative, which has contributed greatly to the solution of the global food […]
Following up on my March 10/23 report posted at the end of this report if you missed it! Quadrilateral meeting on Syria to be held in Moscow on March 15-16 https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/03/13/2867186/russia-iran-syria-turkey-to-hold-deputy-fm-meeting-in-moscow
This rapprochement is one I’ve been waiting for! I’ve written about it on multiple occasions. Having previously moved older reports from my big tech censored blog here- It seemed time to move yet another one October 2019- https://web.archive.org/web/20191217170056/https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2019/10/russia-iran-turkey-penny-talkin-up.html Most people in the west are completely unaware of the Adana agreement- Russian leadership has been very […]
Of course the 5 eyes media barely mentions the imperialistic visit to these US occupied/annexed territory. The theft of Syria’s resources. The collusion with PKK terrorists- The media is pretty quiet on this reality. Syria Condemns In his snap visit Saturday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley met U.S. troops stationed […]
News release February 7, 2023 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada Powerful earthquakes struck Türkiye and Syria on Monday, causing the death of thousands of people and destroying homes, roads, health facilities and other critical infrastructure. To support the international response to this emergency, the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister […]
Turkey says it wants a quadrilateral meeting in order to advance in rapprochement with Syria, according to al-Watan. Turkish statements about rapprochement with Damascus have returned to the fore again. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came out on Sunday with statements calling for a Syrian-Russian-Turkish meeting, pointing out the possibility of Iran joining this meeting […]
This is an interesting deal considering the government in Libya is “contested” at this time. DW Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has signed a gas deal worth billions on a visit to Libya. The plan is for Italian and Libyan energy giants to jointly develop two offshore gas fields. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited […]
Jewish News Service January 30, 2023 / JNS) The U.S. Embassy in Turkey on Monday warned Americans of possible “imminent retaliatory attacks” in the country in response to several recent incidents of Koran burning in Europe. “The U.S. government cautions its citizens of possible imminent retaliatory attacks by terrorists against churches, synagogues and diplomatic missions […]