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Following Zaho Attack, Baghdad Demands Turkiye Withdraw Troops from Iraq, Ankara Maintains Right to Defend Against Terrorism, late July 2022
The Turkish page of the German news provider, Deutsche Welle (DW), published an internet article on July 27, 2022, after the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting to address the July 20 artillery attack by as yet unknown perpetrators on the village of Perex, a northern Iraq tourist destination.[1] According to the DW report,…
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Attack in northern Iraq: Turkiye Points to the PKK, Baghdad Accuses Ankara
euronews Last updated: 21/07/2022 In the aftermath of an artillery barrage inflicted on a tourist location in northern Iraq by unknown perpetrators on July 20, 2022, the Turkish language page of the internet news site, euronews, carried a report of the incident, the last updated version of which was the following day and the one…
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Yesterday’s Ride – Not what I was Expecting
My seeming invincibility as a cyclist rose up and smacked me in the face yesterday while on my usual daily ride. I had been living a delusion. It had been years since I had experienced what might be considered a serious cycling incident – discounting not being able to clip out soon enough or the…
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Turkish Gambit and Kurdish Pawns; Turkiye’s Sudden Acquiescence of its “Unbending” Positions to Add Instability to Several Regions
Moscow, July 8, 2022, Institute RUSSTRAT Turkiye has opened a Pandora’s Box of issues by reneging on its declared intent to block the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO until those two countries extradited the Kurdish terrorists who had allegedly sought asylum there. This was the opinion of the Russtrat Institute, a conservative think…
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NATO, Finland, Sweden happy; Kurds, worried
This report was written by Brussels-based journalist Maria Psara for the internet news service, Euronews, and published on the site’s Greek language page on June 30, 2022, following the June 28 trilateral security agreement that was agreed to by Finland, Sweden, and Turkiye (as Turkey is now called). With security assurances in place regarding the…
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Pisa: Municipality rewards residents who use livable modes of transportation
Written by Aurora Velez, in cooperation with the European Commission. Last updated before July 1, 2022. This article was published on the Greek language page of the internet site Euronews and since it deals mostly with the bicycle as a means of livable transportation, I thought it would be fun and interesting to translate and…
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Book Review: William Tyndale
by J. F. Mozley This is the last of a trilogy of biographies I have read on William Tyndale. There is afourth biography, written by Robert Demaus in 1886, which served as one of themain sources of the present volume, written by Mozley in 1934. I decided toread Mozley’s biography of Tyndale because just as…
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Turkish Citizens Seeking Refugee Status in Europe Spiked in Aftermath of July 15, 2016, Coup Attempt against Turkish President Erdoğan
While looking into the question concerning how many citizens of Turkey had received refugee status in EU countries over the 14-year span of 2008-2021, the publication Euronews on June 10, 2022, revealed that those numbers rose sharply after the attempted coup on the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on July 15, 2016. The investigative report,…
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An Examination of Paul’s Teaching on the LORD’s Supper in I Corinthians 11:17-34
It occurred to me that over the years of worshipping in various denominations, I have been exposed to the LORD’s Supper being celebrated to differing degrees of significance. But for the most part, as I remember, there were few, if any, strictures placed on those taking Communion, perhaps the most common restriction being, to be…
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Meets with Cyclists in Celebration of World Bicycle Day
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with cyclists on June 3 at The Grand National Assembly of Turkey in celebration of World Bicycle Day. [Note: The caption under the banner headline announcing 3 June World Bicycle Day in red letters, it reads “Choose a bicycle for a liveable world!”]
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