Category: Europe
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Turkish Internet News Site Reports U.S. Senators’ Intention To Link F-16 Sale to Ankara to Approval of Finland’s, Sweden’s NATO Accession Applications; February 3, 2023
Turkish internet news site Medyascope‘s Foreign News Service on February 3, 2023, issued the following report based on a partial translation of a letter Congress sent to U.S. President Joe Biden requesting that he, along with U.S. Ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake, urge Türkiye to act quickly regarding Ankara’s decision to approve Sweden’s and Finland’s…
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Israel Sends Highly Credentialed Diplomat To Germany as Ambassador, late December 2022
The German daily newspaper, Tagesspiegel, on December 21, 2022, posted to its internet site an interview it had conducted with Israel’s new ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor. The interview addresses Israel’s relations not only with Germany but rather, by his replies to the questions, Prosor, as one of the country’s most experienced diplomats, provides a…
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In the Power of Murky Intuition, Autocratic Russia is Losing the Instinct for Self-Preservation
Russian intellectual and social philosopher Aleksandr Sergeyevich Tsipko on June 6, 2022, wrote the following opinion piece on the Newspaper Ideas and People internet site. By utilizing the Platonic philosophy of the partıcular vs the universal, Tsipko speaks truth to power, excoriating Russia’s return to an autocratic system of government which in turn led to…
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Sochi Economic Agreement Provides Life Support for Both Putin, Erdoğan, mid-August 2022 Greek report
My Comment: It turns out that strongmen, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, are in need of each other’s help in order maintain a facade of bravado in the face of the dire financial shortcomings in their economies. In the case of Russia, more than 30 years after the fall…
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Russia Agrees to Take Rubles for Natural Gas Deliveries to Türkiye, Early August 2022
The Greek language internet site News Break, on August 11, 2022 carried the following news item that describes an agreement reached between Moscow and Ankara to allow Türkiye to pay rubles for a certain portion of Russian natural gas imports. The article also mentions the two countries’ plan to significantly increase bilateral trade turnover. The…
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In Tense Atmosphere, German and Turkish Ministers of Foreign Affairs’ Discussion Reflects Turkiye’s Perception of Unfair Treatment by Greater European Community, late July 2022
This article was featured on the Greek language page of the internet news site, Euronews on July 29, 2022. Germany’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock was visiting the two neighboring countries of Greece and Turkey, which have conflicting interests in the eastern Mediterranean Sea as far as natural gas drilling rights are concerned,…
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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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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…
The Dragon is Slain 