Category: Europe
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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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Russian Thinktank Claims Ukraine Takeover First Move To Reintegrate Former USSR, Realign Geopolitical Spheres of Influence, late-March 2022
Although it was my endeavor to summarize as succinctly as possible, because of the length of the original piece, this post is somewhat lengthy. Hopefully, the length will not overwhelm the reader, nor the information, underwhelm! In my opinion, this article offers an opportunity to peer “behind the veil” and view, virtually, the thought processes…
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An Emergency Summit Meeting of NATO in the Offing, mid-March 2022
Yiannis Palaiologos, a journalist for the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, reported on March 14, 2022, that an emergency NATO summit was being planned to coincide with the regular EU summit meeting that was scheduled to be held in Brussels the coming week. According to Palaiologos’ multi-sourced information, there would be an “overlap” whereby non-members of one…
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Foreign Jihadists and Mercenaries Said To Be Fighting Russians in Ukraine, early March 2022
A Greek report posted to The World News platform, based on Syrian News Agency (SANA) and Al Mayadeen satellite media network information, noted on March 9, 2022, that approximately 450 Salafist jihadists had left Idlib, Syria, and entered Ukraine for the purpose of fighting against Russian forces as well as pro-Russian non-combatants there. The jihadists…
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German Chancellor’s Last-Ditch Attempt at Diplomacy Fails To Sway Putin, mid-February 2022
The takeaways from Der Tagesspiegel’s (The Daily Mirror) February 16, 2022, article of German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz’ meeting in Moscow with Russian President, Vladimir Putin, are: Despite Putin’s willingness to hold discussions with various world leaders on the Ukraine crisis, it is obvious from the arguments he put forth to Scholz that he had already…
The Dragon is Slain 