Category: Middle East
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Russian Foreign Ministry Blames U.S. for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Russia’s Special Military Operation against Ukraine, mid-October 2023
During Russian news agency TASS’s joint workshop with the International Journalists Council in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, met with Turkish journalists, during which she answered the questions of Turkish journalist Esra Karahindiba. Karahindiba’s interview with Zakharova was reported in the online version of the Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, on October 14, 2023. The…
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Turkey: The Abandoned Iraqi and Syrian Christian Asylum Seekers, Late April 2023
Turkish journalist, Uzay Bulut, who writes for the Gatestone Institute, International Policy Council, recently submitted the following report which details the difficulties Iraqi and Syrian Christian asylum seekers are experiencing, including persecution for their faith, while living as refugees in Turkey. The author also addresses the dangers facing Christians who have not left Iraq or…
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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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Christians Experiencing Discrimination in Iraq; In ISIS-Controlled Northwestern Syria Suffering Persecution, early-December 2022
Turkish internet Christian news site, Sat7, on December 9, 2022, disseminated for its Turkish readership two articles that had originally been published in English. The article concerning Iraqi Christians was based on a FIDES wire that was picked up by several internet sites. One can be found at: https://www.worthynews.com/80474-iraq-christian-families-are-leaving-in-droves . The article on the persecution…
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Russian and Arab Money Won’t Save Erdoğan, Turkish Economist Says, mid-August 2022
The Turkish internet news site, DEMOCRAT HABER, on August 14, 2022, posted the remarks in a transcript format of a YouTube program during which one of the discussants maintained that the influx of money from Russia and/or Saudi Arabia could not overcome the effects of the current inflationary cycle in the Turkish economy. The remarks,…
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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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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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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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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…
The Dragon is Slain 