Category: PKK
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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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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…
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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…
The Dragon is Slain 