Category: Turkey
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Shock for German Foreign Minister While in Ukraine, Hurriedly Returns Home, Late February 2024
The Haber Global [World News] Turkish news internet site reported on February 25, 2024, that German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Annalena Baerbock, cut her trip to Ukraine in half because of security concerns. She was visiting the Black Sea port at Mykolaiv. The spokesperson for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Foreign…
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Import Of Goods From Türkiye To Israel Has Increased Despite the Conflict In Palestine, mid-January 2024
Russian internet news service mk-turkey.ru published this article on January 16, 2024, based on data contained on the Turkish internet news site Ekonomim.com as well as appearing to have drawn substantially from a report on the BalkanInsight internet news site. The original Russian-language report follows [translated by LOC]: According to official data of the Turkish…
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Greece Wants a West-Leaning and Democratic Türkiye, mid-May 2023
AKP Leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the left; CHP Leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on the right The Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, known for its independent reporting and anti-Islamist stance, on 14 May 2023, as Presidential and Parliamentary elections voting was coming to a close, claimed that Türkiye’s incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had lost the election to…
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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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‘Dead Souls’ To Be Revived in Turkish Presidential Elections? Possibly, According to Turkish Political Analysts, mid-April 2023
The Greek newspaper, Kathemerini, in its internet edition for April 16, 2023, featured an article by Manolis Kostidis based on the opinion of Turkish political analysts that Turkiye’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), at the helm of which is Islamist conservative Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, may use the identities of the victims of the earthquake…
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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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Turkish-German MP Tweets Condolences in Response to Attack at Kurdish Cultural Center in Paris, December 23, 2022
Cem Özdemir, a member of the Alliance 90/Greens who represents the city of Stuttgart in the German Bundestag, and who holds the position of Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture, responded via a tweet on December 23, 2022, to a shooting that day at the Kurdish Cultural Center in Paris, France. As a first-generation German…
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Dutch Court Finds Pro-Russian Separatists Guilty in Downing of MH17, Gives Life Sentences; Free Europe Bulgarian Service, mid-November 2022
What was so compelling about this article was not so much that justice is finally being served, although its proverbial long arm cannot extend so far as to actualize it by plucking the guilty parties out of their haven in Russia, or that a verdict has been forthcoming after so many intervening years; rather, that…
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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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Church In Southeastern Türkiye Targeted Again, Early September 2022
The Turkish news website, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on September 8, 2022, posted an item in which an up close and personal account was given of the planned murder of three men, who represent the Association of Salvation (Kurtuluş) Churches [1] in the southeastern province of Malatya in Türkiye. The murder there in 2007 of…
The Dragon is Slain 