Category: Türkiye
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Italy To Lead Construction of New NATO Base in Bulgaria
Internet news site, bourgas.ru, situated in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast city of Burgas, and catering to speakers of Russian as their native language, on August 13, 2025, reported that in the near future Bulgaria and Italy would begin construction of a new NATO military base in Bulgaria’s Yambol Province. Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense, in…
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Turkiye Attempts To Influence Azerbaijan’s Relations with Israel, early May, 2025
This post contains two articles concerning the anticipated visit in early May to Baku by Israel’s Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu. The first article, written by A. Qafarli, was carried on the internet news site, modern.az, on May 2, 2025, in connection with Netanyahu’s expected arrival on May 7. Although that trip did not materialize –…
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Conversion of Turkish Peoples Historically to Russian Orthodoxy Serves To Placate Tensions Between Russians and Turks
Russian internet site https://russtrat.ru, which serves as a propaganda organ for the Putin regime, published an article on its ‘analytics’ page addressing the commonly-held misconception that all Turks are Muslims. The Gagauz ethnic Turkic people are cited as a case in point of those who converted to [Russian] Orthodoxy. Also examined are other Turkic peoples…
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Greece – A Southern Europe Energy Hub
This post contains an abbreviated chronology of the development of the ‘Vertical Corridor,’ a means of supplying natural gas to the countries of Central and East Europe that have been impacted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This energy delivery route is being made possible in large part thanks to the efforts made by Greece to…
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Armenia Seeks Rapprochement with Azerbaijan, Agrees to Military Cooperation with Greece, late-February, early March 2024
Armenia, a majority of whose population belongs to the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) Church, finds itself the recipient of an unenviable piece of real estate that is squeezed between the two overwhelmingly Muslim nations, Turkey and Azerbaijan. This tension led to the 1915 genocide against the Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and more…
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Israel: Demonstrations Demand Resignation of Government, Early Elections, mid-February 2024
Turkish internet news site Haber Global (HG) [World News] on February 17 filed the below article, reporting on recent demonstrations taking place across Israel that were demanding the resignation of the Netanyahu government and holding early elections. [Comment: The objective of my translations is to not only inform the reader of events seen from the…
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Armed Attack on Church in Burkina Faso, Africa; Many Casualties, Late February 2024
The Turkish internet news site Yeni Çağ [New Age] reported on February 25, 2024, that unknown persons carried out an armed attack during the Sunday service at the Dori Catholic Church in the village of Essakane. The statement, made from the scene of the crime, claimed that in the attack 15 persons perished and 2…
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Türkiye will speak against Israel at the UN International Court, mid-February 2024 Report
The Russian internet news site mk-turkey.ru, which reports Turkish news in the Russian language, on February 11, 2024, issued an article taken from the Turkish news source, Haber Global [World News], which is based in Türkiye but owned by Azeri businessmen Elnur Abdullayev and Mammad Gulmammadov. The channel’s slogan is “The Free [as in ‘Independent’]…
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President of Türkiye: Ankara Will Not Allow the World To Forget the Crimes of Israel Against Humanity
The Russian-language edition of the Turkish internet news site, Anadolu Ajansi, on February 10, 2024, published the above-entitled article, written by Ulviyya Amoyeva and Kaan Bozdoğan in a manner that confirmed the tenor of the Turkish President’s remarks. Erdoğan provocatively promised to continue to fight for an independent, sovereign state with territorial integrity with a…
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The Development of Relations with the Russian Federation Remains a Priority for Türkiye Despite U.S. Pressure, Early February 2024
Russian-language internet news site, mk-turkey.ru, on February 2, 2024, published an article from that date’s edition of the Turkish e-newspaper, Ekonomim, concerning the problems Turkish businesses are having processing money transfers from Russian counterparts. The head of the Russian-Turkish business council blames this difficulty on the tightening of sanctions on Russia by the West, led…
The Dragon is Slain 