Category: Türkiye
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Death of Turkish Parliamentarian Spurs Torrent of Responses to Recent X Post of Israeli Foreign Ministry Official, mid-December 2023
The Turkish e-newspaper Ekonomim [My Economy], on December 14, reported that the X (formerly Twitter) post of an Israeli Foreign Ministry official had been retweeted in the wake of the sudden death of Turkish member of Parliament, Hasan Bitmez. “Following the news of the death of Saadet [Felicity] Party Member of Parliament (MP), who represented…
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Ukrainian, Russian Newspapers Differ in Accounts of November Ramstein Contact Group Session on Aid to Ukraine; Bulgarian Newspaper Reports Türkiye’s Disregard for Russia Sanctions, November 2023
In her November 22, 2023, article for the weekly Ukrainian Russian-language socio-political journal and daily news internet resource, Fokus, Darya Denisova stressed U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s provocative challenge to the West to continue its “unwavering” financial aid to Ukraine to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist schemes never come to fruition. At…
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Organization of Turkic States Looks To Strengthen Mutual Security; Azerbaijan Discusses Military Cooperation with Pakistan, early/mid-November 2023
The internet site of the Azerbaijan newspaper, Yeni (New) Azərbaycan, in its November 3, 2023, Azerbaijani language edition, reported that at the 10th Organization of Turkic States (TDT) summit of heads-of-state recently held in Astana, Kazakhstan, the President of Kazakhstan, Kasım-Jomart Tokayev, called for member states [Translator note: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye, and Uzbekistan] to…
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Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Accuses U.S. of Withholding Intelligence Yet Supplying Arms to Israel Prior to Hamas Attack, mid-October 2023
The Turkish newspaper, Cumhuriyet, reported on its Turkish language internet site on October 14, 2023, the answers of Russian MFA spokesperson, Mariya Zakharova, to the questions of Turkish journalist, Esra Karahindiba. The Q&A, which centered around the unfolding Israel-Hamas conflict, its impact on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the effect of attempts to mediate peace negotiations…
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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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Greece And Israel: Discovering Commonalities Through Facing A Common Adversary
The Russian-language newspaper, Каскад/Cascade, published in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 16, 2023, featured an article on its internet site entitled, Greece – Where There Is Everything. Everything, according to the author, includes the Jewish presence in Greece, and specifically, in Thessaloniki/Salonica. Within its eclectic content that ranges from the dilatorious effects of the pandemic and…
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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…
The Dragon is Slain 