Interpreting Turkey’s Military Operation in Syria Ever since things started to go badly wrong in Syria after the uprising prompted by the 2011 Arab Spring, the situation has converted the customary fog of war into an impenetrable black box. None of the intervening political actors including Turkey, United States, Iran, Russia, Israel, the UAE, and […]
The Bosphorus is a place of many legends. Jason and his Argonauts would have travelled through this sea-passage in search of the Golden Fleece. Achilles, Hector and Agamemnon would have been familiar with it as Troy is but a short distance away. The Persians used it, as did the Romans. From Byzantium to Constantinople to […]
Yes, we know, it’s apparently all macho male crap. Those involved should be out trimming the hedges or mowing the grass instead of holding hands in Istanbul. But what you naysayers don’t seem to understand is that we men, simple creatures that we are, need to demonstrate our strength and prowess or, failing that, we […]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=65NV37jNz8Y%3Fversion%3D3%26rel%3D1%26fs%3D1%26autohide%3D2%26showsearch%3D0%26showinfo%3D1%26iv_load_policy%3D1%26wmode%3Dtransparent Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder: 7 Minutes of Sawing while Listening to Music! Local Editor 7 Minutes It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist’s last moments told Middle East Eye. Khashoggi was dragged from the Consul General’s office […]
The disappearance of the Saudi dissident journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, has cause an international outcry. He was videoed entering the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Turkey but never came out. At first the Saudis vigorously claimed that stories about his death were little more than lies designed to traduce the Saudi regime. It has now emerged […]
The case of Jamal Khashoggi is a strange one. He is/was regarded as a dissident journalist from Saudi Arabia (an ally of the US, UK and Israel) who was on the sh*tlist of the Wahhabi regime, During a visit to the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, he disappeared. The Saudi’s claim to have no knowledge of […]
It should come as no surprise that the Socialist leader of China would congratulate the Socialist President of Venezuela upon his re-election. What is most important about this seemingly innocuous story is that the Chinese (and Russian) offers of friendship and comradery will fly in the face of the attitude of both the US government […]
The Hittites are mentioned in the Bible as contemporaries of the ancient Egyptians. They were a powerful civilization based in modern day Anatolia. Yet unlike other such mighty empires, they disappeared so quickly as to have become something of a mystery. But tenacious archaeologists searching for their capital city made a startling discovery in Turkey. […]
It’s stating the obvious to say that Syria is truly a mess. The Russians are helping the Syrians, as are the Iranians. The US is helping the Kurds and ‘moderate’ terrorist grouping such as Al-Nusra. Israel are also helping the same terrorist organisations in an attempt to topple Assad. The Kurds are under attack from […]
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