Turkey has issued an indictment in absentia against four Israeli military commanders over a 2010 Gaza flotilla incident in which nine terror activists were killed on a Turkish-sponsored vessel. According to a report published Wednesday in the Turkish newspaper Sabah, the 144-page indictment seeks life imprisonment for the four commanders. It was prepared following alleged […]
The elections in France ousted from power one of the leading opponents of Turkish accession to the European Union- Nicolas Sarkozy. Although the new French President, Francois Hollande, ruled out the possibility of Turkey entering the European Union during his five-year term the Turks are optimistic enough to reopen their entry bid. There are three […]
by Daniel Pipes April 16, 2012 “Retired Gen. Çevik Bir jailed in postmodern coup case” reads the headline in Today’s Zaman, complete with a picture of a policeman accompanying Bir as he left a courthouse after being arrested. Bir is the Turkish military figure I have had the most contact with, so his arrest has […]
Israeli, Greek and U.S. forces are in the midst of a drill in preparation for a possible war over Israel’s huge off-shore gas discoveries, which also may contain commercializable oil. Lebanon and Hizbullah have claimed the fields are in Lebanese territory and that they will “defend” the area against drilling by Israel. The week-long drill […]
The United States and Jordan are preparing to secure Syria’s vast stores of chemical and biological weapons in case the Syrian government loses control, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Syria has large stockpiles of nerve agents and mustard gas. Jordan and Turkey have expressed concern that the weapons could fall into terrorist hands as […]
The Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), which has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on public campaigns prior to the upcoming U.S. presidential elections and pivotal AIPAC policy conference, has come out with a new video blasting President Obama’s commitment to ensuring the safety and security of the State of Israel. The 30-minute video entitled […]
The 1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocides: Inconvenient Precedents for the Arab Spring Revolutions …by Ranbir Singh It was in a speech of 22 August 1939 that Hitler urged his volk to slaughter without mercy men, women and children of the inferior Slavic race as he planned to invade Poland. He ended this […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online February 7, 2012 Remember the name Kastelorizo; you heard it here first. It is the far-flung, easternmost island of Greece, 80 miles from Rhodes, 170 miles west of Cyprus, but just 1 mile off the coast of Turkey. Kastelorizo is tiny, comprising just 5 square miles, plus some yet […]
by Daniel Pipes January 10, 2012 updated Jan 21, 2012 That’s the thesis implicit to David Goldman’s analysis at “Recall notice for the Turkish model.” After dubbing the Turkish economy a bubble that “is bursting, starting with the stock market and national currency,” he makes this observation about the prime minister: Erdogan has the weirdest […]
by Daniel Pipes November 9, 2009 updated Jan 17, 2012 I raised the issue of Turkey’s continued membership in NATO in April 2009 at “Does Turkey Still Belong in NATO?“; here I will collect others who agree that the issue at least needs to be raised. While it’s still too early to write Turkey out […]
