Back in August, Nationalist opposition leader Devlet Bahceli took to Twitter to call Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a “locally produced Hitler, Stalin or Qaddafi”: That comment came as Erdogan was busy undermining the coalition building process on the way to calling for new elections. “Accept it or not, Turkey’s governmental system has become one […]
The evidence keeps piling up that Turkey is an ally of ISIS. It’s known that a major revenue source for ISIS is oil – hence Donald Trump wanting to “bomb the s— out of it.” By one estimate, ISIS was able to sell Turkey $800 million worth of oil over an eighth month period. Then, […]
By Walid Shoebat Turkish maritime authorities have detained 27 Russian ships on the country’s ports on Black Sea in retaliation for the seizure of eight Turkish-flagged ships at Russian ports. This escalation including the situation in Iraq, Syria, Mecca … it all spells out a near collision. Russia detained five Turkish-flagged ships in its ports […]
One third of marriages in Turkey involve underage girls, according to a women’s rights lawyer speaking at a conference that was called to tackle the problem. “There are 181,036 child brides in our country, unfortunately,” Izmir Bar Association Central Executive Board Member and women’s rights advocate Nuriye Kadan said during the conference in Izmir on […]
By Polina Tikhonova With U.S. President Barack Obama’s move to place American fighter jets on the Turkish-Syrian border to “target Russian planes,” the tensions between the U.S. and Russia could spiral into a “devastating nuclear war,” according to a U.S. representative. With Russian President Vladimir Putin warning NATO of “serious consequences” for shooting down a […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin lashed out at Turkey during his annual address to the Federal Assembly on Thursday, accusing Ankara of aiding terrorists and said that the Turkish rulers had ‘lost their sanity’. He also threatened Turkey with increased burden of sanctions in coming days. Putin’s diatribe comes weeks after tensions between Russia and the NATO ally escalated after […]
By Michael Snyder Are Russia and Turkey on the verge of going to war? In remarks that were almost entirely ignored by the western media, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the Turkish government of being “secret allies” with ISIS on Friday. And on Monday, the Russians announced that they would be attempting to seal […]
TURKEY appeared to be on the brink of joining the EU last night, giving its 75 million citizens free access to Europe. By ANIL DAWAR he daunting prospect of millions of Turks moving to Britain arose after EU leaders tabled a deal in exchange for help stemming the flood of migrants into Europe. They are […]
Turks don’t understand hypocrisy, the Islamist president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan told CNN International his country will consider it an act of aggression if Russia takes down a Turkish plane violating Syrian airspace, but Russia cannot shoot at Turkey when they shot down a Russian jet for no reason. Appears Greece should have shot down […]
It’s time to dump Turkey from NATO, and immediately suspend its accession process to the European Union (EU). There, I said it. Some of us have been expressing deep concerns about the regress of the country of Ataturk for years, while others, including Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and his European Parliamentary colleague Daniel Hannan MEP, […]
