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🔴 Speech by French MEP Francois-Xavier Bellamy at the European Parliament, as part of the debate on the follow-up to the EU-Turkey meeting in Ankara
>https://archive.is/g0fky

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🔴 The Turkish National Assembly today adopted a resolution condemning US President Joe Biden 's announcement of recognition of the Armenian genocide, a move that lawmakers say will have a negative impact on US-Turkey relations
>https://archive.is/yihEm

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🔸 "We strongly condemn Biden's statement on the events of 1915, which contains the arguments of the Armenian lobby, and we reject this unfounded slander, which has no meaning other than falsifying history for political reasons. "The president of the United States has no legal or moral right to judge on historical issues, his statement has no legal force"

🔸 Turkish lawmakers called on Biden to "reconsider" his decision, which "will inevitably have a negative impact on bilateral relations"

🔸 Yesterday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned of the "catastrophic impact" that Washington's recognition of the Armenian genocide would have on Turkish-American relations, a move he called "unfounded"

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🔴🔸 IMPORTANT 🔸🔴

🔴 Germany offers to pay for the expenses of thousands of illegal immigrants who after being granted Asylum traveled to Germany and applied for Asylum there, Germany proposed to pay for their expenses for as long as they remain in Greece
>https://archive.is/9oTbl

👉 Post of Germany sending Federal Police Officers to Greek airports to prevent illegal immigrants from reaching Germany with fake documents so they wont have a chance to apply for Asylum in Germany

👉 German government complains that illegals granted Asylum in Greece are moving to Germany

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🔴 Turkey’s banks shy away from Erdogan’s ‘crazy’ canal connecting the black sea to the Propontís sea
>https://archive.is/Jf2ED

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🔸 Some of Turkey’s biggest banks are reluctant to finance President Erdogan’s planned Constantinople canal due to environmental concerns and the investment risks hanging over the massive construction project, four senior bankers told Reuters

🔸 The government expects to break ground in June on the canal, which would connect the Black Sea to the north with the Propontís Sea to the south, running 45 km (28 miles) through marshland, farms and towns on the western edge of the city

🔸 Constantinople’s mayor, engineers and, according to one poll, most citizens, oppose the project

🔸 The reluctance of some Turkish lenders to finance the project makes it more likely state and foreign financing will have to play a bigger role for Erdogan's dream. His spokesman, told Reuters the project would "certainly" attract investors and creditors when tenders are held soon

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🔴 UN Secretary General reportedly told the "president of northern cyprus" that a Two-State solution such as the one that they and Turkey were proposing is out of question because nobody would agree with it and it would also mean that all the effort put up to solve the occupation would have been in vain
>https://archive.is/4qzpi

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🔸 Mr Guterres referred to individual members of the Security Council as well as to the UN Security Council as a body, and to the EU. The UN Secretary-General reportedly made it clear to Tatar that the two-state solution was out of the question the terms of the order and can not be thrown in the garbage volume of work that has been done for decades in Cyprus and to start new negotiations from scratch

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🔴 Turkish TikTok couple arrested and then released on parole, banned from leaving Turkey according to a ruling by a Constantinople court house to face charges for "insulting the Turkish passport"
>https://archive.is/J0x3p

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🔴 Turkish newspaper reaches a new level of delusion and claims Armenians Gangs were behind the great fire of Smyrna in 1922, a fact that has been celebrated by Turks for almost a century now as a feat they had done themselves to exterminate and expel Greeks from the city
>https://archive.is/mjQ04

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🟢 The "Great Fire of Smyrna" was one of the most famous events during the Greek Genocide, the city of Smyrna burned for approximately 9 days and both Greeks and Armenians were persecuted and slaughtered by Turkish troops in the streets, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people were killed during the events.

👉 Documentary about the Greek Genocide (2020)

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🔴🔹🔸 MUST WATCH 🔸🔹🔴

🟢 For those who might be interested in the relations between Turkey and Greece, a good recommendation is to watch the documentary "Lethal Nationalism: The Genocide of the Greeks 1913-1923" (2020)

🟢 It tells in detail what happened during what is known as "The Greek Genocide" when the Turks started an ethnic cleansing campaign against Greeks all over Turkey, destroying thousands of years of history

🟢 Villages, Churches, Schools and everything else that had belonged to the Greeks for thousands of years was either stolen or destroyed and 700 000+ Indigenous Greeks were killed

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🔴 This is one of the best produced and well made documentaries I (admin) have ever seen, it doesn't focus on drama or sentimentalism, but rather in reports, statements, data and historical records

👉 Watch on Amazon Prime Video

👉 Watch on Google Play

👉 Watch on Apple TV

👉 Watch on Vimeo

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