🇬🇷🇹🇷 Greece designates the PKK as a terrorist organization, which is the same classification as ISIS.

And yet, Greece protects and shelters a group who have slaughtered thousands of men, women, and children of their next-door neighbor.

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#Greece #Turkey

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🇹🇷🇺🇦 Although Turkey follows a ‘balanced’ position in the Ukraine crisis, this balance can often evolve into a zig-zag policy.

If this deviation happens to Azov members in Turkey, get ready to watch the heroic stories of Azovists in the Turkish media.

💬 By Erkin Öncan

#Turkey #war #Nazism

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🇸🇾 The Biden administration should develop a plan with Turkey and Russia to bring Idlib under the control of the Syrian government.

On October 10, a U.S.-led coalition drone strike killed an IS terrorist in northeastern Syria. The terrorist was riding a motorcycle in a village occupied by Radical Islamic mercenaries employed by Turkey near Tel Albyat.

Since the defeat of ISIS in Syria in 2019, the terrorist group now referred to as IS has some sleeper cells in the desert, and is especially prevalent in Idlib, which is protected by Turkey, and supplied with humanitarian aid by the United Nations.

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#Syria #Turkey

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🌾 To observe Zelensky’s statement to western media, arguing that African countries may face famines, is both absurd and disingenuous.

The Black Sea attacks on Russian naval vessels will no doubt focus the minds on decision-makers, after Russia reacted — briefly — by swiftly shutting down the grain deal, brokered by Turkey’s firebrand leader Recep Erdogan in August of this year.

Since the deal was signed, almost 400 ships passed through Istanbul heading towards Black Sea ports transporting over 9 million tonnes of grain all over the world.

And yet, despite Ukraine being the culpable party by instigating the attacks on Russian naval ships — knowing full well that this would risk the tenuous deal holding — the original agreement signed itself served neither side.

It is understandable that Russia would be angry and respond in such an audacious way by pulling out of the deal immediately as attacks on the very Russian ships which operate in the Black Sea securing the passage for the grain ships seems like the best way for Ukraine to scrap the deal, knowing media will place the emphasis on Russia halting the arrangement.

💬 Read more by Martin Jay

#GrainDeal #Ukraine #FoodCrisis #Turkey

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🇹🇷 As President Assad has said before, be careful when you feed a monster because it can later turn to bite you.

💬 By Steven Sahiounie

#Turkey #Syria #Kurds

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🎡 How the world appears all depends on whether your gaze is firmly focussed on the hub of the wheel, Alastair Crooke writes.

#BRICS #China #Iran #NewWorldOrder #SaudiArabia #Turkey #UnitedStates

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🇸🇾🇹🇷 Many see the brewing war on the Kurds in Syria as a distraction manipulated by Erdogan in his effort to boost nationalist sentiments ahead of the election.

💬 By Steven Sahiounie

#Syria #Turkey

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🇪🇬⚽️🇹🇷 Football diplomacy brought Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan together in Doha for the opening of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar.

Years of tension between the two were broken with a friendly handshake 🤝

The big differences between the two large countries centered on Erdogan's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, a terrorist organization banned in Egypt, Syria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and UAE, but not banned in America.

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#Diplomacy #Egypt #MiddleEast #MuslimBrotherhood #Qatar #Turkey

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🇹🇷 Erdogan and his close relatives have prospered as war profiteers; making money off of stolen oil, factories, and wheat, Steven Sahiounie writes.

#Turkey #Erdogan #WorldOrder #war

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🇸🇾🇷🇺🇹🇷 The Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Syria are due to meet in Moscow. This is the highest level meeting between the two countries who have been on opposite sides of the U.S.-NATO war on Syria for regime change since 2011.

The outcome of that meeting, and the expected follow-up meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, may form the basis for the recovery of Syria, circumventing the UN resolution 2254, which has failed to produce results.

The U.S. has lost the war, but has used armed militias to remain occupying parts of Syria, and to impose a stalemate which prevents a peaceful solution and recovery for Syria. America is no longer the only superpower, and decisions made in the new Middle East no longer depend on orders from the U.S. State Department.

The meetings and realignments between Syria and Turkey, mediated by Russia, may produce lasting changes in the Middle East 🌍✨

💬 Read more by Steven Sahiounie

#Syria #MiddleEast #Turkey #Russia

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