US-Backed Forces Enter Syrian City of Raqqa

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By Bill Van Auken Global Research, June 08, 2017 World Socialist Web Site 7 June 2017   Backed by intense US airstrikes and accompanied by beefed-up contingents of US special operations troops, an armed force dominated by the YPG (People’s Protection Force) Kurdish militia crossed into the eastern sector of the Syrian city of Raqqa […]

Syrian Branch of Al Qaeda Sends Delegation to Turkey. Report

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Delegation of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham By South Front Global Research, May 14, 2017 South Front 13 May 2017 According to the Al Mayadeen satellite television channel, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) has sent a delegation to Turkey to discuss the possible Turkish intervention to the Syrian province of Idlib. […]

Washington Approves Arming Kurdish Forces in Syria, … against Turkey, its NATO Ally

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US Ignores Turkey’s Objections By Press TV Global Research, May 10, 2017 PressTV 9 May 2017 US President Donald Trump has authorized the arming of Kurdish forces in Syria despite fierce opposition from Turkey. The Pentagon made the announcement on Tuesday, stressing that arming the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is to “ensure a clear victory” […]

How Obama and Erdogan Moved ISIS from Iraq to Syria, to Weaken Assad

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By Eric Zuesse Global Research, May 01, 2017 Chris Tomson of Al Masdar News headlined on Monday May 1st, “Syrian Army tank takes direct hit from ISIS guided missile in Deir Ezzor” and reported that, “Currently, government forces are less than 1500 meters from linking up Deir Ezzor city to its airbase,” which would be […]

Turkey’s Kurdish Agenda

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, April 27, 2017 Any doubts that Turkey’s involvement in the conflict against Islamic State is purely symbolic were dispelled by a latest round of air strikes against Kurdish positions in northeast Syria and Iraq’s Sinjar region, killing at least 20 fighters.  (The number from Ankara is a more inflated […]

A Personality Cult that Plays on Popular Fears: How Erdogan Won the Turkish Referendum

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By Prof. Tahir Abbas Global Research, April 23, 2017 Democratic Audit UK 17 April 2017 Turkey has narrowly voted to approve a set of reforms that will place more power in the hands of President Tayip Recep Erdoğan, giving him the ability to appoint judges, abolish the office of prime minister and curtail the role […]

Trump Enthrones Erdogan – Destroys Trust In U.S. Diplomacy

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By Moon of Alabama Global Research, April 19, 2017 Moon of Alabama 18 April 2017 Trump contradicted his speaker, the State Department and his allies by congratulating the Turkish President Erdogan for winning Sunday’s referendum vote. He undermined his diplomacy. Sundays referendum in Turkey makes the presidential office a quasi dictatorial position that leads the […]

Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum Divides Country, Opposition Cries Foul

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By Stephen Lendman Global Research, April 17, 2017 On Sunday, Turks voted on whether to replace its parliamentary system with a presidential one – affording Erdogan virtual dictatorial powers. He can now rule by decree, short of circumventing existing laws. He can declare emergency rule, appoint two vice presidents, ministers and regime officials, as well […]

The Looming End to the Western-Turkish Alliance?

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By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Global Research, April 06, 2017 The growing tension between Turkey and its Western allies, which was further heightened during the Obama administration, is narrowing the space for cooperation between the two sides and in fact is progressively worsening. Erdogan’s hope that he and President Trump would improve their ties as members […]

Erdogan’s War of Words Inciting Terror in Europe

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By Finian Cunningham Only hours after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a bloodcurdling warning about terror attacks against European citizens, four people lay dead on the streets of London. That death toll may rise further because several of those injured in the attack this week in the British capital are in critical condition, fighting for their […]

Erdogan and EU Go Off Rails – a Plague on Both Their Houses

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By Finian Cunningham March 17, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –  “SCF” – The extraordinary war of words erupting between Turkey and the European Union is pushing already strained relations to breaking point. Ankara has banned all Dutch diplomats from its territory after the Netherlands banished Turkish ministers from holding political rallies, while deploying heavy-handed policing to break […]

Turkey’s Tyrannical Rule, Erdogan’s “Democratic Dictatorship”

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By Stephen Lendman Global Research, March 12, 2017 Recep Tayyip Erdogan rules with an iron fist, heading a virtual dictatorship masquerading as democratic. Anyone criticizing or challenging his leadership risks imprisonment, including public figures, journalists, academics, other intellectuals, human rights activists, even young children – on charges ranging from insulting the president to terrorism, espionage […]

Russia -Turkey Diplomatic Rapprochement, A Headache for the EU and US?

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By Michael Werbowski Global Research, March 12, 2017 Ankara and Moscow are doing a diplomatic two step together. Conspicuously left out in the cold in this dancing duo, are two major power blocks which traditionally Turkey considers vital to its security needs: The United States and the European Union. The meetings between the Russian President […]

Turkey Cutting Euphrates River Flow to Syria: Crime against Humanity, Violation of UN Water Convention

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By Alwaght Global Research, February 26, 2017 Alwaght 26 February 2017 Turkey has cut off the Euphrates River flow to Northern Syria, leaving Tishrin dam and its hydropower plant non-operational in Eastern Aleppo to stop operation. According to Hawar news “People in North of Syria particularly in Kobanî canton and Manbij are suffering from cutting […]

Syrian War Report: Al-Qaeda Advances in Daraa as Government Forces Prevail on ISIS near Al-Bab

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By South Front Global Research, February 14, 2017 South Front 13 February 2017 Turkish President Recep Erdogan claimed on Sunday that the Turkish intervention in Syria, dubbed Operation Euphrates Shield, will be continued until Turkish forces liberate the ISIS self-proclaimed capital of Raqqah. Erdogan also confirmed that the Turkish army directly participates in clashes against […]

Between Message and Martyrdom: The World Press Photo of the Year

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By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, February 14, 2017 “Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.”— Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977) The photograph is a still image of messages, trapped fleetingly. For that reason, it has been seen as mimicking death, a mask forever preserved. […]

Turkey’s President Erdogan: A Classic Case of How Power Corrupts

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By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Global Research, February 04, 2017 This is the second in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey and what the future may hold for the country. The first article is available here. Much has been written on the endemic corruption […]

Joint Russian, Turkish Bombing Campaign in Syria Deepens NATO Crisis

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By Bill Van Auken Global Research, January 20, 2017 World Socialist Web Site 20 January 2017 The launching of coordinated air strikes by Russian and Turkish warplanes against Islamic State (ISIS) targets in northern Syria Wednesday has further exposed the crisis gripping Washington’s intervention in the war-ravaged Middle Eastern country, as well as the deepening […]

Erdogan Claims To Have Evidence, Photos, Video Of U.S. Coalition Support For ISIS-Daesh

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By Brandon Turbeville Global Research, January 05, 2017 Activist Post 2 January 2017 Shortly after Christmas, and lost in the holiday shuffle, Turkish President and terrorist supporter Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made a statement accusing the U.S.-led coalition of supporting not only terrorists in Syria but ISIS itself. He also stated clearly that Turkey has proof […]

NATO against NATO? Turkey Lambasts US Role in Supporting ISIS-Daesh in Syria

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Introductory Note by Michel Chossudovsky By Salman Rafi Sheikh Global Research, January 05, 2017 New Eastern Outlook 5 January 2017 Both the US and Turkey support ISIS-Daesh. And now they are accusing one another. From the very outset the recruitment, training and financing of  the terrorists was a joint US-NATO-Turkey operation. According to Israeli intelligence […]

This is the Reason We Don’t Dwell on Turkish Deaths in the West

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If a democratically-elected dictator wants to act as a conduit in a neighbour’s civil war, what does he expect but massacres in his own major cities? By Robert Fisk January 03, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “Independent” –  Turkey is alone. First, we’ll take a look at the racist reasons for this. If 39 men […]

The Geopolitics of Turkey’s About-Face

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By Thierry Meyssan Global Research, January 04, 2017 Voltairenet 3 January 2017 President Vladimir Putin has announced that he has concluded a cease-fire agreement for Syria, with Turkey, which until now has been the main operational support for the jihadists. How may we explain this astonishing turn of events? Will President Erdoğan be able to […]

Russia and Turkey Broker Ceasefire in Syria

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By Bill Van Auken Global Research, December 30, 2016 World Socialist Web Site 30 December 2016 A ceasefire brokered by the governments of Russia and Turkey went into effect at the beginning of Friday, December 30, with the Syrian army announcing that it had “declared a comprehensive cessation of hostilities across all the territories of […]

U.S. Embassy in Turkey Openly Lies About U.S Support to the Kurdish YPG Militia

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By Moon of Alabama Global Research, December 29, 2016 Moon of Alabama 29 December 2016 U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Turkey – December 28 2016 The truth regarding misinformation in Turkish media concerning United States and Coalition operations against ISIL in Syria: There is considerable misinformation circulating in Turkish media concerning U.S. and Coalition operations […]

Aleppo Liberated – Turkey’s Problems Increase

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By Moon Of Alabama December 28, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Moon Of Alabama” – As planned by the Russian forces the liberation of east-Aleppo was completed before Christmas. There are no longer beheadings by Takfiris in East-Aleppo. Instead a Christmas mass could be held in the damaged Elias Cathedral in the Old City in […]

How Iran-Russia-Turkey Dialogue Can Help Solve Syria Crisis

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By Federico Pieraccini Global Research, December 28, 2016 Strategic Culture Foundation 26 December 2016 Mutually agreed points that emerged from the conference: 1. Respect for the territorial integrity of Syria. For Iran and Russia, this is an essential point. Turkey sees the danger of an autonomous Kurdish enclave in Syria as an existential threat. The […]

Erdogan Says he has Evidence US-led Coalition has Given Support to Isis

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The Turkish leader made the claim while talking to reporters in Ankara By Andrew Buncombe December 27, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “The Independent” – The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has uncovered evidence that US-led coalition forces have helped support terrorists in Syria – including Isis. American-led forces have been working alongside Syrian […]

Turkey ‘will never allow’ creation of new state in northern Syria – Erdogan

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan © Brendan McDermid / Reuters The formation of a new state in northern Syria will never be allowed, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during a speech at the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEIK) General Assembly. “We will never allow the founding of this kind of state,” despite all […]

Were “CIA Dirty Hands” Behind Assassination of Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey?

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By Stephen Lendman Global Research, December 23, 2016   Russia’s investigation will get to the bottom of what happened, why and who was responsible. Though unknown at this point, it has the earmarks of a CIA plot to undermine growing Russian/Turkish ties, notably their cooperation in Syria, adversely affecting Washington’s regional imperial agenda. The assassination […]

“Retaliatory Attack”, “Retribution”? Russian Ambassador’s Murder Justified, Even Praised Across the West

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By Ulson Gunnar Global Research, December 23, 2016 New Eastern Outlook 23 December 2016 In the week leading up to the brazen, cold-blooded murder of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov in Ankara, Turkey, the United States repeatedly and publicly threatened “retaliation” against Russia for allegedly “hacking” the 2016 US presidential elections. During the same week, Syrian forces backed […]

Who Was Behind the Assassination of The Russian Ambassador to Turkey?

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By Christopher Black Global Research, December 22, 2016 New Eastern Outlook 22 December 2016 The bullets of an assassin shook the world on Monday. Shot from behind by a former Turkish police officer, at an art gallery in Ankara, right across the street from the US embassy, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, a […]

Who Profits from Turkey’s ‘Sarajevo Moment’?

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By Pepe Escobar December 21, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – Let’s cut to the chase: Ankara 2016 is not Sarajevo 1914. This is not a prelude to WWIII. Whoever plotted the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov – a cool, calm, collected old-school diplomat – risks a mighty blowback. The assassin, Mevlut […]

You can’t kill ambassadors

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The brutal killing of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov in Ankara was committed the day when Russian President Putin was going to attend “Woe from Wit” at Moscow’s Maly Theater – the spectacle based on the great play by Alexander Griboyedov. Griboyedov was a writer, musician and diplomat of the highest rank, who […]

Gunman Kills Russian Ambassador to Turkey in Ankara:

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Video A gunman assassinated Russia’s ambassador to Turkey during a gallery opening in the capital, an act that Russian officials called an act of terror and that appeared to be aimed as retribution for the Kremlin’s role in bloodshed in neighboring Syria. A video taken of the event shows Ambassador Andrey Karlov at the podium […]

Erdogan’s Hard Times in Syria, Pressured to Backtrack by Putin

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By South Front Global Research, December 04, 2016 South Front 3 December 2016 On November 29, he publicly announced that Turkey had launched its operations in Syria to end the rule of “the tyrant al-Assad“: The Turkish military launched its operations in Syria to end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Nov. […]

Turkey starts subtle game to overthrow Assad’s regime

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AP photo Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, speaking at a symposium in Istanbul, stated that the Turkish army launched a military operation in Syria to end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “We are there to restore justice. We entered Syria to put an end to the rule of tyrant Assad, who started state […]

Video: Syrian Army and Kurdish YPG Attack Turkey-led Forces East of Aleppo

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By South Front Global Research, November 30, 2016 South Front On November 28, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda) and its allies officially surrendered the western Ghouta towns of Khan al-Shih and Zakiyah to government forces. In total about 3,000 militants and civilians were set to be evacuated to Idlib […]

Syrian War Threatens to Escalate as Turkey Accuses Damascus of Attacking its Troops

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Turkey’s Prime Minister and armed forces both accused the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad Thursday of conducting an airstrike on Turkish troops in the vicinity of al-Bab in the country’s north, resulting in three casualties. The incident threatens to escalate already sharp tensions between Ankara and Damascus into all-out war, posing the very real risk […]

Invasion of Syria by NATO Member State: Turkey Establishes Second Military Base in Syria.

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By South Front Global Research, November 23, 2016 South Front Turkey has set up a military base in Akhtarin in the province of Aleppo, according to local media activists. The Turkish army, Special Forces and intelligence agencies are expanding their presence in northern Syria amid ongoing clashes between pro-Turkey militant groups and the SDF over […]

Erdogan Is Out of Touch With Reality

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By President Bashar al-Assad November 15, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel. Following is the full text; Question 1: Mr. President, let’s start with Aleppo if you don’t mind. There are still thousands of civilians trapped, trying to survive in a sort of sub-human conditions […]

The U.S./Turkey Plan for “Seizing, Holding, and Occupying” Syrian Territory In Raqqa

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By Brandon Turbeville Global Research, November 11, 2016 The Official Brandon Turbeville Website 9 November 2016 As the U.S. Presidential selection circus draws to a close, the United States and Turkey have announced a new plan to defeat ISIS, the same terrorist organization both countries have created, funded, armed, and facilitated, in Syria. The plan […]