Assessing the Fatalities in Turkey’s PKK Conflict Crisis Group – Oct 21, 3:00 PM Turkey’s ruling party sees recent battlefield and electoral gains as vindicating its hardline policies toward the PKK. But these same policies fuel the Kurdish grievances that keep the fighting going. Ankara would thus be wise to consider exploring Trump is ‘fully prepared’ … Read more
Turkey Rejects U.S. Call for Immediate Cease-Fire in Syria Wall Street Journal – David Gauthier-Villars – Oct 16, 2:54 AM ISTANBUL—Turkey rejected a U.S. call for an immediate cease-fire in northeast Syria, pressing ahead with its military offensive as senior Trump administration officials rushed to Ankara to try to resolve fighting triggered by the withdrawal Halkbank … Read more
Turkish Bank Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Its Participation In A Multibillion-Dollar Iranian Sanctions Evasion Scheme Department of Justice – Oct 15, 1:41 PM Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant … Read more
Turkey Syria offensive: 100,000 flee homes as assault continues BBC News | Europe | World Edition The UN says thousands of people are sheltering in schools as pressure mounts on Turkey to halt the attack. Kurdish politician among nine civilians shot dead by pro-Turkey forces in Syria World news: Turkey by Martin Chulov and Mohammed Rasool in … Read more
via Confirmed: Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram restricted in parts of southern #Turkey; real-time network data show social media now blocked in Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa and Hatay by TTNet amid #PeaceSpring military operations into northern Syria 📉 📰 https://t.co/zx4QGrE56B pic.twitter.com/jAO9YtM8vq — NetBlocks (@netblocks) October 11, 2019 Arrest News in Turkish here From EU to Erdoğan: We … Read more
Turkish troops launch offensive into northern Syria, says Erdogan BBC News | Europe | World Edition The incursion announced by President Erdogan is to target Kurdish militias and create a “safe zone”. Exclusive: Official Who Heard Call Says Trump Got ‘Rolled’ By Turkey and ‘Has No Spine Newsweek – James LaPorta – Oct 7, 11:16 AM … Read more
The U.S. Is Now Betraying the Kurds for the Eighth Time The Intercept / The White House announced Sunday night that the United States is giving Turkey a green light to invade northern Syria, with U.S. removes Turkey from air tasking order in Syria | Ahval When ‘Get Out’ Is a President’s National Security Strategy … Read more
Another English case: I SPEECH KÜRSÜ??? pic.twitter.com/6sQkY5tDN8 — attorney at love (@allegrande) September 24, 2019 Turkey Now the Only G20 Country Not Ratifying Paris Agreement Bianet :: English As Russia has signed the act ratifying Russia’s participation in Paris Agreement, Turkey is now the only G20 country which Will you pay for me too?’: Putin … Read more
Erdoğan’s ‘Uniting Ummah’ event in New York divided U.S. Muslim leaders | | Ahval AMP Project This story has been updated by expert’s comments in the eighth and ninth paragraphs. Two leaders of the American Muslim community said on Friday that their names had been added as guests to a flier printed for the Turkish … Read more
U.S. Formally Cancels Sale of Fighter Jets to Turkey, a NATO Ally NYT > Turkey Turkey, whose purchase of a Russian missile system has created friction, called the Trump administration’s move a “mistake Trump declines to criticise Turkey’s Russia missile purchase Al Jazeera English (In Depth) The US president takes a softer line against the … Read more
Let’s see if the US authorities just bluffed or they can start kinds of sanctions despite Trump… Russian missile delivery to Turkey strains ally’s relations with US World news: Turkeyby Bethan McKernan First S-400 parts delivered to military base outside Ankara as Washington considers sanctions First shipment of Russian S-400 systems delivered to Turkey Al Jazeera English … Read more
Erdoğan: It Will Be Called Seizure If U.S. Doesn’t Deliver F-35s to Turkey Bianet :: English President and ruling AKP Chair Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated that if the U.S. does not deliver the F-35 fighter jets to Erdogan: US scrapping F-35 jet deal with Turkey would be robbery Ankara faces new strains in US … Read more
What I understand is that Trump is the only person who prevents any substantive measures to be taken against Turkey, or more specifically Erdoğan regime, in the context of S-400 crisis. Hence comes the Trump love among the AKP elites… However, since Trump is not always predictable who knows what may happen next… Think tank offers … Read more
US House of Representatives Calls Turkey to Cancel S-400 Purchase Bianet :: English While the House approved a bill that calls Turkey to choose between the S-400 and the F-35, pilots from Turkey has been barred from accessing the aircraft, according to the US media. U.S. House unanimously urges Turkey to cancel S-400 deal | Ahval … Read more
Pentagon Chief to Suspend Turkey’s F-35 Pilot Training Foreign Policy – Lara Seligman – Jun 6, 11:15 PM Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is taking significant steps toward cutting Turkey out of the F-35 fighter jet program over concerns about Ankara’s plans to purchase a Russian missile system, telling his Turkish counterpart that … Read more