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Biden snubs two NATO allies for ‘democracy’ summit

25Mar

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Hungary, NATO, Turkey, USA

Biden snubs two NATO allies for ‘democracy’ summit

Türkiye and Hungary have yet to approve Sweden’s and Finland’s bids to join the US-led military bloc Biden at the 2021 Summit for Democracy © AFP / Saul Loeb The administration of US President Joe Biden has left NATO allies Türkiye and Hungary off the invite list for next week’s Summit for Democracy, Foreign Policy magazine reported on Thursday, citing three US officials familiar with the decision. The two countries were also snubbed from last year’s inaugural rendition of the summit, an event that, despite being held only twice, Biden has lauded as one of his signature foreign policy achievements. A State Department official confirmed that all participants in the 2021 summit had received an invitation for this year’s event, plus some ad...

Erdogan Signs Decree To Hold General Elections on May 14

24Mar

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Turkey

Erdogan Signs Decree To Hold General Elections on May 14

by teleSUR Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) has ruled Türkiye since 2002. Türkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday signed a decree on holding presidential and parliamentary elections in Türkiye on May 14. RELATED:Survivors Seek Refuge in Ankara for Post-Quake New Life "With the authority vested in me by Article 116 of our Constitution, I signed on May 14 the decree for the renewal of the elections, which were scheduled to be held on June 18, 2023," Erdogan said. According to the President, "once the decree is published in the official state gazette, the electoral process begins." The Türkish people will elect the President, as well as the 600 deputies of the Parliament. The earthquakes of last February 6 which "directly affected 14 million citi...

US plans in eastern Syria to obstruct Russia’s endeavors for a Syrian-Turkish rapprochement

23Mar

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Russia, Syria, Turkey, USA

US plans in eastern Syria to obstruct Russia’s endeavors for a Syrian-Turkish rapprochement

Posted by: John Phoenix A political race on the doorstep of Damascus.. The race did not start today, but it has definitely become more frantic than ever before. While Iran and Russia managed to break the political ice between Turkey and Syria, Saudi Arabia is seeking, through the UAE and Egypt, to reach an understanding with the Syrian government in order to return Syria to its natural Arab place to reduce Turkey’s influence and to restore Saudi’s influence in the region as well. Perhaps the most important reason for this change was the tour of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Gulf countries in March 2021, where he showed these countries that if they really fear Turkish and Iranian expansion in Syria, then they must offer support as an alternative to Iranian supp...

Resurfaced videos from 2019 shows Turkish president bragging about builders skirting earthquake construction codes in areas now turned to rubble

11Mar

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Turkey

Resurfaced videos from 2019 shows Turkish president bragging about builders skirting earthquake construction codes in areas now turned to rubble

Mia Jankowicz Grieving relatives embrace as rescuers work to extract the bodies of a father and son from under the rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Hatay, Turkey, February 14, 2023. Footage emerged of Turkey's president promoting a policy that weakened building standards, per local media. Ahead of 2019 elections, Erdoğan boasted of how the policy helped hundreds of thousands of people. At least 70,000 buildings in areas where last week's earthquake struck used the policy, experts say. For you: Insider Today newsletter — the day's most fascinating stories.Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Resu...

Why Russia may control Turkey’s Nuclear Energy for the next 80 years

25Feb

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Russia, Turkey

Why Russia may control Turkey’s Nuclear Energy for the next 80 years

By: Fabio G. C. Carisio On the cover image an inner compartment shell is being installed at the first unit of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant in January 2022 in Turkey. The Akkuyu plant will include four Russian-designed VVER-1200 reactors built, owned, and operated by Rosatom, Russia’s state-controlled nuclear energy company. (Image Akkuyu Nuclear / François Diaz-Maurin) All links to Gospa News articles have been added aftermath for relevance to the topics covered by Ali Alkis, Valeriia Gergiieva – originally published on The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists In May 2023, Turkey’s first nuclear reactor will receive its first fresh fuel. The Akkuyu nuclear power plant—which includes four units of Russian-designed VVER-1200 reactors—is expected ...

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror?

24Feb

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Syria, Turkey

Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Is This An Act of Terror?

By Peter Koenig Global Research, Author’s Update The conclusion of “No Evidence So Far” in the title referred to the strong suspicion that this horrendous quake was the result of an ENMOD engineered disaster. (Environmental Modification Techniques). Up to this day it killed more than 48,000 people, injured more than half a million, and still tens of thousands are missing. Will there ever be justice? Will the presumed perpetrators be brought to trial? The “no evidence” statement is wearing thinner and thinner, especially, when listening to Serdar Hussein, the Head of the Turkish Space Agency talking on Russian TV. He uses hyperbolic emblematic speech, when talking about the hard titanium alloy material being launche...

Power of Türkiye-Syria quakes measured in nuclear bombs

12Feb

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Syria, Turkey

Power of Türkiye-Syria quakes measured in nuclear bombs

The death toll from the disaster is approaching 24,500, according to Turkish and Syrian data Rescue teams carrying out search operations among the rubble of collapsed buildings in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaras. © AFP / Ozan Kose The power of this week’s Türkiye-Syria earthquakes was equivalent to 500 atomic explosions, the risk reduction general manager at the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has said. The first quake on Monday lasted 65 seconds, while the second went on for 45 seconds, Tatar told journalists on Saturday. “The energy freed by the two earthquakes equaled the energy of 500 nuclear bombs,” Orhan Tatar said. The tremors were followed by more than 2,000 aftershocks throughout the week, which are still contin...

Türkiye and Russia developing new payment system

11Feb

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Russia, Turkey

Türkiye and Russia developing new payment system

An alternative to Russia’s Mir could be developed by summer, an ambassador announced © Getty Images/Westend61 Moscow and Ankara are working on an alternative to replace the Russian payment system Mir after the US threatened Türkiye with sanctions for servicing its cards, Russia’s ambassador there, Aleksey Yerkhov, said on Thursday. Mir was developed by the Central Bank of Russia in 2014 as a domestic alternative to Visa and Mastercard, after the first round of sanctions had been imposed on Moscow. Mir cards had been accepted in Türkiye, Vietnam, Armenia, South Korea, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. Five Turkish banks adopted the Mir payments network in early August 2022, which allowed Russian tourists to pay ...

Over 20,000 dead from Türkiye-Syria earthquakes

10Feb

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Syria, Turkey

Over 20,000 dead from Türkiye-Syria earthquakes

The odds of finding more survivors are dwindling with the passage of time and cold temperatures The Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, devastated by the catastrophic earthquakes, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. © IHA via AP More than 20,000 people have lost their lives and almost 80,000 have been injured from the series of catastrophic earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria beginning on Monday, according to the latest official figures. Meanwhile, tens of thousands have been left homeless in the winter cold. On Thursday evening, the Turkish Health Ministry updated the death toll to 17,406, with 71,866 people with documented injuries from the quakes. Syrian authorities put the number of dead at 1,347, while the Western-backed rebels claimed almost 1,800...

10Feb

By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments

Syria, Turkey

Over 20,000 dead from Türkiye-Syria earthquakes

The odds of finding more survivors are dwindling with the passage of time and cold temperatures The Turkish city of Kahramanmaras, devastated by the catastrophic earthquakes, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. © IHA via AP More than 20,000 people have lost their lives and almost 80,000 have been injured from the series of catastrophic earthquakes that struck southern Türkiye and northern Syria beginning on Monday, according to the latest official figures. Meanwhile, tens of thousands have been left homeless in the winter cold. On Thursday evening, the Turkish Health Ministry updated the death toll to 17,406, with 71,866 people with documented injuries from the quakes. Syrian authorities put the number of dead at 1,347, while the Western-backed rebels claimed almost 1,800...