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26Feb

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At US behest Turkey reboots Syrian war

NOVANEWS By M K Bhadrakumar Turkey has decided to pick up a quarrel with Iran. It all began with President Recep Erdogan’s sudden outburst on February 14 in the first leg of a regional tour of Gulf States – Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — when he said, “Some people want both Iraq and Syria to be divided. There are some that are working hard to divide Iraq. There is a sectarian struggle, a Persian nationalism at work there. This Persian nationalism is trying to divide the country. We need to block this effort.” Tehran hit back by accusing Turkey of supporting terrorist organizations “to destabilize neighbouring countries.” And there has been much back and forth in mutual recriminations since then. The spat makes a mockery of the “trilateral alliance” between Russia, Turkey and Iran tha...

24Feb

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Turkey

Turkey Poses a Bigger Threat to Syria than ISIS

NOVANEWS By Adam Garrie The Duran Reports that ISIS have been defeated in al-Bab may superficially being joy to many readers. But the reality is far from good. In scoring a strategically important victory against ISIS, Turkey and its band of jihadists called the Free Syrian Army have replaced a barbaric terrorist group who seeks the death of the Syrian Arab Republic with the second largest army in NATO, complete with a modern air force. Turkey like ISIS, seek the destruction of the Syrian Arab Republic, one way or another. They are illegally occupying the territory of Syria. One illegal occupier has been replaced by another, vastly more powerful occupier.Crucially, the Turks didn’t even kill most of the ISIS fighters, instead allowing them to peacefully leave al-Bab. Added...

14Feb

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General İsmail Hakkı Pekin: the next war will take place in Turkey

NOVANEWS In a series of editorials in the daily newspaper, Aydınlık, General İsmail Hakkı Pekin, the former director of Intelligence, has announced that Turkey’s survival [as a nation state] is under direct threat. Those that engineer chaos in the Middle East are getting ready to kick-start [yet] another war in Turkey. The General, who had been arrested in the Ergenekon affair, has asked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to forgo, in these circumstances, the referendum for Constitutional reform that he had announced. In the General’s opinion, to ensure Turkey’s survival, national unity must be preserved by entering into an alliance with Russia, Iran and Syria.

7Feb

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Turkey Detains 400 Islamic State Group Suspects in Mass Roundup

NOVANEWS A street vendor sells traditional Turkish bagels, simit, outside the historical Grand Bazaar in Istanbul. | Photo: Reuters The largest operation targeting Islamic State group suspects in the country comes weeks after an attack on an Istanbul New Year's party killed 39 people. Turkish police detained on Sunday some 400 suspected members of Islamic State group in anti-terror raids in six provinces, state media said, the biggest roundup to target the organization in Turkey. Those held were mainly foreign nationals, Anadolu news agency said. At least 60 suspects were detained in the capital Ankara, while 150 were arrested in Sanliurfa province near the Syrian border. Thirty-nine people, mainly foreigners, were killed at New Year when an Islamic State group me...

22Jan

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Could Turkey swing over to the Russian camp?

NOVANEWS by Thierry Meyssan Even though, historically, Russia has a weighty past with Turkey, and even though it has not forgotten the personal rôle played by current President Erdoğan, to its detriment, during the the first Chechen war, it can not fail to be interested by the possibility of Ankara leaving NATO. On the other hand, the deep US state, which continues to pursue its imperial ambitions despite the election of Donald Trump, is ready to do whatever it takes to keep Turkey in the Atlantic Alliance. What John Kerry does in daylight, Victoria Nuland undoes at night. In order to guarantee his personal survival, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has launched a vast purge of all the pro-US elements in his country — a purge which he must add to the combats in which he i...

14Jan

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Turkey Moves to Expand Erdogan’s Powers, but Not Without Brawl

NOVANEWS Lawmakers from ruling AK Party and the main opposition CHP scuffle during a debate on the proposed constitutional changes at the Turkish Parliament in Ankara. | Photo: Reuters. Despite the clashes, 3 articles of the 18-article bill were approved. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian exercise of power, especially in the last year, and his desire to expand these powers made some gains Thursday — but not without a physical brawl in parliament. RELATED: Turkey Detains 235 After Bombings as Erdogan Seeks More Power Turkish lawmakers in parliament threw punches overnight as they debated a new constitutional reform package proposed last month that seeks to expand the powers of President Erdogan. The opposition CHP and pro-Kurdish HDP fear the reform ...

13Jan

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Turkey’s about-face

NOVANEWS by Thierry Meyssan 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 turn his country away from the influence of the United States and towards that of Russia? What are the causes and the consequences of this dramatic reversal? Turkey is a member of NATO, an ally of Saudi Arabia, a patron of international jihadism since the hospitalisation of prince Bandar ben Sultan in 2012, and godfather of the Muslim Brotherhood since the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi and the quarrel between Doha and Riyad in 2013-14. Besides this, it attacked Russia in November 2015, des...

13Jan

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Could Turkey swing over to the Russian camp?

NOVANEWS by Thierry Meyssan Even though, historically, Russia has a weighty past with Turkey, and even though it has not forgotten the personal rôle played by current President Erdoğan, to its detriment, during the the first Chechen war, it can not fail to be interested by the possibility of Ankara leaving NATO. On the other hand, the deep US state, which continues to pursue its imperial ambitions despite the election of Donald Trump, is ready to do whatever it takes to keep Turkey in the Atlantic Alliance. What John Kerry does in daylight, Victoria Nuland undoes at night. In order to guarantee his personal survival, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has launched a vast purge of all the pro-US elements in his country — a purge which he must add to the combats in which he is alrea...

9Jan

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Turkey agrees to pull back troops from Iraq, proof of foreign policy shift

NOVANEWS By Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor Iranian official welcomes Turkey’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Iraq … from Press TV, Tehran Putin and Erdogan talking turkey in 2016 [ Editor’s Note: VT has been watching the shifting Turkish foreign policy claims with a skeptical eye based on Erdogan’s history. As we have often said, “watch what he does, not so much what he says”. His showing up in the tripartite ceasefire effort with Russia and Iran where Syria’s territorial sovereignty was a major highlight showed us that a major shift was in play, with Putin’s hand at the helm. Mr. Erdogan was not our source, but we read into this that Russia’s consistent foreign policy position of being against all unconstitutional regime change made it hard to be close to Ankara after E...

6Jan

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Turkish Officials Say American TOWs are Hurting Them Big Time

NOVANEWS By Martin Berger It came as a big surprise that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently labeled members of the US-led coalition as promise breakers and supporters of terrorists. According to the Turkish leader, this coalition provides support to various terrorist groups, including ISIS, YPG, PYD and Ankara has the evidence to back up that claim. But what exactly offended Ankara so much? Over the past few days, Turkey has been suffering extremely painful defeats from the Islamic State in the Syrian city of Al-Bab. Previously the troops employed in the Euphrates Shield operation successfully taken western suburbs of Al-Bab were planning to occupy the heights overlooking the city. However, ten days ago the “shield” cracked, when ISIS units opposed Turkish troops in a f...