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Austria against political manipulation of Islam

11 June 2018

Enforcing the law on Islam adopted in Feb 2015, the Austrian Minister for Internal Affairs (to the right in the photo) has proceeded to close down 7 mosques and to expel 40 Imams (some of the 260 Imams that are present in the country).
Specifically, the Austrian authorities have reproached (...)

Greece: a State of Rule of Law, Turkey: a Gangster State

by Savvas Kalèndéridès

Athens (Greece) | 6 May 2018

Arrest of Musa Alerik
On May 2, 2018, a Turkish citizen named Musa Alerik, a worker in the municipality of Adrianople, passed by mistake into the Greek territory, in the area of Kastanies, and so got arrested by the guard of the nearby outpost.
The impression immediately created was (...)

Joint Statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey on Syria

Moscow (Russia) | 28 April 2018

The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Turkey, as guarantors of the observance of the ceasefire regime in Syria, held the second meeting in Moscow on 28 April 2018. They discussed the development of the situation in and (...)

Ankara and Washington Starting to lose their cool

23 April 2018

Following attempts to assassinate President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (one of
which culminated in the attempted coup d’etat in July 2016), the tone of
the dialogue between Washington and Ankara has been cranked up.
Turkey is detaining an evangelical US pastor, Andrew Brunson, who has
affixed himself (...)

According to Ankara: 80 Turkish nationals were not kidnapped but “bundled up”

7 April 2018

On 5 April 2018, Bekir Bozdağ, the Turkish Vice President, made a guest appearance on television Habertürk to address the kidnappings that had taken place in Kosovo [1]. He declared that the Turkish Secret Services (MİT) succeeded in “catching” 80 individuals in 18 countries.
Mr Bozdağ, who had in (...)

Erdoğan forces the Prime Minister of Kosovo to retain his Head of Secret Services

7 April 2018

On 31 March 2018, intervening in the AKP’s regional congress at Ümraniye, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened to force Kosovo’s Prime Minister to resign.
Turkish Secret Services (Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı — MIT) kidnapped in Kosovo five Turkish professors and a Turkish doctor accused of being (...)

Turkey publishes the whereabouts of five secret military bases in Syria that belong to France

2 April 2018

The Turkish Press Agency, Anadolu Agency, has published a map of five secret military bases in Syria belonging to France (see above part of this map pinpointing with the French flag four of these bases). One of these bases is the cement factory of the transnational group, Lafarge-Holcim, which (...)

Paris’s support for terrorists triggers a stern warning from Ankara

1 April 2018

On 30 March 2018, following President Macron’s meeting with a PYD delegation, the party of the Kurds in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a violent speech in which he issued a warning to France.
According to the Elysée, President Emmanuel Macron received a delegation from the DFS (...)

Général Başbuğ: once Ocalan was jailed, the US took over as the controlling mind of the PKK

16 March 2018

During his stay in Washington, during which he participated in several conferences, the former Turkish Chief of Staff, General İlker Başbuğ, made the following bold declaration: in his opinion, the United States and Israel had arrested Abdullah Ocalan in 1999 so they could take control of the PKK, (...)

Turkey announces its preparations for invading Greece

23 February 2018

On 17 February President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered a speech on Operation Olive Branch (the current invasion of Syria by the Turkish army) at the Provincial Congress of Eskişehir of the AKP. He declared the following:
“Those who think that we have erased from our hearts the lands of from (...)

Relaxing entry clearance for Turkish nationals: Turkey delivers its case to the European Commission

8 February 2018

The Turkish government has sent to the European Commission its file aimed at relaxing the regime for granting European visas to its citizens.
During the migrant crisis, Turkey agreed to cooperate with the EU on the condition that the EU made it easier to Turkish nationals to be granted a visa. (...)

US secrets, lies and confusion in the North of Syria

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 23 January 2018

The announcements and denials of the Trump administration concerning military developments in the North of Syria reveal a heavy secret. Paradoxically, Turkey has come to the assistance of the United States to correct « the error » of their superior (...)

Turkish army enters Syria

22 January 2018

20 January 2018, 14.00 hrs: the Turkish army has officially entered Syria on in the context of operation “Olive Branch”.
The battles had actually begun the night before but only with shells from Turkey against Kurdish forces under US command. The Turkish Minister for Defense (Nurettin Canikli), (...)

Erdoğan denounces the US’s preparation for a regime change in Turkey

22 January 2018

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan considers that establishing a Military Force, formed of members of two terrorist organizations (the YPG and Daesh) under US command, based at the Turkish border, can only mean one thing: a plan to invade Turkey. Accordingly he has denounced it as the US preparing (...)

The French Plan to recognize “Rojava”

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 11 January 2018

The discussion in France on where the French jihadists captured in Syria would be judged, is a clear example of a false debate. It is animated by a television presenter and journalist that hide their links to their listeners. The issue of where jihadists of French nationality will be tried is (...)

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