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Re-Colonisation

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 15 January 2019

For Thierry Meyssan, one of the consequences of the successive ends of the bipolar and unipolar world is the re-establishment of colonial projects. One after the other, the French, Turkish and English have publicly declared the return of their colonial ambitions. We still need to know what form (...)

Unesco presented with a complaint against France and Turkey

14 December 2018

The Syrian Arab Republic has filed a complaint with UNESCO (the UN body dealing with Education, Science and Culture) against France and Turkey, charging them with looting cultural assets belonging to the Syrian people.
Specifically, the complaint alleges that the French and Turkish armies (...)

Ceremony marking the completion of TurkStream gas pipeline’s offshore section

by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Vladimir Putin

19 November 2018

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (retranslated): Mr President of the Russian Federation, my friend Vladimir Putin. Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you from the bottom of my heart, with love and respect.
First of all, I would like to address the President of the Russian Federation, Mr (...)

What is not being said about the quadrilateral summit on Syria

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 30 October 2018

The quadrilateral summit in Istanbul on Syria has endorsed the political advances of Russia, but has decided nothing. Moscow gave its Turkish, French and German partners a lesson on the situation. The allies of Washington are having a hard time digesting their defeat and drawing its (...)

Kuwait calls on Turkey to set up a military base on Kuwaiti territory

19 October 2018

The recent voyage to Kuwait of Saudi Crown Prince, Mohamed ben Salmane, has
deeply troubled Kuwait’s leaders.
During his visit, the Crown Prince proposed establishing borders between
the two countries by annexing oil fields (Khafji and Wafra) which have
barely been exploited.
This is exactly (...)

Stop the Turkish and international crime against Ocalan

by Savvas Kalèndéridès

Athens (Greece) | 9 October 2018

20 years ago, the Kurds of Anatolia were struggling for the recognition of their culture by Turkey. Their leader, Abdullah Ocalan, first of all found refuge in Damascus, close to Hafez el-Assad, but was then kidnapped by Israël and Turkey after an international chase. He is still being held in a (...)

The battle of Idleb is pushed back

22 September 2018

The Russian and Turkish Presidents met at Sochi, on 17 September 2018.
After their previous meeting on 7 September in Teheran, Russia has hardened its tone. For the first time, it recalled the illegal nature of the Turkish military presence in Idleb, emphasizing that this would have to stop. (...)

Memorandum on Stabilization of the Situation in the Idlib De-escalation Area

Sochi (Russia) | 17 September 2018

The Republic of Turkey and the Russian Federation, as guarantors of the observance of the ceasefire regime in the Syrian Arab Republic,
– guided by memorandum on creation of de-escalation areas in the Syrian Arab Republic as of May 4, 2017 and arrangements achieved in the Astana Process
– in (...)

Turkish Journalist Ayten Öztürk is kidnapped in Lebanon by Turkish CIA

17 September 2018

On 9 March 2018, the Lebanese police arrested the Turkish citizen Ayten Öztürk at the international airport Rafiq Hariri (Beirut, Lebanon), when she was making her way to Greece.
On 13 March, the Minister for Home Affairs, Nohad Machnouk, secretly referred her to the Turkish equivalent of the (...)

Turkey declares that it has kidnapped one of the terrorists responsible for the attack on Reyhanlı

14 September 2018

On 11 May 2013, two cars that had been wired, exploded in Turkey at Reyhanlı (which borders with Syria), causing 51 fatalities and leaving 140 people injured. The Turkish government immediately accused Syria of organizing the attack and the AKP organized pogroms in the city against Syrian (...)

«The World Must Stop Assad»

by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Ankara (Turkey) | 11 September 2018

Across Turkey’s southern border, Bashar Assad’s criminal regime has for seven years targeted Syria’s citizens with arbitrary arrests, systematic torture, summary executions, barrel bombs, and chemical and conventional weapons. As a result of the Syrian civil war, which the United Nations Human (...)

Turkey Forces Turkish Jewish and Christian Churches to Sign Declaration

17 August 2018

The Turkish government has forced the leaders of 18 Jewish and Christian churches to sign a declaration attesting to enjoying religious freedom. Among the signatories are Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, Armenian Bishop Aram Ateşyan and Chief Rabbi Ishak Haleva.
This statement was (...)

Turkey’s botched attempt to kidnap one of its nationals from Mongolia

1 August 2018

The Turkish Secret Service, the MIT (the Turkish acronym for Millî İstihbarat Teşkilatı) made an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap a Turkish citizen in Mongolia.
Considered by the MIT as connected to the preacher Fethullah Gülen, Professor Veysel Akçay had been kidnapped at the entrance of the school (...)

Erdogan puts an end to two years of emergency rule

20 July 2018

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that the state of emergency be lifted.
Following the attempted assassination on Erdogan organized by the CIA and the subsequent military coup on 15 July 2018, a state of emergency was declared. This was supposed to sunset in three months but was (...)

The Coronation of “Sultan” Erdoğan

13 July 2018

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has assumed his new functions as President of the Republic of Turkey. These duties are new for two reasons. First because he’s been re-elected and second, because from now on, Turkey’s new constitution will apply which grants him new prerogatives.
At the end of a sumptuous (...)

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