On the Ground in Syria: Terrorist groups, Turkish threats & Russian overtures
Ibrahim Mohammad Wahdi Turkish threats of a wide-scale military operation in northern Syria and a Syrian-Kurdish approach under Russian auspices, while al-Julani continues his plan to control Idlib. *...
Erdogan & Putin’s Moscow Meeting
Eric Zuesse On Thursday, March 5th, Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan met privately with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, as to arrange a face-saving way for Erdogan finally to...
Could Ankara’s temper tantrum lead to escalation in Syria?
Andre Vltchek So far Turkey, militarily the second mightiest NATO country, has been able to get away with virtually anything it has chosen to brew in the Middle East....
DISCUSS: Trump pulling US forces out of Syria?
Kit Knightly Donald Trump, the elected President of the United States of America, is going to keep a campaign promise. Maybe. Three years after winning office, largely on his...
Evidence Shows Kurds Have Received MANPADS and TOWs
by Adel Karim According to Al-Masdar, as part of a bargain struck on 15 January 2018, Kurdish YPG have received a shipment of MANPADS and TOWs from the United States...
Is The U.S. Behind Fethullah Gulen?
by Dani Rodrik Whenever I talk with another Turk about the Gulen movement, a question invariably props up: is the CIA behind Gulen? In fact for most Turks this...
The Power of “Nyet”
by Dmitry Orlov, July 27, 2016 The way things are supposed to work on this planet is like this: in the United States, the power structures (public and private)...
“Gulen-Gate” Islamic Terrorists at the Democratic National Convention
by GH Eliason Why are known terrorists at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia? Doesn’t the Secret Service vet people that are in the same building as the President...
What is Fethulla Gülen?
by F. William Engdahl, for NEO Since the failed coup attempt in Turkey of July 15 there has been much speculation in western media that it in fact was...
Thoughts on the Coup Attempt in Turkey
by Patrick Armstrong There is still a lot that is murky about it, the most murky being US involvement and foreknowledge, but I believe some conclusions can be drawn....
Post-failed-coup geopolitics of the Turkish situation
by George Ades After the “chilling” of relations between Russia and Turkey following the downing of the Russian jet over Syria, Turkey suffered the effects of an economic embargo...
Erdogan To Lead NATO Challenge Against Russia on Black Sea?
May 18, 2016 (EIRNS) While attention has been focused on NATO provocations in the Baltic, the Black Sea — thanks to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — could become...
Saudi Arabia’s Dictator Demands Regime-Change in Syria — Otherwise WW III
by Eric Zuesse As has been recently reported, many experts on international relations are saying that the danger of a nuclear war between NATO and Russia is greater now than it...
Angry Erdogan to US: “You are either beside us, or all of these terrorist organizations”
RT reports: In an angry tirade starting with “Ey America!” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Washington of causing the bloodbath in Syria by not recognizing the Kurdish...
Why the West Can Never Defeat or “Forgive” Russia
by Andre Vltchek, for New Eastern Outlook Historically and intuitively, Russia has fought for the survival of humanity. Of course, things are not always pronounced or defined in such...
Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha
by James Petras, Get Smart, December 16, 2016 What Makes Recep Run? The Making of a Modern Pasha Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition...
Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire
by Eric Zuesse An official announcement from the world’s leading, and most fundamentalistic, Sunni Islamic nation, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday December 15th, has introduced a Sunni-Islamic counterpart to NATO,...
What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung
by F. William Engdahl, December 8, 2015 In recent weeks one nation after another is falling over themselves, literally, to join the turkey shoot known, erroneously, as the war...
A Sultanate of Kitsch: The Gezi Park Protests, Islamic Revival and Ottoman Nostalgia
by Can Erimtan, New Eastern Outlook The world is now taking notice of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (or AKP) and its policies towards neighbouring Syria and Iraq,...
But Ankara, we got a (huge) problem
by Pepe Escobar Originally published as What’s Erdogan’s Game in Syria and Turkey, December 7, 2015 The — predictable — reaction across the West over the Russian Defense Ministry’s...
