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Tag Archives: Turkey
Historic Justice: A Kurdish State Now
ARUTZ SHEVA by Dr Mordechai Kedar October 23, 2014 The Kurds have a right to independence. Their lack of it until now is an unjust and tragic accident of history. The borders of most of the Arab countries east of the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Balfour Declaration, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey
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Jihadists fight way into centre of Syria border town Kobane
THE AUSTRALIAN by AFP October 14, 2014 JIHADISTS fought their way into central Kobane in heavy clashes with the Syrian border town’s Kurdish defenders, ahead of a Washington meeting of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State group. The breakthrough … Continue reading
Turkey and the Battle for Kobane
WASHINGTON INSTITUTE by Soner Cagaptay October 8, 2014 Turkey’s primary objective in Syria is to oust the Assad regime, so it is unlikely to materially help the besieged enclave without U.S. and Kurdish commitments toward that goal. In the past … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged al-Sham, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq, Kobane, Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK, PYD, Syria, Turkey
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Erdogan Fails to Conquer New York City
NATIONAL REVIEW by Daniel Pipes September 23, 2014 The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, appeared at an hour-long on-the-record event at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York yesterday afternoon. The complete — if not entirely coherent — transcript … Continue reading
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Council on Foreign Relations, Fethullah Gülen, Fitch, Moody's, New York Times, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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Is Islamism compatible with democracy?
THE HILL by James Jeffrey and Soner Cagaptay September 5, 2014 The Aug. 10 election of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the nation’s first directly elected president provides significant new fodder for the Washington debate that started following … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Islamism, Marxism, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey
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Congress goes after ‘frenemies’ Turkey, Qatar
AL MONITOR by Julian Pecquet September 9, 2014 Congress delivered its staunchest warning to date on Sept. 9 that Turkey and Qatar could face financial and other penalties if they continue to support Hamas and other US-designated terrorist organizations. Frustration that … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Hamas, House Foreign Affairs, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Qatar, Ted Poe, Turkey, US Congress
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A Beheading Ends All Illusions About Islam
FRONT PAGE by Daniel Greenfield August 27, 2014 In August 2012, James Foley retweeted a link to a CNN story asking “Right-wing extremist terrorism as deadly a threat as al Qaeda?” The article concluded that indeed it was. Three months later, … Continue reading
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged CNN, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, James Foley, Jihadists, Lebanon, Peter Bergen, Syria, Turkey
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Understanding the Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance
JERUSALEM POST by Caroline Glick August 21, 2014 Hamas’s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors … Continue reading
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Tagged Caroline Glick, Egypt, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey
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