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- Aug 2008
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- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
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- Aug 2008
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- The zero meridian
- Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma Franchise
- Bahlsen Choco Leibniz Dark
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42603843
Not sure where to post this but Deniz Naki has survived an apparent assassination attempt.
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Yugoslav agents once shot a Croatian dissident in the same street as my piano teacher in the late 80s. Got shot in the chest and mouth, but survived. Whole thing seemed unbelievably sloppy when the details of the shooting emerged. This doesn’t look like the Turks put their Top Men on this one either.
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The kind of thing that Spoony notes used to happen all too often in emigre Yugoslav communities in the US, Canada and Australia. Freelancers were much more involved than state agents.
There was definitely a sense at the time that the emigres were carrying on ethnic feuds that the home country had put behind them under Tito, but that proved tragically optimistic
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Not as serious as most of the stuff in this thread, but it looks like a lot of Turks are going to lose a lot of money.
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- Aug 2008
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Turkish attack on US-backed Kurds in Syria believed imminent
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y_to_clipboard
An unsurprising but deeply worrying development.
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The US and Israel are trying to carve out a Kurdish-dominated client state north of the Euphrates and across northern Syria, a geostrategic area rich in oil and water resources. They've already set up around a dozen US and Israeli military bases, complete with air strips, divided among themselves the oil rights, carpet-bombed and ethnically cleansed the main cities under the guise of fighting ISIS. All of this covered up with the "Rojava" bullshit progressive propaganda, which many western liberals have bought wholesale.
It won't work, but it will add significantly to the body count and destruction in Syria.
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- Aug 2008
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Is Russia going to allow Turkey in? Presently Russia is trying to retake Idlib from Turkey backed groups.
I know of the existence of many US bases in Syria but have never heard of Israel having any, do you have any sources for this Linus?
The Kurds in Syria are an extension of the PKK which is recognised by the EU and the USA, amongst others, as being a terrorist organisation. I understand that they fought against Daesh etc but this was the first mainstream article to recognise this.
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- Aug 2008
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Turkey plans Syria 'safe zone' as shelling of Kurdish area resumes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y_to_clipboard
USA and the West said no to this but it appears that Russia has said yes, at least you part of it. The USA have said Afrin isn't in their zone.
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Really enjoyed the dramatisation of the Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak.
Rare to get a Turkish novels on the BBC. I heard her talking about it on Front Row which persuaded me to listen. The novel was read out in court - the book deals with an Armenian-American who comes to Turkey to find out what happened to her family in the genocide- a topic it's illegal to discuss in Turkey.
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- Aug 2008
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Turkey’s attack on Syrian Kurds could overturn the entire region
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...y_to_clipboard
An interesting piece I thought with some discussion points opened.
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View PostReally enjoyed the dramatisation of the Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak.
Rare to get a Turkish novels on the BBC.
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- Aug 2008
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Turkey warns Assad not to intervene in Kurdish enclave
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y_to_clipboard
This isn't going to end well. We have US and Israeli proxies fighting Turkish proxies in Afrin with the possibility that Russian and Iranian proxies are about to enter the fight.
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Is it my flu'-ridden brain-fuzz, or is this article quite confusing? I'm not even sure it's accurate.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/...-a8234346.html
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- Aug 2008
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Manchester Piccadilly and London King's Cross stations reopen after protests over Turkey's actions in Afrin.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...y_to_clipboard
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/...085406588.html
Afrin encircled with 350,000 civilians trapped inside. Do we hear the same voices that called for intervention against Russia? Of course not.
This has the potential to be a massacre but nothing in the west about this.
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- Aug 2008
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43447624
Turkey has apparently taken Afrin. Will they stop there or move onto other Kurdish areas?
Russia has been quiet on this in the same way that Turkey has been silent on Eastern Ghouta.
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Erdoğan calls snap election. Hope it goes as badly for him as it did for Teresa May Turkey to hold snap elections on 24 June, says Erdoğan
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...y_to_clipboard
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