Kurds protest in Rome as Turkey’s Erdogan meets pope
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO VATICAN CITY (AP) — Paying the first Vatican visit by a Turkish head of state in 59 years, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Monday […]
Turkey, Vatican agree on Jerusalem
Source: Daily Sabah Column by Ilnur Cevik The warm dialogue between President Erdoğan and Pope Francis is the sign of a new era for Turkish-Vatican relations to cooperate more on […]
Turkish president meets pope, expected to discuss Jerusalem
Reuters International This content was published on February 5, 2018 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (L) is welcomed by archbishop Georg Ganswein as he arrives to attend a private audience […]
Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times
By: Sairah Yassir-Deane On 13 and 14 January 2018 Ashfia Ashrif, Manchester based Artist and Student of Traditional Arts, delivered a two day course named “Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times” at FSTC House. Figure 1. Image collage from the weekend course ©Sairah On 13 and 14 January 2018 […]
Turkey: Head of leading business group proposes interest-free financing model for investment projects
ELIF BINICI @elifebinici ISTANBUL Chairman of Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MÜSİAD) Abdurrahman Kaan. The burden of interest rates on investors, which harms competitiveness of investors in international markets […]
In Afrin, Kurds seek Assad’s help but not at any cost
By AFP – Jan 30,2018 – Syrian Kurds mourn during a funeral of civilians and fighters from the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units who were killed in battles in Syria’s border region of Afrin on Monday (AFP photo) BEIRUT — Kurdish forces trying to fend off a deadly Turkish offensive […]
On the ground in Afrin, it’s hard to know what Kurdish fighters really stand for
Exclusive: While the Kurds try to persuade you of their potential loyalty to Syria and disclaim any connection to the rest of Kurdish Syria and the Iraqi Kurds – clearly […]
Inside Afrin, the true victims of Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria are revealed – refugees, babies, women and children
Exclusive: In part three of his Inside Syria series, and the first Western media report from Afrin since the start of the Turkish offensive, Robert Fisk shows just how ‘surgical’ is the […]
When the Sultan took in Jewish refugees
By +972 Blog |Published January 25, 2018 Bayezid II, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, saved my family’s life during the Spanish Inquisition. The Israeli government could learn a […]
Turkish forces push into Syria, clash with Kurdish militia
By Reuters – Jan 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Turkish armoured vehicles move towards Hassa district of Hatay, Turkey, as part of the ‘Operation Olive Branch’ on Sunday (Anadolu Agency photo) […]
View from Jordan: Ominous signs in Syria’s Afrin
Jan 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Turkey’s military intervention in the northern Syrian city of Afrin under the code name “Olive Branch” will certainly complicate the already complicated conflict in Syria. Ankara has been threatening all along to strike at the so-called Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) deployed along its southern border with […]
Why is Turkey attacking Syria?
Source: BBC News Turkish war planes have launched air strikes on Kurdish positions in northern Syria. The BBC’s Mark Lowen explains why – and why now. Original Source
Syria: Turkey war planes launch strikes on Afrin
Source: BBC News Turkish war planes have launched air strikes on Kurdish positions in northern Syria, in a move likely to cause tensions with the US. Turkey wants to oust […]
The next Kurdish war is on the horizon – Turkey and Syria will never allow it to create a mini-state
Syria cannot countenance Kurdish presence on its territory and Turkey cannot tolerate a Kurdish enclave along its southern border, however secular, liberal and socialist it claims (not without reason) to be Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices Thursday 18 January 2018 Colonel Thomas Veale has had the unenviable task of […]
View from Turkey: US insincerity in combating terrorism in the Middle East
SAADET ORUÇ @saadetoruc Helping PKK-affiliated factions to form a force in northern Syria will pave the way for Daesh to act more freely in the region The United States plan to charge terrorist factions in northern Syria with enhancing security has brought the role of Daesh and the international struggle […]
US-led coalition denies report that ex-Daesh militants joined SDF
RAGIP SOYLU @ragipsoylu WASHINGTON AFP Photo The United States-led military coalition against Daesh has dismissed the allegation that dozens of former Daesh members and officials had joined the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) had tortured two civilians to death in Manbij. “No, the allegations… […]
Turkish anger over new Kurdish-led border security force in Syria
Menekse Tokyay | Published — Monday 15 January 2018 ANKARA: Turkey reacted with undisguised anger on Sunday to plans by the US-led coalition against Daesh to establish a 30,000-strong Kurdish-led […]
Turkish gym gives lifetime pass to Syrian boy gazing through window
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published January 8, 2018 A few days after a photo of him gazing through a gym window went viral, Muhammad Khaled, a Syrian boy who works as […]
Turkey, OIC’s Jerusalem strategy must include BDS
HATEM BAZIAN @hatembazian Protesters in Paris demonstrate against Israel’s first officially sanctioned new West Bank settlement in more than 25 years, April 1, 2017. Adopting a Boycott, Divestment and […]
Wellesley College Lecture: Trump, Populism, and Muslims
Mustafa Akyol (born 1972) is a Turkish writer and journalist. He is the author of Islam without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, long-listed in 2012 for the Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award […]