Author: M Barbu

Russian Middle East Expert Mirzayan: Let Turkey Choke On Idlib

In an investigative report for RIA Novosti titled “Acting as if It Owned the Place, Turkey Occupies Foreign Lands” Kseniya Melnikova describes how Turkey is consolidating its control over Northern Syria. Turkey was making the region part of Turkey by imposing its curriculum, connecting the region to the Turkish power grid and distributing identity cards while invalidating Syrian issued documents. The Assad government protests but is basically helpless. Melnikova hopes that Russia will curb Turkey’s actions and compel it to leave Syria. Middle East expert Gevorg Mirzayan considers Turkey to be a rival of Russia and has no love for Turkish President Recep Erdogan. However, instead of advocating Russian intervention like Melnikova, he diabolically recommends allowing Turkey to strengthen its hold in Idlib Province. This would prod the Iranians, who have been happy to see Russia do the heavy lifting, to deter Turkey not only in Syria but in the Caucasus. The Arabs will be up in arms against Turkey as they see Turkey encroaching on Arab land. Turkey will be under constant threat of a war, in which its NATO allies will abandon it.

Anti-Turkey Statements In Iran – Part IV: Iranian Regime Mouthpiece ‘Kayhan’ To Turkish President Erdoğan: Do Not Enter The War In Yemen Alongside Saudi Arabia

Twice in recent months, the Iranian regime mouthpiece Kayhan, which is close to ideological circles, published articles warning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not to interfere in the war in Yemen in support of Saudi Arabia. In a March 17, 2021 article, Kayhan wrote, referring to missiles fired by the pro-Iran Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen into Saudi Arabia, that if Turkey did so, “there is not a shadow of a doubt that the catastrophe caused by the long-range missiles of Ansar Allah [i.e. the Houthis] will happen to Turkey as well.” It added that Erdoğan must “take into account [that there will be] a clash” with Iran’s “powerful resistance axis.”

Turkey’s muddled approach to Palestine

Ankara sees a recently ratified security cooperation deal between Turkey and the Palestinian Authority as groundwork for a possible maritime boundary agreement between Turkey and Palestine. Experts see such prospects as far-fetched.

As the Holy Land emerges from a fresh round of clashes, Turkey has ratified a comprehensive cooperation agreement with the Palestinian administration that was signed in 2018. While Turkish media is trumpeting the agreement as an “important step,” experts believe the deal will have limited practical meaning.

Erdogan’s meeting with Biden more spin than substance

The two leaders’ first meeting as heads of state led to detailed discussions, but there were no breakthroughs.

The long-awaited meeting today between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Joe Biden went pretty much as expected, with none of the big issues poisoning ties between the NATO allies getting resolved. The two leaders both said the 90-minute-long encounter on the margins of the NATO summit in Brussels had gone “very well” — Erdogan went as far as to claim that “We think that there are no issues within US-Turkey ties [that are unsolvable] and that areas of cooperation for us are greater than [our] problems.” However, Erdogan’s comments during a subsequent news conference offered little in the way of proof.

Dislocarea Transilvaniei de România. Visul strămoșilor români, știrbit de Orban

Am crescut de mic copil în spirit naționalist; îmi amintesc cu multă dragoste cum, în amurgul serii, sătenii – oameni simpli și considerați neînsemnați – discutau despre luptele purtate de soldații români, despre sângele vărsat pe câmpurile de bătaie, despre viețile sacrificate pentru întregirea României.

Atentatele la integritatea țării noastre nu ne pot lăsa indiferenți. Din durerile strămoșilor noștri ne-a încolțit libertatea, însă astăzi, pe nesimțite parcă, am devenit martori la planul secret de maghiarizare care se desfășoară chiar sub privirile noastre, în inima României, în Transilvania.

Sfânta Greta Trotineta și PeNeNeReta

Și, Doamne!, ce s-au mai îmbuibat secole la rînd.

Ori de câte ori mergi prin capitalele alea mari, celebre, devenite adevărate locuri de pelerinaj turististic, nu poți să nu se strângă inima în tine. Uite, în Paris, palatul ăsta e din banii din colonia aia. Iar statuia asta din Londra e din exploatarea poporului celălalt.

Ex-Mossad chief signals Israel attacked Iran nuclear assets

The outgoing chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has offered the closest acknowledgment yet his country was behind recent attacks targeting Iran’s nuclear program and a military scientist.

The comments by Yossi Cohen, speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 investigative program “Uvda” in a segment aired Thursday night, offered an extraordinary debriefing by the head of the typically secretive agency in what appears to be the final days of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule.

In Tigray, food is often a weapon of war as famine looms

First the Eritrean soldiers stole the pregnant woman’s food as she hid in the bush. Then they turned her away from a checkpoint when she was on the verge of labor.

So she had the baby at home and walked 12 days to get the famished child to a clinic in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray. At 20 days old, baby Tigsti still had shriveled legs and a lifeless gaze — signs of what the United Nations’ top humanitarian official calls the world’s worst famine conditions in a decade.