VT | 24 March 2016 Every hundredth refugee a terrorist, every third terrorist an ISIS suicide bomber, ready to die at Turkish command Damascus VT/ Kurdish Popular Forces serving in Syria today captured a senior Turkish intelligence official who has, under “enhanced interrogation” implicated President Erdogan. VT was given access to recorded confessions which detailed…
Zero Hedge | 17 March 2016 “It is not only the person who pulls the trigger, but those who made that possible who should be defined as terrorists, regardless of their title,” Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan said on Monday, in an attempt to convince parliament to include journalists, politicians, academics, and activists under the…
RT | 10 March 2016 In an interview with RT, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia accused Turkey of providing a clear transit route for the chemical weapons that were deployed against them near the city of Aleppo on Tuesday. READ MORE: ISIS shelled Kurdish-controlled Iraq village with ‘poisonous substances’ – governor Syrian anti-government…
VT | 4 March 2016 Turks and Saudi’s Moving Against Regional Leaders – Sources in Lebanon, Russia There are multiple confirmations today, from sources in Hezbollah intelligence in Lebanon, from Iraq and now directly from Russia. Sources also reveal that Russia has become increasingly frustrated and impatient with Turkey for that nations intransigence in the…
RT | 23 Feb 2016 Further proof of ties between the Turkish military and Islamic State fighters operating on the Syrian-Turkish border has been revealed in the Cumhuriyet newspaper, which published more transcripts of telephone calls between the jihadists and officers. The documents are said to come from an ongoing court case on Islamic State…
Robert Parry | 18 Feb 2016 The risk that the multi-sided Syrian war could spark World War III continues as Turkey, Saudi Arabia and U.S. neocons seek an invasion that could kill Russian troops — and possibly escalate the Syrian crisis into a nuclear showdown, amazingly to protect Al Qaeda terrorists, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry When President Barack Obama…
RT | 16 Feb 2016 Both government and opposition-held towns in Syria over the border from Turkey have fallen under Ankara’s shelling that began last week, according the Russian Ministry of Defense. Turkey’s artillery has fired more than 100 shells at bordering areas in the northwest province of Aleppo, targeting both Syrian government forces and…
Unz Review | 14 Feb 2016 The situation in Syria has reached a watershed moment and a dramatic escalation of the war appears imminent. Let’s look again at how we reached this point. During the first phase of the operation, the Syrian armed forces were unable to achieve an immediate strategic success. This is rather…
VT | 30 Jan 2016 Turkey complained to Russia that an SU 34 violated its air space. Today a Russian jet well inside Syria is downed by a missile that shouldn’t exist. Is this a coincidence? A Raytheon system known to be available to ISIS through Ukrainian/Turkish sources, capable of shooting down an SU 24…
RT | January 15, 2016 Prominent US linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky has lashed out at Turkish President Recep Erdogan, who has accused him of being “dark” and having “mentality of colonialism” for signing an open letter protesting Ankara’s military op against the Kurds. The spat was provoked by an open letter to Turkey’s leader…