Turkey

Mar 23, 2016, RT.com -Sharmine Narwani [related: Syria: The hidden massacre, May 7, 2014, RT.com] On March 23, 2011, at the very start of what we now call the ‘Syrian conflict,’ two young men – Sa’er Yahya Merhej and Habeel Anis Dayoub – were gunned down in the southern Syrian …

Feb 27 2016, 21st Century Wire -Rev. Andrew Ashdown Part 1 here “What the government and Russian army are doing is fighting Takfiris.  Few civilians are left there [Aleppo], but we know there has been collateral damage. That is sad, but war is dirty and everyone is guilty.   But the …

  © Eva Bartlett A newly opened fruit and vegetable stand in Homs’ Old City. Mon, 07 Mar 2016, SOTT.net -Eva Bartlett In April 2014 I first visited Syria, going to Homs and Latakia, in addition to Damascus. On each of my three subsequent trips to Syria, speaking moderate colloquial …

Jan 25, 2016, Taylor Report Click HERE to listen. Zafar Bangash links the US and Saudi Arabia to terrorist groups connected with ISIS and Al Queda. They are pushing to have two of these groups, Jasish al-Islam (Army of Islam) — proven to be the real terrorists behind the East …

Jan 2, 2016, Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture The year ended, appropriately, with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan flying to Riyadh to hold a summit with Saudi King Salman. The meeting had the air of two leaders closing ranks after a year of setbacks. As the old adage puts it, misery needs company. …

Nov 24, 2015, RT The video posted online shows armed men around an alleged Russian pilot who seems to be unconscious and immobile. His face is bruised and bloodied. The men seem to be happy and are praising Allah, with some regretting that they hadn’t burned him on the spot. …

  LIVE UPDATES HERE Nov 24, 2015, RT A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters. “During the flight, the aircraft was flying within the borders of …

Oct 10, 2015, Dissident Voice [and In Gaza] [in Polish] -by Eva Bartlett Over the past five years, the increasingly ridiculous propaganda against President al-Assad and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has ranged from the scripted (OTPOR fomented -“revolution“) “peaceful protesters under fire” rhetoric, to other deceitful lexicon like “civil …

Aug 10, 2015, Dissident Voice It’s fairly obvious to keen observers that Turkey’s Recep Erdogan is not the moderate reformist he once pretended to be, back when Turkey harbored fantasies of joining a surging European Union. In the end, the EU’s temporizing about Turkey’s entry turned out to be a …

Aug 8, 2015, Strategic Culture At a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the White House on Aug. 4, US President Barack Obama stated that Syria needs a «realistic political process» to settle its internal armed conflict, which would «lead to a stabilizing of the country and a transition …