Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Monday, June 25, 2018

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wins Reelection in Turkey

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The idea of "reelection" in a country like Turkey is essential meaningless. The electoral process isn't " free and fair ....
Saturday, October 14, 2017

Orhan Pamuk, Snow

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A winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. At Amazon, Orhan Pamuk, Snow .
Sunday, January 1, 2017

At Least 35 Gunned Down in Istanbul Nightclub Massacre

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Turkey is a mess. It's a jihad nightmare. At USA Today: UPDATE: At least 39 killed in Istanbul nightclub attack, official says. htt...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Fall of Aleppo is Huge Gift to Islamic State

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From Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, at the Daily Beast, " The Fall of Aleppo is a Huge Gift to ISIS ": Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, t...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Soner Cagaptay, The New Sultan

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From Soner Cagaptay, a Turkish-American political scientist based in Washington, The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey .

Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, Assassinated in Ankara (VIDEO)

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Oh boy. I'm just now logging onto the news, and it's not good. There's video at Ruptly, " Turkey: Assassination of Russ...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

U.S. Resumes Military Operations at Incirlik Air Base Following Attempted Coup in Turkey (VIDEO)

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Following-up from yesterday, " Stability in Turkey is Key Strategic Goal of U.S. Foreign Policy ." At Legal Insurrection, "...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Stability in Turkey is Key Strategic Goal of U.S. Foreign Policy

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Following-up, " Turkey Coup d'État Risks Major Ramifications for U.S. Foreign Policy (VIDEO) ," and " Turkey's Instab...

Turkey's Instability Threatens to Weaken the War on Terror

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Following-up from yesterday, " Turkey Coup d'État Risks Major Ramifications for U.S. Foreign Policy (VIDEO) ." At the Wall S...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Looks to Restore Control After Attempted Coup in Turkey (VIDEO)

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Here's my post from last night, " Agence France-Presse Updates on Coup Attempt in Turkey ." Events were moving very quickly....
Friday, July 15, 2016

Agence France-Presse Updates on Coup Attempt in Turkey

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Following-up from previously, " Turkey Coup d'État Risks Major Ramifications for U.S. Foreign Policy (VIDEO) ." Again, news ...

Turkey Coup d'État Risks Major Ramifications for U.S. Foreign Policy (VIDEO)

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I've just been glued to my Twitter app for about the past two hours. There's no way to post on a story as fast-moving at the coup in...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

NRA to Run $2 million Benghazi-Themed Advertising Campaign for Donald Trump (VIDEO)

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This is awesome. This ad's narrated by survivor Mark "Oz" Geist, a Marine Corps veteran who helped provide security services...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

'Why not blow up the security line?'

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Australia's Daily Telegraph cites Mark Steyn's tragic prediction from six years ago, at it's editorial on Istanbul, quoted at St...

WATCH: Airport Surveillance Video Shows Istanbul Airport Attacker Detonating Bomb

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This video by now has been played thousands of times on all the combined major news networks. It's pretty astonishing. Via CNN: ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

LATEST: At Least 28 Dead in Istanbul Jihad Attack (VIDEO)

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Yep. The number of fatalities has more than doubled since the initial reports on the attack. Previously, " At Least 10 Dead in Ista...

At Least 10 Dead in Istanbul Airport Homicide Bomber Attack (VIDEO)

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This is breaking news. If it's as bad as it looks, the number of fatalities is going to go way up. MORE: At least 10 are dead in Ista...
Saturday, February 6, 2016

Pure Evil: Iraqi Migrant Rapes 10-Year-Old Boy at Vienna Pool

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When are these European "elites" going to wake up? European law enforcement officials can't keep up with security in the wake ...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Holly Williams Reports on the Crisis in Europe's Refugee Policy (VIDEO)

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Watch, via CBS Evening News, " More than a million refugees fled to Europe last year, desperate to escape the turmoil in the Middle Eas...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Turkey Getting Serious About Securing Its Borders?

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Well, don't hold your breath. At the New York Times, " Turkey Moves to Clamp Down on Border, Long a Revolving Door ."