A close confidant of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Adnan Tanriverdi claims expertise in all the dark arts of warfare. In the eyes of some, he is the Islamic world’s most powerful gun-for-hire, a well-connected ex-general with thousands of battle-hardened Syrian mercenaries at his command. A close confidant of Turkey’s …
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12 September
Turkey conducts naval exercise off Libya coast
Search, rescue exercise carried out within scope of Turkish Naval Task Group’s activities, says Defense Ministry
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12 September
Quand le Sénat se couche devant l’islam politique
Les sénateurs n’ont pas de courage, mais se réservent le droit d’en avoir un jour « Élections sénatoriales, c’est parti », titrait le 4 septembre dernier sur son site la chaîne parlementaire Public Sénat. Comment ne pas soupçonner que c’est pour ces élections, qui auront lieu le 27 septembre prochain, …
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12 September
Turkey may close the Bosphorus and leave Syria without Russian support
Tensions between Athens and Ankara could escalate with terrible force at any moment, which will be one of the reasons why Turkey is taking drastic measures to preserve the country’s integrity.
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12 September
Djukanovic Had to Fall Eventually
Governments in Montenegro have controlled elections for decades, so the fact that Milo Djukanovic still lost speaks of the enormous desire for change among the country’s citizens.
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12 September
Exiled Belarusian Opposition Leaders Find New Home in Poland
Belarusian opposition leaders are gathering in Warsaw as Lukashenko decapitates almost the entire Coordinating Council via arrests or forced exile.
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12 September
Serbia, Kosovo Must Commit to Credible Missing Persons Investigations
The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will have maximum effect if Serbia and Kosovo’s governments commit to credibly investigating the remaining cases of missing persons from the Kosovo conflict while building on existing processes for regional cooperation.
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12 September
Trump’s Serbia-Kosovo Deal ‘Middle-Easternizes’ the Balkans
Kosovo has paid a price for the agreement brokered by the US President in which it has been reclassified as a ‘Muslim state’.
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12 September
India, Israel And The Arab States
The president of US Donald Trump is of course too much meant to be busy for the November 2020 elections, and despite the stand-off with China on many fronts, particularly in South China Sea, will not be able to ‘look-that-hard’ into with China until the elections are over, which is …
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12 September
UAE Recognition of Israel Dents Emirati Religious Soft Power
The United Arab Emirates’ bold recognition of Israel, earning it valuable brownie points in the West, has come at a cost: a blow to its efforts to earn religious soft power in the Muslim world.
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