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Who Are the Extremist ‘Grey Wolves’?

In reality, the Grey Wolves movement very much does exist. It has a long history of bloodbaths across Turkey and is now a growing movement across Europe as well as the South Caucasus. This ideology [Turanism, or the Greater Turkish homeland] believes in the superiority of a supposed Turkish race …

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Erdogan nimmt Ausschluss aus Europarat in Kauf

Der türkische Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan fordert Europa heraus. Mit seiner Ermunterung hat ein türkisches Gericht am Freitag entschieden, den seit vier Jahren ohne Urteil inhaftierten Kulturförderer Osman Kavala weiter im Gefängnis zu halten. Der Europarat hatte für diesen Fall mit einem Ausschlussverfahren gegen die Türkei gedroht, das in der …

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Słabnący złoty żywicielem inflacji

Mocna przecena naszej waluty to fatalna wiadomość nie tylko dla wybierających się za granicę na narty, ale przede wszystkim dla podjętych z opóźnieniem prób hamowania rozbuchanej inflacji. Stanowi ostrzeżenie od uciekających inwestorów zagranicznych, by do szuflady włożyć miraże o potędze złotego, bo jest jedynie lokalną walutą rozwijającego się kraju, której …

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Five Peshmerga killed in ISIL attack in Iraq’s Diyala

Armed group ISIL still poses a threat in several provinces in Iraq with hit-and-run attacks, kidnappings, and roadside bombs. Five Peshmerga fighters were killed in an attack by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said on Sunday. The attack – which also wounded …

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Islamic State down but not out in Syria and Iraq: Pentagon report

Also, Al-Monitor’s on-the-ground reporting on the security situations in Syria and Iraq, including the impact of the Turkish lira crisis on Idlib. Islamic State ‘entrenched as low-level insurgency’ The most recent report from the Pentagon’s Inspector General on Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led diplomatic and military operation against the Islamic …

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Goading China To Go To War

A number of defence analysts are convinced that the United States of America, supported by Britain and Australia, is goading China to go to war over Taiwan. They point to constant statements by officials from the three countries pledging to come to Taiwan’s defence if it is attacked by China …

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Biden’s two-faced policy on Yemen war

“This war has to end,” President Biden intoned in his first major foreign policy address at the State Department in early February 2021. He wasn’t talking about the war in Afghanistan. Rather it was the bloody, mostly one-sided, six-year battering led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against …

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Imperialist alliance fuels arms race in Indo-Pacific

At the G7 Summit last June, Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison, representing the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia respectively, met in private talks. The subject was how to contain China and its influence. In September these leaders announced the AUKUS Alliance, a defence agreement between the countries. Australian …

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