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Paradigm shift in Palestine

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 10 October 2023

The bloody conflict in geographic Palestine comes after 75 years of equally murderous injustice. Under international law, Palestinians have the right and duty to resist Israeli occupation, just as Israelis have the right and duty to respond to the attack on them. It is everyone’s responsibility (…)

Türkiye facing the American Empire

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 26 April 2023

With three weeks to go before the Turkish presidential election, the debate is changing. From being for or against Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamism, it is becoming for or against the alliance with the United States. The outgoing president is regaining points in the polls that predicted him to (…)

Turkish Space Agency clarification about 6 February earthquake

22 February 2023

While speaking at an earlier conference, Turkish Space Agency director Serdar Hüseyin Yıldırım had described a weapon being developed by the United States, as follows:
“There are military satellites that can shoot 10-meter titanium alloy rods from space to any target in the world. They (…)

About the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

21 February 2023

According to the Damascus Institute of Seismology, the blue flash that was seen in Turkey and northern Syria just before the earthquake does not match any previous sightings.
This observation reinforces the hypothesis that the earthquake did not occur naturally, but was brought about.
Let’s (…)

The defeat of Ukraine is becoming clearer

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 14 February 2023

It is an open secret: the government of Kiyv is losing militarily to the Russian army. The latter is advancing without hurrying and is building the defense of the regions that joined Moscow by referendum. But this inexorable reality hides others. For example, the fact that Turkey, still a member (…)

According to Senator Diana Ivanovici Șoșoacă, earthquake in Turkey and Syria was caused by the U.S.

14 February 2023

Romanian senator Diana Ivanovici Soșoacă, speaking on 8 February before the Romanian Parliament, observed that:
– One minute before seismographers detected the earthquake, Turkish gas and oil pipelines were shut down (NB. This is the only allegation we were unable to verify).
– 24 hours before (…)

Turkey seeks to join SCO

18 September 2022

Following the meeting of the Heads of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, held on 15 and 16 September in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told journalists that his country aims to join the SCO.
Turkey is still a member of NATO. The SCO was (…)

Turkiye, Sweden, Finland Memorandum

Madrid (Spain) | 28 June 2022

1 - Finland and Sweden will not provide support to YPG/PYD, and the organization described as FETO in Türkiye. Türkiye also extends its full support to Finland and Sweden against threats to their national security. Finland and Sweden reject and condemn terrorism in all its forms and (…)

Turkey prohibits NATO from accessing straits

31 May 2022

In accordance with the Montreux Convention (1936), Turkey has banned NATO ships participating in the Ramstein Legacy 2022 exercise from crossing the Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits.
This ban is an indication that Turkey considers this exercise not only as a test of the interoperability (…)

Turkey’s conditions for NATO enlargement

19 May 2022

Turkey continues to refuse the accession of Finland and Sweden to the Atlantic Alliance.
In view of the NATO "Article 5" mutual defense clause in the event of attack, each new membership requires the approval of all members.
Turkey has put forward the following two conditions:
– vis-à-vis (…)

Turkey opposed to Finland and Sweden joining NATO

14 May 2022

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has expressed reservations about the possible imminent accession of Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This step had been trumpeted as a done deal in the context of the Ukranian war.
Ankara is safeguarding its relations with (…)

Turkey to repatriate one million Syrian refugees

10 May 2022

A tiny secular far-right group in Turkey, the Victory Party, was successful in widely circulating a video against Syrian immigrants in the context of the current economic crisis.
As a result, all the political parties are calling for them to be returned to Syria.
Initially, in 2011, Turkey (…)

Turkey refuses to become further involved in Ukraine war

22 April 2022

On 18 April 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated: “The Ukraine war has once again shown how accurate our quest for the establishment of a fair world order is. The importance of our reform efforts in the United Nations Security Council, which we have symbolized by saying the world (…)

Towards Turkish-Syrian rapprochement

15 April 2022

On 6 April 2022, Russia hosted a meeting in Moscow between Turkish and Syrian delegations, which turned out to be “constructive”.
In Turkey, a major lobby is putting pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to change his policy and move closer to Arab countries. The Turkish army is still (…)

Rapprochement between Israel and Turkey

10 March 2022

Israeli President Isaac Herzog was received by his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Ankara on 9 March 2022.
Relations between the two countries had been clouded by suspicion since the assassination attempt on the Turkish president and the ensuing coup d’état on 15 July 2016. (…)

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