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In a White House statement, President Biden remembers the Armenian Genocide, honors those who suffered, and renews America’s pledge never to forget. The United States promises to stand up against hate, advocate for human rights, and ensure everyone can...
by tony a
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 02:46 PM PDT
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www.bbc.com/… Millions of Turks are voting in elections to decide who runs their biggest cities - and whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan can wrest back control from the opposition. Turkey's economic and social powerhouse, Istanbul, was won by a...
by ca cokz
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on Sun Mar 31, 2024 at 02:18 AM PDT
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Hamas' October 7 attack against innocent civilians, women, and children enraged the Israelis (and rightly so; any decent person would have been upset). Still, a few weeks earlier, the Israelis themselves had supported the Turks and the Azerbaijanis in...
by tony a
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on Fri Feb 02, 2024 at 02:28 PM PST
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As per the AP today: Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden’s membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country’s entry into the military alliance. The legislators ratified Sweden’s accession protocol by 287 votes...
by Irontortoise
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on Tue Jan 23, 2024 at 01:39 PM PST
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s views on foreign policy: A perspective based on justice. A model to emulate “I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the ‘isness’ of man’s present...
by tony a
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 08:15 AM PST
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Turkey continues to obstruct Western goals in Ukraine and other parts of the world. Ankara said that it would stop two minehunter ships given by Britain to Ukraine from passing through its waters en route to the Black Sea. The Turks based their move on...
by tony a
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on Wed Jan 03, 2024 at 05:31 PM PST
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In order to discuss terrorism, we first must define it. Here’s my proposed definition: “Terrorism is the deliberate, reckless or negligent maiming and/or killing of innocent civilians in pursuit of a military or political objective.” If you accept this...
by dratler
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 02:46 PM PST
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[I started to write this before the Cornell story came out. I added this preamble within these brackets along with the attached screenshots, as well as part of the story below as it makes the points I had planned to write for me: Threats were posted to...
by David B
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on Sun Oct 29, 2023 at 06:40 PM PDT
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This I imagine will take a lot of flack. It is also hardly a perfect analogy, because Bibi is hardly FDR, Israel is not quite America between the world wars, And Japan did not take hostages, or brutally rape, murder and Dismember civilians on Oahu...
by David B
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on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 08:28 PM PDT
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Jack Straw’s article, “We should never have let Cyprus join the EU” in POLITICO EU (September 7, 2023), presents an inaccurate narrative riddled with omissions. Straw singles out Cyprus for past economic dealings with Russia, while ignoring similar...
by tony a
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on Thu Nov 02, 2023 at 01:55 PM PDT
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Unraveling the Influence of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex and Turkey’s American Mercenary Warriors The Washington Post's endorsement of the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, despite acknowledging Erdoğan's authoritarian rule, egregious human...
by tony a
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on Sat Jul 08, 2023 at 07:39 AM PDT
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The following exchange between Senator Bob Menendez, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken exemplifies Menendez’s uncompromising commitment to human rights and the rule of law: Senator Menendez to Antony...
by tony a
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on Sat Apr 01, 2023 at 08:05 AM PDT
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A coup d'état in Nicosia, a revolt in Maidan Square, and enemy responses-Separating myths from facts On July 15, 1974, the Greek military regime overthrew the President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios. Turkey used the coup as a pretext and invaded Cyprus allegedly to prevent Greece from annexing the island, to restore the constitutional order upset by...
by tony a
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on Fri Feb 03, 2023 at 05:22 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and now moi, JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Dec 23, 2022 at 08:58 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and now moi, JeremyBloom. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)...
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Dec 16, 2022 at 10:19 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, jck, Rise above the swamp, and Besame.
by annetteboardman
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on Fri Nov 04, 2022 at 09:09 PM PDT
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Forty-eight years ago, on July 20, 1974, Turkey invaded Cyprus and did what Russia did in Ukraine. The Turks ravaged the small island. The Turkish army murdered innocent civilians, tortured, and raped women and children, and eventually grabbed 37% of...
by tony a
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on Sat Aug 20, 2022 at 03:15 PM PDT
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Thursday, July 14, the House passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that prohibits next-generation F-16 fighter jets and F-16 modernization kits to Turkey unless the sale goes through a thorough certification process...
by tony a
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on Mon Jul 18, 2022 at 06:23 PM PDT
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There are shocking omissions in the supposedly liberal (?) Washington Post's coverage of Turkey. “Liberal” in the question mark because genuine liberals don’t cherry-pick. Real liberals defend democracy, justice, and the rule of law everywhere...
by tony a
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on Tue Jul 12, 2022 at 09:15 PM PDT
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Incredibly, as I heard Biden justify his quick exit from Afghanistan, and the ensuing chaos, the GOP seems to have total amnesia about what their own former guy was up to. Trump wanted an even quicker pull out and evidence emerged that he’d tried to...
by KKwriter
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on Tue Aug 17, 2021 at 08:13 AM PDT
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