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Erdogan to stage anti-Semitic show trial of Kurds charged as “US and Israel terror agents”

Feb 3, 2019 @ 18:42Feb 9, 2019 @ 11:26 Diane Shalem 2498 Views Erdogan, Israel, Kurds, Turkish intelligence MIT, US

Turkey’s MIT this week arrested Dawud Baghestani, Chairman of the Israeli-Kurdish Friendship Association and editor of the Israel-Kurd Magazine with

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Erdogan calls for joint Turkish-Russian-Iranian control of US pullout from Syria in face of Moscow’s veto

Jan 9, 2019 @ 19:54Jan 19, 2019 @ 11:46 Diane Shalem 3615 Views Erdogan, John Bolton, Kurds, northeast Syria, Russia, Vladimir Putin

Like Washington, Moscow is averse to the Turkish army moving into northern Syrian Kurdish lands after the Americans leave. Yet

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Fresh Turkish-US crisis: Erdogan refuses to see visiting US adviser, again threatens Kurds

Jan 8, 2019 @ 13:54Jan 19, 2019 @ 11:48 Diane Shalem 2986 Views Erdogan, John Bolton, Kurds, Syria, US withdrawal from Syria

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan waited for John Bolton, US national security adviser, to land in Ankara on Tuesday, Jan 8,

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Scrap over Manbij opens door for Russia and Assad’s troops to take control of NE. Syria

Dec 28, 2018 @ 19:38Jan 2, 2019 @ 13:01 Diane Shalem 3674 Views Bashar Assad, Erdogan, Euphrates, Kurds, Manbij, northeastern Syria, UAE

One of Bashar Assad’s best weeks in years – and one of Tayyip Erdogan’s worst – peaked on Friday, Dec.

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Rev Guards fire 8 missiles from Iran at ISIS in E. Syria

Oct 1, 2018 @ 9:23Oct 10, 2018 @ 13:38 Diane Shalem 4881 Views E. Syria, IRGC, ISIS, Kermanshah, Kurds, missiles

Tehran state media reported that on Monday, Oct. 1,  IRGC missiles targeted the “headquarters of the terrorists” east of the Euphrates in

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Putin meets Erdogan at Sochi to cut a separate deal for Idlib

Sep 17, 2018 @ 10:50Sep 20, 2018 @ 9:32 Diane Shalem 4587 Views Erdogan, Idlib offensive, Kurds, northern Syria, Sochi, US oil sanctions, Vladimir Putin

President Vladimir Putin will insist on an early date for the Idlib offensive when he meets Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan at

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French troops deploy to Manbij, join Trump’s stop-Turkey line in Syria

Apr 4, 2018 @ 11:44Apr 11, 2018 @ 13:07 Diane Shalem 13625 Views Donald Trump, French forces, Haydar al-Abadi, Iraq, Kurds, Syria, US Marines

DEBKAfile Exclusive: French special ops troops have moved into two US Syrian bases, Manbij and Remelin, as the US boosts

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Quarter million new Syrian refugees. Turks take Afrin city. Al Ghouta about to fall to Assad

Mar 18, 2018 @ 18:53Mar 27, 2018 @ 10:09 Diane Shalem 10785 Views Afrin, Bashar Assad, East Ghouta, Erdogan, Insurgents., Kurds, Syrian war, Turkey

 The Turkish army and its surrogates took control on Sunday March 18 of the Kurdish Afrin City in northern Syria,

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Moscow brokers provisional Turkish-Syrian truce in Afrin

Feb 22, 2018 @ 8:13Feb 22, 2018 @ 8:19 Diane Shalem 9676 Views Afrin, Bashar Assad, Erdogan, Kurds, Russia

 An armed clash between the Turkish and Syrian armies over the disputed Afrin enclave was narrowly averted this week by

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 Erdogan holds back on threatened conquest of Afrin, goes for Manjib

Jan 23, 2018 @ 12:28 Diane Shalem 13412 Views Afrin, Bashar Assad, Erdogan, Kurds, Manjib, Sochi, Turkey, US, Vladimir Putin

The Turkish president has told Trump and Putin he would not seize N. Syrian Afrin from the Kurds after insignificant

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