Tag: Turkey

Turkish warplanes abruptly ceased violating Greek airspace after downing a Russian Sukhoi Su-24 bomber on November 24. Previously, air intrusions made by Turkish fighter jets took place on a daily basis and amounted to thousands a year.

  ____________ Washington is urging Ankara to seal off a 100-kilometer stretch of borderline with Syria currently used by Islamic State for transportation of fighters and...

Turkey pursues its own interests in the Syrian conflict and it is not cooperating with NATO or other forces in the region, a retired US Army Major General Paul Vallely

Jim W. Dean - The West’s succession of bad strategy, lies, and tactical blunders is pushing world opinion toward the Russian example of leadership on the world stage.

© Ministry of defense of the Russian Federation / YouTube Islamic State’s daring and impudent oil smuggling into Turkey should become a high-priority target in...

He added that the downing of the Russian bomber was an “automatic reaction” in line with a standing order given to country’s military, while the Kremlin’s reaction was...

Russia's S-400 air defense system MOSCOW, November 26. /TASS/. Russia’s S-400 air defense system has entered duty at the Hmeimim air base accommodating Russia’s air...

European lawmaker Marie-Christine Arnautu, Vice President for Social Affairs of the National Front spoke to Sputnik in an exclusive interview regarding the downing of...

Since the creation of the Turkish state in 1923, the Kurdish people have suffered egregious human rights abuses from Ankara – from massacres to...

Jim W. Dean - May the angels smile upon and protect us as we honor the Russian SU-24 pilot, the first Russian to die in their air campaign. He will be honored by all honorable veterans as a brother in arms.

This Thanksgiving, Turkey's total turkey of a president has set up Turkey to get stuffed, carved up, and devoured.

Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev: "Turkey’s actions are de facto protection of Islamic State."

by Rand Clifford for VTEver smelled a rotten potato? Well, how about a stomach-turning whiff of rotten NATO?The world is swirled with whiffs of NATO...

The S-400 is employed to ensure air defense using long- and medium-range missiles that can hit aerial targets at ranges up to 400 kilometers

According to Turkey's letter to the United Nation's Security Council regarding its shooting down of a Russian bomber, the Turkish military did not know...

Jim W. Dean - Russia responds to Turkish shoot down by ending military cooperation and signaling one freebie is all Turkey gets. Russia has a right, under international law, to shoot down planes attacking it while on Syrian anti-terrorism operations.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov SOCHI, November 24. /TASS/. Kremlin stresses that Russia is not threatening Turkey with military consequences for shooting down Su-24 combat aircraft,...

Referring to fresh evidence and citing various sources, British investigative journalist Dr. Nafeez Ahmed has revealed that Turkey is up to its eyeballs in clandestine collaboration with Syrian...

The Washington Post interview with seven men affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group serving or have served time in Morocco jails emerged brilliant details...

The northern part of Syria along the border with Turkey has long been contested between Kurd militias and fighters of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS).

Informed military sources disclosed that the terrorist groups, specially the US backed Al-Nusra Front, has recruited hundreds of foreign militants after sustaining major defeats in the battle against the Syrian army and Hezbollah forces in Aleppo province in the last few weeks.

Eighty-eight Syrian opposition fighters have failed to complete a training course laid out by British forces in Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, a defense minister has revealed.

Turkish soldiers stand guar near the Turkey-Syrian border post in Sanliurfa, on September 4, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ozan Kose) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The beheaded bodies...

Jim W. Dean - I am suspicious that the only goal the terror supporters have is to get their proxy troops out from under the bombing and rebuild them, while they drag the talks out Israeli-style.

Jim W. Dean - A busy day coming today, so I am starting off with a triple play. The US is very publicly jumping in to support the Kurds in Northern Syria as its main counter to what appears to be accepting that the Russians and Syrians will win there.

Gordon Duff - Today, pitched battles are being fought across Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and not one article in a major publication in the US even mentioned one of these nations, not even anecdotaly.

Syrian Army Official: ISIS Terrorists Suffered Huge Losses, Fleeing to Turkey A Syrian army general says government forces have dealt heavy blows to members of...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has announced possible multi-party negotiations with Russia and Middle East states to find a “tangible’ political solution for...

Some people simply do not want to see things the way they really are.

Jim W. Dean - On the Debate Show with VT's Mike Harris. Turkish leaders were warned by many in the region that the country should not support terrorists or they would come back to haunt them; and on Saturday, in Ankara, twin bombs exploded.

Jim W. Dean - It seems Turkey wants to remain a NATO member while supporting terrorists in Syria, and then complain about others doing that same thing when it suits them. You just can't make this stuff up!

Their bomb loads were dropped on power plants east of Aleppo with collateral damage in a nearby neighborhoods killing up to 5 and injuring as many as a dozen more.

Moscow’s growing military involvement in the Syrian conflict – which on Wednesday involved its jets backing an offensive by ground troops loyal to the president, Bashar al-Assad – is expected to be high on the agenda of a meeting of the alliance’s defence ministers.

There is an increasing distance between US interest and that of Turkey as well as between the EU and Turkey.

Gordon Duff - There is full confirmation that the US knew of the use of Sarin gas inside Syria by a coalition that includes Israel, Turkey, Georgia, Ukraine and possibly Germany, yet did nothing about it.

After months of bombing and endless promises, Turkey has yet to fly a single sortie against ISIS forces. Read why.

The kidnapping of a group of US-trained moderate Syrians moments after they entered Syria last month to confront the Islamic State was orchestrated by Turkish intelligence.

Bou Said - Those who do not want to realize the seriousness of the Russian and US debate on overall political settlement and countering terrorism , they will be out of the equation.

Gwenyth Todd - President Erdogan stands ready to change the constitution and establish a Turkey very different from anything we have seen in our lifetimes.

Who does he think he is kidding...

Today's worst person in the world, Porter Goss

Communications between the militants and the Israeli military Staff have been intercepted