Tag: Turkey

South Stream is dead -- It was the $45 billion project to deliver Russian natural gas via underwater pipeline through the Black Sea to Bulgaria & on to other Balkan & southern European markets.

US CIA-trained Chechens are at the forefront of nearly every terrorist struggle, fighting against US forces in Afghanistan, leading ISIS brigades & tied to the Boston Marathon bombings.

- "ISIS has money when there is no money; they have fuel when there is no fuel. They get floods of new recruits when all borders are sealed,"

- "My guess is it is a test for micro nukes of some type, also called “uranium deuterium triggers.” ...Jeff Smith, ex-IAEA Non-Proliferation investigator.

- "Turkey agreed to let Kurdish fighters into Kobani for good PR, then immediately stalled by creating a long "details" list to begin discussing."

- The Pentagon should have been using the B1 sooner, because we had them sitting on the Qatar airfield with all the B-52s.

- "The big chance to work with the Syrians to kill ISIL got crib deathed instead. Other promises had been made to certain parties."

- “The US has its own double game going on here by allowing the ISIL people to keep bringing up reinforcements over completely exposed roads."

- "Our own VT people, with just a few phone calls, can initate a process to spot and track every ISIL position in Northern Syria. No one has asked. Why not?

- "Henry brings us another behind the curtain peek into the Byzantine geopolitics of NATO's Turkey and the wannabe member, the Republic of Georgia."

- "We have entered into an era where diplomatic immunity has to be put squarely on the table for a 21st century review. Is it just too dangerous?"

- The respective Western publics who think they live in a democracy might be the last to find out that they really don't.

- "Seth Ferris gives us a front row seat on the often embarrassing process of Senate confirmation of new ambassadors... the old "making sausage" cliche' comes to mind."

- "The kurds have fallen victim to Iraq's political paralysis and the biggest military defeat in modern times, where four divisions ran away from a few thousand Jihadis."

- Viktor Mikhin - Whatever action is taken by Saudi Arabia and its allies, the region is teetering on the brink of a major war.

US Court Orders Kurdish Oil Seized   by Dr Stuart Jeanne Bramhall   While the world is distracted with Israeli atrocities in Gaza, the US and Israel are...

- You won't read anything like this in Western media as it conflicts with their fairy tale of spreading peace and democracy when proxy terrorism is the new game of choice.

- As soon as the invasion of Iraq went ahead without Turkish involvement, the West wrote off the Turkish military as a critical ally.

- "Mr. Erdogan’s government has been fomenting unrest in Syria for two years and indeed supported ISIS’s rebels until as lately as September 2013."

- All that is required for a war is a target, a nation with something worth stealing and a will to steal it.

- Seth Ferris..." If someone has to take the flak for the continuing failures in Syria, will it be the US or its weaker ally Turkey?"

- Gwenyth Todd..."Who could have possibly had access to so many secure communications inside Mr. Erdogan’s inner circle? "

Exposing false flag operations to the fullest possible extent could be the salvation of humanity.

- Seth Ferris gives us another silver bullet piece on Erdogan versus everyone else in the world outside his political party.

- Seth Ferris..."The shooting down of a Syrian plane which had allegedly intruded into Turkish airspace on March 23 came as no bolt from the blue."

- Replacing Assad with a Turkish-backed puppet regime on Israel’s border would be the ultimate triumph for Mr. Erdogan as a modern-day Muslim Caliph.

- Gwenyth Todd..."What does Mr. Erdogan hope to gain from the fall of the Assad regime that justifies the risk he is taking?"

- Update: Erdogan says that if his party loses in the next election he will retire from politics, an indication that he definitely plans to win

"They ripped her arm out of her shoulder, giving her a fractured arm and a torn ligament."

- By revoking judiciary power Erdogan can act with total impunity and appears to be doing so...a threat to Turkish, Arab, European and US interests

Turkey is a secular state. So claim its government and nearly all mainstream Western media. They are mistaken.

- “If we can now liberate our geopolitical imaginations a bit, we might perceive the outlines of a new Middle East emerging,”...ex-CIA Graham Fuller

- The world, the innocent part, has paid a huge price in death and destruction while the enablers had diplomatic immunity

Egypt accused Iran of "unacceptable interference" in its domestic affairs for having criticized the Egyptian army's removal of elected president Mohamed Mursi last week.

He noted that the second shipment of the Russian systems will be delivered to Syria soon.

On May 26, 2013, the Hebrew headlines on ynet, the website of the Hebrew newspaper Yediot Ahronot, was the dream of George Orwell.

Erdogan: Hoist with his own petard.

Erdogan: Hoist with his own petard.

Syrian troops have destroyed several trucks smuggling crude oil into neighboring Turkey, state media say.

Syria has surprised everyone. They were supposed to have collapsed long ago. They didn’t, far from it. There is every indication that the Syrian government is winning what really isn’t a civil war.

The open press statement of denial by senior reportedly former CIA official Graham Fuller in April of a link between the Boston Bombings and the CIA, labeling the reports “absurd,” may go down in history as one of the worst intelligence blunders in the past century.

Certain issues are so unusual that finding a proper way of introducing or entitling them is almost impossible. Everything related to Iscar is odd, including its location near the Lebanese border (see map below).