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16 Aug 2018

Crackdown on Turkey

Recep Erdogan, the arrogant leader of the Turks, is learning a lesson: Don’t mess with the United States, now that Donald Trump is president. Although he is a NATO ally, Erdogan has been playing games, throwing his support behind Russia and China as opposed to the United States. Trump isn’t buying that and has taken steps that have led to a 40 percent reduction in the value of Turkey’s currency. Dick Morris outlines what has been taking place. More from DickMorrisReports.

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Styxhexenhammer666 talks about the collapse of the Turkish lira as Trump uses tariffs to extract diplomatic cooperation. We encourage a hard line. Erdogan not only has been kissing Communist butt but also keeping Americans jailed in Turkey, including ministers. If Erodgan wants relief, he needs to show some signs of civility — or else expect more heat.

 

 

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05 Jun 2018

Wave of Slovenia Refugees

Slovenians are struggling to block a new wave of refugees. Other Eastern European nations are offering to help, including Hungary and Poland. Can they ward off the wave of refugees?

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This video has disappeared from YouTube. In its place, we offer a Bitchute video from Akkad Daily asking why did Turkey’s Recep Erdogan threaten to flood Europe with refugees.)

 

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23 Sep 2015

The Plight of Syrian Refugees

The plight of the Syrian refugee crisis is growing and is bound to worsen. The rampage is the product of a failed attempt by Syrian activists to topple the Al-Assad regime during the Arab Spring. The result was unprecedented civil war among religious and ethnic factions and the tragic massacre of many. The Syrian population was trapped between the regime, rebel groups and religious extremists.

Nearly one third of its population was displaced within the country, while another 4 million have fled. So do we act with humanity and reason, or shut down our borders? Video blog In a Nutshell presents the potential problems arising from the crisis and some solutions. Digest the presentation, and you be the judge.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This video has disappeared from YouTube, presumably censored. In its place, we offer a Liberum Arbitrium video where a Syrian woman says Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan put #SyrianRefugees on a bus to no where, and dropped them off in the woods just to use them as a political tool against Europe. “If you’re thinking of coming, don’t come” she says.)

 

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24 Jul 2013

Turkish Journalists Silenced

According to the Turkish Journalists Union, at least 22 journalists have reportedly been fired and another 37 forced to quit over their coverage of the recent anti-government protests. They started in late May with a small group of environmentalists staging a protest against a proposed commercial development in Istanbul’s Gezi Park, and grew into nationwide demonstrations in which thousands expressed anti-government sentiments. The protests in Istanbul were met with tear gas and water cannons. The news comes as an Istanbul court unanimously overturned a lower court’s stay of order ruling on the planned shopping mall development, allowing the demolition of the green space to resume.

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17 Jun 2013

Turkey’s Civil Revolt

On Friday, May 31, Turkish riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray into a peaceful protest held to save Gezi Park, one of the last green areas in central Istanbul. This set off the biggest civil uprising in the history of the Turkish Republic, calling for Prime Minister Recep Erdogan’s resignation. The unrest has spread like wildfire to more than 60 cities where protests are still ongoing. Vice landed in Istanbul the day it all kicked off.

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12 Jun 2013

Crackdown in Turkey

Chaos, violence and anti-government anger continue on the streets of Turkey as protesters to defy the prime minister’s demand to pack up and go home. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned protesters that he will ‘not show any more tolerance’ for them while the streets of Istanbul continue to look more like scenes from a civil war. More from JewishNewsOne.

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10 Jun 2013

Artists Join Turkish Protests

Members of Turkey’s State Opera and Ballet hold a dance protest in Ankara in solidarity with demonstrators occupying Gezi Park in Istanbul. One protestor explained that dancing on stage was the only way they could express themselves, saying: “The ground is our stage, and it is the only place that we can express ourselves.”

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Music also factors heavily in “Everyday I’m Capuling,” a video produced by the protesters to express their cause. “Capuling” is a Turkish term meaning to pillage or plunder. Protesters adopted the term after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan referred to them as “looters.”

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06 Jun 2013

Olive Branch Extended in Turkey

The Turkish government apparently wants to appease protesters so they go home but at the moment, there seems no reason why they should. Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor for Great Britain’s Channel 4, reports on the protests in Istanbul.

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04 Jun 2013

The Backstory on Turkey

Tulin Daloglu, columnist at Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse, sizes up the anti-government protests that have spread from Taksim Square in Istanbul to more than 60 provinces. Daloglu offers a personal, eyewitness perspective, speaking not only as a journalist but also a former candidate who ran for a seat in the Turkish parliament in 2002 as a member of the New Turkey Party.

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23 Jan 2013

Arrest Made in Paris Killings

Police in Paris, France, have charged a 30-year old, Turkish-born Kurdish man with the murders of three activists from the Turkish Kurdistan Worker’s Party — or PKK – who were shot dead earlier this month. The motivations for the execution-style shootings are still unclear.

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