Ed Miliband has a problem. It’s the same one as Gordon Brown. It’s a lack of faith in their own unpopular views. At least Michael Foot had the decency to stand and fall by his daft agenda. Think back to
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 22 (UPI) — Vice President Joe Biden announced Saturday the United States will send $135 million more in humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians. He was speaking at a news conference in Istanbul during a trip to visit
Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety has released a guide to help gun control proponents talk their family members and friends into supporting more gun control at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Titled, “Talking Turkey,” the guide purports to combat various “myths”
According to a report by human rights group Amnesty International, Turkish border guards have a record of abusing and killing Syrian refugees. Those who do survive face extreme poverty in makeshift camps. The revelations are featured in their new report, “Struggling
Papa John’s launched a Philadelphia-area “76ers Win, You Win” deal on pizza in October. But nobody won. The promotion offered fans 50% off an online pizza order the day after a 76ers win. The 76ers couldn’t keep their end of
A blonde, blue-eyed Dutch teenager from a Catholic family who was rescued by her mother after marrying an Islamic State fighter in Syria is to appear in court Friday on terror charges. Nineteen-year-old Aicha arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has responded to mockery of his claim that Muslim explorers discovered America by accusing Muslims who doubted him of not having “self-confidence” and calling for all schools to teach that Muslims arrived in America in
Turkey has contributed to the rise of the brutal Islamic State by turning a blind eye to the ongoing flow of money, weapons, illegal oil, and fighters across its border to the jihadist group in Syria, according to a new
The disappointed father of Nasser Muthana identified his son in the new ISIS killing video released yesterday as one of a group of men in army-style fatigues beheading a party of Syrian army and air force officers. Muthana, 20, had
The Christmas tradition of St Nicholas and his helper Black Pete is under threat in the Low Countries as protestors claim it is “racist”, according to reports from AFP. Stories retold over the centuries tell of Sinterklaas, the former Bishop
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Blunt language from Canada’s Stephen Harper to Vladimir Putin Merger of ISIS and al-Nusra seen unlikely, despite reports Turkey’s Erdogan says Muslims, not Christopher Columbus, discovered America UN committee in Jordan investigates Israeli war
The Islamic State group is locked in a war of attrition in the Syrian border town of Kobane, where Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes are mounting fierce resistance. Two months after IS launched a major offensive to try
CAYKARA, Turkey (AP) — Their collars pulled up against the evening cold, a group of men and women peer through binoculars, scanning the fields along a barbed wire fence. A few kilometers (miles) away across the Turkish border, black smoke
It isn’t exactly splitting the atom or even pushing boundaries to suggest that the modern Liberal Democrats are anathema to both liberalism and democracy. Their commitment to the European Union, ever increasing taxation, neo-Malthusian environmental policies, open door immigration and
In the final joint statement, delegates from the Catholic-Muslim Forum in Rome “unanimously condemned acts of terrorism, oppression, violence against innocent persons, persecution, desecration of sacred places, and the destruction of cultural heritage.” In this third seminar of the Forum,
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A new report says the plight of people fleeing Syria’s civil war has reached “a new level of hopelessness” as overstretched neighbors make it more difficult to escape and developed countries like the United States resettle
Kurdish forces choked off a road used by Islamic State jihadists to resupply their forces in the Syrian border town of Kobani, marking the first gain against the militants there in weeks. Reuters reports that with the help of the
Video has surfaced of an attack yesterday in Istanbul in which Turkish protesters assaulted United States Navy soldiers, shouting “Yankee go home!” and pelting them with dye. In the video, widely distributed on the internet (the copy below is from
(Reuters) – Syria’s neighbors Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraqare cutting back sharply on the number of Syrians they allow onto their soil as they can no longer cope with the influx of refugees, two prominent humanitarian agencies said on Thursday. The number
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russian combat troops, tanks and artillery pour into Ukraine Turkey’s warships near Cyprus threaten Egypt and Israel Russian combat troops, tanks and artillery pour into Ukraine Armed personnel and unmarked military trunks arrive in
Turkey is to issue work permits for some of the 1.5 million Syrian war refugees it is hosting, its labour minister said on Thursday, dismissing fears it would harm local workers. “We will grant a certain number of our Syrian
Rudaw, a Kurdish media network, received backlash from Facebook when the social network blocked posts and deleted pictures of Abdullah Ocalan, a jailed Kurdish leader. He founded the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey. The PKK is considered a terrorist
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu attacked Israel on Wednesday for its response to the recent surge in Palestinian terrorism, threatening to use force in order to “protect” Jerusalem’s Islamic holy sites such as the Al-Aqsa Mosque. “Nothing will prevent Turkey
This week in Istanbul, a group of activists from ultra-right Youth Union of Turkey (TGB) attacked visiting sailors from a US warship docked after a NATO drill in the Black Sea. The sailers were walking through a central district of the city when they
A German-Turkish athlete Deniz Naki, who is a striker (the position known as forward in American soccer) on the Turkish football club Genclerbirligi, is leaving his post with the team after he was allegedly physically assaulted over his racial background and
