Tag: Turkey

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Assassination of Karzai’s brother creates Afghanistan power vacuum Ahmad Wali Karzai The most powerful political figure in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, was assassinated in his home

Hundreds of supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, spray-painting walls with obscenities. Graffiti referring to American ambassador Robert Ford said, “”Ford get out now. The people want to kick out the dog,”

The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is fuming because the U.S. amabassador to Syria, Robert Ford, visited the city of Hama on Friday, and was joined by France’s ambassador to Syria, Eric Chevallier, according to Reuters. The two of them

The assumption by some in the west is that socialism and communism are at war with Islam. After all, the former tend to be atheists and the latter are focused on the will of Allah. But according to Asghar Ali

Last Saturday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati the political equivalent of a public thrashing. Last Thursday, Mikati gave a speech in which he tried to project an image of a leader of a government

Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Naval Intelligence officer and Senator Mark Kirk, of Illinois, elaborates on the situation that would bring the Russians into the U.S. missile defense program and a new proposal that would base radar defense

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Yingluck Shinawatra wins decisive victory in Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra (Bangkok Post) Yingluck Shinawatra led her Pheu Thai (“For Thais”) to a decisive victory in Sunday’s elections, making it all but certain that she will

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Israel, Greece and Turkey cooperate to stall the Gaza flotilla The U.S. flotilla ship ‘Audacity of Hope’ is being kept from leaving port for Gaza by Greek coast guard A growing strategic relationship between

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians protest Demonstrators march through the streets of Damascus on July 1 (RFE/RL) The brutal acts of killing, torture and mutilation of peaceful protesters by Bashar al-Assad’s security forces have

A flotilla is determined to sail to the Gaza Strip this weekend in breach of Israel’s naval blockade on the Hamas-controlled territory. This decision comes in spite of growing international pressure to stop the campaign, damaged ships and fewer passengers

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Chances of diplomatic resolution to Libya war now nonexistent Muammar Gaddafi on May 11 (AP) On Monday, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants on charges of genocide and crimes against

Unless there will be another delay, this week a group of boats carrying determined activists (and probably some terrorists as well), will try to break the siege on Gaza. From their talk you’d think Gaza is the center of injustice

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Burn-scarred Yemen president to make TV appearance Anti-government protesters demanding resignation of Saleh (AP) Yemen officials are saying that badly scarred president Ali Abdullah Saleh will make a televised appearance this week, as he

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Turkey and Syria edge closer to war as border tension increases A Syrian boy poses for the camera in front of a tent city in Turkey. (Zaman) A week ago, Turkish officials gave Syria

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Turkey is closely monitoring Syria’s military maneuvers Syrian refugees demonstrate in a refugee camp in Turkey (Reuters) Syria and Turkey used to be friendly allies, but the mutual hostility has been growing steadily since

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Syrian troops advance to Turkey’s border in new escalation Syrian refugees pass Turkish military as they cross the border (AP) In a new escalation of the tensions between Syria and Turkey, Syrian troops advanced

Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad offered a conciliatory tone in his speech at a Damascus University on Monday. He acknowledged the protesters had legitimate grievances and even referred to them as patriots at one point. Al-Assad also scaled back his remarks

Syria is moving tanks and soldiers into villages near the border to Turkey, in order to stop the flow of Syrian refugees into Turkey, according to AP. A Turkish woman talks to a relative, a Syrian refugee, through a fence

To justify our military involvement in Libya, Obama applied a completely prefabricated doctrine – Right to Protect (“R2P”) – with no legal status that was dreamed up in the leftist hothouses of academia. Then he skirted Congress and quickly passed

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Union members march through Athens and protest austerity measures Communist party protesters in Athens, Saturday (AP) Several thousand pro-Communist union members marched through central Athens yesterday to protest the government’s latest austerity measures and

Every day, major stories come out of the Middle East. And behind each of these stories are major developments that deserve of our attention and, more often than not, our intense concern. Just this week, major stories have come out

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Short-term bailout of Greece is now expected Greece 2 year bonds at 30% interest (Bloomberg) The yields (interest rates) on Greece’s 2 year bonds briefly exceeded 30% on Thursday, before settling down at just

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Thailand heads for a major election crisis Yingluck Shinawatra (Spiegel) The fault line between the élite fair-skinned market dominant minority Thai-Chinese and the dark-skinned indigenous Thai-Thai majority laboring class may soon become violent again,