May 2020. Greek authorities have fired tear gas and staged military exercises using live ammunition along the country’s eastern borders in an effort to prevent thousands of migrants including young children crossing from Turkey, deepening a stand-off between Brussels and Ankara. The tensions arose after more than 10,000 people gathered outside a northern Greek border… Continue reading May 2020. The Erdogan Knife at the Throat of Greece
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Migrant Invasion of Europe Part 2
Authorities in Greece say they are worried that migrants and refugees are gathering on Turkey’s coast with plans to cross the Aegean Sea. As many as 2,000 migrants who were quarantined in camps in Turkey have reportedly been taken by bus to coastal towns near the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios. The Greek government… Continue reading Migrant Invasion of Europe Part 2
Migrant Invasion of Europe Part 3
Greece’s new conservative government is moving away from a once welcoming migration policy. But is increasing animosity to asylum-seekers giving cover to nationalists, like the organizers of a pork-and-alcohol barbecue? To outsiders, Diavata may seem like a sleepy village tucked in the rolling hills and bucolic landscape beyond Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city. But it’s actually… Continue reading Migrant Invasion of Europe Part 3
Migrant Invasion of Europe Part 1
Migrants on the Greek islands are to be offered €2,000 (£1,764) per person to go home under a voluntary scheme launched by the European Union in an attempt to ease desperate conditions in camps. The amount is more than five times the usual sum offered to migrants to help them rebuild their lives in their… Continue reading Migrant Invasion of Europe Part 1
Mar 2020. The Khashoggi Killing
March 2020. The dissident Saudi writer was killed in his country’s Istanbul consulate in 2018. But the Turkish case is unlikely to come to trial. Turkish officials on Wednesday announced the indictments of 20 Saudi nationals on charges of murder and incitement to murder in the killing of the dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi, concluding their… Continue reading Mar 2020. The Khashoggi Killing
Mar 2020. Russia Turkey Ceasefire in Idlib Part 2
March 2020. The Russian Foreign Ministry says foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants are not complying with the terms of a ceasefire reached earlier this month by Ankara and Moscow to halt an escalation of violence in Syria’s embattled northwestern province of Idlib. The ministry, in a statement released on Monday, announced that the militants wreaking havoc on… Continue reading Mar 2020. Russia Turkey Ceasefire in Idlib Part 2
Mar 2020. Russia Turkey Ceasefire in Idlib Part 1
March 2020. Russia and Turkey have begun jointly patrolling the strategic M4 highway in Syria’s embattled northwestern province of Idlib as part of a ceasefire reached earlier this month. The patrols began from the settlement of Tronba in Idlib, the last militant stronghold in the country, on Sunday. According to the Russian media, Moscow sent… Continue reading Mar 2020. Russia Turkey Ceasefire in Idlib Part 1
Invasion of the Migrants from Turkey Part 2
March 2020. And whilst the World is worrying over the Coronavirus, Erdogan continues his Campaign of the Islamisation of Europe. He’s Horded Millions of Migrants not just from Syria, but from Afghanistan, Iran and many other Muslim countries. Yes they all want a Better Life, don’t we all? But this is an Invasion, it cannot… Continue reading Invasion of the Migrants from Turkey Part 2
Aug 2016. Jeremy Bowen on Syria
August 2016. Jeremy Bowen is the BBC Middle East Editor and he gives a Quick Summary on Where the Syrian War is at at the Present Time. The Turkey Incursion into Syria is Complicating an Already Complicated War, but Erdogan is Clearly after the Kurds and Not daesh. Would the War Continue with the Defeat… Continue reading Aug 2016. Jeremy Bowen on Syria
Mar 2020. Ceasefire in Idlib Part 3
March 2020. The crisis in Syria’s Idlib province – already a humanitarian catastrophe – is fast becoming a geopolitical one as well. The Syrian conflict has long had a dual aspect – both civil war and proxy war, with several outside players backing various parties to further their own strategic ends. Now, as the conflict… Continue reading Mar 2020. Ceasefire in Idlib Part 3