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Category Archive for 'Turkey'

Something Rotten in the State of…

There is something rotten in the state of… …Kurdistan. This one caught me a Little by surprise, but it makes so much sense… well, I don’t know why I wasn’t talking this one up. Let me try and make up for lost time. There is something really rotten going on among the Kurds. Kurds? Like curds, but with a K? Are we talking [...]

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I’ve been thinking about Ahmadinejad’s confident claims that he can take out the US and Israel – and achieve dominance for Islam. How could he possibly do that without the help of thermonuclear bombs in the multi-megaton range? We also call them hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs, and they are beyond his capability to make. And, I can’t [...]

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Here We Go Again

The Associated Press is reporting that nuclear bombers of the Russian Air Force have been ordered into the air again. It has been 15 years since Russia had nuclear bombers on an active nuclear patrol. Why the change now? What threat has arisen that would cause Russia to take this expensive step? With the price of aviation fuel [...]

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Turkey’s Failing Secular Dream

Barry Rubin is one of the world’s foremost experts on Turkey and the director of the Global Research for International Affairs Center (GLORIA Center) in Herzliya. When Barry speaks, people listen.  In fact, a Turkish newspaper based in Istanbul interviewed Prof. Rubin to get his views on the latest Turkish elections. You can read the interview here: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=117857 It [...]

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Slumbering Towards Islamism

With all the hubbub and ballyhoo over Iraq and Iran, we aren’t hearing much about Turkey. That’s a problem. For instance, did you know that Justice and Development Party (AKP) won the Turkish elections on the 22nd of July? Did you know that they are a moderate Islamic party? Did you know that, over the last [...]

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