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Syrian Kurds Force Turkish Army to Retreat From its Territory –...
During the fighting, the Syrian Kurds forced Turkish troops and Ankara-backed rebels to retreat from their territory, representative of the Syrian Kurdistan in Moscow,...
Erdogan urged attack on Turkish Cypriot newspaper
By Associated Press
January 22, 2018
NICOSIA, Cyprus — The editor-in-chief of a left-wing Turkish Cypriot newspaper alleged that Turkey’s president incited supporters to attack...
Syria: The Battle of Afrin
Syria - Turks Attack Afrin, U.S. Strategy Fails, Kurds Again Chose The Losing Side
January 21, 2018
After negotiations between Russia/Syria and the Kurds of Afrin...
Cyprus: Τhreatening Journalists
Cyprus' Foreign Ministry condemns the incidents against the Turkish Cypriot ‘Afrika’ newspaper
22-01-2018
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expresses its grave concern with regard to the...
Turkish Cypriot journalists take Afrika threats to Europe
By George Psyllides
December 16th, 2017
The union of Turkish Cypriot journalists Basin Sen has written to international organisations to inform them of a terror campaign...
Turkish Warplanes Pound Kurds, Thousands of Syrian Rebels Bused to Border
Turkey Reports 108 Airstrikes Against Afrin District
By Jason Ditz
Posted on
January 20, 2018
Following up on a flurry of Friday artillery strikes against Kurdish forces in...
Turkey’s troops cross over into Syria’s Afrin
21/1/2018
Turkey's prime minister says ground troops have crossed into the Syrian enclave of Afrin as part of an operation against Syrian Kurdish armed group...
Syria – Tillerson Announces Occupation Goals – Erdogan Makes Empty Threats
January 18, 2018
For a few days now Turkey has threatened to invade Afrin (Efrin), a Kurdish held canton in the north-west of Syria.
Afrin (topographic)...
Syria: Turkey war planes launch strikes on Afrin
Turkish war planes have launched air strikes on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria in a move likely to raise tensions with the US.
Turkey wants...
The Destabilizer: Trump’s Escalating Threats Against Iran
by Patrick Cockburn
The US-Iran confrontation is already destabilising parts of the Middle East that were starting to settle down after the defeat of Isis...