Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Syria Today: On Ground Updates - March 19, 2013


Wednesday, March 19, 2013
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    Today’s news of a possible chemical attack out of Syria is a big question mark right now but no matter how we look at it, it is some very troubling news. Here’s what some in the MSM are reporting this early Tuesday afternoon…

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Image Credit: Iran's Press TV website
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* CBS NEWS brings us the following report and it starts off like this…
The Syrian government accused rebels of firing a chemical weapon for the first time on Tuesday in the north of the country, killing at least 25 people in the war-torn Aleppo province. Rebels quickly denied the report and accused regime forces of firing a chemical weapon on a long-range missile… Neither of the accusations could immediately be verified, and a chemical weapons expert in the U.K. told CBSNews.com there was very little evidence to suggest any actual chemical weapons had been deployed…
Read the rest at link below…
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* USA Today has this reportThe Obama administration has no evidence to back up a claim by Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime that the U.S.-backed Syrian rebels used chemical weapons, the White House said Tuesday… A U.S. official told the AP there was no evidence either side had used such weapons Tuesday in an attack in northern Syria, disputing a competing claim by rebels that it was regime forces who fired the chemical weapon… The origin of the attack is still unclear…
Read the full report at link below…
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* The Guardian reports it this way…
Syria's information minister, Omran al-Zoabi, says Syrian rebels fired rockets containing chemical agents on Tuesday. He says the attack breaches international law, and says President Bashar al-Assad's forces would never use chemical weapons. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least 26 people died in the attack near Aleppo, but the use of chemical weapons has not been confirmed…
Click it out at link below…
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My bet’s on it didn’t go down as reported… Or in other words, it wasn't a chemical attack…
AubreyJ………

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Syria Today: On Ground Updates - March 06, 2013


Wednesday, March 06, 2013
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    The last time I looked and according to the United Nations, more than 70,000 souls have been killed over the last two years during the revolt against Syrian President Al-Assad.
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    Nearly two years ago it all started with peaceful protesters on the streets but it wasn't soon after that Assad’s murderous forces cracked down hard on the demonstrators and started murdering them by the 1,ooo’s.
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    The senseless murder by President Al-Assad’s forces on the innocence continues today… not to be left out the million Syrians who have fled their war-ravaged country and are seeking assistance in other countries…
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    AubreyJ………
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Image Credit: Iran's Press TV website
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* BBC had the following report, with news video, Tuesday afternoon and it goes in part like this.  Unverified video footage purported to show at least two explosions hitting the city centre square, shortly after crowds had toppled a statue of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad… People were seen fleeing in panic, with casualties scattered on the ground…The cameraman is heard to say: "War plane shelling... God is greater than you, Bashar [al-Assad]... The injured have fallen."…
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* The Huffington Post had this report posted on their website Tuesday afternoon and it starts off like this… Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday the Obama administration is confident that the vast majority of weapons being supplied to Syrian rebels by U.S. allies are going to moderates and not finding their way to extremists…
Read this report in full at link below…
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* The New York Times had the following report posted on their website this Wednesday afternoon and it starts off like this… Syria’s civil war entangled the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the disputed Golan Heights area between Syria and Israel on Wednesday, when 30 armed fighters for the insurgency detained a group of 20 peacekeepers investigating a damaged observation post, the United Nations said… It was the first time that members of the Golan peacekeeping mission, officially known as the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, had been detained by any of the combatants in the Syrian conflict, although the Golan region has been periodically affected by armed clashes and occasional artillery or mortar bombardments that have become a source of concern to Israel…
Read the full report at link below…
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* The Huffington Post has the following report/news video for us today, click it out below…





The number of Syrians who have fled their war-ravaged country and are seeking assistance has now topped the 1 million mark, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, warning that Syria is heading toward a "full-scale disaster." The announcement came as government troops and rebels fought street battles in Syria's strategic northern city of Raqqa. The Syrian military dispatched reinforcements in an attempt to push out opposition gunmen who now control most of the city, activists said…
Read the rest, with the video, at link below…
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Friday, August 10, 2012

Syria: On Ground Updates - Friday, August 10, 2012


Syria: On Ground Updates
“Long after the Assad regime is gone, the people of Syria and the entire global community will remember that Hezbollah, and its patron Iran, contributed to the regime’s murder of countless innocent Syrians.”
-David S. Cohen-
Friday, August 10, 2012
Image Credit Iran's Press TV website
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* The Voice of America website brings us the following report at starts off like this… The United States on Friday said it plans new sanctions against the Syrian regime and its supporters, including Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants… “We will be tightening even further with additional sanctions that drive at both Syrian entities and those who are supporting the efforts of the Syrian government to oppress its own people,” a U.S. official told reporters traveling with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Ghana… The United States considers Hezbollah a terrorist group. The U.S. Treasury’s top official on terrorism and financial intelligence, David S. Cohen, said the group’s actions have contributed to the suppression of the Syrian people… “Long after the Assad regime is gone, the people of Syria and the entire global community will remember that Hezbollah, and its patron Iran, contributed to the regime’s murder of countless innocent Syrians,” he said…
Read the full report at link below…
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* REUTERS has the following report this early Friday afternoon and it starts off like this… The United States imposed new sanctions on Syria and its allies on Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to Turkey for meetings as both countries plan for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall
Read this report in full at link below…
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- Also from REUTERS today is this report… Rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Aleppo promised on Friday they will hit back after losing ground under heavy bombardment, and residents fled in cars crammed with belongings during a lull in fighting…
Read this report at link below…
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* Bloomberg reports… Britain’s government is giving an extra 5 million pounds (US $7.8 million) worth of aid to Syria’s opposition, supplying items including communications equipment, body armor and medical supplies to groups seeking to oust President Bashar Assad's regime
Read the full report at link below…
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AubreyJ………
ROMNEY2012
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

2- Turkey Vows Response to Syria Shooting Down Their Fighter Jet Friday


Turkey Vows Response to Syria Shooting Down
Their Fighter Jet Friday
Retaliatory Action Could Be Diplomatic or…
Sunday, June 24, 2012
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Image credit-Turkey Air Force- F-4-Phantom Fighter Jet
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* CBC News had this AP report posted up early Saturday morning and it starts off like this… Turkey's president says his country would take the “necessary” action against Syria, a day after Damascus said it had shot a Turkish military plane that had entered its air space… Abdullah Gul said Saturday that Turkey was still trying to establish the exact circumstances of the incident but conceded the jet may have strayed into Syrian air space. He's convening another security meeting Saturday… Germany and Iraq urged Turkey and Syria to remain calm and not let the unrest in Syria become a wider conflict in the area…
Read the rest at link below…
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* LATimes.com had this report posted up on their website early this Sunday morning and it goes in part like this. …Turkey has said it would act “with determination” once the facts were clarified… Turkey is a NATO member and was probably consulting the United States and other allies before deciding how to respond. But there was no public indication that Turkey was seeking support from North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies for retaliatory action
Read this report in full at link below…
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POST UPDATE:
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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* Google had the following AP report posted mid Tuesday afternoon and it starts off like this… Turkey warned Syria on Tuesday to keep its forces away from the countries' troubled border or risk an armed response -- a furious reply to the downing of a Turkish military plane last week by the Damascus regime… NATO backed up Turkey and condemned Syria for shooting down the plane but stopped short of threatening military action, reflecting its reluctance to get involved in a conflict that could ignite a broader war…
Read the full report at link below…
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* NYTimes.com reports it this way… Buoyed by support from his country’s NATO allies, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Syrian forces on Tuesday to stay clear of their troubled border or face a Turkish military response to any perceived threat, following the disputed downing of a Turkish warplane…
Read the rest at link below…

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POST UPDATE:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
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* AsiaOne.com reports… Turkey is not going to war with neighboring Syria over the shooting down of a Turkish warplane, its prime minister said Wednesday but analysts expect a higher risk of clashes on the border…
Read this report in full at link below…
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As said, all this mess will be settled through Diplomatic efforts -- NOT Military Might. That is as long as another shoe doesn’t drop on the situation all of a sudden, spinning everything out of control. In that part of the world… one never really knows.
AubreyJ………
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Friday, April 13, 2012

Let the Talks Begin, one Last Time, on Iran’s Nuclear Program

Map Courtesy of RFE-RL
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International talks are to begin this Saturday between Iran and six major world powers, (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council,) comprised of the United States, France, Russia, China, Britain -- plus Germany.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said just Thursday that Iranian officials should come to Istanbul Saturday willing to make progress on international demands. "This is a chance for Iran to credibly address the concerns of the international community," she said followed by saying they also needed to demonstrate that they were serious about the upcoming talks.
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Of course it just wouldn’t be right if the Iranians didn’t get cocky on us and so one Iranian religious leader did by saying Friday that he thought the Western leaders should pretty much back off… That they should react to Iran's proposals logically and stop the current unconstructive accusations against the Islamic Republic. Yeah… yeah… yeah… and so it begins… lol
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* Here’s a good read on topic that I ran across today at the Huffington Post. Click it out at link below…
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Note: I’ll be updating this post sometime Saturday evening after day one of the talks are over so be sure to check back then. Lol… I for one am a betting man that these talks are going nowhere, so… Israel…. Get ready to light-um UP!
OK, I lied… Would you believe an Update Sunday afternoon!!!?
-- POST UPDATE --
Sunday, April 15, 2012
3:45pm CDT
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YNETNews.com has the following short report posted on their website this Sunday afternoon and it goes in part like this… Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voiced irritation on Sunday that the next session of nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers would be held in more than a month's time… "My initial impression is that Iran has been given a freebie. It's got five weeks to continue enrichment without any limitation, any inhibition," Netanyahu said in video footage, provided by his office, during a meeting with US Senator Joseph Lieberman… Read the rest HERE
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AFP had this take on Saturday’s meeting and it goes in part like this… At Saturday's talks in Istanbul, during which Iranian officials sat down with the so-called P5+1 grouping of diplomats from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, the sides agreed to hold a more in-depth meeting in Baghdad on May 23… Officials described the talks as positive but stressed that a great deal was expected of Iran at the next meetingRead the full report HERE
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There better be some serious results come out of the next meeting in Baghdad this coming May 23rd… For if it is all the same as has happened in past meetings, all talk and achieving no hard results at all, well… Times Up!!! And all hell’s going to surely break loose.
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It’s sad Israel has to take this all on themselves. But with a weak, blabbermouth of a President named Obama, along with his Administration… that’s sadly all we have before us.
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To our Israeli friends… whatever you do… keep Obama in the dark unless you wish for him and his bunch to leak all info you give them to the world ahead of time. They’ve done so in the past, the chicken shits… and will surely do it to you again..!
AubreyJ………
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Israel: On Ground Updates - September 22, 2011

Here’s a troubling report from JPOST.com that gave me a great BIG headache reading in full. It starts off like this… As Cypriot natural gas drilling begins, expert says "Turkey will do everything it can to block Israel, Cyprus efforts to develop gas reserves." … A day after reports that [Noble Energy] had begun its natural gas drilling off the coast of Cyprus, amid threats from the Turkish government that it was considering deploying naval escort ships to protect exploration areas north of the country, an Israeli expert on the situation deemed the threats grave to both Cypriot and Israeli concerns…
Read the full report at link below…
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- One also might wish to read the following on topic articles…
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Our good friends of Israel can’t win for losing these days!
AubreyJ………
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Images above from Noble Energy website
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Saturday, September 03, 2011

Israel: On Ground Updates - Gaza Flotilla - September 03, 2011

Israel: On Ground Updates - Gaza Flotilla
Turkey to take Israel to UN Court
Saturday, September 03, 2011
Snapshot taken from video footage by IDF showing an Israeli soldier being beaten with an iron pipe during the Gaza flotilla raid  (May 31, 2010)

* BBC NEWS brings us the following report this Saturday afternoon and it starts off like this… Turkey has said it will challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza at the International Court of Justice, (ICJ)… It is the latest sign of strain between the countries since last year's Israeli action against ships heading for Gaza, in which nine Turks were killed… Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said Turkey did not accept the findings of a UN report which said Israel's blockade of Gaza was a legal security measure… His comments came a day after Turkey expelled the Israeli ambassador… It also halted military co-operation with Israel…
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* CNN has this take on today’s news out of Israel and it starts off like this… An Israeli official Saturday dismissed as "strange" Turkey's actions, including its decision to expel Israel's ambassador, saying on Israeli television that his government "did well not to apologize" for a deadly raid last year on a Gaza-bound ship… Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told CNN affiliate Channel 2 that "the entire fashion in which the Turks have acted is strange."… "Israel must not subject its foreign policy to caprices of others," he added. "The lack of cooperation does not hurt us alone, it damages the Turks as well."…
Read this report in full at link below…
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AubreyJ………
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani Says Kurdish Rebels To Declare Ceasefire

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said Kurdish rebels were set to declare a unilateral ceasefire on Monday, in the face of mounting Turkish threats to strike their bases in northern Iraq... "The PKK has decided to declare a ceasefire from their side tonight," Talabani told reporters, referring to the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party, regarded as a terrorist outfit by Turkey and the West...
Read story in full
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Turkey Bombards Northern Iraq after PKK Ambush

The prospect of a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq in pursuit of fighters of the Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) drew closer today after another round of clashes in the mountainous frontier region that left at least 12 Turkish soldiers and 23 PKK guerillas dead, and saw a number of Turkish troops captured by the rebel group...
Read the full story at
guardian.co.uk

>>> BBC.co.uk has this take on the story... Turkey's leaders have vowed to "pay any price" to defeat terrorism after the latest attack by Kurdish rebels, which killed at least 12 soldiers.
Turkey vows to defeat PKK rebels

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Turkey Expects U.S. to Act Against Kurdish Rebels in Northern Iraq

Turkey expects the U.S. to act against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq but will take its own measures if it sees no results in the fight, the prime minister said... In northern Iraq Saturday, thousands of Kurds packed the streets of a border city to protest a threatened Turkish incursion and to warn they would defend their territory...
Read story in full at Guardian.co.uk

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Al Qaeda Takes Hits in Iraq, But Still Dangerous, Bush Says

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The United States has dealt al Qaeda many significant blows in Iraq and elsewhere, President Bush said here today.

Military gains against al Qaeda are encouraging, but the situation cannot be won militarily, and that is why the U.S. continues to work with the Iraqi government on reconciliation and political development, Bush said at a White House news conference.

"We're making progress, ... but I fully understand those that say we can't win this thing militarily," Bush said. "That's exactly what the United States military says. That's why it's very important that we continue to work with the Iraqis on economic progress as well as political progress."

Bush noted that reconciliation is happening at the local level in Iraq, as people realize they can make a better future for themselves. This local reconciliation eventually will affect the national government, he said. Meanwhile, the United States is encouraging the Iraqi government to pass important legislation to move the country forward.

When asked about the possibility of the Turkey parliament approving military action against Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, Bush said that he and commanders on the ground agree that such a move would not be in Turkey's interest. The Iraqi government understands that this is a sensitive issue, he said, and the Iraqi vice president is in Turkey today to assure leaders there that Iraq shares their concerns about terrorism, but that there's a better way to fight it.

During Bush's news conference, media outlets reported that the Turkish parliament voted to approve the military action.

Related Articles:
* Senior Official: Diplomacy Best Approach to Turkey-Iraq Tensions
* Gates Expresses Concern About Resolution's Impact on U.S.-Turkey Relations

From news article by DoD’s American Forces Press Service - Written by Sgt. Sara Wood, USA

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Iraq Sends Crisis Envoy to Turkey Hoping to Defuse Crisis along Iraqi-Turkish Border

Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi departed for Turkey on Tuesday for talks to “defuse” the crisis along the Iraqi-Turkish border, where Turkey is considering cross-border assaults against Kurdish separatist rebels in Iraq...
Read the story at CNN.com

Friday, October 12, 2007

Leave Allies Alone

...The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to condemn the killings as an act of genocide, and The Lantern can only reply: Why now?

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>>> CNN.com has this report out this Friday evening...
U.S. military looking at alternatives in case Turkey cuts access

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Says Turkey Ready To Pay Price Of Any Military Campaign In Iraq

The International Herald Tribune website has this troubling report out today and it goes in part like this... The Turkish parliament was expected to approve a government request to authorize an Iraq campaign as early as next week, after a holiday ending the Islamic holy month of Ramadan... "We are making necessary preparations to be ready in case we decide on a cross-border operation since we don't have patience to lose more time," Erdogan said, adding that Turkey has lost 30 people in rebel attacks over the past two weeks...
Read the story HERE

Monday, October 08, 2007

U.S. Condemns Terrorist Violence in Turkey

Monday, October 08, 2007
The United States condemns the attacks of October 7 and September 29,apparently conducted by PKK terrorists, in Sirnak province near the Iraqiborder, which together resulted in the deaths of 13 Turkish soldiers and 12civilians.

We express our condolences to the families of the victims and our solidaritywith the Turkish people. The United States is committed to working with Turkeyto combat the PKK and other terrorist groups that threaten Turkish citizens andinterests. We will continue to cooperate with the Turkish government toneutralize the PKK terrorist threat.

PKK violence not only threatens Turkey, but also undermines the security andwelfare of Iraq. Turkey and Iraq have vowed to collaborate in the fight againstterrorism in an agreement concluded September 28. We call on Iraqi authoritiesto take effective measures against the PKK. We stand ready to support in everyappropriate way efforts by Turkey and Iraq to protect their citizens and stopthis terrorist violence.

(DoS Press Statement - Sean McCormack, Spokesman)