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Turkey and COVID-19: Is another Italy in the making?
Source:al Monitor Date:26Mar2020
Noted author Cengiz Candar asks the question I myself asked in a YouTube broadcast: Until two weeks ago, Turkey looked happy and confident in evading the pandemic. Some pseudo-scientists
After a decade of civil war, Syria now faces threat of coronavirus
Source:Sabah Daily Date:25Mar2020
The Syrian regime announced Sunday its first case after unconfirmed reports suggested the virus had been detected but covered up, a charge officials have denied, while rolling out tight measures
Turkey dismisses 8 HDP mayors
Source:Rudaw Date:25Mar2020
Three more pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) mayors in eastern and south-eastern Turkey were removed from their posts for alleged “terrorist links” on Monday evening, hours after five
Greek police use tear gas on migrants at Turkish border
Source:Yahoo! Date:19Mar2020
Despite the title, this article reports that the Turkey-EU refugee crisis is over. Greek police said they used tear gas to repel the push south of the Kastanies border crossing. They said
Turkey being run like ‘island state’, says former deputy PM
Source:Financial Times Date:17Mar2020
And..”new” opposition party leader Ali Babacan starts his election campaign Turkey is being run like an “island state” managed by a tiny circle of people, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s
Protesters block Idlib’s M4 highway in defiance of Russia-Turkey deal
Source:Middle East Eye Date:17Mar2020
Turkey-Russia ushered Idlib cease-fire is a bad deal for Turkey and rebles, which this article confirms However, the M4 cuts into the lower third of the ever-shrinking territory still
Russia, Turkey reach deal on Syria’s Idlib
Source:al Monitor Date:14Mar2020
But details still vague! Akar said the first joint patrol by Turkey and Russia on the M4 highway in Idlib would be carried out on March 15 and that Turkey and Russia will establish joint
Turkey Steps Back From Confrontation at Greek Border
Source:New York Times Date:14Mar2020
Another black-mail attempt by Erdogan on EU fails: Turkey has signaled that it is winding down its two-week operation to aid the movement of tens of thousands of people toward Europe,
Egypt, UAE establish Libya naval commando squad to fight Turkey
Source:Middle East Monitor Date:10Mar2020
What happened to our Arab friends? How did we fall so far apart? A special naval commandos unit made of dozens of Libyan fighters has been setup with the help of the UAE to carry out
Turkey’s Erdogan Leaves EU Talks Without Agreement on Refugees
Source:Bloomberg Date:10Mar2020
Talks between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the European Union over the fate of refugees in his country ended in failure Monday with no clear agreement over what should happen next