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Jun 18, 20183 min read
Turkey's elections: why they're important and why they might be rigged.
In less then a week's time Turkey will head to the poles to vote both for a new president and for a new Parliament, in what is considered...
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Feb 19, 20182 min read
Syrian forces to enter the YPG Kurdish enclave of Afrin after striking deal with the SDF Kurds.
Pro Syrian forces and militias allied to the Syrian government will enter the Afrin region within hours, state media reported on Monday,...
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Oct 17, 20172 min read
Poland wants Turkey to join the EU.
Poland hopes Turkey will join the European Union, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday, days ahead of an EU summit which will...
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Oct 8, 20171 min read
What if every secession movement succeeded In Europe and Russia?
The recent upheavals in Catalonia, Kurdish controlled areas around Turkey, Brexit, the Scottish referendum and Kosovo's independence have...
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Sep 27, 20172 min read
Kurdistan votes for independence, and all hell is about to break loose.
Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said on Tuesday that Kurds had voted “yes” to independence in a referendum held in defiance of the...
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Sep 12, 20173 min read
How Poland saved Europe from the Ottomans in 1683 and how Europe repaid it
On September 12, 1683, the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jan Sobieski, literally saved Europe when he personally led the...
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Aug 8, 20173 min read
The Treaty of Sèvres and how Atatürk stopped Europe from partitioning Turkey.
At the end of WW1 the Ottoman empire was defeated and in shambles with European armies occupying large parts of it and its capital...
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Apr 18, 20172 min read
All the reasons why the Turkish referendum results might have been forged.
Turkey's main opposition began a battle on Tuesday to annul a referendum handing President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, while the...
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Apr 16, 20172 min read
Turkey votes "yes" to Erdogan in the presidential referendum.
The people of Turkey have voted to grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers in a referendum, partial official results...
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Mar 19, 20172 min read
Germany allows pro Kurdish terrorist march after forbidding Turkish rallies.
Around 30,000 Kurdish supporters demonstrated in the German city of Frankfurt on Saturday against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and an...
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