Archive for the 'Turkey' Category

(BeYourOwnLeader)- Pressure is mounting on Canada to finish up a long-delayed trade deal with the EU. Despite outstanding issues that still must be settled, there is a final push to try and complete an agreement this summer. If both sides are able to secure a deal, it would lay the groundwork for the proposed U.S.-EU trade pact. There is the possibility that the U.S.-EU transatlantic trade talks could also include the other NAFTA partners and maybe even other countries. Mexico has already shown interest in joining and if Canada can’t put the final touches on their own agreement with the EU, they might also be part of the negotiations. This would facilitate plans for a coming NAFTA-EU free trade zone and the formation of a transatlantic economic union.  Read the rest of this entry »

(Youtube) – My Women’s day video. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – U.S. officials would like to blame al-Qaeda for Friday’s suicide bombing at the U.S. embassy in Ankara, Turkey, but the country’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has placed blame squarely on the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP/C. Read the rest of this entry »

(PSLWeb) – On Jan. 10, the Communist Party of Turkey launched a new campaign against the deployment of Patriot missile batteries in Turkey. Members of TKP have set up a tent in a park in downtown Ankara to gather signatures against the deployment of Patriot missiles and NATO intervention in Syria. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkey furthering US-Israeli agenda in Mideast: Gordon Duff

“Now, Israel uses America. We are seeing it in Syria, we saw it in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are seeing it in Turkey and, we are now told, we will see the war “re-expand” to Iraq, then to Armenia and points beyond. A plan is afoot, Israel, America and Turkey.”

(PressTV) – America’s policy has been clear, keep Israel flanked with phony “Islamist” states, shackled by corrupt governments, fully penetrated by a military that is fully integrated with Israel and making all the right noises meant to maintain sectarian divides across the Islamic world. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – The United States and Germany are sending Patriot missiles and troops to the Turkish border, a warning to Syria’s besieged President Bashar al-Assad.

The surface-to-air interceptors would be “dealing with threats that come out of Syria,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Threats would include Syrian strikes inside Turkey and fighting between the government and rebels that extends into Turkey. Read the rest of this entry »

(LandDestroyer) – NATO has approved of stationing US-made Patriot missiles along Turkey’s border, for what it claims is “defense.” Over the past two years Syria has been fighting terrorists armed, funded, and equipped by NATO, of which Turkey is a member. Turkey has admitted its role in harboring and providing logistics for foreign fighters flooding across the border into Syria, many of whom are confirmed members of Al Qaeda. Despite this, Syria has gone through extraordinary lengths to avoid a confrontation with Turkey. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – NATO foreign ministers have approved the deployment of Patriot missiles in Turkey. Ankara had asked its Alliance partners for the weapons, after several deadly cross-border fire incidents with Syria. Asia Times correspondent Pepe Escobar says the deployment of Patriot missiles in Turkey is designed to further intimidate Damascus… Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The CIA is working closely with the government of Turkey behind the scenes to exacerbate the situation in Syria and create conditions for a regional war while U.S. officials and NATO publicly call for restraint. Read the rest of this entry »

(BusinessInsider) – Syria banned Turkish passenger flights from its airspace from Sunday in a retaliatory move after Turkey confiscated a cargo of what Russia said was radar equipment en route from Moscow to Damascus last week. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – According to witnesses, Turkey scrambled two fighter jets to the Syrian border in response to an army helicopter bombing the Syrian border town of Azmarin, Reuters reported. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Passengers onboard the plane intercepted by Turkish jets said that security forces were making the crew and passengers sign fraudulent papers suggesting that the plane made an emergency landing and no Turkish military were involved in the incident. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – The Turkish military shelled Syria for a sixth straight day Monday after the provincial governor’s office claimed a Syrian round landed in a cotton field near the town of Altinozu in the border province of Hatay. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Turkey has warned Syria against making what it calls a fatal mistake by repeating strikes across the border. Turkey fired back Saturday morning after another mortar struck its territory from Syria. No casualties have been reported in the latest exchange, which comes just days after 5 Turkish civilians were killed by Syrian shelling. Read the rest of this entry »

NATO powers desperate to create pretext for regime change

(PaulWatson) – Turkey lied to the United Nations when it claimed that Syria had apologized and taken responsibility for the mortar attack which led to a de facto declaration of war, increasing the likelihood that the shelling was actually carried out by Turkish-backed FSA rebels. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Turkey’s parliament has authorized the military to conduct cross-border attacks on Syria ‘when necessary’ Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Turkey military continues bombing Syria into the third day after an initial retaliation strike said to be in response to the shelling of a Turkish border. Read the rest of this entry »

October 5th, 2012

See Also: (PressTV) – Al-Qaeda-linked group admits execution of Syrian soldiers – Read More Here

Washington gives green light for Turkey’s de facto declaration of war

(PaulWatson) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has asked the United States to impose an immediate “no fly zone” over areas of Syria in the aftermath of a mortar attack which killed five Turkish civilians, according to a report by Israeli intelligence outfit DebkaFile. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – According to sources at the Israeli intelligence asset DEBKAfile, Turkey is attempting to cut a ten kilometer “buffer strip” with continuous artillery barrages on the Syrian side of the border. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmoAlexJones) – Syria’s mortar attack that killed civilians inside Turkey will prove to be the final domino to fall in a coordinated effort to take down both Syria and Iran. It is part of a not-so covert war started more than five years ago following the invasion of Iraq and the occupation of Afghanistan. Read the rest of this entry »

Turkey authorizes war, then claims it is not at war with Syria

(PaulWatson) – Following today’s parliamentary authorization for Turkey to conduct military attacks inside Syria, a move that is tantamount to a declaration of war, the assault on Syria is beginning to match precisely a strategy outlined by the neo-conservative Brookings Institution to achieve regime change. Read the rest of this entry »

(LandDestroyer) – After over a year of harboring foreign terrorists and supporting their operations near and across the Turkish-Syrian border, NATO-member Turkey has claimed it has retaliated with military force against “targets” inside Syria for an alleged attack on Turkish territory that it has blamed on the Syrian government. Read the rest of this entry »

(Reuters) – Turkish artillery hit targets near Syria’s Tel Abyad border town for a second day on Thursday, killing several Syrian soldiers according to activists and security sources, after a mortar bomb fired from the area killed five Turkish civilians. Read the rest of this entry »

(108Morris) – A very real feel and account of the situation in Turkey from a Turkish man living on the border. Read the rest of this entry »

(Youtube) – Lebanese Journalist for Al Jadeed TV, Yumna Fawaz was embedded with Syrian opposition groups on the Syria-Lebanese border. When she witnessed Turkish officers distributing weapons to insurgent groups inside Syria, as a result she was taken hostage by the Turkish officers and her video tapes siezed. The intention may have been to execute and silence her and blame the Syrian government, because at the same her station received news from the Free Syrian Army claiming that she has been killed by the Syrian government. A phone call may have saved her. Read the rest of this entry »

(ZeroHedge) – Following this morning’s reported shelling of a Turkish town (from Syrian lands): Read the rest of this entry »

(TimesofIsrael) – Devastating intelligence papers purport to prove jet was downed on Moscow’s orders, pilots captured alive by intelligence unit and then killed; Damascus had claimed June incident was an accident Read the rest of this entry »

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Istanbul, Turkey

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Killing of Journalist Maya Naser in Damascus possibly tied to his investigation into Turkey War Crimes

(NSBC) – Wednesday morning the renown journalist Maya Naser was shot dead by a sniper while he was reporting from the scene of two bomb blasts in central Damascus. Maya Naser was working for PRESS TV and Al–Alam in Damascus. Read the rest of this entry »

(KurtNimmo) – Syria’s Foreign Ministry has written a letter to the U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon accusing neighboring Turkey of allowing thousands of al-Qaeda and “Takfiri and Wahhabi terrorists” to cross the border to “kill innocent Syrians, blow up their properties and spread chaos and destruction.” Read the rest of this entry »

(DebkaFile) – Turkish army officers have assumed direct command of the first two Syrian rebel brigades fighting Bashar Assad’s government forces, according toDEBKAfile’s exclusive sources. This step has sent military tensions rocketing on Israel’s northern borders with Syria and Lebanon in case of a backlash. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – NBC news admits that Al Qaeda terrorists have infiltrated Syria but twists the story claiming the rebels want US military help to expel their presence. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – President Obama was photographed with an angry look holding a baseball bat in his hand while discussing Syria War plans with Turkey. Read the rest of this entry »

(PressTV) – An NBC news report reveals Turkey has supplied the foreign-sponsored terrorist gangs in Syria with surface-to-air missiles. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (PressTV) – Syrian Forces Defuse 8 bombs Planted By Rebel Terrorists – Read More Here

Also: (CNN) – U.S. Stepping Up Role Of Advising Syria Terrorists – Read More Here

(PressTV) – Turkey has set up a secret base near the Syrian border to send military and communications supplies to rebels terrorists. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – As NATO’s proxy terrorists collapse in both Damascus and Aleppo, Israel and Turkey prepare impending attack. Read the rest of this entry »

(YNet) – Russian technicians played a key part in the interception and shooting down of a Turkish warplane by Syria’s anti-aircraft defenses 10 days ago, Britain’s Sunday Times reported Sunday. Diplomatic sources in the Middle East told the paper that destroying the F-4E Phantom II was a split-second decision intended as a warning to NATO to stay out of Syria’s civil war. Read the rest of this entry »

Manufactured stunts to create pretext for war one of the oldest tricks in the book

(PaulWatson) – Syria’s downing of a Turkish F-4 Phantom jet last week, an event that has threatened to escalate the threat of NATO military action against President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime, mirrors previous instances where false flag provocations have been used or considered as a tool with which to create a justification for war. Read the rest of this entry »

(PatrickHenningsen) – Last Friday saw a Turkish combat jet downed in the Mediterranean Sea by Syrian antiaircraft batteries. Syria insists that Turkey’s F-4 Phantom  was shot down inside Syrian airspace.

It appears to be a Neo-Ottoman baiting exercise by NATO, and for all intents and purposes, it has worked - so far. Read the rest of this entry »

(PatrickHenningsen) - Details regarding today’s reports of a Turkish Jet which lost contact with air traffic control over Syrian airspace and crashed into Syrian territorial waters, are still unclear.

It is not known whether the jet was shot down or not. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – As Turkey provides Syria terrorists with military bases on its border they cite the NATO treaty to justify military intervention after skirmishes at those bases. Read the rest of this entry »

(AsiaTimes) – There is a video that could be loosely translated as “Terrorist Turkish border opening fire on the Syrian side” that pretty accurately sums up what’s going on at the ultra-volatile geopolitical hotspot of the moment. Read the rest of this entry »

(DebkaFile) – Tuesday night, April 10, after Damascus skipped the truce laid down in the UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan’s plan and escalated its attacks on the Syrian population, a change of tone was detected in the Obama administration. Read the rest of this entry »

(LandDestroyer) – Once again Turkey, a NATO member since 1952, is considering the partial military invasion of Syria to give foreign terrorists and extremist militants attempting to overthrow the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a reprieve in their failing campaign.

(ARSONomics) – What does the turmoil in the middle east and terrorism have in common? Both are being caused and propagated by Elites to further their own FINANCIAL and POLITICAL interests. Whether Obama, Bush, or Clinton, they are ALL working together. Is this what constitutes “American Interests” in the middle east: pipelines? Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (BFP) – Damning the Damnable Jane Harman – “The Marriage from Hell: Jane Harman & the Woodrow Wilson Center” – Read More Here

Turkey’s Sudden 180 Degree Turn on Syria

(BFP) – In the last few years a commonly and frequently used catch phrase among US policy makers and movers and shakers of the think tank industry when it comes to their ‘vision’ for the new Middle East has been ‘Moderate Islam.’ However, there is a literal and rational definition of ‘Moderately Islamic Government,’ then there is the real meaning, interpretation, implications and application of the term meant and used by the US and its Western extension when it comes to the New World Order. Read the rest of this entry »

Follow Up-The Continued Blackout on West’s Secret Training & Support Camp in Turkey for War on Syria

(BFP) – 12 days ago, on November 21, here at Boiling Frogs Post, I reportedon the ongoing joint US-NATO secret training camp in the US air force base in Incirlik, Turkey, which began operations in April- May 2011 to organize and expand the dissident base in Syria. I had received the information for that story from multiple sources including highly credible insiders in Turkey and government insiders here in the US. Here are a few excerpts from that story: Read the rest of this entry »

(CorbettReport) – Today we talk to Sibel Edmonds of BoilingFrogsPost.com about her recent article, “US-NATO-Chechen Militia Joint Operations Base.” We discuss the American financing, funding and protection of Islamic terrorists in Central Asia, the history of Turkish links with the CIA, the heart of Edmonds’ gagged whistleblower story, and the real endgame for the competing world powers in the Caucasus. Read the rest of this entry »