Yoda: Turkey & Iran Convergence, Off-Set to Sunni Extremism — Can Secular Pragmatism Create One Prosperous Muslim Faith?

De-Americanization? Iran, Turkey must work together to fight IS: Rouhani TEHRAN: Iran and Turkey must work with one another to root out the threat of extremism in the region, President Hassan Rouhani told his Turkish counterpart, the official IRNA news agency reported. … “A consolidation and expansion of ties between Tehran and Ankara is of …

Berto Jongman: Symour Hersh on Obama’s Wrong Red Line, CIA’s Illegal Rat Line and The Benghazi-Turkey-Syria Cluster

The Red Line and the Rat Line Seymour M. Hersh on Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this …

Berto Jongman: Turkey Buys Chinese Missiles, Separates from NATO — De-Americanization Moves Forward

Turkish missile deal ‘almost done’: Chinese company Chinese firm China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corp. (CPMIEC) has made its first public statement on Turkey’s $3.4 billion long-range air and missile defense system, claiming that the finalization of the tender “is almost done.” Wu Yang, the coordinator of the project, spoke at DIMDEX 2014 International Maritime Defence …

Worth a Look: Reset – Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future

The bestselling author of Overthrow offers a new and surprising vision for rebuilding America’s strategic partnerships in the Middle East What can the United States do to help realize its dream of a peaceful, democratic Middle East? Stephen Kinzer offers a surprising answer in this paradigm-shifting book. Two countries in the region, he argues, are …

NIGHTWATCH: Turkey Joining Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)?

Turkey: Prime Minister Erdogan called on Russian President Putin to let Turkey join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) during a joint press conference the two leaders held in St. Petersburg. “Include us in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and relieve us from this pain,” Erdogan told Putin in a reference to Turkey’s long European Union membership …

4th Media: Turkey Has Let Foreign Supported Terrorists from 83 Countries Enter Syria to Topple Assad Government

Turkey Has Let Foreign Supported Terrorists from 83 Countries Enter Syria to Topple Assad Government Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad says Ankara government has let militants from 83 countries to enter Syria. Turkey, one of the key supporters of the war in Syria, has been widely criticized by Damascus for leaving its borders open …