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Turkey Threatens to Invade Greece

February 19, 2018 By administrator

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recently said: “We warn those who have crossed the line in the Aegean and Cyprus… Their courage persists only until they see our army, our ships and our planes.” (Photo by Elif Sogut/Getty Images)

by Uzay Bulut,

  • Turkey’s ruling party, and even much of the opposition, seem intent on, if not obsessed with, invading and conquering these Greek islands, on the grounds that they are actually Turkish territory.
  • “The things we have done so far [pale in comparison to the] even greater attempts and attacks [we are planning for] the coming days, inshallah [Allah willing].” – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, February 12, 2018.
  • The head of the state-funded Directorate of Religious Affairs, the Diyanet, has openly described Turkey’s recent military invasion of Afrin as “jihad.” This designation makes sense when one considers that Muslim Turks owe their demographic majority in Asia Minor to centuries of Turkish persecution and discrimination against the Christian, Yazidi and Jewish inhabitants of the area.

In an incident that took place less than two weeks after the Greek Defense Ministry announced that Turkey had violated Greek airspace 138 times in a single day, a Turkish coast guard patrol boat on February 13 rammed a Greek coast guard vessel off the shore of Imia, one of many Greek islands over which Turkey claims sovereignty.

Most of the areas within modern Greece’s current borders were under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire from the mid-15th century until the Greek War of Independence in 1821 and the establishment of the modern Greek state in 1832. The islands, however, like the rest of Greece, are legally and historically Greek, as their names indicate.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), however, and even much of the opposition seem intent on, if not obsessed with, invading and conquering these Greek islands, on the grounds that they are actually Turkish territory.

In December, for instance, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main Turkish opposition CHP party, stated that when he wins the election in 2019, he will “invade and take over 18 Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, just as former Turkish PM Bulent Ecevit invaded Cyprus in 1974.” He said that there is “no document” proving that those islands belong to Greece.

Meral Akşener, the head of the newly established opposition “Good Party,” has also called for an invasion and conquest of the islands. “What is required must be done,” she tweeted on January 13.

The most garish muscle-flexing has come from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of course, who seems emboldened by his military invasion of the Afrin region in northern Syria having gone virtually unchallenged.

“We warn those who have crossed the line in the Aegean and Cyprus,” Erdoğan declared, continuing:

“Their courage persists only until they see our army, our ships and our planes… Whatever Afrin is to us, our rights in the Aegean and Cyprus are the same. Do not ever think that the natural gas exploration in the waters of Cyprus and the opportunistic attempts in the Aegean Sea drop off our radar.

“Just as we disrupt the plots [in the region] through Operation Euphrates Shield and Operation Olive Branch [on Syria], and soon in Manbij and other regions, we can and we will disrupt the plots of those who engage in miscalculations on our southern border… Our warships and air forces are keeping an eye on the area closely to intervene in every way when required.”

Referring to the days of the Ottoman Empire, Erdoğan went on:

“Those who think that we have erased from our hearts the lands from which we withdrew in tears a hundred years ago are wrong.

“We say at every opportunity we have that Syria, Iraq and other places in the geography [map] in our hearts are no different from our own homeland. We are struggling so that a foreign flag will not be waved anywhere where adhan [Islamic call to prayer in mosques] is recited.

“The things we have done so far [pale in comparison to the] even greater attempts and attacks [we are planning for] the coming days, inshallah [Allah willing].”

The Ottoman dynasty and empire was established by a nomadic Turkmen chief sometime around the year 1300. During the more than 600 years of the Ottoman period, the Ottoman Turks, who also represented the Islamic Caliphate, regularly launched wars of jihad, invading and occupying lands across five continents.

Neo-Ottomanists in Turkey still proudly embrace the concept of jihad (Islamic holy war) against the kafirs (infidels). The head of the state-funded Directorate of Religious Affairs, the Diyanet, has openly described Turkey’s recent military invasion of Afrin as “jihad.”

This designation makes sense when one considers that Muslim Turks owe their demographic majority in Asia Minor to centuries of Turkish Muslim persecution and discrimination against the Christian, Yazidi and Jewish inhabitants of the area. In the 11th century, Turkic jihadists from Central Asia invaded and conquered the Greek-speaking, Christian Byzantine Empire, paving the way for the gradual Turkification and Islamization of the region through methods such as murder, kidnapping, rape and forced conversions.

The greatest 20th century Turkish assault against Christians took place in the 1914-1923 genocide of Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians (Syriacs/Chaldeans) in Ottoman Turkey. This did not prevent Turkey, which continues to deny the genocide, from becoming a member of NATO in 1952. The assault also did not stop Turkey, three years after joining NATO, from committing a savage anti-Greek pogrom in Istanbul or from forcibly expelling the remaining Greeks from Turkey in 1964.

It is precisely because the Turks have never been held accountable for their criminal actions and aggression that they continue to threaten the security and sovereignty of their neighbors. It is high time for the West wake up and take Ankara to task.

Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist born and raised in Turkey. She is presently based in Washington D.C.

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Breaking News: Turkey Erdogan threatens to shut off oil pipeline, to close border on Kurdistan

September 25, 2017 By administrator

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Ankara would close its border with northern Iraq over an independence referendum and threatened the Iraqi Kurds with blocking their key oil exports.
Erdogan commented on the Kurdistan referendum from the Islamic Cooperation Ombudsmen conference.

“Entrance-exit will be closed” at the Habur border crossing to the Kurdistan Region, Erdogan said in a speech as he angrily denounced Monday’s referendum as “illegitimate,” according to AFP.

He added: “After this let’s see… who they sell (their oil) to. The valve is with us. It’s finished the moment we close it.”

The president didn’t rule any possibilities out.

“If there is a threat against us in Iraq and Syria, all options are on the table,” he said.

“We are not and will not threaten Turkey’s national security, and neither will we intervene in the Turkish affairs, not today, and neither in the future. We want to be a good neighbor,” Barzani said.

He added that that Turkey, and others should see the vote for what it is — an expression of the will of the people exclusive for the Iraqi Kurdistan.

“It has been two months that I have been trying and requesting to visit Turkey so that I will explain that this process of ours is not a threat to Turkey. It is unfortunate that they did not agree to this opportunity to me — or us — to explain it to them up close,” Barzani said adding that other relations with Turkey are continuing such as continued phone calls.

Source: http://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/turkey/25092017

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Turkey threatens to attack Kurdish-held Manbij, Syria

October 27, 2016 By administrator

turkey-kurd-destructionTurkish forces in Syria will attack the Kurdish-held town of Manbij after taking the town of al-Bab from Islamic State, the Turkish president has said. He added that Turkey would not allow the Kurds to hold an area west of Mosul, Iraq.

In addition to threatening Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a speech on Thursday reiterated Ankara’s willingness to send troops to Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) Syrian stronghold Raqqa after dealing with al-Bab. Erdogan also said he had informed the US of the plans on Wednesday.

Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik told state broadcaster TRT on Thursday that Ankara does not want Kurdish forces to take part in a future offensive on Raqqa, and has asked the US not to call them in. The US military had earlier said Kurdish YPG militias would be part of the offensive against IS in Syria.

Turkey launched a ground incursion into Syria in August, attacking both IS and Kurdish militias. The force includes both Turkish regular troops and Turkish-backed Syrian militias fighting as the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The Turkish Air Force supports the offensive.

Kurdish militias have been a key ally of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State both in Syria and Iraq. Iraqi Kurds are taking part in the ongoing offensive against Mosul, another stronghold of the terrorist organization. In Syria, coalition airstrikes helped a mixed Kurdish-Arab force dominated by the YPG to take Manbij from IS in August.

The US support for the Kurdish fighters has angered Ankara, which considers them terrorists and a major security threat to Turkey. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey waged a decades-long guerrilla war against the Turkish government. Ankara says Kurds in neighboring Syria and Iraq are helping the PKK in the hostilities and regularly attacks Kurdish positions in both countries.

The Mosul operation in Iraq highlighted the disarray in the coalition, with Turkey forcing its way into taking part in the campaign despite objections from the Kurds and the Iraqi government. It also insisted that Shiite militias, which helped the regular Iraqi Army fight IS, were not part of the offensive.

On Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu threatened that Turkey will use its ground forces in Iraq to attack the Kurds if it felt threatened. In his Thursday speech, President Erdogan said Turkey would not allow the Kurdish militias holding the region of Sinjar west of Mosul to turn it into a new base for the PKK.

Launching an offensive in Raqqa is reportedly an option that the administration of President Barack Obama may take before he leaves office in January. Providing more weapons to the Kurds is considered a possible element for such an operation, but Turkish actions, which have already disrupted the White House’s timetable for Raqqa, have put the plan into question, the New York Times reported last week.

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Terrorist State of Turkey Threatens Armenia With “Another Armenian Genocide”

April 5, 2016 By administrator

Erdogan with GenocideNewsWire.com
April 4 2016

Turkey Threatens Armenia With “Another Armenian Genocide”

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Sean Adl-Tabatabai

Turkey are to begin military operations against the Republic of
Armenia – just a century after they attempted to wipe the country off
the face of the earth in the brutal killing of 1.5 million of its
citizens in what is known today as the Armenian Genocide.

According to Russian intelligence sources Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan has voiced concerns that the 3 million population
nation of Armenia has become the “greatest threat to world peace”, and
has vowed to “do something about it”.

Whatdoesitmean.com reports:

Once gaining their own nation, however, this report notes, Armenia was
forced to come to the aid of the Christian Armenian’s living in the
Nagorno-Karabakh region of the Islamic Republic of Azerbaijan—who had
vowed, since 1988, to eliminate Christianity from their borders
altogether, and which led to the Nagorno-Karabakh War that ended in
1994 with a death toll over 30,000 and the displacement of nearly 1
million more.

Though this war has remained a “frozen conflict” for the past 22
years, MoD experts in this report say, this past week it became “hot”
when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan traveled to his $100
million American palace outside of Washington D.C. to meet with his
paid Mercury LLC lobbyists—who then immediately began warning US
politicians that the 3 million populated Christian nation of Armenia
had now became the greatest threat to world peace known in our times.

Within hours of Erdogan’s US lobbyists from Mercury LLC giving such an
outlandish and absurd warning, this report continues, Turkish backed
Azerbaijan launched a “massive attack” with tanks, artillery and
helicopters against the Armenian protected Christians in the
Nagorno-Karabakh region with their Russian Ambassador, Polad
Bulbuloglu, stating “The attempts of a peaceful solution to this
conflict have been underway for 22 years. How much more will it take?
We are ready for a peaceful solution to the issue. But if it’s not
solved peacefully then we will solve it by military means”—a statement
fully backed by Erdoğan too.

With Turkey being the key supplier of weapons and military hardware to
the Islamic State terrorists for the genocide of Christians in Iraq
and Syria, the MoD says in this report, Armenia’s President Serzh
Sargsian ordered his foreign ministry to “draft a treaty on mutual
military assistance with Nagorno-Karabakh” to protect these Christians
from “Erdoğan’s wrath” lest these Christians suffer the same fate.

Vice speaker of Russia’s State Duma (lower house of parliament) Sergei
Zheleznyak further warned that Turkey was the “third force” behind the
war developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, this report
continues, describing them as a provocation—which back in February,
NATO stated it was growing “nervous” about should Erdoğan’s
provocations against Christians erupt into a full scale war with
Russia.

NATO’s fears are, indeed, justified, this report notes, (and as we had
previously reported on) after President Putin, this past November
(2015), ordered thousands of additional Federation military forces to
Armenia should Erdoğan attempt the war moves he has begun this past
week against the Christian Armenian peoples living in
Nagorno-Karabakh.

And as to exactly why Erdoğan, and his son Bilal who funds ISIS, are
intent on igniting a war in Nagorno-Karabakh, this report concludes,
is due to the ongoing talks between Russia and the Obama regime to
coordinate their attack on the Turkish supported Islamic State capital
of Raqqa (in northern Syria) which the US is preparing for a massive
increase of Special Forces troops to conduct—and if successful, would
destroy Turkey’s dream of Middle East dominance and cost them millions
of dollars.

Sorce: http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg568783.html

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Terrorist State of Turkey threatens ‘whatever necessary’ to combat Kurdish autonomy ‘mindset’ in Syria

October 29, 2015 By administrator

56319d5ec46188847b8b45edThreatening continued assaults on the Kurdish militia in Syria, the Turkish president has warned he will not request anyone’s permission to do whatever is necessary to prevent the spread of support for Kurdish autonomy, even if it requires bombing US-allied rebels.

In a clear message to dissuade Kurds from supporting the self-declared autonomous town of Tel Abyad near the Turkish border, President Tayyip Erdogan said that he will “do what is necessary,” including using force, to eradicate the potential source of separatism along its borders.

Tel Abyad, on the border with Turkey, was captured in June from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) by Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters with the help of American-led air strikes. Last week, a local council led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) declared it part of the system of autonomous self-government established by the Kurds. Since the conflict in Syria broke out in 2011, Syrian Kurds have declared three autonomous zones, called “cantons,” across northern Syria, but deny that they are aiming to establish their own state.

Alarmed by Kurdish territorial gains, Turkey fears that the latest creation of autonomous Tel Abyad canton could stir separatism among its own Kurdish minority. YPG has been a key ally of the US in the fight against Islamic State in Syria, but Erdogan’s message sends out a clear sign that Turkey’s national interests supersedes those of the United States and NATO.

“We are determined to [combat] anything that threatens us along the Syrian border, inside or out,” Turkish President told Kanal 24 television station on Wednesday.

“If the Kurds withdraw and don’t form a canton, there’s no problem. But if the mindset continues, then what is necessary will be done or we face serious problems,” Erdogan said.

The Turkish President also accused Washington of double standards and claimed that the PYD allegedly carried out ethnic cleansing of Arabs and Turkmen in Northern Syria, equating US support for the Kurdish militias to aiding terrorism.

“They don’t even accept the PYD as a terrorist organization. What kind of nonsense is this?” he said. “The West still has the mentality of ‘my terrorist is good, yours is bad,’” Erdogan said.

Turkey has for the past three decades been trying to end an insurgency by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters. PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by the United States and European Union. Erdogan said 1,400 PKK militants were fighting alongside the YPG in Syria.

Ankara confirmed on Monday that it had already conducted two strikes on Kurdish forces in Syria as a “warning.”

“This was a warning. Pull yourself together,” Erdogan said. “If you try to do this elsewhere – Turkey doesn’t need permission from anyone – we will do what is necessary.”

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Turkish Radical Threatens to ‘Hunt for Armenians’ In Streets of Kars

June 25, 2015 By administrator

the notorious Grey Wolves activist Tolga Adıgüzel

the notorious Grey Wolves activist Tolga Adıgüzel

KARS—The head of the local branch of the notorious Grey Wolves, Tolga Adıgüzel has threatened that his group would “hunt for Armenians” in Kars, after world-renowned pianist Tigran Hamasyan performed a concert at the ruins of Ani, Ermenihaber.am reported, citing Turkish Radikal daily.

Adıgüzel went on to accuse Armenians of organizing what he called “the events of 1915” and “Khodjaly.

“What should we do now? Should we start a hunt for Armenians in the streets of Kars?” asked Adıgüzel.

He urged Armenians “not to test the patience of Turks.” He added that “Turks, for example, cannot go to Armenia and freely organize an event at a sacred site for Armenians.” He threatened to take necessary measures “if events repeat.”

Within the framework of the Luys I Luso program, Tigran Hamasyan will perform Armenian musical selections in 100 churches in Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Lebanon, France, Belgium, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Germany, Luxemburg, the United States and Russia.

The program is a new interpretation of Armenian religious music from the 5th to the 20th centuries, which will be released on a CD in September 2015.

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NATO, not Russia, threatens Baltics: Moscow

February 19, 2015 By administrator

File photo shows NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, during a meeting of NATO ambassadors.

File photo shows NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, during a meeting of NATO ambassadors.

Moscow has rejected the British defense secretary’s allegation that Russia poses a threat to the Baltic countries, saying the real risk comes from NATO’s increased activity.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich, said Thursday that British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon’s remarks are beyond “diplomatic ethics.”

“The comments of Mr. Fallon of course are already beyond diplomatic ethics and the characterization of Russia is completely intolerable,” Lukashevich added.

The Russian diplomat, who was speaking to journalists in a weekly briefing, said Moscow would certainly find a way “to respond to the comments”.

In an interview with Times and Daily Telegraph newspapers, Fallon (pictured above) had claimed that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin posed what he called a real danger to Baltic states, namely Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

This comes as British jets were scrambled Wednesday after two Russian military aircraft were seen flying close to the UK airspace.

A similar incident occurred in January, when the UK Foreign Office said two Russian bombers flying near the UK airspace had caused disruption to civil aviation.

British Prime Minister David Cameron later said he didn’t deem it necessary to “dignify” the Russians with a response for their provocation.

Meanwhile, Estonia’s Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas (pictured above) announced Thursday that his country is to host additional NATO forces on its soil. He said the country is ready to make an special investment program worth €40 million for hosting the additional forces.

NATO and Russia are already at loggerheads over the crisis in east Ukraine which has claimed the lives of more than 5,700 people. Hopes were revived after leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France agreed on a truce deal last Thursday in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. However, clashes have continued with the two sides claiming that they are committed to implementing the ceasefire.

Western governments accuse Russia of having a major hand in the armed confrontation in east Ukraine. Moscow denies that, saying that the Western-backed government in Kiev should stop suppressing the rights of the ethnic Russian population in that part of the country.

 

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United State threatens Turkish and Kurdish middlemen in ISIS oil bonanza

October 23, 2014 By administrator

By James Reinl
74823Image1US Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen. Photo: AFP.

NEW YORK – A US treasury official has warned Turkish and Kurdish middlemen against trading in Islamic State (ISIS) oil by threatening to slap US sanctions on those caught dealing with the extremist group. report Rudaw

US officials have discreetly criticised the illicit Turkish and Kurdish trade in oil from ISIS, which is also known as IS and ISIL, but comments from US Treasury Undersecretary David Cohen in Washington on Thursday, were the clearest warning so far.

“Last month, ISIL was selling oil at substantially discounted prices to a variety of middlemen, including some from Turkey,” Cohen said. “It also appears that some of the oil emanating from territory where ISIL operates has been sold to Kurds in Iraq, and then resold into Turkey.”

A US-led coalition began launching air strikes on ISIS in Iraq in August and Syria in September, including on ISIS-run oilfields and refineries – bringing crude production down to 20,000 barrels a day, less than a third of what it was last summer, the International Energy Agency said.

“Airstrikes on ISIL oil refineries are threatening ISIL’s supply networks and depriving it of fuel to sell or use itself,” Cohen added. “Our partners in the region, including Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government, are committed to preventing ISIL-derived oil from crossing their borders.”

Speaking at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cohen threatened sanctions against anyone buying oil from ISIS. He said that ISIS funding from oil sales, ransoms, extortion and other criminal activities were difficult revenue streams to stop.

“With the important exception of some state-sponsored terrorist organizations, ISIL is probably the best-funded terrorist organization we have confronted,” Cohen said. “We have no silver bullet, no secret weapon to empty ISIL’s coffers overnight.”

US-led airstrikes continued against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, part of a strategy by US President Barack Obama’s to “degrade and destroy” the group that has been criticised for its limited military firepower and lacklustre political support.

On Wednesday, a survey by Pew Research Center found that most Americans say the US military effort against ISIS is not going well, while just 30 per cent of those surveyed said the US and its allies have a “clear goal” in taking military action.

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