Tag: Davutoglu
On March 11th, a news-report was headlined «VIDEO: Kurds in Turkey Accuse Erdogan for Mass and Genocidal Massacre», but the resurgent fascist-nationalist, and self-righteously Sunni-Islamic, Saudi and US-allied government of Turkey doesn’t hate and despise only Kurds – as horrific as those reports are. (And those videos and pictures make clear the government’s bloody contempt of Kurds.)…
Three of Germany's 16 states held elections on March 13. Together, they have 17 million of Germany's 81.5 million inhabitants. Some 12.7 million people were eligible to vote…
Anyone who haggled about the price of a carpet in a Turkish bazaar knows these guys are more reptilian than Henry Kissinger. They always get what they want by letting you leave with the impression you got what you want for a price way higher than you were initially inclined to pay…
The EU and Turkey have held an emergency summit amid the worsening dispute between those parties over issues such as the effectiveness of Turkey’s use of the funds allocated by the EU for the resettlement of refugees, protection from illegal migration across the EU’s external borders, and assistance to Greece – a transit point for most of these displaced people. However, as much as can be understood from Angela Merkel’s speeches and interviews, there will be no review of the migration policy of the EU as a whole…
