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Who Profits from Turkey’s ‘Sarajevo Moment’? Let’s cut to the chase: Ankara 2016 is not Sarajevo 1914.

Who Profits from Turkey’s ‘Sarajevo Moment’?

This is not a prelude to WWIII. Whoever plotted the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov – a cool, calm, collected old-school diplomat – risks a mighty blowback. The assassin, Mevlut Mert Altintas, was a 22-year-old police academy graduate. He was suspended from the Turkish National Police (TNP) over suspected links to the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization (FETO) after the failed July 15 putsch against Erdogan but returned to duty in November.

The Amazing Inside Story of How Erdogan and His Allies Blocked a Sophisticated Coup Attempt. Photo Credit: thomas koch / Shutterstock.com When Turkish President/aspiring Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport early Saturday morning, he declared the attempted coup against his government a failure, and a “gift from God.”

The Amazing Inside Story of How Erdogan and His Allies Blocked a Sophisticated Coup Attempt

God apparently uses Face Time. It was via that iconic iPhone footage from an undisclosed location shown live on CNN Turk by a bewildered female anchor that Erdogan managed to call his legion of followers to hit the streets, unleash People Power and defeat the military faction that had taken over state TV and proclaimed to be in charge. So God does work in mysterious mobile ways. What The Hell Is Happening In Turkey? By Brandon Turbeville | Activist Post With Turkey now undergoing the largest military/governmental purge in modern history, the question of Turkey’s future in terms of its domestic stability and structure is in flux and the possibilities facing the world, especially Syria, in regards to any changes of Turkish foreign policy are shaky as well.

What The Hell Is Happening In Turkey?

Behind The CIA Desperate Turkey Coup Attempt. On the evening of July 15, a group of Turkish army officers announced that they had staged a military coup d’etat and had assumed control of the country.

Behind The CIA Desperate Turkey Coup Attempt

Turkish Leader Praises Putin For Saving His Live—But Vows “Revenge” On Obama. World's Largest English Language News Service with Over 500 Articles Updated Daily "The News You Need Today…For The World You’ll Live In Tomorrow.

Turkish Leader Praises Putin For Saving His Live—But Vows “Revenge” On Obama

" What You Aren’t Being Told About The World You Live In How The “Conspiracy Theory” Label Was Conceived To Derail The Truth Movement How Covert American Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations July 17, 2016 Turkish Leader Praises Putin For Saving His Live—But Vows “Revenge” On Obama By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers A stunning Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that during President Putin’s just completed telephone conversation with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the embattled Turkish leader praised the Federation for saving his life and agreed to meet President Putin in the next fortnight—but, also, vowed “revenge” on President Obama for staging a failed coup d'état against his regime.

President Putin (left) President Erdoğan (right) Vladimir Putin Fights the War Party on All Fronts. - Advertisement - Reprinted from Telesur The Obama administration still sticks to the Cold War 2.0 script on Russia.

Vladimir Putin Fights the War Party on All Fronts

Obama and Putin(image by Democracy Now! , Channel: democracynow) License DMCA. Turkish President’s Son Who Raped And Murdered American And British Reporters Becomes Fugitive. Putin and Hollande go after Erdogan's racket. - Advertisement - Reprinted from RT Francois Hollande and Vladimir Putin(image by Pravda Report, Channel: PravdaTV) License DMCA It all started with French President Francois Hollande, after the Paris attacks, having the temerity to advance the idea of France working together with Russia in the same coalition against ISIS/ISIL/Daesh in Syria.

Putin and Hollande go after Erdogan's racket

Turkish President Recep Tayyip "no excuse" Erdogan thought NATO and Russia by this time would be at each other's -- Cold War 2.0 -- nuclear throats, while Washington had brushed off Hollande's idea with a cascade of platitudes and distortions. And in less than 17 seconds, Prime Minister Ahmet "I ordered it myself" Davutoglu had authorized Turkey to shoot down a Russian Su-24 -- only a few hours before Hollande met with President Obama.

So everything seemed to be falling into place. Not so fast, Sultan. Thousands Of Russian Troops Head To Turkish Border As US Planes Flee From Syrian Skies. World's Largest English Language News Service with Over 500 Articles Updated Daily.

Thousands Of Russian Troops Head To Turkish Border As US Planes Flee From Syrian Skies

Time to Blame the Right People for the Refugee Debacle. Let’s get this straight, up to 6 million refugees are waiting to get into Western Europe.

Time to Blame the Right People for the Refugee Debacle

This is life and death for them, no Arab country wants them and the irony of six million people dying in Israeli concentration camps is unavoidable. This is an unprecedented human disaster with 300,000 murdered already. First we can very simply describe who killed them, starting with ISIS and al Nusra murder squads. That alone covers 90%.

We could then go to Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Israel, all of whom have had advisors killed and captured inside Syria. All of this has been made possible, has been allowed to carry on year after year because of a sea of lies that flows from the CIA. Turkey Is Using ISIS as Cover for Its War Against Kurdish Activists. In the days and even hours before the bomb went off, the atmosphere among Turkey’s young leftists had been hopeful, even upbeat.

Turkey Is Using ISIS as Cover for Its War Against Kurdish Activists

The country’s Islamist government had just failed to win a parliamentary majority, and socialist feminists in Kurdistan were managing to simultaneously keep the Islamic State, or ISIS, at bay and experiment with a new kind of local direct democracy. While some had worried that a violent backlash by the conservative ruling party might be brewing, the usual repression and harassment had somewhat ebbed. For the country’s progressives, it felt as if the region might at last be ready for a politics of secularism, environmentalism, and women’s rights.