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3 mayors arrested in southern Turkey as part of crackdown on opposition
AP ^
| July 5, 2025
| ANDREW WILKS
Posted on 07/05/2025 5:19:24 PM PDT by george76
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posted on
07/05/2025 5:19:24 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Erdogan cracking down on his political opponents...just like his buddy in Ukraine.
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posted on
07/05/2025 5:46:13 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: george76
The Nation of Islam wanting to capture Turkey ?
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posted on
07/05/2025 5:55:17 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Sailing the Seas of Ignorance on a ship named "Free Republic".)
To: UCANSEE2
Ottoman Empire 2.0 is coming.
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posted on
07/05/2025 5:56:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: UCANSEE2
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posted on
07/05/2025 6:11:18 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: dfwgator
And it won’t be good at all.
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posted on
07/05/2025 6:11:30 PM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
Why is this country still part of NATO?
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posted on
07/05/2025 6:25:49 PM PDT
by
Negan
To: dfwgator
Ottoman Empire 2.0 is coming.
The Islamic conquest of Europe began in 2015 when Erdogan released a million "migrants" into Europe, and most made their way to Germany. Erdogan won't live to see it, but one of his successors will arm and fund Islamic political resistance in Europe, like Erdogan did in Syria to eliminate the secular Assad, who ironically, was a throwback to Ataturk.
To: george76
Arrested? I suppose that is better than the polonium appetizers.
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posted on
07/05/2025 7:28:39 PM PDT
by
Ronaldus Magnus III
(Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
To: mass55th
And Lindsey Graham loves both of them.
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posted on
07/05/2025 7:39:02 PM PDT
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
To: dfwgator
The Sultan Erdogan was given Syria by Lindsey Graham and DJT and has Azerbaijan and Qatar in close orbit.
The drum beaters for Israel have openly warned of the Qatari influence.
Cops in Israel are investigating Qatari money going to people who were close to Netanyahu that’s how crazy it is with Qatar and its money that went to Hamas as well in Gaza.
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posted on
07/05/2025 7:43:30 PM PDT
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
This is Cologne, not Istanbul.
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posted on
07/05/2025 7:58:45 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Nextrush
"And Lindsey Graham loves both of them."
ROFL!!! Both their ends.
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posted on
07/05/2025 8:03:14 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: Nextrush
If I were Armenian, I would be feeling pretty nervous.
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posted on
07/05/2025 9:39:56 PM PDT
by
CrimsonTidegirl
(R.I.P. Diogo Jota! Gone too soon! You’ll never walk alone. #20 #Liverpool)
To: CrimsonTidegirl
The situation is interesting between Russia and Azerbaijan right now with internal conflict underway inside Armenia between pro and anti-EU NATO forces.
The Russian military maintains a presence in Armenia.
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posted on
07/05/2025 9:50:04 PM PDT
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
To: Nextrush
“The Sultan Erdogan was given Syria by Lindsey Graham and DJT”
How exactly, did “DJT” do that?
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posted on
07/05/2025 11:40:21 PM PDT
by
rxh4n1
To: rxh4n1
By lifting the sanctions on Syria recently to sanctify the takeover by the Turkish-backed jihadists.
Back in the Bush-Obama days the sanctions were imposed in the first place to isolate Syria then wage war on it starting in 2011.
The old regime that Trump described with the expression “butcher Assad” is gone.
Trump would explain the recent lifting of sanctions to you and me as reversing bad policies of Obama and so on.
I saw the POTUS get testy with Benjamin Netanyahu when Bibi raised objections to the new Syrian government. Right there in the Oval Office with JD Vance and so on.
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posted on
07/06/2025 4:50:26 AM PDT
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
To: Nextrush
“By lifting the sanctions on Syria”
That isn’t giving Syria to Erdogan. He already had it. Got any better ideas? What do you want? More war?
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posted on
07/06/2025 9:14:03 AM PDT
by
rxh4n1
To: Negan
Why is this country still part of NATO?Most countries in the EU are doing this already.
Even USA did the same stuff (under the Biden Administration).
To: rxh4n1
A decision has been made to placate Turkey-Qatar and aligned nations of the New Ottoman Empire that is for sure for better or worse.
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posted on
07/06/2025 11:42:29 AM PDT
by
Nextrush
(FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, REMEMBER REV; NIEMOLLER)
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