Tag: PKK

Erdogan repairs Syria ties with eye on Eurasianism

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Tuesday, 23 August 2022 — Indian Punchline

Chairman of Turkey’s left-wing and nationalist Patriotic Party, Dogu Perincek is reportedly leading a delegation to Damascus (File photo)

Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev regarding the forthcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Samarkand on September 15-16. This must be the fourth or fifth time the two leaders confabulated over the upcoming event. One lost count!

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Kurds in Syria: ‘We don’t want to draw new borders’, says Democratic Union Party

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29 January 2014 — Links • International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Salih Muslim, president of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, interviewed by Thomas Schmidinger

Salih Muslim shares the presidency of the Democratic Union Party (Partiya Yekitîya Demokrat, PYD) with Asya Abdullah. The PYD is a sister party of the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK and shares the same ideological background as its leader Abdullah Öcalan. The party is the ruling force in the Kurdish areas of Syria and took over three enclaves with Kurdish majorities in 2012.

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ICH 21 March 2013: CIA Plans to Keep Your Information ‘Forever’

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21 March 2013 — Information Clearing House

Friction Behind The Smiles
Obama’s New Strategy in the Middle East
By Ron Ben-Yishai
Washington wants Israel to be a quiet partner in this axis so that the Jewish state will be able to cooperate with its neighbors over the table, and mainly under it. This could be beneficial in the event that the US or Israel – or both countries – attack Iran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34367.htm 

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Information Clearing House Newsletter 9 February 2012: British, Qatari Troops Waging Secret War in Syria?

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9 February, 2012 — Information Clearing House

Israel Kills Iran’s Nuclear Scientists, U.S. officials
By Richard Engel and Robert Windrem
Iranian nuclear scientists are being killed by an Iranian dissident group that is financed, trained and armed by Israel‘s secret service, U.S. officials tell NBC News.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30478.htm

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Information Clearing House Newsletter 11 September 2011: Imagine

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11 September 2011 — Information Clearing House

New American Ally in Somalia: ‘Butcher’ Warlord
By David Axe
If you thought it was bad that Washington is paying a shady French mercenary to do its dirty work in Somalia, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29097.htm

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