The Middle East

[TheBare]

Turkey??? I don't know?? Hold the mayo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBLA0aEVd4

[Puhbear69]

Originally Posted by deepsepia

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And if you say "well, I don't see how it could get worse" . . . well then, you need to think about it some more.

Because it can always be worse.

And a Turkish civil war . . . that would be worse.

Don't forget: It's all done by Erdogan and his Party. I don't think the Turkish civilians would let themselves pull into the conflict between the government party and the PKK. They do know what there's going on.
With the Turkish military, police and secret service I suppose it is a different matter.

[SanteeFats]

Hmmm I wonder if this just for world consumption or to really cut down on stuff?

JERUSALEM
Israel will allow harsher interrogations of suspected Jewish militants, with methods once reserved for Palestinian detainees, after a deadly West Bank attack blamed on ultra-nationalists, a minister said on Monday.
The announcement came a day after the government said it would start detaining citizens suspected of political violence against Palestinians without trial, another practice previously used only on Palestinian suspects.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security Cabinet came under growing pressure to crack down on violent far-right Jewish groups after arsonists killed a Palestinian toddler and severely injured his parents and brother on Friday.
Interior Security Minister Gilad Erdan said the security Cabinet that approved the detention measures on Sunday had also authorized stronger interrogations. REUTERS

[Puhbear69]

Turkey-Kurdish conflict: Meeting the victims of a new bombing campaign over Iraq




Ahmed was watering his crop of cucumbers and tomatoes in the mountain village of Bolla when he heard the distant rumble of warplanes.

A government employee working in the nearby Iraqi Kurdish city of Ranya, the 62-year-old had travelled to his ancestral village to tend his crops just after dawn.
But the mountains are also home to camps for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which waged a 30-year long war with Turkey for rights and self-rule before a ceasefire was declared two years ago.
At 6am the fighter jets began attacking a few miles away, “I saw the smoke rising,” he told The Independent. “Another two warplanes came and hit the meadows around one mile north of the village. They were getting closer to the ground and were making a terrifying sound. They fired two or three bombs each,” he said.
Last week, Turkey began attacks against Isis in Syria, which the PKK accuses them of aiding, but also launched strikes against the PKK, effectively ending the fragile peace process.


Read More: The Independent - Turkey-Kurdish conflict: Meeting the victims of a new bombing campaign over Iraq

[SanteeFats]

Originally Posted by Puhbear69

[SIZE=4][B][SIZE=5]Turkey-Kurdish conflict:

Yeah at least Erdogan has a problem with the PKK I don't know if Turks in general feel the same about the Kurds or maybe just the PKK but Erdogan is the big bad boss man right now.

[Puhbear69]

In 2003 was Erdogan and his party good for Turkey. And he was also not so extreme as he is emerging today. The two big parties of Turkey, the conservatives on one side and the social-democrates on the other side were totally estranged and more or less corrupt. The Turks had enough of it. Do you know the saying: the sick man from the Bosporus? That was Turkey with it's massive inflation rate.

So Erdogan and his party got on power. It was a religious and conserative Party.
The former laicism of Ataturk got more and more pushed back. The outward appearance of the woman (in the bigger towns) is a clear indication to that, you can find less and lesser woman without a headscarf. Also alcohol in public becomes more and more a taboo. And Turkey is producing famous wines since the times of the Roman Empire.

So he has a lot of followers at the countryside, but in the the Towns he lost all voters.
Meanwhile corruption has reached Erdogan himself, his family and hist party.

„The democracy is only the train, on which we are embarking until we have reached our destination. The mosques are our barracks, the minarets are our bayonets, the domes are our helmets and the believer are our soldiers.“

– Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Unmasking him, is't it ?

[SanteeFats]

Daesh just keeps on spreading it around to almost any one and every one.

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA
An allegedly new Islamic State affiliate in Saudi Arabia claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a mosque inside a police compound in the country’s southwest on Thursday that killed at least 15 people, most of them members and recruits of the kingdom’s special forces.
It was the deadliest attack against Saudi security personnel in years and one that is likely to pull the kingdom deeper into the regional war with Islamic State extremists.
The blast took place in an Interior Ministry compound in the city of Abha, the provincial capital of Asir, which lies along the border with war-torn Yemen. The troops killed were members of an elite counter-terrorism force.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

[SanteeFats]

The good ol' Tallyban at it again.

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
A barrage of deadly suicide attacks killed at least 40 people and wounded hundreds more in Kabul on Friday, ending a two-monthlong lull in major terrorist strikes in the capital, according to Afghan officials. It was the deadliest day in Kabul so far this year.
After two earlier waves of attacks, a third large explosion went off late at night as insurgents attacked a base used by special forces in the Qasaba neighborhood, north of the international airport. One member of Afghanistan’s NATO force and two insurgents were killed in the battle that lasted into this morning.
The attacks were the first major terrorist strikes in the capital since reports surfaced that the nominal leaders of two major Afghan insurgent groups had been dead for months or years, suggesting that insurgent elements were trying to prove they were still capable of launching deadly attacks.
A Kabul police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the press, said that at least 25 people were killed when four suicide attackers tried to enter the Kabul Police Academy compound shortly before 8 p.m., setting off explosives in an attempt to breach the wall.
It was not immediately clear how many of the dead were police or cadets. The reported death toll was confirmed by a second police official.
All four attackers were killed before managing to enter the academy compound, the officials said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said his group claimed responsibility for the attack on the police academy.
In the day’s first attack, at 1 a.m., a massive truck bomb driven by a suicide attacker blew up in the center of Kabul, killing 15 people and wounding hundreds, nearly all of them civilians, according to senior Afghan officials.
The truck bombing struck the Shah Shaheed neighborhood, close to several bases used by Afghan and international forces, and it leveled an entire strip of shops and dozens of homes and businesses, causing damage and injuries more than half a mile away.
According to Sayed Zafar Hashimi, the deputy spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, the final death toll of the first blast was 15, with 240 people injured, including 47 women and 33 children. NYT NEWS SERVICE

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And it continues in Israel.
JERUSALEM
The Israeli authorities on Sunday continued their crackdown against the young Jewish zealots believed to be associated with the Revolt, a shadowy network described by its members as an anarchistic vision of redemption.
The extremists’ working plan calls for fomenting unrest to bring about the collapse of the State of Israel, with its democratic system of government and courts, and establish a Jewish kingdom based on the laws of the Torah. Non-Jews are to be expelled, the Third Temple is to be built, and religious observance is to be enforced, initially in public spaces.
“The starting point of the Revolt is that the State of Israel has no right to exist, and therefore we are not bound by the rules of the game,” write the anonymous authors of the manifesto of sedition that lays out these ideas, which the Shin Bet internal security agency recently discovered.
Six-month administrative detention orders were issued Sunday against two high-profile activists from the radical right, Meir Ettinger and Eviatar Slonim, both in their early 20s.
Ettinger is the grandson of Meir Kahane, the slain American-Israeli rabbi considered the father of far-right Jewish militancy. He and Slonim joined Mordechai Meyer, 18, also suspected of being a member of the extremist group, who was placed in administrative detention last week. Meyer had previously been arrested on suspicion of involvement in arson attacks against two churches, but he had been released without charges.
Israel has widely used administrative detention, which allows for imprisonment without charge or trial, against Palestinians under military lawin the West Bank, but rarely against its Jewish citizens.
The Israeli authorities are acting under intense pressure to apprehend the perpetrators of a July 31 arson attack on a Palestinian home in the West Bank village of Duma that killed an 18-month-old, Ali Dawabsheh, and his father, Saad, and left his mother and brother critically wounded. Israel’s leaders called the attack Jewish terrorism.
In addition to the detention orders, the police’s nationalist crimes unit raided several West Bank settlement outposts overnight and detained a number of suspects “in the wake of recent events in the West Bank,” according to a police statement. NYT NEWS SERVICE

[turat]

Good kill, brother. Brits doing more than their fair share keeping the faith.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015...alf-mile-shot/