NOTE: Turkey’s role is very ambiguous in Syria, as is that of Germany and France. But Putin’s genius is such that he managed to unite such different, and even confrontational to each other leaders, in one room. Erdogan and Merkel have been at loggerheads for years, yet she is there....
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Turkey is bordered on the northeast by the USSR, on the east by Iran, on the southeast by Iraq and Syria, and on the northwest by Bulgaria and Greece. There are 2,600 km of land frontiers. The Black Sea bounds the country on the north, the Aegean Sea on the west, and the ...
The three limestone massifs of Jebel Zawiya, Jebel Barisha and Jebel Ala formed the local building material for all Syria’s early churches. Close to two thousand such structures remain scattered among the ruins of some eight hundred settlements in the rebel-held Idlib Province, despite the Assad...
Marqab Castle, near Baniyas, Syria Such cycles of history, filled with so many seismic twists and turns like earthquakes, wars and invasions, have all played their part in the ever-shifting balances of power in this region of great strategic significance. When looking at the horrors that are...
A Ticket to Turkey and a Desire to Fight: Why Some Foreign Fighters Travel to SyriaChelsea Daymon
(For maps of Asiatic Turkey, see Arabia; Armenia; Asia Minor; Palestine; Syria.) The possessions of the sultan in Europe now consist of a strip of territory stretching continuously across the Balkan Peninsula from the Bosporus to the Adriatic (29° to' to 19° 20' E.), and lying in ...
In late April,Dr. Hidenori Watanave,Cesium Certified Developerand long-time community member, spoke at theStratcom Disaster Communication Forumin Ankara, Turkey, where he shared the Cesium Story he has been updating since the 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria in February. ...
All three regional states, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia have been stricken with either bloody wars or frozen conflicts since independence in 1991 and the area has long been regarded as a potential flashpoint between Russia and Turkey. This is primarily, of course, because of the Armenia-...
International disputes: complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Greece in the Aegean Sea; status of north Cyprus question remains; Syria and Iraq protest Turkish hydrological projects to control upper Euphrates waters; Turkey has expressed concern over the status of Kurds in Iraq; in 20...