September 13, 2020 Eurasia, Turkey
A close confidant of Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Adnan Tanriverdi claims expertise in all the dark arts of warfare. In the eyes of some, he is the Islamic world’s most powerful gun-for-hire, a well-connected ex-general with thousands of battle-hardened Syrian mercenaries at his command. A close confidant of Turkey’s …
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September 12, 2020 Africa, Eurasia, Middle Orient, Turkey
Search, rescue exercise carried out within scope of Turkish Naval Task Group’s activities, says Defense Ministry
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September 12, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Les sénateurs n’ont pas de courage, mais se réservent le droit d’en avoir un jour « Élections sénatoriales, c’est parti », titrait le 4 septembre dernier sur son site la chaîne parlementaire Public Sénat. Comment ne pas soupçonner que c’est pour ces élections, qui auront lieu le 27 septembre prochain, …
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September 12, 2020 Eurasia, Middle Orient
Tensions between Athens and Ankara could escalate with terrible force at any moment, which will be one of the reasons why Turkey is taking drastic measures to preserve the country’s integrity.
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September 12, 2020 Balkans, Eurasia
Governments in Montenegro have controlled elections for decades, so the fact that Milo Djukanovic still lost speaks of the enormous desire for change among the country’s citizens.
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September 12, 2020 Eurasia
Belarusian opposition leaders are gathering in Warsaw as Lukashenko decapitates almost the entire Coordinating Council via arrests or forced exile.
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September 12, 2020 Balkans, Eurasia
The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will have maximum effect if Serbia and Kosovo’s governments commit to credibly investigating the remaining cases of missing persons from the Kosovo conflict while building on existing processes for regional cooperation.
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September 12, 2020 Balkans, Eurasia
Kosovo has paid a price for the agreement brokered by the US President in which it has been reclassified as a ‘Muslim state’.
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September 12, 2020 Eurasia, India, South East Asia
The president of US Donald Trump is of course too much meant to be busy for the November 2020 elections, and despite the stand-off with China on many fronts, particularly in South China Sea, will not be able to ‘look-that-hard’ into with China until the elections are over, which is …
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September 12, 2020 Eurasia
The United Arab Emirates’ bold recognition of Israel, earning it valuable brownie points in the West, has come at a cost: a blow to its efforts to earn religious soft power in the Muslim world.
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