Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iran and Turkey quietly came to the aid of Kurdistan in the war against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant. Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani said neighboring states have sent weapons to help block the ISIL advance in September 2014. Barzani identified two of the suppliers as Iran and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Newly-elected Turkish President Reçep Tayyip Erdogan had, by Oct. 7, carefully re-started Turkey’s war inside Syria, to remove the government of President Bashar Assad, and had begun to draw the “old alliance” of the U.S. Obama White House, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia back into the Syrian war. President […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — The Kurdish Workers Party has reported an attack on Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Turkey. The PKK said it attacked an ISIL leader in the Turkish city of Istanbul. In a statement, the youth wing of PKK said the ISIL operative, identified only as Hikmet, was killed. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has been assembling a portable concrete wall along the border with Syria. Officials said the wall consisted of nine-ton concrete blocks designed for rapid transfer. They said the first phase of the project would span 1.2 kilometers. “The wall was designed to block smuggling routes,” an official said. Officials […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — The Kurdish Workers Party has revived its operational presence in Turkey despite the promise of reconciliation with the government. Officials said Turkey determined that PKK established cells in cities in the NATO member. The officials said PKK, bolstered by thousands of fighters from Iran, Iraq and Syria, was focused on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System By the start of 2012, the U.S. had seen a precipitous decline in its real strategic dominance of the Arabian Peninsula, the Red Sea, and the Persian Gulf, and in its ability to reach and influence Central Asia. It had taken less than two decades for the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has expressed concern that Syria is forging an alliance with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK). Officials said Turkey’s military and intelligence community were closely monitoring signs for an alliance between Syrian President Bashar Assad and the PKK. They said Assad is believed to have been sending Kurdish insurgents to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Congress could hold up a plan to sell three advanced combat helicopters to Turkey. Congressional sources said House and Senate leaders have questioned a proposal by President Barack Obama to export three AH-1W attack helicopters to the Turkish military. They said Turkey’s Islamist government has sought the new […]