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The Grand Turk
HDP's Demirtas meets Russian FM Lavrov in Moscow
2015-12-24
[TODAYSZAMAN] Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chair of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), on Wednesday met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, discussing Syria and a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Russia that erupted when a Russian jet was downed by Turkish warplanes on Nov. 24 near the Syrian border.

Russia has promised retaliation after the downing of the Su-24 and demanded Turkey offer an apology and compensation. Diplomatic contacts between the two countries have also come to a near halt amid Russian accusations that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
and his family benefit from an oil trade with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a claim categorically denied by Erdogan and the government.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Could it be that when Russians talk about "Friendship for People of Turkey" they mean People living in Turkey---not necessarily Turks?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-12-24 05:40  

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