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The leading ministers of the Turkish economic administration visited Moscow on July 26 to discuss ways to mend ties with their Russian counterparts for the first time since the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey last November, which strained bilateral relations in a dramatic manner.

“The ambassador has informed us that our president [Erdoğan] has confirmed that he will be in Saint Petersburg [on Aug. 9],”state-run Anadolu Agency reported Şimşek as saying on July 26 in Moscow, where he and two other ministers had gone to meet their Russian counterparts as part of moves to restore broken economic relations between the countries.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has called on Turkey’s government and to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to seize the opportunity to adopt braver policies and rekindle peace negotiations following the recent failed coup attempt.

“We once again repeat our call to the PKK and the government,” Demirtaş told members of his party during a parliamentary group meeting on July 26, adding that Turkey is “not the same” as it was on July 14.

“It is said that this U.S. person secretly came to Turkey twice before July 15 and had meetings full of secrets in [the eastern province of] Erzurum and the [southern province of] Adana’s İncirlik Air Base. If these claims are true, which means if the CIA and Pentagon are behind these traitors, this means that we are facing a very serious problem and the U.S. will not be able to overcome this,” he said.

For more than 30 years Fethullah Gulen has encouraged his followers to infiltrate the military and judiciary in Turkey.

Hidden camera footage from 1997 reveals Gulen telling his followers to „avoid detection and infiltrate“ all levels of the state down to its „capillaries“.

Cloaking this sinister and heinous agenda, Gulen has formed a broad network of schools, NGOs and businesses, and covertly infiltrated into public offices to overthrow the democratically elected government in Turkey.

Gulen, who has already been sought by Turkish officials to stand trial on several counts of conspiracy, resides in southern Pennsylvania, USA.

The US has not yet extradited him to Turkey to stand trial, and continues to renew his residency permit.

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(24.6.2016) Die World Socialist Web Site hat immer wieder aufgezeigt, dass die Ursache dieser regelmäßig wiederkehrenden Massengewalt „in der Fäulnis und der bösartigen Krise des amerikanischen Kapitalismus“ liegt. So wiesen wir vor einem Monat auf den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Massaker von Orlando, dem 49 Besucher einer Schwulenbar zum Opfer fielen, und den von den USA geführten Kriegen, der Militarisierung des gesellschaftlichen Lebens und den ständigen Angriffen auf die Arbeiterklasse hin.

„Die Auswirkungen dieser täglichen Realität innerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten kann man schwerlich übertreiben“, schrieben wir. „Besonders die instabilsten Teile der Gesellschaft bekommen sie zu spüren. Politische Reaktion, nationaler Chauvinismus, immigrantenfeindlicher Rassismus – die rückständigsten Stimmungen werden systematisch kultiviert, um eine Politik imperialistischer Kriege und der Verelendung der Arbeiterklasse durchzusetzen.“

Eine ähnliche gesellschaftliche Entwicklung findet auch in Deutschland statt.

(14.6.2016) Das neue Weißbuch steckt sich weitgehende Ziele: den Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Inneren, die Ausweitung von Auslandseinsätzen auch unabhängig von den Verbündeten der Nachkriegszeit, eine von Deutschland dominierte europäische Außen- und Verteidigungspolitik und eine massive Aufrüstung der Bundeswehr.

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(14.08.2015) Für Obama stand, zum ersten Mal in der jüngeren Geschichte der USA, nicht mehr im Vordergrund, die Probleme der Welt zu lösen. Er wollte sich nicht mehr in Konflikte verwickeln lassen oder in die verhasste „Weltpolizistenrolle“ schlüpfen.

Dass diese neue Haltung Amerikas katastrophale Folgen für die Welt hat, ist unbestritten: V. Putin hätte die Krim nicht annektiert, der Iran hätte sich nicht getraut, sich in der Region des Mittleren Osten auszudehnen.

Der Ausdruck psychologische Kriegsführung, auch psychologische Kriegführung, (aus dem Englischen oft auch psychological operations (PSYOP)) bezeichnet im Militärwesen und der Kriegsführung alle Methoden und Maßnahmen zur Beeinflussung des Verhaltens und der Einstellungen von gegnerischen Streitkräften sowie fremder Zivilbevölkerungen im Rahmen oder im Vorfeld militärischer Operationen.

“The EU has a subjective responsibility for Turkey’s coup process. They see Turkey’s internal problems as only Turkey’s problem. But this human rights and democracy problem is also the EU’s problem. Turkey is a candidate to join the EU but they have remained silent for a long time. They also remained silent when Kurdish cities were burned and destroyed,” he said, suggesting that the EU did nothing while “conditions for a coup attempt” were developing in Turkey.

“For this reason, some European leaders and the EU have indirect responsibility. I don’t see any clearness in their stance. They should take a clear stance against the coup,” Demirtaş added.

Die EU habe ihre finanziellen Versprechen zur Unterstützung der etwa drei Millionen syrischen Flüchtlinge in der Türkei bisher nicht gehalten. „Drei Milliarden waren zugesagt“, sagte Erdoğan, doch seien bisher nur ein bis zwei Millionen Euro eingetroffen. „Wir stehen zu unserem Versprechen. Aber haben die Europäer ihr Versprechen gehalten?“, fragte der AKP-Politiker.

They met on the sidelines of a meeting of Southeast Asian nations in Laos, the second time they have met this month to discuss the Syria plan, which would see Washington and Moscow share intelligence to coordinate air strikes against the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and prohibit the Syrian air force from attacking moderate rebel groups.

(25.7.2016) „There are two absolute circumstances that allow a military operation in a foreign state to comply with the international law. That is either a decision of the UN Security Council or a direct request of the country’s legitimate authorities. In case of Russian military operation in Syria there was a request of Bashar Assad,“ Kosachev said.

(24.7.2016) The source said that Syria stresses the Army and Armed Forces’ determination to go ahead in combating terrorists for eliminating them in cooperation with the Russian Federation based on mutual trust and also in cooperation with the other members of the international community who share us, as well as cooperate with Russia, in achieving this goal; to this end, Syria is ready to coordinate counterterrorism air raids in accordance with the agreement between Russia and the USA.

(22.7.2016) Some European members of the coalition against Islamic State forces have expressed concern about sharing intelligence with Russia, which they say has been an untrustworthy partner in Syria.

The current proposal, which Kerry hopes to conclude within weeks, envisions ways in which Washington and Moscow would share intelligence to coordinate air strikes against the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and prohibit the Syrian air force from attacking moderate rebel groups.