Now we know what Vice President Joe Biden was doing sequestered in his basement for the past three months. Instead of hair, he was sniffing glue.

​Biden has prepared an indictment of President Trump which would be laughable if it weren’t so offensive. He claims POTUS seeks to benefit politically from the urban anarchy which has plagued America since the death of George Floyd. That’s like saying FDR sought to benefit from the Great Depression in the 1932 election.

By refusing to acknowledge ”racial disparity” (code for “institutional racism”) in America, Trump is ”throwing gas on” the fire, Biden blusters. Riots are a reflection of “Donald Trump’s America,” says the socialist Trojan Horse.

​Biden’s party has a prescription for ending the insurrection that’s rocking America: Do nothing – other than kowtowing furiously to Black Lives Matter, confessing the sins of white America, and attempting to reach an accommodation with forces which cannot be appeased.

​Donald Trump’s America? The worst of the rioting has happened in cities under the iron heel by the ultra-progressive wing of the Democratic Party – including Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland.

• In Seattle, Mayor Jenny Durkan ceded control of an historic section of the city to Jacobins for the month of June. Initially, she had said the occupation could be the beginning of the Summer of Love. (And 9-11 was Woodstock.) When murder and mayhem spiraled out of control, she finally acted. The city’s black, female chief of police resigned in disgust.
• Portland is now going into its fourth month of violence. Mayor Ted Wheeler has a brilliant strategy – hope the riots will burn themselves out – while refusing all offers of assistance from Washington.
• At one time, Chicago Mayor Lorie Lightweight had 140 police assigned to guarding her home, while crime rates soared and ordinary citizens saw their businesses looted and children shot in the streets.
• New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s idea of law and order is slashing police funding by $1 billion and personally painting a Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower. (Our hero!) Biden says he does not want to defund the police, just to “reallocate” resources – weasel words for defunding the police by degree.

Said municipalities aren’t exactly Republican strongholds. In 2016, POTUS got 4% of the vote in DC, 8% in Seattle and 10% in the Big Apple. Antifa and Black Lives Matter chose them as targets because, in each case, far-left mayors agreed with their goals and lacked the courage to counter their tactics.

​After finally getting the green light, Trump sent 1,000 National Guards to Kenosha, Wisconsin and the rioting stopped. From Portland to New York, it could have been solved just as easily, given the political will.

​Trump says that if Joe Biden is elected, the violence will never end, and Antifa and BLM will operate out of the White House. And?

​The Democrats, who had great success negotiating with Iran and China under Obama/Biden, think they can work with totalitarians. Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, Germany, etc. could tell them otherwise, if they were open to argument.

​How can you appease those who refuse to be appeased?

Democratic mayors have allowed them to burn down business districts. And that hasn’t stopped them. Members of Biden’s staff have contributed to a bail fund for rioters. Democratic prosecutors have refused to indict them. The California State Assembly, a subsidiary of the Democrat Party, has set up a commission to get the ball rolling on reparations. If that injustice is enacted, that won’t stop them.

​What Biden and his pathetic party refuse to understand is that incidents of police misconduct (real or imaginary) aren’t grievances, but excuses to riot, loot, burn, assault and kill.

The goal is revolution. Leaders of the mob see themselves as the Bolsheviks of 2020. It will stop when America wins or the bullet-ridden corpse of constitutional government is lying dead in a cold cellar.

​Trump may be the master of the art of the deal. But he knows there can be no deal with these enemies of our way of life.

​In this election, the choice could not be more stark: Trump is Churchill. Biden is Munich.

Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

The anniversary of one of history’s most decisive battles—that of Manzikert, which initiated the creation of the modern state of Turkey atop formerly Christian Asia Minor—was on August 26.  Recounting what happened on that day of the year 1071, and the days leading to it, is instructive:

In 1019, “the first appearance of the bloodthirsty beasts … the savage nation of infidels called Turks entered Armenia,” in eastern Anatolia, “and mercilessly slaughtered the Christian faithful with the sword,” writes a chronicler.  In the ensuing years and decades, virtually the whole of Armenia was decimated: hundreds of thousands were slaughtered or enslaved, and thousands of churches torched or desecrated, including by being turned into mosques:

Who is able to relate the happenings and ruinous events which befell the Armenians, for everything was covered with blood. . . . Because of the great number of corpses, the land stank, and all of Persia was filled with innumerable captives; thus this whole nation of beasts became drunk with blood. All human beings of Christian faith were in tears and in sorrowful affliction…

Nor was there much doubt concerning what fueled the Turks’ animus: “This nation of infidels,” a military leader explained, “comes against us because of our Christian faith and they are intent on destroying the ordinances of the worshippers of the cross and on exterminating the Christian faithful.” Therefore, “it is fitting and right for all the faithful to go forth with their swords and to die for the Christian faith.” Many were of the same mind; records tell of monks and priests, fathers, wives, and children, all shabbily armed but zealous to protect their way of life, coming out to face the invaders—only to be butchered or enslaved.

Nor were the Turkish hordes, under the authority of the ascendant Seljuk tribe, content with Armenia; they continued riding westward across the Anatolian plain, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire (“Byzantium”), leaving a trail of smoke and destruction in their wake.   On becoming emperor in 1068, Romanus Diogenes made it his priority to act.  By 1069 he had amassed and marched a massive army deep into Asia Minor, liberating numerous cities from the Turks.

The two forces eventually met near the city of Manzikert, just north of Lake Van.   The Turkic sultan, Muhammad bin Dawud—better known to posterity as “Alp Arslan,” or, “Heroic Lion”—sent a delegation to parley with Romanus on “the pretext of peace” though in reality “stalling for time,” explained Michael Attaleiates, who was present. This only “roused the emperor to war.”

Romanus spurned the emissaries, forced them to prostrate themselves before him, and commanded them to tell their sultan that “there will be no treaty . . . and no going home except after I have done in the lands of Islam the like of what has been done in the lands of Rome [Byzantium].” Then, having “dismissed the ambassador with the greatest contempt,” Romanus incited his men to war with “words of extraordinary violence.”

Muhammad exhorted his men to jihad and reminded them of its win-win scenario: “If we are given victory over them, [well and good]. If not, we will go as martyrs to the Garden.” “We are with you!” cried the men in unison when he finished his harangue, followed by a barrage of “Allah Akbars” that reportedly “shook the mountains.”

Thus, as “martial music resounded from both sides and the dust of the battlefield billowed up like clouds in the sky,” the two armies met on that fateful Friday, August 26, 1071.

The battle ensued in the usual way: Turkic horseman, in a crescent formation that hid their fewer numbers, sped forward and unleashed volleys of arrows, before swiftly retreating. Throngs of Roman men and horses fell; some even broke rank and fled. Undaunted, Romanus maintained the line and marched his forces forward; but because the Turks had unlimited terrain to fall back on, the Christian army never managed to corner and finish them off, even as the Turks continued to engage in effective hit and runs tactics.

When the day was nearly spent, Romanus ordered an about-face back to camp, the only place to feed his men and water their horses. Once he turned his back, the Turks launched an all-out assault, “hurling themselves fiercely upon the Romans with terrifying cries.” Havoc ensued. “All were shouting incoherently and riding about in disorder; nobody could say what was going on….   It was like an earthquake with howling, sweat, a swift rush of fear, clouds of dust, and not least Turks riding all around us,” Attaleiates later remembered.

Romanus’s Varangian Guard (the empire’s elite unit of Nordic warriors who were always attached to the emperor they served) were surrounded and, despite fighting valiantly, killed to a man.  Seeing that he was “abandoned and completely cut off from help, [Romanus] unsheathed his sword and charged at his enemies, killing many of them and putting others to flight. But he was surrounded by a crowd of adversaries and was wounded in the hand. They recognized him and he was completely encircled; an arrow wounded his horse, which slipped and fell, dragging its rider down with it. Thus the emperor of the Romans was captured and led in chains to the sultan.”

Worse, the once proud and imperious Romanus became the first Roman emperor in over a thousand years to experience the ignominy of being taken prisoner from the field of battle. “Those who escaped were but a tiny fraction,” notes another chronicler. “Of the majority, some were taken captive, the rest massacred.”  One Muslim chronicle confirms that the Christians “were killed to such an extent that a valley there where the two sides had met was filled [with their corpses].”

Sultan Muhammad declared victory and hurriedly dispatched “the cross and what had been taken from the Byzantines” to Baghdad, and “the caliph and the Muslims rejoiced. Baghdad was decorated in an unprecedented fashion and domes were erected. It was a great victory the like of which Islam had not seen before,” writes a Damascene historian.

The battle, moreover, opened the doorway to the permanent conquest of Asia Minor. Before he was assassinated, the Heroic Lion had commanded the Turks to “be like lion cubs and eagle young, racing through the countryside day and night, slaying the Christians and not sparing any mercy on the Roman nation.” This they did; and “the emirs spread like locusts, over the face of the land,” invading every corner of Anatolia, sacking some of ancient Christianity’s most important cities, including Ephesus, home of Saint John the Evangelist; Nicaea, where Christendom’s creed was formulated in 325; and Antioch, the original see of Saint Peter.

“All that was left were devastated fields, trees cut down, mutilated corpses and towns driven mad by fear or in flames.” Hundreds of thousands of Anatolian Christians were reportedly massacred or enslaved.  By the early 1090s, the Turks had taken the last Christian bastion, Nicomedia, only 2,500 feet away from Constantinople, across the narrowest point of the Bosporus strait.

Five years later the First Crusade was underway.

Muhammad bin Dawud would be honored by Muslims in general, Turks in particular, for centuries to come.  For the “victory of the Seljuq sultan at Manzikert was not just a military triumph over the Byzantine emperor,” explains historian Carole Hillenbrand. “His capture symbolized the subjugation of Christianity by Islam. Manzikert was perceived to be the first step in an epic story in which Turkish-led dynasties would defeat the Christians and proclaim the triumph of Islam.”

Little wonder that, along with another Muhammad—the sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453—Turkish president Erdoğan never fails to honor (if not seek to emulate) this sultan, Muhammad bin Dawud, Turkey’s “Heroic Lion.”

Note: The above account was excerpted and adapted from the author’s book, Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West.  

What does the international community often think when they hear “Cyprus”? A beautiful island country in the Eastern Mediterranean? A heavenly holiday destination? Warm weather and scenic beaches? All of these are true. However, this small and resilient island country also has a dark and criminal history – a history shaped by the Turkish occupation since 1974.

Cyprus gained independence from Britain in 1960 but full independence across the island would not last for long. In the summer of 1974, the Turkish military invaded northern Cyprus twice – first on 20 July and then on 14 August, committing ethno-religious cleansing and crimes against humanity in an attempt to terrorize the Greek Cypriots to push them southward.

Turkey “launched a full scale aggressive attack against Cyprus, a small non-aligned and virtually defenseless country, possessing no air force, no navy and no army except for a small national guard,” Zenon Rossides, the then-Cyprus representative to the United Nations, sent a letter on 6 December 1974 to the UN Secretary General. “Thus, Turkey’s overwhelming military machine embarked upon an armed attack including napalm bombing of open towns and villages, wreaking destruction, setting forests on fire and spreading indiscriminate death and human suffering to the civilian population of the island.”

To invade the island, Turkey used the coup organized by the then ruling Junta of Greece against Cypriot President Makarios. According to the website Kypros.org:

“The coup presented Turkey with the pretext she had long sought. Alleging a right of unilateral military intervention as guarantor of the 1960 Constitution, Turkey 5 days later invaded Cyprus…. Once in Cyprus, instead of restoring the state of affairs under the 1960 Constitution and protecting the human rights of all the people of Cyprus, as was her duty and alleged justification, Turkey, despite the coup having collapsed and democratic government having been restored in Greece, on 14 August 1974 massively extended her invasion to occupy 36.4% of Cyprus, driving out well over 170,000 Greek Cypriot refugees and moving her army to the aptly named ‘Attila line’. That Turkey committed atrocities in the course of her invasion is scarcely surprising in view of her record in the Balkans, in Syria, in Armenia and in Anatolia and her long-standing policies of population expulsion and transfer and of discrimination against non-Turkish ethnic groups.”

These atrocities include murders of Greek Cypriot civilians including children, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances of civilians, wholesale and repeated rapes, eviction and displacement of Greek Cypriots from their homes and land, looting, seizure and distribution of houses and business premises belonging to Greek Cypriots, forced labor of detainees, and cultural destruction of churches and graveyards, among others.

The rapes were also confirmed by a 1976 report by the European Commission of Human Rights.

“Even women of ages up to 80 were savagely raped by members of the Turkish forces,” the report said. “In some areas forced prostitution of Greek Cypriot girls continues to be practiced. Many women who remained in the Turkish occupied areas became pregnant as a result of the rapes committed by the Turkish troops.”

The rapes were so widespread that the Church of Cyprus was compelled to relax its previous strictures on abortion. The Red Cross also reportedly sent pills to the prisoners and enclaved people in the occupied areas in case of pregnancy.

On August 5, 1974, the New York Times reported that “Greek Cypriots from small villages around Kyrenia told stories today of murder, rape and looting by the Turkish Army after its invasion of Cyprus.”

The NYT interviewed victims and eye witnesses of the atrocities. One was a young woman, aged 20, who refused to be identified.

She “told of how she was raped, after she had seen her fiance machine‐gunned with other men in her village. ‘When my fiancé was killed I threw myself into a ditch to hide —I was terrified,’ she said, adding: ‘As I was lying there a Turkish soldier grabbed hold of me. He threw me, to the ground and tore off my clothes. I tried desperately to escape but he was holding me at gunpoint. He said he would kill me. At one point another soldier came up with a baby in his arms. He asked who was the mother. I thought if I said it was mine it might save me. However, when I said I was the mother he threw it to the ground’.”

The crimes committed during the Turkish invasion are well-documented.

“On August 14,” wrote author Victoria Hislop, “the Greek Cypriot population fled in terror, in cars, on buses, by foot, taking nothing but the clothes they stood up in. They expected help from a foreign power, but none came, and their evacuation turned into weeks, then months, then decades.”

As was the case with tens of thousands of other Cypriots, the life of Maria Hadjivasili, who grew up in 1960s Famagusta, also changed completely after the occupation of her town:

“We heard that civilians had been killed and women raped,” she said. “People were anxious for their daughters. I heard that one of my school friends was raped and killed.”

Sadly, during the period of the Turkish invasion, world opinion did not raise much of an outcry. Since there still is no international outrage, the occupation continues and it is accompanied by similar rights abuses.

On June 21, 2013, for example, Koray Başdoğrultmacı and Çinel Senem Hüseyin, a Turkish-speaking Cypriot couple living in the occupied north of Cyprus, were arrested and kept in jail for 6 1/2 hours. Their trial lasted for months, until all charges were dropped against them in June 2015.

Their crime? Flying three Cypriot flags outside their home and shop.

The Turkish government does not even recognize the Republic of Cyprus and calls it the “Southern Greek Cypriot Administration”. “The claim put forth thereafter by the Greek Cypriots to represent the ‘Republic of Cyprus’ has been illegal, and has not been recognized by Turkey,” claims Turkey’s foreign ministry. It also asserts that Cyprus is “geographically an extension of the Anatolian peninsula” and “has never been a Greek island.”

The ministry cannot be more wrong. Cyprus has been a majority-Greek island for millennia – demographically and culturally. The Turkish presence in Cyprus, however, only dates back to the Ottoman occupation from 1571 to 1878.  Never until the Turkish military intervention in 1974 did the northern part of Cyprus have a Turkish majority. Both the north and south of the island were majority-Greek and majority-Christian until then. Nonetheless, the myth of Cyprus being a Turkish island is popular with many Turks. In 2018, Erdogan even said at a press conference: “There is no country called Cyprus.”

Before Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, however, its borders were internationally recognized. The document that granted Cyprus independence in 1960 was signed by three “guarantor” states – the United Kingdom, Greece, and Turkey – all of which committed themselves to respect Cyprus’s independence and territorial integrity. The Turkish invasion in 1974, therefore, was a violation of Turkey’s commitments. As a result of the invasion, Turkey has changed the demographic character of the northern part of the island and turned it into a majority-Turkish area.

To this day, refugees and displaced persons are denied their right to return and reclaim their homes and lands in the Turkish-occupied north. Citizens of the Republic of Cyprus are not free to live wherever they wish in their own country. The “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus” (the “TRNC”) in the occupied north was de-facto manufactured in 1983 by Turks and for Turks. It is recognized by Turkey only.

Since 1974, nothing has changed in occupied northern Cyprus except for the increased number of settlers imported from Turkey. The Turkish government still cannot even tolerate the Cypriot flag in Cyprus and illegally keeps the island divided in a system of apartheid and ethno-religious segregation. For 46 years, the northern part of Cyprus has been ethnically cleansed and colonized at the hands of Turkey, a NATO member and a perpetual candidate for European Union membership.

Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist and political analyst formerly based in Ankara. Her writings have appeared in The Washington Times, The American Spectator, The Christian Post, and The Jerusalem Post, among many other news outlets. Bulut’s journalistic work focuses mainly on human rights, Turkish politics and history, religious minorities in the Middle East, and antisemitism.

On the day Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009, I announced on my national radio show that, “While I did not vote for Barack Obama, he is my president, and I wish him well.” I added that I was delighted a black man had been elected president of the United States, that perhaps this would not only help black-white relations get even better than they were but also help put to rest the notion of a racist America.

As it turned out, neither hope was achieved. In fact, in large measure due to Obama, race relations deteriorated during his presidency. Obama turned out to be Black Lives Matter Light. As Politico wrote in 2014, Al Sharpton, perhaps the most consistent race-baiter of the last half-century, “became Obama’s go-to man on race.” According to The Washington Post, Sharpton visited the Obama White House 72 times.

Obama is idolized by liberals and leftists because he was an activist liberal whose goal, in his own words, right before he was first elected, was “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” And because they love his cool, even-tempered, regal style.

That style masks a demagoguery that far surpasses our current president. It was on display last week when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention.

Obama: “I did hope, for the sake of our country, that Donald Trump might show some interest in taking the job seriously; that he might come to feel the weight of the office and discover some reverence for the democracy that had been placed in his care. But he never did. … Donald Trump hasn’t grown into the job because he can’t.”

Obama: “And the consequences of that failure are severe. 170,000 Americans dead. Millions of jobs gone.”

America ranks tenth in deaths per million. Are the greater proportion of deaths per million in countries such as Belgium, Spain, the U.K., Italy and Sweden the result of corrupt and/or inept leaders? Was President Donald Trump responsible, for example, for the decision made by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to order nursing homes to accept COVID-19 cases, causing the virus to sweep through the elderly in those facilities, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths (and likely many more that New York is hiding from the official count)?

Regarding “millions of jobs gone,” they are gone overwhelmingly because of the lockdowns ordered by state governors and mayors, not the virus. Lockdowns, we were told, would last two weeks to “flatten the curve,” but they continue six months later in many Democratically controlled cities and states.

Obama: “And our democratic institutions threatened like never before.”

Obama offers not one example of this or of his many other attacks on Trump. There is a reason. Obama has always attacked straw men. During his presidency, I analyzed about 20 of his speeches. They and his off-the-cuff comments were always characterized by straw-men arguments.

Even The New York Times, in 2009, when it still published occasional articles that deviated from the left, featured an article by Helene Cooper (who is black), its then-White House correspondent, titled “Some Obama Enemies Are Made Totally of Straw.” In it, Cooper cited example after example of statements ostensibly made by others, but actually made up by Obama — which he then proceeded to shoot down. This characterized his approach to discourse throughout his presidency and continued with last week’s speech at the DNC.

Obama: “Joe and Kamala will restore our standing in the world — and as we’ve learned from this pandemic, that matters.”

Obama, like all on the left, equate America’s “standing in the world” with its president’s standing with the left. Nonleftists do not. Last year, when the courageous Hong Kong demonstrators waved a flag representing liberty, they waved the flag of the United States of America. Apparently, America’s standing with them is pretty high.

Obama: “(Joe and Kamala) believe that in a democracy, the right to vote is sacred.”

Another straw man. Who doesn’t believe “the right to vote is sacred” — those who insist on people having an ID when they vote, as voters do in virtually every other country? Or is it those who don’t believe in sending tens of millions of ballots to people who never signed up to receive an absentee ballot?Obama: “I understand why a new immigrant might look around this country and wonder whether there’s still a place for him here.”

Really? What new legal immigrant thinks that way? Or is Obama dishonestly conflating legal with illegal immigrants? The answer is, of course, he is (though even illegal immigrants apparently believe there’s a place for them here; isn’t that, after all, why they come?).

Obama: “This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win.”

How has this administration shown that? Why didn’t Obama provide a single example to sustain this extraordinary charge? Anyway, it seems to many Americans that those who lie to the country for two years about Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, impeach a president solely for political reasons, dedicate all news reporting to the removal of a president, smear and lie about a decent man nominated for the Supreme Court, corrupt the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act system for political ends, and politicize the CIA and FBI are the ones who “will tear our democracy down if that’s what it takes to win.”

Obama’s speech offered very little of substance about the man it was directed against, but it said much about the man who delivered it.

Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is “The Rational Bible,” a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, “No Safe Spaces,” will be released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.

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ΣΤΗΡΙΞΗ από Γερμανικά ΜΜΕ στην αγαπημένη τους: «Η Γαλλία να σταματήσει να κάνει «πλάτες» στην Ελλάδα με την Τουρκία… Να ακολουθήσει τη «γραμμή» Βερολίνου»…!!!

ΣΤΟΧΟΣ – 02 Σεπτεμβρίου

Η γερμανική εφημερίδα «Handelsblatt», εξαπολύει επίθεση στη Γαλλία επειδή στηρίζει την Ελλάδα απέναντι στην Τουρκία, λέγοντας πως μόνο μία στρατηγική ίσων αποστάσεων θα βάλει «φρένο» στα «εγώ» Αθηνών και Άγκυρας.

Συγκεκριμένα η εφημερίδα αναφέρει σε άρθρο της που υπογράφει ο γερμανικής υπηκοότητας Oζάν Ντεμικράν:

«Η διαμάχη μεταξύ Ελλάδας και Τουρκίας στη Μεσόγειο κλιμακώνεται. Αυτό οφείλεται επίσης σε διαφορετικές στρατηγικές του γαλλογερμανικού άξονα: η γεωπολιτική χωρίς ακριβείς κανόνες είναι σαν ένα παιχνίδι ποδοσφαίρου χωρίς διαιτητή.
​Αυτό ακριβώς φαίνεται να συμβαίνει στην ανατολική Μεσόγειο, όπου Τουρκία και Ελλάδα μάχονται για τα θαλάσσια σύνορα και τα πιθανά κοιτάσματα φυσικού αερίου.

​Και οι δύο χώρες έχουν αναπτύξει το ναυτικό και την αεροπορική τους δύναμη με τους πολιτικούς αναλυτές να εκφράζουν φόβους για ενδεχόμενο πολέμου μεταξύ των δύο εταίρων του ΝΑΤΟ».

«Ο Γερμανός υπουργός Εξωτερικών, Χάικο Μάας εμμένει σε μια κοινή ευρωπαϊκή εξωτερική πολιτική, για παράδειγμα έναντι της Λευκορωσίας, αλλά και της Τουρκίας. Και σωστά πράττει…

​Όμως, ενώ η Γερμανία θέλει να φέρει τις κυβερνήσεις στην Αθήνα και την Άγκυρα στο τραπέζι των διαπραγματεύσεων, η Γαλλία στέκεται προφανώς πίσω από την Ελλάδα. Αυτή η στρατηγική: «καλός αστυνομικός, κακός αστυνομικός» είναι λάθος.

Είναι σε ισχύ η Σύμβαση των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για το Δίκαιο της Θάλασσας. Ωστόσο, σε περίπτωση διαφωνιών, το άρθρο 59 ορίζει ότι τα εμπλεκόμενα κράτη πρέπει να καταλήξουν σε συμφωνία «λαμβάνοντας υπόψη όλες τις περιστάσεις».

«Είναι θαύμα που πολλές χώρες προσχώρησαν στη συμφωνία μόνο αφού είχαν επιλύσει διμερώς τις συνοριακές διαφορές με γειτονικές χώρες. Η Ελλάδα το 1995, ο Καναδάς το 2003, το Μαρόκο το 2007, η Ταϊλάνδη μόνο το 2011. Η Τουρκία δεν προσχώρησε μέχρι σήμερα και ούτε οι ΗΠΑ».

​«Επομένως, το πρόβλημα δεν είναι μόνο μεταξύ δύο πρώην εχθρών».

Αφορά επίσης το γεγονός ότι και οι δύο κυβερνήσεις θέλουν να αξιοποιήσουν στο έπακρο τον εαυτό τους σε ένα θέμα για το οποίο το διεθνές δίκαιο δεν παρέχει ακριβείς κανόνες συμπεριφοράς. Με άλλα λόγια, υπάρχει αναρχία», επισημαίνει η γερμανική εφημερίδα.

«Το γεγονός ότι η κυβέρνηση του Βερολίνου συμφώνησε να ενεργήσει ως διαμεσολαβητής είναι αξιέπαινο. Η αποστολή γαλλικών στρατευμάτων στη Μεσόγειο και τα ελληνικά νησιά, από την άλλη πλευρά, είναι μοιραία και αυξάνει μόνο τον κίνδυνο πολέμου».

Επομένως, η επίλυση της διαφοράς αποτελεί επίσης δοκιμασία για την ΕΕ. Το Βερολίνο και το Παρίσι μπορούν να επιτύχουν μόνο κάτι μαζί. Η στρατηγική «καλός αστυνομικός, κακός αστυνομικός» έχει μέχρι στιγμής προκαλέσει περαιτέρω κλιμάκωση.

«Δεν χρειάζονται περισσότεροι στρατιώτες στην περιοχή, αλλά περισσότερες συνομιλίες σ΄ένα στρογγυλό τραπέζι. Αυτός είναι ο μόνος τρόπος διαπραγμάτευσης όλων των καταστάσεων όπως απαιτείται από τη συμφωνία. Μια επίδειξη όπλων θα κάνει τα πράγματα χειρότερα», προσθέτει.

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Η Ρωσία στο πλευρό των τούρκων…!!! Αναγνωρίζει ως τουρκική την Ελληνική Υφαλοκρηπίδα και το δικαίωμα ενημέρωσης των ναυτιλλομένων από τους τούρκους…!!

ΤΟΧΟΣ – 03 Σεπτεμβρίου

Τεράστιες περιπλοκές και κλιμάκωση της ελληνοτουρκικής κρίσης ενδέχεται να δημιουργήσει η απόφαση της Μόσχας να προχωρήσει σε ναυτικές ασκήσεις με πυρά σε δύο περιοχές της Ανατολικής Μεσογείου: ανατολικά της Κύπρου και δυτικά της Μεγαλονήσου, σε μια περιοχή στα όρια της ελληνικής υφαλοκρηπίδας που περιλαμβάνει και τη ζώνη όπου το Oruc Reis πραγματοποιεί σεισμικές έρευνες.

Το ανησυχητικό είναι ότι για τη διεξαγωγή των ναυτικών ασκήσεων πλοίων του ρωσικού στόλου στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο, η Μόσχα ζήτησε την έκδοση Navtex από την Άγκυρα, αναγνωρίζοντας ότι στις περιοχές των ασκήσεων το δικαίωμα ενημέρωσης των ναυτιλλομένων ανήκει στην Τουρκία. Πρόκειται για μια εξέλιξη μεγάλης σημασίας όπου η Ρωσία εμφανίζεται να παίρνει ξεκάθαρα το μέρος της Τουρκίας.

Το εντυπωσιακό είναι ότι η Τουρκία, μια χώρα μέλος του ΝΑΤΟ, διευκολύνει τη Ρωσία να κάνει στρατιωτικές ασκήσεις με πυρά στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο.

Η στάση του ΝΑΤΟ

Την επομένη της επίσημης αποκάλυψης ότι ο Αλεξέι Ναβάλνι δηλητηριάστηκε, η ρωσική κυβέρνηση όχι μόνο δεν δείχνει διάθεση να απολογηθεί αλλά επιχειρεί να δημιουργήσει ρήγμα στους κόλπους του ΝΑΤΟ. Είναι τουλάχιστον ιδιότυπο αυτό που συμβαίνει, μια χώρα μέλος του ΝΑΤΟ -η Τουρκία εν προκειμένω- να εκδίδει NAVTEX για ασκήσεις για λογαριασμό της Ρωσίας. Αν μάλιστα και τουρκικά πολεμικά πλοία ή άλλα μέσα λάβουν μέρος στα ρωσικά παίγνια, τότε θα πρόκειται για μια εξέλιξη που επιβεβαιώνει την πρόσφατη τοποθέτηση του Εμανουέλ Μακρόν ότι το ΝΑΤΟ είναι εγκεφαλικά νεκρό.

Οσο κι αν δικαιώνονται εκείνοι που θεωρούν ότι το ΝΑΤΟ τηρεί στάση Ποντίου Πιλάτου απέναντι στην τουρκική επιθετικότητα και τον αναθεωρητισμό του Ερντογάν ένα είναι το γεγονός: Ο γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ δεν είναι επικεφαλής αλλά εκτελεστικό όργανο του συμβουλίου των αντιπροσώπων των χωρών μελών της Συμμαχίας. Και με δεδομένο ότι στο ΝΑΤΟ ισχύει ο κανόνας της ομοφωνίας για την λήψη των αποφάσεων, ακόμη και αν οι 25 αντιπρόσωποι χωρών μελών ζητούσαν επιτακτικά να καταδικαστεί η τουρκική παραβατικότητα, είναι δεδομένο ότι ο αντιπρόσωπος της Τουρκίας θα έθετε βέτο μπλοκάρωντας την λήψη απόφασης κατά της Τουρκίας.

Η ρωσική πρόκληση

Την επομένη της ανακοίνωσης από την Ουάσιγκτον ότι οι Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες άρουν την πώληση -non lethal weapons- στη Κύπρο, η κίνηση της Ρωσίας να προχωρήσει στην ανακοίνωση ναυτικών γυμνασίων στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο με την συνδρομή της Τουρκίας δείχνει ότι ο Βλαντίμιρ Πούτιν δεν είναι διατεθειμένος να υποχωρήσει από την πρόθεσή του να ελέγξει την ευρύτερη περιοχή. Ιδίως μετά την αμερικανική παρότρυνση «κάντε διάλογο, συζητήστε και βρείτε τα» που διατυπώθηκε προς την Ελλάδα και την Τουρκία διά στόματος του υπουργού Εξωτερικών των ΗΠΑ Μάικ Πομπέο, η ρωσική παρέμβαση περιπλέκει ακόμη περισσότερο την κατάσταση.

Εάν στο μείγμα προστεθούν και οι καθημερινές εμπρηστικές δηλώσεις ανώτατων αξιωματούχων της τουρκικής ηγεσίας προς την Ελλάδα γίνεται αντιληπτό ότι η κατάσταση μπορεί εύκολα να γίνει εκρηκτική.

Ποια θα είναι η αντίδραση από Βερολίνο, Παρίσι και Ουάσιγκτον

Σε αυτό το περιβάλλον και με δεδομένη την «χορογραφία» που έχει δημιουργηθεί στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο με την ανάπτυξη του ελληνικού και του τουρκικού στόλου, αναμένεται με ενδιαφέρον η αντίδραση της γερμανικής κυβέρνησης και του προέδρου της Γαλλίας στην κίνηση της Μόσχας. Οπως επίσης με αγωνία αναμένεται και η τοποθέτηση της Ουάσιγκτον και του State Department μετά την ανακοίνωση των ρωσικών ναυτικών γυμνασίων, κίνηση με την οποία η Μόσχα «βγάζει την γλώσσα» στην Ουάσιγκτον.

9. TI ΓΡΑΦΟΥΜΕ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΤΩΡΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΡΩΣΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΕΧΘΡΟ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΝ ΙΣΡΑΗΛ; ΑΡΑ ΜΗΝ ΕΚΠΛΗΣΕΣΘΕ!

ΜΙΑ ΑΝΑΣΑ από το Καστελόριζο η Ρωσοτουρκική ΠΡΟΚΛΗΣΗ…!! Οι τούρκοι έβγαλαν την ΠΑΡΑΝΟΜΗ NATVEX και οι Ρώσοι θα ρίχνουν με πραγματικά πυρά…!!

ΣΤΟΧΟΣ – 03 Σεπτεμβρίου 

Όπως ήδη ενημερώσαμε από εχθέρς το βράδυ η ρωσοτουρική συμμαχία παίρνει σάρκα και οστά και στο ΠΕΔΙΟ και μάλιστα σε πεδίο ελληνικό…

Ρωσικές ασκήσεις με πραγματικά πυρά, ανατολικά και δυτικά της Κύπρου, με NAVTEX που εξέδωσαν οι Τούρκοι. Στις NAVTEX μάλιστα επισημαίνουν ότι θα πρέπει να δοθεί προσοχή για να μην επηρεαστούν τα ερευνητικά τους σκάφη Barbaros και Orus Reis που πλέουν κοντά στις περιοχές των ρωσικών ασκήσεων.

Στο κόκκινο του χάρτη το σημείο της ρωσοτουρκικής NATVEX μιά ανάσα από το Καστελόριζο…

Η μία άσκηση των Ρώσων, αυτή που γίνεται δυτικά της Κύπρου, κοντά στο σύμπλεγμα της Μεγίστης θα ξεκινήσει στις 8 Σεπτεμβρίου και θα ολοκληρωθεί στις 22. Η δεύτερη ανατολικά και κοντά στις ακτές της Συρίας, ξεκινά στις 17 και ολοκληρώνεται στις 25 Σεπτεμβρίου.

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ΣΥΝΑΥΛΙΑ ΠΑΠΑΚΩΝ-ΝΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΒΕΡΟΙΑ (02-09-2020)!

ΚΕ ΧΑΡΔΑΛΙΑ; KA… E/KYBΕΡΝΗΣΗ;

11. 03 23:50 SEP 2020

İbrahim Kalın ve O’Brien arasında kritik Doğu Akdeniz görüşmesi!

Son dakika: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Sözcüsü İbrahim Kalın, ABD Ulusal Güvenlik Danışmanı Büyükelçi Robert C. O’Brien‘la telefonda Doğu Akdeniz’i konuştu. Görüşmede Türkiye’nin gerilimden yana olmadığı ve adil bir paylaşımdan yana olduğu ifade edildi.

 

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Erdoğan Merkel ile Doğu Akdeniz’i görüştü

Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Almanya Başbakanı Angela Merkel ile bir video konferans görüşmesi gerçekleştirdi. Görüşmede Doğu Akdeniz’deki gelişmeler başta olmak üzere bölgesel meseleler ve ikili ilişkiler ele alındı.

03.09.2020

Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Almanya Başbakanı Angela Merkel ile bir video konferans görüşmesi gerçekleştirdi.

İletişim Başkanlığından yapılan açıklamaya göre görüşmede, Doğu Akdeniz’deki gelişmeler başta olmak üzere bölgesel meseleler ve ikili ilişkiler ele alındı.

‘YUNANİSTAN GERGİNLİĞİ TIRMANDIRICI ADIMLAR ATIYOR’

Erdoğan, görüşmede Doğu Akdeniz’de Türkiye ile Kıbrıs Türk halkının haklarının korunduğu ve bütün kıyıdaş ülkelerin kazanacağı adil bir paylaşımdan yana olduklarını, ancak Yunanistan ve Rum kesimi ile onlara arka çıkan ülkelerin çözümsüzlüğü ve gerginliği tırmandırıcı adımlar attığını ifade etti.

BAZI ÜLKELERİN TUTUMU KABUL EDİLEMEZ….

Yunanistan’ın bencil ve haksız tutumunun bazı ülkelerce destek bulmasının kabul edilemez olduğunu belirten Erdoğan, uluslararası hukuku hiçe sayan girişimlere karşı Türkiye’nin hak ile menfaatlerini her zaman ve her yerde koruyacaklarını vurguladı.

Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan, Doğu Akdeniz’de Yunanistan’ın ve onu destekleyen ülkelerin bölgesel barışa zarar veren adımlarıyla yol açtıkları sorunla ilgili Angela Merkel’in çözüme katkı verme çabalarını memnuniyetle karşıladıklarını dile getirdi.

Görüşmede, Dışişleri Bakanı Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Milli Savunma Bakanı Hulusi Akar, Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı Başkanı Hakan Fidan, İletişim Başkanı Fahrettin Altun ve Cumhurbaşkanlığı Sözcüsü İbrahim Kalın hazır bulundu.

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