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- Aug 9, 2020
- 4 min
The Treaty of Sèvres and how Atatürk stopped Europe from partitioning Turkey.
At the end of WW1 the Ottoman empire was defeated and in shambles with European armies occupying large parts of it and its capital...
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- Mar 19, 2020
- 4 min
Is the hysteria over the Corona Virus pandemic justified?
Is the hysteria over Coronavirus/Covid 19/China virus and the subsequent emergency measures governments all over the world are now...
2,058 views
- Jan 3, 2020
- 2 min
How UK and France created and ruined the modern Middle East
On January 3, 1916, France and the UK created the Sykes-Picot agreement, which in effect partitioned the former provinces of the Ottoman...
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- Oct 9, 2019
- 2 min
Germany armed Kurds with anti Tank missiles after selling Tanks to the Turks.
In 2014 Germany decided that it was going to arm the Kurds who were fighting against ISIS. It sent Rifles, machine guns, grenades, MILAN...
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- Aug 10, 2019
- 3 min
The Treaty of Sèvres and how Atatürk stopped Europe from partitioning Turkey.
At the end of WW1 the Ottoman empire was defeated and in shambles with European armies occupying large parts of it and its capital...
1,739 views
- May 29, 2019
- 3 min
How the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople changed world history.
On may 29 1453, the Ottoman cannons finally broke through of Constantinople's Theodosian walls and Sultan Mehmed the second Ottoman...
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- Sep 12, 2018
- 3 min
How Poland saved Europe from the Ottomans in 1683 and how Europe repaid it
On September 12, 1683, the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Jan Sobieski, literally saved Europe when he personally led the...
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- Jun 18, 2018
- 3 min
Turkey's elections: why they're important and why they might be rigged.
In less then a week's time Turkey will head to the poles to vote both for a new president and for a new Parliament, in what is considered...
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- Feb 19, 2018
- 2 min
Syrian forces to enter the YPG Kurdish enclave of Afrin after striking deal with the SDF Kurds.
Pro Syrian forces and militias allied to the Syrian government will enter the Afrin region within hours, state media reported on Monday,...
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- Oct 17, 2017
- 2 min
Poland wants Turkey to join the EU.
Poland hopes Turkey will join the European Union, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday, days ahead of an EU summit which will...
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