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Anyone wanting to know why Syria has not signed the European free trade agreement (Association Agreement) that was finally OK’ed by the EU states recently need look no further than this article in Arabic هيئة تخطيط الدولة تفضح الدردري !!, written by Ali Aboud and reprinted by Ayman Abdelnour’s All4Syria. In English the title is [...]
The fallout of Erdogan’s Iran visit has caused considerable controversy. Erdogan’s planned visit to the US has been postponed until December. Here is some background to what is at stake and why so many in the West are worried – I think mistakenly. (If you don’t need a backgrounder, skip the indented part) Turkey is [...]
Turkey is following its “Zero Problem with Neighbors” policy during P.M. Erdogan’s visit to Tehran. It is worth noting that the Turkish border with Iran has not changed since 1639. Turkey has also been fixing its long troubled relations with Kurds, Georgia, Greece, and with Armenia, not to mention Syria. Turkey has embraced the spirit [...]
The emerging Turkey-Syria-Iran alliance has Israel worried. The Gulf states are also trying to figure out what impact it may have on their security. I have been invited to a conference in order to address this topic this weekend. Saudi Arabia’s summit with Syria in Damascus recently was an effort to probe the ramifications of [...]
National Geographic and the Syrian Embassy in Washington have fallen out over what reality really is in Syria. Read the following N.G. article and letter from Ambassador Moustapha. Then vote in the opinion poll on the left. National Geographic published a controversial article on Syria, entitled: Shadowland by Don Belt. Ambassador Imad Moustapha wrote an [...]
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