[Hurriyet Daily News] The winner of Miss The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 2017 was decrowned on Sept. 22 just hours after winning the beauty pageant, after a tweet she posted about the July 15, 2016 coup attempt came to light.
"We regret to inform that such a tweet has been posted by Itir Esen. It is not possible for the Miss Turkey Organization to promote such a post, when it aims to introduce Turkey to the world and contribute to its image," the statement said.
Esen has not yet responded but has reportedly removed all photos taken during the pageant from her social media accounts.
Following the decrowning, Asli Sumen, who was the runner-up of this year's Miss Turkey pageant, automatically gained the right to participate in the Miss World pageant, which will be held in China this year.
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Apparently Erdoğan isn't very popular with the babes.
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan government’s mission in the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... strongly reacted at the allegations of the Pak Prime Minister regarding the terror sanctuaries in Afghanistan by raising questions regarding the safe havens and places where the al-Qaeda and Taliban ...Arabic for students... founds were killed or died as well as the killing of the former Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The leader of Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin Hekmatyar ... who used to be known in intelligence circles as The Most Evil Man in the World but who now seems merely run-of-the-mill evil... declared amnesty for those who have fought against the party in the past.
In his meeting with the tribal elders of Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Badghis provinces in Herat province, Hekmatyar said "We pardon all those who have fought against Hezb-e-Islami and extend the hand of brotherhood and invite for the tolerance for each other as we do not the previous bitter experiences to be repeated."
Hekmatayr further added that to reach to a compromise and gather under a national axis is the only way to get rid of the ongoing situation.
According to Hekmatyar, all the parties and groups have been invited to gather under a single roof and put an end to the ongoing differences and the ongoing miserable situation.
In the meantime, Hekmatyar claimed that except Hezb-e-Islami all the other parties are operating with the motives to serve a specific ethnic group or a specific region.
He said the number of political parties have increased considerably and there is a need that smaller parties should come under the influential parties.
The leader of Hezb-e-Islami also assured that the current situation would change soon, the violence will end, and peace and stability will return to the country.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] The construction of a concrete barrier along hundreds of kilometers of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s border with Syria is expected to be completed by the end of September, a Ottoman Turkish official told state-run Anadolu Agency on Sept. 22.
A total of 731 kilometers (454 miles) of the border wall has already been finished, the official told the agency.
The remaining 97 km (60 miles) of the wall will be completed by the end of this month, the official added.
As part of Turkey’s measures to increase border security and to combat smuggling and illegal border crossings, Ankara launched the construction project in 2015 to build 828 km (514 miles) of the wall.
Turkey shares a 911 km (566-mile) border with Syria, which has been embroiled in a civil war since 2011.
The border wall project incorporates physical, electronic and advanced technology layers.
The physical layer includes modular concrete walls, patrol routes, manned and unmanned towers and passenger tracks.
Modular walls are being erected along the Ottoman Turkish-Syrian borderline with seven-ton mobile blocks, two meters wide and three meters high. The blocks have also been topped with one-meter-high razor wire.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] With days left to controversial independence referendum of Iraqi Kurds, the Ottoman Turkish government will seek a mandate from the Parliament to send troops to Iraq and Syria after consecutive security meetings where measures to be taken against the Arbil administration have been decided.
The Ottoman Turkish Parliament is set to hold an extraordinary session on Sept 23 to vote on a mandate that permits the government to deploy troops to its southern neighboring countries, Iraq and Syria, just two days before the scheduled referendum to be held by the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
According to the text of the motion already submitted to the Parliament, the government seeks the mandate on the grounds that efforts to break the territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria will endanger The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s national security, in direct reference to KRG’s referendum. It does also recall ongoing fight against 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 (ISIS), the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and its Syrian offshoot, the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Before the parliamentary vote, Turkey convened the National Security Council (MGK) before the Cabinet meeting on Sept 22 immediately after the return of President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... from the United States. Along with Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and senior military and civilian officials joined the MGK meeting. Later in the day, President Erdogan chaired the cabinet meeting to register advisory decisions taken at the MGK meet.
As efforts to convince KRG President Massaoud Barzani to call off the referendum failed, Turkey harshened its opposition in recent days and launched a military drill along the Iraqi border. Turkey, Iran and Iraq did also issue a joint declaration and announced their agreement to take counter-measures in coordination against the Arbil’s independence bid.
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[Hurriyet Daily News] Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Sept. 22 that Ankara "will not refrain from using its natural rights" regarding the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) independence referendum slated for Sept. 25.
"This referendum is an issue of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s national security. Turkey is determined to use its natural rights originating from international and bilateral conventions and will not hesitate in this," Yildirim told news hounds in Ankara.
He once again reiterated Ankara’s call to KRG President Barzani to cancel the referendum, stating that it will not bring any benefit to the Kurdish people in the region.
Yildirim also described the inclusion of Kirkuk in the vote as a "calamity."
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[NYTimes] Violence broke out at a New York hotel Thursday afternoon when protesters disrupted a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.In the middle of Mr. Erdogan’s speech, delivered in Turkish, a man — one of a handful of protesters — screamed in English: “You’re a terrorist. Get out of my country!” The ballroom at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square instantly erupted, with many attendees chanting Mr. Erdogan’s name to drown out the protesters.
Videos showed the protesters — one of them wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of Michael Israel, an American who was killed in a Turkish airstrike while volunteering with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or Y.P.G. — being punched and slapped by several attendees as security personnel removed them from the room. Security also removed at least one person who had assaulted the protesters.
A police official, who spoke about the investigation on the condition of anonymity, said it appeared the fight had been instigated by competing protesters, not by Mr. Erdogan’s security forces, who have a history of violent run-ins in the United States.
The most unexpected people are enjoying the presence of President Trump in the White House...
[Dhaka Tribune] India denounced Pakistain as "the land of pure terror" and branded it "Terroristan" in an explosive speech at the UN General Assembly, which comes on the back of deadly festivities in the disputed territory of Kashmire.
Earlier, in his speech Pakistain Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi accused India of "war crimes" in the disputed Kashmire region and of "exporting terror" to Pakistain.
India addresses the UN on Saturday and has responded angrily to the speech by Abbasi to the UN general assembly.
Relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours have worsened in recent times, mainly over Kashmire.
’Extraordinary’
In his speech Abbasi addressed the issue of the Afghan war, saying Pakistain refused to be a "scapegoat" for the conflict. The US accuses the Pak intelligence services of ties to forces of Evil who operate in Afghanistan, allegations Pakistain rejects.
On Kashmire, the Pak leader accused India of employing "massive and indiscriminate force" against civilians protesting against Delhi’s rule.
"Shotgun pellets have blinded and maimed thousands of Kashmiris, including children. These and other brutalities clearly constitute war crimes and violate the Geneva conventions," he said.
He also asked the UN to appoint a special envoy to oversee the region.
Exercising the right of reply, Eenam Gambhir, India’s first secretary to the UN, said it was "extraordinary that the state which protected the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... and sheltered Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... should have the gumption to play the victim."
"Pakistain is now Terroristan with a flourishing industry producing and exporting global terrorism," the envoy said.
She also accused Pakistain of "avaricious efforts to covet the territories of its neighbours."
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[Al Jazeera] The president of Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan has vowed to go ahead with an independence referendum set for next week despite intense opposition by the Iraqi government and international powers.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) plans to hold the referendum on support for independence on September 25 in three governorates that make up the region, and in some disputed areas, including the oil-rich province of Kirkuk and parts of the northern province of Nineveh.
"Referendum is no longer in our hands or political parties, it is in the hands of people," KRG head Masoud Barzani said on Friday to thousands of cheering supporters who packed the Franso Hariri Stadium in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan.
"The same people who are threatening us have not come to ask why we are holding a referendum," Barzani said, according to a report from Kurdish news portal Rudaw.
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[Dhaka Tribune] To his foes, Ata Ullah is a reckless amateur who has brought untold misery to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya after launching an insurgency in Myanmar.
But to supporters of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, their leader is an intrepid fighter who left a life of luxury in Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... to defend the stateless group against overwhelming odds.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The United Arab Emirates said on Friday it considers that Iran violates both the "letter and spirit" of the 2015 nuclear deal agreed between the Islamic Theocratic Republic and world powers.
"Two years have passed since Iran’s nuclear agreement with no sign of change in its hostile behavior; it continues to develop its nuclear program and violates the letter and spirit of that agreement," UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan told the UN General Assembly.
"Therefore we support enhanced controls on Iran’s nuclear program and continued assessment of the agreement and its provisions," he said.
UAE Foreign minister affirmed his country’s commitment and sovereign right to the three islands occupied by Iran.
Regarding Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... crisis, Sheikh Abdullah said that the anti-terror states have taken the necessary measures to stop Qatar 's support for terrorism.
UAE foreign minister also praised Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s leadership in providing humanitarian support to the Yemeni people.
He condemned the violence and the mass displacement of Rohingya Moslems affirming the UAE’s humanitarian approach in supporting refugees.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian government sent an envoy to meet with a joint Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) and Jordanian regime delegation, Friday, to discuss the potential reopening of the Nassib Crossing in southern Dara’a, a military source told al-Masdar News this afternoon.
According to the source, all parties discussed a possible deal that would see the Nassib Crossing handed over to the government in exchange for the release of more than 100 prisoners related to FSA commanders in Dara’a.
The source added that the Syrian government delegation was comprised of several officials and the mayor of Dara’a city.
The Nassib border-crossing was captured by the Free Syrian Army and Jabhat al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... (Syrian al-Qaeda group) in early 2015; it has since been used to smuggle weapons and supplies to forces of Evil fighting the government in Dara’a.
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[Al Jazeera] Syrians have voted in an election organised by the Kurdish-led authorities of northern Syria, the start of a three-phase process to set up new governing institutions that aim to shore up regional autonomy.
"Today comes as a historical day for us. The people are choosing their way of life, politics, economy," Renas Ahmed, 25, said on Friday. He was among dozens of people casting their vote for the local community representatives being elected.
Voters were picking leaders for some 3,700 "communes" spread across three regions of the north where Kurdish groups have established autonomous rule since 2011, when Syria's civil war erupted.
Friday's poll will be followed in November by votes for local councils polls and culminate in January with the election of an assembly that will act as a parliament for a federal system of government in northern Syria.
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[DAWN] Iran's President Hassan Rouhani vowed on Friday that Iran would boost its missile capabilities despite warnings from Washington that it is ready to ditch a landmark nuclear deal over the issue.
His comments came as Iran displayed a new missile at a military parade marking the anniversary of the outbreak of its devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
"Whether you like it or not, we are going to strengthen our military capabilities which are necessary for deterrence," Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
"We will strengthen not only our missiles but also our air, land and sea forces... When it comes to defending our country, we will ask nobody for their permission."
Iran has said repeatedly that it has no choice but to boost its defences as its regional rivals Israel and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... sign huge arms contracts with Washington and other Western governments.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US President Donald H. Trump's speech to the UN General Assembly has re-highlighted Iran's role in sponsoring radical terrorist groups in the Middle East, especially al Qaeda.
Al Arabiya reviewed the latest issue of the "Voice of Jihad" magazine, issued in 1428/2007, revealing more about the alliance of Tehran with the late Osama bin Laden ... who is no longer with us, and won't be again... , and the provision of logistical support to the fighters of the organization in training, shelter and care.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] In a brand new propaganda video, 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.... celebrates recent natural disasters in the United States as a work of God and divine punishment for actions committed by the US-led coalition in Syria and Iraq.
The controversial footage shows an English-speaking ISIS bully boy cursing President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and his allies in the Middle East, then proceeded to show drone footage of damage done by a hurricane in Florida and Texas.
In a disturbed twist, ISIS’ official media wing even celebrated the US corpse count and material damage caused by the hurricane as an usual type of terrorism:
A rare addition to the video depicted ISIS praising 9/11 and surprisingly showed footage of US casualties following Nazi attacks during World War II.
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I thought it was because of Global Warming. Oh, wrong ISIS.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Al Jazeera] Born in 1928, months after the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood, Akef was one of the group's most prominent members.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
[NYTimes] Violence broke out at a New York hotel Thursday afternoon when protesters disrupted a speech by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey.In the middle of Mr. Erdogan’s speech, delivered in Turkish, a man — one of a handful of protesters — screamed in English: “You’re a terrorist. Get out of my country!” The ballroom at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square instantly erupted, with many attendees chanting Mr. Erdogan’s name to drown out the protesters.
