On Dec. 19, Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was assassinated in Ankara. While numerous people reminded on social media that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria had directly led to World War I, it was also revealed that high ranking Russian diplomat Petr Polshikov was killed in Moscow. Only a few hours later, two separate terror attacks occurred in Berlin, the heart of Europe, and Zurich, one of the key locations of global capital. The first attack targeted Christians celebrating Christmas, while the second one targeted a mosque.
The following day, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu headed to Moscow in order to attend the Moscow summit at which the future of Syria was to be negotiated. The summit was not postponed despite the assassination and the Moscow Declaration drafted to end the war in Syria was announced.
However, eyes were turned on the states that were not present at the table rather than the attending states.
Last year, the incident of downing the Russian war jet, which was revealed after the July 15 coup attempt to have been done by a FETÖ-linked pilot, also took place just before Russian Foreign Minister’s scheduled visit to Ankara on Nov. 25, 2015. After this unfortunate incident, the Russian minister canceled his visit. Moreover, 25 days after downing the Russian jet, a plane crash that resulted in the heaviest loss in the history of Russia took place. A plane belonging to Russian Metrojet Airlines fell down in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. All 217 passengers and seven crew members were killed. The whole crew and 214 of the passengers were Russian. Soon after the crash, Daesh claimed responsibility for the incident.
Three days after Karlov’s assassination, it was reported that NATO Chief Auditor Yves Chandelon was found dead in his car in Belgium with a shot fired to his head. Although he died on Dec. 16, the incident was kept from the public for nearly a week. Assigned to investigate activities of terrorism financing and money laundering, Chandelon’s body was found 140 kilometers away from his office and 100 kilometers away from his home. The prosecutor’s office examining the case announced that it was a suicide and Chandelon’s family agreed on that. The family could not be contacted for further comments.
Three days ago, a Tupolev Tu-154 jetliner of the Russian Defense Ministry heading from Sochi to Latakia crashed into sea shortly after taking off. All 92 people on board, including 65 musicians from the Red Army Choir, journalists and military officers, were killed. One of the killed officers was high ranking Russian commander Vladimir Ivanovsky. It turned out that Ivanovsky was the commander of the police squadron recently sent by Russia to be permanent in Aleppo and the passengers on board were to attend the Aleppo celebration in Syria.
Also lately, the head of Russian oil giant Rosneft’s offices Oleg Erovinkin was found dead in his car. It must be considered that Qatar and Switzerland-based Glencore bought a 19.5 percent stake in Rosneft in early December in return for $11 billion and provided currency to Russia. Plus, as I am writing these words, the news agencies have started to report that the Russian embassy in Damascus has been shelled twice.
I suppose it would not be wrong to argue that Syria is at the center of all these incidents. We might or might not learn the true identities of the perpetrators, but it is still possible to infer that there is a growing number of covert attacks against Russia.
Meanwhile, we have seen that our “ally” U.S. has militarized the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria and approved the militarization of the People’s Mobilization Forces (al-Hashd al-Shaabi) in Iraq. Even though it was claimed that the U.S. did not provide any weapon aid to the YPG at a press statement issued by the U.S. Embassy to Ankara that fulminated against Turkish media, even taking a quick glance at the foreign press verifies that the U.S. provided not only intelligence and air support to the YPG, but also military and logistic aid. It is enough to look at news reports titled “YPG and US airdrop” that have been released since last year. Also, it must be noted that the U.S. has sent no air support to Turkey, which is a member of the U.S.-led coalition against Daesh, in its harsh fight in al-Bab.
While some people are straining every nerve to break out World War III, Turkey has been in search of new allies that would pay regard to the country’s national security and interests.
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tomar viento y cada cual se apaña como puede. Las bandas de vándalos, bárbaros, saqueadores y bandarras de todo tipo (puede que hasta tertulianos incluso), siembran el terror. La vida se vuelve cada vez más difícil. No sabes en que momento te va a caer un mamporrazo en lo alto de la cresta. En eso llega un señor con una cuadrilla de tipejos armados y te promete protección para ti y los tuyos, a cambio de “unas cositas de nada”. Aceptas 
funciona bien, unos ultramarinos (de esos 
esos de los que cuesta levantarse. Unos malnacidos que dicen venir en nombre de su dios nos han sacudido muy fuerte. Yo, que soy muy cabezota, ya sabeis que continuo sin creermelo. No hay dios que sea digno y pretenda repartir muerte y dolor. Más bien creo que estos igual obedecen a otra divinidad que no mentan tanto.
han conseguido su objetivo de atemorizarnos con una muestra de lo que hace huir a todas estas personas que prefieren arriesgar la vida en el intento de venir a una Europa que no hace nada por ayudarles porque todavía anda pensando en si le da la real gana mover un dedo de verdad. Pero este todavía es el primer asalto, podemos demostrar que valemos más que ellos.
para comportarse como el mafioso o el señor feudal de antes, meternos en una guerra sin siquiera dejarnos gritar aquello de “No a la guerra” y afilar las tijeras de podar libertades. Huele a chantaje de bajos fondos, igual pretenderán que renunciemos a algo tan valioso como es nuestra LIBERTAD (así, a secas) a cambio de garantizarnos la protección que ya nos debían ANTES de los atentados y que, a la vista está que no ha funcionado. Admito que vivimos tiempos peligrosos pero es que ya existen mecanismos en el Estado de Derecho para defendernos sin que nos sometan a más prohibiciones.
seguridad vale unos derechos que nos han costado siglos de sangre y sacrificio y que forman parte de nuestra definición como personas. Deberíamos tomar consciencia de que si aceptamos recortes graves, de forma transitoria, abrimos la puerta a que esta se transforme en años de opresión y poco a poco volvamos a algo parecido a la Edad Media en la que respirar ya era un privilegio.
