Many European governments became involved in the armed conflicts in Syria and Iraq, while a number of their citizens became foreign fighters by joining the Syrian civil war as members of armed groups in conflict zones.
n recent weeks, Tripoli has seen a steady stream of visits by European officials after the Government of National Unity (GNU) won the confidence of the Libyan parliament to lead the country to elections in late December of this year.
hen the war in Syria attracted radicals from across the globe, almost all of them were not hindered from leaving their countries despite being listed as potential suspects.
n an earlier column, I wrote that the YPG will continue to harm Turkey-US relations, stating that the formation of allegedly new local military councils by the YPG might sabotage US-Turkey negotiations over the safe zone in northern Syria.
wo weeks ago Austria’s vice-chancellor and chairman of the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), Heinz-Christian Strache, resigned from Austria’s “center-right far-rightist” ÖVP-FPÖ coalition government led by Austria’s Chancellor and the People’s Party (ÖVP) leader Sebastian Kurz.
study and a report have been published recently covering the increasing numbers of far-right activities and negative attitude towards refugees in Germany.
quite interesting phenomenon of the Turkish politics is the fact that center-left or generally social-democratic circles and political parties differentiate themselves from mainstream leftist movements particularly from Western democracies.
ately, theEuropean Parliament went back to the Medieval Age! In the vote to suspend Turkey’s EU membership negotiations, members of theEuropean Parliament, who secure the far-right and far-left seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections in May 2019 demanded a peculiar amendment regarding Hagia Sophia.