By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In France, regional elections will take place within a month, but all the eyes are directed on the presidential elections occurring in one year. Already today it seems pretty decided that President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Rally will make it to the second and decisive round, where they will compete ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen In the last part, I had argued that the public letter among others signed by French Generals on duty and retired was directed against the French government, taking a racist and anti-islamic stance, targeting the Muslims living in France and defending the country’s imperialist expansionist policies. The Turkish press reported on the event with headlines such ...
By Ali Rıza Taşdelen My first thought on reading the French military officers’ declaration published on April 21st in the extreme right-wing, xenophobe, islamophobic and racist magazine Valeurs Actuelle was: there is nothing here worth being analyzed. In summary, they were saying in a racist discourse that there was not enough fight against Islamism, thus provoking politically. The French government ...
Is France’s Fifth Republic, established by General Charles De Gaulle, poised to be destroyed at the hands of military generals once again? Is there a threat of a coup d’état in France? Do the statements one after the other by both active and retired officers target only the Macron government or the political regime as a whole? The questions above ...
Tensions between France and the United Kingdom have erupted on fishing rights and territorial waters around the Channel island Jersey. Around 50 French fisherman boats were dispatched to block the entrance of the island’s main port. Both sides dispatch naval ships France also dispatched two naval patrol vessels to Jersey, a French maritime police headquarters spokesperson said on Thursday. The ...
Amid US-British attempts to raise tensions with Russia over the Ukraine and Belarus, the leaders of Russia, Germany and France held a video conference on March 30th. In the conference, Germany’s Chancellor Merkel, French President Macron and Russian President Putin discussed a wide range of issues: The Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V, the detention of Navalny, the situation in the Belarus, ...
On November 25, the French Senate will discuss a resolution to recognize the statehood of the so-called “Republic of Artsakh” – the separatist Armenian authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh. The resolution was initiated by Senator Bruno Retailleau, Chairman of the opposition faction of the “Republicans” party in the Senate. After Armenia lost the war for Nagorno-Karabakh, this move seems quite extravagant. Yerevan ...
Footage from France is being shown across Turkish TV screens, showing a group of young people raiding the police station in Champigny-sur-Marne, a city near Paris, while blowing up fireworks. The attack lasts for minutes, after which the group of young people disappears into the darkness of the city. Those who know France well, should know that there are dozens ...
Europe: attacks on Islam and terrorsim In the evening of October 16, a terrorist attack took place in France near the college building in a suburb of Paris. 18-year-old Chechen refugee Abdoullakh Anzorov beheaded a teacher of history and geography, Samuel Paty. The murder was motivated by the fact that the teacher decided to show his students – mostly Muslims ...
Political intelligence suggests that the Atlanticists, which has failed to open the doors of West Asia with firepower, is now implementing a new diplomacy-oriented plan. In order to understand the plan with Israel at its center, we need to get a grasp of the process over the last 20 years. DID THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST PROJECT SUCCEED? Just after the ...