Is a New Russian Turkey Alliance Forming? Syrian President Assad Moves to Moscow

It's been a few days since I have provided an update to the current conflicts in these beginning stages of World War III, and much has happened within a very short period of time. Let me outline the chronology of events first, before providing commentary. As I previously reported, on November 11, 2024, Russia shocked the world by launching their new missile, the Oreshnik, into Ukraine which demolished a Ukrainian defense industry facility in Dnepropetrovsk. There are currently no missile defense systems that can intercept these new missiles. Four days later, on November 25, 2024, Russia issued a public statement that was quoted in the Turkish media calling for an end to Israeli airstrikes on civilians in Lebanon. That same day, it was announced suddenly in the U.S. corporate media that a ceasefire agreement had been reached between Israel and Lebanon. The next day, on November 26, 2024, Turkey publicly complained about new sanctions on Russia that the Biden administration had just implemented, that would affect Turkey's ability to pay for natural gas from Russia to get through the winter. The day after this was published, on November 27, 2024, anti-Syrian rebel forces started a lightning fast military campaign that soon took over Aleppo, Syria's second largest city. These forces then rapidly marched on Damascus, Syrian's largest city, this weekend, with the result that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has now fled to Moscow, allegedly bringing with him much of Syria's national assets to ensure a comfortable lifestyle for his new home is Russia. Who exactly is going to run Syrian's government at this point is not clear, at the time of my writing this. So those are some of the facts, and all of this has happened so rapidly, that it appears there is no scripted description of these events in the world's English media newsrooms at this time. The perspective on what has just happened these past several days, will differ widely depending on which English news you are reading, as U.S., Russian, Arab, Iranian, and Turkish English news all have a different slant on what just happened in Syria. In my opinion, Russia is probably the one who brokered this deal, especially considering the chain of events that started after they unveiled their Oreshnik missile. However, while Russia may have been the driving force to allow this to happen, many sources believe it was Turkey who carried out the plans, and at this point, based on everything I have read so far, I tend to agree. Yesterday, December 8, 2024, Turkish President Erdoğan reportedly said something I have never heard him say before in a speech, and as far as I could tell, this was first reported by the official Russian media outlet Tass. He stated that there are only two world leaders left in the world, himself and Putin, as Erdoğan has been in office for 22 years, about the same amount of time as Putin has been in office.

Turkish Intelligence Agency Brokers Largest Prisoner Swap with Russia in Modern Times

Most of the headline news yesterday was about the largest prisoner swap with Russia since the end of the Cold War period, giving a brief moment of positive news among a steady stream of negative headline news that comes across our screens day after day. And yet among all the reports about this prisoner swap as reported in the U.S. news, there was barely a mention about who made all of this possible, which was the country of Turkey, and their national intelligence agency, MIT. The prisoner swaps happened in Ankara, Turkey, the nation's political capital, a city that I once called my "home" back in the 1980s, when I was studying Turkish at Ankara University and living in the city. Turkey is a country that is constantly portrayed negatively in the U.S. media, including the alternative media, mainly due to American prejudices against Muslim people. Turkey is the only Muslim nation that is part of NATO, and it has maintained strong, friendly ties to Russia, a country it borders, for decades now. This event has now thrown Turkey into the international spotlight, showing that the country has serious diplomatic clout and perhaps an intelligence agency that has been very underrated in the West. I am going to reprint here something I wrote and published last year about my first trip to Turkey as a young man, and how my views and understanding of this country were radically changed after meeting people who lived there, and then living there for several years and learning their language. The point I am trying to make in sharing this experience with the public, is that we should never judge people from another country based on what the media tells us, or based on the politicians and politics of that country. And most importantly, we should never judge people based on whatever religious group they belong to.

Suitcase Bombs Kill over 100 in Iran While Turkey Takes Center Stage in the Middle East as WW III Continues to Expand

The current World War is expanding every day now, and yesterday it took a dangerous new turn, as two suitcase bombs killed over 100 people in Iran, where crowds of people had gathered together to pay tribute to Lt. General Qassem Soleimani on the four-year anniversary of his assassination by former U.S. President Donald Trump. This man is considered a hero and a martyr among the Iranian people, as the anniversary of his death was commemorated this week not only in Iran, but also in Iraq and Lebanon. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was scheduled to be in Ankara, Turkey today, to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but he canceled the trip at the last minute, suggesting that Iran and those aligned with them are planning retaliatory responses. This marks a new stage in this current war, as the way these attacks occurred using suitcase bombs, left little to no trace as to who did this. Both the U.S. and Israel were able to deny any responsibility. With the mass crossing of the U.S. border by migrants right now, it would be foolish to believe, in my opinion, that such suitcase bombs are not already placed in strategic places throughout the U.S. right now.

World War 3 Spreads to Lebanon and Turkey: Hamas Leaders Killed in Beirut by IDF as Turkey Conducts Operations Against Mossad Spies and Aligns with Iran

World War 3 continued to escalate today, as Israeli forces bombed a Beirut suburb in Lebanon, killing two commanders of the Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades, as well as its deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri. Florida Congressman Mike Waltz, representing the Zionist Republicans, cheered the assassination: “If I were any Hamas leader right now, whether you’re in Turkey, Beirut or elsewhere, I would not sleep well at night,” Waltz told Fox News. “The Israelis will hunt them down.” Apparently the Congressman from Florida is not too well informed on intelligence from Turkey as he clearly displayed his ignorance in this statement, because Turkey has made it very clear that they will NOT allow Israel to "hunt down" Palestinians inside Turkey. In fact, Turkish police and intelligence officers have just reportedly completed operations earlier today to round up dozens of spies working with Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, to prevent such a thing from happening inside Turkey. It was also reported today that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Ankara this week to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss the war. Turkey is the only Muslim country that is part of NATO, which has been a constant problem for NATO since Turkey maintains close ties with Russia, their neighbor in the Black Sea. No ships can pass through to the Black Sea from the Mediterranean without going through the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul, and the permission of the Turkish military. So American politicians need to wake up and realize that Turkey is not their puppet, and will not hesitate to defy Western nations, even though they are part of NATO, as the British just learned today when Turkey refused to allow two British Navy minehunter ships to pass through to Ukraine. By the way, TRT, a Turkish public broadcast service, has produced an excellent 13-minute documentary showing how Jewish Zionists believe that Benjamin Netanyahu is prophesied to be Israel's last leader before the "Messiah" comes, which could explain some of his recent actions. So things are progressing from bad to worse in these early stages of WW III, and as I wrote yesterday, I fear most Americans believe that this war will all stay "over there" as it did in Europe during WW II, falsely believing that this war could never come to the U.S. mainland. Such a belief could prove to be very deadly....

Turkey Defies the U.S. and Western Media as President Erdoğan Wins Popular Vote – Victory in Runoff Almost Certain

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emerged victorious in today's national Turkish elections, despite the Western Media's attempts to discredit the conservative Turkish President, and support his main opponent, liberal Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. As I reported last week, even the Right Wing Christian Conservative media put out hit pieces against Erdoğan and supported Kılıçdaroğlu, in spite of his liberal pro-LGBT views in a country that is 99% percent Muslim. The reason why the Christian Right sided with Biden and the democrats to try and affect the Turkish national elections, is because both sides in the U.S., both the "liberals" and the "conservatives", overwhelmingly support the war in Ukraine while demonizing Russia. At the time of writing this article, over 64 million people in Turkey, which has a population of about 85 million, had cast their vote and about 97% of the ballots had been counted, giving Erdoğan a 2.3 million vote lead over his nearest opponent, the U.S.-backed Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Erdoğan is just short of reaching 50% of the popular vote at this point, which would mean that there will be a runoff between him and Kılıçdaroğlu in two weeks. Unless something happens to Erdoğan in the meantime, he is all but assured to win the runoff elections. A few days before the elections, one of the other candidates for President, Muharrem İnce, withdrew from the race over allegations that a recording of him in a sex scandal had surfaced. İnce claimed that the tape was a deepfake, using footage taken from “an Israeli porn site”. Western media sources were quick to predict that İnce's withdrawal would help Kılıçdaroğlu defeat Erdoğan. If İnce was correct in blaming this on a smear attack by Israeli and U.S. sources to boost Kılıçdaroğlu's chances of winning the election, then the plan didn't work, as Erdoğan still came close to reaching 50%, and could still potentially reach that amount at the time of this writing, as some votes have not been calculated yet.

The Real Reason Why the U.S. is Trying to Control the Elections in Turkey this Week

Yesterday, (May 7, 2023), there was a rally of reportedly 1.7 million people at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport showing support for Turkey's current president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ahead of national elections this coming Sunday, May 14th. On Saturday, (May 6, 2023), Erdoğan's opponent for president in the national elections, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, also held a rally in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, but I have been unable to find any published reports about how large the crowds were, although some of the foreign English media have reported that the crowds were in "the thousands" or "tens of thousands." The media here in the U.S., however, in both the corporate media and the alternative media, are reporting that President Erdoğan is either losing or in a close race with Kiliçdaroglu, as they characterize Erdoğan as losing support in an election that "really matters." Why do they say that this election "really matters"? They use the same old excuse they always use when the U.S. has an interest in interfering with elections in other countries where they do not like the outcome: "democracy is at stake." As someone who has lived for many years in Turkey in the past, and was at one time fluent in Turkish and worked as a translator in Turkey, I am going to report the "other side" of this Turkish election that you are not likely going to read in Western English news reports. To sum up the "other side" of why the United States does not want Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to be re-elected as President of Turkey, it is because Turkey is clearly choosing sides in the conflict between the U.S. and Russia in Ukraine, and they are choosing their neighbor, Russia, who is helping Turkey become energy and military independent from the U.S., and part of a larger coalition of Middle Eastern Countries who are banding together to fight years of U.S. military dominance in their region over oil. Some have even suggested that the deadly earthquake in Turkey earlier this year was not natural, but caused by an HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program) weapon used by the U.S. to punish Turkey for working together with Russia.

Russia Helps NATO Member Turkey Reach Nuclear Status

Turkey announced today that they had finally reached "nuclear status" as they received their first batch of nuclear fuel from Russia. Turkey's partnership with Russia, despite being a member of NATO, is another dramatic example of how the political landscape in the Middle East is rapidly changing, as the region looks to break away from its ties to the United States and U.S. worldwide dominance in energy. Being the only Muslim country in NATO, Turkey also has the largest number of armed forces in NATO outside of the U.S., and they are a strategic country that spans through both Europe and the Middle East. Last year they patched up their differences with Saudi Arabia over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, and last month Saudi Arabia reportedly deposited $5 billion into Turkey's Central Bank to help prop up their economy. As an example of just how dramatically the geopolitical map is rapidly changing today, Turkey's historical archenemy since the end of World War I, Greece, is now inviting Turkey to become part of the recently formed East Mediterranean Gas Forum, which began in November of 2019. Check out the member nations that comprise this recently formed East Mediterranean Gas Forum, to which Greece is extending an invitation to Turkey to join: Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan and Palestine. Wait, what?? An organization consisting of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Countries all cooperating together "on developing an infrastructure for gas trade within the region and with external markets"?? And now Greece is inviting their archenemy Turkey to also join??