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2015-12-20 The Grand Turk

Russia wants to maintain ties with Turkish people, Turkish leadership 'not eternal'

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-12-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 KGB files being activated on their affiliates in Turkey?

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2015-12-20 08:10|| 2015-12-20 08:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The KGB files are replete with the activity of the Muslim Brotherhood in the war in Afghanistan, and later in Chechnya. The Soviet Union, and now Russia has nothing but hatred for the organization and given that Turkey's recent leadership (Erbakan and Erdogan) maintained close ties to the Brotherhood, it is not surprising that for political purposes Russia differentiates the present Erdogan government from the Turkish people.

Posted by Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-12-20 08:42|| 2015-12-20 08:42|| Front Page Top

#3 "Try the sushi, Yippy"

Posted by Frank G 2015-12-20 09:55|| 2015-12-20 09:55|| Front Page Top

#4 With action so close one must assume the GRU files and sources are active too. heh!

Posted by 3dc 2015-12-20 10:46|| 2015-12-20 10:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Turkish leadership 'not eternal'

Or so they guys from first directorate promised.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-12-20 11:03|| 2015-12-20 11:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Could somebody explain to me why the French/Brits intervened in Chrimea instead of letting the Rus re-take Constantinople?

Yeah, I read The Great Game, I get it.

But the only things the Ottomans were good at was making pyramids of skulls and being such buggers Europeans essentially sailed to the moon to avoid having contact with them.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-12-20 12:07|| 2015-12-20 12:07|| Front Page Top

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