The Future of Turkish-Israeli Relations in the Wake of Deadly Assault on the...
Following the Israeli commando attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla and the death of nine Turkish citizens, popular outrage has swept the streets of Turkey. The Turkish government has demanded...
View ArticleStephen Kinzer: "Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future"
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Stephen Kinzer, we’re going to come forward. Your theory, the thesis you’re putting forward in Reset, is that there could be a strategic alliance, a new power triangle, between the...
View ArticleExclusive: US Journalist Deported from Turkey After Reporting on Plight of Kurds
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today with the American journalist Jake Hess, who was arrested in Turkey nearly two weeks ago and deported back to the United States over the weekend. Jake Hess is twenty-five...
View ArticleSyrian Troops Pursue “Scorched Earth” Policy; Videos Document Children...
AMY GOODMAN: The Syrian army has taken control of the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour following what state media has described as heavy fighting. State television reported Sunday that the army was...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky: The U.S. & Israel Strongly Oppose "Rise of Any Meaningful...
AARON MATÉ: Noam, I wanted to ask you about this crisis unfolding with Turkey and Israel. Earlier this month, Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador and other senior diplomats after the release of a U.N....
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PHOTOS: Sailing Toward Gaza Aboard the Canadian Boat Tahrir With Freedom...
See photos below of some of the activists aboard the Canadian boat, Tahrir, now sailing in international waters toward Gaza. One of two boats in the Freedom Waves Flotilla, its passengers include...
View ArticleArab League Suspends Syria, Concern Grows over Foreign Intervention to End...
AMY GOODMAN: We continue on Syria with Bassam Haddad, the director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University. His book, Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of...
View ArticleSyrian Human Rights Lawyer Razan Zaitouneh Speaks from Hiding, Says Over...
AMY GOODMAN: Today in Brussels, the European Union decided to impose sanctions on 18 Syrians in response to the killings of protesters by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The names of those sanctioned...
View ArticleA Turkish Spring? Over 1,000 Injured as Anti-Government Protests Spread...
AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Turkey, where protests that began last week in the capital have now brought tens of thousands into the streets in cities across the country. The demonstrations...
View ArticleVIDEO REPORT: Inside Istanbul's Taksim Square Protesters Remain Despite...
In this video report filed from inside Taksim Square, independent journalist Brandon Jourdan brings us the voices of union members and others who have continued to join in the protest that began nine...
View ArticleReport from Istanbul: Turkish Police Attack Protesters in Taksim Square with...
Turkish riot police have forcibly removed throngs of protesters from Istanbul’s Taksim Square after nearly two weeks of demonstrations. Beginning Tuesday and lasting overnight, officers fired tear gas...
View ArticleTurkish Unions Hold National Strike as Protesters Face Worst Crackdown to Date
AMY GOODMAN: In these last few minutes, we turn to Turkey, where a nationwide strike called by several of the country’s leading unions is underway now with calls to end the police crackdown on...
View ArticleDefiant Turkish Demonstrators "Finding New Ways to Protest" in Face of...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Anti-government protests are continuing in Turkey despite an increasingly violent state crackdown. On Tuesday, Turkish police arrested 87 people in a series of raids targeting those...
View ArticleSy Hersh Reveals Potential Turkish Role in Syria Chemical Strike That Almost...
AMY GOODMAN: As Syria continues to remove its chemical weapons arsenal under the monitoring of the United Nations, a new article by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh questions what...
View ArticleAfter Ignoring ISIS Assault on Kobani, U.S. Launches Major Strikes & Arms...
AARON MATÉ: We begin with the continued fight for the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani and the issues it’s raised with the country on its border, Turkey. After a more than month-long assault, the Islamic...
View ArticleExclusive: Deported Palestinian Scholar Sami Al-Arian on His Chilling...
JUAN GONZÁLEZ: The Palestinian activist and professor Sami Al-Arian has been deported this week from the United States. In one of the most controversial prosecutions of the post-9/11 era, Al-Arian was...
View ArticleA People Expunged: Marking the 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide amid...
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re on the road in Denver, Colorado. This week marks the hundredth anniversary of the Armenian...
View ArticleFighting Both Sides of the Same War: Is Turkey Using Attacks on ISIL as Cover...
AMY GOODMAN: Turkish jets have reportedly launched their heaviest assault on Kurdish militants in northern Iraq since airstrikes began last week, effectively ending a two-year truce. Over the past...
View ArticleMilitary Curfews, Firebombings, Airstrikes & Shattered Peace Deal: Is Turkey...
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to Turkey, where a leading opposition political party has accused Turkey’s rulers of pushing the country toward civil war ahead of November’s elections. Over the past week,...
View ArticleShock & Panic in Turkey: Deadliest Terrorist Attack in Country’s History...
AMY GOODMAN: As many as 128 people died in Ankara, Turkey, on Saturday when nearly simultaneous explosions ripped through a peace rally in the capital. More than 245 people were injured. The bombs went...
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