Turkey is in agreement with the U.S. to block the Democratic Union Party (PYD) from a Daesh-free “safe zone” in northern Syria, according to Turkish diplomatic sources. The PYD is a Syria-based affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which is considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU. Source Anadolu Agency
Following the act in France, Swedish teachers are now emphasizing the importance of freedom of expression in teaching. At the same time, there is some concern that similar acts may occur here as well.
– It is not a question of, but when, says teacher Olof Linton. Source SVT Nyheter
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has written to the European Union asking it to consider suspending the EU’s customs union agreement with Turkey, the Greek state news agency ANA reported on Tuesday.
Dendias wrote to the European commissioner for neighbourhood and enlargement, Oliver Varhelyi, asking him to look at the measure in response to Turkey’s repeated violations of the agreement, the agency said. Source Aljazeera
Military expert and professor of strategic studies, Admiral Ferdinando Sanfelice di Monteforte, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip “Erdoğan is losing consensus internally and is putting the economy in crisis.
The Admiral also claimed that the S-400 missile defensive system is not competitive.
Is Greece calling for an arms embargo and suspension of the EU-Turkey customs union? There is no doubt that “in the absence of an agreement, measures of this kind will have to be taken”. Source Greekcitytimes
