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Turkey doubled its Russian oil imports year-on-year over a period spanning January to August 2022, Reuters reported on Monday citing new data from the financial analyst platform Refinitiv Eikon.

Cyprus has signed paperwork towards the purchase of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system in a bid to counter the threat of Turkish drones, a Greek newspaper reported on Friday.

Inflation figures in the U.S. of 8.5 per cent, the United Kingdom of 10.1 per cent and the 19-country euro area of 8.9 per cent come nowhere close to Turkey’s eye-popping rate of nearly 80 per cent, with skyrocketing food, housing and energy prices hitting people hard.

Satellite photos analyzed by the Associated Press on Tuesday revealed the much-celebrated first shipment of grain to leave Ukraine under a deal with its Russian invaders, officially bound for starving Lebanon, wound up in Syria instead.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Saturday that five Turkish banks will begin using Russia’s Mir electronic payment system – a sign of deepening ties between NATO member Turkey and outlaw Russia, and a step toward dismantling the international financial system that allows Western nations to impose economic sanctions on rogue regimes.

In a bid to solve delays in the country’s airports, Germany is to do what it does best: bring in more migrants, mostly from Turkey.

Annual inflation in Turkey soared to nearly 80%, official data shows, with food, housing and energy prices hitting consumers hard.

Turkey Demands Finland Help Prosecute Resident Who Insulted Erdogan

The Greek government has called on Germany to halt the sale of attack submarines to Turkey, arguing that the sale could upset the naval balance of power in the region as tensions with the Islamist-led country remain high.

Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom, unceremoniously removed from the Boston Celtics roster after publicly condemning the Chinese Communist Party, spent much of this week in Florida meeting with members of the Cuban exile community and lending messages of hope and solidarity against communism.

Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the U.N. clearing the way for exporting millions of tons of grain.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined hands with his Russian and Iranian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Ebrahim Raisi, at a photo op in Tehran on Tuesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin landed in Iran on Tuesday for a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. It was Putin’s first foray beyond former Soviet Union territory since he launched his invasion of Ukraine in February.

Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis has stated that his country will protect its borders from illegal migration and that it is not up to people-smugglers to decide who can come into Europe.

America celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, while captive people around the world hope they might one day celebrate their own.

Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland’s application to join NATO, triggered by the war in Ukraine.

The rising share of global migrants arriving at the southern U.S. border has created a mosque in Tijuana, Mexico.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday warned Iran against carrying out terror attacks against Israelis abroad, amid “concrete” threats that Israeli tourists were being targeted for killings and kidnappings in Turkey.

The Greek government has rejected demands from Turkey that it demilitarize islands in the Aegean Sea, calling them “baseless myths.”

BERLIN (AP) – Investigators are trying to make sense of “confused” statements by a man who drove into a school group in Berlin in what appears to have been a deliberate rampage, the city’s mayor said Thursday.

Sweden’s Justice Minister survived a confidence vote by one vote from a Kurdish MP, a deal that could see Turkey veto their NATO application.

Stoltenberg said he had a “constructive phone call” with Erdogan, calling Turkey a “valued ally” despite its hostile actions against Greece and ongoing occupation of much of Cyprus.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised Turkey’s intrusion of Greek airspace, calling for the countries to work together as NATO allies. 

Greek authorities have claime the number of migrants attempting to cross from Turkey is increasing, with some 40,000 turned away this year.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported this week that Istanbul prosecutors had launched a criminal “investigation” into former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom for “insulting the president,” a crime in Turkey.

The government of Turkey recently expressed a desire to serve as a “facilitator” of a proposed export process between Istanbul, Moscow, and Kyiv that would see grains, fertilizer, and sunflower oil shipped out of Ukraine and Russia in the coming weeks, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday threatened to launch another military incursion into Syria, without warning, if he deems it necessary to neutralize Kurdish militia groups classified by Turkey as terrorists.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – Greek authorities say they are planning a major extension of a wall along the country’s border with Turkey and are seeking European Union financial support for the additional construction.

The U.S. general nominated to take over European Command has told senators that Finland and Sweden’s push to join NATO may not require adding more U.S. ground forces into either country, but that military exercises and occasional American troop rotations will probably increase.

Delegations from Finland and Sweden went to Ankara Wednesday for negotiations on Turkey’s refusal to accept their applications to join NATO. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is currently in Jerusalem meeting his Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, in the first visit in a decade and a half by Ankara’s top diplomat.

Turkey released a list of demands in return for approving Sweden’s NATO bid, including halting support of groups Turkey calls terrorists.

Turkey will oppose Sweden and Finland joining NATO, the country’s president flatly stated in a video released Thursday.

NATO envoys failed to reach a consensus on Wednesday about starting membership talks with Finland and Sweden, as Turkey raised objections.

Nigel Farage warned that it may be a mistake for NATO to accept the applications from Finland and Sweden into the Western military alliance.

Twenty years after the United States invested blood and treasure in liberating Iraq from the rule of Saddam Hussein, China is attempting to lock up control of Iraq’s oilfields. The Western intervention in Iraq was denounced by critics as a “war for oil,” but in the end, the great authoritarian menace of the 21st Century is close to taking control of Iraq’s energy resources.