by Oui
Thu Mar 27th, 2025 at 02:01:24 PM EST
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WARNING: Extreme rightwing warmongering think tank looking for a war with Russia!!
Turkey and the West's Black Sea interests converge more often than is acknowledged--opening up opportunities for cooperation | The Atlantic Council |
Since Russia's full-scale invasion of the Biden/Blinken drawn out war with Ukraine, the Black Sea's strategic significance has increased--and Turkey's position as a key Black Sea power and NATO member has become more crucial for the Alliance's efforts to counter revisionist Russia. In recent years, mutual distrust and substantial estrangement have defined the relationship between Turkey and the West, with the Black Sea region reflecting this broader context. To overcome the distrust of Ankara and to facilitate Turkey's aligning and coordinating with its partners would require considerable efforts to smooth Turkey-West relations, sometimes on tracks that have nothing to do with the Black Sea itself.
Turkey and the West have long collaborated on Black Sea stability, countering Russian revisionism, supporting the resilience of post-Soviet states, and leveraging the region's energy and connectivity. However, for some countries, Turkey's quest for autonomy has sometimes appeared to clash with the West's NATO commitments, raising concerns about whether Ankara supports or obstructs NATO goals. Ankara's grievances, in its perspective, are related to its perception that Western partners have insufficiently acknowledged Turkey's security concerns, presumably overlooking the broader threats Turkey faces beyond those in the Black Sea region.
Despite tensions, Turkey and the West share similar security threats and have common interests in the Black Sea region. There are clear opportunities for more effective cooperation should the parties display the will to do so.
Erdogan alliance with the Tatars during both World Wars remains in place today and is weak spot in the Russian operations to keep the occupied territories of Ukraine, especially Crimea and the Sevastopol Naval Base.
Return of Crimea to Ukraine requirement of international law: Erdogan | 11 Sept. 2024 |
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated Türkiye's support for Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty, emphasizing the return of Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law.
Erdogan made the statement during a video address to the 4th Crimea Platform Leaders' Summit.
In his address, Erdogan expressed solidarity with Ukraine and the Crimean Tatar community. "We have consistently supported Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence. The return of Crimea to Ukraine is a requirement of international law," Erdogan said, highlighting Türkiye's long-standing stance against the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia.
Mustafa Dzhemilev: Russia's occupation of Crimea spells the death of the Crimean Tatar people and forced exile | 27 Dec. 2024 |
Any so-called peace deal with Russia that involves acceptance of Russian occupation of Crimea would mean disaster for the Crimean Tatar people. "We struggled for half a century to be able to return to our homeland; now we are again forced to flee"
This stark warning was issued in an interview to Crimean Realities by Mustafa Dzhemilev, world-renowned Crimean Tatar leader, Ukrainian MP and former Soviet political prisoner, who spent 15 years in the labour camps for his peaceful defence of his people's rights and of human rights in general.
The interview was given just days after the Czech Republic became the seventh country which has recognized the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944 as an act of genocide. Dzhemilev had been present on 18 December when the Czech Senate overwhelmingly voted for the resolution on recognition and thanked the senators for their position. In an address to the Senate, Dzhemiliev thanked them for their position and spoke of how the move provides moral support for Ukraine and for Crimean Tatars now living under Russian occupation.
Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television: Mediating Post-Soviet Difference
Russia, one of the world's most ethno-culturally diverse countries, provides a distinctive angle on how globalisation is causing the radical rethinking of approaches to national cohesion. Russia's authoritarian, centripetal state, weak civil society and high vulnerability to extreme ideologies lends it particular importance in this context, since it tests to the limits the ability of the state, and of community-building led by public broadcasters, to withstand the pressures that they face across the European continent.
Official Russian discourse of national unity and identity is neither coherent nor univocal. A particularly strong contradiction pits the official rhetoric of a civic pan-Russian nation (grazhdanskaia rossiiskaia naciia) that embraces members of all nationalities as equal citizens, against the representation of Russia as the homeland of ethnic Russians (Shevel 2011; Laruelle 2009). In fact, this disjunction between civic and ethnic conceptions of nationhood is acknowledged by Russia's leaders who, as our analysis suggests, collaborate with state-aligned media in cultivating the ambiguity which the disjunction creates in order to render Kremlin-sponsored discourse simultaneously appealing to different societal groups and to different television audiences. The balance between the two sides of the disjunction is, however, highly unstable and liable to tilt heavily in favour of one or the other, depending on circumstances.
In War's Wake, Russia's Ethnic Minorities Renew Independence Dreams
Andreev, a 34-year-old with close-cropped hair and a mustache, co-founded the Free Yakutia Foundation, which campaigns against the war and helps potential conscripts to avoid mobilization. Andreev is not alone. He is one of thousands of members of ethnic minorities from Russia who are part of a movement calling for the decolonization of the country, with some going as far as calling for independence from Moscow.
The invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered a surge in national movements among Russia's ethnic minorities, but their grievances with "Muscovy," as many members of the movement refer to the central power in Russia, are decades, and some might say centuries, in the making.
Explained the Ottoman Empire and Crimean Khanate
The territory of the Crimean Khanate was annexed by the Russian Empire on 19 April 1783. Russia had wanted more control over the Black Sea, and an end to the Crimean slave trade, and as such, waged a series of wars against the Ottoman Empire and its Crimean vassal.
Fron the diaries ...
Thwarting Kremlin Attacks by Tatars, French and Germans
In comparison How the West was Won - genocide of the indigenous Indian tribes ... the Indian Wars and the Spanish-American War of 1898.
