A young girl with a brave heart and many hats, Ravda Nour Jouma is a Syrian activist for refugees and a spokesperson for Arab women.
On my first visit to “the land of fire” a few months after the Armenians attacked the town of Khojaly in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan on Feb. 26, 1992, hearts were still on fire with the tragedy. Some 613 Azerbaijani Turks, many of them small children, women and elderly were ruthlessly massacred as part of a pogrom-like extermination of Turkish identity.
Under the disguise that it could soon be carrying out some naval exercises, Turkey issued a new Navtex on Feb. 21, a day before the termination of the previous identical Navtex on Feb. 22.
The Eastern Mediterranean might be rich in regards to natural gas and oil, however, aside from Israel’s Leviathan gas field, no economically viable or commercially feasible resource has been found so far.
Are Turkey and the United States allies or enemies?
Independent or objective journalism is a difficult task to achieve.
There are several approaches to national security. According to one approach, when the national and territorial security of Turkey is at stake, everything else becomes irrelevant. This view must be respected as it is the state and government’s fundamental duty to take every required measure to ensure national and territorial integrity and the well-being of Turkish citizens. According to another approach, a country’s national and territorial integrity and security are very important, but a government must try to fulfill such sacrosanct duties in conformity with local and international law.
The Turkish Cypriot parliamentary elections last month produced a rather scattered parliament. Some 70 percent of the electorate voted for center-right parties demanding Turkey’s continued guarantor status as well as the presence of Turkish troops in Northern Cyprus.
Nothing has changed in Cyprus. Our old friend Nikos Anastasiades was reelected in the Feb. 5 run-off polls for a second five-year term as the president of Greek Cyprus, adding his name to a short list of Greek Cypriot leaders who managed to serve two terms as president.
