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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?
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Türkiye to host Climate Meet COP31: Can it Rise to Green Energy Leadership Challenge?

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Türkiye has achievements in low-carbon renewable energy. It is the site of the largest solar power installation in a European country

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Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

Trump Shifts to Monarchy Promotion in Middle East

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Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

Trump’s Assault on Green Energy could Kill 1.3 million in Climate Disasters

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Speaking of Bad Storms (editorial cartoon on GOP by Paul Jamiol)

Speaking of Bad Storms (editorial cartoon on GOP by Paul Jamiol)

by Paul Jamiol courtesy Jamiol’s World

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Turkey

Turkey: It’s about the Right to be Different (Soysal)

Ayşe Soysal, in Istanbul, writes for ISLAMiCommentary : Ayse Soysal It was a ‘Wow!’ weekend indeed. My niece Elif, a college student, was one of […]

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Turkey
Woman in Red (Turkish Police Spray Tear Gas on Modern Young Protester)

Woman in Red (Turkish Police Spray Tear Gas on Modern Young Protester)

(Courtesy Reuters) This young woman being teargassed at the Taksim protests in Istanbul has become an internet icon. Unveiled and bare-armed, she is clearly secular […]

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al-Qaeda
Have we no Shame?  Will Hunger Strikes and medical Torture finally close Guantanamo? (Hickman)

Have we no Shame? Will Hunger Strikes and medical Torture finally close Guantanamo? (Hickman)

John Hickman, author of Selling Guantanamo, writes in a guest column for Informed Comment Curious isn’t it how the decision-making of the United States Government […]

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Turkey
Police Brutality and Turkish Protests (Compilation Video)

Police Brutality and Turkish Protests (Compilation Video)

Compilation video of police brutality in Turkish Gezi Park protests: As usual with grassroots Youtube videos, the authenticity of it cannot be independently verified from […]

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Turkey
Defiant Erdogan Risks Turkish Economy, as Unions enter the Fray

Defiant Erdogan Risks Turkish Economy, as Unions enter the Fray

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is now risking Turkey’s economic miracle by his imperious reaction to the protests in dozens of cities that have roiled […]

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Syria
Syria as a Prisoner of Western History (Harms)

Syria as a Prisoner of Western History (Harms)

Gregory Harms writes in a guest op-ed for Informed Comment The influential Egyptian Islamist cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi recently issued a fatwa, or religious proclamation, with […]

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Turkey
Binary Signaling & Turkish Protests (Izmir Video)

Binary Signaling & Turkish Protests (Izmir Video)

People in Izmir apartments turning off and on their lights in support of the protests in Turkey.

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Turkey
Turkish Opinion Poll Finds Majorities Slam Erdogan policies on Alcohol, Syria

Turkish Opinion Poll Finds Majorities Slam Erdogan policies on Alcohol, Syria

On Sunday night into Monday morning in Turkey, clashes again broke out between demonstrators and police in a number of cities, and an attempt was […]

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