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Did the US push the Kurds to lower their defences against Turkey in the months preceding the latest Turkish military operation against them?
CNN reports:
Analysts such as Bowman say part of the outrage is driven by the fact that "we would have not defeated ISIS' Caliphate ... without their help" and that the Kurds had just recently lowered their defenses, trusting the US to protect them…
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Is this "ancient Hebrew leather manuscript" seized by police in Turkey authentic?
Some time ago there was news of a manuscript stolen from a Syrian museum, seized from smugglers in Turkey. There are many other articles about this as well.
Turkish police seize ancient manuscript from smugglers —Suspects in central Kırşehir…
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Did a Turkish cargo ship get bombed in the Black Sea during the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
In a Discord server, someone pointed out the following article by Russian state news media about a Turkish cargo ship which was reportedly hit by a bomb on the way from Odessa to Romania:
Turkish Cargo Ship in Black Sea Reportedly Hit by 'Bomb' en…
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Were senior officals who outran their executioners pardoned in the Ottoman Empire?
According to various sources, in the Ottoman Empire, when a senior official was given a death sentence, he'd race with his executioner. If he were to win the race, the death sentence would be commuted, and he'd merely be banished instead.
For a…
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Does Turkey make the "structural steel frame" for the F-35 fighter?
In a tweet of Donald Trump (which was also carried without commentary in this regard by the Washington Post) he says
So many people conveniently forget that Turkey is a big trading partner of the United States, in fact they make the structural…
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Did Turkey and Greece attempt to gain control of NATO nuclear weapons to use on each other during the Cyprus crisis of 1963-1964?
The following quote from an article on arstechnica.com, talking about PAL codes required for arming US nuclear missles, states that Turkey and Greece were attempting to gain control of nuclear weapons to use on each other in the 1960s:
The codes,…
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Did the Ottoman government kill ~1 million Armenians during and after World War I?
The Armenian Genocide is explained in Wikipedia as
the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects inside their historic homeland, which lies within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey.…
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Did mosque restorers find a 400-year-old letter from the architect with instructions?
A friend just told me a lovely story about a mosque in Turkey. It needed some maintenance, but the stone-masonry skills required to repair an arch had been lost. They found a letter from the architect, hidden in the archway, with detailed…
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Did Turkish football fans shout "Allahu akbar" during a pre-match moment of silence for the Paris attacks?
Turkish fans were said to have whistled and shouted "Allahu akbar" (God is great) during a moment of silence for the Paris attacks during a Turkey-Greece friendly football match.
The Daily Mail reports on the issue:
Loud jeering is audible as…
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Did Muslims discover the Americas in the 12th century A.D.?
Turkish president Erdogan recently claimed Muslims discovered the Americas in 1178 A.D.
Muslims discovered the Americas more than three centuries before Christopher Columbus, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. [...] Mr Erdogan also…
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Is Turkey trading oil with Islamic State?
Russia claims Turkey is trading oil with Islamic State:
Syria conflict: Russia accuses Erdogan of trading oil with IS (BBC News, 2 December 2015)
Russia presents proof of Turkey’s role in ISIS oil trade (Russia Today, 2 December 2015).
Does the…
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Did the Russian SU-24 enter into Turkish airspace?
According to the BBC, Turkey and Russia have disputed the flight path and this map shows the disputed paths:
According to the Guardian, that means the plane would have only been in Turkish territory for 17 seconds at the most.
This raises multiple…
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Did the United States provide weapons to YPG members in 2015?
The People Protection Units or "YPG" are the main armed service of the Federation of Northern Syria – Rojava, and consist primarily of Syrian Kurds. The Turkish government consider the YPG to be part of the PKK, which they classify as a terrorist…
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Can the amount of tryptophan one might consume in a turkey dinner cause drowsiness?
We've heard the stories at Thanksgiving that turkey causes drowsiness because it contains tryptophan. Is this true?
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Do 50% of the schoolchildren in Turkey have Kurdish ethnicity?
Michael Gfoeller claims in a video that despite only 20% of the present population of Turkey being Kurds, 50% of the school children in Turkey are Kurds, and that consequently:
Within a generation, Turkey will be pretty much evenly divided between…
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