Category Archives: Turkey

Hebrew prophet

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Attaboy! Sock it to ’em!

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IMMIGRATION

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  5 July 2016 THE IMMIGRANT   Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato … Continue reading

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Caput anni

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  1 January 2015 The good news is that Antigone1984 is to resume blogging as from today. … Continue reading

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The pachyderm in the pyramid

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  5 July 2013 In his “Poetics” Aristotle said that the unexpected has a tendency to occur. … Continue reading

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Crocodile tears

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   3 April 2012 SYRIA The foot-dragging over what to do about Syria continues in diplomatic circles … Continue reading

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Voltaire vindicated

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.   1 March 2010 FRENCH GENOCIDE LAW OUTLAWED The French Constitutional Council has thrown out a law … Continue reading

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Another “Orwell” spotted in the garden

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Free speech denied in France, the home of Voltaire

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  Anyone in France who denies that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915 will … Continue reading

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