It has finally happened, although I am tardy noting it here. The Turkish military has launched its incursion into northern Iraq, in an attempt to root out the mountain safe havens of the PKK.
The Turkish army has yet to stage a full-scale ground invasion to supplement the air strikes, and for good reason. It’s winter […]

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A Merry MeXmas courtesy Mr. Russell Monk of San Miguel, Mexico.
Now drink up.

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In October 1980, Salih Sezgin was an illiterate seventeen-year-old when he was incarcerated in Diyarbakir prison, Turkey’s most notoriously brutal penitentiary. The military high command had just staged a coup dissolving the government. Many Turks welcomed the army’s intervention due the rising tide of political violence (committed by leftists & rightists) and economic instability that […]

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