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  • Return of Crimea to Ukraine a requirement of international law: Turkish president

    08/25/2022 9:47:29 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 55 replies
    Anadolu ^ | 8/23/2022 | Diyar Güldoğan
    Ankara supports Ukraine's territorial integrity and rejects the illegal annexation of Crimea, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday. "The return of Crimea to Ukraine, of which it is an inseparable part, is essentially a requirement of international law," Erdogan said in a video message to the Second Crimea Platform Summit. The Crimea Platform is an international coordination mechanism of Ukraine to draw more global attention to Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. Erdogan said Ankara will continue to support the Crimean Platform that was established to resolve the Crimean issue through peaceful means. "Türkiye does not recognize...
  • As Attacks Mount in Crimea, Kremlin Faces Rising Domestic Pressures

    08/22/2022 3:38:53 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 28 replies
    The New York Times ^ | August 20, 2022 | Anton Troianovski, Marc Santora and Dan Bilefsky
    Nearly six months into the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin still refers to its invasion as a “special military operation” while trying to maintain a sense of normalcy at home. But a series of Ukrainian attacks in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that President Vladimir V. Putin illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, is puncturing that narrative. And as Ukrainian attacks mount in the strategically and symbolically important territory, the damage is beginning to put domestic political pressure on the Kremlin, with criticism and debate about the war increasingly being unleashed on social media and underscoring that even what the...