20 Jul
A few days after the coup in Turkey, many started wonder which countries could benefit from what happened in the country.
Pravda.Ru conducted an interview with Deputy Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies and Projections, Nikita Danyuk, about the recent coup in Turkey.
“In general, I would like to say that sowing chaos in Eurasia is part of the US global strategy. Yet, the United States is not involved in everything that has been going on lately.
“As for Turkey, there are several versions as to who masterminded the failed military coup. One of the versions says that the military coup in Turkey was plotted by the United States and NATO. First of all, Turkish Air Force generals appear to be the main instigators of the coup. We all know that Turkey is a longtime member of NATO and the Turkish Air Force is directly controlled by NATO military institutions.
“Secondly, we understand that organizing such an event is quite difficult without a leak of information. Interestingly, France, for example, closed its Consulate Embassy in Turkey three days before the coup. Quite possibly, there was a leak.
“In addition, the official reaction from Washington came later than it was expected. We saw that Mr. Kerry and Barack Obama expressed their support for the legitimately elected President Erdogan only a few hours after it became clear that the coup d’etat failed. There are official US documents that do not refer to the events in Turkey as ‘coup d’etat,’ but call it a ‘popular protest,’ which is also quite symbolic.
“At the same time, one should not indulge in illusions. The US-Turkey relations chilled quite a time ago because of the policy of the Turkish prime minister and the US position on the Kurdish question………………
US agencies Nasa and Noaa say last month was 0.9C hotter than the 20th century average and the hottest June since records began in 1880
Nasa image shows sea ice across the Arctic Ocean shrinking to below-average levels this summer. Photograph: Nasa/AFP/Getty Images
Michael Slezak
As the string of record-breaking global temperatures continues unabated, June 2016 marks the 14th consecutive month of record-breaking heat.
According to two US agencies – Nasa and Noaa – June 2016 was 0.9C hotter than the average for the 20th century, and the hottest June in the record which goes back to 1880. It broke the previous record, set in 2015, by 0.02C.
The 14-month streak of record-breaking temperatures was the longest in the 137-year record. And it has been 40 years since the world saw a June that was below the 20th century average.
But the effects of El Niño have receded, and the effects of global warming are clear, said Nasa’s Gavin Schmidt.
“While the El Niño event in the tropical Pacific this winter gave a boost to global temperatures from October onwards, it is the underlying trend which is producing these record numbers,” he said.
Nasa’s Walt Meir said the global temperatures have been exacerbated by extreme temperatures over the Arctic. Warm temperatures there are pushing up the global average, as well a causing record-low amounts of sea ice………….
Investigators say teenager who injured four people on a train before being shot dead acted with ‘Islamist religious motive’
Police officers search for evidence near the crime scene in Würzburg, Germany. Photograph: Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/AP
German officials are weighing up how to react to what is being treated as the first attack with a jihadist motive by an asylum seeker on German soil, who prosecutors suggested may have decided to carry out the attack just days earlier.
A 17-year-old Afghan armed with an axe and a knife attacked passengers on a regional train in northern Bavaria on Monday evening, seriously injuring four Chinese tourists before being shot dead by police.
Prosecutors said on Tuesday that two of the injured were suffering from “acute life-threatening” wounds.
The attack had been carried out with an “Islamist religious motive”, a spokesperson for the state office of criminal investigations said. A hand-painted Islamic State flag had been found in the teenager’s room at his foster home, as well as a college book with a text written in Pashtun.
Lothar Köhler, the director of the Bavarian investigations office, said he understood the text to be a farewell letter to the teenager’s father, in which he complained about “nonbelievers”. In one key passage, he wrote: “Now pray for me that I can take revenge on these nonbelievers, and pray for me, that I make my way into heaven.”…………
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Hundreds detained in Gujarat amid protest over attack on four villagers from the lowest Dalit caste who were taking a dead cow to be skinned
Activists protest against an attack on Dalits in Gujarat by cow protection vigilantes. Photograph: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images
Staff and agencies
Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in the western Indian state of Gujarat after an attack on low-caste villagers by cow protection vigilantes.
In violent clashes on Tuesday, a police officer was killed and several others were injured, the local superintendent of police told Agence France-Presse.
Hundreds of people have been detained as authorities try to contain the unrest, which began on Monday and has since spread.
In towns and cities around Gujarat, the home state of India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, police fired teargas shells and used sticks to try to control stone-throwing crowds, who have blocked roads and torched state buses.
The protests erupted after video footage emerged of an attack last week on four villagers from the lowest Dalit caste who were taking a dead cow to be skinned.
Cows are considered sacred by Hindus and killing them is banned in Gujarat, but the villagers said the animal had died of natural causes.
Low-caste villagers are commonly tasked with removing the corpses of dead cows from the streets of India, where the animals often roam freely.
The beef and leather industries have also traditionally been associated with lower castes, untouchables, and Muslims whose livelihoods are the worst-hit by the rise of rightwing cow protection movements………….
‘Nearly all departments are having a difficult time to attract applicants’ in the current polarized climate, even as some populations are growing
A woman approaches a Dallas police officer standing in front of a makeshift memorial in front of the headquarters of the police department. Photograph: Tony Gutierrez/AP
After the killing of five police officers on 7 July, Dallas police chief David Brown issued an invitation to those who marched in protest at killings of African Americans by law enforcement: join us.
“Serve your community, don’t be a part of the problem,” Brown said at a news conference. “We’re hiring. Get off of that protest line and put your application in.”
A message on the Facebook page of the Dallas police recruiting department four days after the deaths suggests that there had been a surge of inquiries. “Thank you for everyone’s interest in wanting to apply with our department,” it said.
But there are fears that strained community relations, budget shortfalls and perceptions of a “war on cops” heightened by the deaths in Dallas and the fatal shootings of three officers in Baton Rouge last Sunday will worsen recruiting problems faced by departments in the Texas city and elsewhere.
Keith Wenzel, an instructor and retired Dallas police sergeant who still trains officers there about once a month, said he doubted that Brown’s well-intentioned plea would be persuasive given the trenchant criticisms of police expressed by many protesters, the national outpouring of anger since Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson in 2014, and the risks underlined by the Dallas and Baton Rouge tragedies.
“You can’t turn on a news source without seeing that police officers have been assassinated,” he said. “Quite honestly, why would anybody right now be encouraged to be a police officer?” Wenzel believes that “with the protests, everything that’s going on, it is safe to assume … nearly all departments are having a difficult time to attract applicants.”…………..
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