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By 2023, When The Lausanne Treaty Expires, Can Turkey Rebuild Its Empire?

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                 The Treaty of Lausanne 11, which reduced the size of the contemporary Turkish state's territory and forced it to cede sizable portions of its own, has never been forgotten by the Turks. In light of Turkey's desire to get rid of the effects of the Convention and restore its rights, which the Allies had usurped, and the fact that Turkey believes the Convention's text is unfair to its rights, was it therefore not strange to hear Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan address the issue during regular meetings with Turkish mayors? The Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, which was signed by the victorious Allies of the First World War, including the United Kingdom (Britain), Ireland, France, Russia, Italy, and Britain, established the modern Turkish Republic, noting that Britain had created several unjust and painful conditions to the rights of the Ottoman Empire. the declaration of a secular state, the abolishment of the caliphate, the exile of the caliph and his fami

Erdogan's Neo-Ottoman Aspirations Advance As The World War I Treaty (Treaty Of Lausanne) Approaches Its 2023 Expiration Date.

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                 Following the end of World War I, Britain, France, Italy, and the other allies undertook several rounds of talks to try to calm the world's unrest. Through a crucial pact, the victorious parties agreed to limit the power of the "Sick Man," or the Ottomans and split the vast enlarged territory of the disintegrating empire. Although it is known as the Treaty of Lausanne, its July 2023 expiration date may pave the way for Turkey to resume its previous colonial aspirations. Except for the cities that are in Syria, such as Urfa, Adana, Gaziantep, Kells, and Marsh, Turkey had to give up its claims to the Levant, Cyprus, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and Sudan. The former Ottoman provinces were occupied by European nations: Syria and Lebanon were entirely under French rule, whereas Egypt, Sudan, and Iraq were formally annexed by the British Empire. Before being turned over to the fledgling state of Israel, British authorities placed Palestine under their control. The I

Boris Johnson has desecrated the political structures of the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Europe.

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                 Boris Johnson receiving a sizable advance from a publisher for a book about William Shakespeare but never writing it seems pretty fitting. Johnson's ascent and descent veers between cheap humor and absurdist theatre. It lacks tragedy's majesty entirely. The opening phrase of Mark Antony's elegy for Julius Caesar, "The evil that men commit lives after them," was the only Shakespearean quotation that sprang to me at the time of his political downfall. The coffin will be light enough if Johnson's good deeds from his public life are placed with his bones. But in the upcoming decades, wickedness will have a significant impact.   This is what makes Johnson's place in history so peculiar. It is difficult to imagine a person who is both foolish and significant, irresponsible and yet deeply important. His time in power was brief, but his bad effects of it will linger. He was a politician so lacking in ability that despite having a sizable legis

EU nations scramble to aid France in battling "monstrous" wildfires

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                 In an unprecedented display of global unity, hundreds of firefighters from around the EU have been dispatched to France to assist in putting out wildfires.   The majority of them are stationed along a 26-mile (40 km) active fire-front in the southwest, where a "monstrous" fire is still destroying pine forests.   Early on Friday morning, German firemen and their vehicles arrived to assist in putting out the enormous Landiras fire in the Gironde and the Landes, south of Bordeaux, which had rekindled this week after consuming vast tracts of forest in July.   Along with teams from Poland, Austria, Greece, and Italy, Romanian firemen and more than 1,100 French firefighters worked to put out the fire. As more than 360 firemen arrived in trucks and aircraft, President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: "Our partners are coming to France's help against the fires. They have my gratitude. The solidarity of Europe is at work!   France has experienced the

Foreign funding or a case of prohibited funding?

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                 The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Prohibited Foreign Funding Case verdict will be announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday morning (today). Anxious political pundits across the nation started flying kites on Monday as they were overheard making predictions about the likely verdict, which is sure to have a significant impact on the future of the nation.   While some of these analysts believed that the election watchdog would only decide whether "prohibited" PTI donations should be confiscated in favor of the State, per the July 23, 2002 notification, some pundits believed that if contributions had been received by the PTI directly or indirectly from foreign countries multi-nationals or domestically incorporated into public or private companies, a ban is most likely to be imposed on its functioning as a political party. Although the nation was keenly watching, the majority of experts believed that the case would ultimately move to