As far as Islam is concerned, there are no nationalities: only Muslims and non-Muslims.
Bruce 2005-01-13 10:47 MOST OF FOREIGN MERCENARIES KILLED IN CHECHNYA ARE TURKS WASHINGTON, January 13 (RIA Novosti, Alexei Berezin) - Turkey is a record-breaker among the nations whose citizens have been killed as mercenaries operating as part of illegal armed formations in Chechnya, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told a news conference at the Russian embassy in Washington. "I see no major problems in the Russian-Turkish relations, except the double standards towards the fight against terrorism. I mean Turkey is a record-breaker in terms of the number of its citizens killed in Chechnya while operating with Chechen illegal armed formations," the minister noted. Minister Ivanov also stressed that the Russian-Turkish relations had been on the rise, all the more so that Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently paid a visit to Turkey and a large Turkish businessman team led by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan reciprocated as early as in the beginning of this week. Responding to questions about the Russian-Armenian relations in light of Russia's links with Turkey, the Russian defense minister noted that Armenia was a closest Russian ally. "Our two countries are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (along with Armenia and Russia, the members of this defense organization under the CIS auspices are Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan). There is a large Russian military base in Armenia. We have very close economic and cultural links," Ivanov said. At the same time, he said, "We are not going to push Armenia in any direction. Armenia is a sovereign nation that will take its own decision on where it wants to go. This is a principle of ours." List owner : Alan Fogelquist, Ph.D., Director, Eurasia Research Center Editorial Advisors - Moderators: Alan Fogelquist, Ph. D., Ralph Davis, Professor Emeritus Roger Hamburg (Political Science, U. of South Bend), Professor H. B. Paksoy (History and Middle East Studies), Professor Emeritus George G. S. Murphy (Economics, UCLA), Ambassador (Retd) K. Gajendra Singh (India, and Foundation for Indo-Turkish Studies, Buchurest, Ro.), Dr. Alessandro Politi (Strategic and OSINT Analysis, Italy) Visit ERC's Global Affairs Web Site at: http://www.global-affairs.com To Unsubscribe send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] VISIT THE EURASIA RESEARCH CENTER WEB SITE http://eurasia-research.com/erc/homepage.htm Materials distributed on this list are from open sources for individual non-commercial non-profit educational purposes according to academic standards of fair use by those who have subscribed to the list. Opinions expressed in messages posted on the group do not necessarily reflect those of the moderators. All items posted on the list are for individual educational non-commercial use only in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107. Anyone seeking to reproduce any of these materials commercially should seek permission from the original copyright holder. Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
