On December 11th 2017, five days after he announced his expected intention to run for the fourth time for Russia’s presidency, Vladimir Putin visited Hmeimim air base, met Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and declared that Russia’s military mission in Syria had been “accomplished.”
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Euphoric festivities continue in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, and flags depicting a yellow sun are flying high.
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If you want to make an argument pointless, call your opponent a ‘Nazi’. That is exactly what happened between the Netherlands and Turkey recently, when the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the Dutch ‘Nazi remnants’. Before Erdoğan’s furious statement, the Dutch authorities had already denied entry to Rotterdam to both Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and families minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya. Çavuşoğlu had threatened the Dutch with sanctions—which constituted a red line for Mark Rutte’s government.
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