Turkey

Monastic life.

At the age of 30, joined the monastery on Mount Isla, modern day Southeastern Turkey.

Southeastern Turkey.

Mentored by Saint Orgen, another saint of the 4th century, who was a head of monks in Egypt, Upper Egypt, Saint Orgen.

Fellow monks often witnessed him in spiritual communion with angels.

One question that wasn't raised or answered last week is, how did these Spanish-speaking Jews get to the Balkans? How and why? And the answer is pretty straightforward.

When the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal five years later, the Ottoman sultan sent ships equipped with great food and clothes and sent his advisors who were multilingual to encourage Jews to come and settle in his territories, in Ottoman territories, because as the sultan commented, and this was one of Turkey's many great sultans, the king of Spain is a fool to get rid of the very people who made him rich.

Right, yeah, I mean, famous quote, it's a great quote.

One could argue that between the expulsion of the Jews and the ill-fated spanish armada that was the decline of spain from a great world power to a almost a third world country that loss was almost irreparable so the ottoman sultan had a good idea and as a result jews settled in ottoman cities not necessarily in istanbul itself which already had plenty of jews but in places like thessaloniki Klavdiv, which is the second city of Bulgaria.

The ancient name was Studipopolis.

Edirne, which is a secondary city in Turkey.

Its old name was Adrianopolis.

Actually, it was named for the Roman emperor Hadrian.

So, you'll have some stuff to add to this.

When Chloe was two, we were actually living in Kalkan in Turkey.

A lot of English mums married Turkish husbands, so they had kids who were bilingual.

So we ended up putting Chloe in a creche with a lot of kids that could speak both English and Turkish, which was fantastic.

She's happy as Larry.

She absolutely loves it.

The ladies that are there, I will say, so in the baby's room, as you were kind of saying, where they tend to come from the Philippines and things like that in those kind of roles in Turkey.

There is quite a few ladies that come over from Burma and the Burmese women that work there and the Thai ladies are in the baby's room who speak very little English.

I don't know quite what that means, but before I try to translate it, we do know there's a lot of ethnic cleansers.

Mr. Erdogan, the president of Turkey...

Oh, my God.

Okay, just

Now go on to tell me the crimes of other governments.

How is this taking on the charge that Israel didn't ethnically cleanse these people? Here, keep playing.

His government, not his own, but the Turkish government, of which he is a continual successor to, ethnically cleansed all of the Greeks from northern Cyprus and occupied it, and then sent settler colonialists from Turkey.

I haven't heard anybody complain about that.

And now I've seen the numbers that that's not going well.

And again, that's Israel, Turkey and the West doing that.

Do you agree with that statement or what's happening in Syria right now?

Well, just real quick before jumping into Syria, I want to add that, you know, recently it's reported that Laura Loomer himself said it seems like America needs another 9-11.

Because nothing says family values quite like a police raid at one in the morning.

Turkey? has just provided us with the latest installment of this magnificent international morality pageant.

And they serve at the pleasure of the EU, but much like our government, who cares about laws? Recently, Turkish authorities launched coordinated raids against LGBTQ organizations, against venues, against individuals.

The government called the operation My Family is Safe.

By the time you do care, it's too late.

You're already busted.

Authorities in Turkey said legal proceedings had been initiated against 162 people, nine organizations, 13 businesses all across Turkey.

Police raided gay bars, other venues, searched homes, association offices, detained dozens of people, took down websites and busted people all across social media.

And NATO has a NATO Space Center, 2020, under Allied Air Command.

And the ones with units rather than commands? South Korea, Pakistan, Turkey, Israel, Brazil, Iran, North Korea, South Africa, Thailand, New Zealand.

The list is long and the capabilities aren't comparable.

So the bottom line on the international picture...

Quote, airports that provide services to Iranian airlines will be cut off from the dollar system.

Turkey has so far announced that it won't accept Iranian airlines anymore.

So see

what they're trying to do here? They're trying to turn the screws on them economically, right? Sanction them, embargo them.

The Commission also decided that races interrupted by rain or other factors would now be subject to a hard stop time.

The 2027 season will include 24 Grand Prix races, with Portugal and Turkey returning to the calendar.

With the latest from the SBS Newsroom, I'm Assam Vahed.

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