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cinevisto32 · 17 days
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América, América (1963)
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dear-indies · 1 year
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Hi hi howdy and hello ! I was hoping that you could help me find a cis female FC between the ages of 21 and 30 with naturally curly hair. Ethnicity is open to any and all. If they have resources, all the better if you don't mind. Please and thank you so much for your time and all that you do!
Su Kutlu (1991) Turkish.
Georgina Campbell (1992) Afro Jamaican / English.
Kiana Madeira (1992) Irish, Unspecified First Nations, Black Canadian / Portuguese.
Medalion Rahimi (1992) Iranian, Mizrahi Jewish.
Rose Matafeo (1992) Samoan / Croatian, Scottish.
Sanya Malhotra (1992) Punjabi Indian.
Valentina Bellè (1992)
Isolda Dychauk (1993)
Mina El Hammani (1993) Moroccan.
Ashley Moore (1993) Black, White, Cherokee.
Aisha Dee (1993) African Australian / White.
Freya Mavor (1993)
Tuğçe Açıkgöz (1993) Turkish.
Lydia West (1993) Afro Montserratian / Irish.
Khadijha Red Thunder (1994) Chippewa Cree, African-American, Spanish - is pansexual.
Ahsen Eroğlu (1994) Turkish.
Allie Grant (1994)
Jessica Sula (1994) Afro Trinidadian, Chinese / Estonian, German.
Saffron Hocking (1994) Black British and White.
Jasmin Savoy Brown (1994) African-American / English, German, one quarter Norwegian, some Scots-Irish/Northern Irish - is queer.
Julia Garner (1994) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, Cornish, Scottish, Irish, German, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish.
Jaz Sinclair (1994) African-American / Italian, Irish, Swedish.
Avery Konrad (1994)
Aslı Bekiroğlu (1995) Turkish.
Haskiri Velazquez (1995) Dominican (Dominican Republic / Puerto Rican.
Natacha Karam (1995) Lebanese / Irish.
María Pedraza (1996)
Brittany O'Grady (1996) Louisiana Creole [African, French] / English, Irish, as well as Swiss-German, German, Welsh, and Dutch.
Chloë Levine (1996)
Francesca Mills (1996)
Bree Kish (1996) ¼ African-American, Spanish, Irish, Dutch.
Kiara Pichardo (1997) Dominican (Dominican Republic).
Elena Kampouris (1997)
Esmeralda Soto (1998) Mexican.
Ella-Rae Smith (1998) Black British and White.
Madison Pettis (1998) African-American / Italian, French, Irish.
Jaylen Barron (1998) African-American / Mexican.
Melis Minkari (1998) Turkish.
Serra Arıtürk (1998) Turkish.
Isis Hainsworth (1998)
Erin Kellyman (1998) Afro Jamaican / Irish - is a lesbian.
Buse Meral (1999) Turkish.
Camren Bicondova (1999) Mexican [Spanish, possibly other] Basque, Rusyn, English, Irish, Swedish, German, Scottish.
Pegah Ghafoori (2000) Iranian.
Odessa A’zion (2000) Ashkenazi Jewish (maternal grandfather) English, some Irish, Northern Irish, and Welsh (maternal grandmother who converted to Judaism) / German.
Here you go, most of these have resources too!
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Top 5 books! 🤗📖
YEESSS let's goooooo
putting this under a break because it got long ahaha oops
Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.
this book my god. respectfully never reading it ever again 🫶 at first i didn't jive with the prose. it felt staccato and clinical and direct so much so that it was jarring; but the more i read the book the more i understood that it's an intentional choice. it had to be written in a distant way to help further exemplify the dehumanization occurring within its pages. for me, the true horror didn't set in until the last few paragraphs. i got the sense early on that Marcos is an unreliable narrator, so his moral descent was expected, but the ENDING???? HELLO??????? anyways this book left me hollow and empty. 10/10
Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping by Matthew Salesses
if you are going to write a story, or are thinking about writing a story, read this book. it breaks down creative writing to its bones by examining the racist foundations in how fiction writing's taught and written. which voices are heard, which are dismissed, why and how that happens. what to do about it. 15/10 this book is necessary. my copy is marked up to hell & back and i often reread passages.
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
i still haven't finished this book & i started it a month ago. it's...intense. i've been reading it on and off because i get worked up about the subject matter. the book delves deep into the manosphere, the radicalization of vulnerable men, and the violent misogyny centrally imbedded in those communities. Laura doesn't edit anything out, doesn't sanitize anything. the quotes she pulls are horrifying not just from what is written/said, but also from how they're all made by real people who truly believe in their messages. this book puts a name to an issue that's been skirted around in favor of coddling men's egos. the book talks about femicide and focuses on the real life consequences women face due to violent, online, misogynistic rhetoric. furthermore, the book isn't about hating men, either, as it reiterates and shows compassion for the harm men also face at the hands of the manosphere. 12/10, read at a pace you can emotionally/mentally handle.
Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam
where are my fellow queer arabs at???? because booyyyyy does andrea abi-karam have something cooked up for you!!! holy shit. i love the way their mind works and their flow with words. their style is in a league of its own. unmatched. Villainy is a visceral read. super raw. not safe for work at all. unhinged. it's my favorite poetry book. 1000/10. go read it right now!!!!
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
go girl put glass shards in his pasta!! i support women's rights but i also support women's wrongs. if you like a fucked up descent into madness thanks to divorce, then this is the book for you. things just keep getting worse and my god it is beautiful. yet another difficult read though. 9/10
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gryficowa · 28 days
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Boycott!
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You know what pisses me off? That we live in such fucked up times when a fascist supports LGBT+ and suddenly people don't recognize him as a fascist… It pisses me off, especially in times when we see that even if you support one minority that was a victim of the Nazis, it doesn't automatically erase you being a fascist, it pisses me off so fucking much this pinkwashing is fucking defended and it's disgusting
I don't want to live in times when one minority is more important than the other (Especially when the problems of the minority that is supported are ignored, because this "Other minority is bad" and automatically the supported minority is not supposed to see a problem in anything…)
Can we fucking live in a time where the rights of every minority are fucking important?
For you, are Arabs and people with disabilities less fucking important than the rest?
When will you start fighting for their rights? Let's fucking fight together, not separately, no more divisions, just because the reasons for discrimination are different doesn't mean we're different, we're discriminated against, we have the same feelings, when will society understand this?
Now that I have your attention:
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acapulcopress · 1 year
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El GIEI cumplió hasta donde le permitieron   
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Maremágnum » RICARDO | CASTILLO BARRIENTOS ) Facebook / Ricardo Castillo Barrientos El Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes (GIEI), de la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), de la OEA, concluyó sus investigaciones para el esclarecimiento de la desaparición de los 43 estudiantes de la Normal de Ayotzinapa, sin llegar al conocimiento de la verdad de los hechos y la localización de los cuerpos de los jóvenes normalistas. Los especialistas Carlos Beristain y Ángela Buitrago, dieron a conocer el sexto y último informe donde destacan los obstáculos para obtener información de las Fuerzas Armadas acerca de la desaparición de los alumnos de Ayotzinapa, así como la participación de algunos elementos castrenses durante la fatídica noche del 26 de septiembre de 2014. Desde el principio de los trágicos sucesos trascendió el origen que desencadenó la violencia desmedida del grupo criminal “Guerreros Unidos”, en colusión con los cuerpos de seguridad pública de los tres niveles y el Ejército Mexicano, debido a que los estudiantes se habían apoderado de un autobús que trasladaría heroína o dinero a Chicago, USA, ruta de permanente trasiego de acuerdo a datos del FBI proporcionados a la Comisión. Ocho años le llevaron al GIEI llegar a la conclusión sobre los responsables de los hechos, de los cuales 120 se encuentran en prisión, 12 de ellos militares y tres de alto rango, policías municipales y la mayoría sicarios, halcones y jefes de “Guerreros Unidos. Los expertos del GIEI siempre tuvieron el reconocimiento y apoyo de los padres de familia de los estudiantes desaparecidos y del abogado Vidulfo Rosales, pero toparon con pared en la búsqueda de mayores indicios sobre la participación del Ejército Mexicano, la Marina y el CISEN, aún así se incriminó a varios elementos del Ejército que ya se encuentran recluidos en una base militar.   Otro de los detenidos de alto nivel, fue el ex procurador general de Justicia, Jesús Murillo Karam, por desaparición forzada, tortura y obstrucción a la justicia al dar origen a la versión de la “verdad histórica”, que resultó una falacia, mientras que Tomás Cerón se encuentra prófugo en Israel y se está solicitando insistentemente su extradión. El presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador estableció el compromiso con los padres de familia que se conocería la verdad a fondo sobre la desaparición de sus hijos hasta su localización y el castigo ejemplar de todos los responsables sin excepción. No hay duda que ya se cuenta con el diagnóstico de los sucesos, faltando el factor principal que tiene intrigada a la sociedad mexicana sobre el destino final de los estudiantes normalistas. Marea Baja.- Vaya el reconocimiento a las escritoras acapulqueñas Blanca E. Athié, Marxitania Ortega y Esther M. García, por haber resultado ganadoras del Premio Iberoamericano de Cuento Ventosa-Arrufat y Fundación Elena Poniatowska. Sus trabajos literarios en el género cuento, fueron seleccionados entre 442 cuentos de varias partes del mundo, con lo que se confirma el talento de las mujeres guerrerenses en el campo de la literatura a nivel internacional, con la certeza que continuarán obteniendo sendos galardones para el orgullo de Acapulco y Guerrero. Marea Alta.- Allá en La Montaña Alta se está programando un gran evento cultural que muy raramente se llevan a cabo en esa olvidada región. Tlalixtaquilla de Maldonado será la sede del 4º. Festival de Folclor Internacional. Entre los países participantes figuran: Paraguay, Colombia, Polonia, Chile y México, que vestirán sus trajes típicos al ritmo de sus músicas y bailables que recorrerán las principales calles de la cabecera municipal y posteriormente, iniciar la presentación en la cancha central de la localidad. Está será la primera vez que se realice un evento de esta magnitud, debido a la excelente coordinación del MVZ, Ismael Luna Espíndola, que requiere el apoyo de la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno del Estado, para el mejor éxito de este encuentro cultural que tendrá efecto el 8 de septiembre. Maremoto.- La alcaldesa capitalina Norma Otilia Hernández Martínez, está que brinca de alegría al no comprobársele ninguna colusión de intereses con el grupo criminal de “Los Ardillos” y su jefe Celso Ortega Jiménez. La alcaldesa chilpancingueña ingenuamente se reunió con el jefe criminal con el objeto de “llevar la fiesta en paz” y evitar que acontecieran hechos sangrientos que causan el temor y la inseguridad de la población. Por esta razón, la Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) y la Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE), no la han incriminado ni señalado como responsable de algún delito; lo que le despeja el camino para seguir buscando una senaduría o la reelección en la Presidencia Municipal por Morena. Nada más falta saber que decide el electorado. ] Síguenos en Facebook.com/acapulcopress Read the full article
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thejewofkansas · 4 years
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AMERICA, AMERICA Review - ****
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“Come on, you. Let’s go, you. People waiting.”
For many years, America, America was quite hard to find; it was one of the only films I knew of, especially after 1960, to have been nominated for multiple major Oscars (Picture, Director, and Screenplay), and to have been the work of a major director—Elia Kazan—which remained so obscure, and so elusive. When it was finally released on DVD on…
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Primer recuadro: conmemoración y protesta en diversos sitios de París a un año de la desaparición forzada de los 43 estudiantes normalistas de Ayotzinapa.
Monges Morán, Elena. Ofrenda floral con efigies de los 43. 2015. Fotografía. “El número 43, presente en París”. Imagen en línea. Aristegui Noticias. 27 jun, 2019. 
Segundo recuadro: el titular de la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR), Jesús Murillo Karam, pronuncia en conferencia de prensa la infame frase “Ya me cansé”, y hace llamar a las mentiras y simulaciones del gobierno “La verdad histórica”.
“`Ya me cansé´, dice Murillo Karam en conferencia”. Youtube, subido por CNNMéxico. 7 nov, 2014. 
“Conferencia de prensa del Procurador, Jesús Murillo Karam (Ayotzinapa)”. Youtube, subido por Presidencia Enrique Peña Nieto. 7 nov, 2014.
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Here are the top 500 German Names!
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1. Top 500 German Names
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Emma
Emilia
Hannah / Hanna
Mia
Sofia / Sophia
Lina
Mila
Marie
Ella
Lea
Anna
Clara / Klara
Leni
Lena
Frieda / Frida
Luisa / Louisa
Leonie
Emily / Emilie
Mathilda / Matilda
Charlotte
Ida
Johanna
Amelie
Lia / Liah / Lya
Sophie / Sofie
Lilly / Lilli
Lara
Maja / Maya
Nele / Neele
Greta
Laura
Lotta
Sarah / Sara
Juna / Yuna
Nora
Melina
Paula
Elisa
Pia
Marlene
Victoria / Viktoria
Alina
Julia
Elena
Lisa
Mara / Marah
Mira
Helena
Pauline
Tilda
Luna
Isabella
Maria
Antonia
Finja / Finnja
Anni
Eva
Thea
Elina
Romy
Luise / Louise
Isabell / Isabel / Isabelle
Zoe / Zoé
Fiona
Merle
Josephine / Josefine
Hailey
Elli / Elly
Carla / Karla
Paulina
Martha / Marta
Malia
Lucy / Lucie
Mina
Rosalie
Jana
Emely / Emelie
Milena
Valentina
Carlotta / Karlotta
Maila / Mayla
Theresa / Teresa
Katharina
Magdalena
Annika
Nina
Amalia
Elisabeth
Olivia
Jule
Luana
Liya
Lotte
Emmi / Emmy
Amy
Linda
Ronja
Amelia
Melissa
Leila / Leyla
Stella
Jasmin / Yasmin
Annabell / Annabelle
Alma
Miriam
Chiara / Kiara
Aaliyah / Aliya
Freya
Malina
Liana
Anastasia
Lene
Franziska
Liv
Milla
Ylvi / Ylvie
Alicia
Ava
Rosa
Zoey
Marleen / Marlen
Alessia
Elif
Amira
Aurelia
Lucia
Ela
Kira / Kyra
Aria / Arya
Diana
Selina
Elise
Evelyn / Evelin / Eveline
Ariana
Jette
Marla
Alea
Enna
Lynn / Linn
Helene
Livia
Mariella
Alexandra
Carolina / Karolina
Edda
Tessa
Linnea
Sina / Sinah
Vanessa
Aurora
Vivien / Vivienne
Milana
Cataleya
Talia / Thalia
Eliana
Leana
Malea
Mona
Aylin / Eileen / Aileen / Ayleen
Laila / Layla
Liliana
Alice
Jara / Yara
Jonna
Mathea / Matea
Lorena
Alisa
Carolin / Caroline / Karoline
Nela
Kaja / Kaya / Caja
Julie
Melia
Samira
Alissa / Alyssa
Daria
Giulia
Smilla
Amina
Elsa
Heidi
Lana
Valerie
Ayla
Medina
Zeynep
Henriette
Amilia
Leticia / Letizia
Malou
Annelie
Hilda
Noemi
Selma
Aleyna
Elin
Liara
Lenja / Lenya
Bella
Hedi / Hedy
Levke
Nika
Celine
Svea
Veronika
Celina
Ruby
Fenja
Hermine
Ina
Larissa
Tabea
Felicitas
Jolina / Joelina
Marina
Valeria
Azra
Michelle
Rebecca
Nisa
Annalena
Alva
Elea
Melody
Palina
Flora
Maira / Meyra
Mariam / Maryam
Natalie / Nathalie
Nala / Nahla
Alena
Cleo
Eleni
Malin
Alya
Felina
Florentine
Helen
Lou
Naila / Nayla
Nelly / Nelli
Christina
Käthe
Leona
Alia
Marlena
Tamara
Tara
Angelina
Carina / Karina
Dalia
Hedda
Leia / Leya
Meryem
Anne
Holly
Madita
Fabienne
Jella
Mailin / Maylin
Mathilde
Enya
Kate
Lilia
Sena
Joleen
Clea
Liesbeth / Lisbeth
Fine / Fiene
Lenia
Sonja
Xenia
Eleonora
Melisa
Enni / Enny
Hira
Adriana
Dana
Defne
Lola
Miray
Tamina
Nicole
Asya
Esther
Josie / Josy
Naomi
Cecilia
Claire
Dilara
Selin
Enie
Fritzi
Leonora
Melek
Miley
Wilma
Esila
Esma
Feline
Rieke
Ada
Amara
Cara
Estelle
Gerda
Lilian / Lillian
Viola
Adelina
Janne
Philine
Tiana
Ivy
Juliana
Kimberly / Kimberley
Lieselotte
Malena
Delia
Enisa
Joana / Joanna
Kim
Ellen
Evelina
Felicia
Liyana
Lilith
Liz
Amanda
Anouk
Eleanor
Samantha
Talea
Arina
Dua
Emilija
Eslem
Irma
Maike / Meike
Nike
Rita
Adele
Alisha
Iva
Josefin / Josephin
Margarete
Romina
Ylva
Elaine
Helin
Joline / Joeline
Josephina / Josefina
Madeleine
Nila
Ophelia
Philippa
Abigail
Anja
Melinda
Scarlett
Toni / Tony
Erna
Gloria
Grace
Jade
Jolie
Madlen / Madleen
Marit
Melanie
Tuana
Annemarie
Debora / Deborah
Jenna
Kiana
Liva
Minna
Shirin
Zofia
Chloe
Fatima
Felia
Friederike
Isa
Jasmina
Jolien
Leandra
Nia
Salome
Giuliana
Inga
Josefa / Josepha
Judith
Megan
Mika
Nea
Neyla
Runa
Ruth
Sunny
Tala
Abby
Alba
Amaya
Anisa
Bianca / Bianka
Eliza
Gabriela
Janna
Jessika / Jessica
Maileen / Mayleen
Natalia
Soraya
Verena
Asel
Cassandra / Kassandra
Eda
Elenor
Julina
Kayla
Lilou
Lydia
Maggy
Meva
Naemi
Penelope
Rahel
Violetta
Alara
Caitlin / Caitlyn
Elis
Ilayda
Judy
Juliane
Sila
Vera
Anita
Charlotta
Evi
Henrieke / Henrike
Jamila
Janina
Ria
Sarina
Stina
Zara
Zuzanna
Zümra
Beyza
Cosima
Ema
Florentina
Ines
Jona / Jonah
Kalea
Katerina
Klea
Masal
Milina
Nilay
Skadi
Tarja
Tina
Charlie / Charly
Franka
Hanne
Hilde
Joy
Joyce
Luzi / Luzie
Marisa
Mary
Meta
Minel
Sandra
Sienna
Vaiana
Adea
Cora
Davina
Dorothea
Erika
Femke
Freda
Hafsa
Jamie
Katja
Nova
Patricia
Philomena
Saphira
Saskia
Tiara
Yaren
Alica
Ashley
Betty
Celia
Clarissa
Dina
Elara
Elodie
Emina
Ben
Paul
Finn / Fynn
Leon
Jonas
Noah
Elias
Felix
Luis / Louis
Henry / Henri
Lukas / Lucas
Luca / Luka
Matteo
Emil
Maximilian
Theo
Oskar / Oscar
Liam
Anton
Jakob / Jacob
Max
Leo
Milan
Moritz
Julian
Alexander
David
Carl / Karl
Jona / Jonah
Samuel
Philipp
Niklas / Niclas
Tom
Mats / Mads
Erik / Eric
Linus
Jonathan
Tim
Rafael / Raphael
Leonard
Mika
Aaron
Vincent
Hannes
Levi
Johann
Lio
Jannis / Janis / Yannis
Fabian
Jan
Lennard / Lennart
Till
Benjamin
Valentin
Artur / Arthur
Simon
Johannes
Maxim / Maksim
Constantin / Konstantin
Marlon
Jannik / Yannik / Yannick / Yannic
Adrian
Joshua
Kilian
Nico / Niko
Mattis / Mathis / Matthis
Theodor
Julius
Toni / Tony
Lian
Luke / Luc
Milo / Milow
Mohammed / Muhammad
Fiete
Fritz
Nick
Bruno
Ole
Lenny
Adam
Gabriel
Matti
Phil
Daniel
Pepe
Malte
Florian
Benedikt
Lias
Nils / Niels
Dominic / Dominik
Michael
Ludwig
Lasse
Damian
Sebastian
Levin
Emilio
Carlo
Timo
Franz
Leopold
Jannes
John
Justus
Thilo / Tilo
Luan
Noel
Tobias
Joris
Oliver
Sam
Emilian
Malik
Lennox
Robin
Bennet
Frederik / Frederic
Piet
Elia / Eliah
Jayden / Jaden
Arian
Nicolas / Nikolas
Jonte
Alessio
Eddie / Eddy
Lion
Bela
Richard
Matthias
Miran
Emir
Lars
Friedrich
Enno
Ilias / Ilyas
Joel
Ferdinand
Marc / Mark
Henrik
Silas
Willi / Willy
Ali
Charlie / Charly
Christian
Bastian
Colin / Collin
Kian
Thore
Mailo
Benno
Jaron / Yaron
Jason
Hugo
Lenn
Neo
Tyler / Tayler
Jamie
Leonardo
Josef / Joseph
Michel
Gustav
Lorenz
Yasin
Jasper
Konrad
Elian
Dean
Lionell
Arne
Finnley / Finley / Finlay
Amir
Manuel
Thomas
Leano
Nikita
Nathan
Alex
Tristan
Aiden / Ayden
Marvin / Marwin
Hendrik
Maik / Meik / Mike
Aras
Curt / Kurt
Martin
Yusuf
Andreas
Hamza
Janosch
Xaver
Elija / Elijah
Lino
Connor / Conner
Leonhard
Eymen
Georg
Leandro
Victor / Viktor
Bjarne
Hanno
Marco / Marko
Marlo
Fabio
Jack
Clemens / Klemens
Diego
Magnus
Mick
Korbinian
Can
Ian
Leander
Antonio
Ömer
Titus
Roman
William
Jano
Mert
Tiago / Thiago
Claas / Klaas
Samu
Marius
Nino
Laurens / Laurenz
Sami
Wilhelm
Darian
Henning
Kalle
Keno
Edgar
Deniz
Erwin
Janne
Marten
Omar
Stefan / Stephan
Timur
Ibrahim
Patrick
Caspar
Otto
Ahmet
Albert
Ayaz
Lean
Christopher
James
Rayan
Alessandro
Dennis
Ilay
Kai / Kay
Peter
Alwin
Carlos
Marcel
Brian / Bryan
Dario
Kaan
Nevio
Robert
Ryan
Yunus
Jakub
Logan
Markus / Marcus
Bilal
Gregor
Darius
Hassan / Hasan
Leonas
Mattes
Mirac
Yigit
Danny / Denny
Eduard
Hans
Julien
Nelio
Kerem
Maurice
Rudi
Tammo
Timon
Ilja
Joscha
Junis
Laurin
Nael
Lutz
Mio
Taylor
Armin
Enes
Karim
Mustafa
Alfred
Christoph
Kevin
Mario
Tino
Valentino
Lijan
Romeo
Umut
Amin
Flynn
Ivan
Jonne
Leonidas
Louie
Mikail
Younes
Björn
Danilo
Emanuel
Giuliano
Jarno
Kjell
Mehmet
Milian
Veit
Youssef
Chris
Egon
Nikolai
Dylan
Ensar
Fred
Jon
Musa
Quentin
Ruben
Thies
Thorin
Tommi
Andre
Emin
Josua
Leif
Loris
Lucien
Miguel
Nathanael
Adriano
Alan
Berat
Devin
Jaro
Juri
Adem
Ahmad
Eren
Kiyan
Mahir
Pius
Anthony
August
Davin
Jesse
Miko
Raik
Rune
Semih
Torben / Thorben
Amar
Angelo
Antoni / Antony
Emre
Matei
Quirin
Ricardo / Riccardo
Tjark
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 yes!  in  fact,  you  can  have  the  whole  world,  anon,  if  you  send  an  app  in  for  elena.  but  until  then!  how  about  samantha  logan,  jenna  coleman,  katherine  langford,  taylor  russsell,  bahar  sahin,  natacha  karam,  diana  silvers,  star  slade,  natalia  dyer,  yara  shahidi,  taissa  farmiga,  ozge  gurel,  maude  apatow,  naomi  scott,  kristine  froseth,  natasha  liu  bordizzo,  lucy  hale,  molly  gordon,  mina  el  hammani  or  alba  baptista?
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America America **** (1963 Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam) - Classic Movie Review 9401
America America **** (1963 Stathis Giallelis, Frank Wolff, Elena Karam) – Classic Movie Review 9401
Elia Kazan was Oscar-nominated as writer, producer (Best Picture) and director for this uplifting, if seemingly endless chunk of his own family biography about a young Anatolian Greek, living in the oppressions of Turkey more than 100 years ago, who loses his family’s fortune en route to Istanbul and struggles to set off to make a new life in America in the 1890s.
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(KASTANIES, Greece) — Syria’s official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that’s led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces.
SANA says the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the four pilots ejected with parachutes and landed safely.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry said it had shot down two SU-24 aircraft and destroyed air defense systems after one of its aerial drones was downed. Earlier, Syrian military-run media said it had downed a drone inside northwest Syria, and was closing its airspace for any flights or drones across the country’s northwestern region. It said any aircraft that penetrates Syrian airspace will be treated as hostile and shot down.
The Syrian announcement came after two days of Turkish drone attacks in Idlib province that Syrian activists said caused heavy losses to Syrian government forces. These confrontations have added to soaring tensions between Turkey and Russia, which support opposing sides of the Syrian civil war.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had on Saturday announced his country opened its western borders to migrants and refugees hoping to head into the European Union. The United Nations said Sunday that at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey’s land border with Greece,
Erdogan did not explicitly link his decision to open the gates to Europe to the military escalation in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. However, he has warned that Turkey “can’t handle a new wave of migration,” an apparent reference to Idlib where hundreds of thousands of desperate Syrian civilians fleeing Syrian troop advances have moved toward the Turkish border.
Turkish Defense Minsiter Hulusi Akar, speaking from military headquarters near the Syrian border, said Turkey aimed to confront Syrian government forces rather than Russian troops. He called on Moscow to persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to withdraw to 2018 cease-fire lines on the edges of Idlib.
Referring to losses inflicted on Syria, he said Turkey had “neutralized” more than 2,200 Syrian troops, 103 tanks and eight helicopters.
“The Spring Shield operation, which was launched following the abominable attack in Idlib on Feb. 27, continues successfully,” Akar said, referring to air strikes that killed 33 Turkish soldiers.
The operation is Turkey’s fourth in the war-torn country since 2016.
The heavy fighting in northwest Syria has also triggered a humanitarian catastrophe and the single largest wave of displacement in the nine-year Syrian civil war.
Ankara is worried it might come under renewed international pressure to open its now sealed border with Syria and offer refuge to hundreds of thousands more Syrian civilians. Turkey already hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to open his country’s borders with Europe made good on a longstanding threat to let refugees into the continent. His announcement marked a dramatic departure from the current policy and an apparent attempt to pressure Europe into offering Turkey more support in dealing with the fallout from the Syrian war to its south.
The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said Sunday that by the previous evening, its staff working along the Turkish-Greek land border “had observed at least 13,000 people gathered at the formal border crossing points at Pazarkule and Ipsala and multiple informal border crossings, in groups of between several dozen and more than 3,000.”
Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades through Saturday to prevent repeated attempts by a crowd of more than 4,000 people massed at the border crossing in Kastanies to cross, and fought a cat-and-mouse game with groups cutting holes in a border fence along the border to crawl through.
Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun later said Turkey had changed its focus to preparing for the possibility of new arrivals from Syria “instead of preventing refugees who intend to migrate to Europe.”
“Europe and others must take robust action to address this monumental challenge,” Altun said. “We can’t be expected to do this on our own.”
He accused critics of Turkey’s refugee policy of “rampant hypocrisy.”
He claimed 80,888 had left Turkey for Europe “in the past several days” and called on Europe to share the burden of looking after refugees. But there was no evidence to support his claim. Greece has shut its border, and there were a few dozen arrests of people who managed to cross through the border, Greek authorities have said.
Greek Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis told the local broadcaster Skai there were around 9,600 attempts to illegally cross Greece’s border during the night Saturday to Sunday. Stefanis said all were successfully thwarted. Previously several dozen migrants had managed to make it through.
Greek officials said they arrested 66 migrants Friday, 17 of whom were sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for entering the country illegally. All Afghans, they were the first migrants sentenced for illegal entry since 2014. On Saturday, Greece arrested another 70 people who tried to cross the land border illegally.
Stavros Zamalides, president of the local community in Kastanies, said Turkish soldiers were actively helping people cross the Greek border clandestinely.
“Turkish soldiers with cutters in their hands were cutting the wires of the fence to lead the illegal migrants” into crossing the border, he said. “The attempt was thwarted by the intervention of our own patrol that happened to be passing that area on patrol at the time, and it repaired the damage in the fence,” he added.
Twenty-year-old Afghan Ayamuddin Azimi made it to the Greek border village of Nea Vyssa along with a compatriot. He said Turkey had opened its borders “to save the refugees” but when they got to the frontier they found the Greek side closed.
He crossed clandestinely, he said. “What can I do? We have nothing to do. This is our life.”
Others were making the short but often perilous sea crossing from the Turkish coast to the Greek islands.
Initial figures collected by Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry from the coast guard around the eastern Aegean islands showed a clear increase in the number of people arriving by dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast.
By midday Sunday, the ministry said initial figures indicated 390 people had arrived since Sunday morning in several boats. The vast majority arrived on the island of Lesbos, with smaller numbers on Chios and Samos. More were believed to be attempting to reach the islands.
In parallel, the heavy fighting in northwest Syria has pushed nearly 950,000 displaced Syrian civilians to flee toward the border with Turkey.
Turkey is a strong backer of the rebels in Syria’s Idlib province. But the presence of thousands of Turkish troops there has done little to stop Assad’s relentless campaign to seize the last rebel-held territories.
Dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed by the Russian-backed Syrian government forces around Idlib in recent days.
Erdogan has warned of an “imminent” operation against Assad’s forces unless they pull back from Turkish lines in Syria by the end of February.
As that deadline passed Saturday night, Turkish drones bombed Syrian government targets in Idlib, and Turkey-backed rebels shelled Syrian army positions. Fighting raged near the strategic town of Saraqeb as government troops sought to take it back from rebels, opposition activists and Syrian state-media said. The town, which lies on the Damascus-Aleppo highway, had changed hands several times in the last month.
Turkey has lost 55 soldiers in Idlib in February, including 33 killed in an airstrike on Thursday, and now feels the need to respond strongly. Talks between Turkey and Russia, the main power brokers in Syria, have so far failed to defuse tensions.
On Saturday, Erdogan said Turkey would no longer stand in the way of refugees and migrants already in the country who hope to head to Europe.
“We will not close the gates to refugees,” he said. “The European Union has to keep its promises. We are not obliged to look after and feed so many refugees.”
Under a 6 billion euro deal in 2016, Turkey agreed to stem the tide of refugees to Europe in return for financial aid after more than a million people entered Europe in 2015. It has since accused the EU of failing to honor the agreement. Erdogan has frequently threatened to “open the gates” and allow refugees and migrants to head to Europe unless more international support was provided.
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Wilks reported from Ankara, Turkey. Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, Elena Becatoros in Athens and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.
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Noticias de series de la semana: El futuro de Phoebe
Renovaciones
Showtime ha renovado On Becoming a God in Central Florida por una segunda temporada
Amazon ha renovado Absentia por una tercera temporada
Cancelaciones
Freeform ha cancelado The Perfectionists tras su primera temporada
La sexta temporada de BoJack Horseman (Netflix) será la última
BET ha cancelado In Contempt tras su primera temporada
Noticias cortas
Chuku Modu (Gabriel Santiago) será regular en la séptima y última temporada de The 100.
Griffin Dunne (Nicky) será regular en la cuarta temporada de This Is Us.
Karla Souza (Laurel) no volverá como regular a la sexta y última temporada de How to Get Away with Murder.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) ha firmado un contrato en exclusiva con Amazon por veinte millones de dólares al año.
La directora Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman, I Am the Night) ha firmado un acuerdo con Netflix para crear, desarrollar y producir nuevas series durante tres años.
Incorporaciones y fichajes
Christine Baranski (The Good Fight, The Good Wife), Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, The Big C), Amanda Peet (Brockmire, Togetherness) y Morgan Spector (Homeland, Person of Interest) protagonizarán The Gilded Age, drama de Julian Fellowes para HBO. Serán Agnes van Rhijn, que se las apañó para pescar un marido cuando la plantación familiar dejaba de tener futuro; su hermana Ava Brook, que se ve obligada a depender de la caridad de Agnes; Bertha Russell, que usa el éxito del negocio de su marido para infiltrarse en la alta sociedad; y George Russell, un hombre de negocios sin escrúpulos.
John Malkovich (Being John Malkovich, The New Pope), Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation, House of Lies), Diana Silvers (Booksmart, Ma) y Tawny Newsome (Brockmire, Bajillion Dollar Propertie$) protagonizarán Space Force junto a Steve Carell. Serán Adrian Mallory, brillante y arrogante consejero que espera evitar que el espacio se convierta en el próximo gran campo de batalla; F. Tony Scarapiducci, consultor de medios con metas maquiavélicas; Erin Naird, popular y brillante hija de Mark (Carell); y Angela Ali, una ambiciosa piloto de helicópteros. Jimmy O. Yang (Silicon Valley, Crazy Rich Asians) y Alex Sparrow (UnREAL, The Vatican Tapes) serán recurrentes como Chan Kaifang, brillante astrofísico, ingeniero aeroespacial y mano derecha de Mark; y Yuri "Bobby" Telatovich, observador del gobierno ruso.
Will Arnett (Arrested Development, BoJack Horseman), Chris Geere (You're the Worst, Modern Family), Shaquille Ali-Yebuah (The Feed, The Children Act), Jack McMullen (The Souvenir, Ford v Ferrari), Jake Short (SuperCool, This Is the Year), Paolo Sassanelli (The Teacher, Inspector Collandro) y Theo Barklem Biggs (Sliced, White Gold) protagonizarán The First Team, comedia de BBC Two antes conocida como Afternoons que sigue a tres jugadores de fútbol (Ali-Yebuah, McMullen y Short) que lidian con su voluble mánager italiano (Sassanelli), el excéntrico presidente del club (Arnett) o el ineficaz entrenador (Geere). Completan el cast Tamla Kari, Vadhir Derbez,  Phil Wang, Neil Fitzmaurice y Yetunde Oduwole.
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory, The Normal Heart), Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story, The Politician), Samara Weaving (SMILF, Picnic at Hanging Rock), Maude Apatow (Euphoria, Girls), Joe Mantello (The Normal Heart), Laura Harrier (Spider-Man: Homecoming), Jake Picking (Patriots Day, Dirty Grandpa), David Corenswet (The Politician) y Jeremy Pope (Choir Boy, Ain't Too Proud) se unen a Hollywood.
Julianne Nicholson (Masters of Sex, Boardwalk Empire), David Denman (The Office, Outcast), Jean Smart (Designing Women, Legion), Angourie Rice (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far from Home), Evan Peters (American Horror Story, Pose) y Cailee Spaeny (Bad Times at the El Royale, On the Basis of Sex) protagonizarán Mare of Easttown junto a Kate Winslet. Serán Lori Ross, amiga de Mare (Winslet) desde que tenían cuatro años; Frank, el exmarido de Mare; Helen, la madre de Mare; Siobhan Sheehank, la hija de Mare y Frank; Colin Zabel, detective del condado; y Erin McMenamin, adolescente solitaria que vive con su padre y su bebé.
Amy Landecker (Transparent, Sneaky Pete) se une como recurrente a Your Honor. Será una detective que se ve involucrada en la familia del juez Desiato (Bryan Cranston).
Wentworth Miller (Prison Break, Legends of Tomorrow) y Michael Patrick Thornton (The Red Line, Private Practice) serán recurrentes en la sexta y última temporada de Madam Secretary como el senador Mark Hanson y el veterano del ejército Evan Moore.
Justina Machado (One Day at a Time, Jane the Virgin) será recurrente en la quinta temporada de Superstore como Maya, nueva gerente del distrito.
James Purefoy (Altered Carbon, The Following) será Philippe De Clermont, el padrastro de Matthew (Matthew Goode), en la segunda temporada de A Discovery of Witches, a la que también se unen Steven Cree (Outlander, MotherFatherSon), Sheila Hancock (Delicious, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) y Paul Rhys (Da Vinci's Demons, Victoria). 
John Stamos (Full House, Scream Queens) y Graham Phillips (The Good Wife, Riverdale) serán el Chef Louis y el príncipe Eric en The Little Mermaid Live!
Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond, Parenthood) será el padre de Hazel (Crisitin Milioti) en Made for Love.
Blythe Danner (Meet the Parents, Will & Grace) y Marilyn Manson (The New Pope, Sons of Anarchy) serán recurrentes en la tercera temporada de American Gods como la diosa Demeter y Johan Wengren, cantante de una banda de viking metal.
Rupert Graves (Sherlock, The Family) se une a la tercera temporada de Riviera.
Ashley Scott (Birds of Prey, UnREAL) volverá a ser Huntress en el crossover del Arrowverse. Osric Chau (Supernatural, Dirk Gently) interpretará a Ryan Choi, profesor de física de la Ivy Town University.
AnnaSophia Robb (The Carrie Diaries, The Act) y Tiffany Boone (The Chi, The Following) serán las versiones jóvenes de Elena (Reese Witherspoon) y Mia (Kerry Washington) en un episodio de Little Fires Everywhere. Anika Noni Rose (Bates Motel, The Good Wife) y Obba Babatundé (Dear White People, I'm Dying Up Here) serán recurrentes como Paula Hawthorne, una fotógrafa y profesora de arte de renombre de Nueva York que se convierte en mentora de Mia en su juventud; y George Wright, el religioso padre de Mia.
Guillermo Diaz (Scandal, Weeds) se une a United We Fall. Será el hermano de Jo (Christina Vidal).
David Alan Grier (The Carmichael Show, Jumanji) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de The Resident como Lamar Broome, el padre biológico de AJ Austin (Malcolm-Jamal Warner). Kearran Giovanni (Black Lightning, Major Crimes), Geoffrey Cantor (Daredevil, Maniac), Michael Paul Chan (Major Crimes, Arrested Development) y Erinn Westbrook (Insatiable, Awkward) serán también recurrentes.
Dina Meyer (Saw, Starship Troopers) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de All American como Gwen, la madre de Asher (Cody Christian)..
Natacha Karam (The Brave), Brian Michael Smith (Queen Sugar), Rafael Silva (Fluidity) y Julian Works (American Crime, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) se unen a 9-1-1: Lone Star. Serán Marjan Marwani, una bombero adicta a la adrenalina; Paul Strickland, bombero transgénero con un don para la investigación; Carlos Reyes, agente de policía de Austin; y Mateo Chavez, bombero novato.
Gemma Arterton (RocknRolla, Clash of the Titans), Alessandro Nivola (Face/Off, American Hustle), Aisling Franciosi (The Nightingale, I Know This Much Is True), Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones, Victoria), Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter, Moulin Rouge), Gina McKee (Catherine the Great, Bodyguard), Rosie Cavaliero (Prey, Unforgotten), Patsy Ferran (Tom and Jerry, Jamestown), Karen Bryson (MotherFatherSon, Safe) y Dipika Kunwar protagonizarán Black Narcissus, la adaptación de la novela de Rumer Godden (1939) sobre la represión sexual en el Nepal de los años 30. Serán la hermana Clodagh, líder de las monjas que viajan a Nepal para establecer una rama de la orden de Santa Fe en el palacio de Mopu; Mr. Dean, un colono inglés y veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial; la hermana Ruth, la madre Dorothea, el padre Roberts, la hermana Adela, la hermana Briony, la hermana Blanche, la hermana Philippa y Kanchi.
Geoff Bell (Kigsman: The Secret Service, Hoolligans) y Josette Simon (Broadchurch, Wonder Woman) se unen a la tercera temporada de Absentia.
Ray Stevenson (Rome, Thor), Sai Bennett (Mr. Selfridge, Close to the Enemy), Andrew Buchan (Broadchurch, The Honourable Woman) y Peter Egan (Downton Abbey, The Unforgotten) se unen a la segunda temporada de The Spanish Princess. Serán Jacobo IV de Escocia, el marido de Margaret (Georgie Henley); María, la hermana de Henry (Ruairi O'Connor) y Margaret; el político y humanista Sir Thomas More, que fue santificado; y el general Howard, leal a los Tudor.
Rachel York (Head Over Heels) será recurrente en Filthy Rich como Tina, la madre de Ginger (Melia Kreiling).
Miriam A. Hyman (The Laundromat, Blue Bloods) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de The Chi como Dre, orientadora de instituto que intervendrá en la vida de Kevin (Alex Hibbert).
Chelsea Rendon (Vida) será recurrente en la décima temporada de Shameless como Anne, nueva compañera de trabajo de Carl (Ethan Cutkosky).
Ken Kirby (Good Trouble, Famous in Love) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de Dynasty como Evan Tate, hermano mayor de Trixie (Jessi Goei).
Mishel Prada (Vida, Fear The Walking Dead: Passage) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Riverdale como Hermosa, una investigadora privada nacida y criada en Miami.
Danielle Moné Truitt (Rebel) será Charlie Minnick en Deputy. Sustituye a Siena Goines, que interpretó a Rachel Quinn en el piloto.
Pósters
      Nuevas series
Showtime encarga ocho episodios de Ripley, adaptación de las novelas de Patricia Highsmith en las que se basó la película The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Protagonizada por Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag), seguirá a Tom Ripley desde Nueva York hasta Italia en los años 60, cuando un hombre adinerado le contrata para recuperar a su hijo vagabundo. Escrita y dirigida por Steven Zaillan (The Night Of, Schindler's List).
Netflix South Korea encarga Move to Heaven, sobre un chico con Asperger que, tras morir su padre, conoce a su tío y decide abrir junto a él un negocio de limpiezas traumáticas, gracias al que experimentarán diferentes emociones y sentimientos hacia la vida, la muerte y la familia mientras descubren las historias de los fallecidos. Inspirada en un ensayo de no ficción titulado 'Things Left Behind', escrito por Kim Sae-byul, un antiguo trabajador de limpieza extrema. Dirigida por Kim Sung-ho (How to Steal a Dog, Notebook From My Mother).
Netflix encarga Notes on Love, antología de Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal) que explorará los lugares inesperados y surrealistas en los que el amor se cruza con nuestras vidas. La primera temporada contará historias sobre el matrimonio.
HBO Max encarga diez episodios de Americanah, adaptación de la novela de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013) en la que una joven de Nigeria se enamora de un compañero de clase pero huye a Estados Unidos y se ve obligada a vivir sin él, que vive indocumentado en Londres. Protagonizada por Lupita Nyong'o (Us, Black Panther). Escrita y producida por la actriz Danai Gurira (The Walking Dead, Black Panther).
CBS TV Studios desarrolla un reboot de Walker, Texas Ranger con Jared Padalecki (Supernatural, Gilmore Girls) al frente. Escrita y producida por Anna Fricke, creadora de Being Human y guionista de Dawson's Creek o Everwood. The CW y CBS estarían interesadas.
The CW desarrolla un spin-off de Arrow protagonizado por Katherine McNamara (Mia Smoak), Katie Cassidy (Laurel Lance) y Juliana Harkavy (Dinah Drake). Un episodio de Arrow servirá como backdoor pilot. Producido por Greg Berlanti (Arrow, The Flash).
Fechas
La segunda temporada de Motherland se estrena en BBC Two el 7 de octubre
La segunda temporada de Zomboat se estrena en ITV2 el 8 de octubre
La segunda temporada de In The Long Run se estrena en Sky One el 16 de octubre
El estreno de The Oval y Sistas en BET se retrasa del 9 al 23 de octubre
La 1ª parte de la 6ª y última temporada de BoJack Horseman llega a Netflix el 25 de octubre
La 2ª parte de la 6ª y última temporada de BoJack Horseman llega a Netflix el 31 de enero
La segunda temporada de Tell Me a Story se estrena en CBS All Access el 5 de diciembre
Tráilers y promos
The Politician
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La casa de las flores - Temporada 2
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BoJack Horseman - Temporada 6 y última
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Ghostwriter
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Ray Donovan - Temporada 7
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Patria
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The Accident
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March 01, 2020 at 10:21AM
(KASTANIES, Greece) — Syria’s official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that’s led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces.
SANA says the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the four pilots ejected with parachutes and landed safely.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry said it had shot down two SU-24 aircraft and destroyed air defense systems after one of its aerial drones was downed. Earlier, Syrian military-run media said it had downed a drone inside northwest Syria, and was closing its airspace for any flights or drones across the country’s northwestern region. It said any aircraft that penetrates Syrian airspace will be treated as hostile and shot down.
The Syrian announcement came after two days of Turkish drone attacks in Idlib province that Syrian activists said caused heavy losses to Syrian government forces. These confrontations have added to soaring tensions between Turkey and Russia, which support opposing sides of the Syrian civil war.
Meanwhile, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had on Saturday announced his country opened its western borders to migrants and refugees hoping to head into the European Union. The United Nations said Sunday that at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey’s land border with Greece,
Erdogan did not explicitly link his decision to open the gates to Europe to the military escalation in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province. However, he has warned that Turkey “can’t handle a new wave of migration,” an apparent reference to Idlib where hundreds of thousands of desperate Syrian civilians fleeing Syrian troop advances have moved toward the Turkish border.
Turkish Defense Minsiter Hulusi Akar, speaking from military headquarters near the Syrian border, said Turkey aimed to confront Syrian government forces rather than Russian troops. He called on Moscow to persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to withdraw to 2018 cease-fire lines on the edges of Idlib.
Referring to losses inflicted on Syria, he said Turkey had “neutralized” more than 2,200 Syrian troops, 103 tanks and eight helicopters.
“The Spring Shield operation, which was launched following the abominable attack in Idlib on Feb. 27, continues successfully,” Akar said, referring to air strikes that killed 33 Turkish soldiers.
The operation is Turkey’s fourth in the war-torn country since 2016.
The heavy fighting in northwest Syria has also triggered a humanitarian catastrophe and the single largest wave of displacement in the nine-year Syrian civil war.
Ankara is worried it might come under renewed international pressure to open its now sealed border with Syria and offer refuge to hundreds of thousands more Syrian civilians. Turkey already hosts 3.6 million Syrian refugees.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to open his country’s borders with Europe made good on a longstanding threat to let refugees into the continent. His announcement marked a dramatic departure from the current policy and an apparent attempt to pressure Europe into offering Turkey more support in dealing with the fallout from the Syrian war to its south.
The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration said Sunday that by the previous evening, its staff working along the Turkish-Greek land border “had observed at least 13,000 people gathered at the formal border crossing points at Pazarkule and Ipsala and multiple informal border crossings, in groups of between several dozen and more than 3,000.”
Greek authorities fired tear gas and stun grenades through Saturday to prevent repeated attempts by a crowd of more than 4,000 people massed at the border crossing in Kastanies to cross, and fought a cat-and-mouse game with groups cutting holes in a border fence along the border to crawl through.
Erdogan’s communications director Fahrettin Altun later said Turkey had changed its focus to preparing for the possibility of new arrivals from Syria “instead of preventing refugees who intend to migrate to Europe.”
“Europe and others must take robust action to address this monumental challenge,” Altun said. “We can’t be expected to do this on our own.”
He accused critics of Turkey’s refugee policy of “rampant hypocrisy.”
He claimed 80,888 had left Turkey for Europe “in the past several days” and called on Europe to share the burden of looking after refugees. But there was no evidence to support his claim. Greece has shut its border, and there were a few dozen arrests of people who managed to cross through the border, Greek authorities have said.
Greek Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis told the local broadcaster Skai there were around 9,600 attempts to illegally cross Greece’s border during the night Saturday to Sunday. Stefanis said all were successfully thwarted. Previously several dozen migrants had managed to make it through.
Greek officials said they arrested 66 migrants Friday, 17 of whom were sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for entering the country illegally. All Afghans, they were the first migrants sentenced for illegal entry since 2014. On Saturday, Greece arrested another 70 people who tried to cross the land border illegally.
Stavros Zamalides, president of the local community in Kastanies, said Turkish soldiers were actively helping people cross the Greek border clandestinely.
“Turkish soldiers with cutters in their hands were cutting the wires of the fence to lead the illegal migrants” into crossing the border, he said. “The attempt was thwarted by the intervention of our own patrol that happened to be passing that area on patrol at the time, and it repaired the damage in the fence,” he added.
Twenty-year-old Afghan Ayamuddin Azimi made it to the Greek border village of Nea Vyssa along with a compatriot. He said Turkey had opened its borders “to save the refugees” but when they got to the frontier they found the Greek side closed.
He crossed clandestinely, he said. “What can I do? We have nothing to do. This is our life.”
Others were making the short but often perilous sea crossing from the Turkish coast to the Greek islands.
Initial figures collected by Greece’s Merchant Marine Ministry from the coast guard around the eastern Aegean islands showed a clear increase in the number of people arriving by dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast.
By midday Sunday, the ministry said initial figures indicated 390 people had arrived since Sunday morning in several boats. The vast majority arrived on the island of Lesbos, with smaller numbers on Chios and Samos. More were believed to be attempting to reach the islands.
In parallel, the heavy fighting in northwest Syria has pushed nearly 950,000 displaced Syrian civilians to flee toward the border with Turkey.
Turkey is a strong backer of the rebels in Syria’s Idlib province. But the presence of thousands of Turkish troops there has done little to stop Assad’s relentless campaign to seize the last rebel-held territories.
Dozens of Turkish soldiers have been killed by the Russian-backed Syrian government forces around Idlib in recent days.
Erdogan has warned of an “imminent” operation against Assad’s forces unless they pull back from Turkish lines in Syria by the end of February.
As that deadline passed Saturday night, Turkish drones bombed Syrian government targets in Idlib, and Turkey-backed rebels shelled Syrian army positions. Fighting raged near the strategic town of Saraqeb as government troops sought to take it back from rebels, opposition activists and Syrian state-media said. The town, which lies on the Damascus-Aleppo highway, had changed hands several times in the last month.
Turkey has lost 55 soldiers in Idlib in February, including 33 killed in an airstrike on Thursday, and now feels the need to respond strongly. Talks between Turkey and Russia, the main power brokers in Syria, have so far failed to defuse tensions.
On Saturday, Erdogan said Turkey would no longer stand in the way of refugees and migrants already in the country who hope to head to Europe.
“We will not close the gates to refugees,” he said. “The European Union has to keep its promises. We are not obliged to look after and feed so many refugees.”
Under a 6 billion euro deal in 2016, Turkey agreed to stem the tide of refugees to Europe in return for financial aid after more than a million people entered Europe in 2015. It has since accused the EU of failing to honor the agreement. Erdogan has frequently threatened to “open the gates” and allow refugees and migrants to head to Europe unless more international support was provided.
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Wilks reported from Ankara, Turkey. Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, Elena Becatoros in Athens and Zeina Karam in Beirut contributed to this report.
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