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January 26, 2021
Special Dispatch No. 9155
Turkish Scholar Cengiz Aktar In Open Letter To EU High Representative: The More You Appease President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, The More He Uses And Abuses Your Fears, And The More His Regime s Lifecycle Is Extended
January 26, 2021
On January 22, 2021, Turkish scholar Cengiz Aktar
[1] published a blistering open letter titled Bitter Joke Or Sheer Disgrace?
[2] to Josep Borrell Fontelles, high representative of the EU s union for foreign affairs and security policy, in response to a speech Borrell gave ahead of his January 21 meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister
Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu.
[3] Aktar harshly criticized Borrell, saying that while Ankara s modus operandi contradicts the EU s norms, standards, values and principles, Borrell had carefully refrained from saying anything about the sorry state of human rights and the rule of law in Turkey.
On January 25, 2021, the Islamic State's (ISIS) official media outlet A'maq News Agency published an infographic on its Rocket.Chat detailing the attacks perpetrated by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters in Nigeria in 2020.
Jihad and Terrorism Threat Montior (JTTM) Weekly: January 16-23, 2021
January 23, 2021
The following are some of this week s reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to [email protected] with Membership in the subject line.)
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January 27, 2021
Special Announcements No. 1017
To Mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, MEMRI Releases Research And Clips On Holocaust Denial From The Past Year
January 27, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C., January 27, 2021 – January 27, 2021 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. For over two decades, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) has been monitoring and documenting antisemitism and Holocaust denial from the Arab and Muslim world, maintaining the largest archives in the world of this content as part of the MEMRI Tom Lantos Archives on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial. This past year, we have published numerous reports and videos of Holocaust denial, some of which are included below. To see more, visit the Lantos Project website.