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Arkansas turkey season concludes with just over 7,000 birds checked LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas hunters harvested and checked 7,010 eastern wild turkeys during the 2021 turkey season, which concluded May 9. While the harvest showed a similar decrease to that of surrounding states, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists are hopeful for the future. “We did expect to see a decline in checked birds this year,” Jeremy Wood, AGFC Turkey Program coordinator, said. “With conservative season dates and new regulations in place to spread hunting pressure, we tried to give turkeys as much of a c...

Joint Greek-Turkish poll: Greeks know Turkey better than Turks know Greece Search for: The poll ran simultaneously in Greece and Turkey. Greeks and Turks answered the same questions about how they see themselves, how much they know about each other, where they agree and disagree on issues of bilateral relations, how similar they, how different they are, etc. The research presented by the two scientific bodies was run by MRB in Greece and KONDA in Turkey. The conclusions below are signed by the Head of the Turkey Program of ELIAMEP and Associate Professor at Bilkent University in Turkey, Giann...

May 7, 2021 Share A dramatic drop in water levels on the Euphrates River in recent weeks is adding to tensions between Turkey and Syrian Kurdish forces. Kurdish officials in northeast Syria accuse Turkey of reducing the levels of water flowing downstream, causing an agricultural crisis and a major power shortage in the region. “Areas under our control benefit greatly from the Euphrates water supply, so this is a blockade approach by the Turkish government to undermine our authority and harm our region,” Badran Chia Kurd, the executive deputy president of the Autonomous Administrat...

CAATSA sanctions are hurting Turkey’s military readiness at a time when NATO can’t afford it May 6, 2021 Share On Dec. 14, 2020, the Trump administration sanctioned Turkey’s Presidency of Defense Industries (SSB), along with key individuals involved in the purchase of the Russian-made S-400 surface-to-air missile system. The sanctions were issued under the 2017 Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), a law intended to punish Russia for a wide range of malign activities. While Turkey’s decision to purchase the S-400 — one of several decisions that...

Biden's Armenian genocide recognition ramps up US-Turkey tensions Laura Kelly © Getty Biden's Armenian genocide recognition ramps up US-Turkey tensions President Biden's decision to recognize the Armenian genocide is being welcomed by the community and its supporters as a long-overdue step in standing up for human rights, though the move carries with it risks to the U.S. relationship with Turkey. Biden's announcement follows through on a campaign promise to use the Oval Office to formally acknowledge the systematic deportation and killing in the early 20th century of almos...