GEOG 1014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Abdullah Ii Of Jordan, Ali Khamenei, Ruhollah Khomeini
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Turkey: europe or middle east, president plays a huge role in immigration to europe and complications in middle east. Irwan and turkey: warming tides with russia, pivets towards the east, nato member, us ally, looking towards to join eu, palestinian issue, oust isis. Irwan: wants to overthrow bashar al-assad president of syria, right (extreme) wing/dictator, caused syrian civil war, lebanon, jordan, turkey, took over syria from dad, syria dictatorship, arab, assad a(cid:374)d his regi(cid:373)e are hi"a, alawites. Jordan: king abdullah ii (1999-present, monarchy, liberal, right side (extreme, palestine, mahmoud abbas (2005-present, leader of palestine (not a sovereign state, trying to work with israel to make a two state. Iran is conservative: current president of iran, 2013-present, more moderate (liberal, a lot has happened. Iran has opened itself to the world (signed a nuclear deal with us, ended embargo with us: ayatollah khamenei, charge of iran, ethnically persian, do not get along with arabs, hi"a.
