Turkey had been cut off from its hinterland.

NATO, at least in the Russian hinterland, would become first and foremost a political organization.

Long before Turkey sought to join the European Union, the European powers were eager to penetrate deep into Turkey's hinterland.

Assad s fall would deny the organization its vital logistic hinterland in Syria, making it vulnerable to challenges by insurgent Sunni militias.

Russia thus finds itself allied with Iran in supporting Assad s dictatorship, while Iran, in turn, is pursuing its own geopolitical interests by backing its Shia ally in Lebanon, Hezbollah, for which the Syrian hinterland is indispensable.

I bring to you a message from tens of thousands of people in the villages, in the slums, in the hinterland of the country who have solved problems through their own genius, without any outside help.

Club career Early years Born in Mbandaka, Zaire to a Portuguese father and a Congolese mother, Bosingwa moved with his parents at a very young age to Seia in the Portuguese hinterland, in the Guarda District.

Recalling also the report of the Meeting of the Littoral and Hinterland States of the Indian Ocean held in July 1979,Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and corrigendum (A 34 45 and Corr.1).

Experts believe that revisions of the bill's text might also transfer to Congress the authority to recognize and demarcate quilombo lands (hinterland settlements founded by African slaves during colonial times) and environmental conservation units, the system through which Brazil classifies protected areas.

For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek invasion in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini s brutal regime could not secure.