Turkey Contributes To Iraqi Fragmentation
By Necdet Pamir – AL Monitor – 22.2.2013 – The International Energy Agency’s Iraq Energy Outlook (2012) reports, “Alongside its announcement of 143 billion barrels of proven reserves, the Ministry of Oil stated in 2010 that Iraq’s undiscovered resources amounted to some 215 billion barrels.”
MESOP’S SHOT CUTS KURDISTAN (CLICK HEADLINES FOR FULL TEXTS)
HALABA 2013 – YEAR OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF HALABJA AS GENOCIDE
Iraqi Kurdistan: Genocide To Be Discussed In British Parliament – UNPO – Concerted efforts over the last year by Kurdish and British campaigners have scored a major result. The British Parliament will discuss the genocide against the Iraqi Kurds in a special and historic debate from about 2.15-5pm on Thursday 28 February…
Is Turkey ready to become a ‘binational’ state? – Hurriyet Daily News – The Republic of Turkey was the heir of the multinational, multi-faith and multi-linguistic Ottoman Empire. Its founding fathers sought to create a homogenous nation-state similar to the attempts of the ethnic groups that had previously seceded from the empire. Almost a century later, despite the ongoing controversy surrounding the matter, we can safely say that this goal was to a large extent achieved…
Iraqi Kurdistan Struggles to Meet Needs of Displaced Syrian Kurds – Al Monitor – When popular protests erupted in Syria, a mass influx to the Kurdistan region of Iraq began, particularly from the Kurdish majority areas in Syria. The flow of people reached numbers that exceeded the expectation of the Kurdish administration, which started to look for ways to provide refugees with shelter and assistance…
DECIPHERING THE JIHADIST PRESENCE IN SYRIA: AN ANALYSIS OF MARTYRDOM NOTICES
By Aaron Y. Zelin – CTC Sentinel – February 20, 2013
When the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, the presence of jihadists in the protests was minimal at best. As the rebellion escalated, however, jihadists began to take advantage of the new landscape; by fall 2012, militants associated with al-Qaida’s worldview had become one of the key fighting forces against the Assad regime.
Kurdische Delegation darf zu Öcalan / APO wählt selber aus
Kurdische Delegation darf zu Öcalan
ISTANBUL taz |21.2.22013 – Es ist geschafft. Am Samstag wird erstmals eine Delegation der kurdischen Partei BDP den inhaftierten Chef der kurdischen Arbeiterpartei PKK, Abdullah Öcalan, im Gefängnis besuchen können. Vorausgegangen war ein politischer Poker um die Zusammensetzung der Delegation.
GAZPROM DEAL WITH BARZANI’S KURDISTAN – FORMER GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER INVOLVED
MOSCOW – REUTERS – Voice of Russia : 21.2.2013 – The president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) was quoted on Tuesday as saying that the autonomous region of Iraq had signed new agreements in recent days with Russia’s fifth-largest oil producer, Gazprom Neft.
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER – WORTE DER WOCHE
EU-Kommissar | Oettinger kritisiert EU-Kurs zur Türkei
BILD – 20.2.2013 – Kritik übte Oettinger auch am Zöger-Kurs zum EU-Beitritt der Türkei. „Ich möchte wetten, dass einmal ein deutscher Kanzler oder eine Kanzlerin im nächsten Jahrzehnt mit dem Kollegen aus Paris auf Knien nach Ankara robben wird, um die Türken zu bitten, …
Vorteilsnehmer einer Lumpen-Bourgeoisie
………. Oettinger hat schon mit Christian Wulff zusammen vor manchem Sponsoren auf den Knien gelegen, um einen Vorteil für sich herauszuschlagen. Nun als Türkei Lobbyist.
Deutschland: Merkel reist am Sonntag und Montag in die Türkei
ZEIT ONLINE – 20.2.2013 – Berlin (AFP) Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel (CDU) reist am Sonntag und Montag für zwei Tage in die Türkei. Zum Auftakt besucht die Kanzlerin am Sonntag das deutsche Truppenkontingent in Kahramanmaras. Die NATO hatte im Dezember beschlossen, …
….. nämlich á la Vorbild Verheugen: zuerst EU Kommissar, dann vollbezahlter Türkei-Lobby-Mann. Man möchte womöglich denken + sagen : Korruptes Gesocks! – Das wäre dann eventuell strafrechtlich relevant. Aber ganz sicher wird die Türkei angesichts einer derart ebenso devoten wie korrupten Bekundung materiell sich nicht lumpen lassen.
(MESOP)
MESOP PORTRAIT : Leyla Zana: Woman, Kurd, & an Optimist
By Aysegul Sert — The NY Times
At 51, she is petite yet powerful. Arriving at a cafe in a crowded shopping mall, she sits only after her brother has checked out the locale. Generally reluctant to speak to journalists, Leyla Zana has come by caution the hard way but has lost none of her determination to fight for the rights of Kurds, and of women.
HILFE FÜR KURDISCHE FLÜCHTLINGE IN DOMIZ
Ursula Stobitzer unterstützt Spendenaufruf des Schriftstellers Tengezar Marini
Südwestpresse – 19.2.2013 – Die Flüchtlingsströme aus Syrien überschwemmen Kurdistan. “Ein Volk, das gerade den Kopf über Wasser gebracht hat, braucht jetzt unsere Hilfe”, sagt die Hechingerin Ursula Stobitzer. Sie hat Kurdistan bereist.
Kurdish refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan have mixed feelings about Syria
Associated Press – 20.2.2013 – DOMIZ REFUGEE CAMP, Iraqi Kurdistan,— Syrian Kurds who fled their country’s civil war have mixed feelings about a future without Bashar Assad: They hope to win a measure of autonomy after the fall of the regime, but fear chaos and the rise of Islamists could instead make their lives worse.
Islamists and Kurds End Hostilities, to Fight Syria Regime
(AFP) 21.2.2013 – Islamist rebels and Kurdish militias have ceased hostilities in the northern Syrian city of Ras al-Ain after sealing an accord that will see them fight together against the regime, activists said Tuesday.
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