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MESOP TODAY’S QUOTATION : WEST WANTS STABILITY TOGETHER WITH ASSAD

Was life more stable under Gaddafi or Saddam ? – Well, yes. Your head stays very still when a boot is pinning it to the ground. (GRAFFITI Sept 2015)

 

MESOP : THE NEW BRITISH AHMADINEJAD

Telegraph News ‏@TelegraphNews 1h1 hour ago – Iran hails Jeremy Corbyn for ‘shaking the British ruling class’ http://tgr.ph/1inA8LR 

 

MESOP TODAYS MOST RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS

THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN PKK & USA

PYD (YPG) / PKK FORCES NOW TRAINED BY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Although YPG denies presence of US trainers, head of the internal Kurdish police forces before told Reuters they receive training from Western states http://www.irishtimes.com/…/leader-of-syrian-kurd-force-say…

 

Pentagon: Coordination and liaising by U.S. forces is conducted outside of Syria at the Coalition’s Joint… http://fb.me/425VygDWE

 

This story has been debunked by US & YPG: US confirms special forces on ground in Syria aiding Kurds https://shar.es/17gwva  @MiddleEastEye

 

Although YPG denies presence of US trainers, head of the internal Kurdish police forces before told Reuters they receive training from Western states http://www.irishtimes.com/…/leader-of-syrian-kurd-force-say…

 

Although YPG denies presence of US trainers, head of the internal Kurdish police forces before told Reuters they… http://fb.me/2OehkXFIq

 

Pentagon skips frontline buildup in #Syria. New focus: embed targeters with PKK & proxies http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNITED_STATES_SYRIAN_REBELS?SITE=ILBLO&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT … by @robertburnsAP/@lbaldor

 

YPG spokesperson Redur Xelil denies reports that US special forces work with YPG inside Syria in an interview… http://fb.me/3vPrt4xDq

 

 

Al Monitor interviews KNC head Ibrahim Biro: Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kurdish Union Party in… http://fb.me/3R82t9OrR

 

The US is considering the idea of using Kurdish areas as safe haven for FSA rebels. I have written about this… http://fb.me/4xwTRzQ9O

 

MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS (II)

 

Qais al-Khazali, head of Asaib al-Haq, says his militia was not involved in kidnapping of Turkish workers,… http://fb.me/7DsuA9x76

 

Hawar news reports there is increased pressure by the Islamic state group on Kurds in Manbij. Not many news… http://fb.me/7uEW9jb8j

 

MESOP : OBAMAS GHOSTS IN SYRIA

Joshua Landis ‏@joshua_landis 23m23 minutes ago – “Our High-Priced Mercenaries in Syria,” @wrightr quoting @FredericHof & @fordrs58 http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/our-high-priced-mercenaries-in-syria …

 

MESOP : THE NEXT FOLLOWING GREAT DANGER

Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister 1h1 hour ago – If US & #Russia cooperate in war vs. terrorism (esp. #ISIS), the status of jihad in #Syria will spiral beyond recognition. Deeply dangerous.

PT: If that also results in extending #Assad‘s survival in #Syria, we will effectively be fuelling an unprecedented global jihadist threat.

 

MESOP FLASH SYRIA

Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister 2h2 hours ago – BREAKING – 80% increase in US-trained & equipped fighters deployed into #Syria (from 5 to 9). 11 more on their way. – BREAKING: US believes small number of Russian fighter jets now at #Syria airfield: US official – @DailyStarLeb

 

MESOP : THE WEST’S NEW OLD DIALOGUE PARTNER AT WORK

Assad Troops Force Children to Watch Father Being Burned Alive

Over 500,000 Syrian Children Now Orphans Because of Civil War, Says Orphanage Director

BY SAMUEL SMITH , CP REPORTER – September 17, 2015|-As a telling example of the brutality displayed by government soldiers during the country’s four-year civil conflict, the director of one Turkish charity explained in an interview with the Daily Mail that his organization is providing housing to one family of children whom Syrian government soldiers forced to witness their own father being doused in gasoline and burned alive. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64866

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

Kurdish Militants Rule Out Unilateral Ceasefire in Turkey / Murat Karayilan

By Ece Toksabay – 2015-09-18 ANKARA (Reuters) – A commander of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) ruled out a unilateral ceasefire on Thursday and accused the Turkish government of pursuing war to gain more votes. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64864

 

SOUTH KURDSTAN (IRAQ)

MESOP : Kurds, Baghdad Scuffle for Control of Oil-rich Kirkuk

KIRKUK, Iraq – Middle East Eye – 18 Sep 2015 – The Iraqi government summoned Kirkuk’s police chiefs to Baghdad for investigation after Kirkuk’s Kurdish Governor Najmaldin Karim sacked the local Iraqi intelligence head, Brigadier General Orhan Khalil, whose unit was accused of killing civilians.A dispute erupted between the Shia-controlled interior ministry in Baghdad and the Kurdish governor this month over who is in charge of the security forces in the province of Kirkuk following a clash between Iraqi intelligence forces led by Shia Turkmen and Kurdish civilians in Kirkuk. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64862

 

MESOP NEWS : Barzani’s KDP welcomes proposal on Kurdistan presidency with reservations

19 Sept 2015 – Rudaw – ERBIL-Hewler, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— Iraqi Kurdish political parties made headway on Thursday at the eighth round of talks over the Kurdistan region’s presidency when the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) welcomed a proposal on the mechanism of electing the president and the scope of his powers.The proposal by the four major parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Change (Gorran) Movement, the Kurdistan Islamic Union KIU and Islamic Group (Komal) suggested that the president could either be elected in a direct vote by people but with limited powers or through parliament and enjoy more authority. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64870

 

 

MESOP FOCUS : Iraqi Kurdish Islamic leader meets Hamas chief in Turkey

19 Sep 2015 – ANKARA – Iraqi Kurdistan Islamic Group (Komal) leader Ali Bapir met with the Palestinian Islamic organisation Hamas in Ankara at the fifth convention of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64872

 

MESOP TODAY’S OPINION : NICK COHEN – THE MAN WHO OPENED “WHATS LEFT” LEFT THE LEFT

Why I’ve finally given up on the left – Left-wing thought has shifted towards movements it would once have denounced as racist, imperialist and fascistic. It is insupportable: – Nick Cohen and Fraser Nelson discuss the death of the left. – ‘Tory, Tory, Tory. You’re a Tory.’ The level of hatred directed by the Corbyn left at Labour people who have fought Tories all their lives is as menacing as it is ridiculous. If you are a woman, you face misogyny. Kate Godfrey, the centrist Labour candidate in Stafford, told the Times she had received death threats and pornographic hate mail after challenging her local left. If you are a man, you are condemned in language not heard since the fall of Marxist Leninism. ‘This pathetic small-minded jealousy of the anti-democratic bourgeois shows them up for the reactionary neocons they really are,’ a Guardian commenter told its columnist Rafael Behr after he had criticised Corbyn. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64868

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP : “EFFECTIVE PARTNERS” / PKK FORCES RECEIVING TRAINING FROM US IMPERIALISM

Irish Times – 18 Sept 2015 – Leader of Syrian Kurd force says western states providing training – Asayish security force is part of Kurdish administration in areas of northern Syria . – Western states have provided counterterrorism training in Syria to Kurdish security forces that are battling Islamic State, the head of the force said, in a significant expansion of support to the Kurdish administration in northern Syria.The internal security force, known as the Asayish, is part of the Kurdish administration that has emerged in areas of northern Syria where the Damascus-based state has lost control since the eruption of the Syrian war in 2011. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64874

 

More Russian Aid to Assad: Chasing the Impossible Dream

By Robert S. Ford | Senior Fellow – The Middle East Institute | Sep 15, 2015

Russia’s recent increase in military aid to the Syrian government is an extension of previous Russian policy on Syria; what is different is not the thrust of Russian policy but the scale of the aid. This ramp-up carries new risks to those hoping for a real political solution to the longstanding Syrian conflict and to those hoping to see the threat of terror groups operating in Syria contained. There is little likelihood of a major U.S.-Russia military confrontation over Syria, but the likely Russian game plan carries new risks for the American administration seeking to contain the Islamic State and eventually see stability restored in Syria. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64889

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

Karayılan: Erdoğan wages this war for 400 deputies – PART I
18 September 2015 / ANF
PKK Executive Council Member Murat Karayılan answered ANF’s questions regarding the recently enhanced war of Turkey against the Kurds in Northern Kurdistan. Karayılan underlined that Erdoğan started this war to be able to get 400 deputies in November 1 election.
The first part of the interview was translated into English below.
http://anfenglish.com/features/karayilan-erdogan-wages-this-war-for-400-deputies-part-i

 

Öcalan’s lawyer: We receive no news from İmralı
18 September 2015 / Kurdish Info
Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyer Mahmut Şakar drew attention to the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader and said they could not obtain any information about his situation, primarily his health condition since April 5, 2015. He noted that this lack information raised concerns for not only his lawyers but also the Kurdish people.
Describing the isolation of Öcalan as a state policy, Şakar said Öcalan was in fact held under a particular status since his capture in 1999, adding; “We call this ‘İmralı system’. Isolation is a major part and consequence of this system Imrali is an island prison specifically built for the isolation of Mr. Öcalan.”
http://www.kurdishinfo.com/ocalans-lawyer-we-receive-no-news-from-imrali

 

MESOP : AN ENDLESS STORY – Turkey’s Risky War with the Kurds

By Gönül Tol | Director of the Center for Turkish Studies – Middle East Institute | Sep 17, 2015

With less than two months left until the parliamentary elections in November, Turkey is engulfed in deepening chaos and growing violence. The peace process between Turkey and the PKK that began in 2013 collapsed in July when the PKK killed two Turkish policemen it believed were linked to the Islamic State. The PKK attack was in retaliation for an Islamic State bombing that killed 32 student activists at Suruc on their way to Kobani. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64891

 

EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)

MESOP : ANALYSIS OF NEAR EAST POLICY FROM THE SCHOLARS & ASSOCIATES OF THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE

POLICY FORUM REPORT – BEYOND THE VOTE (PART 1): IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. AND ALLIED INTELLIGENCE

PolicyWatch 2485 – September 18, 2015 – Featuring Ellen Laipson and Amos Yadlin

On September 16, The Washington Institute held a special one-day conference on the ramifications of the Iran nuclear agreement. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of remarks by former U.S. national intelligence officer Ellen Laipson and former Israeli defense intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin (Ret.). The other panels will be summarized in forthcoming PolicyWatches; the keynote address by Adam Szubin, the Treasury Department’s acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, is available at http://washin.st/1KgNOl9 – Iran has been heavily monitored for a long time. It was a priority target before the P5+1 talks, and monitoring increased during the negotiation process. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64893

 

THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER

MESOP : da capo al fine !

Auf Waldheims Spuren – Der österreichische Präsident Heinz Fischer ist mit einer großen Wirtschaftsdelegation in den Iran gereist.

VON STEPHAN GRIGAT

Es war der erste Besuch eines europäischen Staatsoberhaupts im Iran seit 2004: Der österreichische Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer hat vergangene Woche dem iranischen Regime seine Aufwartung gemacht. Neben dem sozialdemokratischen Präsidenten reisten Wirtschaftsminister und Vizekanzler Reinhold Mitterlehner, Außenminister Sebastian Kurz und Wirtschaftskammer-Präsident Christoph Leitl von der konservativen Österreichischen Volkspartei (ÖVP) mit. Letzterer freute sich über »die größte Wirtschaftsdelegation, die jemals einen Bundespräsidenten auf Staatsbesuch begleitet hat«. 240 österreichische Manager von 140 Firmen hatten sich aufgemacht, um bei einem Wirtschaftsforum mit rund 700 iranischen Geschäftsleuten unter den Konterfeis von Ruhollah Khomeini und Ali Khamenei neue Geschäftsmöglichkeiten zu sondieren. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=64882