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MESOP TODAYS HEADLINE : NO END IN SIGHT

“Merkel: Refugees Must Go Home After Wars End”

…… and after Merkel & The EU !

 

MESOP TODAYS QUOTATION BY HISHAM MELHEM

“The meek Italian behavior symbolizes the diminishing power of the West, particularly western Europe” –

Hisham Melhem is a columnist and analyst for Al Arabiya News Channel in Washington, DC.

 

MESOP : THANKS A LOT, DEAR GERMAN KRAUTS – FOR MY TICKET TO YOUR KRAUTLAND

One former Peshmerga fighter, now seeking asylum in Germany, admitted to having sold his weapon to afford the trip to Germany with his family and escape the war. – nrttv.com 31 Jan 2016

 

MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS

MESOP : INTERNAL BOMBINGS IN KRG COUNTRY GORRAN ?

Reidar Visser ‏@reidarvisser 31m31 minutes ago – #Iraq: KDP politician claims “internal political” forces, not ISIS, were behind attack on Kirkuk-Erbil gas pipeline http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=28690  …

Reidar Visser ‏@reidarvisser 8m8 minutes ago – @PatrickOsgood If that’s correct, it would seem to also implicate the Gorran party? That would make it particularly interesting. www.mesop.de

MESOP SOUTH KURDISTAN – BAGHDAD

Outcome of senior KRG delegation to Baghdad today is… wait for it…. the formation of committees! Two high ones, apparently. #problemsolved

 

MESOP : STAFF ONLY ! – SALIH MUSLIM (PYD) LEFT GENEVA

Hassan Hassan ‏@hxhassan 36m36 minutes ago – #Pt the first PYD — the second YPG. Staff Representatives close to YPG attended as advisors among invitees but not officially as YPG reps.

Hassan Hassan ‏@hxhassan 30m30 minutes ago – PYD chief Saleh Moslem came to Geneva & left yesterday, was invited by Swiss foreign ministry. Reps close to YPG were invited as advisors. www.mesop.de

 

PYD co-chair @serokepyd : We won’t recognise a #Geneva-3 excluding Kurds /ANF http://www.anfenglish.com/features/pyd-co-chair-moslem-we-won-t-recognise-a-geneva-3-excluding-kurds … #TwitterKurds

 

MESOP : WORDS OF CHAIRMAN SALIH MUSLIM

http://www.kurdpress.com/En/NSite/FullStory/News/?Id=12500#Title=%0A%09%09%09%09%09%09%09%09Syrian … peace talks would lead nowhere without Kurds: Salih Muslim

 

MESOP : NICE US IMPERIALISTS MEET WITH PYD IN KOBANE

Coalition head McGurk & delegation met with Kurdish officials in Kobane to discuss Geneva talks & fight against ISIS

Flash- A high level US delegation met with canton officials in #Kobane, assured them no solution in Syria without Kurds #TwitterKurds

 

MESOP : AVOIDING BERLIN & LONDON

After Italy & France, Iran’s president @HassanRouhani to visit Austria & Belgium, host Switzerland, before elections

Abas Aslani @abasinfo – #Iran president’s chief of staff: Rouhani will travel to #Austria & #Belgium… President of #Switzerland will visit Iran in coming weeks.

 

MESOP WHO IS & WHO IS WHO IN SYRIAN „PEACE TALKS IN GENEVA

The Road to Geneva: the Who, When, and How of Syria’s Peace Talks

ARON LUND – FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, Carnegie Endowment – A new round of Syrian peace talks, known as Geneva III, was supposed to begin on January 25 but ended up being postponed to January 29. Now that the day has arrived, they’re still not quite ready to begin—but UN envoy Staffan de Mistura is putting on a brave face.

He has already met with the Syrian government delegation headed by President Bashar al-Assad’s UN representative Bashar al-Jaafari, but other invitees remain absent.

The reasons for these delays are complex, but the primary issue is a dispute over who should be allowed to represent the Syrian opposition and perhaps whether it is useful to think in terms of a single Syrian opposition at all. Opposition groups and individuals who participated in the December Riyadh meeting as well as Russian-backed individuals have been invited in various capacities, while so far Kurdish groups are excluded. And while no one expects any significant progress toward a resolution of the Syria conflict to emerge from the meetings, de Mistura is hard at work trying to establish Geneva III as a framework for conflict management and the mitigation of Syrians’ horrific suffering.

THE HIGH NEGOTIATIONS COMMITTEE

In preparation for the talks, some of the governments seeking President Assad’s ouster tried to unite the Syrian opposition behind a joint delegation at a conference in Riyadh in early December. The meeting gathered exiled politicians, armed rebels, hardline Islamist groups, military defectors, and dissidents so moderate that they’re still allowed to reside in Damascus. However, the talks excluded salafi-jihadi extremists like al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front and, of course, the self-proclaimed Islamic State, as well as the biggest group of Syrian Kurds. (More on that below.) Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70730

 

MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY BY HISHAM MELHEM – The diminished West

(Hisham Melhem is a columnist and analyst for Al Arabiya News Channel in Washington, DC.)

Saturday, 30 January 2016 – I was tempted to pick a more grandiose and exaggerated title like: the decline and fall of Western civilization, or a more dramatic variation on Oswald Spengler’s book The Decline of the West, but then thought better of it and settled on the less gloomy but still sober; the diminished West.

This week the turbaned president of Iran Hassan Rowhani, a man steeped in Persia’s history and proud of its imperial legacy, visited Rome, Paris and Berlin. He sought new beginnings with the West, now that Iran has come out of the cold following its nuclear agreement with the P5+1 countries.The man from the East knew that the multicultural and very accommodating West is more than eager to do business with a resurgent Persia, and contracts worth tens of billions of dollars were signed and sealed, but not over toasts at lavish banquets held in opulent halls with their exquisite paintings of voluptuous odalisques and nude statutes of Greek and Roman Goddesses, warriors and Emperors. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70746

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP FLASH : Russian jets attack Syrian IDPs’ camps near Turkish border

31 Jan 2016 – Many civilian Syrians mainly women and children were seriously injured when Russian jets indiscriminately attacked the Syrian internally displaced’s camps near the Turkish border in Latakia northern countryside, Syria Live Network (S.L.N.) reported. Russian bombardment coincided with Assad heavy artillery on the same camps which cast terror in the hearts of the Syrian displaced who did not know where to go and what to do, S.L.N. added. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70732

 

MESOP : RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA (OVERVIEW) BY ISW By Jodi Brignola

The Russian air campaign continued to target opposition-held terrain in an effort to solidify regime gains and increase negotiating leverage in the days immediately prior to the Geneva talks on January 29. Russian warplanes targeted over 40 separate locations in Aleppo, Idlib, Latakia, Hama, Homs, Damascus and Deir ez-Zour Provinces from January 26 – 28. Russia’s intervention has significantly changed the situation on the ground, enabling significant regime victories in Aleppo, Latakia, and Dera’a and placing the regime in a superior negotiating position after suffering a number of meaningful losses to both the armed opposition in Idlib and ISIS in Eastern Homs in early- and mid-2015: Watch Results : http://www.mesop.de/?p=70734

 

MESOP PUTIN’S WAR CRIMES : Russia’s Unconvincing Response to Claims of War Crimes — Amnesty International & MEDICINS SANS FRONTIER

January 31 2016 – International has challenged Russia’s response to findings of war crimes by its forces in Syria, saying that Moscow has “failed to substantively address evidence they violated the laws of war”. – On December 23, Amnesty summarized 25 Russian attacks and documented six of them in Homs, Idlib, and Aleppo Provinces that killed at least 200 civilians and about a dozen fighters. Complementing the findings of other NGOs such as Human Rights Watch and Medicins Sans Frontieres, it concluded: http://www.mesop.de/?p=70738

 

KURDISH MILITIA WARN: WE WILL RESPOND TO TURKISH ARMY “CONTINUAL ATTACKS”

The Kurdish militia YPG has warned that it will respond to attacks by the Turkish Army in northern Syria.

The YPG said on Saturday that Turkish units had crossed the border near the village of Sermisax, 13 km (8 miles) west of the Turkish town of Derik. It claimed that the Turkish Army fired on civilian protesters, although there were no casualties.

The armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) said:

We will no longer remain silent in face of growing aggression of the Turkish Army who are desired to cause provocations. We intend to be fully clear in warning the Turkish leadership and their military that if they continue violating our borders, we shall defend our land and people.

Ankara considers the PYD as a front for the Turkish Kurdish insurgency PKK. It has warned the YPG not to move west of the Euphrates Rivers, a prospect heightened by recent Kurdish advances against the Islamic State in northern Syria. www.mesop.de

 

MESOP DOCUMENTS : YPG General Comm. Statement: We Will Not Remain Silent in Face of Turkey’s Violations of Our Borders – General Command | People’s Defense Units | January 30, 2016

January 30, 2016 – ROJAVA, Syria (Jan. 30, 2016) — Continual attacks by the Turkish Army against Rojava’s land and security positions of our units were earlier shared with the public opinion in our press releases. At time ongoing efforts are advancing to find a resolution to the crisis in Syria, the Turkish administration continue their violations of Rojava borders.Of late, on January 28 and 29, 2016, numerous military units affiliated to the Turkish Army violated Rojava borderlines near the village of Sermisax, 13 kilometers to the west of the city Derik (13 kilometers north of the town Girke Lege). Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70740

MEETING WITH DE MISTURA (UN) TODAY – SYRIAN OPPOSITION

Syria Daily: Opposition-Rebel Bloc Finally Arrives for Geneva Talks

January 31 2016 – Scott Lucas – eaworldview – Syria’s opposition-rebel bloc has finally arrived in Geneva for talks about a political resolution to the five-year crisis; however, it has threatened to leave if the “crimes” of the Assad regime are not addressed. The 17-member negotiating team and other bloc officials reached Geneva late Saturday after a delay of several hours over visa issues. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70744

 

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)

MESOP : Report on Mass Graves of Yazidis in Sinjar – THE YAZDA REPORT

by Matthew Barber – Yazda is a Yazidi humanitarian and advocacy organization founded after the attempted genocide of the Yazidis by IS on Aug. 3, 2014. Beginning this past fall, I took a one-year leave of absence from my PhD program at the University of Chicago to serve as Executive Director for Yazda during this period of urgent need. The accompanying responsibilities have unfortunately kept me away from Syria Comment of late.

One of Yazda’s projects is to document the crimes of genocide that were committed against the Yazidi people. Watch Full Report + Map : http://www.mesop.de/?p=70736

 

MESOP: EASY FUNDING FOR MIGRATION ! – Iraqi Kurdistan forms committee to investigate German weapons sold illegally by Peshmerga / FOR BUYING MIGRATION TICKET TO GERMANY

31 Jan 2016 – nrttc.com – HEWLÊR-Erbil, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— A committee was established in Iraqi Kurdistan to investigate the German weapons and military equipment sold on the black market, days after reports claimed Peshmerga forces had sold the German-donated weapons, senior official said Friday. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70742

 

GESINNUNGSETHIK

“… leitparadigmatische Zumutung im Grauenhaftigkeitsbewältigungsbereich „

Eckard Henscheid, Titanic Jan 2016

 

MESOP : THE „OPEN SOCIETY“ AS A CLOSED SHOP / SIR KARL P.

In 1988 Karl Popper made a strong case for a two-party system #econarchive http://econ.st/1W