MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT UPDATE : US warns Turkey on Syria amid last-ditch talks to resolve buffer zone dispute
Ayla Jean Yackley August 6, 2019 Article Summary – AL MONITOR – The United States says it will prevent a unilateral incursion into Syria by its NATO ally, but President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s patience is running out with protracted talks on removing Kurdish fighters from Turkey’s border region. The head of the Pentagon cautioned Turkey on Tuesday against undertaking a unilateral military operation in northern Syria to target a US-allied Kurdish militia as American defense officials visited Ankara in what was seen as an eleventh-hour effort by Washington to block a Turkish attack.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SYRIAN REFUGEES GO BACK HOME OR GO FOR GERMANY !
GROWING ANTI-SYRIAN SENTIMENT IN TURKEY
by Soner Cagaptay and Deniz Yuksel – PolicyWatch 3159 – August 5, 2019
Refugees are being blamed for the country’s economic and social troubles, resulting in online hate speech, vigilante violence, and further pressure on the government to change the status quo in north Syria
On June 22, the office of provincial governor Ali Yerlikaya announced that Syrian nationals who are not registered in Istanbul would have to leave the city by August 20. The area is now closed to further registration of such nationals, half a million of whom reside in Istanbul city alone. Coming from the office of an official appointed by the central government, the announcement highlights the country’s growing political tensions over the refugee issue.
MAJORITY OPPOSITION TO SYRIAN PRESENCE
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS IMPORTANT : MEETING US & TURKEY
4m 5 Aug 2019
A meeting between Turkish and U.S. officials on Syria safe zone is underway in Ankara Turkish officials are expected to refuse latest US offer due to disagreements over the depth of the zone and levels of control “The meetings may continue tomorrow”
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Türkei droht mit einer Wiederbelebung der europäischen Migrationskrise
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SPECIAL : VON DER OSTEN BIS ZUR WESTEN – NEUE MIGRATIONSWELLE IM PULL-VERFAHREN
von Soeren Kern 1. August 2019 – GATESTONE INSTITUTE – Englischer Originaltext: Turkey Threatens to Reignite European Migrant Crisis
“Wir stehen vor der größten Migrationswelle der Geschichte. Wenn wir die Schleusen öffnen, wird sich keine europäische Regierung länger als sechs Monate halten können. Wir raten ihnen, unsere Geduld nicht auf die Probe zu stellen.” — Der türkische Innenminister Süleyman Soylu.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SPECIAL “GRANDDADDY” : Was Boris Johnson’s great grandfather an Ottoman traitor or a hero?
Orhan Kemal Cengiz August 1, 2019 – AL MONITOR – Article Summary Boris Johnson ascending to power in the United Kingdom has triggered a debate on the role and views of his great grandfather, Ali Kemal, in Turkish history.
Wikicommons – Ali Kemal, the last Ottoman interior minister, was also a well-known journalist and one of the most-hated figures in the nationalist narrative of the Turkish Republic. When conservative politician and former London mayor Boris Johnson became prime minister of the United Kingdom, a jubilant mood spread through the small Turkish village of Kalfat, where residents consider Johnson a “local son.” They are proud that distant relatives of the polarizing politician still live among them. Johnson’s great-great-grandfather Haci Ahmet Riza Efendi was born in Kalfat, and the house he lived in still stands.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INSIDER: Syria’s PKK/PYD(SDF) Kurds feel brunt of Turkish-US crisis
READ IN: العربية Lamar Erkendi August 1, 2019 – Article Summary – AL MONITOR – 1 August 2019 – Turkey is sending military reinforcements to its border with Syria after two missiles were recently launched from Syria toward a border city, portending an imminent Turkish offensive in the area. A Turkish Armed Forces military convoy, consisting of armored vehicles, ammunition and howitzers, are being dispatched from Kilis towards Gaziantep to support the units at the Syrian border, on July 14, 2019 in Kilis, Turkey. QAMISHLI — In the evening on July 22, two missiles were launched from Ras al-Ayn in the countryside of al-Hasakah governorate in northeastern Syria toward Ceylanpinar on the Turkish-Syrian border. Turkish media reported that six people, including a child, were injured, while it remains unclear who was behind the missiles.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : US / TURKEY – THE END OF AN LONG LASTING AFFAIR !
Ryan Browne@rabrowne75 12h 31 July 2019
Several Republican senators are tweeting today their stance on Turkey and the F-35, with some calling for sanctions to be placed on Turkey over its purchase of the S-400. The tweets come amid reports that President Trump is not in favor of sanctions on Turkey
Senator Mike Rounds@SenatorRounds -20h
I agree w/ @POTUS: b/c of Turkey’s decision to purchase the Russian S-400 air defense systems, we had no choice but to end its involvement w/ our F-35 program. The S-400 program can be used to learn about the F-35s advanced stealth capability – a threat to our national security.
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Streit um Raketenprogramm – Erdogan stellt Boeing-Bestellung in Höhe von 10 Milliarden US-Dollar infrage
Dienstag, 30.07.2019, 19:54 FOCUS – Der türkische Präsident Erdogan will den Ausschluss der Türkei aus dem F-35-Programm mit den USA offenbar nicht tatenlos hinnehmen. Er drohte mit der Stornierung von Boeing-Aufträgen in Milliardenhöhe.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : PROGRESS IN COOPERATION ERDOGAN & PUTIN
Russia, Turkey seek to seize ‘cooperation momentum’
Yekaterina Chulkovskaya July 29, 2019 – Article Summary – AL MONITOR – Following Turkey’s purchase of the Russian S-400 anti-air missile system, Moscow and Ankara are looking to expand the bilateral cooperation in trade and military fields. The Turkish Mediterranean resort city of Antalya hosted July 26 the 16th meeting of the Turkey-Russia Joint Economic Commission. Three major questions were discussed at the meeting.
First, the sides agreed to boost economic cooperation. Moscow and Ankara’s bilateral trade should reach the target of $100 billion “as soon as possible,” Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said at the joint meeting with the Russian delegation. “There is a serious potential between our countries; the governments are ready to provide all support to business people,” she stressed.
ESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SAVE HASANKEYF / KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
Filling of Ilisu Dam has started! – Come join the resistance with the “Hasankeyf Watch”! 27 July 2019
The Turkish government has started filling the controversial Ilisu Dam Reservoir on the Tigris River in the Kurdish Southeast of Turkey. We call on all people and organizations to stand against this act of destruction. Join or visit the Hasankeyf Watch in the 12,000 year old town Hasankeyf!
Photos shared on social media from the 23rd July 2019 showed how a road along the Tigris River just upstream of the dam has been flooded. Neither the responsible state agency, the State Hydraulic Works (DSI), nor any other governmental institution has made a statement. But the DSI informally informed people on the ground that it is a ‘test filling’. We do not know this in detail, but we believe this was said in order to start with filling the reservoir without facing any serious resistance. However, new photos from yesterday, 25th July 2019, show how the water level continues to rise and the reservoir now has a length of several km. It is crucial to show protest already at any and in particular this stage!
Activists from the Hasankeyf Coordination, a recently founded Turkey-wide platform of all organizations struggling against the destructive Ilisu Dam, will start with a permanent watch in Hasankeyf in the next 2-3 days. It is planned to last for at least two months. The aim is that the “Hasankeyf Watch” will become a site of resistance in the Tigris Valley. The activists from the planned Hasankeyf Watch are asking for civil society organizations, political movements and parties, academics, artists and other interested people and groups to come to Hasankeyf daily either to visit the Hasankeyf Watch, or even to join it!
We are in a very critical moment and need to stand up strongly against the Ilisu Dam now! It is time to show international solidarity with the affected people in the Tigris Valley! If you can not come to the Tigris Valley, organize actions in your places and raise pressure on Turkish government!
We still have the chance to stop the dam being filled if the protest gains strength on the ground, as well as internationally. Whatever happens, we will continue to fight until the Ilisu Dam is stopped!
It is not too late for Hasankeyf and the Tigris Valley!
See attachment for pictures from 23.07.2019 and 25-07-2019 of the Ilisu Dam filling!
26th July 2019
Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive and Mesopotamia Ecology Movement
(both part of the Hasankeyf Coordination)
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