MESOPOTAMIA NEW : DID PKK KILL TURKISH MIT-DIPLOMAT? – Veil of mystery shrouds Turkish diplomat’s murder in Erbil

Amberin Zaman July 18, 2019  – Article Summary – AL MONITOR  – As Turkey buries its diplomat shot in Erbil, little information is emerging about the man Ankara’s mourning as a martyr. – A Turkish diplomat slain in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, was given an official funeral in Ankara today as Iraqi Kurdish authorities kept up their manhunt for the unidentified perpetrators for a second day. The diplomat, Osman Kose, was on a six-month assignment at the Turkish Consulate in Erbil, Turkey’s A Haber news channel reported.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS  REMEMBER DAVUTOGLU & THE PELICAN GANG !?

• · Kyle Orton Retweeted  – Ankaralı Jan‏ @06JAnk 5h5 hours ago  18 July 2019

Ankaralı Jan Retweeted Cumhuriyet

Davutoglu launches attack on “Pelican” faction of AKP, believed responsible for having him removed from the Prime Ministry, calling them a “gang” and saying he knows who finances them.

CumhuriyetVerified account @cumhuriyetgzt

Davutoğlu: Pelikan çetesi denilen çete… Arkasındaki isimleri biliyorum, kimlerin finanse ettiğini biliyorum http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/turkiye/1493104  …

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS TODAYS ANALYSIS : Iran’s High Strategic Value for Turkey

By Firas Elias – Firas Elias is an expert in national security and Iranian studies. –

Also available in العربية  – July 17, 2019

In a time where the balance of the Middle East is in flux, regional leaders and the international community alike should be closely following the relationship between Turkey and Iran. While the relationship between Teheran and Ankara has historically been troubled, mutual interests have sprouted newfound cooperation between the two nations.

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With a New World Order Taking Shape, Turkey Again Looks Eastward

MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS – INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES – ISRAEL

עברית  – Oded Eran, Gallia Lindenstrauss – INSS Insight No. 1194, July 16, 2019

Recent developments indicate a shift in Turkey’s strategic outlook, which dovetails with intensive activity by Russia and China – each for its own reasons – in the Western-Asian-East European sphere, raising the possibility of long term change with extensive consequences that include ramifications for Israel. Turkey has demonstrated increased distance from the United States and the European Union on several core issues, with the most important among them the procurement – despite the objections of the US and other NATO states – of the S-400 air defense system from Russia. The supply of the S-400 to Turkey, which began on July 12, 2019, makes it difficult for Western states to evince flexibility toward Turkish efforts to consolidate an independent foreign policy, given the broad negative ramifications of the procurement for military cooperation in NATO.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : NOW ERDOGAN UNDER PUTIN’S EYES

Russia eyes big picture with S-400 sale to Turkey

Maxim A. Suchkov July 15, 2019 – Article Summary – Russia’s controversial S-400 deal with Turkey is more about constructing a Middle East less dependent on the United States than direct competition. MOSCOW — Russia sent Turkey a seventh batch of components for the S-400 missile systems over the weekend. The deliveries began on July 12 with three cargo planes delivering several tractors and a loading vehicle from the S-400 complex to Murted Air Base. The deliveries are set to be completed by April 2020 and Turkey expects to dispatch more specialists to Russia for training on operating the missile defense system.

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 MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUNDER : Why does it take ten months to deploy Turkey’s S-400s? – analysis

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) – By Seth J. Frantzman – JERUSALEM POST – July 16, 2019  

Turkey’s political leadership is ecstatic amid the growing alliance with Russia and its spurning of the US through acquiring the Russian S-400 air defense system. Speaking symbolically on the third anniversary of the 2016 attempted coup President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that eight planes had landed with parts of the S-400 and that with “God’s permission, they will have been installed in their sites by April 2020.”

 But why does it take so long to deliver and unpack and deploy the system? There are already two launchers, a crane and other vehicles deployed with the shipments in the planes. The system also includes radars and warheads and will require training to use it. But Turkish personnel were already supposed to be in Russia since the end of May to learn about the system.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SURPRISE : JEFF BEZOS’s (AMAZON) WASHINGTON POST AND CEMIL BAYIK – THE WANTED PKK LEADER

All is fair to sustain Erdogan’s reign

Pinar Tremblay July 11, 2019 – Article Summary – al monitor – In a tightly controlled media environment where any critical voice is promptly labeled as terrorist, how did a notorious PKK member on the most wanted list appear as a guest on Turkish state TV?

The Washington Post published July 3 a piece penned by one of the founding members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). In the article, Cemil Bayik explained the Kurdish yearning for peace. Within hours, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin provided a searing written denunciation. Kalin criticized the newspaper, writing, “The Washington Post is openly engaged in terrorist propaganda by providing space for a terrorist on their pages.”

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