MESOPOTAMIA NEWS Trump wirkt: Türkei beendet Ölimporte aus dem Iran / Erdogan erhält Waffen für FSA Rebellen
Die Türkei beendete den Kauf von iranischem Öl ab Mai, da die im vergangenen November gewährten US-Ausnahmeregelungen für acht Länder abgelaufen sind.
27 Mai 2019 – MENA – Das Land wird sich auch zukünftig an Washingtons Forderung halten, alle Rohölimporte aus der Islamischen Republik einzustellen, sagte ein hoher türkischer Beamter am Mittwoch. ‚Wir bekommen jetzt kein Öl aus dem Iran mehr geliefert‘, sagte der Beamte, der unter der Bedingung der Anonymität sprach. ‚Wir waren eines der acht Länder, die eine Ausnahme von diesen Sanktionen erhalten hatten, und jetzt sind wir bereit, sie einzuhalten‘, sagte er.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : KURDISH LANGUAGE LEGAL IN TURKEY’S SCHOOLS ?
Has Avrat @hasavrat 27 May 2019 – CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu at an iftar: “The legal use of Kurdish, as a language of learning & instruction should be legislated, and there is need for this. I believe that if suitable grounds can be established, all parliamentarians will agree to this.” https://twitter.com/gazeteduvar/status/1132961533351403520 …
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “ACTUAL STATUS” : Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive (HYG) May 27, 2019 Report on the current status of the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Project
Report on the current status of the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Project and the counter campaigns Destruction and Resistance in Hasankeyf and at Tigris Since its initiation the Ilisu Dam and Hydroelectric Power Plant Project is highly controversial both at the ground at the Tigris in the Kurdistan region of the Republic of Turkey and in whole basin up to the Mesopotamian Marshes in South Iraq. Recently the Turkish government announced recently that on 10th June 2019 it will start filling the Ilisu Dam reservoir which is nearing completion. This paper gives an overview about the expected grave social, cultural and ecological impacts and the ongoing counter struggles at local, regional and international level which have the hope to stop it.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : APO OECALAN (PKK) CAN BE VISITED NOW REGULARY
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) – Permission to visit Ocalan nothing to do with Istanbul re-election: Turkish Justice Minister
By Rudaw 25 May 2019 – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul denied on Thursday claims that his government has granted long-imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan’s lawyers permission to visit him in relation to re-do local election in Istanbul on June 23 or a potential new PKK-Turkey peace process.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : WILL APO (PKK) WORK FOR ERDOGAN ?
24 May 2019 Aliza Marcus @AlizaMarcus 9h9 hours ago – Aliza Marcus Retweeted Max Hoffman
That sounds about right altho I’m thinking it’s more about ending the hunger strikes and the timing is fortuitous with elections. Plus attempt to use Ocalan to break stalemate on Turkey’s Syria desires but Ocalan won’t/can’t play that game.
Aliza Marcus added,
Max Hoffman @MaxHoffmanDC
Replying to @Charles_Lister @NicholasDanfort @AlizaMarcus
I’m sure Aliza has better-informed thoughts, but my personal view is that it’s a (fairly brazen) ploy to peel conservative HDP voters away for the rerun election in Istanbul. I do not think it will work.
MESOP COMMENTARY …… it might not work, because in Kandil mountains Cemil Bayik will watch his old dude APO carefully mistreating him.
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SHOULD APO OECALAN CEASE HUNGERSTRIKE ?
Kurdish hunger strikers wait for news from meeting of jailed leader
Amberin Zaman May 22, 2019 – AL MONITOR – Article Summary – Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party leader Abdullah Ocalan has met for a second time with lawyers as a wide Kurdish hunger strike endangers lives. Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), was granted access to his lawyers today in the first such meeting since May 2 and the second in eight years, amid signs that Ankara is easing his isolation. Lawyers Nevroz Uysal and Rezan Sarica returned from the island prison of Imrali, where Ocalan has been held since 1999, following his treason conviction.
But Ibrahim Bilmez, a member of Ocalan’s vast legal team, said what had been discussed is still under wraps. “It may take one or two days for us to share this information,” Bilmez told Al-Monitor.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS Turkey Pulse – Why ‘Putin’s personal army’ chief visited Turkey
Metin Gurcan May 22, 2019 – AL MONITOR – Article Summary – Viktor Zolotov, the head of Russian National Guard, also known as Vladimir Putin’s personal army, paid a surprising visit to Turkey’s capital.
The unannounced visit to Turkey of the chief of the Russian National Guard — an internal security establishment also known as Vladimir Putin’s personal army — will undoubtedly be given hard scrutiny by Western capitals amid increasing criticism of Turkey’s drift away from its NATO allies.
Viktor Zolotov, the head of the Russian National Guard, Rosgvardiya, a security unit that oversees anti-riot police and SWAT teams, paid a surprise visit to the capital, Ankara, from May 13-18 with a “heavily loaded” agenda, Turkish security sources told Al-Monitor. Although his Russian delegation’s carefully crafted schedule didn’t include any direct contact with the Turkish army, NATO’s second largest, the visit heralds further military cooperation between Russia and Turkey.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : FINAL DECISION = ERDOGAN JOINS PUTIN & RUSSIA / SEVERE BLOW TO NATO
Aaron Stein @aaronstein1 2h2 hours ago – 22 may 2019 – Aaron Stein Retweeted Rob Lee
I assume there will be an American response to this, smaller than what was hinted at in CNBC, but it really is seriously time to plan for the day after S400 and stop debating “if” it will be deployed
Aaron Stein added,
Rob Lee @RALee85
Turkey’s Minister of Defense, Hulusi Akar, said that Turkish personnel began training on the S-400 in Russia today, and the training course will last “several months”. http://tass.com/defense/1059408
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Call for 3rd Global Hasankeyf Action Day on June 7-8, 2019!
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
We call on social movements, NGO’s, activists and others in the world to join the 3rd Global Day of Action for the defense of the 12,000 year old town Hasankeyf and the Tigris River on June 7 and 8th, 2019! It is urgent because the Turkish government announced recently that on 10th June 2019 it will start filling the Ilisu Dam reservoir.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN CONVERTS APO OECALAN INTO HIS PEACE BROKER
Can PKK leader deliver peace for Kurds in Turkey and Syria?
2019-05-20 avalnews – Turkey’s government may be turning to its public enemy No. 1 to broker a new peace with Kurdish fighters in Turkey and neighboring Syria, the Los Angeles Times reported on Monday.Last Wednesday, Turkish officials said they lifted restrictions on visits to Öcalan, a little more than a week after the first visit made by Öcalan’s lawyers in eight years. All of this has occurred alongside the largest mass hunger strike in Turkey’s history, as imprisoned Kurds have urged Turkish authorities to end Öcalan’s confinement.
At last week’s meeting, Öcalan handed his lawyers a statement urging the hunger strikes not to risk their lives and calling for a transition to political struggle. “The problems in Turkey and even the region, primarily the war, cannot be solved through physical violence, but with reason, and cultural and political force,” the statement read.
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