MESOPOTAMIA NEWS „GREAT!“ – SARAH JESSICA PARKER CONTRA ERDOGAN
Hollywood Superstar Shines A Spotlight On Jailed Kurdish Politician
16 April 2019 – MESOP – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has a severe case of Kurdophobia, but we may have to give the devil his due on this one.
He has somehow let Selahattin Demirtas pen Dawn, a work of twelve fictional short stories, from his Turkish prison cell in Edirne. That is terrific news for Demirtas, the popular Kurdish member of the Turkish parliament since 2007, and even better news for his real-life inspired characters—Turks and Kurds alike—who people his stories.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg: Award-winning television and film actress Sarah Jessica Parker has acquired Dawn for her newly launched book imprint, SJP for Hogarth. The book will be published on April 23, 2019.
Think of the staggering possibilities: an American icon highlighting a campaign exposing Turkey’s cultural genocide against the Kurds!
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DIE NEUE WIRTSCHAFTSUNION ERDOGAN & PUTIN
Türkei: Tomaten-Export nach Russland im ersten Quartal verfünffacht
Daily Sabah Deutsch
Der türkischen Tomatenexporte nach Russland haben im ersten Quartal dieses Jahres 47,52 Millionen US-Dollar erreicht. Dies entspricht einem … 14 April 2019 – www.mesop.de
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : EU SPRECHER MARGARITIS SCHINAS – wir halten zur Türkei !
Sprecher der Europäischen Kommission: Türkei in den nächsten vier Jahren in einer stabilen Phase – DAILY SABAH- ISTANBUL – Veröffentlicht – 14.04.2019 14:16
Nach den Kommunalwahlen am 31. März ist die Türkei für die nächsten vier Jahre in eine Stabilitätsphase eingetreten. Dies sagte der Sprecher der Europäischen Kommission, Margaritis Schinas, am Samstag.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUND : Putin exploits crisis in US-Turkish relations
Week in Review April 12, 2019 – BY MAXIM SUCHKOV Article Summary – The Russian president has suggested more defense cooperation with Turkey and says Turkey’s president may be willing to coordinate with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.
Just four days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Moscow, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived on April 9 for a full day of meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, leading to agreements to expand trade, tourism and energy cooperation as well as hints at deepening defense ties and discussions about next steps in Syria.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : US / TURKISH RELATIONS – OVER & OUTTurkish-American ties enter uncharted territory
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
Semih Idiz April 11, 2019 – AL MONITOR – Article Summary – The US-Turkish relationship is in such a bad state that the sides can’t even agree on what was discussed during high-level bilateral talks. The alliance between Turkey and the United States, in force since President Harry Truman unfolded his eponymous doctrine in 1947, is heading into the realm of the unknown. With President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s refusal to change his foreign policy orientation, and Washington’s apparent determination to stick to its guns over contentious issues with Ankara, the nearly 70-year strategic relationship is on a collision course. The relationship is in such a bad state that the sides can’t even agree on what was discussed during recent high-level bilateral talks. This was the case following the meeting between Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington on April 3.
State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino said in a statement after the talks that Pompeo had warned Cavusoglu of “the potentially devastating consequences of unilateral Turkish military action” in northern Syria.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : EAST OF NATO & PUTIN AND ERDOGAN UNITED
Türkischer Außenminister warnt USA: Wir kaufen noch mehr S-400-Syteme aus Russland
10.04.2019 • 20:45 Uhr RT – RUSSIA TODAY – Die Türkei wird sich dem zunehmenden Sanktionsdruck der USA nicht beugen. Stattdessen könnte die Türkei noch mehr S-400-Syteme erwerben, wenn es keine Patriot-Systeme kriegt. Ankara wird außerdem nach Alternativen zum US-Kampfjet F-35 suchen.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : WIRD PKK SALONFÄHIG IN EU ?
Remzi Kartal: Neue Phase für PKK in Europa
Der Ko-Vorsitzende des Kongra-Gel, Remzi Kartal, erklärte angesichts der letzten Gerichtsentscheidungen: „Eine neue juristische Phase hat für die kurdische Bewegung, die PKK, die kurdischen Einrichtungen und Politiker*innen begonnen.“
- MAXİME AZADÎ | ANF 11 April 2019 – In den vergangenen drei Jahren wurden in Belgien fünf Gerichtsentscheidungen im Sinne der Arbeiterpartei Kurdistan (PKK) gefällt. Auch die letzte Berufungsinstanz hatte festgestellt, dass die PKK keine „Terrororganisation“, „sondern eine Partei in einem nichtinternationalen bewaffneten Konflikt“ sei. Im November hatte der europäische Gerichtshof in Luxemburg die Gründe für die Aufnahme der PKK im beklagten Zeitraum (2014–2017) für nicht ausreichend befunden und die Liste annulliert. Gegen diese Entscheidung wurde von England im Namen der EU Widerspruch eingelegt. 2018 wurde die PKK per Automatismus erneut auf die Terrorliste gesetzt, obwohl keine neuen Argumente dafür vorgebracht werden konnten. Im März hat die kurdische Seite der neuen Listung ebenfalls widersprochen.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE SPIRIT OF THE ERDOGAN WORLD
Conspiracy Theory Culture in Turkey and the “Crypto-Jews”: Dönmes
Author Türkay Salim Nefes – Türkay Salim Nefes examines the conspiratorial anti-semitic tropes surrounding the Dönmes (Sabbateans) in Turkey. Date April 8, 2019 – Download pdf להורדת ה-pdf
A well-known Turkish sociologist, Şerif Mardin, once remarked that conspiracy theories shape Turkish people’s historical perspective. Indeed, conspiratorial accounts are ubiquitous in modern Turkish politics: the Turkish government explained that the Gezi Park protests in 2013 were a foreign conspiracy meant to undermine Turkish economic progress.[1] Moreover, ever since the 1970s, various speakers in the Turkish parliament have claimed that there is a clandestine elite group determined to defend the Turkish state ideology by legal and extralegal means alike, and which is responsible for various conspiracies including, but not limited to extrajudicial assassinations.[2] In this political climate, conspiracy theories about Dönmes (Sabbateans), the followers of Sabbatai Sevi (Shabtai Tzvi), represent a major part of contemporary Turkish anti-Semitism. For example, the conspiracy theory books of Soner Yalçın became best-sellers in the Turkish book market in 2004 and 2006.[3]
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS – NEW HUMAN RIGHTS (HRW) REPORT ON TURKEY
April 10, 2019 – Lawyers on Trial – Abusive Prosecutions and Erosion of Fair Trial Rights in Turkey
Lawyers march in Istanbul on January 24, 2019 Day of the Endangered Lawyer. The banner reads: “To silence the lawyer’s voice is to deprive the citizen of breath.” Summary :
Since the July 2016 coup attempt, Turkey has seen mass arrests and trials on terrorism charges of thousands of people not involved in any violent act. Among them are journalists, human rights defenders and opposition politicians tried in proceedings which rights groups have documented as politicized and unfair. While lawyers always have a critical role to play in protecting the rights of suspects in police custody and defendants in court, their role in protecting the rule of law and human rights is all the more fundamental in the context of the current crackdown in Turkey. Yet, or more likely because of that, as this report demonstrates, authorities have also targeted lawyers, in particular criminal defense lawyers.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : PKK KIDNAPPING – EINE REVOLUTIONÄRE PARTEI ! – DARLING OF T HE GERMAN LEFT
News1 (AFP – Journal) – DIE WELT 9. April 2019 -Prozess wegen Entführung von PKK-Aussteiger beginnt kommende Woche in Stuttgart
Ein Jahr nach der Entführung eines ehemaligen Mitglieds der verbotenen Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK) in Baden-Württemberg beginnt am Dienstag kommender Woche vor dem Oberlandesgericht Stuttgart der Prozess gegen fünf Angeklagte. Die Männer müssen sich in dem Staatsschutzverfahren wegen Mitgliedschaft beziehungsweise Unterstützung einer ausländischen Terrororganisation, Freiheitsberaubung und anderer Delikte verantworten.
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