MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT : European rights court orders Turkey to pay news publisher / Özgür Gündem
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) – BRUSSELS / LUXEMBURG – 12 March 2019|Ahval Press – The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday found that Turkey violated freedom of expression regulations by systematically opening criminal charges against the publisher of a pro-Kurdish newspaper, regardless of content. In a unanimous decision, the ECHR ordered Turkey to pay 3,500 euros to Ali Gürbüz, owner of the Istanbul-based daily Özgür Gündem. The case concerned seven sets of government charges against Gürbüz from 2004 to 2011 for publishing statements from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has fought an armed insurgency for self-rule in Turkey since 1984 and is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUNDER : Russian foreign minister heads to Turkey to seal visa deal
Amberin Zaman March 28, 2019 – Article Summary – AL MONITOR The Turkish and Russian foreign ministers will meet in Antalya Friday to discuss a range of topics as a controversial missile deal between Ankara and Moscow threatens to further deteriorate Turkey-US ties. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov are due to meet in Turkey’s southern Mediterranean resort city of Antalya tomorrow amid escalating tensions with Washington over Ankara’s determined plans to purchase Russian S-400 missiles.The meeting has been billed as the Seventh Turkish Russian Joint Strategic Planning Group Meeting being held under the aegis of the Turkish Russian High-Level Cooperation Council.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE DANGEROUS RUSSIAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT NEAR ADANA
Gallia Lindenstrauss Retweeted – Kaan Özgüney @KaanOzguney Mar 27
Russian owned Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant JSC plans to extend scope to build and run ports, terminals and do shipping among other things 9 years after it was established. A privately owned Latakia in making?
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN’S VERSPRECHUNGEN – “Bald kein Europäer mehr sicher auf den Straßen“
Kein Europäer könne auf den Straßen sicher sein, wenn die EU nicht ihr Verhalten ändere, sagte Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. Die Türkei könne man nicht herumschubsen, so der türkische Präsident. – Der türkische Präsident Erdogan hat im Konflikt mit der EU eine weitere Warnung ausgesprochen. Europa müsse umdenken, Demokratie und Menschenrechte respektieren – sonst sei bald kein Europäer mehr sicher
Türkei unzensiert – 22 Std. · 23 Mar 2019
“Yakında hiçbir Avrupalı sokaklarda güvende olmayacak” | „Bald kein Europäer mehr sicher auf den Straßen“
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Türkiye Cumhurbaşkanı Erdoğan AB’yi uyardı. Ankara’da konuşan Erdoğan, Avrupa’nın “Yeniden düşünmesi” gerektiğini ileri sürerek, “Demokrasiye ve insan haklarına saygı göstermesini” istedi. Cumhurbaşkanı, “Aksi halde yakında hiçbir Avrupalı güvende olmayacak” dedi.
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE NEW SULTAN AND THE CRISIS OF MODERN TURKEY – WHY TURKEY’S LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER
by Murat Yetkin and Soner Cagaptay – PolicyWatch 3093 – March 20, 2019
Many major jurisdictions are up for grabs, with potentially weighty foreign policy implications if Erdogan maintains his current coalition’s hardline nationalist trajectory.
Turkey will hold nationwide local elections on March 31, with voters picking mayors as well as city and provincial council members. Due to a unique alignment of domestic and foreign policy issues, these elections could affect U.S.-Turkish relations and Ankara’s actions in the Middle East, warranting greater attention from Washington than one might expect.
AN ‘EXISTENTIAL’ VOTE
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “OPTIMISMUS” : ZU NEWRUZ DER NEUE PKK MASTERPLAN
PKK: Untergang des Faschismus ist unumgänglich / HPG-Planung für das Kampfjahr 2019
Der Kommandorat der HPG hat auf einer sechstägigen Versammlung das Kampfjahr 2019 auf der Grundlage einer Neustrukturierung basierend auf 35 Jahren Guerillaerfahrung geplant.
ANF BEHDÎNAN Donnerstag, 21 Mär 2019, 06:58 – Ende Februar hat der Kommandorat der Volksverteidigungskräfte HPG eine sechstägige Versammlung abgehalten, auf der über eine Neustrukturierung beraten wurde. An der Versammlung nahmen 57 Personen teil. Als Ergebnis ausführlicher Kritiken und Selbstkritiken wurde die weitere Planung für 2019 festgelegt.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “IMPERIALISM” : PUTIN CZAR OF MIDEAST & SULTAN ERDOGAN
Turkey Brief: January 23 – March 18, 2019 – Turkey Brief is an intelligence summary (INTSUM) produced by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). This ISW INTSUM series sheds light on key trends and developments related to the Turkish government’s objectives and its efforts to secure them.
Reporting Period: January 23 – March 18, 2019 – Authors: Elizabeth Teoman with Monica Ma, Matti Suomenaro, Darina Regio, and Michael Land
Key Takeaway: Turkey is deepening its strategic cooperation with Russia as the U.S. draws down its forces in Syria. Turkey is strengthening its naval coordination with Russia in the Black Sea and negotiating to expand bilateral economic ties. In Syria, Turkey and Russia agreed to create a joint coordination center to conduct joint military patrols along frontlines in Northern Syria on March 14. They are also working together to begin trade from Turkey into regime-held parts of Aleppo Province. Turkey’s deepening cooperation with Russia undermines the cohesion of NATO and jeopardizes the prospects for a deal between the U.S. and Turkey to stabilize Eastern Syria.
Turkey is expanding its strategic cooperation with Russia. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly chosen to fortify his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the expense of Turkey’s alliance with NATO. Erdogan has taken a number of major steps toward a strategic realignment with Russia in 2019.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN FACES ELECTION – All eyes on Turkey’s 3 biggest cities as local elections approach
Jasper Mortimer March 18, 2019 – AL MONITOR – ARTICLE SUMMARY – Turks suffering under 20% inflation and 13.5% unemployment may punish President Erdogan’s coalition in March 31 elections in the nation’s three largest cities. ANKARA, Turkey — The municipal elections are less than two weeks away, and observers are wondering what is going to happen in Turkey’s three biggest cities: Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir. –
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : VERY INTERESTING / ERDOGAN & ISIS
18 March 2019 – MESOP – ISIS’s Ambassador to Turkey @AnneSpeckhard on how US Counter-Intel agents believed Abu Mansour was credible on relations with Turkish authorities & how ISIS routinely negotiated agreements with Turkey for Wounded, Water, Foreign Fighters to come through https://twitter.com/joshua_landis/status/1107678284123463682 …
Anne Speckhard @AnneSpeckhard
Replying to @joshua_landis @NikoLusiani
He was in Iraqi custody and CTS had interrogated him many times previously and judged him both credible and cooperative. We spoke to him for five hours and never heard any inconsistencies He seemed honest and humble and also allowed us to use his image.
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGANS = TROUBLE WITH EU / Ankara fumes as European Parliament votes to suspend EU talks
Ayla Jean Yackley March 14, 2019 – AL MONITOR – Article Summary – The European Parliament called on the European Union to halt membership negotiations with Turkey, citing a failure to respect the bloc’s standards on human rights, while Ankara accuses the legislators of giving in to right-wing populism. ISTANBUL — Turkey fired back at the European Parliament after it called for the suspension of membership negotiations over its human rights record, calling the resolution “worthless” and “discriminatory” and sounding an alarm about right-wing populism taking root in Europe.
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