MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : CANADA CANCELS PKK LINKED ORGANISATION

4 March 2019 | TORONTO (Kurdistan 24) – A humanitarian organization in Toronto, Canada, has been stripped of its charity status based on accusations it supports groups linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Syria.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), a federal agency which regulates tax laws and monitors compliance on behalf of the Canadian government, said it found the Anatolia Cultural Foundation in Toronto guilty of assisting PKK-linked groups abroad.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INSIDER : Trump’s Syria, anti-Daesh envoy Jeffrey to visit Turkey

DAILY SABAH  – ISTANBUL –  Updated 03.03.2019

U.S. Special Representative for Syria Engagement and anti-Daesh efforts James Jeffrey will come to Turkey tomorrow, the White House said in a statement on Sunday.The U.S. currently has more than 2,000 troops deployed in Syria, but announced last December that they were leaving, revising their statement last week to say some 200-400 would stay.One of Turkey’s top concerns is that U.S., while withdrawing, takes back the weapons and ammunition it gave to the terrorist PKK-affiliated People’s Protection Units (YPG), as it pledged.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEW TODAYS HIGHLIGHT : US renews designation of PKK as terrorist organisation

A US Delegation in Ankara has held talks on Syria and Patriot missiles – The US has renewed the PKK’s designation at the close of a US delegation trip to Turkey. AP – THE NATIONAL  3 March 2019

In an apparent effort to gain concessions from Turkey on the issues of arms sales and creating an internationally-monitored safe zone in Syria, the Trump administration renewed on Friday the designation of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as a terrorist organisation.

The US State Department issued a statement announcing that it “has reviewed and maintained the Foreign Terrorist Organisation (FTO) designation of the PKK”. The militant group was first designated in October 1997 and the US has offered financial rewards for information on three of its leaders.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SONER CAGAPTEY’S ADVICE

Soner CagaptayVerified account @SonerCagaptay  2 March 2019

  1. The PKK will come to peace table with Turkey ONLY if the YPG is weak in #Syria, AND #Turkey will get along the Syrian Kurds, whom the #YPG militarily dominates, ONLY if Ankara is in peace talks with the #PKK. It starts with weakening the YPG. There is no other way around!

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 MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE EROSION OF THE ERDOGAN SYSTEM

Erdogan blasts former friends as traitors while word of new rival spreads

Amberin Zaman February 28, 2019 – Article Summary – As Turkey’s municipal elections approach, rumors are flying that former allies of the president will form a rival party. Rumors that former allies of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are poised to launch at least one rival party are continuing to stir debate in the run-up to nationwide municipal elections due to be held on March 31.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “ amnesty international APPELL TÜRKEI

Türkei: Staatsanwaltschaft fordert für Osman Kavala und Mitangeklagte verschärfte lebenslange Haft – türkische Menschenrechtsorganisationen verurteilen die zunehmende Bedrohung der Zivilgesellschaft  

Amnesty International, das KulturForum TürkeiDeutschland und die Deutsche Journalistinnen- und Journalisten-Union (dju) in ver.di sowie das PEN-Zentrum Deutschland sind schockiert über die Strafforderung für Osman Kavala und seine Mitangeklagten und solidarisieren sich mit dem offenen Brief türkischer Menschenrechtsorganisationen vom 27. Februar.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS Intel: How Turkey is turning to Russia amid row with US over Syria

Al-Monitor Staff February 28, 2019  – The timing of the Turkish foreign minister’s unexpected phone call today with his Russian counterpart in the middle of US-Turkey talks on Syria is the latest sign that Washington and Ankara remain hopelessly at odds over how to move forward in the region.

Why it matters: Mevlut Cavusoglu’s call to Sergey Lavrov was made “upon the initiative of the Turkish side,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The Syria dossier topped the agenda.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SPRÜCHE & WIDERSPRÜCHE

Eine Delegation der feministischen Kampagne »Gemeinsam Kämpfen« besuchte die Akademie der YPJ International in Rojava

»Männer sind für uns kein Maßstab der Befreiung« – Interview mit YPJ International in Rojava  28 Febr 2019

 

….. ausser natürlich APO OECALAN ! WELCHER VOM MASSTAB HER DER GRÖSSTE IST !

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS – NEUE HINTERGRUND-BROSCHÜRE ZUR FINANZIERUNG & ORGANISATION DER PKK IN DEUTSCHLAND

Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK)  – Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz /  Broschüre „Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK)“

Neben der Ideologie und den Zielen der „Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans“ (PKK) wird in dieser Broschüre der historische Hintergrund des Kurdenkonflikts beleuchtet. Den inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt bilden die Situation sowie die Aktivitäten der PKK in Deutschland und Europa.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Erdogan threatens to dismiss mayors seen as PKK-linked

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) –  Jasper Mortimer February 26, 2019 Article Summary – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed PKK militants had infiltrated political parties in order to rig next month’s elections, and vowed to dismiss any mayors determined by Ankara to support the outlawed group. ANKARA, Turkey — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to reverse the results of next month’s municipal elections, saying that if voters elect mayors linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Kurdish insurgent group, he will promptly dismiss them and appoint civil servants to run their towns.In a campaign speech in the central Anatolian town of Yozgat, Erdogan also said that PKK militants had infiltrated the alliance of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) and the Iyi, or Good Party, in order to work as election observers and rig the results in the opposition’s favor.

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