MESOPOTAMIA NEWS TODAYS STARTER : PKK CHEF CEMILY BAYIK (CODENAME “JUMA”) INSULTED THE USA AND DEMANDS US FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PKK KURDS !

 “The policies crafted by America against Iran have not yielded many results. Iran seems more successful. Quotation by Cemil Bayik

Pro-Kurdish PKK leaders scrabble for footing as Ankara pounds war drums

Amberin Zaman January 29, 2019  –  Article Summary  – Turkey says it has completed preparations to intervene in Syria’s Manbij and the Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates River. The Turkish military has completed its preparations to intervene in Manbij, the mainly Arab town in northern Syria that is emblematic of continued friction with the United States, as well as east of the Euphrates River, where Washington’s Kurdish allies govern a stretch of territory running all the way to Iraq. “When the time comes, the necessary measures will be taken,” said Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar during a visit to a military facility in the central Anatolian province of Eskisehir today.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “ MICHAEL “THE CHAMÄLEON” RUBIN” : EX-CIA OFFICIAL: DEMANDED FOR YEARS TURKEY SHOULD BOMB PKK GRUND ZERO / A MODERN MIRCALE

It’s time to acknowledge the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK’s evolution

Michael Rubin | American Enterprise Institute

Should the PKK’s insurgency and past Marxist ideology be a disqualifying factor today?

A Marxist past shouldn’t disqualify US partnership with Syrian Kurds.

On January 11, 2019, President Donald Trump began the drawdown of US forces from Syria, making good on a promised tweeted shortly before Christmas. Trump’s tweets caused a firestorm within the Pentagon and foreign policy circles. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned after failing to convince Trump to change his mind. The abandonment of Syrian Kurdish groups fighting alongside US Special Forces was, for Mattis, the last straw. National Security Advisor John Bolton has tried to temper abandonment of the Kurds, although it remains unclear to what degree he will be successful.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ACTUAL SITUATION OF KURDISH HDP PARTY IN TURKEY

Kamal Chomani‏Verified account @KamalChomani  – 28 Jan 2019 – The #HDP won 102 district and metropolitan city municipalities in the 2014 local elections. However, following military operations in southeastern cities in 2015, Turkish authorities dismissed 95 HDP mayors over terrorism charges, replacing them with appointed administrators.

Pro-Kurdish #HDP party will not run mayoral candidates in Turkey’s three largest cities | @ahval_en #TwitterKurds https://ahvalnews.com/node/37584

MESOPOTAMIA NEWS TODAYS STARTER: NATO MEMBER ERDOGAN GUIDED BY PUTIN

Putin guides Erdogan along the Road to Damascus –  AL MONITOR  28 Jan 2019 –
Last week we wrote that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was seeking a lifeline in Syria in his meeting three days later with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

That lifeline came in the form of the 1998 Adana agreement between Ankara and Syria, which Putin considers a path to Turkish-Syrian coordination against terrorist groups, and which Erdogan sees as an open invitation to attack the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria. Turkey considers the YPG a terrorist organization linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK); the United States also labels the PKK as a terrorist group.

At a joint press conference following his Jan. 23 meeting with Erdogan, Putin said, “The 1998 treaty between the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of Turkey is still valid, and it deals specifically with the fight against terrorism. I think this is the legal framework that covers many issues relating to ensuring Turkey’s security on its southern borders. Today we have been discussing this issue thoroughly and intensively.”

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS DAILY : Turkey’s Erdogan — “Safe Zone” in Kurdish Area Within Months

 by Scott Lucas | Jan 26, 2019 | eaworldview –  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that Turkey will establish a “safe zone” in Kurdish areas of northern Syria “within months”, even if other powers do not agree.

 

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE INTERNAL PKK DEBATE / DIE ANGEBOTE DER PKK AN ERDOGAN / EIN PKK STAAT & EINE REGIONALMACHT TÜRKEI

Erdal Polat hat einen Link geteilt. Conversation Starter

Hier die Graue Eminenz der Kurdischen-Bakur-Bewegung Hatip Dicle:

‘Sagen wir mal, wenn Herr Öcalan freigelassen würde und er würde sagen;
‘die Rojava Kurden sollte sich SO verhalten, die Kurden in Syrien würden das tun was Er sagt’ ” *

Sieht das nicht nach Verhandlungs-Masse Rojava (mit Erdogan) aus?
Fast das gleiche sagte der Anwalt von Öcalan Mahmut Sakar.

Und wenn das nicht reicht, sollten Sie auch Kirkūk,Mosul und Shingal anbieten für Öcalan’s Freiheit. Zum Schluß ist das ja das Hauptziel der PKK-Führer; ein Gemeinsamer Heimat Staat in ein Groß-Türkei.

Das ist auch bei Demirtaş (HDP-Partei) angekommen:
“Eine Türkei die mit IHREN Kurden Frieden geschlossen, würde in Nahen Osten eine Regional Macht sein. Wer will das? Wir wollen das”

Endlich mal sprechen Sie mal Klartext.
Wenn ich das sagen würde,währe das Verschwörungsterorie,wenn unsere Politiker das sagen ist es Akzeptable  RealPolitik.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : TRUMP’S TREASURY DEPARTEMENT

 

24 Jan 2019 – Kyle Orton‏Verified account @KyleWOrton 4 hours ago  – Treasury has sanctioned Fatemiyoun (#IRGC‘s Afghan unit in #Syria) and Zaynabiyoun (the Pakistani division).

Treasury designates two Iranian foreign fighter militias in Syria for providing material support to the IRGC-QF. Also takes action against Qeshm Fars Air, a civilian airline linked to Mahan Air, which has been ferrying weapons to… More via www.mesop.de

MESOPOTAMIA NEWS LATEST : Cavusoglu: Turkey open to working with others on Syria safe zone

Foreign minister says Ankara also has the capacity to create the proposed zone on the Turkish-Syrian border by itself.

AL JAZEERA – 24 Jan 2019 – Turkey has the capacity to create a “safe zone” in Syria on its own but will not exclude the United States, Russia or others if they want to cooperate, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.Speaking to a local Turkish television channel on Thursday, Cavusoglu added that Turkey was in indirect contact with the Syrian government, without providing details.

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NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)Turkey names ‘water czar’ to ease disputes with Iraq

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Fehim Tastekin January 23, 2019 AL MONITOR  

Article Summary – In an ambitious bid to tackle water-sharing tensions with Iraq, a special envoy appointed by the Turkish president plans to travel soon to Baghdad to present a road map of cooperation.

Turkey has launched an effort to help resolve the water problem of neighboring Iraq amid bilateral tensions over decreasing flow rates in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, whose waters the two countries share.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUNDER : Turkey’s Bizarre Approach to Missile Defense

By Burak Bekdil January 22, 2019  –  BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,070, January 22, 2019 – ISRAEL

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The US administration has offered to sell $3.5 billion worth of Patriot missiles to Turkey, apparently in an effort to stop Ankara from going ahead with a planned S-400 deal with Moscow. The Turks will probably shrug off the offer (after making sure it’s not an offer they can’t refuse). For reasons largely unrelated to its military requirements, Ankara has no intention of scrapping the S-400 deal and risking its geostrategic bonds with Moscow.

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