MESOP NEWS : AS WE HAVE PREDICTED – NEXT DEAL ERDOGAN / BRUSSELS
9 Febr 2018 – Is Erdogan going to follow through, what is at stake? @aylajean explains in this thorough piece #Turkey pledges to change terror law to win #EU visas via @AlMonitor
Turkey pledges to change terror law to win EU visas
Turkey has submitted a position paper to Brussels promising to amend the counterterrorism law…al-monitor.com
MESOP NEWS OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS FROM BRUSSELS
European Parliament resolution on the current human rights situation in Turkey / LBGTI – most important !
8 Febr 2018 – Please find attached an informal version of the resolution on Turkey AS ADOPTED by the European Parliament few moments ago (extremely large majority). Vis-a-vis of the initial text, 3 amendments have been adopted and are included in the attached text (in bold & red for you):
- One amendment reinforcing the par.5 on AFRIN;
- One amendment reinforcing par.12 on LGBTI rights;
- One amendment concerning the situation of a Turkish-Finnish journalist on par.8.
The formal version of the resolution will be available only tomorrow morning, at least you can check immediately “the substance of the final votes”.
AS ADOPTED IN STRASBOURG on the 8th FEBRUARY 2018 – (INFORMAL VERSION)
The European Parliament,
– having regard to its previous resolutions on Turkey, in particular that of 27 October 2016 on the situation of journalists in Turkey[1],
The Syrian Problem is Turkey – Part II
Sheri Laizer | Ekurd.net – Read Part I – The Syrian Problem is Turkey
Turkish lies and ambitions
Turkey’s claim to have killed 900 Kurdish fighters, or ‘terrorists’, is false: those they are killing are predominantly ordinary people. 1 Afrin’s innocent civilians are being slain by Turkish forces in the course of implementing far wider geopolitical and economic goals in Syria and Iraq. The Syrian News Agency, SANA, claims the Syrian Foreign Ministry has formally written to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council concerning “Turkish “lies, which no longer convince anyone…Syria called on the Security Council not to allow Turkey’s use of force contrary to international law.” 2
No Kurdish future is safe – What is the solution?
MESOP NEWS EXCLUSIV : THE FINAL VERSION OF EU PARLIAMENTS MOTION CONCERNING TURKEY
European Parliament – 7.2.2018 – JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION
pursuant to Rule 123(2) and (4) of the Rules of Procedure replacing the motions by the following groups:
ECR (B8-0082/2018) – Verts/ALE (B8-0084/2018) – S&D (B8-0091/2018) – ALDE (B8-0092/2018)
EFDD (B8-0095/2018) – GUE/NGL (B8-0097/2018) – PPE (B8-0103/2018) – on the current human rights situation in Turkey (2018/2527(RSP))
Cristian Dan Preda, Renate Sommer, David McAllister, Julia Pitera, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Esther de Lange, Lorenzo Cesa, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski on behalf of the PPE Group Kati Piri, Victor Boştinaru, Elena Valenciano, Knut Fleckenstein on behalf of the S&D Group Anders Primdahl Vistisen, Valdemar Tomaševski, Charles Tannock, Jan
MESOP EXCLUSIV ON TURKEY & AFRIN BY EU PARLIAMENT BRUSSELS
European Parliament – 2014-2019 – Plenary sitting – 6 Febr 2018
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION – to wind up the debate on the statement by the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy pursuant to Rule 123(2) of the Rules of Procedure
Marcel de Graaff, Mario Borghezio, Harald Vilimsky, Matteo Salvini – Commission>{ENF}on behalf of the ENF Group</Commission> – B8‑0079/2018 – European Parliament resolution on the current human rights situation in Turkey – (2018/2527(RSP))
MESOP NEWS EXCLUSIV “ACTUAL EU RESOLUTION ON TURKEY” – THE MOGHERINI SPEECH
Federica Mogherini, Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. –
6 Febr 2018 – Mr President, let me start by saying that this is not the first, and will not be the last, debate in this Chamber about Turkey. We are holding this debate, I believe, because we care. We care about Turkey, we care about the Turkish people, we care about Turkey’s democracy, security and stability, and we care about security and stability in the Turkish region because it is also our region. Sometimes we refer to Turkey only as a candidate country. Let me stress one thing that is obvious: it is first and foremost, through my lens, a regional player that shares the same geographic space with us.
MESOP NEWS EXCLUSIV : A FRIENDLY INVIATION TO ERDOGAN – By Council of the EU
PRESS EN – PRESS RELEASE – 53/18 – 07/02/2018
Invitation letter from Presidents Tusk and Juncker to President Erdoğan to a EU-Turkey leaders’ meeting
At our Leaders’ meeting on 25 May 2017, we agreed to structure an open dialogue, at all levels, through a process of engagement in areas of common interest.
Intensified exchanges covering the broad spectrum of EU-Turkey relations have taken place since then, including high-level dialogues on transport, economic cooperation, counter-terrorism and foreign policy. Our next exchange on energy is scheduled to take place at the end of February.
We embarked on this process on the understanding that it was to be nurtured by concrete steps by Turkey on the domestic front as well as in relations with EU Member States. Regarding the latter aspect, we welcome your recent efforts to reach out.
MESOP NEWS SERIOUS : ERDOGAN THREATENING TRUMP & US
Turkey’s Erdogan warns U.S. to quit Syria’s Kurdish Manbij – “Erdogan: “And then you tell us not to come to Manbij! We will come to Manbij to return it to its original owners,” he added.
7 Febr 2018 – ANKARA,— Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned the United States to withdraw any American forces from the Syrian town of Manbij, vowing Turkish troops would expand a cross-border military operation to the key strategic hub.Erdogan blamed Washington for the presence in Manbij of Kurdish fighters from the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) and its Democratic Union Party (PYD) political wing, which only Ankara sees as terror groups.
MESOP NEWS LATEST TODAY / 6 Febr 2018
For your information, the European Parliament’s plenary debate on TURKEY is now scheduled for +/- 19h30 today (delays are due to other debates currently taking place in the Plenary)
TURKEY and EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – debate and resolution
Dear all,
Please be informed that later today (at around 18h00) the European Parliament in Strasbourg will have a formal “joint debate on Turkey” in the presence of VPC/HR Federica MOGHERINI, divided in two parts:
1) “Current human rights situation in Turkey”;
2) “Situation in Afrin, Syria”.
If you want to follow the debate live, you can click here http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/home.html (you can follow the debate in all EU languages):
MESOP NEWS BRUSSEL ANNOUNCEMENT : EU PARLIAMENT JOINT DEBATE ON TURKEY
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
Dear all today,
Please be informed that later today (at around 18h00) the European Parliament in Strasbourg will have a formal “joint debate on Turkey” in the presence of VPC/HR Federica MOGHERINI, divided in two parts:
- “Current human rights situation in Turkey”;
- “Situation in Afrin, Syria”.
If you want to follow the debate live, you can click here http://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/home.html (you can follow the debate in all EU languages): For your information, I attach to this email the list of speakers.
Members of the EP will also adopt a resolution winding up the debate: technically speaking, individual Political Groups have already tabled their own resolutions (not available yet, I’ll send it ASAP).
Then, later today / tomorrow morning, the individual resolutions will be merged in one “final compromise resolution” (I’ll circulate the text ASAP, its adoption is scheduled for Thursday 8th February at 12.00, use the link already mentioned if you want to follow the votes).
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