MESOP NEWS TODAYS BREAKING : BRAVO DUTCHMEN ! The Netherlands Suspends Diplomatic Ties with Turkey
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) – Basnews English – 05/02/2018 – 19:05 – ERBIL — The Dutch government on Monday announced that it has officially withdrawn its ambassador to Ankara and suspended the diplomatic relations with the Turkish government.
“The Netherlands and Turkey have recently held talks at various levels. At this stage, these talks do not yet offer a perspective to normalizing the bilateral relations,” reads a statement published on the official website of the government of the Netherlands.
MESOP NEWS : ERDOGAN WILL VISIT THE POPE / NO MACRON PROTEST AGAINST TURKISH INVASION IN AFRIN
Macron, Erdogan hold phone call, France is to work with Turkey on Syria ‘road map’
By Rudaw 4 Febr 2018 – ANKARA, Turkey — Both France and Turkey have agreed to word on a “diplomatic road map” aimed at ending the seven-year Syrian civil war, the office of the French President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement on Sunday.
Macron held a phone call with his Turkish counterpart on Saturday night in light of French concerns about the Turkish military operation against Kurdish fighters in Afrin, northwestern Syria.
MESOP NEWS TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED : How regional rivalries threaten to fuel the fire in Syria and Iran (ACADEMIA edu)
James M. Dorsey – Nanyang Technological University, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Faculty Member – 4 Febr 2018 – How regional rivalries threaten to fuel the fire in Syria and Iran
Turkish allegations of Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian support for the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) threaten to turn Turkey’s military offensive against Syrian Kurds aligned with the PKK into a regional imbroglio. The threat is magnified by Iranian assertions that low intensity warfare is heating up in areas of the Islamic republic populated by ethnic minorities, including the Kurds in the northwest and the Baloch on the border with Pakistan. Taken together, the two developments raise the spectre of a potentially debilitating escalation of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran as well as an aggravation of the eight-month-old Gulf crisis that has pitted Saudi Arabia and its allies against Qatar, which has forged close ties to Turkey. The United Arab Emirates and Egypt rather than Saudi Arabia have taken the lead in criticizing Turkey’s incursion into Syria designed to remove US backed Kurds from the countries’ border and create a 30-kilometre deep buffer zone.
MESOP NEWS : COLD BLOODED MURDER – Four children drown in river on Turkish border, family blames Turkish soldiers – Syrian refugees ‘forced back with bullets’ at Turkish border: HRW
By Rudaw 3 Febr 2018 – Human Rights Watch reported that it is more likely for Syrians to flee violence in placed like the Kurdish province of Afrin where Turkey has launched an operation against Kurdish fighters since January 20.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A human rights monitor has accused Turkish border guards of “indiscriminately shooting” and abusing Syrian asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey. Witnesses claim 10 people, including a child, have been killed on the border in recent months. Refugees displaced by recent fighting in Idlib who managed to cross into Turkey between May and December 2017 told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that Turkish guards have been turning them away by force. The border remains closed to all but the most serious medical cases, forcing many to take dangerous alternative routes over mountains littered with landmines.
The Remarkable Scale of Turkey’s “Global Purge”
MESOP NEWS TODAYS RELEVANT COMMENTARY : By Nate Shenkkan (Foreign Affairs)
How It Became a Threat to the Rule of Law Everywhere
By Nate Schenkkan – FOREIGN AFFAIRS – 29 Jan 2018 – In October of last year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke at a gathering of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) about the steps that have been taken so far to eliminate the Islamic movement of the exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen whom he blames for organizing the July 15, 2016, coup attempt. After describing some of the domestic measures that he has pursued to stamp out the group, known officially as the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETO), Erdogan noted his desire to also take down its networks abroad.
MESOP NEWS : – End Support for Kurds Militia YPG or You’re A Target / Nearer to 3rd World war ?
“Those who support the terrorist organization will become a target in this battle”
1 Febr 2018 – Turkey has warned the US to end its support of the Kurdish militia YPG in Syria or face confrontation with a Turkish-rebel offensive.“Those who support the terrorist organization will become a target in this battle,” Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Thursday. “The United States needs to review its solders and elements giving support to terrorists on the ground in such a way as to avoid a confrontation with Turkey.”
MESOP NEWS TODAYS GENERAL COMMENTARY ON AFRIN – TURKEY & PKK/PYD – By SHERI LAIZER The Syrian Problem is Turkey
HI DEAR MESOP FRIENDS : Hi Hans
Perhaps you would like to use this on Afrin – I am doing part 2 on the arrogance of the PYD/HDP/HK/PKK that provokes excessive violence on the part of their image in the mirror, the authoritation Turkish state!
Sheri Laizer | Exclusive to Ekurd.net – 30 Jan 2018 – The Turkish dictator is 100 times more dangerous than Bashar al-Assad
The Republic of Turkey under Erdoğan’s leadership engages in a right-wing nationalist discourse to justify each incursion abroad and purge at home. The leader is the most pro-Islamist conservative figure to take control since the Republic’s creation. Despite its multi-ethnic population the AKP fully reinforces the Turkish nation’s anti-pluralist motto, “Turkey is for the Turks – one nation, one language, one flag.”
Turkish dictator, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ’s latest military invasion of the historic Kurdish settlement in Afrin – cynically dubbed ‘Operation Olive branch’ – belies the fact that not only does Turkey have no legitimate grounds for being there, the ‘Free Syrian Army’ has long since been transformed into a confederation of mercenaries that would be more aptly named the “Turkish Vanguard.”
11 members of Turkish Medical Association’s central council detained over Afrin operation remarks
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) – MESOP NEWS : ERDOGAN AT WAR – NO LAWYERS – NO DOCTORS NO FREEDOM ANYMORE !
ANKARA – Hurriyet 30 Jan 2018 – Eleven members of the Turkish Medical Association’s (TTB) central council were detained on Jan. 30 for their statement criticizing the military’s “Operation Olive Branch” in Syria, triggering a reaction from the main opposition party. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office had issued detention warrants for 11 members of the council, including TTB head Raşit Tükel.The TTB had issued a declaration stating that “War is a Matter of Public Health” upon the start of the cross-border operation into Afrin last week, saying “No to war, peace immediately.”
Turkey must make contact with al-Assad regime in Syria: CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu
MESOP NEWS : TURKISH CHP VOTES FOLLOWS PUTIN & VOTES PRO ASSAD / PKK/PYD WILL FOLLOW SOONER OR LATER
Serkan Demirtaş – ANKARA – Hurriyet – 29 Jan 2018 – Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has called on the Turkish government to engage with the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, amid the Turkish military’s ongoing operation in Afrin.
MESOP NEWS : NATO LEADERS NEED TO HAVE A FRANK TALK WITH TURKEY’S PRESIDENT – BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) – by Soner Cagaptay – Washington Post – January 26, 2018 – Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, and author of The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey.
By helping Erdogan break his authoritarian habit now, Washington and Paris can prevent the nightmare scenario of a Turkey crippled by its own self-destructive tendencies.
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