MESOP NEWS RELEVANT : KATI PIRI – EU BRUSSELS PARLIAMENT RAPPORTEUR ON TURKEY / PRAISES PKK / PYD (AHVAL 28 Jan 2018)
Piri: ‘PKK is not a threat for us but ISIS is’ / Read full speech
Turkey and the European Union have different priorities when it comes to Syria as Europe is not targeted by Kurdish militants, but by Islamic State, while the Turkish government has never seen the extreme jihadist group as its biggest threat, the European Parliament’s Turkey rapporteur Kati Piri told Ahval in an interview.
The Dutch member of parliament also said that if Turkey did move to an executive presidential system next year that was approved in a referendum, a red line would be crossed and there was no point in continuing Turkey’s accession talks. She said Turkey needed to show progress on the issue of human rights if any progress was to be made in updating its customs union with the bloc.
Turkish government officials have said that any opposition to Turkey’s military operation in the Afrin district of Syria will be considered support for terrorism. What kind of effect do you think the operation will have on freedom of expression in Turkey?
MESOP NEWS TODAYS QUOTATION OF THE DAY – Turkey Parliament Speaker calls offensive against Syria Kurds ‘jihad’
28 Jan 2018 – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, later in the day, said the YPG, Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK… kurdistan24.net – http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/1f4b98cc-3304-4f26-9bf1-015736d7c283
MESOP NEWS : ERDOGAN RUNS MAD- WHILE PUTIN ASKS FOR A TURKEY OUT OF NATO
Türkei fordert Abzug von US-Truppen
SPIEGEL ONLINE 28 Jan 2018 – Die Türkei stört sich an der Stationierung von US-Soldaten in der syrischen Stadt Manbidsch. “Sie müssen sich unverzüglich aus Manbidsch zurückziehen”, sagte der türkische Außenminister Mevlüt Cavusoglu. Manbidsch ist rund hundert Kilometer von der nordsyrischen Region Afrin entfernt, wo die …
Sputnik-Exklusiv: Könnte Türkei ohne Nato-Waffenlieferungen bestehen? – Sputnik Deutschland /
Ein völkerrechtswidriger Angriffskrieg – Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Erdogan kann in Syrien kaum Land gewinnen – n-tv.de NACHRICHTEN
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/syrien-tuerkei-fordert-us-abzug-aus-manbidsch-a-1190140.html
https://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20180127319258232-tuerkischer-bruch-mit-nato/
MESOP NEWS TODAYS QUOTATION OF THE DAY
MESOP NEWS DECLARATIONS : PKK&PYD ARE TWINS – AND APO IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat 4h4 hours ago – 27 Ja 2018 – I have never met anybody in the US government who doesn’t know that the #YPG is an extension of the #PKK.
MESOP NEWS TODAYS DECLARATION – AFRIN / STATEMENT BY PKK LEADER MURAT KARAYILAN
AHMET TURK SPEECH IN GERMAN DW (DEUTSCHE WELLE)
PKK leader questions world’s stance on Turkey’s Afrin operation
By Rudaw – 27 Jan 2018 – PKK leader and executive council member Murat Karayilan.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A PKK leader has condemned Turkey’s offensive in Afrin as racially-motivated and part of its larger problem with the Kurdish nation. He questioned how world leaders can say they understand Ankara’s concerns.
MESOP NEWS PKK/PYD INCOME GENERATING ? Turkish Police Bust PYD-linked Assyrian Artifacts Smuggling Ring in Istanbul
Istanbul police detained nine suspects who were trying to smuggle ancient Sumerian jewelry dating back 3,500-years, Assyrian and Akkadian seals, as well as Ottoman and Seljuk artifacts illegally obtained from the PKK-linked Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Daesh-controlled land in Syria and Iraq and use the proceedings for the PYD terrorist group, reports said Friday.According to reports, anti-smuggling unit of Istanbul Police identified a smuggling ring, which brought unlawfully raided artifacts in Iraq and Syria and was planning to sell them for the terrorist PYD, according to intelligence. After months of technical surveillance, police launched operations in five different regions in Istanbul, reports said.
Artifacts confiscated in the operations include war equipment belonging to prominent commanders in the Seljuk Empire, including Afşin, Atsız, Artuk and Aksungur, 152 pieces of gold jewelry from the Sumerian Civilization dating back to 3,500 B.C., as well as seals from the Assyrian and Akkadian Empires.
The seals had rare hieroglyphics from the Mesopotamian civilizations.
In addition, 78 artifacts from the Ottoman Empire and two artifacts from the Byzantine Empire, including a statue depicting Virgin Mary carrying Jesus on one side and Angel Gabriel on the other side, from the 8th century were also seized by the police.
A gold jewelry set from the Sumerian Empire is believed to have belonged to the royal family, reports noted.
The Mesopotamian artifacts were reportedly smuggled from Daesh-controlled lands, including Mosul and Babylonia in Iraq, Palmyra in Syria and other PYD-controlled lands.
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MESOP NEWS POLITICAL TEMPERATUR / TURKEY
26 Jan 2018 – Good piece on pro-military mood in Turkey by @aylajean another reminder that the core problem is unresolved PKK-Kurd issue in Turkey :
Most Turks welcome army’s incursion into Kurdish-controlled northern Syria – Many Turks are rallying behind the military operation launched over the weekend to undo the S…
al-monitor.com – www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS Syria Daily: Turkey & US Differ Over Trump-Erdoğan Phone Call About Afrin Offensive
By Scott Lucas – January 25, 2018 – eaworldview – Turkey and the US have differed sharply in their accounts of a phone call between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Donald Trump, about the Turkish-rebel offensive on the Kurdish canton of Afrin in northwest Syria.
A White House statement said, “[Trump] urged Turkey to deescalate, limit its military actions, and avoid civilian casualties. He urged Turkey to exercise caution and to avoid any actions that might risk conflict between Turkish and American forces.”According to the readout, Trump held the US line, set out since the start of the offensive, that Turkey should focus on the Islamic State.
Turkish officials immediately said
the statement “does not accurately reflect the content of President Erdoğan’s phone call with President Trump”.They declared that Trump “did not share any ‘concerns [about] escalating violence’ with regard to the ongoing military operation in Afrin”, summarizing that the discussion was “limited to an exchange of views”.
MESOP NEWS : ERKLÄRUNG DER DEUTSCHEN BUNDESREGIERUNG ZU SYRIEN/AFRIN SIGNALISIERT „SYMPATHIE MIT TÜRKEI“
24 Jan 2018 – tagesschau – Die Bundesregierung ist besorgt über die Kämpfe in Nordsyrien. Doch eine Sprecherin zeigte auch Verständnis für “legitime Sicherheitsinteressen an der Grenze zu Syrien”.
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