NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) : ERDOGAN’S NEXT STEPS ! 2018
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| • President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has been conducting a vigorous purge within his governing party, pledging a “serious renewal.” |
| 26 Dec 2017 – Most of those who were pushed out had failed to deliver a yes vote during the April referendum that approved constitutional changes that would give Mr. Erdogan expanded powers if he is re-elected. |
| (Political rivals suggest that Mr. Erdogan may even be preparing to call early elections in July, if it appears that his popularity is slipping.) Read New York Times Backgrounder: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-mayors.html?emc=edit_mbe_20171226&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1&mtrref=undefined&gwh=E5D60A51CA67FF1A811336EEDEB22341&gwt=pay |
MESOP NEWS : ERDOGAN DER ALLEIN-ADMINISTRATOR – Türkei : Erdogan entlässt erneut 2756 Beamte
Handelsblatt – 24 Dec 2017 – Wie aus zwei am Sonntag veröffentlichten Dekreten der türkischen Regierung hervorgeht, handelt es sich dabei unter anderen um 637 Militärbedienstete, 360 Mitglieder der Gendarmerie sowie 150 Akademiker und weitere Hochschulmitarbeiter. Die Regierung ließ außerdem zwei lokale Zeitungen, …
Über 2.700 Staatsdiener in Türkei entlassen – ZDFheute
Türkei: Weitere 2.700 Entlassungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Putschversuch – RT Deutsch / Entlassung Hunderter Staatsbediensteter – Stuttgarter Nachrichten
MESOP NEWS DETAILED REPORT : In Turkey, Repression of the Kurdish Language Is Back
By Constanze Letsch – THE NATION – 2017-12-21 – The space in the office is cramped. The walls are adorned with posters of sports cars and advertisements for insurance companies. Books cover the tables. Sami Tan, a linguist and a lecturer of Kurdish, apologizes for the improvised setting and the lack of more comfortable chairs. After the Turkish government shuttered the Kurdish Institute in Istanbul–an association that has taught and promoted Kurdish-language study for nearly 25 years–he and the other staff have moved into the available offices of a driving school in the same building.
Trump’s National Security Strategy is bad news for Turkey
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER : By CANSU ÇAMLIBEL – HURRIYET
21 Dec 2017 – After almost a year in office, U.S. President Donald Trump will unveil his first National Security Strategy (NSS) on Dec. 18. It may be full of bad news for Turkey.
We learned something about the forthcoming release of the document from a key official who actually put it together with his team, national security adviser General H.R. McMaster. In a speech in Washington last week at a London-based think tank, McMaster called the 70-page document a “dramatic rethinking of American foreign policy from previous decades.”
MESOP ANALYSIS : Uneasy Rests the Crown: Erdoğan and ‘Revolutionary Security’ In Turkey
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By Howard Eissenstat is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Project on Middle East Democracy and Associate Professor of Middle East History at St. Lawrence University.
20 Dec 2017 – In a new POMED Snapshot, “Uneasy Rests the Crown: Erdoğan and ‘Revolutionary Security’ in Turkey,” Nonresident Senior Fellow Howard Eissenstat explores how the Turkish government under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is remaking security structures to ensure loyalty and to maintain political control.
- Anxious to secure himself against another attempted coup or assassination, Erdoğan has politicized security institutions, given new prominence to paramilitary organizations and militant political clubs, and mobilized his own base to defend him.
Turkey and two Middle Eastern ‘quasi-states’: Turkish relations with the Kurdistan Regional Government & the Palestinian National Authority
MESOP NEWS ANALYSIS : BY MOSHE DAYAN CENTER
18 Dec 2017 – Guest author Dr. Francis Owtram analyzes Turkey’s foreign policy vis-à-vis the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Palestinian Authority. Author: Francis OwtramIntroduction
Although International Relations is conventionally conceived as the study of states in the international system, growing attention has focused in recent years on the role of non-state actors. Specifically, it has centered on the number of state-like entities and their place in interacting with established, recognized states. A number of different terms have been given to these state-like entities: quasi states, de facto states, unrecognized states and in the context of federalism, sub-state units.[1]
MESOP NEWS LATEST: BOMBER ERDOGAN !
HPG statement on Turkish airstrikes on Medya Defense Zones
HPG Press Center released a statement about Turkish army’s aerial bombardments against Medya Defense Zones. ANF/PKK – 16 Dec 2017
The statement by HPG Press Center listed the following details with regards to the Turkish airstrikes that targeted guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones on 14-15 December;
“At between 21:00 and 22:00 on December 14, Turkish warplanes shelled Kunişka area of Zap region. The same day, warplanes bombed Sıninê hamlet in Xınêre area.
At around 10:30 on December 15, Turkish jets shelled Kalatuka area of Qandil region.”
MESOP NEWS : KOPFGELD FÜR MICHAEL “The Chameleon” RUBIN (Ex- CIA MEMBER &V TRUSTEE OF THE AGENCY FOR KURDISH RELATIONS)
Türkei: Geschäftsmann setzt Kopfgeld in Höhe von 780.000 US-Dollar auf CIA- und Pentagonbeamte aus
15.12.2017 • 15:33 Uhr RUSSIA TODAY – Ein türkischer Geschäftsmann hat für Hinweise, die zur Ergreifung zweier früherer US-amerikanischer Spitzenbeamter führen, eine Belohnung in Höhe von 780.000 US-Dollar ausgesetzt. Die US-Amerikaner seien “Verräter, die sich in die Politik Ankaras einmischen”.
Die Belohnung für Informationen, die zur Verhaftung eines ehemaligen Spitzenbeamten der CIA namens Graham Fuller und eines ehemaligen Beamten des Pentagon mit dem Namen Michael Rubin führen, hat letzte Woche ein Anwalt im Auftrag des türkischen Geschäftsmanns ausgelobt, berichtete die türkische Zeitung Cumhuriyet.
MESOP NEWS : RELEVANT STUDY ! – Resuming Civic Activism in Turkey
Özge Zihnioğlu – Article – December 13, 2017 – CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
Summary: Despite a large-scale crackdown on civil society, groups in Turkey are adjusting their institutions and preserving their voices with a cautious eye to the future. The impact of Turkey’s democratic deterioration in recent years is manifest in the country’s civil society. A large-scale crackdown on civil society, coupled with the daunting state of emergency measures that the government has enacted, instills fear and uncertainty among many activists. People are shying away from civic activism, and the size, scope, and visibility of activist groups and their activities are waning.
Özge Zihnioğlu – Özge Zihnioğlu is an associate professor in the Department of International Relations at Istanbul Kültür University in Turkey.
MESOP NEWS : DICTATOR ERDOGAN – Turkish prosecutor wants opposition leader’s immunity scrapped
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Ayla Jean Yackley December 15, 2017 – AL MONITOR – Article Summary – A Turkish prosecutor filed a criminal complaint against Kemal Kilicdaroglu, chairman of the Republican People’s Party and anti-corruption crusader, potentially expanding a crackdown that has already targeted other members of the parliamentary opposition.
A Turkish prosecutor this week demanded parliament strip opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu of immunity from prosecution for comments he made about a controversial constitutional referendum, raising the specter that the government’s broad crackdown could now extend to its main political challenger.
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