MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER: Turkey, Iran could unite to overcome their Kurdish worries
Metin Gurcan October 10, 2017 – AL MONITOR – The emerging Iran-Turkey rapprochement, driven by their mutual desire to contain the Kurds, has led to agreements on military cooperation, but the odds appear to be against a formal military alliance. It has not quite been eight months since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan riled Tehran by referring to Iranian expansionism as “Persian nationalism.” That televised statement earned the Turkish ambassador a summons to the Iranian Foreign Ministry to receive a strongly worded protest. Long-standing regional competition between Ankara and Tehran has, however, begun to show the first signs of a rapprochement during the ongoing crisis between Qatar and a Saudi-led Arab coalition, in which Turkey backs Qatar. In addition, the Sept. 25 independence referendum held by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has resulted in the Ankara-Tehran relationship quickly assuming features of military-security cooperation. The question now is whether their converging military-security interests will be formalized.
Three meetings provide insight into the rapprochement and its future direction: the Aug. 14-15 visit of Iranian Chief of Staff Gen. Mohammad Bagheri to Ankara; the Oct. 1-4 visit to Tehran by Turkish Chief of the General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar; and the Oct. 4 visit to Tehran by Erdogan.
MESOP NEWS TODAYS OPINION BY SONER CAGAPTEY
TURKEY AND U.S. ENTER MOST IMPORTANT CRISIS IN RECENT MEMORY
Featuring Soner Cagaptay – The Cipher Brief – October 10, 2017
Even if Erdogan strikes a deal to keep the crisis from boiling over, Washington has shown him that there are limits to U.S. tolerance of his authoritarian balancing act.
MESOP NEWS TODAYS ON THE AGENDA : Today’s Insight & EXPERT COMMENTARY
U.S. and Turkey Diplomatic Relations Reach Crisis Point | Fritz Lodge, The Cipher Brief
Relations between Turkey and the United States have hit a new low point with tit-for-tat visa suspensions after the arrest of a U.S. embassy employee.
Turkey and U.S. Enter Most Important Crisis in Recent Memory | Soner Cagaptay, Director, Turkish Research Program, Washington Institute
“I think the U.S. response was building up. Washington had taken issue with the arrests of U.S. citizens, including dual citizens, in Turkey in the aftermath of the coup. Turkey was denying the United States legal access to U.S. citizens.”
Serious Consequences of Halt in Visas Between Ankara and DC | James Jeffrey, Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Iraq
“The problem is that the approach that Turkey under [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan has taken, particularly in the post-coup investigation of networks connected to Fethullah Gulen, is to cast a wide net. This behavior is familiar to me from the 1980s and 1990s, pre-Erdogan Turkey. It’s basically that you’re guilty – or at least detainable – until proven innocent.”
MESOP NEWS : TURKEY NOT A TRIBAL STATE – Turkish PM Urges Resolution to Visa Dispute with US
Tuesday, 10 October, 2017 – Asharq Al-Awsat – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim urged on Tuesday an end to the dispute with the United States over the recent suspension of visa services between the two countries.”Turkey is not a tribal state, we will retaliate against what has been done in kind,” Yildirim told ruling AK Party parliamentarians.”We call on the United States to be more reasonable. The issue must of course be resolved as soon as possible,” he said, describing US behavior as “unbecoming” of an ally.
MESOP INTEL NEWS : WIE ERDOGAN’S MIT EINEN KURDENFÜHRER KIDNAPPEN WOLLTE / CEMIL BAYIK IM GRAUEN ANZUG
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
Türkischer Geheimdienst liefert Steilvorlage für Agententhriller
Die Jagd auf den Staatsfeind Nr. 1, Cemil Bayik, und andere MIT-Aktivitäten
Es ist eine wunderbare Vorlage für einen spannenden Agententhriller, was alles über den türkischen Geheimdienst MIT ans Licht kommt. Orte der Handlungen sind Nordirak, Syrien und Deutschland. Nimmt man ältere Vorkommnisse hinzu, kommt auch Frankreich ins Spiel.
Eine verpatzte, groß angelegte Operation gegen die PKK sollte die Erfolgsgeschichte für den mittlerweile auch international angeschlagenen türkischen Präsidenten im Kampf gegen die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK seit der Verhaftung des PKK-Vorsitzenden Abdullah Öcalan werden.Nun bemüht sich Erdogan, die Geschehnisse möglichst vor der internationalen Presse zu vertuschen. Aber das Nachrichtenportal Al-Monitor machte ihm einen Strich durch die Rechnung und verbreitete die Geschichte, die sich wie aus einem Agententhriller liest.
MESOP NEWS ECONOMY – Turkish Lira, Iranian Toman Drop Due to Anti-Kurdistan Stances
Basnews English – 09/10/2017 – ERBIL — Due to their opposition to the independence bid of the Kurdistan Region, the Turkish and Iranian currencies have significantly slumped against the US dollar.
MESOP NEWS DOCUMENTS : KNK (PKK) URGENT CALL
KNK – Rue Jean Stas 41, 1060 Bruxelles – URGENT CALL – 9 October 2017
We call on all democratic forces to condemn alleged state executions by the Turkish state.
The actions of Turkey must not be tolerated any longer and the United Nations, European Union, Council of Europe and all those who stand for democracy must condemn the actions of Turkey in the strongest terms.
MESOP NEWS LATEST : STOP OF US VISAS IN TURKEY
The US suspends issuing non-immigrant visas (i.e. most visas) in Turkey. Comes after the detention of a US consular employee.
MESOP NEWS “LOOSY TALKS” : Erdoğan, Macron discuss Iraq, Syria in phone call
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES – ISTANBUL – 7 Oct 2017 – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron held a phone call Saturday to discuss the current situation in Iraq and Syria.Erdoğan and Macron exchanged views on developments in the region, and strengthening bilateral ties between Turkey and France.The two leaders also stressed the importance of preserving Iraq and Syria’s territorial integrity in their phone call, presidential sources said.
MESOP NEWS Syria Daily: Is Turkey’s Erdoğan Bluffing Over Idlib “Landmark Operation”?
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – By Scott Lucas – eawolrdview – October 8, 2017 – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has proclaimed the imminent start of a “landmark operation” in Idlib Province in northwest Syria, but questions have already arisen about the claimed offensive against the jihadist bloc Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
Erdoğan told his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Saturday that Free Syrian rebels will move against HTS, which has taken control of parts of Idlib this summer in gains from the rebel faction Ahrar al-Sham. He presented the operation as a natural extension of Turkey’s intervention in August 2016, alongside the FSA, to take territory from the Islamic State in northern Aleppo Province, adjacent to Idlib.However, Erdoğan set an immediate limit on the offensive, saying there would be no Turkish ground involvement: “The FSA is currently carrying out the operation and our soldiers are not there.”
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