MESOP NEWS : PKK CASH – HURRIYET REPORT
PKK controls 80 percent of narcotics market in Europe, Europol & Turkish police says
ANKARA – 30 Aug 2017 – Hurriyet – The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) controls 80 percent of the narcotics market in Europe, according to a new Turkish police report. The report, titled “Turkey Drug Report,” states that the PKK earns $1.5 billion annually from heroin production in northern Iraq, daily Milliyet reported on Aug. 29.
Turkey is among the countries directly affected by the PKK’s drug network due to its geographical location and young population, while it also used by the group as a transit country, the report states.
MESOP NEWS CAMPAIGN : SAVE HASANKEY / TURKEY – KURDISTAN HERITAGE
30.08.2017 – Call to “2nd Hasankeyf Global Action Day” on 23 September 2017!
We call activists, social movements, NGO’s and all others in the world to join the second global action day for the defense of Hasankeyf and the Tigris River on 23rd September 2017! It is under threat by the Ilisu Project; lets protest this one of most controversial dams in the world!
MESOP NEWS INSIGHT TURKEY / AN ACTUAL SAMPLER (ERDOGAN NOW INTEL CHIEF)
28 Aug 2017 – MESOP – Erdogan Expands Powers, Continues Crackdown with New Decrees: According to reports, a new decree will expand President Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s powers over Turkey’s intelligence agency (MIT), as the president will oversee domestic and foreign intelligence gathering, and possess the final say over whether the MIT head may be investigated or act as a witness. A second decree continued the government’s crackdown on opposing voices, sacking hundreds of public servants and closing a number of news outlets. POMED nonresident senior fellow Howard Eissenstat called the moves “another day in the state of emergency.”
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-idUSKCN1B50FM?utm_source=Project+on+Middle+East+Democracy+-+All+Contacts&utm_campaign=6f60621f89-Weekly_Wire_170814&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_75a06056d7-6f60621f89-215945965
- http://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-tightens-grip-on-intelligence-agency/?utm_source=Project+on+Middle+East+Democracy+-+All+Contacts&utm_campaign=6f60621f89-Weekly_Wire_170814&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_75a06056d7-6f60621f89-
- https://twitter.com/heissenstat/status/901039816380477441?utm_source=Project+on+Middle+East+Democracy+-+All+Contacts&utm_campaign=6f60621f89-Weekly_Wire_170814&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_75a06056d7-6f60621f89-215945965
MESOP NEWS SUMMARY – Turkey Crackdown Chronicle: Week of August 20, 2017
By Özgür Öğret/CPJ Turkey Representative on August 21, 2017 – New decree used to shutter three pro-Kurdish outlets The Turkey government shuttered three more pro-Kurdish media outlets yesterday, using a new decree issued under the state of emergency that has been in place since the failed attempted coup last year, the daily Cumhuriyet reported. Decree 693 was used to shutter the Dihaber news agency, the news website Gazete Sujin, and the Kurdish-language daily Rojava Medya. The same decree was used to allow Radyo 59, a local radio station from the western province of Tekirdağ, to start operating again. The station had been shuttered since January 2017.
Police detain newspaper employee at roadblock
MESOP NEWS HEUTE : DIE CHUZPE DER ALLERUNVERSCHÄMTESTEN KREATUR = MARTIN SCHULZ !
ER !, der jahrelang in Brüssel dafür gesorgt hat, daß jede Kritik an der Türkei + alle möglichen Massnahmen gegen Erdogan im Sand verliefen, ER, der wie keiner an den Beitrittsgesprächen festhielt + weitere Kapitel pro Türkei öffnen wollte – ausgerechnet diese Kreatur will nun ein paar Wählerstimmen dafür bekommen, daß er so wunderbar verlogen ist. www.mesop.de
Schulz fordert Ultimatum für Erdoğan
ZEIT ONLINE
Im Streit um die in der Türkei inhaftierten Deutschen drängt der SPD-Kanzlerkandidat auf eine Frist. Falls Erdoğan nicht einlenkt, solle die EU …
Schulz will der Türkei ein Ultimatum stellen – RP ONLINE
Schulz dringt bei Gefangenen auf Frist – Deutschlandfunk
Schulz dringt im Gefangenen-Streit mit Türkei auf Frist – Stuttgarter Nachrichten
MESOP NEWS TODAYS OPINION – Die Angeber-Politik – FEHIM TASTEKIN
Der Al Monitor – Journalist Fehim Taştekin über die diplomatischen Besuche des türkischen Außenministers im Iran und dem Irak / 26.08.2017
Unter dem Begriff der „Angeber”-Politik meine ich das „Kasımpaşa”-artige Auftreten türkischer Politiker auf internationalem Parkett – sowohl verbal als auch gestisch. Dies gilt insbesondere für die Zeit des „Arabischen Frühlings”, als die Regierung so tat als könne sie die Geschehnisse im Mittleren Osten lenken und somit all ihre Verbündete irritierte.
MESOP NEWS FOCUS : HAVE US PROMISED TO STOP ALL ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO PKK/PYD-YPG ?
Turkish PM Says Further U.S. Support to Kurdish YPG Will Cause Problems
2017-08-26 – ANKARA (Reuters) — Any additional support given by the United States to Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters will cause problems for Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was quoted as saying on Friday. Speaking to reporters on his return flight from Vietnam, Yildirim also said Turkey was working in cooperation with Russia and Iran in Syria, and there should be no reason for the United States and Turkey to be on opposite sides.
MESOP NEWS : ON DISTANCE TO EU – ERDOGAN MOVES EAST
Iran, Turkey move to re-establish role as regional backbone
Ali Hashem August 23, 2017 – AL MONITOR – Despite their major differences over key regional crises in past years, shared threats and shared objectives are once again pushing Iran and Turkey together.
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran and Turkey are among the oldest rivals in the Middle East. This rivalry between the former Ottoman and Persian empires has calmed in recent decades, yet, with the spark of the Arab Spring, the two nations with opposing alliances revived their bitter race for influence and power in the region.
MESOP INTEL NEWS : WHAT DID MATTIS PROMISED ERDOGAN ? KILLING OF CEMIL BAYIK (PKK)?
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
24 Aug 2017 – “Some [U.S.] administration officials have floated the idea of assassinating PKK leaders, notably Cemil Bayik”
Kyle OrtonVerified account @KyleWOrton 6h6 hours ago – Replying to @KyleWOrton
#Shock: “YPG would more likely break off its relationship with the United States than that with the PKK, a YPG commander told Al-Monitor”
Kyle OrtonVerified account @KyleWOrton 6h6 hours ago – Replying to @KyleWOrton
U.S. intel sharing and help killing PKK leaders won’t undo the political legitimacy its Syria policy is giving PKK, which matters far more.
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