MESOP NEWS : ERDOGAN CONTRA UNITED STATES
We told US we won’t ask anyone if YPG provokes us: Erdoğan
ISTANBUL – HURRIYET 3. June 2017 – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that Ankara told the United States that it won’t ask anyone before responding if an attack or a provocation from the the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) takes place against Turkey.
“We told the U.S. that we won’t discuss the issue with anyone and make our own decision if a provocation or an attack takes place against us from northern Syria,” Erdoğan said during his speech in a meeting of Independent Industrial and Business Association (MÜSİAD) on June 3 in Istanbul, as he added that the U.S. wants to carry out an operation in Raqqa against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with YPG and the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER : ERDOGAN’S WELL ARRANGED COUP ! – Turkish army received key intelligence prior to coup: Former aide to chief of general staff
Mesut Hasan Benli – ANKARA – 4 June 2017 – HURRIYET – The army received two key pieces of intelligence on November 2015 and February 2016 about a possible upcoming coup attempt, Orhan Yıkılgan, the former top aide to Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, has testified in his defense, claiming that it was a “strategic mistake to not take necessary measures”
“A report arrived in November 2015. It was a report about something like the possibility of a coup attempt similar to what ended up happening on July 15, 2016. Work was carried out about it. Second Chief Yaşar Güler initiated work [to investigate] whether there was such a possibility or not. It was ultimately decided that there could not be any event at that scale,” Yıkılgan said on May 2, speaking at the ongoing trial of events that took place at the General Staff Headquarters during the July 2016 coup attempt.
“After that, in February 2016 there were something that I took seriously and I conveyed it to the generals because it was serious,” he added.
MESOP NEWS “RUBBISH” : DENIZ YUCEL THE SPY !? – Henri Barkey
3 June 2017 – Turkish FM Cavusoglu says jailed T-German journalist Deniz Yucel is a German secret service agent. What a genius!
FM Çavuşoğlu: European secret services use journalists to undermine Turkey
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has said that European intelligence agencies co-opt members… dailysabah.com https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2017/05/29/fm-cavusoglu-european-secret-services-use-journalists-to-undermine-turkey
MESOP NEWS TODAYS RELEVANT COMMENTARY BY SONER CAGAPTEY
Expert OPINION – Did Trump Give Erdogan License to Kill PKK Militants Inside Iraq?
May 24, 2017 | Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute. He has written extensively on U.S.-Turkish relations, Turkish domestic politics, and Turkish nationalism. His most recent book is “The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Washington last week to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. Despite budding tensions over the Trump administration’s decision to arm the Kurdish YPG (Peoples’ Protection Units) militia in Syria, which Erdogan considers to be a terrorist organization, the meeting largely went off without a hitch. The Cipher Brief’s Fritz Lodge spoke with Soner Cagaptay, Director of the Turkish Research Program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of “The New Sultan,” about how we should read the result of this first meeting between the two leaders.
The Cipher Brief: What was your reaction to the to the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to Washington last week?
MESOP NEWS : ARTICLE BY AMBERIN ZAMAN / IRAN’S PKK !
31May 2017 – Still trying to figure this one out #Iran blames #Turkey for #PKK-affiliate clash on border on @AlMonitor #PJAK #YPG – Iran blames Turkey for PKK-affiliate clash on border
An Iranian Kurdish militia’s attack on Iranian border guards has further muddled the often co… al-monitor.com – http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/iranian-kurdish-militia-attacks-iran-border-guards.html
MESOP NEWS : Turkish Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for HDP Spokesperson
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
Mira Rojkan – 31/05/2017 – 00:50 – Hurriyet – Turkish Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for HDP Spokesperson – LEEDS — The Spokesperson of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Osman Baydemir was issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday by Turkish authorities. A Turkish court announced they have issued an arrest warrant for HDP’s spokesperson, after he failed to attend a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday morning, according to the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News.
MESOP NEWS INSIGHT : Wurde der Putsch von Erdogan kontrolliert? / Hakan Fidan sagt nicht aus / MICHAEL RUBIN’S KOMMENTAR (AEI)
30 Mai 2017 – Die Spitzen von türkischer Armee und Geheimdienst waren womöglich über Pläne für einen Aufstand informiert. Jetzt wird spekuliert, warum sie die Regierungsgegner gewähren ließen. Von Susanne Güsten
Wenn es nach der türkischen Regierung geht, gibt es keine Zweifel: Der Putschversuch des vergangenen Sommers wurde auf Befehl des Predigers Fethullah Gülen ausgeführt, und der Plan scheiterte am beherzten Widerstand von Präsident Recep Tayyip Erdogan und vieler Normalbürger auf den Straßen des Landes. Fast ein Jahr nach der Putschnacht vom 15. Juli kommen aber neue Fragen auf: Aussagen eines Informanten des Geheimdienstes und Stellungnahmen mutmaßlicher Putschisten vor Gericht legen nahe, dass Ankara frühzeitig über die Putschpläne informiert war, den Umsturzversuch aber nicht verhinderte. Westliche Geheimdienste denken ähnlich.
MESOP NEWS TÜRKEY : HAKAN FIDAN WILL NICHT REDEN ! ERDOGAN’S PUTSCH!
31 Mai 2017 – MESOP – Aktuelle Aussagen eines Geheimdienstinformanten und mutmaßlicher Putschisten vor türkischen Gerichten bestärken die von vielen Insidern geteilte Vermutung, dass Präsident Erdoğan frühzeitig über die Putschpläne informiert war, den Umsturzversuch aber nicht verhindert hat. Die beharrliche Weigerung des Geheimdienstchefs Hakan Fidan und des Generalstabschefs Hulusi Akar, vor dem Parlamentsausschuss auszusagen, wirft weitere Fragen auf, zumal beide, bislang unbestritten, am Nachmittag des 15. Juli über den bevorstehenden Putschversuch informiert waren. Wenn aber alle Sicherheitskräfte rechtzeitig gewarnt worden wären, hätte das Blutvergießen mit fast 300 Toten verhindert werden können. Mehr: www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS TODAYS GENERAL COMMENTARY : ERDOGAN ISOLATED ALL-AROUND !
EU countries move to block Turkey from hosting NATO summit: report / The alliance meets in June to finalize the location of next year’s summit.
By Saim Saeed – POLITICO – 31 May 2017 – Eighteen EU countries and Canada will fight for Belgium to host the 2018 NATO summit instead of Turkey, Die Welt reported Wednesday.According to the German paper, a group of European countries in the military alliance led by Germany, France, the Netherlands and Denmark “vehemently” oppose the annual summit being held in Turkey after a downturn in relations between the EU and Istanbul.
MESOP NEWS MESSAGE : NOBODY NEEDS PKK / ONLY HDP IS NEEDED !
Turkish opposition calls for Syrian Kurds to break with PKK
Republican People’s Party says Turkey could open relations with the Syrian Kurds if they break from the militant organisation
Alex MacDonald – 30 May 2017 – MIDDLE EAST EYE – Turkey’s main opposition party has called on the Syrian Kurds to disaffiliate themselves from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) so that Turkey could begin a process of opening relations. Ozturk Yilmaz, deputy chair of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), said that were the Democratic Union Party (PYD) to break with the PKK, who are involved in a long-running war with the Turkish state, then it would make relations between Ankara and the US easier with regards to a joint operation to tackle the Islamic State group in northern Syria. “US officials are trying to give the impression that the cooperation with the PYD is just tactical and temporary. They are trying not to alienate Turkey,” he told reporters in Washington over the weekend.
“We say this: If the PYD says ‘I condemn the PKK and do not support its activities, I have no ties to the PKK,’ this could prove a way forward.”
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