MESOP TODAYS WASHINGTON NEWS COLLECTION / TURKEY & ERDOGAN
| 11 May 2017 – In striking criticism from a NATO ally, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, said he hoped the Trump administration would reverse its decision to arm a Syrian Kurdish militant group. |
| Mr. Erdogan’s prime minister said that the move would have “consequences” and that Mr. Erdogan would elaborate on those in his meeting with Mr. Trump next week at the White House. |
| In Syria, U.S.-backed militias claimed to have seized the town of Tabqa and the country’s largest dam from the Islamic State. |
- https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/world/middleeast/trump-arm-syrian-kurds-next-move-is-erdogans-turkey.html?emc=edit_mbe_20170511&nl=morning-briefing-europe&nlid=73143833&te=1&_r=0
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-tabqa-idUSKBN1862E4
MESOP NEWS : CANCEL WASHINGTON – FLY DIRECTLY TO MOSCOW
Final Question now is will Erdogan cancel his visit to Washington? twitter.com/SHeydemann/sta…
Ahead of Erdogan visit Trump administration approves arms forSyrian Kurds. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/05/09/in-blow-to-u-s-turkey-ties-trump-administration-approves-plan-to-directly-arm-syrian-kurds-against-islamic-state/ …
MESOP NEWS “CALL FOR ACTION!” : Hunger strike of teachers in Turkey at a critical stage! Please share!
Dear all!
this is an urgent call regarding the hungerstrikes, which are carried out in Turkey and reached a critical level…
* The teachers Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Özakca are on hungerstrike, because, same as thousands of public servants they were dismissed by emergency laws and now they struggle for their own and for the rights of all… They demand the end of the emergency state and were taken into custody and tortured for almost a hundred times.
But they continue..
Today is their 62nd day of hungerstrike and their health situation has become really seriously!
MESOP NEWS : MORE WALLS / MORE FENCES – Turkey to Build Wall on Turkish-Iranian Border
Abdulkadir Selvi – ANKARA – 9 May 2017 – Hurriyet Daily News. Turkey.
Turkey is planning to build a wall along the Turkish-Iranian border as part of measures against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), according to a high-level official. “The PKK has the Maku, Dambat, Navur, Kotr, Keneresh and Şehidan camps inside Iran near the Turkish border. There are some 800-1,000 PKK terrorists in those camps. They enter Turkey, carry out attacks and leave,” an official told daily Hürriyet on May 8, adding that they escape to those camps when security operations are conducted in the eastern province of Ağrı and the Mount Tendürek region.
MESOP NEWS SEVERE QUESTION : Who and where is the PKK member KDP handed over to Turkey?
PKK member Doctor Aydın was arrested by the KDP in Zakho 14 months ago. The Turkish Intelligence Agency (MIT) was present in the interrogation and torture of Doctor Aydın.
ANF – AMED DİCLE NEWS DESK Sunday, 7 May 2017, – Turkish media has recently published manipulative reports suggesting that a PKK member code named Doctor Aydın was captured by the Turkish military unit ‘Maroon Berets’ in Southern Kurdistan. Information on when Doctor Aydın was ‘captured’ and where he is being kept currently is not given in the news articles that were prepared at a center (as usual) and distributed to all media outlets. The only information is that Doctor Aydın is ‘being questioned.’
MESOP CULTURE : A POEM BY SELAHATTIN DEMIRTAS FRO PRISON
HDP Co-chair Mr. Selahattin Demirtaş’s Poem Has Been banned!
Contagious Courage
They’ll say ‘silence!’
And, they’ll say ‘no colors!’
You would have been rising up in joy,
But they’ll say ‘no roses should blossom’
Then, let’s laugh so that your revolt does not get orphaned.
And, if that’s a crime; then, let it be…
May the smile of people remain fadeless.
They’ll say ‘the sun should not rise!’
And, they’ll pull a gun on hope.
But you will have been rising up in speed.
They’ll put the blame on you.
Then, let’s run so that your revolt does not get lonely!
And, if that’s a crime, then, let it be…
Don’t drive people crazy!
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MESOP NEWS “TRY AGAIN & AGAIN”: Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP to elect new co-leader
By Rudaw 2 hours ago – 4 May 2017 – ANKARA, Turkey— The pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party in Turkey (HDP) is set to elect a new co-leader to replace Figen Yüksekdağ whose parliamentary membership was revoked by the Turkish supreme court in February after being sentenced to one year in prison earlier on terror-related charges.
HDP’s other co-leader Selahettin Demirtas along with nine other party officials, many of them members of parliament, remain in custody pending trial.
The party is now preparing to introduce Filiz Kerestecioğlu as the next co-leader who will be voted for the new post. Kerestecioğlu, 56, is an MP and head of the HDP block in the Turkish parliament, according to Turkish media which quoted sources inside the party Wednesday. The party will host a meeting this weekend to officially discuss and nominate a replacement who will become the party’s candidate when HDP holds its upcoming congress.
MESOP BACKGROUNDER : ERDOGAN PAVES THE WAY TO PUTIN’S “EURASIA ASSOCIATION”
Turkey to hold ‘Brexit-like’ vote, Erdogan says
By Andrew Rettman – THE EU OBSERVER – BRUSSELS, 2. May, 09:21
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeated his threat to hold a referendum on breaking off EU accession talks.He issued the threat amid a series of anti-EU jibes while visiting India and Pakistan in a show of his ambition to make Turkey a leading power in the Islamic world.“After some time, Turkey will choose the next path of a Brexit-like referendum,” he told WION, an Indian TV station, in an interview broadcast on Sunday (1 May), referring to Britain’s vote, last year, to exit the EU.Asked when the EU referendum would take place, he said: “We have not decided yet. We will discuss it in parliament, and if need be, turn to the people”.
MESOP NEWS INDEPTH “NEW CRISIS GROUP REPORT” NUSAYBIN
2 May 2017 – Executive Summary
Nusaybin, a political stronghold of the Kurdish movement bordering Syria, is among Turkey’s urban south-eastern districts that saw unprecedented levels of violence in 2016. Particularly in the wake of the failed July coup attempt and in the run-up to the 2017 presidential system referendum, emergency rule conditions resulted in the arrest and/or removal from office of elected representatives of the legal Kurdish political movement. While conflict fatigue can be observed in this town where 30,000 lost their homes, so can a distinct sense that a political solution is not in sight. Ankara’s effort to meet residents’ basic needs and compensate their material losses is notable, but managing the conflict’s social/political fallout and addressing grievances of Kurdish movement supporters will be crucial if that marginalised constituency is not to be left more susceptible to mobilisation by the insurgent Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and drawn toward violence. Read all https://www.crisisgroup.org/europe-central-asia/western-europemediterranean/turkey/243-managing-turkeys-pkk-conflict-case-nusaybin?utm_source=Sign+Up+to+Crisis+Group%27s+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=d15b219cde-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1dab8c11ea-d15b219cde-359325709
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER: ERDOGAN’S COMPLICATED WAY TO GO EASTWARDS !
Why Does Turkey Want to Join the Eurasian Union? – By Areg Galstyan – American Thinker – 2017-05-01
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu states that Ankara and Moscow have come to an agreement on the purchase of the Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defense system. A number of Russian experts close to the Kremlin note that reaching agreement on this issue is a positive step before the upcoming meeting between the presidents Erdogan and Putin in the Russian city of Sochi. This deal symbolizes a new stage in the crisis in relations between Ankara, Washington, and Brussels. Moreover, it is an evidence of strengthening Russian-Turkish relations. However, in order to understand the logic of these processes, it is necessary to analyze the political background and geopolitical configurations that have been developing in the region and in the world.
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