MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN’S DUDE – Transparency International calls for full probe of claims by Turkish mafia boss
- Jun 18 2021 02:32 Gmt+3 AHVAL NEWS – Turkey should fully investigate allegations by mafia boss Sedat Peker of illegal activities in politics, the bureaucracy and the business world, Transparency International said.
“These claims should be investigated by independent judicial organs and probed by an investigatory commission of the parliament” to establish their accuracy, the international anti-corruption body said in a statement on Twitter on Friday.
Turkish officials have denied or ignored a multitude of claims made by Peker about dirty relations between the state, the underworld and several Turkish companies. Peker, 49, is in exile and has aired the allegations in a series of videos published on YouTube since early May.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE LAST CHAPTER OF PKK ? – Kemal Şaho (PKK) : Der Erfolg wird uns gehören, nicht dem Feind – Kurdistan
Der YRK-Kämpfer Kemal Şaho weist darauf hin, dass sich die Angriffe auf Kurdistan nicht nur im militärischen, sondern auch im kulturellen Bereich abspielen. Er fordert die Jugend zum Widerstand auf.
- MEDYA HAWAR ŞAHO Samstag, 19 Jun 2021, 11:33 – Kemal Şaho, Mitglied der Verteidigungseinheiten Ostkurdistans (YRK), wurde in der Region Hewraman im Grenzgebiet von Süd- und Ostkurdistan geboren und schloss sich später der Guerilla in seiner Heimatregion an. Die jüngsten Angriffe der türkischen Armee sieht er als Teil einer gegen die Kurden gerichteten Vernichtungspolitik:
„Mit diesen Angriffen soll der Wille aller freien Kurden gebrochen werden.
Wir beobachten in allen vier Teilen Kurdistans eine Zunahme der Angriffe auf unser Land.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SPECIAL : U.S., Turkey to continue dialogue on S-400 missile dispute
- Ahval – Jun 18 2021 09:17 Gmt+3 -The United States and Turkey will hold further discussions to help resolve a dispute over Turkey’s acquisition of S-400 air defence missiles from Russia, a top U.S official said.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan failed to agree on a solution during a meeting on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on Monday.
The issue has dogged relations between the two governments, led to sanctions against Turkey’s defence procurement agency and contributed to a slump in the value of the Turkish lira.
“There was not a resolution of the issue. There was a commitment to continue the dialogue on the S-400. And the two teams will be following up on that coming out of the meeting,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Advisor, told reporters in a phone call on Thursday.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Biden may set aside problems with Erdoğan, ex-envoy to Turkey says
- Jun 16 2021 09:40 Gmt+3 AHVAL NEWS – U.S. President Joe Biden may put aside disagreements with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as the two leaders attempt to improve a fractured relationship, said James Jeffrey, a former U.S. envoy to Turkey.
Biden and Erdoğan met at a NATO summit in Brussels on Monday to discuss a series of bilateral disagreements. They include U.S. support for Kurdish militants in Iraq, which Jeffrey said would continue so long as U.S. troops remained in the country.
Turkey’s acquisition of S-400 air defence missiles from Russia in 2019 have resulted in congressionally mandated sanctions against its defence industry and Turkey’s exclusion from a programme to purchase the F-35 stealth fighter jet. The latter was a “big military loss” for the country, Jeffrey told CBS News in an interview on Tuesday.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “EASTWARDS” : Erdoğan turns from NATO summit to promoting regional cooperation with Russia
Jun 16 2021 11:35 Gmt+3 AHVAL NEWS – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has outlined plans to set up a regional cooperation platform with Russia after attending a summit of NATO’s leaders on Monday.
The platform, which would also include Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, would guarantee regional stability, Erdoğan said, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Tuesday.
“We are willing to make all kinds of sacrifices, Mr. Putin as well,” Erdoğan said at press conference with Azeri President İlham Aliyev in the town of Shusha in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. “With the steps to be taken in this regard, the region will become a peace zone.”
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS RESULTS : Erdogan says held ‘fruitful, sincere’ talks with Biden
afp / MESOP BRUSSELS,— 15 June 2021 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he held a “fruitful and sincere” meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels.
“We believe there is no problem that cannot be resolved in Turkey-US relations,” Erdogan added after holding his first meeting with Biden since his election.
Relations between the two NATO allies nosedived after Turkey’s purchase of a Russian S-400 missile defence system that the US believes can be used to spy on Western defences.
Erdogan announced no progress on the S-400 dispute. Washington imposed sanctions on Turkey’s military procurement agency for the purchase last year.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : EUROPES PKK BOSS STATEMENT IN BRUSSELS – PKK ‘ready for dialogue’ with KDP: KCK board member
Karwan Faidhi Dri @KarwanFaidhiDri RUDAW
On June 5, two teams from a Peshmerga mine-clearing unit were traveling in the Amedi region of northern Duhok province. They came under attack and five were killed in possible rocket fire. The Peshmerga ministry blamed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying their teams had fallen into a PKK trap on Mount Metina. The president of the Kurdistan Region called for a “limit” on the PKK in the Kurdistan Region.
The PKK denied they fired the fatal strike, but admitted to firing into the air, warning shots as the Peshmerga neared their position. The PKK is engaged in clashes with the Turkish army which launched two military operations against the PKK in northern Duhok province in April.
Relations between the PKK and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the ruling party in Duhok, have been tense for decades. The five Peshmerga deaths was the latest incident stoking fears of an intra-Kurdish war.
A senior official in a PKK umbrella organization said the group is “ready for dialogue” with the KDP.
“We want all the issues between Kurdish parties and organizations to be resolved through dialogue,” Zubeyir Aydar, a member of the board of directors of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), told Rudaw in an interview two days before the Peshmerga were killed.
War between Kurds “is a red line,” he said.
The following is a translation of the full interview conducted on June 3, 2021. weiterlesen / click to continue
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS AFTER BIDEN : LIRA = DOWN DOWN DOWN !
Turkish lira falls after Erdoğan tells Biden position on S-400s unchanged
- Ahval Jun 15 2021 10:05 Gmt+3 – Turkey’s lira fell against the dollar after talks between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to dash hopes that Turkey was prepared to relinquish S-400 air defence missiles purchased from Russia.
The lira fell 1.1 percent to 8.55 per dollar in Istanbul, adding to losses of 0.9 percent on Monday.
Speaking after the meeting at a NATO summit in Brussels, Erdoğan signalled that Turkey’s position had not changed on a political impasse that has led to U.S. sanctions on its defence industry.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ‘Authoritarian’ Turkey must take precedence over Russia, China in NATO summit – analyst
Jun 14 2021 07:52 Gmt+3 – AHVAL NEWS REPORT –
During Monday’s NATO summit, members of the alliance will most likely discuss, among other things, how they can deal with challenges posed by authoritarian powers like Russia and China. However, they must first deal with Turkey, an authoritarian state within NATO, wrote Blaise Misztal in The National Interest on Sunday.
Throughout his 19 years in power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan convinced three U.S. presidents that his country was “crucial to achieving U.S. interests in the Middle East,” wrote Misztal, vice president for Policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA).
The Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations consequently came to believe that Erdoğan was a valuable partner for everything in the Middle East, from democracy promotion, helping fight the Islamic State, and countering Iran.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS RESULTS : Erdogan’s meeting with Biden more spin than substance
The two leaders’ first meeting as heads of state led to detailed discussions, but there were no breakthroughs.
Amberin Zaman AL MONITOR – June 14, 2021 – The long-awaited meeting today between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Joe Biden went pretty much as expected, with none of the big issues poisoning ties between the NATO allies getting resolved. The two leaders both said the 90-minute-long encounter on the margins of the NATO summit in Brussels had gone “very well” — Erdogan went as far as to claim that “We think that there are no issues within US-Turkey ties [that are unsolvable] and that areas of cooperation for us are greater than [our] problems.” However, Erdogan’s comments during a subsequent news conference offered little in the way of proof.
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