MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Biden-Administration ruft erstmals Erdogan an !

Der nationale Sicherheitsberater Jake Sullivan besprach  in einem Telefonat mit seinem türkischen Amtskollegen eine Reihe regionaler Themen.

Al-Monitor-Mitarbeiter  4 Febr 2021 –  Top-Berater des türkischen Präsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin sprach am Dienstag fast eine Stunde lang mit dem nationalen Sicherheitsberater von US-Präsident Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan, in der ersten offiziellen Kommunikation zwischen den NATO-Verbündeten seit dem Ausscheiden des ehemaligen Präsidenten Donald Trump.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : BIDEN KNOCKING AT ERDOGAN’S DOOR!

Biden administration makes first call to Turkey

National security adviser Jake Sullivan ran through a panoply of regional issues in a call with his Turkish counterpart.

Al-Monitor Staff Feb 3, 2021 – Top adviser to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ibrahim Kalin spoke with US President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan for nearly an hour on Tuesday in the first official communication between the NATO allies since former President Donald Trump left office.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INQUIRY : Turkish Militias and Proxies

Dr. Hay Eytan Cohen Yanarocak  –  Dr. Jonathan Spyer – Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and security

Erdoğan has created a private military and paramilitary system. He deploys this apparatus for domestic and foreign operations without official oversight.

27.01.2021 – Editorial note: This study, which reveals the extent to which Turkey aggressively deploys proxies and militias to project power across the Middle East, is the first fruit of a cooperation agreement between the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and TRENDS Research & Advisory of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The two institutes will continue to research together regional military and security issues. They also intend to conduct symposia and maintain academic exchange programs.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN WILL PRO KURDISCHE HDP VERBIETEN – EU SCHWEIGT !

Auf dem Weg zum HDP-Verbot?

Stand: 27.01.2021 13:03 Uhr – Seit ihren jüngsten Wahlerfolgen steht die prokurdische HDP immer stärker unter Druck. Viele Mandatsträger sind in Haft, und nun gibt es die Forderung nach einem Parteiverbot. – Von Oliver Mayer-Rüth, ARD-Studio Istanbul 

Seit Jahren ist die prokurdische Oppositionspartei HDP in der Türkei unter Druck. Als “Ungeziefer” wird sie aus dem Regierungsbündnis heraus beschimpft – und mittlerweile gibt es auch die Forderung nach einem Parteiverbot.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Turkish Militias and ProxiesTHE JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY

By Jonathan Spyer 27 Jan 2021

PREFIX : “My colleague Hay Cohen Yanarocak and I have co-authored a study looking into Turkey’s use of non-state agencies and proxy militias in its regional strategy. The study was jointly commissioned by the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, and a UAE-based think tank called Trends. It is thus the first paper to be published under the sponsorship of an Israeli and an Emirati research organization. I am happy both to write about this important subject, and to hopefully contribute also to Israel-UAE cooperation via its publication in this framework:

Turkish Militias and Proxies

THE JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY

 Dr. Jonathan Spyer

Erdoğan has created a private military and paramilitary system. He deploys this apparatus for domestic and foreign operations without official oversight.

Editorial note: This study, which reveals the extent to which Turkey aggressively deploys proxies and militias to project power across the Middle East, is the first fruit of a cooperation agreement between the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security and TRENDS Research & Advisory of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The two institutes will continue to research together regional military and security issues. They also intend to conduct symposia and maintain academic exchange programs.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : EIN BEKANNTER KIFFER MIT HOHEN PKK KONTAKTEN

Yücel-Freilassung: Neue Hinweise auf Waffendeal

Die Bundeskanzlerin und der damalige Außenminister Gabriel hatten versichert, es habe keine Gegenleistung dafür gegeben, dass der Journalist nach Hause durfte.

okb, 20.1.2021 – 15:36 Uhr  BERLINER ZEITUNG  – Der Journalist Deniz Yücel war in der Türkei im Gefängnis (Archivbild).

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE GEZI PARK KOMPLEX IN TURKEY / OSMAN KAVALA

An appeals court in Turkey overturned the acquittal of philanthropist Osman Kavala and eight others convicted in the Gezi Park trial.

  • Reuters reports that the court said that the ruling to acquit did not take into account all the proper evidence. The court also reportedly cited another case against Kavala—related to the 2016 coup attempt and widely considered just as baseless as this one—saying that it should be taken into account in this ruling as well.
  • Kavala has been held in prison for more than three years. In a statement released in December when the trial for the coup attempt began, POMED noted that Kavala “has devoted his life to promoting a more civil, just and peaceful Turkey,” adding that his work has “actively improved Turkey’s stability and prosperity, upheld values such as tolerance and social reconciliation, and promoted equality for Turkey’s youth, poor, and ethnic and religious minorities.”

 

For more about the Gezi Park protests and subsequent trial, check out this POMED fact sheet.

On January 19, Turkey ordered a ban on advertising on Twitter and Pinterest after the companies refused to appoint legal representatives in the country in accordance with a new law that came into effect in October 2020.

  • The law requires social media companies with more than one million users to have legal representatives in Turkey to manage government complaints about content. It also requires the companies to store user data in Turkey, which raises serious concerns about privacy, particularly given Turkey’s rights record.
  • Authorities have threatened to decrease bandwidth for companies that do not comply with the order. If companies refuse to comply with government complaints about content, they will face fines.
  • Rights groups have strongly criticized the law as nothing more than a censorship tactic that “will enable the government to control social media, to get content removed at will, and to arbitrarily target individual users.”
  • Facebook, YouTube, and a handful of other international social media companies have already set up or begun compliance procedures.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FOCUS : Will Turkish defense minister’s Iraq visit yield concrete results?

Although Turkey’s defense minister seems to be satisfied with the outcome of his recent visit to Baghdad and Erbil, there are several impediments to Turkey’s security demands.

Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar gives a press conference at the ministry in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 13, 2021 –  Fehim Tastekin  AL MONITOR  –  Jan 25, 2021

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar’s recent visit to Iraq has seen plenty of verbal agreements on an array of issues Ankara shares with the central Iraqi government and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Yet whether these agreements would translate into concrete steps remains to be seen.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL: Türkei drängt Länder, die auf Hilfe angewiesen sind, um türkische Bürger illegal abzuschieben

von CD Media Staff 17. Januar 2021 – Die Türkei ist weltweit führend bei illegalen Rückführungen, vor allem aus Ländern, die für finanzielle, politische oder humanitäre Unterstützung von Ankara abhängig sind, so Forschungsdirektor Nate Schenkkan vom Freedom House.

Er äußerte sich in einem Interview mit der Financial Times für ein Stück, das den Deckel auf Entführungen durch den türkischen Geheimdienst und Abschiebungen hob, die wenig bis gar kein ordnungsgemäßes Verfahren folgten. Diese Vorfälle haben sich mit angeblichen Mitgliedern der Gulen-Bewegung ereignet, die allein die Türkei als terroristische Organisation betrachtet.

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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : Turkey Pressures Countries That Rely On It For Assistance To Illegally Deport Turkish Citizens

by CD Media Staff January 17, 2021  – Turkey is the global leader in illegal repatriations, mainly from countries that are dependent on Ankara for financial, political, or humanitarian support, according to Director of Research Nate Schenkkan at Freedom House.

He made the comments during an interview with the Financial Times for a piece lifting the lid on abductions by Turkish intelligence and deportations which followed little to no due process. These incidents have taken place with alleged members of the Gulen movement which Turkey alone considers a terrorist organisation.

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