MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FAKTEN : Türkei hält trotz US-Sanktionen an russischen S-400 fest
In der Türkei werden die Stimmen lauter, die sich fragen, warum diese Systeme jemals gekauft wurden, wenn man bedenkt, welche Kopfschmerzen sie Ankara bereitet haben.
Semih Idiz – AL MONITOR – 28. Dez 2020
Die Türkei hält an ihren Waffen wegen ihres umstrittenen Kaufs von russischen Raketenabwehrsystemen s-400 fest. Die zunehmende innenpolitische Skepsis gegenüber den Gründen für den Kauf hat auch Ankara nicht abgeschreckt, was im Allgemeinen politischen Kompromissen abgeneigt ist.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : Turkey sticks to its guns on Russian S-400s despite US sanctions
Voices are growing louder in Turkey questioning why these systems were ever purchased, considering the headaches they have caused for Ankara.
Semih Idiz – Dec 28, 2020 – AL MONITOR – Turkey is sticking to its guns over its controversial purchase of Russian made S-400 missile air defense systems. Increasing domestic skepticism regarding the reasons for the purchase has also not deterred Ankara, which is generally averse to political compromise.
The US sanctions slapped on Turkey Dec. 15 under the Countering America’s Adversaries through Sanctions Act (CATSAA) have merely hardened Ankara’s line.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FACTS : Erdogan hails ‘new phase’ in Turkey-UK ties with trade agreement
Turkey and the United Kingdom’s increasing discord with the EU
Dec 28, 2020 AMBERIN ZAMAN – AL MONITOR – Turkey and the United Kingdom will sign a free trade agreement on Dec. 29, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed Monday.
The Turkish leader said the agreement between the two NATO allies will be the most significant deal since Turkey signed a customs union trade accord with the European Union in 1996. “God willing, we are entering a new phase in which both Turkey and the UK will benefit,” Erdogan said following a cabinet meeting in Ankara.
The United Kingdom is Turkey’s second biggest export market and the top market for Turkish white goods such as refrigerators and washing machines. Bilateral trade between the two countries stood at $16.3 billion last year, and was tipped overwhelmingly in Turkey’s favor. The Turkey-UK Business Council says it hoped to increase the volume of trade to $20 billion by 2023.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN’S CRIME COUNTRY
Why Turkey’s most important city invites spies, assassins and gangsters
- Nicholas Morgan – AHVAL NEWS – Dec 28 2020 – On October 9, Habib Chaab, an Arab-Iranian dissident living in Sweden, landed in Istanbul with plans to meet a woman for a romantic rendezvous in Turkey’s largest city. Almost immediately upon arriving, Chaab was drugged and smuggled across the border into Iran where he would be trotted out two days later on state television to confess to involvement in terrorism.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : NEUES VON DEN PKK MEDIEN – DIE KLUGE NILUFER KOC !
TV-Tipp: Jahresrückblick mit Nilüfer Koç bei ÇIRA FOKUS
In der heutigen Ausgabe der deutschsprachigen Sendung ÇIRA FOKUS diskutiert Moderator Yilmaz Pêşkevin Kaba mit der Nahostexpertin Nilüfer Koç über die politischen Entwicklungen in 2020 und die Perspektiven für das kommende Jahr. – ANF REDAKTION – Donnerstag, 24 Dez 2020, 07:38
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FOCUS : EU Human rights court orders Turkey to free Kurdish PKK/HDP politician
Detention of Selahattin Demirtaş contrary to ‘very core of the concept of a democratic society’
Bethen McKernan Tue 22 Dec. 2020, The Guardian
The European court of human rights has ordered the immediate release of the prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş from prison in Turkey, finding that his detention goes against “the very core of the concept of a democratic society”.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Kurdish female politician sentenced to over 22 years in jail in Turkey
Former Kurdish MP sentenced to over 22 years in jail in Turkey
Former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Leyla Güven reacts following her hunger strike.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Leyla Güven was sentenced to 22 years and three months in jail by a Turkish court in the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Monday on alleged “terrorism” charges.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE PRO PKK PARTY UNDER FIRE!
Turkey’s Kurdish party target of tug of war between Islamists, ultra-nationalists
As Turkey’s ruling party and its nationalist ally face a deeper legitimacy crisis, pressure on Kurdish politics is intensifying.
Co-chairpersons of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Pervin Buldan (C-R) and Mithat Sancar (C-L) hold a press conference with their parliament members as they boycott the first session of the Grand National Assembly’s 27th term following the arrest of 82 people, including members of their party, outside the parliament building in Ankara on Oct. 1, 2020.
Pinar TremblayDec 21, 2020 AL MONITOR –
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS : Türkische PRO PKK Kurdenpartei zwischen Islamisten, Ultranationalisten
Während die türkische Regierungspartei und ihr nationalistischer Verbündeter mit einer tieferen Legitimitätskrise konfrontiert sind, nimmt der Druck auf die kurdische Politik zu.
Die Ko-Vorsitzenden der pro-kurdischen Demokratischen Volkspartei (HDP), Pervin Buldan (C-R) und Mithat Sancar (C-L), halten eine Pressekonferenz mit ihren Parlamentsmitgliedern ab, da sie die erste Sitzung der 27. Amtszeit der Großen Nationalversammlung nach der Verhaftung von 82 Personen, darunter Mitglieder ihrer Partei, vor dem Parlamentsgebäude in Ankara am 1. Oktober 2020 boykottieren. Foto: ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images.
Pinar Tremblay 21. Dez 2020 – AL MONITOR –
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUNDER : U.S. IMPOSES SANCTIONS ON TURKEY OVER PURCHASE OF RUSSIAN MISSILE SYSTEM
THE SOUFAN CENTER – 16 Dec 2020
Bottom Line Up Front: The United States recently imposed sanctions on Turkey in response to Ankara’s purchase of the Russian-made S-400 air defense system.
- The EU is also expected to respond to Turkey with sanctions in view of its aggressive energy exploration activities in the eastern Mediterranean.
- The US and EU seek to rein in Erdogan’s growing ambitions, while also curtailing Ankara’s continued drift toward Moscow and Putin.
- Erdogan dismissed the severity of the sanctions, although Turkey’s economy is struggling, compounded by the impact of COVID-19.
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