MESOPOTAMIA NEWS OUTLOOK – ERDOGAN WILL PLAY BIDEN, BUT STICK TO PUTIN
by Soner Cagaptay – Caravan December 9, 2020
The new U.S. administration will have a brief, early window to exert leverage, but Erdogan’s asymmetric relationship with Moscow may keep him from substantially altering Turkish policy on the S-400 dispute and regional issues.
A key foreign policy challenge for President-elect Joe Biden is going to be getting along with Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and managing Washington’s ties with Ankara. To this end, Biden needs to understand the dynamics and fears that inform the decisions of Erdogan, Turkey’s powerful president, including the latter’s view of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ISRAELI FLOPS ! – First covid vaccines arrive as Israel’s ruling party splits and a new election date is set
Dec 10, 2020 @ 13:38 DEBKA FILES
No wonder that many Israelis feel they are under siege with all that happened in 24 hours. The Netanyahu government was hoping people would overlook the embarrassing flop Tuesday night of its three-week night curfew strategy for beating coronavirus, when the first Pfizer vaccines arrived on Wednesday, Dec. 9 with word of millions on the way. But then, stalwart Likud lawmaker Gideon Saar’s decision to split and start a new party hit a country already sick and tired of politics. The government coalition’s petty politics coalition was blamed for the country being forced to face a fourth election in less than two years. On Wednesday, a Knesset committee set the date for March 16.
LOCKDOWN ALL OVER MUNICH- GERMANY – BUT NOT FOR PKK FLAGS !
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS :
German court rejects ban on YPJ flag – Protestors wave flags of the YPG and YPJ during a protest in Germany
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Bavarian Supreme Regional Court on Tuesday denied the German public prosecutor’s appeal to prosecute a Kurdish activist who waved a Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) flag during a protest in the country.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : QATAR PAYS ERDOGAN – Cash-strapped Turkey relies on Qatari investments
In only five years, Qatar has come to account for 15% of all foreign direct investments in Turkey, second only to deep-rooted Dutch investors.
Mustafa Sonmez Dec 2, 2020 AL MONITOR – Scrambling to draw foreign investors to ease Turkey’s hard currency crunch, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has once again turned to its closest ally, Qatar. The two sides announced a raft of agreements last week, including fresh Qatari acquisitions, with Ankara eager to convey a semblance of renewed foreign capital flows to its crisis-hit economy. Government opponents, who charge that Ankara’s economic bonds with the Gulf monarchy are politically motivated and lack transparency, however, meet Qatar’s investments with suspicion.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ISRAEL & ERDOGAN TOGETHER ? – Turkey opens secret channel to fix ties with Israel
The Biden administration will not be as lenient on Turkey as the outgoing administration has been, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan finds his country increasingly isolated.
This combination of pictures created on April 1, 2018, shows a file photo taken on Nov. 19, 2017, of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), and a file photo taken on Dec. 15, 2017, of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Amberin Zaman Nov 30, 2020 AL MONITOR –
MESOPOTAMIA PKK CHIEF WISHES PEACE & DIALOGUE WITH ERDOGAN!
Kurdish PKK leader tells ‘Post’ of ‘peaceful struggle’ against Turkey
As the commander of an ongoing insurgency, he rarely speaks with journalists.
By HADEEL OUEIS, JONATHAN SPYER NOVEMBER 27, 2020 JERUSALEM POST
Murat Karayilan, 56, is one of the senior leaders of the PKK, or Kurdish Workers’ Party. A veteran fighter of this organization’s long struggle against Turkey and for greater autonomy and rights for Turkey’s Kurdish population, he is a marked man in the eyes of Ankara, surviving a Turkish assassination attempt in 2017.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DOWNGOING KURDISH PKK GREATER THAN EVER ?
Bayik: It is impossible to exclude this people from the struggle for freedom
Jamil Bayik said, “The political and ideological approach of the PKK has created an important experience in all areas of life, and it has now become the largest ideological force and approach of the Kurdish people.”
KURDISTAN 23 Nov 2020, Mon – 13:40 2020-11-23T13:40:00 NEWS DESK – The co-chair of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union, Jamil Bayik, on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of the establishment of the PKK, spoke to Furat News Agency.
Wer ist Süleyman Soylu, Erdogans rechte Hand? –
Haolam 22 Nov 2020
Anders als er es mit seiner Selbstinszenierung als Neo-Sultan so gerne suggeriert, kann Erdogans System nicht als Ein-Mann-Herrschaft begriffen werden.
Nach dem überraschenden Rücktritt des türkischen Finanzministers Berat Albayrak richten sich die Blicke nun auf den türkischen Innenminister Süleyman Soylu. Beide fochten seit geraumer Zeit einen unausgesprochenen Dauerclinch aus und galten bislang als potenzielle Nachfolger Erdoğans. So überrascht in diesem Zusammenhang, dass der türkische Staatspräsident Recep Tayyip Erdoğan den Rücktritt des Innenministers im April 2020 nicht annahm, den nunmehrigen seines Schwiegersohns Albayrak allerdings schon.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT Erdogan’s attack on Kurds triggered indictment of major Turkish bank
Laurie Mylroie | WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria last year, he precipitated the US indictment of a major state-owned Turkish bank—Halkbank—for violating US sanctions against Iran.
That striking point was included in a recent New York Times investigative report. Particularly, with Joe Biden as US president, the consequences could prove serious for Erdogan, other high-ranking Turkish officials, and the country, as well.
The Halkbank trial, in the Southern District of New York (SDNY), is scheduled to start next spring.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “BEST FRIENDS!” – Erdoğan as Merkel’s Protégé
By Rauf Baker November 18, 2020 – ISRAEL – BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,824, November 18, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Turkey’s relations with Germany have always been privileged, but Angela Merkel took that relationship even further by treating Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a protégé in the international arena. Their relationship strengthened in parallel with a significant increase in German-Turkish military and trade cooperation. But Merkel’s term is coming to an end, and there has been a noticeable shift in tone within the Berlin political establishment toward Ankara. The Turkish president will not be able to count on German benevolence forever.
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