MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Warum? Erdogans Truppen intervenieren im Nord Irak gegen die kurdische Arbeiterpartei PKK
Während die Türkei als Ziel ihrer Militäroperationen die Terrorbekämpfung nennt, gibt es in der Region kaum nennenswerte terroristische Aktionen der PKK mehr.
Seth J. Frantzman, Jerusalem Post 18 Juni 2021
In den letzten Jahren hat die Türkei ihre Rolle in der autonomen kurdischen Region des Nordiraks stark ausgeweitet. Sie hatte dort jahrzehntelang Stützpunkte unterhalten und ihre Präsenz reicht bis in die 1990er Jahre zurück, als sie in den schwächer werdenden Irak expandieren konnte.
Ankara behauptet, im Nordirak einen „Anti-Terror“-Krieg gegen die Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK) zu führen. Der PKK-Terrorismus in der Türkei hat sich jedoch fast auf Null reduziert, weswegen Ankara für die Rechtfertigung seiner expansiven Rolle darauf zurückgreift, Geschichten über „Terrorismus“ zu erfinden und die PKK für Vorfälle verantwortlich zu machen, mit denen sie wahrscheinlich gar nichts zu tun hat.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS KURDISTAN-IRAQ : Almost 500 Christian families have been displaced so far.
Christian villagers under fire in Turkey-PKK clashes
RUDAW 18 June 2021 – Yousif Musa – ZAKHO, Kurdistan Region — Navkandalan is a Christian village in the Batifa sub-district of Zakho in northern Duhok.The Christian population there has plummeted from 70 to 40 because of conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey.
The village’s residents demand protection.
“We’re back in the village for the fourth time, where should we go?” said Soqa Issac, a Navkandalan resident. He said the villagers were poor and there was no force to protect them, “neither from Iraq nor the Kurdistan Region.”
“We ask the KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government] to give us weapons,” he stated.
“I own this flock of sheep, I can’t take my sheep to the foothills,” said Basam Eliksan, a livestock farmer. “As soon as jets see them, they launch rockets. The Turkish army opens fire with their machine guns and weapons. Also the Workers’ Party (PKK) is blocking our way.”
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE LAST CHAPTER OF KURDISH WORKERS PARTY (PKK)
Deadly attacks stoke KDP-PKK tensions in Iraqi Kurdistan
Turkish Kurdish militants entrenched in Iraqi Kurdistan face mounting calls to leave the region after the killing of six members of the Iraqi Kurdish armed forces.
Mahmut Bozarslan@mahmutbozarslan June 16, 2021 AL MONITOR – DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Tensions are flaring between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the main political group ruling Iraqi Kurdistan, and armed Kurdish militants from Turkey who are based in the region, rekindling fears of renewed intra-Kurdish fighting amid growing Turkish military pressure on the militants.
Lying at the core of the tensions are escalating Turkish cross-border operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has long used mountainous bases in Iraqi Kurdistan in its armed campaign against Ankara since 1984.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS KURDISTAN : PKK PARTY STATEMENT VIA KCK BODY
June 16, 2021
“We Welcome the Launch of the `Defend Kurdistan` Initiative”
For almost two months, heavy fighting has been going on between the guerrilla – this selfless force of the Kurdish people`s struggle for freedom – and the Turkish occupying army. In the areas of South Kurdistan, which the Turkish army wanted to capture within a few days, an enormous resistance has been taking place since then. Today, the Turkish army is stuck on a few occupied hilltops, and the guerrillas’ daily blows are taking a heavy toll on it.
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS KURDISTAN-IRAQ – Amnesty International slams KRG for crackdown on protests, unfair trials
Dilan Sirwan @DeelanSirwan RUDAW – 15 Juni 2021 – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Amnesty International slammed the Kurdistan Region for an “ongoing crackdown of protests by way of arbitrary arrests and harassment” and called for the immediate release of people detained and sentenced in “unfair trials.” A statement from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) defended the arrests, saying some of the protests where arrests were made had turned violent and broken pandemic-related measures.
“Authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) must put an end to their ongoing crackdown of protests by way of arbitrary arrests and harassment, and they should immediately release those detained – including those already sentenced following unfair trials – in relation to their participation in protests or related activism or professional practice,” read a statement from Amnesty International on Tuesday.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : FLUGHÄFEN ERBIL (KURDISTAN-IRAK) & FRANKFURT – DEUTSCHER BUDESGRENZSCHUTZ VERHINDERT AN BEIDEN (!) ORTEN JOURNALISTEN-EINREISE
Festgehalten, Einreise verboten, abgeschoben
15 Juni 2021 – Trotz gültigem Visum Einreise verweigert und abgeschoben. Wer ist dafür verantwortlich?
Erbil/Frankfurt. Während Teilnehmer der „Internationalen Delegation für Frieden und Freiheit in Kurdistan“ bereits in Düsseldorf am 12. Juni von der Bundespolizei ein Ausreiseverbot erhielten, konnten andere Personen nach Erbil fliegen. Mit dabei der BN-Chefredakteur Alfred Denzinger und unsere Mitarbeiterin Franziska Stier. Beide Journalisten wurden am Sonntag, 13. Juni, getrennt von Erbil über Ägypten bzw. Katar nach Frankfurt abgeschoben. In Frankfurt empfingen rund 100 Menschen die abgeschobenen Teilnehmern der Delegation in der Flughafenhalle.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN BOMBS KURDISH VILLAGES IN NORTH IRAQ
Turkish airstrike kills 4 PKK fighters near Kurdistan Region’s Qaladze: Mayor
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – At least four were killed on Sunday in an alleged Turkish airstrike that targeted a vehicle near villages outside the Kurdistan Region’s district of Qaladze, according to a local official. Qaladze Mayor Bakir Bayez, Qaladze told Kurdistan 24 that the vehicle, carrying four passengers, had been traveling between the villages of Geera and Kani Lan at the time, some 9 miles (15 km) northeast of Sulaimani province’s Qaladze district,
He added that it was the first time in recent memory that “Turkish warplanes” have conducted such an airstrike in the immediate vicinity.Local sources indicated that the vehicle had belonged to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and that all those killed were its fighters.
Neither the PKK nor Turkey have yet acknowledged the incident.
The PKK has been locked in a decades-long conflict against Ankara over Kurdish rights in Turkey that has led to tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. The group is headquartered in the Kurdistan Region’s Qandil Mountains, mostly in rural areas along the Turkish and Iranian borders like Qaladze.
Officials from both Iraq and the Kurdistan Region have repeatedly called on Turkey and the PKK to take their fight away from areas populated by civilians, thousands of whom have been displaced, suffered damage to their farms, livestock, or other property. Others have suffered serious injury or even death as a result of skirmishes or Turkish bombardment of suspected PKK positions.
The conflict has escalated in recent weeks, as have hostilities between the PKK and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
In a recent example that took place on Tuesday morning, a Peshmerga soldier on duty in the Zakho district of Duhok was killed by apparent PKK sniper fire.
This came just days after five Peshmerga fighters were killed in an apparent ambush by the PKK near Mount Matina in the Amedi district of Duhok, and hours after two Peshmerga were abducted in Iraq’s disputed district of Sinjar (Shingal).
Editing by John J. Catherine
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DEUTSCHE NACHRICHTENDIENSTBEAMTE AUCH IM NORD IRAK TÄTIG
Berliner Abgeordneter 15 Stunden an Flughafen im Nordirak festgehalten
Taş wollte zu einem Friedenskongress in den kurdischen Autonomiegebieten. Hamburger Linke-Fraktionschefin wurde von der Bundespolizei am Ausreisen gehindert.
JULIUS BETSCHKA LORENZ MAROLDT CLAUDIA VON SALZEN 13 uni 2021 –
Hakan Tas, 53, ist Politiker der Linkspartei und kurdischer Abstammung.
Der Berliner Abgeordnete Hakan Taş ist von Sicherheitsbehörden 15 Stunden im Sicherheitsbereich des Flughafens in Erbil festgehalten worden. Erst am Samstagnachmittag durfte der kurdisch-stämmige Abgeordnete den Flughafen verlassen und weiterreisen. Er wurde in dieser Zeit laut eigener Aussage zweimal verhört, durfte sich nicht waschen. Erbil ist die Hauptstadt der kurdischen Autonomiegebiete im Irak.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : FREIHEITSBERAUBUNG IM DIENSTE ERDOGAN’S
Hamburger Linke-Politikerin am Flughafen Düsseldorf festgehalten
Von Denis Fengler DIE WELT 12 Juni 2021 – Die Fraktionschefin der Hamburger Linken hatte in die irakische Stadt Erbil starten wollen. Doch dann wurde ihre Gruppe im Sicherheitsbereich von Bundespolizisten umstellt. Der Vorwurf: Teilnehmer der Reise hätten im Irak als „menschliche Schutzschilde der PKK“ dienen sollen.
Die Vorsitzende der Fraktion Die Linke in der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft, Cansu Özdemir, ist am Samstagmorgen auf dem Flughafen Düsseldorf (Nordrhein-Westfalen) von der Bundespolizei festgehalten worden.
Die kurdischstämmige Politikerin war Teil einer Art Delegation, die um kurz nach acht Uhr in die irakische Stadt Erbil fliegen wollte. Erbil ist Hauptstadt und Regierungssitz der Autonomen Region Kurdistan im Irak.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS – PKK is sending European citizens to ‘destabilize’ Iraqi Kurdistan, Barzani’s KRG says
Posted on June 11, 2021 MESOP NEWS
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan region,— The Barzani-dominated Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) ministry of interior made a bombshell accusation late on Thursday, claiming that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had sent citizens of European countries to Erbil in an attempt to disrupt the stability of the Kurdistan Region, but did not provide details to back up its allegation.
In an official statement likely to increase already significant intra-Kurdish tensions, the ministry said that hundreds of villages in the parts of Iraqi Kurdistan that border Turkey and Iran have been evacuated in recent years because of the presence of PKK fighters there with great material damage done to resident’s homes and farms.
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