Syria Forecast: Damascus Confers with Russia & Iran in Moscow
SCOTT LUCAS – EAworldview – 19.11.2013
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Syria’s officials have begun four days of talks with Russian and Iranian counterparts in Moscow.
President Assad’s delegation is led by his senior adivsior Bouthaina Shaaban and Deputy Foreign Minister Feisal Mikdad. Russia’s Deputy Foreign Ministers Mikhail Bogdanov, Gennady Gatilov and Sergey Ryabkov and Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian are representing their Governments.
Turkey backing off support for jihadists on Syria border
Amberin Zaman Posted November 18, 2013 – AL MONITOR – Topcu, on the Turkish side of the border, is on the front line of a vicious turf war between the Syrian Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) and Salafist groups led by Jabhat al-Nusra, the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and Ahrar Ash Sham. The battle, which has Topcu caught in its crosshairs, is over a village called Susik that keeps switching hands.
COUNCIL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS : How have Iraqi Kurdish authorities responded to the Syrian civil war?
Question submitted by Martin Lafon, from Sciences-Po Bordeaux, November 18, 2013
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has approached the civil war in Syria with caution. The authorities governing the Iraqi autonomous region, based in Erbil, have quietly played an important role in the humanitarian response to the crisis with 197,000 (according to the UN refugee agency) Syrian refugees on KRG territory, spread across three refugee camps in the main cities of Dohuk, Erbil, and Sulaimaniyah.
Öcalan: We are ready for negotiations
ANF – News Desk 19.11.2013 – Mehmet Öcalan spoke to DIHA (Dicle News Agency) about the details of the meeting he had with his brother, Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı prison on Monday.
Barzani meets Turkey Kurdish deputies behind closed doors
19-11-2013 – Kurdpress – The President of Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani held a meeting on Sunday in Diyarbakir with the Kurdish deputies in Ankara Parliament, Radikal daily said.The one- hour meeting was held behind closed doors, where Barzani and the Kurdish deputies discussed amnesty general for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members and the situation of Syria Kurds.
Erdoğan & Barzani Cooperating Against the Rojava Revolution (and also Perwer)
Ferda Çetin * – News Desk 19.11.2013 – Erdoğan, Barzani, Şivan Perwer and İbrahim Tatlises kicked off the AKP’s election campaign in Kurdistan [last weekend]. And when some intelligent (!) Kurdish politicians went on about how “it would be wrong to understand this meeting as support for Erdoğan in the election campaign” it can be clearly seen that this was a manipulation.
MORE ABOUT KURDISH DISUNITY : Thousands protested against Barzani in Efrin
ANF – Efrin 19.11.2013 – Thousands in the west Kurdistan city of Efrin staged a march to protest against Massoud Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government, in relation with his statements against the Rojava revolution and the Democratic Union Party (PYD).
PYD displays its flag in Ras al-Ain after many months
Ali Avni from Barzani’s party — the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) — said they did not want a “dictator like Saleh Muslim in the place of a dictator like [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad.”
18 November 2013 /TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL– Syria’s Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has links to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), displayed its flag in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain next to the flag of the Syrian Supreme Kurdish Council on Monday.
TODAY’S MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT
A Syrian government delegation met with Russian officialsin Moscow Monday to discuss an international peace conference planned for Geneva. U.N. and Arab League Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said that he hopes to convene the Geneva II conference in December. The talks in Moscow have come just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the first time in over two years.
TODAY’S MESOP EDITORIAL : KURDISH DISUNITY – OR ROJAVA CONTRA PAN KURDISH CONGRESS
Kurdish Congress Stalled Over Issues in Syrian Kurdistan
By RUDAW – 19-11-2013 – Fuad Hussein, chief of staff for Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani, said that a planned Kurdish Congress has been stalled because of differences among political parties, but mainly over the unfolding events in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava).
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