MESOP : DEUTSCHE SYRIENBERICHTERSTATTUNG DER „KLUGEN KÖPFE“ TODENHÖFER & RAINER HERMANN et.al
“Eine Bankrotterklärung für den Journalismus”, Teil zwei – Christoph Reuter zur Syrien-Berichterstattung
Von Ansar Jasim | 04.08.14 | Interviews, Mashreq, Syrien.
Spiegel-Korrespondent Christoph Reuter berichtet im Gespräch mit Alsharq en Detail über die Schwierigkeiten der Berichterstattung und Recherche zu Syrien sowie die Herausforderung, mit dominanten Diskursen zu brechen. Angesichts der mangelnden Differenzierungsbereitschaft in der Medienlandschaft sei die deutsche Berichterstattung zu Syrien gescheitert. Teil eins des Interviews ist hier nachzulesen.
Alsharq: Warum hat gerade das Massaker in Hula in unserem Verständnis so einen Stellenwert erlangt? Wenn wir heute in Deutschland über die syrische Revolution reden, dann ist Hula ein Thema. Daran wird bis heute festgemacht, ob Assad oder die Opposition kriminell sind.
MESOP : Deutsche Syrien-Berichterstattung – Christoph Reuter Gespräch mit Alsharq
Was hat sich denn verändert?
(I) „Gar nicht so viel, wie wir dachten. Die zweite Reise war insofern anders, als die PYD [syrischer Ableger der PKK] den Anspruch einer dem Assad-Regime ähnlichen Form der Totalkontrolle aufgebaut hat. Sie wissen genau, was bei ihnen passiert. Oder wie es der Pressezuständige ausdrückte: „Ihr müsst nur ein Taschengeld mitbringen, alles andere organisieren wir.“
TODENHÖFER & RAINER HERMANN (FAZ)
(II) „Dann hat das Regime zwei Wochen später mit relativ viel Mühe eine Nonne, gefälschte Zeugen aus der Umgebung und einen russischen Journalisten aufgeboten und sie mit Rainer Hermann, dem FAZ-Korrespondenten, zusammengebracht. Der hat sich in Damaskus diese Gesprächspartner zuführen lassen und die haben ihm erzählt, dass es die Terroristen waren. Das hat er dann so aufgeschrieben und danach hatte man in Deutschland, wo Ausgewogenheit ja gerne als Ersatz für Journalismus genommen wird, zwei Versionen: Die einen sagen so, die anderen sagen so.
Und dann kam auch noch der ehemalige Verlagsmanager Jürgen Todenhöfer, dem dieselben Zeugen zugeführt wurden.“
MESOP : WAR NEWS REPORT & RESULTATIONS BY YPG (KOBANE)
YPG release balance sheet of war in Kobanê in July
ANF – KOBANÊ 02.08.2014 – West Kurdistan’s People’s Defense Units (YPG) Press Office has released its balance-sheet of war in the Kobanê canton for the month of July which witnessed fierce clashes between YPG and YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) forces and ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) gangs that have intensified their attacks on the canton for the last one month.
MESOP : CLEAR COOPERATION ASSAD FORCES & YPG (PYD) ? After accusing YPG of attacks against civilians, SNC drops statement
August 2, 2014 – ARA News – Hasakah, Syria – After the official site of the Syrian National Coalition (of the revolutionary forces and the opposition) published on Thursday a press statement for Hadi al-Bahra, the new elected head of the Coalition, condemning “the attacks of the Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) against civilians in Geweran neighbourhood in Hasakah”, the SNC website deleted the statement hours after its publication without explanation.The statement attributed to al-Bahra said that the Geweran attackس carried out by the YPG in direct coordination with the pro-Assad regime forces on Wednesday, led to the death of a mother and her six children, while the father was seriously injured, according to information received from activists based in neighbourhood of Geweran.
MESOP : HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH’s BODY COUNT SYRIA – BUT NOT SO ATTRACTIVE AS GAZA
HRW: Syria using more ‘barrel bombs’ since UN resolution against them
July 30, 2014 – by Tom Kutsch @tomkutsch – Despite a unanimous United Nations Security Council resolution condemning aerial “barrel bombs” in Syria, their use by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad has continued unimpeded, a leading human rights group said on Wednesday.
MESOP : ISIS GOVERNANCE IN SYRIA – By Charles C. Caris & Samuel Reynolds – Institute for the study of war
The Islamic State’s June 2014 announcement of a “caliphate” is not empty rhetoric. In fact, the idea of the caliphate that rests within a controlled territory is a core part of ISIS’s political vision. The ISIS grand strategy to realize this vision involves first establishing control of terrain through military conquest and then reinforcing this control through governance. This grand strategy proceeds in phases that have been laid out by ISIS itself in its publications, and elaborates a vision that it hopes will attract both fighters and citizens to its nascent state. The declaration of a caliphate in Iraq and Syria, however, raises the question: can ISIS govern?
MESOP : VOICE OF RUSSIA REPORTS (UK) – Kurds & ISIS in running battles on Turkish border
2 Aug 2014 – Reports coming out of Syria indicate that Kurdish fighters have made a breakthrough against ISIS militia. Wladimir Van Wilgenburg is a columnist at AI monitor, and is based in Kurdistan. Tim Walklate asked him whether he could verify the reports. The Syrian Observatory for Human rights have said that intense fighting in Kobane – a northern Syrian town that the Kurds see as part of Kurdistan – has left 35 ISIS soldiers dead. 14 Kurdish fighters are also reported to have been killed but Kobane, the reports claim, is back under Kurdish control.
TODAY’S MESOP COMMENTARY : BY JONATHAN SPYER
Under Gaza’s Shadow, Islamic State Advances
The Jerusalem Post – August 1, 2014 – In recent weeks, far from the attention of the world’s media, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (IS, formerly ISIS) has been fighting its enemies and expanding its borders. There is mounting evidence that IS has obtained a chemical weapons capacity of some kind, and has utilized it on at least one occasion during intense combat against the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria. The organization has achieved signal successes against regime forces in Raqqa and Hasakeh provinces that culminated in the capture of the Division 17 base, and the subsequent gruesome execution of over 200 members of the garrison. There is also clear evidence of Palestinians, specifically Gazans, fighting in Syria in an organized unit under the IS banner, and of at least one clearly IS-linked group operating in northern Sinai and in Gaza itself.
MESOP : Interview With YPJ Commander In Kobanê
1. August 2014 / Rojava Report – In a new report from Özgür Gündem, Ersin Çaksu interviews Meryem Kobanê, the General Commander of the YPJ in the Kobanê Region. Meryem speaks about the situation in Kobanê, the war with ISIS, the history of the YPJ, and the progress of the revolution in Rojava more generally. Below is the entirety of the interview translated into English.
-How do you evaluate the near year-long fighting in and subsequent siege of Kobanê? What has happened in the past year, can you explain a little from the perspective of a commander in the war?
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