MESOP : REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS ABOUT WEST KURDISTAN (PYD)
How Kurdistan’s PYD keeps the media and news providers in line
Thursday 1 May 2014 – Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned about the significant deterioration in freedom of information in areas controlled by the Democratic Union Party (PYD). The organization is aware of the security problems in the region as the conflict in Syria drags on and the civilian population comes under threat from Jihadi groups. However, as the authority responsible for that part of the country, it is the role of the PYD to ensure basic freedoms, including freedom of information, are respected.
MESOP AUTHENTIC DOCUMENT : Jabhat an-Nusra conditionally accepts a truce with ISIS
5. 5.5 2014 – In reaction to Dr. Ayman az-Zawahiri’s last appeal to stop the infighting in Syria (published here), Jabhat an-Nusra released a new statement
in reaction, dated May 4th, 2014. (Translation below)
Statement:
MESOP OPINION – Syrian Rebel Wants a New Ally: Israel / Kamal Labwani
World News – 05.09.14 – Daily Beast – To protect the innocent & to defeat the Assad dictatorship, Syrians should work with Israel to create a safe haven.
I spent more than a decade in Syrian prisons and therefore know what kind of regime this is. It is one which believes that torture is a form of dialogue. This was long before the Syrian uprising. Long before my countrymen went to the streets in a peaceful protest calling for freedom. Long before the death toll reached 150,000.
In the past three years, we Syrians have learned a lot about who our friends are and who our enemies are. Russia and Iran provide the backing critical for Bashar Assad to remain in power. Hezbollah filled the ranks of the Syrian army. Islamist radicals were brought in from other parts of the region attempting to take Syria away from the Syrian people who had risen to protest.
EXCLUSIV : Syria: The 9 Insurgent Groups with US-Made TOW Anti-Tank Missiles
Tahrir Souri presents the insurgent groups who have received US-made TOW anti-tank missiles in the last six weeks.
Nine factions are now confirmed to have the weapons. The US Government has confirmed if it sent the missiles, although American officials in the region have said they support the deliveries.
MESOP FLASH : Kurdish villages stormed by Islamists, north Syria
ARA News – 9.5.2014 – Urfa, Turkey− Militants of the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) stormed on Wednesday morning the predominantly Kurdish village of Bir Tameh in south-west of Tel Abyad/Girespi in Raqqa province.
100 Kurdish intellectuals state their opposition to PYD ‘intimidation and treachery accusations’
MESOP: NO – to a stalinistic „one-party-dictatorship“ in West Kurdistan (Rojava) (Read below Arabic version)
By the 100 signatories*: (8th May 2014)
The Kurdish intellectuals, in particular the youth, were a part of the Syrian uprising from the beginning in mid-March 2011. All attempts used by the regime, including threats, intimidation, terror and misinformation initially failed to stop them. Unfortunately, however, the regime gradually succeeded in slowing down the Kurdish political involvement in the uprising by creating division and internal fighting amongst the Kurdish political organisations; and by using a variety of tactics to dismantle the Kurdish youth movement. These tactics that included the use of threats, spreading fear, arrests … forced many to become silent or leave the country altogether. However, the regime failed to subdue the Kurdish intelligentsia or to turn them into their supporters.
MESOP RECHERCHE : Assad’s New Bomb: Syrian Regime Hasn’t Abandoned Chemical Weapons
By Christoph Reuter – DER SPIEGEL – GERMANY
9-5-2014 – Despite its pledge to eliminate chemical weapons, the Assad regime is attacking towns and villages with chlorine gas bombs. SPIEGEL visited the communities hit by the most recent bombings to interview victims, doctors and eyewitnesses. The green wheat fields shimmer in the late afternoon light as the wind slowly starts to pick up. A cloud of dust drifts by.
TODAY’S MESOP TWITTER : ASSAD’S BLOOD ELECTIONS
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MESOP WEST KURDISTAN : Kobani protests Bakur
Welati Kobani protest, ISIS, YPG.
5.8.2014 – Posted by Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Flight of Icarus? The PYD’s Precarious Rise in Syria ( Short version) / PYD UNDER THE FIRE OF CRITICISM
MESOP OPINION : ONE PARTY DICTATORSHIP IN WEST KURDISTAN ? : INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW REPORT
The PYD (Kurdish Democratic Union Party) has imposed its dominance in northern Syria, but its long-run prospects – like those of the areas it controls – depend on the party’s ability to adopt a more balanced and inclusive strategy.
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