MESOP REPORT : Fresh surge of violence hit Syria Kurdish areas
07-05-2014 – ARA News – Urfa, Turkey– The Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) and fighters of the Shams al-Shimal Brigade regained control on Monday over Tayara Hill (Sefi in Kurdish) and the villages of Nassiro and Kharos, located north of Sarin area, near Kobane city (Ayn al-Arab) after clahses with militants of the Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
WEST KURDISTAN / MESOP : 50 killed in clashes between ISIS, Kurdish forces
7-5-2014 – Kurdpress – At least 11 Kurdish members of the Syrian pro-Kurdish People Defense Units (YPG) and 39 forces of the extremists Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) were killed in bilateral clashes in Kobani, a Kurdish region in north of Syria, Hawar News said in a report.
MESOP : ROJAVA NEEDS REAL PLURALISTIC FREEDOM FOR EXPRESSION FOR JOURNALISTS & MEDIA
Another on-the-ground journalist questions RSF report on press freedom in Rojava
By David Meseguer: 6.5.2014 – Kurdistan Tribune – Like other colleagues, I also read the Reporters without Borders report dated 1st May on abuses against fellow reporters in Syria´s northeast and I´d also like to comment on the issue as I’ve been reporting from the ground since the beginning of the conflict in March 2011. First of all, I would like to stress my deepest rejection and concern over any kind of abuse against fellow reporters, either in Syria or elsewhere.
Islamists withdraw from Kobane countryside after clashes with Kurds
06-05-2014 – ARA News – Urfa, Turkey− After clashes with militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) and Shams al-Shamal Brigade regained control on Monday over the Tayara hill and both Nassiro and Khurus villages north of Serrin area, near the city of Kobane in Aleppo province.This comes hours after the al-Qaeda splinter group of ISIL announced its control over these areas, according to Alan Jan, the media activist and fighter in the ranks of Shmas al-Shamal Brigade, who talked to ARA News on phone.
MESOP : ALTAN TAN – Member of HDP: Both PYD & KDP has made mistakes in Syrian Kurdistan
06.05.2014 – DENIZ SERINCI – BasNews – Tensions continue between KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) and PYD (Democratic Union Party) in Syrian Kurdistan.
Among the controversies are the arrests of members of Kurdistan Democratic Party-Syria (KDP-S) on the grounds that they are illegally trying to form their own army. According to the PYD the KDP-S can join the ranks of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) − led by the PYD − to avoid any possible Kurdish infighting. Altan Tan, member of Turkish Parliament for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), disagreed. ’Why should KDP-S become part of YPG? Thinking ‘only I must have a military force, while no one else should’ is a wrong mentality’ he said in an interview, stressing that he was speaking for himself and not his party.
MESOP News Roundup: Monday, May 5 – Old Homs rebels await evacuation as ceasefire holds
Rebels have not yet withdrawn from Old Homs as of Monday, three days after government and rebel forces reached a truce to allow them safe passage out of the 13 encircled neighborhoods. “The actual work could begin Tuesday” to evacuate civilians and rebels with their light weaponry to northern Homs province under United Nations supervision, an activist inside Old Homs called Nour told Syria Direct Monday.
TODAY’S MESOP SYRIA INSIGHT
Fighting between rival opposition groups, al Qaeda backed al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has forced an estimated 60,000 people to flee their homes in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al-Zour, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
ORDERED WHITE WASH BY ITS TROTZKYITE LEADERSHIP “PEACE IN KURDISTAN LONDON”
Freelance journalist working in Kurdistan responds to RSF allegations against PYD
Peace In Kurdistan Campaign – May 6, 2014 – Reporters Without Borders (RSF), one of the world’s leading media freedom organisations, reported last week that it has recorded a ‘growing number of abuses’ by the PYD against reporters and journalists working in Rojava.
MESOP SHORT CUT : ISIS captured Tell Tayarra, lost it again
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – ISIS first captured Tell Tayarra but YPG recaptured the village again north of Sarin, south of Kobani.
A Dunon @ArjDnn Kurdish sources reported that YPG sources said they lost contact with a unit south of Kobane. Later ISIS spread pics of 7killed YPG members. 8:56 PM – 5 May 2014
@AL3gneg #ISIS on Tell Tayyara, north Sarin area, #Aleppo state, after seizing it from #YPG http://justpaste.it/dw_74 – 8:01 AM – 5 May 2014
TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION : SYRIA GROUND ZERO
From Physicians for Human Rights: ““Today, Syria is at ground zero of the most appalling humanitarian catastrophe of our era.” – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power”
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