MESOP REPORT : Kurdish families displaced by Islamists from Syria’s Tel Abyad
21-03-2014 – Urfa, Turkey− Kurdish neighbourhoods in the city of Tel Abyad in northern Syria saw large displacement movement among civilians due to the mounting pressures by the al-Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) −which is in control over the city since months. Hundreds of Tel Abyad’s Kurdish residents crossed the border into Turkey on Wednesday, escaping “suppressive practices” of ISIL members against them. Dozens of families have previously left the city after ISIL’s control.
MESOP FOCUS : Syria back on Turkey’s agenda
FEHIM TASTEKIN – AL MONITOR 22.3.2014 – Just what Turkey needed: As the country was already in the throes of pre-election turbulence, plus corruption scandals and leaks of secret phone conversations, the Syrian boomerang came back. The warning by Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), that Turkey could easily send its army inside Syria to defend the Sovereign Turkish Enclave of Jabar Fortress and the Tomb of Suleiman Shah, guarded by a small Turkish military detachment, was enough to bring the issue of a cross border operation on the agenda.
Behind the Lines: Israel-Syria border escalation / By Jonathan Spyer
By JONATHAN SPYER – Jerusalem Post – LAST UPDATED: 03/21/2014 17:06 – If Hezbollah is responsible for the attacks on Israel over the past days, which at present appears the most likely explanation, the movement is using the Syria-Israel border as a site for attacks on Israeli forces. This week’s events on the Israel-Syrian border are testimony to the extent to which the effective disintegration of the Syrian state is producing a new security reality in the North.
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) – TODAY’S TWITTERS
Aymenn J Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi – Some more ISIS photos from Aleppo provincial strongholds and one from Hasakah stronghold of ash-Shaddadi: http://justpaste.it/dw_22 #Syria
Aymenn J Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi #Syria: Jabhat al-Nusra and other groups announce a new battlefront in Latakia beginning w/ clashes on the surroundings of Kasab.
Hundreds of Kurds in Syria Flee After Jihadist Threat: NGO
Daily Star, Lebanon – 21-3-2014 – BEIRUT — Some 600 Kurdish residents of villages in Syria’s Raqa province have fled after an ultimatum from the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an NGO said Thursday.
MESOP Expert Comment : Sham Election Will Only Divide Syria Further / By Abdullah Ali – Asfari Fellow
19.3.2014 – CHATHAM HOUSE – While the international community’s attention has been grabbed by Ukraine, it should not overlook the latest events in Syria as Bashar al-Assad’s presidential ‘election campaign’ begins. The July poll is likely to increase, rather than heal, the divide between Syrians of all types.
Middle-East’s Sectarian Balance Shifts as Syrian Uprising Enters Fourth Year — by Jawad Anwar Qureshi
20 Mar 2014 – Syria Comment – Jawad Anwar Qureshi – This month, Syria’s uprising enters its fourth year. So far, close to 150,000 people are confirmed dead, over nine million Syrians have been displaced, and carnage has been unleashed in virtually all of Syria’s urban centers. One of the unintended results from what started out as peaceful protests has been the re-alignment of powers in the Middle East along sectarian lines. Syria has pulled away from Sunni neighbors that were previously invested in Syria—in particular, Turkey and Saudi Arabia—and has drawn itself closer to Iran, the region’s sole Shiite state.
TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION : Words from Chairman Salih Muslim (PYD)
“The FSA Is Supporting the YPG” (Salih Muslim)
(but does YPG also supports FSA? – MESOP)
German firms played larger role in Syria’s chemical weapons program
By Ofer Aderet – Haaretz & Reuters – 20.3.2014 – German companies played a larger role in the building of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile than was previously known, according to information provided by the world’s chemical watchdog and reported by German media late on Wednesday.The reports said that the between 1982-1993, German firms had made some 50 shipments of technologies and materials that could be used to produce chemical weapons.
Salih Muslim: ISIS Wants To Break The Ties Between The Cantons
TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION : Words from Chairman Salih Muslim (PYD)
“The FSA Is Supporting the YPG” (but does YPG also supports FSA? – MESOP)
ROJAVA REPORT 21.3.2014 – PYD Co-President Salih Muslim, who is currently in Oslo for a series of meetings with officials from various Kurdish parties and Norwegian, spoke to reporters about the recent suicide attack in Qamişlo, ISIS attacks, and fighting between the YPG and the Syrian regime.
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