Sheikh Omar Shishani: Turkey wants to destroy ISIS

One of the most prominent Chechen jihadist commanders spoke out against Turkey in a recent message in Arabic (22 january?), accusing Turkey of supporting ‘sahwat’ against ISIS jihadi groups: We loved you even before we met, because the hadith talk of Sham and its people. When we heard about the great oppression in Syria, we held you higher than our families and our land. When we came here, and looked for which group to join, the idea to form an independent group never crossed our minds .

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YPG congratulates self-administration

YPG commander Sipan Hemo congratulates self-administration and ‘Hasakah’s’ administration president Ahmed Hissou.

Syrian govt forces arrest Kurd in Qamishli

Syrian government security forces arrest a Kurd Ahmed Mohammed Abbas returning from Kurdistan region reports Welati. He was planning to go back to Kobani. -Posted by Wladimir van Wilgenburg

KURDWATCH NEWSLETTER WEST KURDISTAN – SYRIEN (2) – JANUAR 2014

AdDarbasiya: Asayiş (PYD) entführt Aktivisten

KURDWATCH, 19. Januar 2014 – Am 12. Januar 2014 ist Amir Hamid Ahmad (geb. 1976, verheiratet, fünf Kinder), Mitglied der Nationalen Organisation der Kurdischen Jugend, vom Asayiş, dem Sicherheitsdienst der Partei der Demokratischen Union (PYD), entführt worden.

AdDarbasiya: Anhänger des Kurdischen Nationalrats demonstrieren

KUDWATCH, 26. Januar 2014 – Am 20. Januar 2014 haben mehrere Dutzend Anhänger des Kurdischen Nationalrats an einer Kundgebung in adDarbasiya teilgenommen. Die Teilnehmer forderten »Föderalismus für Syrisch-Kurdistan« und sprachen den Vertretern des Kurdischen Nationalrats ihre Unterstützung bei den Friedensverhandlungen in Genf aus.

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KURDWATCH NEWSLETTER (II) WEST KURDISTAN – SYRIA – JANUARY 2014

Ad Darbasiyah: Asayiş kidnaps activist

KURDWATCH, January 19, 2014—On January 12, 2014, the Asayiş, the security service of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), kidnapped Amir Hamid Ahmad (b. 1976, married, five children), a member of the National Organization of Kurdish Youth.

Al-Malikiyah: PYD occupies event hall

KURDWATCH, January 16, 2014—On December 31, 2013, employees of the Asayiş, the security service of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), occupied an event hall in al Malikiyah. Prior to this they had repeatedly called upon the tenant to pay nine hundred fifty thousand Syrian liras in rent to the Asayiş. The tenant Ismail Mustafa Haji, a member of ‘Abdulhakim Bashar’s Kurdish Democratic Party in Syria (el-Partî), told KurdWatch: »The rental hall costs three hundred fifty thousand Syrian liras per year. Since I have invested a lot in renovations, city hall has thus far dispensed with the rent. The PYD did not even want to give me a receipt.« weiterlesen / click to continue

Distress calls from Yarmouk Camp : STARVATION & DEATH

WESTERN PALESTINE SOLIDARITY GROUPS & PERSONALITIES STILL SILENT

63 dead from hunger, medical shortages in Damascus camp: NGO

Zamanawsl / AFP – 26-1-2014 – A Syrian monitoring group said Friday it has documented the deaths of 63 people, including women and children, in the besieged Yarmuk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus because of food and medical shortages, AFP reported. weiterlesen / click to continue

ROJAVA : New Socialism ? State-Kommunism ? Planned economy ? Or repetition of models like the Enver Hodscha Style – Albania ?

Now concrete answers until now!

“Everyone will ‘earn according to their labour’, prohibits stockpiling and shall establish social justice. The ownership of the national means of production shall be established, the rights of citizens, workers and the environment shall be protected and national sovereignty consolidated.”

Economy in Kurdish areas of Syria : The social economy in Rojava will snowball

Nergis Botan – Derik – 26.1.2014 – One of the most important aspects of the revolutionary developments in West Kurdistan (Rojava) is the economy. In Rojava, where the people have declared an autonomous administration, the social economy, or, in other words, the people’s own economy, is fundamental.

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WHAT KIND OF AUTONOMY IN ROJAVA (WEST KURDISTAN -SYRIA?)

Tomorrow PYD to announce ‘democratic self-governance’ in Kurdish enclave of Kobani ANHA.

COMMENTARY : The Syrian peace process – An exercise in futility / By Jonathan Spyer

The Jerusalem Post – January 25, 2014 – The international conference that convened this week in the Swiss town of Montreux in an attempt to find a way toward resolving the war in Syria is one of the more strange international gatherings of recent years. The aims of the combatant sides in Syria remain entirely irreconcilable. Neither the Assad regime nor the rebellion against it is strong enough to strike a decisive blow against its opponent. Neither side is sufficiently weak to feel compelled to accept whatever outcome its enemy wishes to impose on it. – In such a situation, diplomacy becomes reduced to the rituals of protocol. Form replaces content. And the purpose of bringing the sides together becomes unclear.

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