MESOP Opinion: It is time to take a stand / Michel Kilo
2-1-2014 – Al Sharq al Awsat – The Syrian situation is deteriorating quickly, for reasons that include the intervention of strangers in the conflict, an intervention which was not desired by the Syrian people, who were seeking to deliver their demands to the president, demands for freedom after 50 years of Assad’s Ba’athist oppression.
KDP-S to Unite on 10 January 2014
Political Union Parties will unite in Kurdistan Democratic Party of Syria on the 10th of January 2014 reports Welati. The leadership met on 12.30.2013 to hold a founding conference for the KDP-S, but it was delayed. Three sister parties of KDP-S will also join the party. – Posted 6 hours ago by Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Looking ahead to 2014 and the prospects for Kurdish autonomy in Syria / The Majallah Magazine
James Denselow is director of the New Diplomacy Platform and a Middle East Security Analyst based at King’s College London.
Discussion over the exact nature of the Kurdish place in the Middle East is almost as old as the mountains in the areas where the majority of Kurds are to be found. For decades it was the fight of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, and then the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Iraq that defined the world’s largest stateless peoples’ struggle for autonomy and a secure future. Yet today, with an ongoing peace process in Turkey and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) a beacon of stability in Iraq, the most pertinent debate increasingly concerns the future of the Kurds in Syria.
Jarba: Kurds Will Go With Coalition to Geneva
According to Ahmed Jarba Kurds will go with the coalition to Geneva II reports Welati.
Posted by Wladimir van Wilgenburg
Turkey on alert against 47 Al-Qaeda groups in Syria
2-1-2014 – Al Monitor – Many al-Qaeda-affiliated armed groups are involved in the Syrian civil war. The Turkish intelligence services have identified 47 Islamic terror organizations with different names in the area. Most prominent among them are Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).
Deputy Head Kurdish Armed Group Killed in Hasakah
Deputy head of Kurdish Intervention Force militia was killed in Hasakah. He was not an activist though.
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER / BASHAR IS DOING WHAT HIS FATHER ALWAYS DID : THE REGIME COOPERATES WITH ISLAMISTS – USING THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO PUT PRESSURE ON THE WEST (MESOP)
Syriens Opposition wirft Islamisten Verbindungen zu Assad vor
1. Januar 2014 – DIE ZEIT – Beirut (AFP) Syriens wichtigste Oppositionsgruppe wirft der Al-Kaida-nahen Extremistengruppe Islamischer Staat im Irak und der Levante (ISIL) Verbindungen zur Regierung von Machthaber Baschar al-Assad vor. Die ISIL diene “direkt oder indirekt den Interessen der Clique” um Assad, erklärte die Syrische Nationale Koalition am Mittwoch. Auslöser des Vorwurfs war der Tod eines der Opposition angehörenden Arztes, der von ISIL-Kämpfern entführt und gefoltert worden sein soll. – http://www.zeit.de/news/2014-01/01/syrien-syriens-opposition-wirft-islamisten-verbindungen-zu-assad-vor-01193814
THE YARMOUK REPUBLIC OF SYRIA
STARVATION TO DEATH – BUT THE WESTERN PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY KNOWS HER PEOPLE NO LONGER !
DAMASCUS – Abdullah al-Khateeb – January 01, 2014 – MESOP – The child was very happy with where he lived and with the republic to which he belonged. He could reach the four farthest corners of the Yarmouk Palestinian Refugee Camp — the largest in Syria — in less than two hours.
Syria: Hezbollah Saves Assad from Defeat? — The Real Story of a US Surrender
By Scott Lucas January 1, 2014 – eaworldview – On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal ran an attention-getting article about Syria which claimed: The…Hezbollah surge [in spring 2013] to bolster Mr. Assad represented a turning point in the Syria conflict, giving the Syrian leader enough strength to survive, though not enough to prevail. There’s also a sting in the headline about US policy: “Regime’s Survival Seen as Example of America’s Inability to Steer Events From a Distance”. Yet, if you read deeper, the article is not as much about what actually happened in 2013 as what US officials believe — or say they believe — might have happened.
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