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MESOP MUST READ !
John McCain @SenJohnMcCain Must-read from Amb. Eric Edelman @NYTOpinion: “America’s Dangerous Bargain With #Turkey” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/americas-dangerous-bargain-with-turkey.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 … www.mesop.de
MESOP : NEW HEADQUARTERS OF ATHEISM IN ISTANBUL
IF THIS GIVES THE SENSUAL PICTURE OF ATHEISM – I WOULD LIKE TO PREFER CHURCHES & CATHEDRALS – Watch pictures of Atheists headquarters http://www.mesop.de/?p=63964
MESOP TODAYS MOST RELEVANT TWEETS
Soner Cagaptay @SonerCagaptay – #HDP has absorbed much of #CHP’s previous support from liberals and Alevi Kurds. http://bit.ly/June7Elections @WashInstitute
MESOP: THE GERMAN MIDDLE EAST IDIOT SPEAKING ALWAYS WORDS OF PURE WISDOM AFTER WATCHING THE MORNING PAPERS
Volker Perthes @volkerperthes – Middle East is no chessboard; but Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia are needed for pol. solution in Syria. Audio (German) http://www.swr.de/swr2/programm/sendungen/journal/das-ende-des-nahen-ostens-flucht-vor-der-neuordnung/-/id=659282/did=16047844/nid=9597116/1uaxtqn/index.html …
MESOP : STOP THE IRANIAN BOMB
Dennis Ross and David Petraeus: Iran’s ability to increase enriched material after 15 years is significant #IranDeal. http://ow.ly/RqLoa
Ross and Petraeus: “Iran must know that we will not permit it to become a nuclear weapons state ever.” #IranDeal http://ow.ly/RqLvf
MESOP : JOSHUA’S TWEETS
Joshua Landis @joshua_landis 3h3 hours ago – Joshua Landis retweeted маяковский
Is the Syrian government joining al-Qaida in trying to “cut America’s hand off”?
Joshua Landis added, маяковский @moscow_ghost
U.S. backed #Syria rebel commander killed in car bomb inside #Turkey, far from the battlefield http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/article32483973.html …
MESOP : ERDOGAN’S DOUBLE FACE
Aaron Stein @aaronstein1 3h3 hours ago My latest: Turkey’s Counterterrorism Policies: Targeting ISIS and the PKK http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/turkey-s-counterterrorism-policies-targeting-isis-and-the-pkk#.Vd8MXIAILBA.twitter …
MESOP : STRANGE STORY
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 3h3 hours ago – After the recent resumption of Ahrar-Iran negotiations in #Turkey, a new 48hr ceasefire has been agreed over #Zabadani & Al-Fuah/Kafraya.
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 3h3 hours ago – PT: The ceasefire agreement stipulates localised evacuations of wounded from all 3 municipalities, likely to take place at close of Day 2.
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 3h3 hours ago – Again, so incredibly telling that #Iran was running negotiations on pro-regime side. #Assad team had no role. #Tehran seeking “useful Syria”
MESOP : TAYYIP’S NEWSPAPERS
agitpapa @agitpapa +sent 2 train PKK. Others circled at random are also supposed 2 b “BND agents” like guy @ bottom, Jack Holmes (UK) Watch pics : http://www.mesop.de/?p=63970
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP : WO „DAS ASYLRECHT MIT FÜSSEN GETRETEN WIRD“ !
‘We love you’: Angela Merkel becomes an unlikely hero to Syrians online
The Washington Post
This week, Germany made a small yet important decision regarding how it deals with Syrian migrants. Instead of deporting the migrants to the first European Union country they arrived in – as Germany was allowed to do for decades under an old E.U. regulation known as the Dublin procedure – it will now instead allow Syrians to remain in Germany and apply for asylum within the country.
The decision has huge implications for the tens of thousands of Syrians who have arrived in Germany so far this year. Germany’s asylum laws are considered relatively relaxed, and many are keen to seek refuge in the country. The change will likely significantly shorten the legal limbo that even refugees with strong cases for asylum can face.
Online, some Syrians have decided to show their gratitude for the decision by thanking German Chancellor Angela Merkel personally. In the past few days, glorifying images of Merkel have spread online through Syrian communities.
Syrian poet Lukman Derky shared a number of images praising Merkel, including the one below, which superimposed Merkel’s face over a romantic poem.
MESOP : AN ANGEL CALLED ANGELA ! – Why are Syrians sending love letters to Angela Merkel?
Syrian poet Lukman Derky shared a number of images praising Merkel, including the one below, which superimposed Merkel’s face over a romantic poem.
BBC Trending – What’s popular and why – 26 August 2015 –
Far-right protesters in Germany may be booing Chancellor Merkel, but Syrians are sending her loving notes on Facebook. The message came in a tweet from Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees on Tuesday. Syrian citizens, the office said, would no longer be subject to the Dublin Regulation. The real meaning behind the rather dry edict? Germany won’t send Syrian asylum seekers back to the EU country where they first landed – for instance, Greece or Italy. The move will potentially allow thousands to claim refugee status in Germany, and it seems to have been big news among Syrians.
Overnight it prompted an outpouring of love on Facebook for Germans and, in particular, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP : 10 QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA ABOUT IRAN
By Jeffrey Goldberg with Robert Satloff – The Atlantic – August 27, 2015
The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg — who frequently interviews President Obama on Middle East issues — poses Robert Satloff’s ten provocative questions on the Iran deal and promises to get answers. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63990
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP : TACTICAL PRE-ELECTIONS GAMES IN TURKEY – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Istanbul deputy rejects interim gov’t offer
ISTANBUL,— The Istanbul deputy of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Levent Tuzel, has rejected Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s invitation to accept a ministry in the upcoming caretaker government, the deputy announced Thursday. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63994
MESOP SPECIAL : JIHADOLOGY & MEDICINE
The Archivist: Critical Analysis of the Islamic State’s Health Department – by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi – Jihadology August 27, 2015 – The Islamic State’s [IS] health department (Diwan al-Siha) is probably most familiar to UK readers, who will recognize the ‘ISHS’ (Islamic State Health Service) branding as a spin-off of the ‘NHS’ (National Health Service). Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63992
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP ALARM ! – 153 Kurdish Children Radicalised by Islamic State
Basnews | Hazhar Mamuzini – 27.08.2015 18:41 – MOSUL – As Islamic State (IS) continues to recruit jihadists from around the world to reinforce frontlines in Iraq and Syria; reports of the kidnap of underage children are emerging. The children are radicalised through the teaching of IS religious philosophy and military training. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=63996
MESOP TODAYS Iraq Situation Report – August 25 – 27, 2015
by: Sinan Adnan,Theodore Bell, Patrick Martin and ISW Iraq Team
Key Takeaway: The ISIS mobile defense of SVBIEDs around Ramadi affirms ISF reports of advances around the city. Over the past week ISIS responded to ISF advances west of Ramadi by ambushing and targeting ISF forward positions with SVBIEDs. ISIS also managed to kill the commander of the Iraqi Army (IA) 10th Division and the deputy commander of the Anbar Operations Command on August 27 in an attack on a forward ISF position, which was likely a targeted strike. In western Anbar the ISF has responded to this week’s surge in ISIS attacks on Haditha by launching a clearing operation in Baghdadi sub-district, partially dislodging ISIS. As the ISF fights to retake urban centers in Anbar, its ability to retain ISF-held terrain, such as Haditha, will remain an important indicator of the viability of clearing operations. The same challenge faces the ISF in northern Iraq, specifically in Baiji, Salah ad-Din. Despite ISIS’s recent offensive on Baiji, the ISF has maintained its positions and has reported advances in central Baiji and surrounding villages. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64001
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP : HUMANE ZWANGSVOLLSTRECKUNG
WDR @WDR 48m48 minutes ago – Flüchtlinge in NRW: Gelsenkirchen & Dortmund schließen Beschlagnahmung privater Immobilien nicht aus. http://www1.wdr.de/themen/aktuell/beschlagnahmungen-asylunterkuenfte-100.html … 1/2
MESOP : ANTIRASSISTISCHER FEMINISMUS REINIGT BIBLIOTHEKEN
Stadtbücherei Bad Dürrheim – Bad Wording
In Bad Dürrheim wurden fast die Hälfte der Regale in der Stadtbücherei leergeräumt. Aber nicht von gelangweilten Lesern auf der Suche nach Lektüre: Die Bücher wurden quasi aus Altersgründen entlassen.
Nachrichten aus Bad Dürrheim, einem bei Donaueschingen gelegenen Städtchen, schaffen es normalerweise nicht unbedingt in die überregionale Berichterstattung. Und auch diesmal nur wegen eines zeitgemäßen, ja zeittypischen Schildbürgerstreichs, den allerdings nicht die Stadt und die dortige Bücherei (denn um diese geht es) zu verantworten haben, sondern das Regierungspräsidium und genauer eine von diesem beauftragte Christina Kälberer. Dem „Südkurier“ entnehmen wir die Einzelheiten. 3200 Bände wurden aus der Bibliothek entfernt, vierzig Prozent des Gesamtbestandes. Ausgemustert wurde „nicht nach gut Dünken“ (sic!), wie Frau Kälberer dem „Südkurier“ mitteilte. Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=63986
PRESSEMITTEILUNG KURDISCHER NATIONALKONGRESS (KNK) / PKK
- August 2015 -Der Türkische Staatsterror in Kurdistan geht weiter / Polizei- und Militärangriffe im Gebiet Yuksekova bei Hakkari: 3 Tote, mindestens 10 Verletzte
Seit dem 24. Juli hat der türkische Staat einen schmutzigen Krieg gegen das kurdische Volk aufgenommen. In diesem Krieg bombardieren sie sowohl die kurdischen Gebiete in der Türkei, als auch im Irak. Die Bevölkerung wird terrorisiert, in vielen kurdischen Städten wurden Ausgangssperren erlassen (u.a. Semdinli, Varto, Lice, Hani, Ergani, Eruh, Farqin). Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=63988
MESOP: DAS DUNKELSTE DEUTSCHLAND
Die größte evangelische Gemeinde in Bonn – Bad Godesberg ist die Erlösergemeinde. Am 11. Dezember 2014 fand sich in ihrer Post ein anonymer Drohbrief mit Briefkopf und Unterschrift in arabischen Schriftzeichen. Er hatte folgenden Text:
„An den Vorbeter der Versammlung von Ungläubigen, die ihr evangelische Gemeinde nennt: Islam ist die einzig wahre Religion. Ihr bekommt die Gelegenheit zum Annehmen des Islam in den nächsten drei Monaten von jetzt an. Lest Al-Q´ran und nehmt den Islam an! Macht von Eurem Haus eine Moschee, die nur den Muslimen offen steht! Ihr müsst in den nächsten drei Monaten erklären, dass ihr Islam freiwillig angenommen und von Eurem Versammlungshaus eine Moschee gemacht hat. Das müsst ihr im TV und Internet machen, so dass alle Menschen davon hören und sehen. Wenn ihr euch aber Islam ver-weigert: Wir werden zuerst Dich finden. Wir werden dich strafen im Namen von ALLAH, welchen du verleugnest! Wir werden deine Brut finden und strafen! Wir werden das Haus für eine Moschee einfach nehmen und alle strafen, die Islam nicht freiwillig angenommen haben!“
Das Presbyterium der Gemeinde entschied nach einer Beratung mehrheitlich, den Brief nicht zu veröffentlichen und auch die Gemeindemitglieder nicht zu informieren. Man fürchtete offenbar einerseits Repressalien, andererseits den Ruf der Islamfeindlichkeit. Nur durch eine Indiskretion kam es zu einer Weitergabe des Briefes.