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New video message from The Islamic State: “Dear Refugees, Hear It From Us – Wilāyat al-Jazīrah” http://bit.ly/1iq1Es3  #jihadology

While Western MIGRATION lobbyists imagine a “Fortress Europe – PKK, KNC-Barzani, Islamists and Assad are protesting against migration and against the extreme permeability of European borders. Facing severe brain drain and empty states.

SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)     

MESOP BACKGROUNDER : Iraqi Shiite militia promotes training camp named after Qods Force general

BY BILL ROGGIO AND CALEB WEISS | September 19, 2015 | Long War Journal – Saraya al Khorasani, an Iranian-backed Shiite militia that operates alongside the Iraqi military, released a short video advertising one of its training camps. The location of the facility is unknown, however, the beginning of the video includes an aerial shot in Iraq’s western province of Anbar. The training camp is called the “Sheikh Hajj Hamid Taqavi training center.” It is named after Hamid Taqavi, an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps – Qods Force general who was killed by an Islamic State sniper late last year. Taqavi served as a military adviser to Saraya al Khorasani when he was killed. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64956

 

MESOP : PUK STATEMENT BY FROMER SADDAM HUSSEIN AGENT SAADI AHMAD PIRA

20 Sep 2015 – MESOP – KDP has not asked for extending Barzani’s term: PUK official tells Kurdpress

The chief of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) negotiating delegation in 5-party meetings stated that the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has not officially demanded extending Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani’s term or nominating him for another term. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64962

 

MESOP NEWS – Baghdad can not intervene in Kurdistan Region’s presidency problem

Today : A deputy to Iraqi parliamentary spokesman told Kurdpress that the central government in Baghdad cannot intervene in the presidency issue of the Kurdish region in the north. A member of Change Movement (Gorran) in Iraqi parliament, Aram Sheikh Muhammad, told Kurdpress that presidency problem is an internal issue of the region and Baghdad is not allowed legally to intervene. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64964

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP : FROM THE RED LINE” TO OPEN DOORS / RUSSIA & US ON THE SAME PAGE

John Kerry Says U.S. ‘Open’ on Timing of Syrian President’s Departure / WALL STREET JOURNAL

Secretary of State says U.S. could agree on allowing Bashar al-Assad to remain in power for a period before stepping down

19 Sep 2015 – LONDON—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday that the U.S. would accept a resolution to the Syrian war that allowed President Bashar al-Assad to remain in place for a period before stepping down.“We’re not being doctrinaire about the specific date or time. We’re open,” Mr. Kerry said in London after a meeting with his British counterpart, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. – Think Tank: Are the U.S. and Russia Now on the Same Page About Syria? – Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64958

 

New Tank Identification Guide for Rebels : How to determine if your target is crewed by SAA or Russians. Click for pics http://www.mesop.de/?p=64971

 

MESOP : The World Refugee producer – Assad’s Strategy Is To Create Refugees / “They want to empty the country.”

BUZZ FEED – Sept. 19, 2015, by Mike Giglio – More than two years after he buried the bodies from a massacre in his village near Damascus by forces loyal to the Syrian president, he sat in an Istanbul park alongside dozens of other refugees, waiting with their life jackets to make the journey to Europe by sea. “They want to empty the country,” he said, sitting with his wife and two children as he described how government soldiers had bombed the village of Jdeidet al-Fadel and then executed residents in their homes, suspecting them of rebel sympathies. Some, he said, were “beheaded like chickens.” After helping with the burials, he snuck his family into Turkey. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=64960

 

MESOP Syrian military source: We started using new weapons from Russia

Friday, 18 September 2015 10:31 – Middle East Monitor – The Syrian army has recently begun using new types of air and ground weapons supplied by Russia, A Syrian military source revealed yesterday. The source described the weapons as being highly efficient and accurate. He said that the army began to use them over the past few weeks after being trained in Syria in the recent months. In response to a question on Russia’s military support for Syria, the source said that there has been a supply of new types of weapons. The Syrian army is being trained on the use of these weapons and is now in fact beginning to use some of them. He continued saying: “The weapons are highly effective and very accurate, and hit the targets precisely.” https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/21142-syrian-military-source-we-started-using-new-weapons-from-russia

 

MESOP : A ONE PARTY ONLY DICTATORSHIP – Kurdish Party Withdraws From Election in Afrin – On September 10th Efrin Canton carried out municipal election

Basnews – 20.09.2015 16:12 – EFRIN – The Kurdish Democratic Union party in Syria has withdrawn from the elections in Afrin carried one week ago, NGO Kurdwatch has reported. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64988

 

MESOP : THE STALINIST REGIME OF PYD(PKK) DON’T KNOW ABOUT PLURALISTIC UNITY / REPORT ABOUT THE PYD DICTATORSHIP

 

PYD Leader: No Possibility of Peshmerga Return to Rojava – Peshmerga cause violence and destruction: Salih Muslim

Basnews | Herman Khalid – 20.09.2015 12:35 – QAMISHLI – Salih Muslim, co-leader of the main Kurdish party in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), the Democratic Union Party (PYD), has ruled out any “possibility” of Syrian Kurdish Peshmerga forces’ return to Rojava.

In an interview with his party’s media, Muslim said the return of Peshmerga forces to Syrian Kurdistan to fight Islamic State (IS) and the Syrian regime “will cause violence and destruction”. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64990

 

MESOP FLASH : 75 US-Backed Rebels Enter Syria From Turkey

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claim fighters in Aleppo – Basnews – 20.09.2015 15:47

ANKARA – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) is reporting that dozens of vehicles carrying fighters, weapons and ammunition have crossed the Bab al-Salama border from Turkey into Syria overnight on Friday 18th September. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64992

 

MESOP : KURDWATCH HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT WEST KURDIST AN (SYRIA) – AUGUST – SEPT 2015

–          More human rights violations by the Stalinist PYD – Al-Qamishli: Forced recruitments continue

KURDWATCH, September 4, 2015—On August 29 and 30, 2015, employees of the Asayiş, the security service of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), forcibly recruited numerous young men at checkpoints in al‑Qamishli, ʿAmudah, and Raʾs al‑ʿAyn (Serê Kaniyê). According to eyewitness reports, approximately one hundred fifty recruits were brought to the Tall Baydar training camp, located twenty‑five kilometers east of Tall Tamr. Read more : http://www.mesop.de/?p=65001

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

MESOP : Governors approved only 8 out of 290 military requests for anti-PKK ops, report says

September 19, 2015, Saturday/ 18:51:45/ TODAYSZAMAN.COM / ISTANBUL

 

Governors of provinces where the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is most active let the Turkish military carry out only 8 operations against the terrorist group in 2014, even though military forces sought to conduct 290 operations, the Hürriyet daily reported on Saturday. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64966

 

MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY BY CENGIZ CANDAR

Is AKP heading for a split? / AL MONITOR – 19 Sep 2015 – The Justice and Development Party (AKP) has ruled Turkey single-handedly for more than a decade, winning a solid majority in three successive elections, in 2002, 2007 and 2011.It not only won every election, it increased its share of votes each time. In 2002, less than a year after it was founded, the AKP became a single-party government, surprising many in and outside Turkey by pulling in around 34% of the votes cast. Read more: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64968

 

KRG gas unlikely to arrive in Turkey earlier than 2019

ALI ÜNAL – Daily Sabah – 20 Sep 2015 – – With uncertainty surrounding the Turkish Stream Project, Turkey is turning to alternative routes, with gas from the KRG expected to enter the equation in the coming years. As the future of the Turkish Stream is still uncertain due to disagreements between Russia and Turkey, natural gas resources from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq are considered by Turkey as another option for diversifying the energy mix and supply security. While some sources claim that KRG gas is scheduled to come into operation and arrive in Turkey in 2017, current projects suggest that it is unlikely reach Turkey before 2019. Read more: http://www.mesop.de/?p=64974

 

THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER

MESOP : SCHWARMINTELLIGENZ VOR DEN PORÖSEN TOREN DER imaginierten „FESTUNG EUROPA“

susannah george ‏@sgreports 24m24 minutes ago – spent this am walking along Lesbos coast w a crew of Iraqi refugees who found it *hilarious* that I still use an iPhone 4 #timetoupgrade

 

MESOP: SECRET DOCUMENT – PKK PREPARES MILITANT ATTACKS IN GERMANY

Geheim-Papier enthüllt – Vor Neuwahl in der Türkei: LKA befürchtet Anschläge der PKK in Deutschland

Sonntag, 20.09.2015, 17:07 – Aus einem Papier des Berliner Landeskriminalamtes geht hervor, dass die Behörde bundesweit Anschläge der Kurdenorganisation PKK für „wahrscheinlich“ hält. Vor allem Einrichtungen mit Bezug zur Türkei seien gefährdet. Die bevorstehende Wahl in der Türkei verschärft derzeit die Bedrohung.   Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=64983

 

MESOP : KURDWATCH MENSCHENRECHTSBERICHT AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2015

–          Erneut schwerwiegende Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch PYD (PKK) in West Kurdistan – Syrien – ʿ Afrin: PYD lässt PDK‑S-Mitglied Falamaz ʿUthman nach fast zwei Monaten frei

KURDWATCH, 17. August 2015 – Am 2. September 2015 hat der Asayiş, der Sicherheitsdienst der Partei der Demokratischen Union (PYD), Falamaz ʿUthman wieder freigelassen. Das Mitglied der Demokratischen Partei Kurdistans – Syrien (PDK‑S) war am 7. Juli 2015 vom Asayiş entführt worden [weitere Informationen]. Bislang war ʿUthman nicht erreichbar, um zu erfahren, was ihm vorgeworfen wurde. Gesamt – Report lesen : http://www.mesop.de/?p=64999