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MESOP : FREE GOOD OLD AHMET TURK
State removes elected Mardin mayor Ahmet Turk & appoints administrator. Some 20 Kurdish cities have had same http://m.t24.com.tr/haber/gorevden-alinan-ahmet-turk-12-eylulde-basaramadilar-yine-basaramayacaklar,371290 …
MESOP : SYRIA NOT TO BE RENEWED ! TOO COSTLY !
#pt: Abdullah Dardari to #MEIconf – “Lets be realistic, the international community will never provide $200bn for #Syria‘s reconstruction.”
#pt: Abdullah Dardari at #MEIconf: #Syria doesn’t have infrastructure/resources/money/capacity to rebuild. Huge questions to be asked now.
MESOP NO COMMENT ! – In Continuing Purge, Turkey Removes Only Assyrian Mayor
Assyrian International News Agency – 2016-11-17 – Februniye Akyol, the first Assyrian mayor in Turkey, was removed today by Turkish authorities.Mardin, Turkey (AINA) — Turkey removed the two co-mayors of Mardin today and replaced them with a so-called qayyum (guardian). The co-mayors, Februniye Akyol and Ahmet Turk, were elected co-mayors of Mardin on March 30, 2014. Februniye Akyol was the first Assyrian female mayor in Turkey and ran as a member of a Kurdish political party.
MESOP : UNDER HAKAN FIDAN’S DIRECTION
Turkish jets attacked YPG targets around Ghazzawi village in Afrin canton following the Oct. 29 visit of Turkish Chief of General Staff Hulusi Akar and Chief of National Intelligence Hakan Fidan to Moscow. Full text http://www.mesop.de/?p=80156
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MESOP : PUTIN BOMBS ISIS – ON 700 KM’S DISTANCE
RT Verified account @RT_com – URGENT: Russian jets striking Idlib & #Homs to prevent #ISIS fighters fleeing #Mosul from entering #Syria – #Lavrov http://on.rt.com/7vff
Usman A. Khan @TheDocKhan – @RT_com Idlib and Mosul are so close – only 700 kms away from each other. Another little fact: there’s no ISIS in Idlib and Homs. pic.twitter.com/4yEXVi4j0t 2:38 AM – 18 Nov 2016
MESOP TODAYS BACKGROUNDER By Metin Gurcan
Will Trump see eye to eye with Erdogan’s plans in Iraq, Syria?
17 Nov 2016 – AL MONITOR – US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joe Dunford visited Ankara Nov. 6 and held a 4½-hour meeting with his Turkish counterparts.
This sudden, unplanned visit led some to wonder if there was a rupture between Ankara’s strategic thinking on Iraq and Syria and the United States’ goals in the region. This article will attempt to analyze the factors that prompted the Dunford visit and scenarios of what Ankara may have in mind.Ankara was caught totally off guard by the Raqqa operation the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched Nov. 6. Ankara was expecting that operation to begin after the US presidential election on Nov. 8. The SDF is dominated by the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Turkey considers the PKK a terrorist organization. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80156
MESOP NEWS SPECIAL : International Arrest Warrant Issued By Putin For George Soros!
17 Nov 2016 – MESOP / dpa – Russia has now made the billionaire George Soros a wanted man and has said that his organizations are a “threat to Russian national security”.It was last year that Soros was banned from Russia due to the fact that he helped to nearly destroy the Russian economy at the start of the 1990’s.Russia just issued arrest warrant for George Soros! www.mesop.de
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS : THE PRO-GAY-CHEERLEADER IN TRUMP’S CABINET FAVORS INDEPENDENT KURDISTAN – Top contender for US Secretary of State backs an independent Kurdistan
Erbil – 17 Nov 2016 – Ara News – Former UN Ambassador and top contender for the US Secretary of State, John Bolton, has said an independent Kurdish state is emerging, “which could be in America’s favour”. “The Kurds are moving inexorably toward de jure declaration of a ‘Kurdistan’ of uncertain reach,” John Bolton said last Sunday. Bolton had earlier wrote that an independent Kurdistan is emerging after years of effort.“The functional independence of Kurdistan reinforces this approach. The Kurds have finally become too big a force in the region for Baghdad or Damascus to push them around. They will not be cajoled or coerced into relinquishing territory they now control to Mr. Assad in Syria or to Iraq’s Shiite militias,” he wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times in November 2015. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80158
MESOP SPECIAL : Russia’s Growing Middle Eastern Prowess / A briefing by Anna Borshchevskaya
November 17, 2016 – MEFORUM – Anna Borshchevskaya, the Ira Weiner Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a fellow at the European Foundation for Democracy, briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on November 3, 2016.
Moscow’s military intervention in Syria has not only made it a key factor in that country’s civil war but has also boosted its regional standing, netted it a major naval outlet in the Eastern Mediterranean, and exacerbated Europe’s domestic problems by accelerating the refugee outpour into the Continent. – While minimizing the Middle East’s sectarian divide and portraying its intervention as support for the Syrian government’s legitimate fight against terrorists, Moscow has effectively backed a Shiite, anti-Sunni bloc by aligning itself with Tehran – a historic-enemy-turned-ally in opposition to Western regional interests. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80166
MESOP ENLIGHTMENT : Remember who all told you that Kremlin is directing directly Trump !?
Why Kremlin Spin Doctors Will Regret Their Enthusiasm for Trump
18 Nov CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT – Russia’s propaganda masters didn’t expect Trump to win. State media outlets praised him every which way and painted him as a good friend to Russia, unofficially backed by the Kremlin. But the idea was that Trump would be cheated of his victory in yet another example of how great a role Putin plays on the world stage and how unscrupulous the American elite is.
Russian TV channels spent months championing Donald Trump ahead of the U.S. election as an ally of Russia and possibly even part of a Kremlin plot—all on the basis that he would lose. Now that he has won the election, this strategy looks set to backfire on the Kremlin, as the future president is unlikely to make good on the promises of Russian propagandists, leaving Russians disenchanted with their government’s foreign policy. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80172
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS : PKK/PYD PUNISHING CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA
Assyrian Lawyer Detained By Kurds in Syria
By Paul Antonopoulos – almasdarnews.com – 2016-11-17 17:06 GMT – Assyrian lawyer Riyad Lahdo Ado from al-Malikiyah in Syria’s northeast Hasakeh province was kept in Kurdish custody for 24 hours before he was released on Tuesday November 15.The reason for the interrogation and interrogation is because an old land dispute with two Kurdish lawyers, where he had been successful in Syrian courts, according to Assyria TV. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80162
MESOP BACKGROUNDER: RUSSIA ESCALATES IT’S AIR CAMPAIGN IN SYRIA
by Chris Kozak, Kathleen Weinberger, Genevieve Casagrande and Jonathan Mautner ( ISW)
18 Nov 2016 – Key Takeaway: Russia resumed its air campaign against Aleppo City on November 15 after a nearly month-long pause on strikes in the besieged city. The operations included sorties launched from the newly-arrived Russian aircraft carrier ‘Admiral Kuznetsov’ and its accompanying battlegroup in order to showcase the military strength and power projection capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces. Russia also announced the deployment of up to seven additional S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Syria in order to reinforce its existing air defense network. Russia aims to advance its short-term goal to force the surrender of the opposition in Aleppo City while setting conditions to constrain the options of the U.S. in Syria in the long-term. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80168
MESOP SYRIA UPDATE: Lavrov – Russia is Bombing to Stop ISIS…Who Are 435 Miles Away
18 Nov 2016 – : The pro-opposition Local Coordination Committees documented the killing of 80 people across Syria on Thursday, including 49 people in Aleppo Province.Pro-Assad attacks also killed 13 people in the Damascus suburbs and 10 in Idlib Province.Among the dead were 17 children and nine women.The LCC is also reporting Russian as well as regime strikes on eastern Aleppo city this morning, including Moscow’s use of parachute-retarded missiles. Districts targeted include Shaar and Sakhour.
ORIGINAL ENTRY: Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has offered a new, novel explanation for Russia’s bombing across northwest Syria, saying that it is prevent Islamic State fighters from entering the opposite side of the country.Lavrov said after “constructive” talks with his US counterpart, John Kerry. on Thursday that warplanes are attacking Idlib and Homs Province so ISIS members cannot retreat from Iraq’s second Mosul — facing an Iraqi-Kurdish offensive — do not cross into Syria:Our aviation and the aviation of Syria work only in the provinces of Idlib and Homs in order to prevent the IS from crossing into Syria from Mosul. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80174
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
!KNOW BETTER WITH MESOP! – THE DAY AFTER MOSUL: LESSONS FROM KIRKUK
Featuring Michael Knights and Najmaldin Karim – PolicyWatch 2726 – November 17, 2016
On November 14, Michael Knights and Najmaldin Karim addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Knights, a Lafer Fellow with the Institute, relayed impressions from his recent two-week visit to Iraq, where he spoke with military leaders serving on the frontlines. Karim was elected governor of Kirkuk province in 2011 after years of service as a pioneering Kurdish activist, Peshmerga medic, and opposition leader during the Saddam Hussein era. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks. MICHAEL KNIGHTS : http://www.mesop.de/?p=80176
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP NEU : ISLAMOPHOBIE ? – NEIN: DAS CHRISTENTUM WURDE & WIRD VERNICHTET
Türkei wandelt Hagia Sophia in Moschee um
von Robert Jones – 18. November 2016 – Englischer Originaltext: Turkey Converts Hagia Sophia to Mosque – Übersetzung: Daniel Heiniger
So scheinen die Köpfe islamischer Hegemonisten zu funktionieren: Wenn ihr wollt, dass die Kirchen Kirchen bleiben, bedeutet dies, dass ihr durch den Koran oder das islamische Gebet “gestört” werdet und den Islam nicht respektiert oder “beleidigt”. Nach islamischen Schriften sollen diejenigen, die den Islam oder seinen Propheten Muhammad “beleidigen”, hingerichtet werden. Wenn man also unter islamischer Herrschaft überleben will, muss man sich dem Islam unterwerfen und den eigenen minderwertigen Status akzeptieren. Es gibt offensichtlich keinen Platz für Vielfalt oder zivilisiertes, gleichwertiges Zusammenleben von Muslimen und Nichtmuslimen in islamischen Ländern. “Ich kann mir nur einen Grund denken (um die Hagia Sophia in eine Moschee umzuwandeln). Als Schrei des islamischen Triumphismus. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80164
MESOP „ZUM TAGE“ : LINKER WIE RECHTER POPULISMUS / VOLKSKÖRPER & BIOKÖRPER
Ribbentrop nach seinem Empfang bei Stalin im August 1939 im Rahmen des Vertragsabschlusses zwischen der Sowjetunion und dem Dritten Reich auf die Frage Hitlers, wie es im Kreml gewesen sei, antwortete: »Wie im Kreise alter Parteigenossen!« In Goebbels’ Tagebüchern schließlich finden sich mehrfach Eintragungen zum Thema, die keinen Zweifel daran lassen, wie sehr die entfesselte Liquidationsbereitschaft des International-Sozialisten Stalin dem National-Sozialisten Goebbels imponierte.
Unmittelbar nach dem 20. Juli 1944 schließlich nennt Hitler den von ihm mit der Prozeßfarce gegen die Verschwörer beauftragten Präsidenten des Volksgerichtshofs Roland Freisler deshalb auch vollkommen angemessen »unser[en] Wyschinski«, Stalins Chefankläger in den Moskauer Prozessen.
Womit er ihn nicht nur zutreffend analogisierte, sondern den inkarnierten Beweis der geschichtlichen Doppel-Figur, um die es hier geht, ins Spiel brachte: Freisler war ja vor seiner Karriere im Dritten Reich bolschewistischer Kommissar während seiner Kriegsgefangenschaft im revolutionären Russland gewesen. Eliminierten Lenin und Stalin über einen »wissenschaftlichen« Begriff vom Sozialkörper, machte Hitler den biologischen Körper zum »wissenschaftlichen« Ausgangspunkt seiner Vernichtungs-Handlungen. Der bei den einen angezielte vollendete »Klassenkörper« ist dabei nur eine Variation des bei dem anderen angestrebten reinen »Volkskörpers»: »Diese Exekution der objektiven Gesetze von Natur oder Geschichte«, erkennt Hannah Arendt in »Elemente und Ursprünge totaler Herrschaft«, »soll schließlich eine Menschheit produzieren — sei es eine Rassegesellschaft oder eine klassen- und nations-lose Gesellschaft —, die in sich selbst nur der Exponent der Gesetze ist, die in ihr verwirklicht werden.«
Wer hier trennt, bedeutet das auch, zerschneidet einen siamesischen Zwilling.
MESOP POST TRUTH DEKLINATIONEN / In simulativen Zeiten
Von Karl Kraus gibt es den bekannten Satz: „Was nicht trifft, trifft auch nicht zu!“
Das leuchtet zunächst ein und bezeichnet den Polemiker; aber die Kombinationsmöglichkeiten in postmodernen Zeiten sind unendlicher als je zuvor:
- Etwas, das zutrifft, trifft.
- Etwas, das nicht zutrifft, trifft nicht, und
- Etwas, das zutrifft, trifft nicht, und
- Etwas, das nicht zutrifft, trifft nicht.
Anything goes! Jegliche Theorie macht sich also lächerlich.