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MESOP NEWS – DON’T TAKE GERMAN PROTEST TOO SERIOUS
Germany formally protests Erdogan’s accusations that it sponsors terrorism. By contrast Obama WH just sits there and takes in the abuse.
duvaR @gazeteduvar – Almanya Türkiye’ye nota verdi http://www.gazeteduvar.com.tr/politika/2016/11/23/almanyadan-turkiyeye-terore-destek-notasi/ …
MESOP LATEST
Seems two more Kurd mayors, these from Bitlis, detained twitter.com/dbpgenelmerkez… https://twitter.com/dbpgenelmerkez_/status/801680959053692928
MESOP : THE ROJAVA PKK/PYD STALINISM
Seth Frantzman liked – Vager Saadullah @VagerSaadulla 1h1 hour ago
Acco to Kurdish activists, PYD authorities released 2 KNC (KDP-S) leaders: Nashat Zaza and Nafih Abdulla and one Journalist Barzan Sheikhmos – www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS : GREEN LIGHT FOR PUTIN ONLY
Green lemon @green_lemonnn – Green lemon Retweeted PM Bureau, DoS
US is still enforcing MANPADS ban in Syria after the laissez-faire of 2012.
PM Bureau, DoS @StateDeptPM – @SAMonitorOrg @MSchroeder77: No change in US policy-as we have long said, deep concern about prospect of these weapons in #Syria conflict. https://twitter.com/SAMonitorOrg/status/801183612175454208 …
MESOP NEWS : ERDOGAN – THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST
Human Rights Turkey @HumanRightsTR – Erdogan:”Time to stop the West plundering of gold/oil in #Africa” while himself controlling gold lands in #Somalia www.mesop.de
MESOP HEARTBREAKING !
Soner Cagaptay @SonerCagaptay – Soner Cagaptay Retweeted Freedom House – Just heartbreaking –Turkey is ranked “not free” for the first time 🙁 www.mesop.de
Freedom House @FreedomHouseDC – How did your country rank in the Freedom on the Net 2016 report? https://freedomonthenet.org #netfreedom2016
MESOP NEWS SPECIAL : Donald Trump Jr. Held Talks on Syria With Russia Supporters – (Those meetings have included Turkey’s former president, Abdullah Gul; former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan; and James Rubin, a one-time State Department spokesman who advised Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.) – THE ROLE OF RANDA KASSIS
Disclosure of the Paris meetings in October could heighten focus on the president-elect’s desire to cooperate with the Kremlin – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL – By Jay Solomon – Nov. 23, 2016 12:05 p.m. ET – WASHINGTON—Donald Trump’s eldest son, emerging as a potential envoy for the president-elect, held private discussions with diplomats, businessmen and politicians in Paris last month that focused in part on finding a way to cooperate with Russia to end the war in Syria, according to people who took part in the meetings.Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80358
MESOP BACKGROUND : THE ORTON REPORT – TURKISH WARRANTS CONTRA PKK MEMBERS IN EUROPE / GERMANY ( NAMES & FACTS) – Henry Jackson Society
Analysis: ‘Turkey Continues to Protest the Coalition’s Syrian Kurdish Allies’ – By Kyle Orton
22 Nov 2016 – This morning, Turkey issued arrest warrants for forty-eight members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has fought a forty-year war against the Turkish state. The PKK is listed as terrorist by Ankara, Britain, the European Union, NATO, and the United States. Among those being sought is Saleh Muslim Muhammad, the leader of the Syrian branch of the PKK, known as the Democratic Union Party (PYD), whose armed wing—the People’s Protection Units (YPG)—happens to be the favoured Western instrument in combatting the Islamic State (IS) in Syria. The West has long denied or obfuscated the fact it is working with an organization that a NATO partner considers its nemesis and a long-standing threat to its national security. The Turks, it seems, are not content to let this ambiguity stand, and there are good reasons of Western self-interest why the alliance with the PKK deserves another look. – The Structure of the PKK : http://www.mesop.de/?p=80356
MESOP TODAYS WASHINGTONIAN THOUGHTS
Washington D.C. Imam Abdul Alim Musa: Zionists Brought Trump, Like Hitler, To Power; We Have To Rescue The Poor Dumb Americans
23 Nov 2016 – Washington, D.C. Imam Abdul Alim Musa discussed the results of the U.S. presidential election in his November 18 Friday sermon at the Al-Islam Mosque in the city. The Zionists have “created a ‘Hitlerian’ environment in the U.S,” said Imam Musa. He accused “the Zionists” of carrying out the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and framing the Muslims, and of treating the Palestinians “exactly like the Nazis treated the Europeans.” The sermon was posted on the YouTube channel of Imam Musa’s As-Sabiqun organization. The Arkansas-born imam is the director and founder of As-Sabiqun and of the Islamic Institute of Counter-Zionist American Psychological Warfare, and is also a member of the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought. www.mesop.de
MESOP RECOMMENDATION : Michael Gunter – Erdoğan and the Decline of Turkey
The Author Middle East Policy © 2016, Middle East Policy Council
Erdoğan and the Decline of Turkey
Dr. Gunter is a professor of political science at Tennessee Technological
University and the author of 14 books on Kurdish and Armenian issues.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — Turkey’s current president (elected 2014) and former prime
minister (2003-2014) — in his first decade in power, won three parliamentary
elections by ever-larger shares of the popular vote because he had helped to
build Turkey into a burgeoning economic powerhouse and a moderate Islamic democracy.
In the past half-decade, however, despite winning Turkey’s first popular
election for president in August 2014 and presiding over another great parliamentary
victory in November 2015, Erdoğan’s increasing authoritarianism has helped
precipitate the disastrous decline of the nation as well as his own inevitable fall from
power. What happened, and what lessons can be gleaned? Can Turkey’s decline be
reversed, and its progress revived? Read all
MESOP NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP DOCUMENTS – SPEECH BY MOGHERINI ON TURKEY / EU PARLIAMENT
23 Nov 2016 – Federica Mogherini, Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. –
Madam President, once again we gather here to discuss Turkey, and rightly so. I see that the other group leaders – most of them – are present here in the Chamber.
Our relationship with Turkey is at a crossroads because Turkey itself is at a crossroads. On the night of 15 July – we discussed it in September, I remember it very well – during the attempted coup d’état, we stood on the side of Turkey’s democracy and the democratic institutions. We stood on the side of the Turkish people who took to the streets and bravely confronted the tanks. We stood on the side of the over 200 innocent people who were shot down that night. We stood on the side of the Parliament as it was being bombed and of the Turkish parties – all of them that spoke against the coup and in support of democracy – all of them. Read full speech http://www.mesop.de/?p=80354
MESOP NEWS “ A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF OURS” : The Arrest of Ahmet Turk: Erdogan’s Bloody Dictatorship Must Be Stopped
By Arian Mufid: In light of Monday’s events in Turkey in which prominent Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (HDP) MP Ahmet Turk was arrested, I reflected on the time three years ago in July 2013 when I met this great man for 25 minutes in Erbil, the capital of south Kurdistan. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80367
MESOP NEWS SPEECHES : OSMAN RECEP E. – THE FOUNDER OF NATO – REPUBLIC OF TURKEY – OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER
PRESIDENT ERDOGAN WARNS NATO – “We should work harder than ever in order to equip NATO with the right perspective and power necessitated by its global duties.”
Date : 21.11.2016 – Source : Vatan – President Erdoğan addressed NATO Parliamentary Assembly Autumn Session in İstanbul.
Following are highlights from Erdoğan’s speech: Read full text http://www.mesop.de/?p=80383
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP Analysis: Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces in Iran’s game plan / THE TERROR CORRIDOR EN ROUTE LEBANON & ISRAEL
BY AMIR TOUMAJ | November 23rd, 2016 | amir@defenddemocracy.org | @AmirToumaj
As Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have been closing in on Tal Afar, a town 33 miles west of Mosul, alongside the western Mosul axis, the organization’s top commanders have openly discussed their post-Islamic State plans to secure the border with Syria and push into the country. These senior militia commanders are closely affiliated and coordinated with Iran. The spokesman of Iranian-backed Harakat al Nujaba vowed on Nov. 18 that the PMF, as “one of Iraq’s security institutions,” was ready to pursue the Islamic State into Syria per the request of the Syrian government and the approval of the Iraqi government and parliament. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80363
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER : ISIS – A Catastrophe for Sunnis
By Liz Sly – Washington Post – 2016-11-23 21:34 GMT – The Islamic State is being crushed, its fighters are in retreat and the caliphate it sought to build in the image of a bygone glory is crumbling. The biggest losers, however, are not the militants, who will fulfill their dreams of death or slink into the desert to regroup, but the millions of ordinary Sunnis whose lives have been ravaged by their murderous rampage.No religious or ethnic group was left unscathed by the Islamic State’s sweep through Iraq and Syria. Shiites, Kurds, Christians and the tiny Yazidi minority have all been victims of horrific atrocities, and they now are fighting and dying in the battles to defeat the militants. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80369
MESOP NEWS : A MEETING BARZANI / ERDOGAN – Turkish, Iraqi Kurdish Region Premiers Discuss Mosul
By Sinan Uslu – aa.com.tr – 2016-11-23 18:10 GMT – Prime Minister Binali Yildirim discussed the developments in Iraq, especially the military operation in Mosul with Kurdish Regional Government’s premier Nechirvan Barzani in Ankara on Wednesday, a source at the Prime Ministry said.Yildirim and Barzani met for about an hour at the Cankaya Palace, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80371
MESOP NEWS SPECIAL : A RUSSIAN / US MEDIA FIGHT AT IT’S BEST ! RT correspondent Gayane Chichakyan and State Department spokesman John Kirby
Russia Today Picks A Fight With the State Department – Matt Armstrong, a specialist on public diplomacy and member of the US Broadcasting Board of Governors, writes for War on the Rocks:
In a combative exchange with State Department spokesman John Kirby at a press briefing last week, a representative from RT, a Kremlin-directed outlet, stated that “If you give specifics, my colleagues would be able to ask Russian officials.” It was an interesting statement to make and suggested that RT would only question Russian officials if the State Department did their research for them. This is not how journalists work, but RT is not an organization that produces journalism. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80365
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER : LIST OF RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA – October 26 – Nov 20 – 2016
By Christopher Kozak and Jonathan Mautner – Russia announced the start of a “major operation” against positions allegedly held by ISIS and al-Qaeda in Central Syria on November 15. The operation is designed to showcase the military strength and power projection capabilities of the Russian Armed Forces. The Russian aircraft carrier ‘Admiral Kuznetsov’ launched a number of sorties from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea targeting core opposition-held terrain in Idlib and Aleppo Provinces – the first such use of an aircraft carrier in combat by Russia. These strikes were accompanied by a wave of cruise missiles launched from missile frigates accompanying the ‘Admiral Kuznetsov’ as well as long-range strategic bombers sortied from Northern Russia. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=80381
MESOP EXTRA – NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) – EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FINAL RESOLUTION ON EU – TURKEYY RELATIONS
Dear MESOP Readers,
with reference to my previous emails, let me confirm that few moments ago the European Parliament has adopted its announced resolution on EU-TURKEY RELATION. The text has been adopted with 479 votes in favour, 37 against, 107 abstentions.
Please find attached the text AS ADOPTED. Please also be informed that one amendment tabled by the EPP Group is included in the text, as in the par.6 of the attachment.
Best regards Kathrina
European Parliament – 2014-2019 |
Plenary sitting
European Parliament resolution on EU-Turkey relations, as adopted in Strasbourg on the 24th of November 2016
(ENGLISH VERSION)
The European Parliament,
– having regard to its previous resolutions, in particular those of 27 October 2016 on the situation of journalists in Turkey[1] and of 14 April 2016 on the 2015 report on Turkey[2],
– having regard to the 2016 annual report on Turkey, published by the Commission on 9 November 2016 (SWD(2016)0366),
– having regard to the EU Negotiating Framework for Turkey, of 3 October 2005,
Read full text http://www.mesop.de/?p=80377
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP DOCUMENTE : SCHLUSSRESOLUTION EU PARLAMENT ZUR LAGE DER TÜRKEI 2016 / DEUTSCHER TEXT
Europäisches Parlament2014-2019 – |
Plenarsitzungsdokument – European Parliament resolution on EU-Turkey relations, as adopted in Strasbourg on the 24th of November 2016 – (GERMAN VERSION)
Das Europäische Parlament,
– unter Hinweis auf seine früheren Entschließungen, insbesondere jene vom 27. Oktober 2016 zu der Lage der Journalisten in der Türkei[1] und vom 14. April 2016 zu dem Bericht 2015 über die Türkei[2], Volltext – http://www.mesop.de/?p=80379
MESOP NEWS “GRENZENLOS” – DIE NEUEN GRENZ- SCHUTZZONEN IN DER “OPEN SOCIETY”
Gewalt und Überfälle: DHL Express setzt Zustellung in Berliner Gewaltkiez aus
Mittwoch, 23.11.2016, 17:13 – Focus – Steigende Gewalt in der Bundeshauptstadt hat dazu geführt, dass der Paketdienst DHL Express in Berliner Gewaltkiezen nicht mehr überall Pakete zustellt. In Wedding wurden die Lieferungen jetzt ausgesetzt.
MESOP NEWS : IMMERHIN ! EINE ANZEIGE ! / KEINE EINZIGE RELEVANTE DEMO IN DER BRD SEITENS DER GUTMENSCHEN & LBGT PEOPLE & LINKEN
Kriegsverbrechen & Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit Deutsche Anwälte zeigen Syriens Machthaber Assad an – “Was in Aleppo passiert, ist Völkermord in Zeitlupe”, sagte der Berliner Anwalt Mehmet Daimagüler. Gemeinsamen mit anderen Juristen will er Syriens Diktator Assad vor Gericht bringen. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=80361
MESOP NEWS : DAS ZU-TODE-SCHLEIFEN-VON-HAMELN / BÜRGERMEISTER : MIT „TOLERANZ BEGEGNEN“ (Da werden sich die Mhallim Kurden aber wundern)
Mit einer Mahnwache haben Menschen in Hameln an das brutale Verbrechen an einer 28-Jährigen erinnert. Laut Polizei versammelten sich etwa 300 Teilnehmer. Darunter waren auch viele Angehörige des Opfers. Die Frau war am Sonntag von ihrem früheren Lebensgefährten mit einem Seil um den Hals an ein Auto gebunden und über die Straße geschleift worden. Sie schwebt noch immer in Lebensgefahr. Am Sonntagabend hatte ein 38-Jähriger seine Ex-Freundin mit einem Strick um den Hals an ein Auto gebunden und durch die Stadt geschleift. Die Frau schwebt in Lebensgefahr. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=80373
MESOP NEWS „MEGA-IDENT ITÄRES“ VON LINKS / NIEDERSACHSEN : ARABISCH IN KITA – TÜRKISCH BEIM ABITUR – EBENSO FÜR DEUTSCHE SCHÜLER, DIE DADURCH NUN ENDLICH AUCH EINMAL SCHLECHTERE EINGANGSVORAUSSETZUNGEN ERLEBEN –
- Herkunftssprache auch noch in der 3. Generation –
…. Sagt einer, er liebe die deutsche Sprache, gilt er Linken schon als halber NAZI. Daß man nur in seiner EIGENEN Sprache kommunizieren kann, die ewig herkunftsmäßig festgeschrieben ist, gilt hingegen nicht als essentiell identitär, sondern ist förderungswürdig und emanzipatorisch. Dialektik der Unterwerfung. (MESOP KOMMENTAR)
FAZ – HANNOVER, 23. November. In Niedersachsen wollen die beiden Regierungsfraktionen von SPD und Grünen das ändern. Am Mittwoch wurde im Hannoveraner Landtag daher über einen Antrag beraten, nach dem Einwanderersprachen auf längere Sicht zu regulären Schulfächern werden sollen. Sprachen wie Türkisch hätten dann „Zeugnisrelevanz”. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=80375