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MESOP NEWS TODAYS QUOTATION : Read Charles Lister !
21 Dec2016 – There was no significant terrorist presence in #Aleppo, but its fall has greatly assisted terrorism http://huff.to/2ibKv5M @Charles_Lister
MESOP NEWS : BYE BYE HOSHIAR ! – avatar Kamal Chomani
RT @MohammedASalih: It’s over for Zebari, court says – Read all ow.ly/CwIG307iyNE #TwitterKurds
MESOP NEWS PICTURES : THE DICTATOR ERDOGAN WITH LITTLE BANA
Der türkische Präsident Erdogan mit der siebenjährigen Bana – Watch pics http://www.mesop.de/?p=81326
MESOP NEWS TODAYS SAMPLER / RELEVANT SOURCES & ANALYSTS
TOP OF THE AGENDA – Iran, Russia, Turkey Announce Joint Declaration on SyriaA joint statement issued by Iran, Russia, and Turkey following a meeting in Moscow said the countries were “ready to assist” and become guarantors (DW) of an agreement in the making between the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and opposition groups. The United States and the United Nations were not invited (NYT) to the negotiations, which came after Ankara and Moscow brokered an evacuation deal for the city of Aleppo. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said “the best solution is a political solution” in Syria (Anadolu). The three countries added that they would collaborate in fighting terrorism (Tehran Times) from the self-proclaimed Islamic State and affiliates of al-Qaeda. Read all Analysts : |
MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY ON TURKEY – TURKEY’S PERMANENT STATE OF CRISIS
By Soner Cagaptay – Washington Post – December 20, 2016
Each new PKK and Islamic State attack drives a wedge deeper into Turkish society. When the PKK attacks, the pro-government bloc blames the opposition; when the Islamic State attacks, the opposition blames the government. For instance, after a PKK attack on off-duty soldiers, which killed 14 people in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri, pro-government mobs firebombed branches of the pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) all over the country. Similarly, in the wake of the July 2015 Islamic State attack in Suruc, which killed 32 people, protesters blamed the government for failing to stop it. The Islamic State and the PKK, whose affiliate Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) claimed responsibility for the twin bombing in Istanbul on Dec. 10 that killed at least 29 people, will only further exploit this crisis. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81298
MESOP “THE BERLIN ATTACK DETAILED” – THE BACKGROUND & CIRCUMSTANCES
DIRTY DEED ISIS: We Did Berlin Truck Attack
ISIS claimed responsibility for Monday’s Christmas market slaughter not long after German authorities released their initial suspect.
By Katie Zavadski – 12.21.16 – THE DAILY BEAST – A “soldier” of the Islamic State carried out the truck attack in Berlin on Monday evening, the terrorist group claimed through its unofficial news agency. Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured when a hijacked truck loaded with steel crashed into a popular Christmas market. A suspect was detained near the scene by German authorities, but he was later released on Tuesday, when officials said they did not have proof he was the individual driving the truck.
The claim of responsibility comes through the Amaq News Agency, which ISIS typically uses to announce attacks it orchestrated or inspired. Like in other claims of responsibility, the news agency cited a security source within the Islamic State. It is not immediately clear whether the terrorist group directed or merely inspired the perpetrator of the Berlin attack. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81296
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS FORECAST : The Future of Syria’s Armed Opposition After Aleppo – After four years of fighting, Syrian opposition groups in Eastern Aleppo have lost the majority of their control over the city. As evacuations continue, Syria expert Charles Lister discusses the future of the different opposition factions in Syria.
Written by Alessandria Masi – 20Dec 2016 – BEIRUT – Eastern Aleppo has been a bastion for the Syrian opposition since 2012, just a year after the start of the conflict, until this week, when forces loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad seized the rebel-held area.
Syria Deeply spoke with Charles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute and author of the book “The Syrian Jihad,” about the factors that led to the fall of Aleppo city’s opposition and the implications this will have for the whole of Syria’s anti-government factions. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81300
MESOP INVESTIGATION : The Deception of a Pro-Assad Activist at the UN
December – By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – 21 Dec 2016 – Eva Bartlett is a Canadian activist who has dedicated herself to supporting Syria’s Assad regime through propaganda. For months, she has been featured on conspiracy sites denigrating civilians and rescue workers in opposition-controlled areas. Recently she gained international attention with an appearance at the UN, organized by the Assad regime’s representative Bashar al-Ja’afari.
The performance featured a collection of Bartlett’s disinformation, including a claim that the White Helmets civil defense volunteers were staging their rescues of children.
But this time, Bartlett’s propaganda would not go unchallenged: Britain’s Channel 4 took apart one of her claims.
This is the first article in our forthcoming section Syria Oracle, with fact-checking and analysis to expose the propaganda — by the Assad regime and State actors such as Russia, assisted by activists like Bartlett and even journalists — in the Syrian conflict. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81312
!KNOW BETTER WITH MESOP NEWS! : Tehran Tries to Sort Out Its Next Steps in Syria
December 21 – By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – Iran has maintained its criticism of the UN Security Council resolution, drafted by Russia and France and passed unanimously, that mandates international monitors in Aleppo and other areas of Syria. The Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, said the resolution tries to ensure the survival of “terrorists” and will not help resolve the humanitarian crisis. He said it may escalate tensions in Syria.Shamkhani said that, instead of “one-sided resolutions and statements”, the UN Security Council should halt shipment of weapons, fighters, and financial supports to the “terrorists”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81322
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP NEWS : A DECLARATION OF EUROPEAN PKK-AFFILIATED WOMEN – TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC
On the 9th of January, 2013, three Kurdish female politicians Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez were assassinated in Paris. In the time after the assassinations the documents, tapes and witnesses all pointed towards the Turkish Intelligence Services (MIT) as the organisers and perpetrators of this heinous attack. The prosecutor had conducted his inquiry and had gathered the evidence and documents to submit to the courts, which he done in May, 2015. Despite this, the case did not start. After the Kurdish people’s struggle for the case to be heard and for justice to be served, the courts announced that the case would start on the 5th of December, 2016, but then later moved it to the 23rd of January, 2017. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81320
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP NEWS TÜRKEI/KURDISTAN KOMMENTAR: ABDULLAH ÖCALAN WOLLTE DAS / EMIL BAYIK HINDERTE IHN (PKK)
Türkei: Die PKK muss einseitig Gewaltverzicht proklamieren
ZEIT ONLINE – 21 Dec 2016 – Damit reagierte sie jeweils auf die Erhöhung des militärischen Drucks auf die Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK) in den Kurdengebieten durch die Türkei. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81314
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DIE STRUKTUR DES MIGRATIONSPROBLEMS –
MESOP PER ORDRE DU JOUR : EPITAPH AUF ROLF PETER SIEFERLE VON GUSTAV SEIBT (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
Ein Aufsatz Am Abgrund
Das neue Heft der Zeitschrift “Tumult” versammelt Äußerungen des kürzlich verstorbenen Historikers Rolf-Peter Sieferle über den Zustrom an Flüchtlingen nach Deutschland. Der Autor warnt vor einer Katastrophe.
Von Gustav Seibt – 8. Dec 2016
Im Winterheft 2015 brachte der Tumult, die “Vierteljahresschrift für Konsensstörung” innerhalb einer Serie kritischer Abrechnungen mit der deutschen Willkommenskultur eine kühl durchdachte Abhandlung des Zivilisationshistorikers Rolf-Peter Sieferle, die auf die strukturelle Unvereinbarkeit von offenen Grenzen und dem in der neuzeitlichen Industriegesellschaft – und nur hier – entwickelten Sozialstaat hinwies. Sieferle beschrieb ein Dilemma der Globalisierung, das bis heute ungelöst ist: Die Wirtschaft, die den Sozialstaat finanziert, ist mittlerweile weitgehend auf weltweiten Warentausch und offene Märkte angewiesen; zugleich kann ein Sozialstaat (und der ihn voraussetzende Steuerstaat) bisher nur in nationalen Einheiten funktionieren. Dieses Strukturproblem wird inzwischen auch bei linken Vordenkern mit Überlegungen zu einem wieder stärker nationalen Kapitalismus beantwortet, so bei Sahra Wagenknecht oder dem Soziologen Wolfgang Streeck. – Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81304
MESOP INTEL : Linken-Chefin Cansu Özdemir Sie ließ den Türken-Spion auffliegen / GOOD OLD YUKSEL KOC STAND AUF DER TODESLISTE
21 Dez 2016 – Hamburger MOPO – Cansu Özdemir (28), Fraktionschefin der Linken. Die Politikerin informierte Staatsanwaltschaft und Innenbehörde über den Spion.
„Erdogan trägt seinen Krieg nach Deutschland“, sagt Ali Ertan Toprak, Chef der Kurdischen Gemeinde Deutschlands. —– Unterdessen werden immer mehr Details über den 31-jährigen Agenten Mehmet Fatih S. bekannt. Cansu Özdemir, Fraktionsvorsitzende der Linken in der Bürgerschaft, sagt, sie habe im Sommer zum ersten Mal gehört, dass der Geheimdienst einen Mordanschlag plane. Damals sei aber die Identität der Täter noch unbekannt gewesen.
Mehmet Fatih S. – Bart, Sonnenbrille, Pokerface: Mehmet Fatih S. (31), der Mann, der sich als TV-Journalist tarnte und Agent des türkischen Geheimdienstes gewesen sein soll. Am Donnerstag wurde er in St. Georg verhaftet. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81308
MESOP NEWS BREAKING :
Sechs Tote durch Bombenanschlag auf iranische Kurden im nordirakischen Exil
21 Dec 2016 – Am Dienstag dieser Wohe wurden bei einem Bombenanschlag auf ein Büro der Demokratischen Partei Kurdistan Iran (PDKI) sechs Menschen getötet und mehrere verletzt worden sein. Das Büro befindet sich in der Ortschaft Koya, in Irakisch-Kurdistan. Mitglieder der PDKI feierten ein altkurdisch-iranisches Fest, die Yalda-Nacht, als das Attentat verübt wurde. Die PDKI agiert im Untergrund und im Exil. Sie macht die iranische Regierung für den blutigen Anschlag verantwortlich.
MESOP NEWS – ERDOGANS WACHSAMES AUGE : Attentat in Ankara Karlow-Mörder bewachte Erdogan
Der Mörder des russischen Diplomaten Andrej Karlow war auch zur Bewachung des türkischen Präsidenten eingesetzt. Wie eine Zeitung berichtet, habe er Erdogan acht Mal beschützt. 21.12.2016 – – Der Mörder des russischen Diplomaten Karlow soll als Personenschützer für den türkischen Präsidenten eingesetzt worden sein. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81316