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MESOP BRAVE SCOTTIE !
Britain Analysis: An Oath to “British Values” Isn’t Very British
by Scott Lucas …… but Scott Lucas the oath to the Quoran by Bulgaria’s new Pr esident is quite ok?
MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
MESOP TROUBLED DAYS FOR PKK
Kyle W. Orton liked – Abdulla Hawez @abdullahawez 17h17 hours ago
– Are you suggesting that you might resort to military force in order push PKK out of Sinjar? N. Barzani: Yes, I am. www.mesop.de
Elijah J. Magnier @EjmAlrai – #ISIS showing the burning of the Turkish soldiers on a big screen to Al-Bab inhabitants. See faces and ages. #Turkey #Syria.
MESOP : WITH COMPLIMENTS TO KANDIL / PUTIN & OBAMA = NO KURDISH AUTONOMOUS TERRITORY IN SYRIA
24 Dec 2016 – The US ambassador to Ankara said on Friday the United States does not support the Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan connecting together the three cantons of Afrin, Kobani and Jazeera along the Syrian-Turkish border. – www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS TODAYS PICS : THE PLAIN TRUTH – By Polish truck drivers /Click for pic)
MESOP : PUTIN PRO BARZANI – Iraqi Kurdish KDP welcomes Putin’s recent comment on the rights of Kurds
24 Dec 2016 – ERBIL – Iraq’s Kurdistan region welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent comment on the rights of Kurds, who have always appreciated relations with Russia, a member of the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Russia said Friday.
“The Russian president’s words are a very important step. We consider them as readiness to recognize independence of Iraqi Kurdistan if it is formalized in accordance with the international legislation,” Hoshawi Babakr told RIA Novosti. www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS TODAYS ANALYSIS : What Are Turkey and Russia Doing in Syria? (THE ATLANTIC) Authors: Kathy Gilsinan, and Steven A. Cook, Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies
December 19, 2016 – Some background on the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Ankara – By Kathy Gilsinan
Turkey and Russia have been on opposite sides of the conflict, with Turkey arming fighters opposed to Russia’s ally Assad. Last November, Turkey shot down a Russian military jet it said had violated its airspace, prompting a rupture in relations. Following an attempted coup against him over the summer, though, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan paid his first post-coup visit to Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and began to mend the rift. Last week, Turkey and Russia brokered a deal with Syrian rebels, and without the United States, to evacuate civilians from Aleppo; the foreign and defense ministers from Russia, Turkey, and Iran are still scheduled to meet in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the situation. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81372
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS “VIA SPUTNIK TO BARZANI” : Putin Says Kurdish Sovereignty is Iraq’s Own Business
Sputnik News – 2016-12-24 – Russia considers Kurdish sovereignty to be a domestic issue best to be left to the Iraqi government and will not meddle in Iraq’s internal affairs, President Vladimir Putin said Friday.
“As for the issues of sovereignty and independence of parts of states, I presume we will act within international laws and the rights of the Kurdish people, its inalienable rights will eventually be secured. But how and in what form this will be done depends on Iraq and the Kurdish people,” Putin said at the annual news conference.”We have and remain in contact with both Baghdad and [Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital] Erbil but we are not going to interfere in Iraq’s internal process,” Putin pledged, stressing that Russia “has always been friends with the Kurdish people.”
MESOP BACKGROUNDER “SADNESS DAYS IN KANDIL” : PUTIN’S DELEGATES PKK/PYD KURDS TO THEIR OLD PARTNER ASSAD AGAIN
“Russia, you know, is reluctant to deal with the KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government],” he said. / Putin praises Kurds for combatting ISIS, but says Russia won’t interfere in Iraq
ARA News 24 Dec 2016 – Erbil – The Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday praised the fighting capabilities of the Kurds, but said Russia will not interfere in the domestic affairs of Iraq. “Russia always had a good relationship with Kurds. Kurds have their own very difficult path. We know what is happening in the Middle East and I can only reaffirm that the Peshmerga, the Kurdish units, have been really courageous in fighting international terrorism,” Putin said in his annual press conference. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81386
MESOP NEWS “HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REPORT: PKK/PYD (YPG) USING CHILD SOLDIERS FOR WAR
Iraqi Kurdish Militias Using Child Soldiers: HRW
2016-12-23 (AFP) — Two Iraqi militias linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) are recruiting child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
The rights group said it had documented 29 cases of Kurdish and Yazidi children recruited by the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) — an armed wing of the PKK — and the Shingal Resistance Units (YBS).The HPG has forces in Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and is fighting against Turkish forces and also against militias including ISIS.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81368
MESOP NEWS : KRG/BARZANI COMING CLOSER WITH TURKEY – Seeking financial rescue, KRG offered Turkey major oil assets
Emails published by Wikileaks reveal a proposal for Turkey to take equity stakes in Kurdistan’s biggest oil fields, in exchange for nearly $5 billion of immediate financial assistance. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81370
MESOP NEWS MEMRI RESEARCH : December 23, 2016 – Inquiry & Analysis Series – No. 1292
Russian Efforts To Exclude U.S., Europe From Political Solution In Syria And Create A Framework For Bypassing Geneva I – By: N. Mozes and Dr. M. Terdiman*
Introduction – On December 20, 2016, the Russian, Iranian, and Turkish defense and foreign ministers met in Moscow to discuss potential solutions to the Syria crisis. Following the meeting, the ministers announced that they had approved the Moscow Declaration, which Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu described as a roadmap devised by Russian experts to resolve the crisis.[1] This move comes at the same time as another recent initiative proposed by Russia – that the Syrian regime and the Syrian opposition conduct negotiations in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81374
MESOP NEWS “THE INSIDE STORY ON EMERGENCIES” (IRIN) – After Islamic State, a dark homecoming for Iraq’s Christians
24 Dec 2016 – Back to Mosul from Arbil ?
Sitting outside a cafe in Erbil, Ammar is chain-smoking despite his hacking cough. “I will never go back to Mosul, even after IS is finished,” he promises. “Mosul has been ruined for me and my family forever.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81380
MESOP NEWS “ONE GERMAN TO BAGHDAD” : Germany to Send Soldier to Baghdad to Advise Army – Germany will send a military instructor to Baghdad by the beginning of 2017
Shoguna B. Sobir – BasNews – 24/12/2016 – 02:14 – SEATTLE — As part of a NATO mission, Germany will send a military instructor to help the Iraqi army this coming January. However, this will not be the first German military personnel in Iraq.
The German military instructor will be part of a 40 member NATO team working to train the Iraqi military. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81400
MESOP : ALEPPO NOW A SHIITE CITY ?
Very moderate opp Louay Hussein says E Aleppo evacuees will be persecuted and doubted by regime for years, as Daraawis and Homsis are now. www.mesop.de
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY
MESOP NEWS “ERDOGAN’S COLONIAL POLICY” – ISLAMIZATION IN EUROPE CONNTECTED WITH EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANS IN MIDDLE EAST
By Uzay Bulut – ARMENIAN WEEKLY – 2016-12-24 – Yet another example of intolerance has taken place in the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa (Urfa)–the historic Assyrian Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the city is now being used as a municipality-owned cultural center and the foundation of the Islamic school of Harran University.According to sources, the church was used actively until 1924, when Assyrians (Syriac Christians) left for Aleppo.Locals call the church “the Regie Church”, because Tekel, the Turkish tobacco and alcoholic beverage company, had once used it as a tobacco factory. This tobacco factory had been known as the Regie Tobacco Company in Ottoman times, and was nationalized in 1925. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81378
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS FOCUS : Erdogan says Turkey will never allow a new state in Syrian Kurdistan
24 Dec 2016 – ANKARA,—Turkey will never allow the formation of a new state in Syrian Kurdistan (northern Syria), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday.
“We will never allow the founding of this kind of state,” despite efforts to do so, Erdogan told Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK) in Istanbul. Erdogan also reiterated Turkey’s wish to see a “terror-free safe zone” in northern Syria for the safety of its southeastern border provinces. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81396
MESOP NEWS FOCUS: ALL AROUND BAD NEWS FOR PKK/PYD
Bad news for PYD, al-Bab about to fall / By İlnur Çevik
23 Dec 2016 SABAH – After a long campaign Turkey and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) are about to conquer the strategic Syrian city of al-Bab, which was in Daesh hands.This means very bad news for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), the extension of the PKK terrorist organization in Syria.
Why is this bad news for the PYD? – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81402
MESOP END OF THE AFFAIR – (PKK/PYD/YPG) AFTER FIGHTING ANTI-ASSAD REBELLS NOW KICKED OUT BY ASSAD – 2000 Iran payed Iraqi Militia en route Syria / Aleppo now a Shiite place
Syrian Government Demands YPG to Leave Aleppo – The YPG forces have been defending part of Aleppo against the Syrian rebels for over two years
BasNews – 24 Dec 2016 – ERBIL — The Syrian Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) which is the major constituent of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will have to abandon the areas it has been controlling in Aleppo for over two years, according to the Syrian State TV.
The Kurdish forces who have been protecting Sheikh Maqsoud district in Aleppo have been asked by Damascus to hand over the control of the area to the Syrian Regime Security Forces by the end of this year, the Syrian State TV announced. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=81398
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP NEWS : DAS PRINZIP HOFFNUNG DER ARBEITGEBERVERBÄNDE
Arbeitgeberverband : „Vorbildung der Flüchtlinge ist vielfach deutlich schlechter, als wir gehofft hatten“ FAZ 24 Dec 2016
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MESOP NEWS : PÄDAGOGISCHE ANWEISUNG ZUR VORBEREITUNG AUF DEN BÜRGERKRIEG – WORUM ES JETZT GEHT ! = “VON ISRAEL LERNEN!”
Diese israelische Erfindung will alle Terror-Fahrer stoppen können
von Ulrich W. Sahm – 23 dec 2016 – Die israelische Firma Mifram aus Kirijat Bialik im Norden des Landes produziert in einer kleinen Werkstatt faltbare, billige und patentierte Metall-Barrieren. In wenigen Minuten aufgestellt, können sie nach Angaben des Herstellers auch schwere Lastwagen stoppen. Die israelische Armee setzt sie bereits ein, Frankreich
Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81376
MESOP NEWS : GESAMT – MENSCHENRECHTSBERICHT TÜRKEI NOVEMBER BIS DEZEMBER 2016
Demokratisches Türkeiforum – Meldungen im November 2016 – Die folgenden Nachrichten wurden im November 2016 vom DTF erfasst und übersetzt.
Veröffentlichungen von Menschenrechtsorganisationen Türkischer Menschenrechtsverein +
Türkische Menschenrechtsstiftung
Wir verurteilen die Festnahme der Ko-Vorsitzenden und Abgeordneten der HDP
Demokratische Politik kann nicht ausgeschaltet werden!
- November 2016 – Die gewaltsame Festnahme von zwölf Abgeordneten der HDP, der drittgrößten Fraktion im türkischen Parlament, darunter auch die Ko-Vorsitzenden, am 4. November 2016 um 01:00 Uhr nachts, nachdem deren Wohnungen und die Parteizentrale von der Polizei gestürmt worden waren, ist ein schwerer Schlag gegen demokratische Politik. Wir verurteilen diesen Angriff. Während die Erinnerung an ähnliche Festnahmen und Verhaftungen kurdischer Politikerinnen und Politiker in den Jahren 1994 und 1998 noch frisch sind, werden die Vorfälle des heutigen Tages noch eindrücklicher in die gesellschaftliche Erinnerung eingehen. Voller Bericht http://www.mesop.de/?p=81382
MESOP NEWS REPORTS HUMAN RIGHTS TURKEY : Informationen der Menschenrechtsstiftung der Türkei (TIHV) – Oktober 2016 / November 2016 – Übersetzung des DTF
Recht auf Leben (GESAMMELTE BERICHTE)
In Sirnak Kind von der Polizei getötet (10/065) Das sich im Bezirk Nuh bei Cizre, Provinz Şırnak, auf Streife befindende schwer bewaffnete Polizeifahrzeug fuhr am 24.10.2016 ein auf der Straße spielendes Kind an und verletzte dieses schwer. Das Kind erlag später seinen Verletzungen im Krankenhaus.
Tod nach Schüssen wegen angeblichem Nichteinhalten eines Stopp-Befehls (10/073) Iyeç Çakır (25) dem vorgeworfen wird auf den Anhaltebefehl von Verkehrskontrollteam der Polizei nicht genügt zu haben und auf dessen Wagen daraufhin geschossen worden ist, wobei dem Çakır schwer verletzt wurde, erlag am 24.10.2016 im Krankenhaus, wo er behandelt wurde seinen Verletzungen. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=81384
MESOP CULTUR : LAST 2016 WORDS BY ADORNO / NOTBREMSE ODER FORTSCHRITT ?
Die philosophische Kritik an der Aufklärung verdichtet sich in der These von Horkheimer/Adornos ‚Dialektik der Aufklärung‘, es gebe eine ‚Selbstzerstörung der Aufklärung‘, die mit der Weigerung verbunden sei, auch das ‚Destruktive des Fortschritts‘ angemessen zu bedenken.
Aufklärung kann so auch als totalitär begriffen werden, mit dem ominösen Risiko, daß sie sich als Massenbetrug oder jedenfalls als Massenillusion offenbaren kann.
Der heutige riesenhafte ideologische Schleier des Anti-Rassismus verbirgt so am besten die fundamentalen Haupttendenzen der heutigen Welt: besinnungslose Regression einerseits und elitäre Selektion andererseits.
Das ungerechte Ganze bleibt das Unwahre.