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MESOP NEWS TODAYS FLASH : FUTURE ROJAVA & PAYMENT
Syria’s Kurds have a payment in mind in exchange for fighting Islamic State @BV https://www.bloomberg.com/…/syria-s-kurds-work-all-the-angl…
Syria’s Kurds Work All the Angles for Autonomy
16 May 2017 – MESOP – It’s an idea that Syria, Russia and the U.S. all might be willing to tolerate. Turkey however …
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MESOP NEWS : PYD’S FANTASIES
Saleh Moslem: The circle around ISIS tightens around Turkey as well
14 May/ANF News
PYD Co-chair Saleh Moslem stated that the US is clear about aiding the YPG and Turkey needs to come to terms with this fact. He said Turkey will face a reaction by the coalition forces if they repeat their attacks on Rojava.
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MESOP NEWS TODAYS OPINION : Ankara & Washington – Can “Yes” on Syria Be Achieved?
By Frederic C. Hof – Frederic C. Hof is director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
15 May 2017 – ATLANTIC COUNCIL – The visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House offers an opportunity for two NATO allies to get to “Yes” on Syria. It is important that they do so. Yet as matters now stand it is doubtful that they will, and each side bears responsibility for a bilateral split that is entirely gratuitous and needlessly damaging. Yet Presidents Trump and Erdogan have it in their power to elevate their alliance over lesser considerations that divide them. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85804
MESOP TODAYS HEADLINE : TRUMP MOST BELOVED IN EASTERN EUROPE & ISRAEL
Russia’s NATO Neighbors: We’re OK With Trump, Actually
BY Kimberly Dozier – THE DAILY BEAST – 16 May 2017
Estonia and its Baltic neighbors are putting their trust in Trump—or rather, in Pence, Mattis, and McMaster. “At least he’ll have adult supervision,” one diplomat says.
MESOP LATEST NEWS FROM US CAPITOL HILL – EXPECTING ERDOGAN
16 May 2017 – Rep. Deutch Criticizes Erdogan ahead of Visit: Last week, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), Ranking Member of the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, released a statement strongly criticizing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of this week’s meeting with President Donald Trump. Deutch said, “Erdogan has been consolidating his power through flawed elections, arresting those who disagree with him, shutting down social media sites, and attacking the free press. Hosting President Erdogan at the White House sends exactly the wrong message, and I urge the President to cancel their scheduled meeting.” Read full text Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85786
MESOP NEWS TODAYS CENTRAL COMMENTARY : THE SULTAN IN WASHINGTON
Why the Turkish president’s biography should tell Trump everything he needs to know
By Soner Cagaptay May 12 – Soner Cagaptay is a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and author of “The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey.”
Several recent analyses depict Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is set to meet with President Trump in the White House on Tuesday, as a once moderate and liberal politician who suddenly swerved away toward authoritarianism. I could not disagree more. Erdogan, who has run Turkey since 2002 either as prime minister or president, was always bent on subverting Turkey’s secularist democratic system.Those commentators who supported Erdogan’s alleged earlier liberalism now find themselves struggling hard to explain his more recent authoritarian turn. They were deluding themselves, and they would have known better had they paid more attention to Erdogan’s biography and mind-set. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85790
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER “PLANS AFTER RAQQA TAKEOVER”: Pentagon Spox – Council Affiliated with SDF to Establish Services After Raqqa Retaken
United States. PRESS CONFERENCE. 5 May 2017
US Department of Defense Press Briefing by Col. Dorrian via teleconference from Baghdad, Iraq
Press Operations – Colonel John Dorrian, Operation Inherent Resolve spokesman – CAPTAIN JEFF DAVIS: All right, good morning, ladies and gentlemen. – We are pleased to be joined today by Colonel John Dorrian, coming to us live from Baghdad.
J.D., want to make sure we can hear you and you can hear us.
Good morning. We’ll start in Syria and move on to Iraq. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85784
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP NEWS PORTRAIT : APO OECALAN’S OLD FASHIONED COMMUNE IN 21th CENTURY
THE KURDISH PATH TO SOCIALISM IN SYRIA
By Fabrice Balanche – PolicyWatch 2802 – May 16, 2017 – Fabrice Balanche, an associate professor and research director at the University of Lyon 2, is a visiting fellow at The Washington Institute.
To maintain its dominant position and stay true to its ideological roots, the PYD is pushing socialist policies on a skeptical Rojava populace, with uncertain consequences for the future of the Syrian Kurdish zone.
In northern Syria, the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) aims to promote a political and economic system based on self-sufficiency and local democracy. Yet a closer look at the measures being implemented reveals a clear effort to apply the anti-capitalist ideology of Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK). It remains unclear whether this ideology is compatible with local economic conditions, however, and Kurdish authorities might resort to full normalization with the Assad regime instead if key stakeholders resist.
OCALAN AND “LIBERTARIAN MUNICIPALISM” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85802
MESOP NEWS DOCUMENTS : Memo Signed By Assad Transfers Command And Financial Responsibility For Syrian Militias To Iran
MEMRI May 15, 2017 – Special Dispatch – No.6925 – Throughout the Syria war, Iran has played a central role in establishing the Syrian militias operating alongside the Syrian regime’s regular army and army reserves. These militias are modeled after the Iranian Basij.[1] Recently, a memo was circulated on Facebook ostensibly proving that the Syrian regime is transferring command and financial responsibility for some of these militias to Iran – reflecting the extent of Iran’s control in Syria.
The memo, which is dated April 11, 2017 and bears the signature of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in his capacity as commander in-chief of the Syrian armed forces, approves the recommendations of a committee responsible for regulating the activity of the armed Syrian forces operating in conjunction with Iran on Syrian territory.
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MESOP NEWS : ASSAD’S OVENS ! 21th CENTURY
Syria Daily: US — Assad Regime Builds Crematorium for Bodies of Detainees
By -Scott Lucas – May 16, 2017 – A satellite view of Sednaya prison complex near Damascus, Syria is seen in a still image from a video briefing provided by the U.S. State Department on May 15, 2017.
US: “Attempt to cover up mass murders in the Assad crematorium is reminiscent of the 20th century’s worst offenses against humanity”
The Assad regime has built a crematorium at a prison, near Syria’s capital Damascus, where thousands of prisoners have been killed or died from abuse and poor conditions, according to the US State Department.Stuart Jones, the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, said, “Credible sources have believed that many of the bodies have been disposed in mass graves,” showing aerial images of the claimed crematorium.“The attempt to cover up mass murders in the Assad crematorium is reminiscent of the 20th century’s worst offenses against humanity,” said Nikki Haley, the US Ambassador to the United Nations.In February, Amnesty International reported from witnesses that between 5,000 and 13,000 people were secretly hanged between 2011 and 2015 in Sednaya Prison. WATCH PICS http://www.mesop.de/?p=85792
MESOP SPECIAL – MESOP DOCUMENTARY : A VISIT FROM OUT OF THE COLD – Reactions To Lavrov’s Meetings With Trump And Tillerson
May 14, 2017 – SPECIAL DISPATCH – No. 6923 MEMRI
On May 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House as part of his three-day trip. The meeting with Trump followed Lavrov’s discussions with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson a month after Tillerson’s visit to Moscow, where he met with Lavrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin.[1]Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85794
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP REPORT : Trump’s advisers (JARED KUSHNER) meet with Iraqi Kurdistan KDP officials -MESOP NEWS 16, 2017
WASHINGTON,— Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP delegation from Iraq’s Kurdistan region met with US President Donald Trump’s advisers on Monday in Washington.
Chancellor of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Security Council, which belongs to KDP party, Masrour Barzani met with Trump’s advisers on Monday to discuss situation in the region, KRG Representative to the United States Bayan Sami Rahman said.The US side was represented by National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert and Trump’s senior advisor Jared Kushner. Chief of Staff to Massoud Barzani Fuad Hussein also attended the meeting.
“Masrour Barzani and Dr. Fuad Hussein just met H.R. McMaster, Jared Kushner and Tom Bossert to discuss events and challenges in Kurdistan and Iraq,” Rahman said in a Twitter message on Monday.In March, the US State Department approved a possible sale of military equipment to the Kurdish Peshmerga militias to an estimated cost of $295.6 million.US officials have said Washington and Baghdad remain in talks about a continued US troop presence in Iraq after Daesh terror group is defeated. In March, US Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel said the two nations were working on a five-year plan for cooperation. On Monday, Brett McGurk, the US Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter Daesh met with Barzani to discuss the military campaign against the terror group and anticipated post-Islamic State challenges. They have also talked about Erbil-Baghdad ties and political process in Iraq.
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP NEWS : WILL TRUMP FIRE BRETT McGURK ? – Erdogan trifft Trump Punkt, Komma, Schlußstrich?
Erdogans Verhältnis zu Barack Obama war am Ende zerrüttet. Vor seinem Besuch im Weißen Haus stellt der türkische Präsident nun umso höhere Forderungen an Donald Trump. Das spricht nicht für seinen Realitätssinn.
16.05.2017, von Michael Martens – FAZ – Mitunter wirkt es so, als sei der türkische Präsidentenpalast mit seinen angeblich tausend Räumen die größte Echokammer der Welt. Eine gewisse Echolastigkeit dürfte zwar jedem Regierungssitz zu eigen sein, doch im Palast zu Ankara wirkt sie inzwischen überdurchschnittlich stark ausgeprägt: Hier scheinen die Bewohner nur noch sich selbst zu hören. So ließe sich auch ein Kommentar von Ilnur Cevik erklären, einem der außenpolitischen Berater des türkischen Staatspräsidenten Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Cevik hat dieser Tage Bemerkenswertes zur ersten persönlichen Begegnung seines Chefs mit Donald Trump an diesem Dienstagabend kundgetan. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=85800
MESOP NEWS : THE DAILY WITCH HUNT CONTRA TRUMP !
Was eigentlich die täglich mit der Verfolgung und ideellen Ermordung Trumps beschäftigte Washington Post (WaPo) berichtet hatte, spielte schon bald keine Rolle mehr, – es war auch sehr dünn und sehr wenig:
Jedenfalls war man sich aber gerade deshalb umso mehr einig: Geheimnisverrat gegenüber Lavrov zu Gunsten des gemeinsamen Kampfes gegen IS, was ja nun recht eigentlich eine noble Sache ist – weswegen die rein fiktive Spekulation angehängt werden mußte, daß eine „befreundete Regierung“ dadurch düpiert worden wäre.
Was aber auch recht vage war und deswegen nicht recht reichte, weshalb ein deutscher Nahostexperte auf facebook deutlicher wurde und von einer „Quelle“ sprach, die einer „syrischen Stadt“ sitze und „hochrangig“ bei ISIS notiert sei – und nun gefährdet.
Nicht einmal die WaPo hatte dies behauptet, sondern nur der notorische Peter R. Neumann (London), der immerhin hinzufügte, daß er alles dies nicht wisse, sondern nur meine, weil wenn alles stimme, dann könne es eben so gewesen sein. Was unser deutscher Nahostkenner aber alles nicht hinzufügte, der die story als Tatsache in die Welt setzte.
Je nach Neigung stritten die wissenden Parteien nun nur noch darüber, ob das „befreundete“ Land Israel sei, oder wie die anderen Fraktionen, die auf die Saudis oder Jordanien tippten.
Je weniger man weiß, desto blühender kann man etwas behaupten.
Sicher ist bis jetzt nur, daß die WaPo eine Quelle im Oval Office hat – sofern nicht die ganze Geschichte mehr oder weniger erfunden wurde. Tatsächliche Anwesende bei den Gesprächen erinnern alles dieses nicht.