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MESOP NEWS „NEW BOOK“ RECOMMENDATION : On the frontiers of empire – Culture & power in early modern ” Iranian ” Kurdistan
On the frontiers of empire: Culture and power in early modern ” Iranian ” Kurdistan
Djene Rhys Bajalan – Academia.edu – 2017 KURDISH STUDIES © Transnational Press London
May 2017 Volume: 5, No: 1, pp. 1 – 10 ISSN: 2051-4883 e-ISSN: 2051-4891 www.KurdishStudies.net
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MESOP NEWS TODAYS TOP OF THE AGENDA : Iran’s Kurds voice frustrations, hopes heading into election – By Author Fazel Hawramy
AL MONITOR – 19 May 2017 – On the eve of Iran’s presidential election, a group of poor Iranian Kurds who risk their lives every day to make ends meet on the border with Iraq spoke to Al-Monitor about what matters to them in deciding which candidate they will vote for — or why they plan to boycott the vote. Many hope for closer ties with the West so sanctions will be lifted and the economy will be revived. But while the economy is the main concern, almost all of the men who spoke to Al-Monitor praised the Iranian authorities for maintaining security within the country’s borders at a time when bombings and war bring chaos to neighboring countries. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85893
MESOP NEWS Syria Daily: Latest Geneva Talks End with No Advance
By Scott Lucas – May 20, 2017 – EAWORLDVIEW – UN envoy De Mistura claims “incremental progress” but no sign of shift from opposition or Assad regime – Four days of indirect political talks in Geneva between Syria’s opposition and the Assad regime have ended with no advance.
The talks ended on Friday after further discussions between UN envoy Staffan de Mistura (pictured) with each of the two sides.De Mistura asserted that there had been “incremental progress”, announcing plans to reconvene negotiations in June: “Any momentum provides some type of hope that we are not just waiting for the golden day but we are actually working for it.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85889
MESOP NEWS TODAYS EDITORIAL “The Brief” : THE FUTURE OF DECADENT EUROPE IS CHINESE
For China, All Roads (and Belts) Lead to Europe (STRATFOR INTELLIGENCE)
Despite its goal to foster integration throughout Eurasia, Beijing has so far emphasized bilateral or subregional agreements with its Belt and Road projects in Europe, an approach that has raised the suspicions of the bloc’s central powers. Read full text
http://www.mesop.de/?p=85885
MESOP FLASH : „NORMAL“ TRAFFIC BETWEEN PYD/PKK & ASSAD RENEWED
Joshua Landis – Federal Unity with Assad Regime – Kurds
19 May 2017 – New Bus Service Linking Kurdish Qamishli with Gov controlled Aleppo revives hope of federal unity & revived commerce – In Syria, a bus ride shows shifting map of war – A new bus service linking Syria’s Kurdish-controlled northeast with the government-held west,… reuters.com Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85865
MESOP NEWS HIGHLY ALERT ! : IRANIAN HEZBOLLAH STATIONED AT FRONT LINE ISRAEL
20 May 2017 – Lebanese Daily: Hizbullah Has Stationed Its Elite Unit In Shab’a Farms Area In South Lebanon, On High Alert And With Special Gear – www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS TODAYS STARTER : ISRAEL – THE COUNTRY ON TRUMP’S SIDE !
THE VOICE OF JERUSALEM SENDS A WARM WELCOME TO DONALD TRUMP (JERUSALEM POST)
A Memo to President Trump – By Michael Laitman – Michael Laitman is a Professor of Ontology, a PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, an MSc in Medical Bio-Cybernetics, and was the prime disciple of Kabbalist, Rav Baruch Shalom Ashlag (the RABASH). He has written over 40 books, which have been translated into dozens of languages.
May 18, 2017 – President Trump, I wish you a pleasant visit to Israel. Still, in my view, your success in office depends on an effective implementation of the America First policy.
Dear Mr. President: Welcome to Israel. – Read all : http://www.mesop.de/?p=85880
MESOP NEWS FORECAST : TRUMP & ISRAEL – NETANYAHU DETERMINED TO MAKE TRUMP’S VISIT A SUCCESS
By David Makovsky – PolicyWatch 2807 – May 19, 2017
The Israeli prime minister has taken pains to accommodate the U.S. president, overlooking some potentially troublesome developments, but many questions remain on how the parties will convert a graceful reception into tangible progress.
On May 22, President Donald Trump will arrive in Israel for the second leg of his overseas trip, following his stay in Saudi Arabia. The Israel stop will include a visit the next morning in Bethlehem, where Trump will meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas. Whereas in Saudi Arabia the U.S. president will hold a summit with Arab and Muslim leaders aimed at upholding a broad coalition against the Islamic State, other extremists, and Iran, he will, in Israel, be seeking to emphasize his connection with his hosts while tentatively exploring prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. – WHY THE VISIT MATTERS SO MUCH TO NETANYAHU . Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=85887
MESOP NEWS RECOMMENDATION : A PROSPECT FOR THE FUTURE
If the Fighting Ever Stops: Stabilization, Recovery, and Development in Syria
May 16, 2017 – Written by Anthony H. Cordesman – Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy
There is a natural tendency in war to focus on the fighting and the politics of a ceasefire or peace settlement, and to look at the challenges in creating some form of short-term stabilization. All are critical issues in ending the fighting in Syria. It is a country that is now the scene of a series of four interacting wars and power struggles: A war against ISIS that is joined to the fight against ISIS in Iraq, which is the focus of U.S.-led military efforts, and is concentrated in the populated areas of Eastern Syria.A struggle for some form of separate identity by Syria’s Kurds in northern Syria that has become tied to Turkey’s fighting against its Kurdish rebels, while the Syrian Kurds have become the key U.S. ally on the ground in the fight against ISIS. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85875
MESOP NEWS : TRUMP DID IT ! – REMEMBER OBAMA ! – US Airstrikes Targeted Iranian-Directed Troops in Syria: Defense Secretary
Basnews English – 20/05/2017 – 12:32 – ERBIL — US Defense Secretary James Mattis confirmed that the US airstrikes carried out on Thursday in the southern Syria along the Iraqi border targeted the Iranian, not Syrian forces. “They were Iranian-directed troops” who attempted to breach a designated deconfliction zone near the southern Syrian town of At Tanf, where the US training camp for moderate Syrian militias battling the Islamic State (IS) is located,” Mattis told reporters on Friday. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85897
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP NEWS : Senator McCain Calls for Expulsion of Turkish Ambassador
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com – 2017-05-18 22:19 GMT – The U.S. State Department has summoned Turkish Ambassador in Washington Serdar Kılıç on May 17 over a street brawl outside the Turkish diplomatic mission that erupted between protesters and Turkish security personnel during President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s visit, sources have told the Hürriyet Daily News. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85873
MESOP NEWS FINAL RESULTS : Trump meeting had no achievements for Erdogan: daily
18 May 2017 – The Guardian daily stated about the Tuesday meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump that the meeting did not have any achievement for the Turkish side.
Erdogan demanded Trump for cutting U.S. cooperation with Kurds in Syria and the deport of the Turkish Islamic Preacher Fethullah Gulen who resides in the U.S. Turkey has accused Gulen of leading the unsuccessful July 15 coup d’état.The daily added that though Erdogan put on a brave face after his meeting with Trump in the White House, it was clear that the meeting did not have any achievement for the Turkish president. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85861
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS : …. Remembering the wonderful night we had together long ago in Frankfurt Greek Restaurant “Dionysos” – Sleep well ! (MESOP)
Gorran leader Nawshirwan Mustafa dies at 73 after long battle with illness
By Rudaw 24 minutes ago – 19 May 2017 – SULAIMANI, Kurdistan Region –The leader of the Change Movement Nawshirwan Mustafa died at the age of 73 in Sulaimani Friday morning just a week after he returned to Kurdistan from the UK where he received treatment for his illness.“With great sadness today the great fighter and the leader of our nation Nawshirwan Mustafa has died at 8:00 o’clock in the morning on Friday after a long battle with illness,” the change Movement said in a written statement. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85871
MESOP NEWS INSIGHT : DEFECTING WITH US WEAPONS
Kurdish Unit Defects to Iraqi Army Ranks in Nineveh Province
By Chris Tomson – Al-Masdar News – 2017-05-18 21:59 GMT – Following tensions between the Peshmerga and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Sinjar region, a Kurdish commander decided to defect to the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and bring with him the entire unit under his command along with their US-supplied weaponry. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=85869
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP SUMMARY & SAMPLER : SOURCES ON IRANIAN ELECTIONS / REUTERS / BBC / WSJ / FINANCIA TIMES / CFR / POLITICO et.al
Incumbent Rouhani Faces Hard-Liner in Iranian Election
Iranians vote on Friday in the country’s first presidential election since striking a 2015 deal with foreign powers to curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. The contest pits the incumbent, President Hassan Rouhani (BBC), against Ebrahim Raisi, who is viewed as close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (WSJ). Rouhani, considered the “centrist” candidate by Iranian analysts, has campaigned on his record of opening up Iran’s economy following years of isolation prior to the nuclear agreement. Raisi, a hard-liner, has heavily criticized Rouhani’s economic stewardship in the aftermath of the deal. He has also promised more government handouts to low-income Iranians. High voter turnout (Reuters) is expected following long queues Friday morning. Read full texts : http://www.mesop.de/?p=85882
MESOP NEWS SPECIAL : THE RISE OF JIHAD IN EUROPE: VIEWS FROM FRANCE
Featuring Gilles Kepel, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Matthew Levitt – PolicyWatch 2806 – May 19, 2017
On May 15, Gilles Kepel, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Matthew Levitt addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Kepel is a professor at Sciences Po in Paris and author of the French bestseller Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West. Wittes is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy. Levitt is the Institute’s Fromer-Wexler Fellow and director of its Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks. GILLES KEPEL : http://www.mesop.de/?p=85895
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP NEWS BACKGROUND : US SPECIAL ENVOY BRETT McGURK A TRUSTEE OF PKK/PYD
Türkei fordert Absetzung von US-Beauftragten für Anti-IS-Koalition – McGurk „unterstützt die Kurdenmiliz YPG und die PKK“
Epoch Times 19. Mai 2017 15:12 – Der US-Beauftragte Brett McGurk unterstütze die YPG und die verbotene Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK), sagte der türkische Außenminister Mevlüt Cavusoglu am Donnerstag dem Nachrichtensender NTV. Er sollte daher ersetzt werden. Volltext lesen http://www.mesop.de/?p=85878
MESOP NEWS : VIVE LE CAPITAL ! STATT LIRE LE CAPITAL !
DIE AUSKUNFT DER HERKUNFT DER MITGLIEDER DER REGIERUNG MACRON
….. wie von MESOP NEWS schon vorausgesagt: die modernen feudalen Souveränisten in Paris
- Der neue Premierminister Edouard Philippe steht in der Energiepolitik auf der Seite der Atomenergie. Er arbeitete bis 2010 drei Jahre lang als Lobbyist und Kommunikationschef für den Nuklearkonzern Areva.
2) Arbeitsministerin Muriel Penicaud war Personalmanagerin in den Unternehmen Dassault Systemes und Danone sowie Verwaltungsrätin der Konzerne SNCF, Orange und Aeroports de Paris.
3) Der neue Bildungsminister Jean-Michel Blanquer leitete die renommierte Managementschule Essec. Kultur
4) Verkehrsministerin Elisabetl Borne war zuletzt Vorstandsvorsitzende der Pariser Transportgesellschaft RATF
5) Der 33 Jahre alte Staatssekretär für digita le Fragen, Mounir Mahjoubi, gründet( ein Internetunternehmen und arbeitete in einer Marketinggesellschaft der Havas Gruppe.
6) Gesundheitsministerin Agnes Buzyn ist Ärztin und war auch als Lobbyistin für die Pharmaindustrie tätig.
7) Der Kabinettsdirektor des Premierministers, Benoit Ribadeau Dumas, war eine Führimgskraft beim Luftfahrtunternehmen Zodiac Aerospace, das vom Safran-Konzern übernommen werden soll, an dem wiederum der Staat beteiligt ist.
8) Der Generalsekretär des Elysee-Palastes, Alexis Kohler, arbeitete als Finanzdirektor des italienischen Kreuzfahrtunternehmens MSC, das möglicherweise ein Minderheitsaktionär der französischen Werft STX Saint Nazaire werden könnte.
Interessenkonflikte dürften somit vollständig ausgeschlossen sein, weil auch der von einer Bank ins Amt delegierte Macron jegliche vorstellbare Kritiklücke und Transparenz verhindern wird. Macron wird nun alle sorgfältig bedienen müssen, die ihn inthronisierten. www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS : DIE STALINISTISCHE „JUNGE WELT“ (BERLIN) STÖREN DIE HOHEN GEHÄLTER DER USA GEGENÜBER PKK/PYD KURDEN IN SYRIEN
19 Mai 2017 – (….) „Die US-Armee kooperiert im Norden Syriens mit SDK und YPG, die nach Auskunft aus der Bevölkerung für ihre Dienste bezahlt werden. Angehörige von YPG-Mitgliedern berichteten junge Welt, dass die Organisation ihren Kämpfern zwischen 150 bis 200 US-Dollar im Monat bezahle. Das sei »viel mehr« als der in Syrien bisher geltende Mindestlohn von 80 US-Dollar. »Alle wollen für sie arbeiten.« Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=85867
MESOP NEWS : „IM WESTEN WAS NEUES“! – Donald Trump „Eine Amtsenthebung wird zum Krieg führen“
19 Mai 2017 – Eine Amtsenthebung Donald Trumps scheint nicht mehr nur eine Wunschvorstellung linksliberaler Medien zu sein – doch viele seiner Fans wollen das nicht hinnehmen. Manche prophezeien schon Unruhen, falls das „Establishment“ ihr Idol stürzen sollte.
18.05.2017, von Oliver Georgi http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/trumps-praesidentschaft/donald-trump-eine-amtsenthebung-wird-zum-krieg-fuehren