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MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS / SYRIA & KERRY

Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister 12h12 hours ago – Key 24hrs ahead for #Syria. The armed groups have *not* rejected the deal per se, but their clear concerns could easily become a rejection.

Michael Weiss ‏@michaeldweiss  –  Kerry’s State Dept. says the crimes of Assad are the most documented since the Holocaust. Time for Kerry to resign: www.mesop.de

MESOP TODAYS SHORT CUTS

Israel Denies Syrian Army Downed Warplane, Drone

13 Sept 2016 – The Syrian army said it shot down two Israeli air craft (Haaretz) after Israel attacked army positions inside Syria (Reuters). Israel denied any of its air craft was lost.

SYRIA: The Pentagon confirmed that a U.S. air strike killed self-proclaimed Islamic State commander Abu Muhammad al-Adnani in August (Reuters); Russia had claimed responsibility for the strike immediately following the attack. FULL TEXTS http://www.mesop.de/?p=78077

MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY by THE ATLANTIC COUNCIL  –  Frederic C. Hof & Faysal Itani’s Joint Statement on US-Russia Agreement for Syria  –

If, in the end, Russian air strikes in Syria are subjected to an American veto, the Assad regime is kept from striking civilian neighborhoods, and significant aid flows resume to opposition areas, something of great value will have been accomplished. Nothing good can happen politically in Syria unless civilians are removed from the Assad regime and Russian bullseye. Nothing. If this agreement can spare Syrian civilians from continued mass murder it will be good in and of itself. There are however good reasons to believe the gains will be limited or temporary, judging from the regime’s track record during the previous cessation of hostilities and the lack of any enforcement mechanism. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78081

NORTH KURDISTAN TURKEY)

MESOP FLASH : REGISTERED APOC’IS – Netherlands to register sympathisers of Turkey’s Kurdish PKK

13 Sept 2016 – AMSTERDAM,— Dutch police are planning to register the names of Dutch Kurds who sympathise with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in their official computer system, the Telegraaf said on Tuesday.

The organisation is on the EU’s official terror list and the police have now had a series of ‘secret’ meetings about the movement and the communist DHKP-C, the Telegraaf said. Some people are concerned that Dutch police officers of Turkish origin could pass the information on to Ankara, which launched a major crackdown on the PKK last week, the paper said. However, a spokesman for Amsterdam police told the Telegraaf that the force had confidence in the ‘strict rules to guarantee police officer integrity’. www.mesop.de

MESOP NEWS : APO IN GOOD HEALTH  / This is a war no side can win: Ocalan

13 Sep 2016 – MESOP  – The imprisoned leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, is “in good health” and has called for an end to the Kurdish conflict, his brother said on Sept. 12 after visiting him in jail.  “He is in good health,” Mehmet Ocalan said in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey, a day after meeting his brother on the Imrali prison island near Istanbul. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78085

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

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Kurds, Assyrians Join Forces to Protect Minority Rights in Syrian Peace Talks

Rudaw – 2016-09-12 20:23 GMT – The Kurdish National Council in Syria (KNC, also known by its Kurdish initials ENKS) and the Assyrian Democratic Organization (ADO) held a meeting to develop Kurdish-Assyrian ties in Syria and to discuss the framework for a political solution to the Syrian war recently put forward by a coalition of opposition groups, which they said disregards the rights of minority groups. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78066

MESOP : A SIMULATED TRUCE HAS STARTED / REPORT FROM FRONTLINES SYRIA

13. Sept 2016 – UPDATE 1215 GMT: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has maintained pressure on the US, accusing it of not pursuing the separation of rebels from the jihadists of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra:

It will be twelve months since [the US assumed the obligation]. Nothing has been done. Moreover, there have been speculations the moderate opposition should not be separated from al-Nusra, but legalized altogether and possibly, merged with ever more groups to create an effective force on the ground for resistance to the Syrian army.

All this will require a very frank discussion.

Lavrov called for the US-Russian agreement to be made public so “there should be no doubts as to how we will go about the business of implementing the agreement”.

<id=”aleppo”>UPDATE 1100 GMT: The pro-opposition Aleppo Media Center claims that regime bombing in Aleppo Province killed some civilians and wounded at least 20 this morning.

A pro-regime website says that the Syrian army and Hezbollah fired missiles and artillery shells on positions of the rebel bloc Jaish al-Fatah southwest of Aleppo city.Citing “local activists”, Al-Masdar said that the attack began after “several enemy mortar shells struck their positions” near the village of al-Hadher. It said the town of Khan Tuman and villages of Qarassi and Kalaseh — taken by rebels since the spring — had been targeted. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78068

MESOP REPORT : SOME CONFUSION INSIDE THE RANKS  OF WASHINGTON DIPLOMACY  – Confusion over Syria cease-fire as US walks back Kerry comments

By BRADLEY KLAPPER – ap – Sep. 12, 2016 4:45 PM EDT – WASHINGTON (AP) — Confusion reigned Monday over Syria’s new cease-fire as Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States and Russia could permit President Bashar Assad’s government to launch new airstrikes against al-Qaida-linked militants. The State Department quickly reversed itself.Spokesman John Kirby said later there were no provisions under the nationwide truce for U.S.-Russian authorization of bombing missions by Assad’s forces. “This is not something we could ever envision doing,” he said. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78070

MESOP ANALYSIS – PolicyWatch 2680 – Rojava’s Sustainability & the PKK’s Regional Strategy

Fabrice Balanche – Also available in العربية  – August 24, 2016 -As the Kurds continue to pursue their goal of a contiguous territory in northern Syria, various nonmilitary factors will determine whether their nascent statelet is viable in the long term, including a host of demographic, economic, water, and oil issues.

Although it is still difficult to predict the future of Syria as a whole, the existence of an increasingly autonomous Kurdish region along the country’s northern frontier has become a reality. For now, the boundaries of this “Rojava” remain blurred and might be different from those officially claimed by the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). Yet the group’s ongoing efforts to expand and merge its cantons reflect a firm commitment to gathering Syria’s Kurds into an economically viable statelet that extends tantalizingly close to the Mediterranean Sea — a prospect that could also advance the goals of its parent organization in Turkey, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Watch Graphic + Statistic + Text  http://www.mesop.de/?p=78073

MESOP INDEPHT : APO’S OWN ENTITY ROJAVA – Syrian Kurdish regions should get a ‘special status’: EU think-tank “ / PAPER BY “EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS”

BRUSSELS,— Syria should adopt a decentralised political system based on the transfer of power away from Damascus and towards the governorate and district levels. Kurdish regions should get a special status with enhanced powers, as part of asymmetric decentralisation, a report titled “No going back: Why decentralisation is the future for Syria” by the European Council on Foreign Relations said. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78083

MESOP SIGNS OF KURDISH DIPLOMACY / A DISCRETE MEETING IN EGYPT

• The Rojava and Northern Syria Autonomous Administration reached an agreement with Syria’s Tomorrow Movement for a political solution to the deepening problems in Syria. In a joint statement announced in Egypt, the two sides stated that the revolutionary uprising that had begun in Syria 5 years ago transformed into a civil war with the participation of regional and international powers. Both sides reiterated their past calls for a “democratic and national project to ensure [the] Syrian peoples’ right to self-determination.” The two parties signed the agreement in Cairo, Egypt.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78089

MESOP DOCUMENTS : Agreement for the future of Syria / THE EGYPT CONTRACT

Rojava Democratic Autonomous Administration and Teyar El-Xed El-Sûrî (Morning Wave Movement) reached an agreement for the political solution of the deepening problems in Syria.

Sunday, September 11, 2016 12:00 PM – CAIRO – ANF – Rojava Democratic Autonomous Administration and Teyar El-Xed El-Sûrî  (Morning Wave Movement) reached an agreement for the political solution of the deepening problems in Syria. In a joint press statement in Egypt, the two sides stated that the revolutionary uprising that had begun in Syria 5 years ago transformed into a civil war with the participation of regional and international powers, and Syrian people are affected the most by this conflict.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=78087

THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER

MESOP “DER ZUCKERBERG” – ODER DER “BLINDE FLECK” & DIE MACHT DER NEUEN SOUVERÄNISTEN / EIN LINKER GESICHTSFELDAUSFALL

Antonio García Martínez: “Facebook ist legales Crack”  – Niemand, der bei Facebook arbeitet, darf öffentlich darüber sprechen. Antonio Martínez tut es doch. Er war dort Manager und berichtet aus dem Inneren des US-Konzerns.

Interview: Hannes Grassegger  – 12. September 2016,  DIE ZEIT

Obwohl Google, Apple und Facebook überpräsent sind in den Medien, gibt es relativ selten, eigentlich: nie, Berichte aus dem Inneren der Konzerne. Wie ist es, dort zu arbeiten? Was haben die Firmen wirklich vor? Was denken die Mitarbeiter über ihre Arbeitgeber? Der Grund dafür, dass wir nichts erfahren, ist eine Art Branchenomertà: Journalisten werden nicht reingelassen, und wenn doch, dann nur, um porentief reine Biografien der Branchengrößen zu publizieren. Und die Angestellten? Die fürchten sich vor millionenschweren Klagen, die ihnen drohen, sollten sie Details aus dem Innenleben von Silicon Valley ausplaudern. Umso erstaunlicher ist die Geschichte von Antonio García Martínez. Der heute 40-Jährige arbeitete von 2011 bis 2013 bei Facebook und hatte häufig mit Zuckerberg zu tun. Nach seiner Kündigung schrieb er seine Erfahrungen als Erster unverblümt auf: Chaos Monkey erschien diesen Sommer auf Englisch. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=78075