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MESOP COMMENTARY : UNDER TEHRAN’S UMBRELLA – NOW SHARIA LAW IN IRAQ
“Ammar Toma, a minister in Baghdad who voted in support of the ban, argued that the constitution already makes it illegal to sell, produce or import alcoholic drinks in Iraq: “The constitution says you cannot approve a law that goes against Islam,” he told AFP, referring to an article stating that “no law that contradicts the established provisions of Islam may be established.” There was no law I am aware of that promoted alcohol in Iraq, however. Rather, there simply existed an absence of any prohibition against alcohol. Article 2 of the Iraqi Constitution also guarantees “…the full religious rights of all individuals to freedom of religious belief and practice,” which one would assume includes secular individuals and Christians (for whom wine plays a part in religious rituals). The Quran itself also says that “There is no compulsion in religion.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79407
MESOP NEWS : NOT SURPISING !
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister – CIA Director & Secretary of Defense back arms expansion to CIA-vetted FSA factions in #Syria. White House says no. http://wpo.st/5xu72
MESOP : OUR WORDS ! DEAR LOUISA !
Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck Oct 24 – A prescription to end Syria’s war: escalate sanctions vs Russia, increase assistance to rebels, push for a truce:
MESOP NEWS : NO FLY ZONE IN SYRIA et c. WITH HILLARY C. ? / WASHINGTON POST
24 Oct 2016 – Among them, former National Security Council officials Steven Simon (who secretly met with Assad last year), Derek Chollet and Phillip Gordon have argued publicly that further U.S. intervention will not succeed in bringing the Assad regime to the table and could provoke outright conflict with Russia. – www.mesop.de
MESOP: STALINISTIC PYD/PKK & THEIR POLITICAL PRISONERS
Kurdish protesters in Qamishli call on Asayish police to release political prisoners
October 22, 2016 Reports – WATCH VIDEO : http://aranews.net/2016/10/kurdish-protesters-qamishli-call-pyd-led-asayish-forces-release-political-prisoners/
MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY BY LAURA ROZEN : Did Putin give green light to Turkish attack on US-backed Syrian Kurds?
Erdogan offers to help eject Jabhat Fatah al-Sham from Aleppo
23 Oct 2016 – AL MONITOR – Turkish jets launched a massive assault on People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces in northern Syria on Oct. 20 to prevent the Syrian Kurdish group from taking the strategic town of al-Bab in northwestern Syria. If the YPG, which is linked to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), seizes al-Bab, there would be a corridor connecting Syrian Kurdish regions east and west of the Euphrates River — something Turkey has vowed not to let happen. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79393
MESOP TODAYS RESEARCH : ERDOGAN – OTTOMAN THE GREAT !
Turkey’s New Maps Are Reclaiming the Ottoman Empire – By Nick Danforth – FOREIGN POLICY
23 Oct 2016 – In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey’s role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the Treaty of Lausanne, which created the borders of modern Turkey, for leaving the country too small. He spoke of the country’s interest in the fate of Turkish minorities living beyond these borders, as well as its historic claims to the Iraqi city of Mosul, near which Turkey has a small military base. And, alongside news of Turkish jets bombing Kurdish forces in Syria and engaging in mock dogfights with Greek planes over the Aegean Sea, Turkey’s pro-government media have shown a newfound interest in a series of imprecise, even crudely drawn, maps of Turkey with new and improved borders. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79397
MESOP TODAYS Opinions – Will Hillary Clinton deliver on her promise to ramp up U.S. involvement in Syria?
By Josh Rogin Global Opinions – October 23 Washington Post – Throughout the campaign, Hillary Clinton has pledged to ramp up U.S. action not only to fight the Islamic State, but also to end the Syrian civil war. If she does what she’s promising, the risky effort could engulf the first year of her presidency and test the limits of the United States’ reduced influence in the region. The question is whether she will follow through. Inside the Clinton campaign, the battle over Clinton’s post-election Syria policy has already begun. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79399
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP “QUESTIONS & ANSWERS”: IS TURKEY PIVOTING TO CHINA?
By Michael Singh – PolicyWatch 2715 – October 24, 2016 – As Turkey looks for alternative partners, it is not Russia or Iran but China that offers the most promise, so the United States should shore up its own ties with Ankara in response.U.S.-Turkish relations were strained before the July coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and they have only worsened since. Turkish officials have made the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, who leads the global organization “Hizmet” from his home in Pennsylvania, a test of American commitment to Turkey, while suggesting that the U.S. government itself may have had a hand in the coup. The United States, for its part, has voiced mounting concern about civil liberties in Turkey and Ankara’s viability as an American ally in the coup’s wake. Turkey’s relations with the EU — already marred by Europe’s de facto rejection of Turkey’s accession bid and, more recently, by the Syrian refugee crisis — have suffered as well. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79403
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP COMMENT : “POOR SALIH! CEMIL BAYIK (PKK) BLAMES THE EU / YOU ARE BLAMING BOTH RUSSIA & US – WE HAVE TOLD YOU FROM THE BEGINNING NOT TO TRUST ALL OF THEM – PUTIN WILL DO NOTHING FOR PYD/PKK
PYD blames Russia and US for Turkey attack on Syrian Kurds
24 Oct 2016 – The co-Leader of Syrian pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) lashed out at the U.S. and Russia for ‘giving green light to Turkey” in Ankara bombing Syrian Kurds. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=79405