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MESOP TODAYS HEADLINES
@OlivierGuitta Obama: Cheerleader disguised as world leader.
For all the talk of #Molenbeek being a breeding ground of radical Islam, I’ve seen and smelled an awful lot of weed. – www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
#Syrien: Die Revolution lebt https://de.qantara.de/node/23109
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister Mar 17
- #ISIS actions declared “genocide”, we should begin to consider #Assad regime role in killing x95 more civilians:
– #Assad responsible for 95.96% of civilian deaths. – Armed opposition: 1.42% – Unidentified: 1.06% – #ISIS: 0.91%
The Pentagon Wasted $500 Million Training Syrian Rebels. It’s About to Try Again. | Foreign Policy http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/18/pentagon-wasted-500-million-syrian-rebels/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=%2AEditors%20Picks …
MESOP RECOMMENDATION : CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT VIDEO: Disrupting ISIL’s Money Trail
19 Mar 2016 10:03 AM PDT – http://www.mesop.de/?p=72343
#Syrian regime, opposition agree on fighting #Kurdish federalism – ARA News… http://fb.me/4cZxl0P2m
MESOP : AS WE HAVE PREDICTED ! – A LONG TERMED BITTER CONFLICT STARTS
Autonomy bid in north Syria divides Kurdish-Arab opposition alliance http://reut.rs/1UmpZiV via @Reuters
Pro-regime Arab tribes in Hasakah, and pro-Turkish Arab tribes based in Turkey, condemned new federal region Rojava and northern Syria. www.mesop.de
MESOP : PROTEST & RESISTANCE IN SYRIA CONTINUES
ARTICLE: How #Syria’s uprising spawned a Jihad – @TheAtlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/03/syria-civil-war-five-years/474006/?utm_source=SFTwitter …
PT: Elsewhere in #Idlib, Nusra commander surrounded by FSA flag said: “revolution continues, a rag can’t divide us”
Really big pro-FSA protest in Marat al-Numan yesterday – demonstrators chanted “Jund al-Aqsa is Da’ash” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNcfYM5vtrU … #Syria
Worrying reports of another Jabhat al-Nusra attack on FSA’s 13th Division in #Idlib tonight – 6 killed & several fighters taken prisoner.
MESOP: WATCH DAVID IGNATIUS
Great to see @iyadshamse (@alasalawatanmya) & @hmza1211 (Southern Front) interviewed by @IgnatiusPost from #Geneva: http://wpo.st/V1DN1
MESOP : GOOD FRENCH FROG !
#Sarkozy fires back to #Obama criticism on #Libya:”I don’t want to debate w.Mr.Obama who everyone knows action is not his forte”
MESOP : ONLY THE TRUTH – ALIZA ACTS AS PRO PKK JOURNALIST NOW
@KyleWOrton @AlizaMarcus We don’t live in 90s for God’s sake. Aliza wrote a book on PKK and for some reason that makes her an “expert” Funny
Turkish PM writes Netanyahu he hopes world will act resolutely against terrorists. Wonder if that includes Hamas, aided and hosted by Turkey
Genel Enerji downgrades its oil reserves in Iraqi Kurdistan a second time in weeks. http://ekurd.net/genel-kurdistan-oil-reserves-2016-03-19 …
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MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY : THE TURKEY ANALYST / SILK ROAD STUDIES
The Sound of Footsteps: Erdogan’s New Enemies Within Featured – By Gareth H. Jenkins
March 8, 2016 – Former President Abdullah Gül’s recent decision to adopt a higher public profile and meet with known dissidents from inside the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has triggered a flurry of speculation that his successor, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, may be about to face a serious challenge to his flailing attempts to tighten his grip on power.
BACKGROUND: There have long been many members of the AKP who have been appalled by Erdoğan’s growing authoritarianism, the self-aggrandizing extravagance of his new palace, the persistent allegations of corruption involving his inner circle, and the abrasive divisiveness of his vituperative rhetoric. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72329
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP : A LONG DISTANCE CONFLICT STARTS WITH A TERRIBLE BRIGHT FUTURE / Syrian rebel factions reject Kurdish federal region as move to partition
BEIRUT,— 19 March 2016 – Dozens of Syrian rebel factions on Friday condemned a Kurdish declaration of a federal region in Syrian Kurdistan in the war-ravaged country’s north as a step towards partition. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72319
MESOP Syria Daily: What Message Did Iran Send to Assad on Saturday?
by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – 20 March 2016 – Iran has suddenly sent an envoy to Damascus for a meeting with Syria’s President Assad. – Kamal Kharrazi, a former Foreign Minister and now head of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, saw Assad on Saturday, five days after President Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of “most” Russian forces supporting the Syrian military. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72325
MESOP : PRODUCED WITH A SOFT HELPING HAND OF PETER GALBRAITH
OFFICIAL Document of the Democratic Federal System of Rojava -Northern Syria
Chaos and societal crisis continue in Syria and the Middle East, because external parties’ intervention is part of the crisis and one of its causes. Options to solve the crisis remain pointless and foreign intervention has complicated the situation and deepened the crisis further. Despite the attempts by the United Nations and the international coalition forces, the Syrian war continues and has become one of the greatest tragedies in the contemporary history of humanity. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, cities have been destroyed and there are now millions of refugees, all indicating a major disaster in Syria and Kurdistan. We are in a phase more extreme and brutal than the Mongol invasions and conquests, and a darker period than Al Jahiliyyah. Syria today is witnessing an extraordinary phase of massacres – an unbearable burden on human conscience. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72327
MESOP : SAMPLER OF EXPERTS – Syria Analysis – Could Putin’s Withdrawal Backfire?
The Center on Global Interests asks six analysts, including EA’s Scott Lucas, about the likely consequences for Russia of President Vladimir Putin’s declaration that “most” Russian forces will be withdrawn from Syria:“A WELL-CALCULATED AND LOGICAL DECISION”
Yuri Barmin, Strategic Risk Consultant
One of the reasons Putin decided to start withdrawing forces is precisely to avoid a possible backlash, both military and political. Clearly, for the money and forces that Russia has contributed to this operation, it has received close to the best possible result, and the Kremlin must have understood that there is a limit to which they can prop up Assad without contributing ground forces. Read full sampler : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72333
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP : A QUITE NEW MORNING ? – Senior Israeli diplomat arrives in Turkey on rare visit to reconcile ties
By Rudaw 20 March 2016 – 2 hours ago – ANKARA, Turkey – A senior Israeli foreign ministry official arrives in Turkey today following a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul that killed two Israeli citizens, the first high-level diplomatic visit of its kind since relations soured in 2010, the Hurriyet Daily News reported.It said Dore Gold, general director of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, was arriving in Istanbul after cutting short a trip to the United States, according to sources at the Israeli embassy in Ankara.“Gold’s visit will mark the first high-level diplomatic visit from Israel to Turkey since the two countries’ relations were soured by the Mavi Marmara crisis in 2010,” the daily said on its website.
More http://www.mesop.de/?p=72341
A Political Comeback for the Turkish Military? Featured By Lars Haugom
March 11, 2016 – THE TURKEY ANALYST / SILK ROAD STUDIES –
The Turkish military has no known intention to intervene in the political decision-making process. However, the military has retained a capacity to do so – both by means of its continued role in security policy making and its relative institutional autonomy. The extent of any military involvement in politics will largely depend on how the Kurdish issue is handled by the government. But it is still highly unlikely that any such involvement will take the form of a direct intervention. Read more : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72331
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government Expands Territories
By Salih Bilici and Muhammet Kursun – 19 March 2016 – aa-com-tr – The Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKRG) has managed to expand its territories by a whopping 30,000 square kilometers since a Daesh attack back in 2014, an expert said. “The [claimed] surface of the Kurdistan region is 78,000 square kilometers,” Prof. Halil Ismail, the geographer who prepared the map of Kurdistan region back in 2006 on the request of IKRG President Masoud Barzani and then-Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, told Anadolu Agency this week. “Another 71,000 square kilometers of that surface was taken under control,” he said, adding that the remaining 7,000 square km are still under the control of the Iraqi government and Daesh. Read more: http://www.mesop.de/?p=72335
MESOP FOCUS : Barzani Reasserts Independence in His Newroz Message / KRG is firmly working on a reform plan to overcome the financial crisis, Barzani says
Sardar Sattar . BasNews – 20 March 2016 – ERBIL — Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani has released a statement to mark the Kurdish new year [Newroz] and ensure the people of Kurdistan Region that the security and financial crisis will soon end. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=72339
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP LATEST FROM GENEVA : Syriens Regierung lehnt direkte Gespräche mit Opposition vorerst ab http://de.qantara.de/content/syriens-regierung-lehnt-direkte-gespraeche-mit-opposition-vorerst-ab-0 … #Syrien
MESOP : DIE “AUTONOMIE” IN SYRIEN-ROJAVA IST NICHT DIE DER KURDEN – SONDERN JENE EINER STALINISTISCHEN KADERPARTEI PYD/PKK – Neuer Bericht: VON „KURDWATCH“ – MÄRZ 2016
Ethnische Säuberungen in Tall Abyad? Merkmale der Herrschaft von YPG und PYD in den vom IS eroberten Gebieten
KurdWatch, 18. März 2016 – Im Juni 2015 gelang es den Volksverteidigungseinheiten (YPG) der Partei der Demokratischen Union (PYD) mit militärischer Unterstützung der US‑Luftwaffe, die Stadt Tall Abyad und die umliegenden Gebiete vom Islamischen Staat (IS) zu erobern. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden der PYD und ihren Volksverteidigungseinheiten massive Menschenrechtsverletzungen vorgeworfen, bis hin zu ethnischen Säuberungen. Der vorliegende Bericht beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie PYD und YPG in einem Gebiet agieren, das sich von den bereits seit 2012 von ihnen verwalteten Regionen Dschazira, ʿAfrin und ʿAin al‑ʿArab (Kobanî) dadurch erheblich unterscheidet, dass es überwiegend arabisch besiedelt ist. In den neu eroberten Gebieten rund um Tall Abyad sind nur etwa zehn Prozent der Bevölkerung Kurden. Weitere fünfzehn Prozent sind Turkmenen. Mit welchen Methoden und Instrumenten gelingt es der PYD, diese Gebiete zu regieren? Wie sieht die Menschenrechtsbilanz dort aus? Gab es groß angelegte, ethnisch motivierte Vertreibungen aus der Region? Der ganze BERICHT : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72317