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MESOP TODAYS “WATCH VIDEO” EXCLUSIVE : Something you don’t see everyday! Russian marines in Salma #Lattakia #Syria – Click for Video https://twitter.com/BBassem7/status/690948327202918401
MESOP TODAYS SATIRE : ONLY ATHEIST MONEY IS GOOD MONEY
Don’t Freak Out Over ‘In God We Trust’
BY Candida Moss – Daily Beast – The mention of God on U.S. currency is back in federal courts, this time because an atheist considers “In God We Trust” a burden. But it’s far from the only religious reference. www.mesop.de
MESOP : FAKE STORIES PREPARING FOR GENEVA TALKS
Putin Asked Assad to Go: The Financial Times
UNIAN Information Agency. Ukraine.
Kremlin Denies Media Reports that Putin Asked Assad to Step Down
Armenian Press Agency. – www.mesop.de
MESOP : FUNNY JOE B. ! – QUOTATION
ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG)Verified account@anadoluagency
US Vice President Biden says there is no difference between Daesh, PKK and al-Nusra
…… but PYD (PKK) is quite right !
FSA News@FSATruth – #FSA brigades sign statement with @SyrCoalition. End airstrikes on civilians & starvation sieges before negotiations http://en.etilaf.org/press/joint-statement.html …
MESOP EXCLUSIV !
Report on Russia agreeing for Jaish Al Islam to participate in talks in exchange for presence of Moscow-friendly opposition is IMO legit
Here’s why: At least one person who writes memos for Russia’s Syria team told me he is advising Moscow to include Jaish Al Islam in talks
11:31 AM – 24 Jan 2016 www.mesop.de
MESOP : Worth reading: Turkey’s view of Kurd/PKK situation by RTE advisor @ikalin1 http://www.dailysabah.com/columns/ibrahim-kalin/2016/01/23/pkk-myth-and-reality …
MESOP TODAYS QUOTATION BY ARON LUND – THE DISGUISED SDF (SYRAN DEMOCRATIC PKK FORCES)
“Manna has now been elected one of two co-presidents of the DSA, operating in exile. llham Ahmed from TEV-DEM holds the other seat, although the longstanding PYD leader Saleh Muslim Mohammed is far more visible as a representative of this segment of Syrian Kurdish politics. The fact that Ahmed and Muslim are more or less interchangeable in diplomatic talks, despite belonging to two different organizations, is of course because both actually represent the “hidden” PKK structure that underpins the whole political order in northern Syria’s Kurdish areas.” www.mesop.de
MESOP : ISW INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY: January 15 – 22, 2016 Reviewing the Week Compiled by Christopher Kozak
This report is derived from open sources collected and processed at ISW during the reporting period. The report includes analysis on Russia, Syria, Iraq, ISIS, Afghanistan, and KURDISTAN.
Key Take-Away –The U.S. pressed for new measures to expand the global anti-ISIS campaign.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter met with his counterparts from Britain, France, Australia, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands on January 20 in order to press for further contributions to the fight against ISIS. Secretary Carter outlined a new framework of operations that highlights the need to “combat the metastasis” of ISIS affiliates across the globe even as the anti-ISIS coalition acts to destroy ISIS’s “parent tumor” in Iraq and Syria by “collapsing its two power centers in ar-Raqqa City and Mosul” with the support of local partners. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=70452
MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY BY ARON LUND (CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT)
Origins of the Syrian Democratic Forces: A Primer / THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SDF/PKK STRUCTURE
Aron Lund, editor of the Carnegie Endowment’s Syria in Crisis page, provides an in-depth look at the Syrian Democratic Forces, their overall political agenda, the group’s masked connections to the Kurdistan Worker’s Party and what he believes to be their impending inclusion in the Geneva III talks: The Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, is a coalition of Kurdish, Sunni Arab and Syriac Christian fighters, but is completely dominated by its Kurdish element, which is a powerful and well organized militia known as the Popular Defense Units, YPG, with an all-female branch called the Women’s Defense Units, or YPJ. These organizations, in turn, are Syrian front groups for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70428
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP : FUNNY JOE B. ! JOE BIDEN PREFERS PYD IN SYRIA & CONDEMS PKK IN TURKEY
National Security – Turkey’s difficulties with Syrian Kurds complicate strategy against Islamic State
By Karen DeYoung and Carol Morello January 23 – WASHINGTON POST – ISTANBUL — Turkey and the United States continued Saturday to disagree about the status of Kurdish forces who have become a key part of the U.S. strategy to defeat the Islamic State in Syria. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70444
Syrian Arab rebel groups hold Assad, Russia responsible for any failure of talks / Syrian National Council SNC President Khaled Khoja
BEIRUT,— 24 Jan 2016 – REUERTS / MESOP – Syrian armed rebel groups said on Saturday they held the Syrian government and Russia responsible for any failure of peace talks to end the country’s civil war, even before negotiations due to start in Geneva next week.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was confident the talks set for Jan. 25 would go ahead next week. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70474
MESOP Syria Daily: A Russia-US Compromise to Jump-Start “Peace Talks”?
January 24 -2016 – by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – Russia and the US are close to a compromise to ensure Syria’s “peace talks” start next week, according to three unnamed “Western and United Nations diplomats”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70478
MESOP OVERVIEW – RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA 15 – 22 Jan 2016 / INTEL REPORT
By Genevieve Casagrande (ISW) – The Russian air campaign continued to concentrate in Deir ez-Zour Province on January 20 – 21 in response to recent ISIS advances against regime forces in the northwestern outskirts of Deir ez-Zour City. Russia’s increase in strikes in Eastern Syria coincides with reports of the deployment of approximately one hundred Russian soldiers and engineers to the Qamishli International Airport in Northeastern Syria. Turkish intelligence and other local Syrian sources claimed that the Russian military personnel arrived at the facility in order to expand the airfield to enable the operation of Russian fighter jets and cargo planes. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70424
MESOP BACKGROUNDER : U.S. Relies Heavily on Saudi Money to Support Syrian Rebels / NEW YORK TIMES
By MARK MAZZETTI & MATT APUZZOJAN. 23, 2016 – WASHINGTON — When President Obama secretly authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to begin arming Syria’s embattled rebels in 2013, the spy agency knew it would have a willing partner to help pay for the covert operation. It was the same partner the C.I.A. has relied on for decades for money and discretion in far-off conflicts: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Since then, the C.I.A. and its Saudi counterpart have maintained an unusual arrangement for the rebel-training mission, which the Americans have code-named Timber Sycamore. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70450
MESOP SYRIA FLASH : 142 Killed on Friday Amid Russian Airstrikes
January 23 – Opposition activists report that 142 people were killed across Syria on Friday, many of them by Russian and US airstrikes.
Russian warplanes attacked both opposition-held and Islamic State areas. In Idlib Province, they struck towns like Sarmada and areas near the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the Turkish border. Activists said at least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded, with graphic videos and photographs showing children among the casualties.Aftermath of the attacks on Sarmada:The Islamic State’s central position of Raqqa city in northern Syria was hit, with 23 deaths reported. And both Russian and US jets bombed Deir ez-Zor Province in northeast Syria, with 64 people killed. One of the US attacks reportedly hit a wedding party.The Local Coordination Committees said that 18 people were also killed near Damascus. www.mesop.de
MESOP SPECIAL : PUTINISM ! – A MODERN Ideology – Putinism and the European Far Right
19 January 2016 – By Alina Polyakova – Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic CouncilIt was recently reported that U.S. intelligence agencies will conduct a major investigation into how the Kremlin is infiltrating political parties in Europe with the goal of exploiting European disunity and undermining NATO. While the official results of this investigation are still long in the making, Russia’s influence in Europe has already been thoroughly researched in the think-tank and academic world. As part of IMR’s research series, we are publishing a paper that focuses on the relationship between the Putin doctrine and Europe’s far-right parties. The paper, authored by Alina Polyakova, Ph.D., deputy director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council, was originallypresented at the 2015 ASEEES Annual Convention. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70446
MESOP : PKK(PYD) PROTECTING BUTCHER ASSAD’S REGIME FOR NOW
Kurds Warn of ‘Disaster’ in Syria If Assad Regime Falls
By Patrick Cockburn – The Independent – UK – 2016- 22 Jan – Saleh Muslim, president of the PYD , feels Isis is a bigger threat, compared to the Syrian army. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by Isis and rebel groups that are affiliated to al-Qaeda would be a calamity for the world, says the Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Muslim.In an interview with The Independent he warned that “if the regime collapses because of the salafis [fundamentalist Islamic militants] it would be a disaster for everyone.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70463
MESOP NEWS : Joint Statement January 23, 2016 – SYRIAN DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION
In light of the continued humanitarian disaster and bloodshed in Syria; the ongoing war crimes by the Assad regime and its allies, Iran and Russia; and the rapid pace of political developments, the Syrian revolutionary forces have decided upon the following: First: We affirm our support, within the parameters of the principles of the Syrian Revolution, for the political process. We emphasize our stance that provisions 12 and 13 on humanitarian issues of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254 (2015) must be fulfilled in full, especially since the importance of these provisions has already been affirmed in the previous Security Council resolutions 2118 (2013), 2139 (2014), and 2165 (2014). We consider the fulfillment of these provisions a basic human right without which it is impossible to begin the negotiating process. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70467
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP: “A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP!” – Supreme Leader Plays the China Card v. The West
January 24 – Scott Lucas – eaworldview – Iran’s Supreme Leader has used a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to proclaim that cooperation between the two countries can assure their supremacy over the “West”.Ayatollah Khamenei called for closer economic and security ties, following President Rouhani’s declaration of the goal of $600 billion trade over the next decade.“Iranians never trusted the West… That’s why Tehran seeks cooperation with more independent countries,” Khamenei said. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70470
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP REPORT : Turkey: Christian Refugees Live in Fear / In Turkey & also in Germany / CHRISTIANOPHOBIA ?
by Uzay Bulut • January 24, 2016 – In the eyes of many devout Muslims, tolerance seems to be a one-way street. – “The relation between Islam and the rest of the world is marked by asymmetry. Muslims may and do enjoy all kinds of freedoms and privileges in the lands of the Kuffar [infidels]; however non-Muslims are not granted the same rights and privileges when they live in countries governed by Muslim governments… In our globalized world, this state of affairs should not continue.” — Jacob Thomas. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=70465
Turkey won’t allow Syrian Kurds to cross west of Euphrates
Turkey has not allowed and will not allow the Syrian Kurdish democratic Union Party (PYD) to cross west of the Euphrates River, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, Erdogan dismissed suggestions that fighters from the Kurdish militia had already crossed the river, Zaman daily reported. “This is all gossip. We haven’t allowed it up until now. Even if there are partial movements, we won’t allow such a thing,” he said. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=70480
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
Divide et non impera – VON THOMAS VON DER OSTEN-SACKEN
In Syrien ist die PYD, der dortige Ableger der PKK, enger Alliierter der USA im Kampf gegen den IS, in der Türkei die PKK dagegen so schlimm wie der IS. Erklärt jedenfalls Joe Biden während eines Besuchs in Ankara:
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Jan. 23 that Washington recognized the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey was as much of a threat to Ankara as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), condemning it as “a terror group plain and simple.” –
ISIL “is not the only existential threat to the people of Turkey, the PKK is equally a threat and we are aware of that. The PKK has shown no desire or inclination to do that [live in peace]. It is a terrorist group plain and simple. And what they continue to do is absolutely outrageous,” Biden said at a news conference after a meeting with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, adding that Ankara had to do whatever was needed to protect its people. Jungle world 23 Jan 2016
LÜGEN MEDIEN ? !
MDR FAKT Unterwanderung SPD durch Gülen Bewegung (der 2013 vom MDR gelöschte Film)
Veröffentlicht am 20.01.2016 – MDR-Magazin FAKT Auszüge aus dem Originaltext *Die Gülenbewegung in Deutschland* Quelle PDF http://goo.gl/R6VtLV
Watch Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8KMLx_Dr-E – www.mesop.de
Der Islam verlangt Unterwerfung” – Mehr als eine Religion – Islamkritikerin warnt vor falsch verstandener Toleranz
News at – Wien – 24 Jan 2016 – Die Deutschtürkin Necla Kelek ist als Islamkritikerin von der Gewalt in Köln nicht überrascht. Sie sieht im Islam weit mehr als eine Religion und warnt vor falsch verstandener Toleranz.
In Köln soll es zu Silvester zu massiven Übergriffen von mutmaßlich nordafrikanisch-arabischen Männern auf Dutzende Frauen gekommen sein. Wie erklären Sie sich diese Fälle sexualisierter Gewalt?
Diese Männer wollen anscheinend bewusst und kriminell die Freiheit der Frau, in der Öffentlichkeit zu feiern oder zu reisen, ausnutzen. Sie fühlen sich kollektiv moralisch legitimiert, sie zu attackieren und auszurauben. Dass die Politik schockiert ist, wundert mich. Die Kulturdifferenz wird schlicht geleugnet. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=70459