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MESOP TODAYS QUOTATION
“Treason” In Turkey: Asking for Peace
by Uzay Bulut • February 14, 2016
“The Turkish state authorities have made it clear that calling for an end to state violence in Turkey’s Kurdish regions is “treason.” This means that in Turkey, requesting peace and political equality between Kurds and Turks is illegal.” www.mesop.de
MESOP LATEST TODAY AFTER MUNICH : PUTIN & LAVROV ARE LAUGHING ABOUT THE GREENHORNS KERRY – STEINMEIER et.al.
MESOP : CONTRAPRODUKTIVE WORTHLESS MUNICH
MFA Russia @mfa_russia 4h4 hours ago 13 Feb 2016
#Lavrov: If there is no honest daily contacts between the Russian & US military then nothing will be implemented http://bit.ly/1Wjung3
MESOP TODAYS MOST RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
MESOP : INTERVENTION – A QUESTION OF HOURS
Saudi jets deployed to Turkey.. How long till a joint incursion to Syria? @FoxNews
Denise Natali @dnataliDC 6h6 hours ago
Saudia Arabia deploys fighter jets to Turkey’s Incirlik airbase for operations in Syria. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/saudi-fighter-jets-deployed-turkey-incirlik-base-160214045639093.html …
MESOP : BAD JOKES !
Green lemon@green_lemonnn – #Syria IS must be very confused watching reports of anti-IS force shelling anti-IS force after anti-IS force advanced against anti-IS force
Will Turkish government give immediate assistance to help Cizre businesses avoid bankruptcy & rebuild? http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=517&nID=95161&NewsCatID=345 …
“Turkey and the YPG share a serious threat of ISIL poised just to the east of the Azaz corridor,” Kirby
February 14, 2016 | Clashes at the western entrance of #Tal_Rifaat HQ: http://i.imgur.com/1oYlXMs.png
The #SDF (YPG) says it lost three #Kurdish fighters so far due to the #Turkish artillery shelling (ANHA) (KU) http://ku.hawarnews.com/3-servanen-qsde-di-topbaran-tirkiye-de-jiyana-xwe-ji-dest-dan/ …
Syrian Kurds form new political alliance, call for federalism as solution to ongoing civil war http://aranews.net/2016/02/syrian-kurds-form-new-political-alliance-call-for-federalism-as-solution-to-ongoing-civil-war/ … via @twitterapi
MESOP : PUK HERO’S CONDOLENCES FOR BUTCHERS & TORTURERS
Kamal Chomani @KamalChomani 21h21 hours ago
Hero Talabani, PUK politburo mmbr, sends her condolences to Bashar al-Assad on the passing of his mother. #TwitterKurds
Hero Talabani in condoleance letter says she has respect for Assad’s mother and husband Hafez Assad http://snnc.co/News.aspx?id=34210&MapID=1 …
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 16h16 hours ago
.@JebBush: Russia isn’t fighting #ISIS, it’s fighting our team, our guys on the ground. @realDonaldTrump – I like Putin, I like him so far.
Brookings @BrookingsInst 16h16 hours ago
“Assad is not and should never be seen as a better alternative to ISIS.” @Charles_Lister: http://brook.gs/1WJqToa #GOPDebate
MESOP : LAST WORDS ALWAYS BY CHARLES LISTER
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 20h20 hours ago
Unusual seeing US govt calling on a fellow NATO member to cease attacks on an armed group it itself has designated a terrorist organization
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister This *simple* chart shows all states of hostility currently being played out on #Syria’s territory
MESOP : A portrait of corruption in Kurdistan – The Economic Turbulence in the South of Kurdistan
By Arian Mufid: The Kurdistan Tribune – 14 Feb 2016 – For the last ten years Kurdish politics has suffered great corruption in the hands of the Kurdistam Regional Government (KRG) leadership. Here we are today with yet more evidence of the results of the mismanagement of our leaders, with the wages and salaries of Kurdish civil servants not being paid for the last six months. This is in addition to the turbulence in oil prices which has hit the Kurdish economy particularly badly and has already starting to affect the economic marketplace. Kurdish media newspapers and TV have become dominated by the stories of ordinary people suddenly desperate for food and cash. As a result, teachers have come out onto the streets protesting and boycotting classes and local council staff are protesting about not getting their wages. Read all : http://www.mesop.de/?p=71255
MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY By GEORGE SOROS : PUTIN WANTS TO DESTROY THE EU ! / FLOOD IT WITH MIGRANTS AND YOU CRASH THE EU
Putin is No Ally Against ISIS / PROJECT SYNDICATE 14 Feb 2016 – MUNICH – The leaders of the United States and the European Union are making a grievous error in thinking that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a potential ally in the fight against the Islamic State. The evidence contradicts them. Putin’s current aim is to foster the EU’s disintegration, and the best way to do so is to flood the EU with Syrian refugees. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71253
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP : THE HUGE TALABANI ROBBERY – Rescued Then Robbed: The Tragedy of Kirkuk / KURDISTAN CORRUPT !
Pasewan: 14 Feb 2016 – Last week the protests spread to Kirkuk, the prized city secured by the Peshmerga in 2014 after the Iraqi army collapsed in the face of a Daesh onslaught. However, despite Kirkuk province’s natural riches, it has become mired in the economic and political crisis gripping the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. How can this be? Kirkuk’s copious oil is now (mostly) flowing north along a Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) pipeline to Turkey, doubling the KRG’s officially declared oil exports. Hasn’t this helped to substantially offset the impact of falling world oil prices, for the people’s benefit? A Kirkuk protester gave an answer on local TV. “They won’t let us protest because they say we haven’t obtained permission”, he said of a crackdown by the authorities, “but those who export our oil and pocket the revenues never obtained permission from us”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71240
SOUTH KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
Steinmeier: Kürdistan referandumundan endişeliyiz
14.02.2016 – art49 com – ERBİL – Almanya Dışişleri Bakanı Frank Walter Steinmeier, “Kürdistan bölgesinin bağımsızlığı konusunda yapılacak referandumda ciddi bir şekilde endişeliyiz” değerlendirmesini yaptı. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71251
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP : THE ACTUAL RUSSIAN AIR CAMPAIGN IN ALEPPO PROVINCE / PUTIN BOMBS CIVILIANS & DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION
By Genevieve Casagrande – ISW – Russian air operations in Syria bolster the legitimacy and staying power of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Russia seeks to preserve its client regime in Syria and thereby ensure its foothold in the Middle East in line with its strategic objectives. The vast majority of Russia’s air operations in Aleppo Province have targeted mainstream Aleppo-based opposition groups, despite Russia’s insistence that its intervention aims exclusively to eliminate ISIS, Syrian al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al Nusra (JN), and other “terrorist organizations.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71243
Russia’s scorched earth policy in Syria / A MEGA WAR CRIME
Lara Nelson – 11 February 2016 – Recent regime advances across Syria demonstrate Assad’s complete dependence on Russian air strikes and foreign Shia militias
“It’s like Stalingrad. They raze entire areas. Then they send in the militias,” Yamen Ahmad, an FSA commander in Latakia, described. He was in Selma, Latakia province, leading his brigade when the regime took back the area from the opposition in January. “There is no way to resist this scorched earth policy the Russians are deploying with their strikes across Syria.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71249
MESOP : “PRAVDA” MEANS ALWAYS LIE – Russia Dispute France’s Accusations on Syria
By Luis Ramirez, Pamela Dockins – 2016-02-13 17:37 GMT – LONDON/MUNICH (VOA) NEWS — Russia’s prime minister says accusations his country is bombing civilians in Syria are “just not true.”Speaking Saturday at a security conference in Munich, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said “there is no evidence” of such bombings. He made the comment moments after French Prime Minister Manuel Valls called on Russia to stop bombing civilians in Syria, saying it was crucial in order to reach any peaceful solution. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71247
MESOP : SALIH MUSLIM (PYD/PKK) – REUTERS INTERVIEW ABOUT RECENT EVENTS
Syrian Kurdistan’s PYD party rejects Turkish demands, warns against intervention
BEIRUT,— 14 Feb 2016 – The Kurdish PYD party in Syrian Kurdistan on Sunday rejected Turkish demands that allied militia withdraw from positions near the border that are being shelled by Turkish army, and warned that Syrians would resist any Turkish intervention in the country.Salih Muslim, the co-chair of the PYD, told Reuters Turkey had no right to intervene in Syria’s internal affairs, adding that an air base shelled by the Turkish army on Saturday had been in the hands of the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front until forces allied to the PYD captured it last week. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71259
EAST KURDISTAN
MESOP : Theocrats & Dictators bombing civilians to rescue the Assad dictatorship
Iran Daily: Zarif — “Political Solution Possible with Syria’s Assad”
February 14 – 2016 – by Scott – eaworldview – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has maintained that Syria’s President Assad can retain power in a political solution for the country’s five-year conflict. Zarif responded on Saturday to comments by both US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir that Assad must give up power in a political transition.He told reporters at the Munich Security Conference: http://www.mesop.de/?p=71245
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP Turkey Op-Ed: How Erdogan is Crushing Civil Society / AN ANALYSIS
14 Feb 2016 – By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – The Economist writes in an editorial:
For 400 years, says a founding myth common to Turkic peoples from China to the Aegean sea, forebears of the Turks were trapped in the rocky valley of Ergenekon. But one day an ingenious blacksmith learned to melt stone, and a grey she-wolf appeared to lead the tribe from its mountain fastness into the rich plains. Similarly, Kemal Ataturk has for generations been depicted in Turkish schools as a hero who after the first world war rallied a beaten people, repulsed a swarm of invaders and forged a strong new nation. In some ways the story of the rise of the Justice and Development party echoes those tales, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan presented as leading Turkey from a dark era of Kemalist faithlessness into a bright Islamic future. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71257
THE GERMAN KURDISHCHAPTER
MESOP : NEUES VOM DIALOG ODER STEINMEIER&PERTHES – WO WOLLT IHR EUCH VERSTECKEN ?
Nato-Chef warnt vor Russlands Atom-Bomben / Putin droht mit Nuklear Waffen
14.02.2016 – 13:03 Uhr – Die Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz hat innerhalb von drei Tagen gezeigt, wo die Probleme weltweit liegen: Ost gegen West, Kalter Krieg, Syrien-Krieg. Jetzt hat sich Nato-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg besorgt über Russlands Atomwaffen gezeigt. Präsident Putin habe deren Anwendung „jedenfalls angedroht“, sagte Stoltenberg zu BILD. „Und die russischen Truppen üben demonstrativ damit.“ Volltext http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/nato/general-stoltenberg-warnt-vor-russlands-atombombe-44556958.bild.html