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CAPACITY BUILDING AT THE KURDISTAN REGION STATISTICS OFFICE THROUGH DATA COLLECTION
Shmuel Abramzon, Nicholas Burger, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar – 40 Euros – Available via mesop@mesop.de
MESOP : FIRST JOINT ACTION OF PKK AFFILIATED NEW “REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT” FOUNDED TWO DAYS BEFORE IN KANDIL MOUNTAINS ?
Turkey Developing: At Least 27 Killed in Latest Ankara Bombing – PKK Establishes Joint Revolutionary Movement – Several Marxist, Ex-Maoist & Communist organisations have joined PKK in the new movement. – At least 34 people have been killed and 75 wounded in the latest bombing in Turkey’s capital Ankara. – The Ankara Goveror’s office said a car bomb was detonated at 6:45 p.m. at a park in the Kızılay district. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=72068
MESOP : THE ANKARA BOMBINGS AND THE NEW EXTERNAL PKK UNIT OF EX-MAOISTS – DHK-CP & STALINIST ELEMENTS
INga Rogg @ingarogg 31m31 minutes ago – Inga Rogg Retweeted T24 – Police in #Istanbul searching for 20 car bombs allegedly deployed by #PKK‘s new unit.
T24 @t24comtr – Emniyet plakaları yayımladı, 20 bombalı araç aranıyor http://t24.com.tr/haber/emniyet-plakalari-yayimladi-20-bombali-arac-araniyor,332018
Sabah newspaper, without attribution, says bomber was a female PKK militant driving a BMW loaded with TNT http://www.sabah.com.tr/gundem/2016/03/14/pkk-yine-halki-katletti …
Mustafa Akyol @AkyolinEnglish 1m1 minute ago – “Analysis on terror attack in Ankara: Naked terrorism” http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?PageID=517&NID=96405&NewsCatID=509 …
#BREAKING Turkish warplanes pound Kurdish rebel bases in Iraq after Ankara bombing: army
Turkey launches desultory airstrikes on Qandil after Ankara car bomb yesterday http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Mar-14/342081-turkey-bombs-iraq-kurds-after-bombing-kills-37.ashx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterdesultory …
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MESOP TODAYS MOST RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
MESOP : PKK OR PKK GUIDED PROXIES TRY TO INTERRUPT TOURISM TO TURKEY
Security official tells Reuters initial findings suggests PKK or affiliates behind Ankara bombing.
#Turkey military intelligence allegedly also warned of an attack near the blast site on March 4th – @abdbozkurt
BREAKING: Australian ambassador was only 20 meters from the #Ankara bombing according to @JulieBishopMP
#BREAKING… #Turkish officials says so far 33 people dead in #Ankara blast
MESOP : CHARLES LISTER EXPLAINS SYRIA TODAY
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 53m53 minutes ago
Pro-FSA protesters demonstrated vs. Jabhat al-Nusra in Marat al-Numan today, demanding AQ withdrawal from the town: www.mesop.de
MESOP : THE SUMMARY UNTIL NOW
161 chemical attacks have struck #Syria since 2012, leaving 16,000+ casualties — @sams_usa https://www.sams-usa.net/foundation/images/A%20New%20Normal_Ongoing%20Chemical%20Weapons%20Attacks%20in%20Syria.compressed.pdf
Liz Sly @LizSly 17h17 hours ago
Seems the Syrian regime might be preparing a new offensive, just as the peace talks start up again https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-mobilizes-thousands-begin-idlib-operations/ …
MESOP : PYD/YPG ( PKK) ON A DISCRETE VISIT IN BELGIUM
YPJ commander and self-management administration visit Brussels and meet the Kurdish community of Belgium (ANHA). www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAYS SHORT CUTS
- Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian affiliate of al-Qaeda, seized U.S.-supplied weapons and attacked Free Syrian Army forces in Maarat Numan, in Idlib Province, in an effort to consolidate their control in the area; the town has held protests recently against Nusra’s occupation.
- U.S. troops in Jordan fired GPS-guided rockets at Islamic State targets in Syria on March 4 in support of a rebel attack on an Islamic State position in the border town of al-Tanf; it’s the first reported instance of U.S. troops firing on the Islamic State from Jordan.
- Kurdish peshmerga forces operating in Iraq say they have captured a U.S. citizen, Muhammad Jamal Amin, who claims to have been trying to enter Turkey after defecting from the Islamic State.
MESOP TODAYS ANALYSIS – THE “OBAMA DOCTRINE” / A CRITICAL DEBATE
Jeffrey Goldberg’s interview with President Obama chronicles the administration’s experience and outlook on foreign policy over Obama’s eight-year tenure. The interview is a comprehensive overview of the United States’ involvement in international affairs, particularly in the Middle East, where Obama expresses disappointment in developments in the region. The interview sparked debate across the Middle East policy community, prompting analysts such as Tamara Cofman Wittes Shadi Hamid, Hisham Melhem, Daniel Drezner, and Elliott Abrams to review Obama’s commentary on US involvement in Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Libya. www.mesop.de
MESOP STATEMENTS ON ERDOGAN & TURKEY / HELSINKI COMMISSION
14 March 2016 – Helsinki Commission on the Media Crackdown in Turkey: Commission Co-Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) expressed deep concern in a statement issued over President Erdogan’s seizure of Zaman, Turkey’s largest independent newspaper: “The government takeover of Zaman represents the complete closing of Turkey’s previously vibrant and diverse media environment. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72100
MESOP PKK STARTS BLOODY BOMBING CAMPAIGN INTO THE HEART OF TURKEY / NEXT TARGETS COULD BE CONNECTED WITH TOURISM
Turkey says one of Ankara bombers was Kurdish female PKK member
ANKARA, 14 March 2016 – A female member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was one of two suspected perpetrators of a car bombing that killed 37 people in the Turkish capital Ankara, security officials said on Monday. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=72088
MESOP – THE ANKARA BOMBINGS : FIRST RELEVANT COMMENTARIES by Soner Cagaptey – Zvi Bar’el & Thomas Seibert for Daily Beast – Financial Times – Haaretz
“Ankara’s ill-executed Syria policy and obsession with ousting the Assad regime has exposed Turkey to great risks. The question, unfortunately, is not if there will be a terror attack again, but when the next attack will be,” says expert Soner Cagaptay in an interview with the Financial Times. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72096
MESOP : KURDS & ARABS TOGETHER !
Meeting between KNC and Syrian coalition over upcoming Geneva talks in Istanbul http://welati.info/nuce.php?ziman=ar&id=27993&niviskar=1&cure=3&kijan= …
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP IN BETWEEN : CEASEFIRE NEWS SYRIA
Ceasefire has seen pro-FSA revolutionary spirit boom in #Idlib towns like Marat al-Numan, threatening Nusra primacy:
Remarkable video from Marat al-Numan: Pro-FSA protest stormed by Nusra fighters, whose chants are then drowned out: …
View conversation – PTs: Ahmed Saoud was in Marat al-Numan protests 1-week ago, w. @forsanalhaq1 leader @faresbauosh70 & @HadiAlabdallah – www.mesop.de
MESOP : THE FINAL RESULT (UNTIL NOW!) – 161 Chemical Attacks in the Conflict –
March 14 – 2016 – by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – The Syrian American Medical Society has issued a report documenting 161 chemical weapons attacks from the start of Syria’s conflict in March 2011 to the end of 2015.The report, A New Normal: Ongoing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria, is based on first-hand accounts from physicians and health workers. It cites 1,491 deaths and 14,581 injuries from chemical exposure.SAMS said another 133 chemical attacks could not be fully substantiated. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72086
MESOP : THE ASSAD MERCENARIES + TEHRAN PLUS PUTIN (CLICK FOR PICS)
#Assad is relying on foreign mercenaries and jihadists. And #Russia and #Iran arm them.
In conjunction with Iran’s terrorists like Hezbollah, Russia takes the place of SAA fighting for Assad in #Syria.
#Syria: Lots of #Russia’n soldiers fighting in #Palmyra-battle deep in desert near #Iraq’i border
Here you can see #Assad‘s 2016 “SAA” in #Syria: Russian armor driven by Iran’s sectarian militia imported from Iraq.
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MESOP Syria Special: “Very Proud” Obama Sells Out Allies & Millions of Syrians / THE GOLDBERG INTERVIEW
March 14 – by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – Published in partnership with “The Conversation”: In the last months of his Administration, US President Bill Clinton tried to resolve the Israel-Palestine dispute. The effort fell short, but it was the closest to the resolution of the conflict since the creation of the Israeli State in 1948.
In the last months of his Administration, President Barack Obama is giving interviews to explain how everyone else is to blame for the five-year Syrian conflict, which has supplanted the Israeli-Palestinian issue as the region’s destabilizing centre and shows no prospect of receding. Rather than evaluate which could be done to mitigate the damage, Obama has chided allies such as Britain, Germany, and France. He has implicitly lashed out at his former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, as she campaigns to succeed him. And he has shown little regards for the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have been killed and the millions who have been displaced, and who will continue to die and flee in his final months in office. Read All http://www.mesop.de/?p=72105
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP SUMMARY : Erdogan intensifies assault on independent media
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s campaign against media freedoms stands out, even in a region where liberty of expression and journalists are often under siege.
Mustafa Akyol writes that the Turkish government’s seizure of Zaman newspaper March 4 “may have shocked outsiders, but in Turkey, hardly anyone was surprised. It was clear that Zaman and its entire media group, including Cihan News Agency, would be seized, as Ipek Media Group, which published the dailies Bugun and Millet, was seized in October and turned pro-Erdogan overnight. All these news outlets were affiliated with the movement of Fethullah Gulen, and the Turkish public is repeatedly told that every asset of his religious community will be confiscated by the state.”Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72082
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP Iran Daily: Qods Forces’ Soleimani Defends Tehran’s Military Campaigns
March 14 – Scott Lucas – eaworldview – A day after President Rouhani firmly endorsed Iran’s military interventions in Syria and Iraq, another prominent regime official — the head of the Qods Force, General Qassem Soleimani — has defended Tehran’s foreign campaigns. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72076
MESOP MIDDLE EAST : Israel sees ascendant Putin / AL MONITOR
14 März 2016 …….. Ben Caspit further explains that Erdogan’s painfully weak hand is magnified by Russia’s enhanced strategic importance for Israeli decision-makers.
“Putin wins out decisively on all counts: The path he adopted in Syria has upgraded Russia’s status in the region and beyond. Almost overnight, Russia has become an influential and dominant world power. Russia’s deep involvement in Syria proved itself a successful bet. Russia changed the regional reality, redirecting the bloody conflict from a dead end to another path, transformed Assad from a loser to a winner and reshuffled the cards in a Russian display of power and determination. Recently, I quoted a very highly placed Israeli military source as saying ‘even if a Russian jet flies over Tel Aviv, we will not take it down.’ Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72084
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP INSIGHT : Iraq’s Prime Minister Abadi Attempts to Reshuffle the Cabinet
By Patrick Martin with Emily Anagnostos (ISW) – Key Take-Away: Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s cabinet reshuffle faces enormous pressure from competing blocs over the final composition of the cabinet. The State of Law Alliance (SLA) is attempting to preserve political party interests within the cabinet, a contradiction of PM Abadi’s and popular demonstrations’ demands for a full government overhaul. However, Muqtada al-Sadr, the charismatic leader of the Sadrist Trend, is demanding a comprehensive change in government, which would threaten political blocs’ access to sources of patronage by preventing party elements from controlling ministerial positions. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72090
Mesop NEWS : THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
Einbetten – Cultural Broadcasting Archive – Radio FRO
Die Geschichte der Kurden Das Programm: Dengê Kurdistan bei Radio Fro.105.0 sendet heute um 17-18 auf Deutsch die Erste Sendung über die … https://cba.fro.at/310876