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MESOP TODAYS HEADLINE / AS PREDICTED BY MESOP : A “HOWEVER!” BY CEMIL BAYIKS MEN
17 March 2016 – “TAK, which stands for Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, said on its website (in Kurdish) that Sunday’s bombing was aimed at security forces and was not intended to kill civilians. However, it warned that further civilians casualties in its attacks were inevitable.”
“TAK, which stands for Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, said on its website (in Kurdish) that Sunday’s bombing was aimed at security forces and was not intended to kill civilians. However, it warned that further civilians casualties in its attacks were inevitable.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35829231
MESOP : A YOUNG WOMAN WITH A BRIGHT FUTURE KILLED BY INHUMAN TERROR ORDERS / CLICK FOR PICS
Seher Demir, 24, named by #TAK, a branch of #PKK, as suicide bomber in Ankara on MAR 13. #Turkey
Watch pic http://www.mesop.de/?p=72217
MESOP : PUTIN’S RETREAT & CEASEFIRE
Backed by Russian Aircraft, Assad Forces Advance Towards ISIS Stronghold
Middle East Monitor. United Kingdom.
Assad Advisor: Russia Forces Can Return to Syria
Al Arabiya News Channel. United Arab Emirates.
Russian Jets Pulling Out Of Syria, But It Seems New Helicopters Are Just Arriving / 17 March 2016
MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
Fuad Hussein: Halabja is a day we cannot forget at all. They want to repeat Halabja in every place of Kurdistan region #suliforum
Extraordinary, “Syrian rebel “spymaster” slams CIA for ‘ignoring’ detailed intel on ISIS since 2013″ by @H_E_Samue http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12195131/Syrian-moderate-rebel-spymaster-slams-CIA-for-ignoring-detailed-intel-on-Isil-since-2013.html …
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 4h4 hours ago – Anti-Jabhat al-Nusra protests continue today in Marat al-Numan, for 4th day. Demands for release of FSA prisoners:
MESOP : THE NEW ALEX HITCHENS MEDAL !
Qubad Talabani @qubadjt 1h1 hour ago – Proud 2 give my Kurdistan flag pin 2 @amhitchens. Alex’s late father Christopher Hitchens always wore one with pride
MESOP : ERDOGAN NOW RUNS WILD
Erdogan says,like countless Turkish leaders before him, that terrorists can be MPs, journos, whether armed or not http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-s-president-erdogan-wants-definition-of-terrorist-to-include-journalists-as-three-academics-a6933881.html …
Journalist in Rojava has reported that Americans will be heading to Efrîn to stabilise the situation there & to begin extending cooperation.
Interesting overview by .@jobahout on Syria: shows defacto reality of Kurdistan Rojava, Assadistan (Alawite) and Sunnistan #suliforum
Joseph Batout: we have Assadistan now backed by russia and kurdistan reality #suliforum
Interesting. Seems YPG preparing to push Syrian government forces out of Qamishli https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/tensions-rise-qamishli-kurdish-militias-surround-government-forces/ …
Max J. Joseph @DeadmanMax 4h4 hours ago – YPG just announced they have arrested 100 soldiers/officers of “the regime” in Qamishli – and have encircled the NDF #Syria
“Federalism is the central demand of Kurds in Syria. Every step has been towards it and now it’s time to declare it” http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/fears-kurdish-civil-war-syria-turkey-backs-rivals-ypg-1552586608#sthash.LWkk9oJZ.dpuf …
Fuad Hussein: first priority for the Kurds is to build good relationships with Iran and Turkey #suliforum #krg
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MESOP : THE PLAIN TRUTH OF CLEAN CUT US POLICY IN MIDDLE EAST
Charles Lister @Charles_Lister 56m56 minutes ago – CENTCOM backs #PYD/#YPG to the hilt, empowering it to consider self-ruled zone. State Dept. insists no territory would receive recognition. – www.mesop.de
MESOP PKK LEADER CEMIL BAYIK EXPLAINED INDIRECTLY PKK RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANKARA BOMBINGS / PKK will continue even if Civilians will be killed
PKK leader warns to spread war to ‘everywhere’ in Turkey
KURDPRESS 16 March 2016 – A leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has warned of an inevitable increase in violence as Turkish army continues operations in the southeastern Kurdish regions of the country. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72178
MESOP : AFTER THE PKK BOMBINGS & BEFORE THE COMING PKK BOMBINGS
Where is Ankara’s ‘Je suis’ moment?
Liz Cookman – THE GUARDIAN UK – 16 Marh 2016 – The Turkish capital has suffered three huge terrorist bombings in five months, but received only a fraction of the sympathy and attention given to Paris – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72185
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
Syria Daily: Kurdish PYD Makes A Move for Federalism
March 17 – 2016 – by Scott Lucas – Led by the Kurdistan Democratic Union Party (PYD/PKK), some Syrian Kurdish groups made a move for federalism on Wednesday.
At a conference in Hasakeh Province in northeastern Syria, the Kurdish representatives said they would issue their statement on Thursday, pointing to a status beyond their current de facto autonomy in three cantons.Idris Nassan, an official in the Foreign Affairs Directorate of the Kobane canton, said the “Federation of Northern Syria” will mean “widening the framework of self-administration which the Kurds and others have formed”. Read full txt http://www.mesop.de/?p=72193
MESOP : US REACTS CAUTIOUSLY / THE REVOLUTIONARY PYD-PKK Rojava IS FOUNDED IN A DICTATOR
A DEVELOPING RUSSIA-PYD ALLIANCE
The step appears to be part of a developing alliance between the PYD and Russia. The Kurdish organization has opened an office in Moscow, and Russia has called for PYD representatives to be present at political talks, which resumed this week in Geneva. Last month, the Russians proposed a federal system in which Kurdish groups would gain authority from the center in Damascus. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=72195
MESOP : KANDIL’S MAN IN SYRIA-ROJAVA – Salih Muslim: Time Has Proved Us Right
16 Mar 2016 – Interview by Karlos Zurutuza: This is a translation of the interview that appeared today on the Spanish edition of Vice News
Salih Muslim Muhammad (born Kobani, Aleppo, 1951) is co-chairman of the Democratic Union Party-PYD, the political force that has led the uprising of the Kurds in Syria since the war began, in March 2011.After spending 12 years as an oil industry engineer in Saudi Arabia, Muslim returned to Syria in the 90s to work clandestinely — Kurdish political parties were banned. By the time he became president of the Democratic Union Party, in 2010, he’d already paid for his political dissent with torture and imprisonment in Assad´s prisons. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72198
MESOP : THE CHANGING SALIH MUSIM IN OTHER WORDS / PYD Co-leader Supports Independent Kurdistan
Imad Bilal – BasNews – 17 March 2016 – ERBIL — Democratic Union Party (PYD) Co-leader Salih Muslim has extended his support for the establishment of an independent state of Kurdistan. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72200
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
Russia Supplies Iraqi Kurds With Anti-Aircraft Weaponry / Sputnik News
2016-03-17 – MOSCOW — The shipment was delivered on March 14 and it is aimed to arm Kurdish Peshmerga forces, Artyom Grigoryan told RIA Novosti.”The weaponry was transferred in the presence of the Russian ambassador and consul general as well as the Peshmerga deputy chief of general staff,” Grigoryan added. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72215
MESOP : More On The Islamic State’s Participation In Iraq’s Dollar Exchanges / BY JOEL WING –MUSINGS ON IRAQ
17 Mar 2016 – It’s been reported several times that the Islamic State is taking part in Iraq’s dollar exchanges to earn hard currency. At the end of 2014 the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department warnedthe Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) that IS was buying up dollars at its auctions. The U.S. even stopped delivering dollars to Iraq in the summer of 2015 to push the Bank towards reform. In response the CBI issuednew rules, fined banks, and banned 142 money exchanges from the auctions. Iraq has weak enforcement however, so the Bank’s actions have not stopped IS from being able to buy dollars. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72220
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP FOCUS : How Iran views the Russian withdrawal from Syria
Iranian officials and analysts are speculating about why Russian President Vladimir Putin suddenly decided to begin withdrawing troops from Syria. Some wonder whether Russia won concessions from the United States and the Syrian opposition, but most seem to think that Russia’s action is a positive sign, or at the least nothing to worry about.
Author Arash Karami – March 15, 2016 – Al Monitor – Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign policy adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke to Iranian reporters March 15 after holding a press conference with Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Iran. According to the media, Velayati said that during his meeting with Mekdad, they discussed “defending the territorial integrity” of Syria and its April 13 parliamentary elections. When asked if Iranian troops would replace the Russian forces leaving Syria, Velayati said that Russia’s action “will not change the overall cooperation between Iran, Russia, Syria and allied forces such as Hezbollah.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72176
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP “WORT DES TAGES” : DONALD TRUMP WÄHLT ISRAEL – WÄHLT ISRAEL DONALD TRUMP ?
„….. Am Mittwoch kündigte er (Trump) an, an der nächsten Fernsehdebatte am Montag nicht teilzunehmen. Stattdessen wolle er auf der Jahreskonferenz der Israel-Lobby Aipac reden.“
Worum man ihn sehr gebeten hatte. – FAZ 17 März 2016, Seite 3.
MESOP : As first predicted by MESOP – The so called “APO’s falcons” (TAK) responsible for killing of civilians in Ankara / FOLLOW UP ATTACKS ANNOUNCED BY TAK / CEMIL BAYIKS 5th COLUMN
GERMAN DIPLOMACY & SCHOOLS IN TURKEY CLOSED
Terrorismus: PKK-Splittergruppe TAK bekennt sich zu Anschlag in Ankara
- März 2016, 9:54 Uhr – DIE ZEIT – Istanbul (dpa) – Die aus der verbotenen kurdischen Arbeiterpartei PKK hervorgegangene Splittergruppe Freiheitsfalken Kurdistans (TAK) hat sich zu dem Anschlag in Ankara mit 37 Toten vom Sonntag bekannt. Eine Selbstmordattentäterin aus der Türkei habe den Anschlag durchgeführt. Die TAK kündigte auf ihrer Website zugleich weitere Anschläge an. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=72205
MESOP : KOMMENTAR BY FERHARD SEYDER – PKK TERROR IN DIE STÄDTE TRAGEN (CEMIL BAYIK) ODER MIT DER TÜRKEI AUF NEUER BASIS VERHANDELN ?
Ferhad Seyder „Die Kritik der linken und der Liberalen an AKP lässt mich kalt. Es ist nicht im Interesse der Kurden und war nicht im Interesse der Kurden gegen die AKP zu sein. Schaut mal bitte die politische Landschaft in der Türkei an. Wer könnte der Partner der Kurden sein? die Ultranationalisten? die Kemalisten von CHP? Es bleibt die AKP.
Die PKK sollte im Interesse der Kurden die Situation deeskalieren. PKK! Macht dem kurdischen VOLK ein Newroz-Geschenk und beendet eure katastrophale Politik!“
Ferhad Ibrahim auch Ferhad Seyder (* 10. April 1950 in Amude, Syrien; eigentlich: Ferhad Ibrahîm Seyda) ist ein deutsch–kurdischer Politikwissenschaftler undHochschullehrer.