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MESOP TODAYS HEADLINE – PUTIN FIGHTING TOGETHER WITH PYD FOR WORLD PEACE
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov: We Will Not At This Time Be Returning To Nuclear Arms Reduction Talks With U.S. Under ‘New START’ Treaty
MESOP TODAYS MOST RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
Russian Diplomat Maria Khodynskaya-Golenishcheva: De Mistura Must Fix His Mistakes Before Talks Over Syria Can Be Resumed – Watch all http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/5310.htm
Liz SlyVerified account@LizSly
Liz Sly Retweeted Warfare Worldwide – A neat animated map showing how fast Syrian rebels have lost ground in Aleppo in the past week
50,000 displaced by the surge in fighting in Syria. @jrug reports from the Turkish border http://youtu.be/wiWKeEetBqo
As the Russian-backed offensive continues, some routes for humanitarian aid to Aleppo have been cut off, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has been trying to deliver water to besieged residents because the city’s water system has stopped working. A new report by the Syrian Centre for Policy Research concluded that 470,000 people — 11.5% of Syria’s population — have been killed by the war.
Increasing reports of YPG/SDF control/partial control of Menagh airbase north of Aleppo. Still no YPG confirmation. #TwitterKurds #Syria
MESOP : PUTIN’S ENLARGED COLONIES
Jordan has been closely coordinating with the Russians, through a fledgling nerve centre .. in the kingdom” http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/rebel-setbacks-in-syria-have-far-reaching-consequences …
MESOP : THERE MUST BE ONLY A POLITICAL SOLUTION! – WORDS BY KERRY/STEINMEIER et.al. – AND THERE WILL BE A POLITICAL SOLUTION – AFTER PUTIN’S MILITARY SOLUTION
“Yes, they will have a cease-fire, but after Aleppo it is finished,” he said in an online chat. “They will close off all of Aleppo, destroy the whole area, and then the Russians will negotiate a cease-fire,” he added. “After winning victory they will negotiate.” – Anonymous Farmer in Aleppo Province – www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAYS OPINION : THE INTOLERANCE OF PERCEPTUAL AMBIGUITY / Syria Daily: Allies Turn on “Ambiguous” US / THE MUNICH CONFERENCE
February 11 – By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius lashed out on Wednesday at the US over its approach to Syria, joining Turkey in criticism of Washington.
Fabius, who is resigning to become head of the Constitutional Court, denounced the “ambiguities” of the US-led coalition, “in particular [of] the principal pilot”: One doesn’t get the sense that there is a very strong commitment. There are words, but actions are another matter, and obviously the Iranians and Russians feel that. He specifically challenged the political will of President Obama: “I don’t think that the end of Mr Obama’s mandate will push him to act as much as his minister [Secretary of State John Kerry] declares.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71124
MESOP : Russia Proposes March 1 Syria Cease-Fire / Commentaries by Dennis Ross & Roula Khalaf & Jeremy Shapiro et.al.
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MESOP : IS OBAMA HUSSEIN’S FOREIGN POLICY IDEOLOGICAL ?
Shadi Hamid | February 10, 2016 – Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World in the Center for Middle East Policy, and the author of “Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East”(Oxford University Press, 2014). He served as director of research at the Brookings Doha Center until January 2014. Prior to joining Brookings, Hamid was director of research at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and a Hewlett Fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. Hamid is currently vice-chair of POMED’s board of directors, a member of the World Bank’s MENA Advisory Panel, as well as a contributing writer for The Atlantic.
Why doesn’t Obama seem to listen to Syria experts?
U.S. policy toward Syria is a fascinating, if depressing, case study. Many of my friends and colleagues who work on Syria—nearly all of them, in fact—have been baffled by President Obama’s approach to the Syrian conflict. The administration’s apparent resistance to rethinking its policies, despite rapidly changing events on the ground, sparks a number of challenging questions, particularly for someone like me who works at a think tank: When the basic thrust of policy seems immovable, irrespective of events on the ground, how should researchers respond? Should influencing policy be the animating objective of policy research? Who exactly should our work be directed to? Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71148
MESOP : JUST PAPER !
European Commission – Press release (Official Document)
Managing the Refugee Crisis: Commission reports on implementation of EU-Turkey Joint Action Plan
Brussels, 10 February 2016 – On 29 November 2015, at the EU-Turkey summit, Turkey and the EU activated the Joint Action Plan aimed at stepping up cooperation for the support of Syrian refugees under temporary protection and their host communities in Turkey and to strengthen cooperation to prevent irregular migration flows to the EU. The European Commission is today publishing a report on the implementation of the EU-Turkey Joint Action Plan, assessing the follow-up of the respective commitments under the Action Plan. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71122
MESOP REMEMBERANCE
MESOP : KANI YILMAZ – A GREAT DEMOCRATIC KURDISH LEADER – MURDERED BY PKK LEADERSHIP – “WE SALUTE YOU !”
A Message From The Grave – On the 10th anniversary of assassination of Kani Yilmaz
Kani Yilmaz, who had been assassinated in Sulaimani city, Iraqi Kurdistan on Feb. 11, 2006.
From the friends of Kani Yilmaz
If I could see the changes over the decade since my former comrades took my life, what would I tell you?
I would say our relations with Turkey are darkening with echoes of the worst days of the 1990s. I might think the suffering of the region’s peoples have been in vain. I would tell you a new generation of Kurdish children are growing up with the same fear and bitterness as did our generation and our grandfathers’. All that remains is this memory. Click full text and picture – http://www.mesop.de/?p=71137
MESOP : BRAVO MONSIEUR FABIUS ! – Syria Feature: French Foreign Minister Resigns, Blasts US as Well as Russia and Iran
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has resigned, blasting the US over its approach to Syria’s crisis and declaring Russian and Iranian “complicity” with the “brutality” of the Assad regime.
Fabius’ resignation was expected, as he is likely to become head of France’s constitutional court. However, his departing statement was unreservedly harsh on the US and its partners. Read ll http://www.mesop.de/?p=71112
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP : IMPORTANT WASHINGTON MEETING – RESTORING RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL – ERDOGAN !
Erdoğan meets with American Jewish leaders in Ankara
February 10, 2016, / TODAY’S ZAMAN | ISTANBUL – President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with an American Jewish delegation representing different leading Jewish organizations in the US at a time of ongoing efforts to mend ties with Israel after years of diplomatic estrangement.Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major American Jewish Organizations (CoP), and other senior representatives from the Conference, an umbrella group that represents dozens of US Jewish NGOs, were accepted both by Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davut Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71110
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP : MUNICH & AFTER MUNICH – WHAT WILL BE WITH SYRIA ?
Russian Intervention in Syrian War Has Sharply Reduced U.S. Options
By DAVID E. SANGER – FEB. 10, 2016 – MUNICH — For months now the United States has insisted there can be no military solution to the Syrian civil war, only a political accord between President Bashar al-Assad and the fractured, divided opposition groups that have been trying to topple him.But after days of intense bombing that could soon put the critical city of Aleppo back into the hands of Mr. Assad’s forces, the Russians may be proving the United States wrong. There may be a military solution, one senior American official conceded Wednesday, “just not our solution,” but that of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71144
MESOP : Putin makes Syria scorched earth – Repeated bombings force Daraa hospital closures
AMMAN: Syria Direct 11 Feb 2016 – Hospitals and clinics are closing in Daraa province amidst heavy Russian and regime bombings in recent weeks, with one activist telling Syria Direct on Thursday that “most of the field hospitals in the east Daraa countryside are out of service now.”
Four hospitals in the countryside around the provincial capital closed after staff reportedly met on Wednesday, local news site Yaqeen reported, citing the “precision targeting” of hospitals and ongoing risk to medical personnel and patients. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71153
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
Who are Iraq’s Kakai?
Al Monitor – 11 Feb 2016 – HALABJA, Iraq — The Kakais are one of the religious minorities scattered throughout northern Iraq in the provinces of Sulaimaniyah and Halabja, in the Ninevah Plains of Ninevah province and in villages to the southeast of Kirkuk. Historians and researchers disagree on their classification, as mystery and secrecy shroud this sect. Kakais have kept their beliefs hidden, and this secrecy has prevented them from forming their own independent political parties and gaining representation in the parliaments of the central Iraqi government and Kurdistan Region. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=71146
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP : ADEM UZUN (KNK/PKK) NOW WORKING WITH DICTATOR PUTIN’S SPUTNIKNEWS
On the second segment, Brian Becker (SputnikNews) is joined by Adem Uzun, an executive committee member of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), to analyze why the Kurdish issue is the major barrier to the Syrian peace talks starting next week in Geneva, as well as why Turkey is so motivated to crush the Kurdish forces in both Turkey and Syria.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/radio_loud_and_clear/20160122/1033548136/texas-politicians-to-women-we-own-your-bodies.html#ixzz3zmsFxn8c
MESOP SPECIAL : New Report Released – Jabhat al Nusra and ISIS: Sources of Strength
By Jennifer Cafarella, Harleen Gambhir, and Katherine Zimmerman
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute conducted an intensive multi-week planning exercise to frame, design, and evaluate potential courses of action that the United States could pursue to destroy the Islamic State in Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) and al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria. ISW and CTP are publishing the findings of this exercise in multiple reports in a series titled U.S Grand Strategy: Destroying ISIS and al Qaeda. The first report – Al Qaeda and ISIS: Existential Threats to the U.S. and Europe — described America’s global grand strategic objectives as they relate to the threat from ISIS and al Qaeda. The second – Competing Visions for Syria and Iraq: The Myth of an Anti-ISIS Grand Coalition — defined American strategic objectives in Iraq and Syria, identified the minimum necessary conditions for ending the conflicts there, and compared U.S. objectives with those of Iran, Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia in order to understand actual convergences and divergences. Read full report http://www.mesop.de/?p=71151
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP: DIE VERNICHTUNG & FRAGMENTIERUNG SYRIENS UND SEINER MENSCHEN / ERSTE STATISTIK
Kriegsopfer: 11,5 Prozent der syrischen Bevölkerung laut Studie getötet oder verletzt
SPIEGEL ONLINE – 11 Feb 2016 – Im syrischen Bürgerkrieg sind laut einer Nichtregierungsorganisation schon 470.000 Menschen getötet worden – doppelt so viele, wie die Uno bisher schätzt. 1,9 Millionen Menschen wurden demnach verwundet. Seit 2011 regiert in Syrien die Gewalt, aus zunächst friedlichen Demonstrationen ist ein komplexer Krieg geworden. Eine Nichtregierungsorganisation veröffentlicht nun erschreckende Zahlen: 11,5 Prozent der syrischen Bevölkerung seien bereits getötet oder verletzt wurden. Dies ergab eine Studie des Syrian Centre for Policy Research (SCPR), aus der der britische “Guardian” exklusiv zitiert. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=71114
MESOP : ALTE LINKE TRADITION = FRIEDENSSCHLUSS MIT DIKTATOREN & VÖLKERMÖRDERN
Verhandlungspositionen II – von Thomas von der Osten-Sacken
Wolfgang Gehrcke, Die Linke, macht mal wieder die Avantgarde und fordert, dass alle russsich-syrisch-iranischen Forderungen erfuellt werden muessten, dann auch sei Putin bereit, die Bombardements Aleppos aufzugeben.
Noch ist es eine Presseerklaerung der Linkspartei in Kuerze wird es so Mainstream sein, wie die aehnlich gelagerte Forderung, mit dem IS in Friedensverhandlungen zu treten.
Russland, Iran und Assad vermeiden es dagegen bislang, ganz offen zu fordern, dass doch bitte die Tuerkei und Europa all jene Sunniten aufnimmt, die man bei der Neugestaltung Syriens nicht mehr haben will.
Abzug der bewaffneten Einheiten der Aufständischen, Waffenruhe und im Gegenzug Einstellung der Bombardierung Aleppos sowie Öffnung der Grenzen für Flüchtlinge, die in die Türkei wollen, das muss das Ziel der Vermittlungsbemühungen auch der Bundesrepublik sein.
Und ganz verwerflich ist natuerlich auch, dass die syrische Opposition in Riad die Einhaltung von UN-Resolutionen, die richten sie sich gegen Israel, ein Fetisch dieser deutschen Linken sind, gefordert hat, also die Einstellung von Barrel Bombings und freier humanitaerer Zugang zu Zivilisten. Sowas nennt man dann Vorbedingungen:
Es hat sich als schwerer Fehler erwiesen, dass die Opposition, die in Riad unter erheblichem Druck des Westens zusammengeschoben wurde, von Anfang an ihre Abreise von den Verhandlungen vorbereitet hatte und nicht bereit war, ohne Vorbedingungen zu verhandeln.
MESOP KOMMENTAR : PUTIN BOMBT – EUROPA TRÄUMT
Während EU-Politiker unverdrossen Verhandlungen propagieren, schaffen die Unterstützer des syrischen Regimes Fakten.
KOMMENTAR VON OLIVER M. PIECHA – JUNGLE WORLD – 10 FEB 2016 – Der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin setzt auf Sieg, auf den Sieg des syrischen Diktators Bashar al-Assad. Europäische Politiker träumen indessen von einer Verhandlungslösung, im Kriegsgeschehen wollen sie jedenfalls nicht stören. So kehren Putins Bomber pünktlich zum geplanten Beginn der Friedensverhandlungen in Genf zurück und werfen auf Aleppo ab, was die moderne russische Waffenindustrie zu bieten hat. Die nagelneuen russischen T-90A-Panzer rücken unaufhaltsam vor und auch den dort eingesetzten, von den USA und Russland hochgerüsteten irakisch-schiitischen Milizen haben die syrischen Rebellen faktisch nichts mehr entgegenzusetzen. Die USA haben zudem jede Unterstützung der Aufständischen eingestellt und beliefern nun stattdessen die kurdische PYD, der Zusammenarbeit mit Russland und dem Iran vorgeworfen wird. Mit Assad hat das alles längst nicht mehr viel zu tun. Die ungehemmte russische und iranische Militärintervention in Syrien kommt nun durch die Entscheidung Barack Obamas, die syrische Opposition völlig fallen zu lassen, zu einem ungeahnten Sieg. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=71120
MESOP NEWS : Kurdische Universität Dohuk – Aufbruch im Schatten des Krieges
Im kurdischen Teil des Iraks liegt nicht alles in Trümmern. An der erstaunlich modernen Universität von Dohuk plant man mit deutscher Hilfe den Wiederaufbau. – 10.02.2016, von EINHARD SCHMIDT-KALLERT – FAZ – Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=71126