MESOPOTAMIA NEWS – PKK is sending European citizens to ‘destabilize’ Iraqi Kurdistan, Barzani’s KRG says
Posted on June 11, 2021 MESOP NEWS
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan region,— The Barzani-dominated Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) ministry of interior made a bombshell accusation late on Thursday, claiming that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had sent citizens of European countries to Erbil in an attempt to disrupt the stability of the Kurdistan Region, but did not provide details to back up its allegation.
In an official statement likely to increase already significant intra-Kurdish tensions, the ministry said that hundreds of villages in the parts of Iraqi Kurdistan that border Turkey and Iran have been evacuated in recent years because of the presence of PKK fighters there with great material damage done to resident’s homes and farms.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS IRAQ/KURDISTAN – Senior PKK official killed near Makhmour camp: Turkish state media
12 June 2021 RUDAW – Karwan Faidhi Dri
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A senior official from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was killed by Turkish intelligence during a military operation near Makhmour refugee camp on Friday, Turkish state media has reported.
Hasan Adir, also known as Salih Cizre, was killed in an airstrike after being surveilled by Turkish intelligence, Anadolu Agency reported, citing anonymous security sources.
It claimed Adir used to administer the camp, located in Erbil province but in territory disputed between Baghdad and Erbil, in coordination with Selman Bozkir, whom Erdogan said on June 6 was killed by Ankara the previous day.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS MID EAST : Rethinking Israeli-Turkish Relations
By Dr. Efrat AvivJune 11, 2021
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan walks off stage after criticizing Israel at Davos, 2009, image via Wikipedia
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,070, June 11, 2021 / ISRAEL
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Bilateral relations between Turkey and Israel have existed on various levels for many years. Today, relations between the states hinge primarily on trade, as mutual distrust prevents any meaningful progress despite periodic attempts at an easing of tensions. But the Guardian of the Walls operation proved once again that anti-Israeli sentiments exist not only in Turkey’s Nationalist/Islamist/Leftist circles but in Kemalist/secularist circles as well. The extent of anti-Israelism in Ankara is so extreme as to be difficult if not impossible to bridge. Israel should expect no change in this sentiment, not even during the first stages of a post-Erdoğan era.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN SEND MERCENARIES TO KURDISTAN / IRAK – URGENT CALL BY PKK PARTY (KCK)
12 June 2021 : Intense fighting and renewed diplomatic efforts as the Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan continue:
- There have again been reports that Islamist mercenaries are being deployed by Turkey in South Kurdistan. They are being transferred from Libya, Azerbaijan and Syria via Amman (Jordan). From there, planes take the Islamist mercenaries directly to Erbil Airport in South Kurdistan. Then, they are being deployed to the area Haji Omeran in the Soran region and to the surrounding area of Dohuk in the Behdinan region. Upon their arrival in Erbil, members of the MIT (Turkish secret service) and the KDP organize their deployment. The Islamist mercenaries are being dressed in military uniforms of KDP-forces in order to avoid them being recognized.
- In an interview on June 10, the commander of the HPG (People`s Defense Forces) Central Command, Murat Karayilan,
- rejected the accusations that PKK forces had attacked Peshmerga forces and called for a dialogue between all Kurdish parties. He stated that an inter-Kurdish conflict would not be in the interest of the PKK. Karayilan also talked about a delegation that met with PKK representatives a few months ago and passed on a message from the Turkish president Erdogan. According to Karayilan, Erdogan had asked for a ceasefire in North Kurdistan (southeast Turkey).
- According to reports by the HPG, on June 7, the Turkish army has launched a renewed offensive in the Avasin region in South Kurdistan. The heavy attacks of the Turkish army were met by a fierce resistance of the HPG guerrilla in the area. 12 Turkish soldiers have been killed and three more wounded as a result of the heavy clashes. The fighting is still continuing.
- A video of the deployment of KDP-forces to areas controlled by the HPG guerrilla in the Metina region shows that German weapons are being used by the KDP-forces for their attacks. In the video a German military vehicle (model: Allschutz-Transport-Fahrzeug (ATF) Dingo) is clearly visible.
- For more information and interviews with KCK representatives please don`t hesitate to contact us.
Best,
Azad Serdar
KCK Press Office
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SPECIAL : Inside the palace intrigue in Jordan and a thwarted ‘deal of the century’
Opinion by David Ignatius Columnist – June 11, 2021 – THE WASHINGTON POST
President Donald Trump had a dizzying dream for a diplomatic “deal of the century” for Arab-Israeli peace that would unite his allies Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
It never happened, in large part because Jordan’s King Abdullah II would not bend to pressure and make concessions on the status of Jerusalem and other issues affecting the Palestinians. His resistance came at a price: Abdullah’s kingdom has been shaken by tremors over the past several years, encouraged by the squeeze from top political leaders in the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah’s troubles erupted into public view in early April, when the king’s security forces detained three prominent Jordanians he suspected of plotting to destabilize his regime: Prince Hamzah, the former crown prince groomed by his American-born mother for the throne; Sharif Hassan bin Zaid, a relative of the king and a powerful tribal leader; and Bassem Awadallah, a former Jordanian minister who had become a confidant of the Saudi crown prince, who’s often known by his initials, MBS.
A Jordanian prosecutor referred charges against bin Zaid and Awadallah to the State Security Court on June 2, but the details weren’t disclosed publicly.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS MID-EAST: HANGING ON IN IDLIB – HAYAT TAHRIR AL-SHAM’S EXPANDING TRIBAL ENGAGEMENT
by Aaron Y. Zelin PolicyWatch 3499 June 11, 2021 – As Western policymakers debate potential engagement with HTS, they should do so with eyes wide open to the jihadist group’s true status in the province and its intentions toward local tribal institutions.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : KURDENKRIEG IN SÜD KURDISTAN / IRAK
Karayılan (PKK) : Wir wollen keinen innerkurdischen Krieg
Im zweiten Teil des Interviews im Fernsehsender Stêrk TV geht Murat Karayılan auf die Rolle der PDK in den eskalierenden Auseinandersetzungen in Südkurdistan ein und warnt vor einem innerkurdischen Krieg.
- ANF BEHDÎNAN Samstag, 12 Jun 2021, 06:38 – Im Fernsehsender Stêrk TV hat Murat Karayılan am Donnerstagabend als Oberkommandierender des zentralen Hauptquartiers der HPG und Mitglied des PKK-Exekutivkomitees die aktuelle Lage in Südkurdistan bewertet. Im zweiten Teil des Interviews geht es vor allem um die Entwicklungen zwischen unterschiedlichen kurdischen Kräften.
Sie haben angedeutet, dass PDK-Truppen in die Region Metîna eindringen wollen. Wo befinden sie sich aktuell und was ist ihr Ziel dabei?
Es gibt ein Gebiet in Metîna, das die Region in zwei Hälften teilt. Dort haben sie sich an sieben Stellen niedergelassen. Es handelt sich um Orte in direkter Nähe unserer Kräfte. Wir haben heute entsprechende Nachrichten erhalten. Sie sind 200 bis 300 Meter von unseren Kräften entfernt. Natürlich haben die Freund:innen gefragt, was zu tun sei. Wir haben ihnen gesagt, sie sollten abwarten und schauen, was sie machen. Es ist eine wirklich heikle Situation.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS KURDISTAN IRAQ : Kurdistan Region announces it thwarted PKK plot to harm domestic security
Hiwa Shilani – 2021/06/10 21:25 – The autonomous Kurdistan Region’s capital city of Erbil.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region announced on Thursday that it had thwarted a plot by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to “create chaos” as part of attempts to disrupt the autonomous region’s security.
“We will not allow any group and under any slogan to target it,” read a statement released by the region’s Interior Ministry (police), adding that “the security and stability of the region in general, and the capital Erbil, is a red line and we will not allow any group under any excuse to destabilize this unity.”
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS LATEST : US reaffirms opposition to Turkey’s S-400 ahead of Biden-Erdogan summit
“We urge Turkey, and all US allies and partners, to avoid purchases of Russian weaponry, including additional S-400s, which bring Russia revenue, access, and influence.”
Laurie Mylroie 11. June 2021 – WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – The Pentagon and State Department have both articulated their latest stance regarding the presence of the S-400 in Turkey: it is unacceptable.
The reiteration of that position on Wednesday and Thursday (also held by the previous administration) comes in advance of Monday’s meeting between US President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels.
Washington tried to resolve the S-400 dispute last month, and Ankara has made statements suggesting the two parties have done so.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUNDER : Can Lapid-Bennett coalition keep it together?
Eight years after an alliance was forged between Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid and Yamina leader Naftali Bennett, that brotherhood is getting the latter into the prime minister’s seat.
Ben Caspit – AL MONITOR – June 11, 2021 – If all goes according to plan, Yamina leader Naftali Bennett will be sworn in as Israel’s 13th prime minister on June 13. The following day he will join the other members of his eight-party coalition government for a traditional photo with the president. Bennett will be setting several major precedents. For the first time in Israeli history, a politician whose party only won 5% of the vote (translated into six seats in the 120-member Knesset) will lead the Jewish state. This is also the first time that a yarmulke-wearing Jew is being handed the reins to the sovereign Jewish state.
A tremendous burden of proof lies on Bennett’s shoulders.
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