Gerger: Turkey cannot endure if peace process fails
8 September 2013 / ANFSpeaking at a "Peace and resolution process" themed conference in İzmir, Middle East specialist Professor Haluk Gerger pointed out that the lack of law and justice in Turkey was because of not the ruling AKP government but the present system in the country. Gerger remarked that the system in Turkey needed to change in order for the achievement of changes in all areas of life.
Gerger pointed out that the Kurdish issue has deepened since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, adding; "The last 30 years in the country have passed in a dirty war which is still continuing. The Kurdish question needs to be approached from a regional aspect but in consideration of the fact that it is an international matter".
http://en.firatnews.com/news/news/gerger-turkey-cannot-endure-if-peace-process-fails.htm
Turkey’s Kurdish Strategy Muddled By Talk of US Syria Strike
5 September 2013 / Al MonitorThe opening of the border between Turkey and Syria's Rojava (Western Kurdistan), which we have been treating at different times with optimism, caution and suspicion, has not achieved any of its desired results. On Aug. 6, when I met in Istanbul with a representative of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), he told me that they were asked by Turkish Foreign Ministry officials to "wait 10 days for good developments." The most significant development expected from the dialogue Ankara established with PYD co-chair Salih Muslim was the opening of border crossings between Turkey and Rojava, the Kurdish region in Syria’s north. For the Kurds, the opening of the crossings would be an important sign of the end of Turkey’s hostile attitude, held ever since the PYD took control of the region.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/09/syria-strike-muddles-turkey-kurdish-strategy.html#ixzz2e8HoI3i2
Turkish NGO takes humanitarian aid to Kurdish refugees
7 September 2013 / World BulletinA Turkish NGO “Kimse Yok Mu” sent a lorry of basic foodstuff and clothing to the Kawrgosk Refugee Camp in Northern Iraq, where tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds settled after fleeing violent civil war in Syria.
North Iraqi officials stated that this kind of organizations helps the consolidation of brotherhood of Turkish and Kurdish nations and Head of Kimse Yok Mu's Diyarbakır Branch quoted that they do not consider language, race or religion of the people while they are in need. More than 200 thousand civilian Kurds fled to Northern Iraq after violence among Terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) Syrian offset PYD and al-Nusra Front militants. Northern Iraq's Local government is having hard time to address their needs as the number of refugees became multiple times more than expected.
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=117155 <http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=117155>
25 gang members killed, nine taken captive in Aleppo
7 September 2013 / ANFClashes are going on in Aleppo since armed gang groups acting for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) attacked the control points of YPG (People's Defense Units) and the Kurdish al-Akrad Front in Kurdish neighborhoods on Friday afternoon.
An armed group led by Xalid Heyani and the Rebii EL Erebi group, accompanied by Selahaddin Brigade and some groups affiliated to Azadi Party, launched the attack against YPG control points in the mainly Kurdish Sheik Maksoud (Şêx Meqsûd), Esrefiye, Sekin Şebabi and Şiqêf neighborhoods of Aleppo city. YPG and al-Akrad fighters strongly responded to the heavy weapon attacks of the gang groups which were later joined and supported by some other jihadist groups.
At least 25 members of the gang groups were killed and many others were wounded in clashes with YPG fighters who also took nine gang members captive. Kurdish fighters also seized three headquarters of the Heyani group in the Seken Şebabi neighborhood.
http://en.firatnews.com/news/news/25-gang-members-killed-nine-taken-captive-in-aleppo.htm
CONFIRMED: US Claims Against Syria - There is no Evidence
28 August 2013 / Land Destroyer ReportThe Wall Street Journal has confirmed what many suspected, that the West's so-called "evidence" of the latest alleged "chemical attacks" in Syria, pinned on the Syrian government are fabrications spun up from the West's own dubious intelligence agencies. The Wall Street Journal reveals that the US is citing claims from Israel's Mossad intelligence agency fed to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a repeat of the fabrications that led up to the Iraq War, the Libyan War, and have been used now for 3 years to justify continued support of extremists operating within and along Syria's borders.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/cofirmed-us-claims-against-syria-there.html
US Planned Syrian Civilian Catastrophe Since 2007
4 September 2013 / Land Destroyer ReportNBC News' report, "'The great tragedy of this century': More than 2 million refugees forced out of Syria," stated:
More than 2 million Syrians have poured into neighboring countries as refugees, the United Nations revealed on Tuesday. Around 5,000 people per day are fleeing the three-year conflict, which the U.N. says has already claimed over 100,000 lives. “Syria has become the great tragedy of this century -- a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,” said António Guterres, the U.N.’s high commissioner responsible for refugees. But, while the UN and nations across the West feign shock over the growing humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in and around Syria, the goal of a violent sectarian conflict and its predictable, catastrophic results along with calls to literally "bleed" Syria have been the underlying strategy of special interests in the United States, Israel, Saudi Arabia and their regional partners since at least 2007.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/us-planned-syrian-civilian-catastrophe.html<http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/us-planned-syrian-civilian-catastrophe.html>
Peace Day speaker criticises chemical attack
4 September 2013 / SES TurkeyThe chairwoman of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) used a World Peace Day rally as a platform to criticise the regime of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, where a two-year civil war has killed 100,000 people and sent more than 450,000 refugees fleeing into Turkey. BDP co-chairwoman Gultan Kisanak addressed a crowd of thousands at a rally in Diyarbakir on September 1st to denounce the August 21st chemical weapons attack in Damascus that killed more than 1,000 civilians, but warned that the Turkish government should not intervene in Syria.
"If Turkey is going to play a role, it should do so for a political solution, peace, and the brotherhood of peoples," she said.
The opposition in Syria blamed Assad's forces for the chemical attack, but the government has denied responsibility.
The Kurdish Quest in Syria
7 September 2013 / Huffington PostDelovan Barwari, Fmr. president, American Kurdish Council of California:
The tragedy unfolding in Syria will likely provide an opportunity for the Kurds of Syria, the largest ethnic minority that has been long discriminated against by the regime, to achieve their political and cultural rights under a federal democratic system or possibly establishing an independent Kurdish state in the post Assad era. Nonetheless, they must unite and prepare for what lies ahead, especially as the President Obama is anticipating the congressional approval for military strikes on Syria. Endemic corruption, poverty, high unemployment, and the desire for democratic principles such as civic equality, political freedom, and freedom of speech ignited the Arab Spring in Tunisia in December 2010, which quickly spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, and Syria.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/delovan-barwari/the-kurdish-quest-in-syri_b_3887294.html
Syria, Obama: Wrong time, wrong place, wrong plan, wrong man
7 September 2013 / The NationIt is hard, if you’ve got a head and a heart, to come down against a strong US response to Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons against its civilian population. This is especially so if you believe that humanity stands at a door that leads only to darkness. Those who say, “But Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons-the taboo was broken long ago,” are missing the point. When Saddam used gas against the Kurds it was not immediately known to all the world. It was not common knowledge. The world rued it in retrospect. Syria is different: It is the first obvious, undeniable, real-time, YouTubed use of chemical weapons. The whole world knew of it the morning after it happened, through horrified, first-person accounts, from videos of hospital workers and victims’ families.http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/international/07-Sep-2013/syria-obama-wrong-time-wrong-place-wrong-plan-wrong-man
Letter: Obama, Kerry misguided on Syria
6 September 2013 / Aiken StandardLeave it to President Obama to cunningly distract the country from the scandals that plagued his administration for the past year with wanting to strike a sovereign country because its tyrannical leader has gassed his own people.
This would be the same man who opposed the Iraq war and former President Bush for going after another murderous tyrant who gassed thousands of Kurds. His excuse to invade Syria over the use of gas that killed 1,400 or more people is hypocritical at best.
To add insult to injury, Secretary of State John Kerry goes public with a great speech to invade another country, telling we the people that we should jump on board. This is the same man who went before Congress during the Vietnam War and charged that our military was committing atrocities in that country without providing evidence.
http://www.aikenstandard.com/article/20130906/AIK0203/130909670/1018/AIK02/letter-obama-kerry-misguided-on-syria
War comes to Syria's quiet Christian hinterland
8 September 2013 / IndependentPatrick Cockburn: At the end of last year I visited the ancient Christian town of Maloula in a deep gorge in the mountains 20 miles north-west of Damascus. It has been a place of refuge for 2,000 years, its cliffs riddled with caves and its buildings clinging to towering walls of rock. It is one of the few towns in Syria where Christians are a majority and the only place where Western Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still spoken.
People in Maloula were nervous when I was there, wondering just how long they would remain immune or at least largely unaffected by the violence that had engulfed the rest of Syria. Already, they were feeling its impact, mostly in the shape of criminal attacks on well-off Christians.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/war-comes-to-syrias-quiet-christian-hinterland-8803394.html
No comments:
Post a Comment