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MESOP MOTTO : „NEVER MAKE A
CONCESSION FROM THE TRUTH“
MESOP FLASH
AKP local official resigns, slamming brutal police
crackdown over protests
IĞDIR - Doğan News Agency –
8.6.2013 - A local official of the ruling Justice and Development Party
(AKP) in the eastern province of Iğdır has resigned, criticizing the brutal
police raids against demonstrators protesting the demolition of Gezi Park.
Read
more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32969
WHERE IS THE PEACE PEACE PROCESS ?
MESOP 8.6.2013 - Turkey
judiciary ministry did not allow BDP deputy Sirri Sureya Onder to accompany the
delegation en route Imrali to visit Öcalan. The judiciary ministry said Onder is
not permitted to accompany the delectation since he has provoked Takism and Gezi
park protesters.
Islamic Law's Foothold in German Legal System / By Soeren
Kern
June
7, 2013 - MESOP - A growing number of German legal experts are now sounding
the alarm about the rise of a parallel Islamic justice in Germany. "It follows
its own rules. The Islamic arbiters aren't interested in evidence when they
deliver a judgment, and the question of who is at fault doesn't play much of a
role. Islamic conflict resolution, as I've experienced it, is often achieved
through violence and threats. It's often a dictate of power on the part of the
stronger family." — Joachim Wagner, German legal expert,
author.
Read
more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32972
THE WIDER PERSPECTIVE !
Syrian MP Ahmad Shlash
Threatens Jordan And Israel - And
Syrian Army May Regain Andalusia
Following
are excerpts from an interview with Syrian MP Ahmad Shlash, which aired on
Mayadeen TV on May 28, 2013.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3861.htm
TODAY’S MESOP
QUOTATIONS
FUNNY HUGH ! ALWAYS POSITIVE THINKING
!
COMMENTARY : Erdogan Can Win By Engaging Turkey’s Park
Protesters
Hugh
Pope, Bloomberg, 7 June
EVENTS IN IRAN, SYRIA, TUNISIA OR KURDISH RISING : HUGH P. ALWAYS
HAS EXPECTED NOTHING
Turkey’s Protests: The Politics of an Unexpected
Movement
Hugh
Pope & Didem Collinsworth, Solving the EU, Turkey and Cyprus Triangle , 4
June
…..
but he writes one commentary after another !
NORTH KURDISTAN
(TURKEY)
SO WHERE IS THE PEACE PROCESS
?
Despite current peace talks and the withdrawal of PKK guerrillas from
Turkey, the government was unnecessarily restricting BDP leaders’ access to
Öcalan.
Öcalan ‘salutes’ Turkey protest movement - BUT ALSO WARNS
!
In
a letter handed to BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş,
the jailed PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) leader Abdullah Öcalan expressed his
support for the protests that have engulfed Turkey this past week. - Read more
http://www.mesop.de/?p=32975
MULLAHS PRO PKK / TURKEY PEACE PROCESS
(MILLIYET)
Peace between PKK and Turkey benefits Iran:
ambassador
8.6.2013 - The Iranian ambassador to Turkey said the peace
talks between Ankara government and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is within
Iran benefits. - Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32980
ERDOGAN’S CONSPIRACY
PHANTASIES
ARE FOREIGN AGENTS BEHIND TAKSIM PROTESTS ? FRANKFURT
& LONDON ?
PROTESTERS
DEMANDS STAND TO BENEFIT GERMANY AND THE U.K.
SABAH 8.6.2013 - The ‘economic’ demands set forth by the
Taksim Platform, which spoke on behalf of the Gezi Park protesters in a meeting
with Deputy Prime Minister Arınç on Wednesday, have resulted in a number of
question marks. The main question being, why are they opposed to projects worth
120 billion such as the third bridge and airport, hydroelectric power plants and
Canal Istanbul? - Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32988
The Gezi Protests: Local Struggle, Global
Struggle
Mirko Van Pampus -
June 7, 2013Domestic Policy - Now that we are on the twelfth day of the
protests in Turkey, the most basic facts are well known. An initially small
urban protest quickly gained a lot of support, which only grew further after the
police interfered with heavy force and material. - Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32998
Turkish Unrest Could Threaten PKK-AKP
Process
8.6.2013 – Zaman - Erdogan needs the Pro-Kurdish Peace and
Democracy party (BDP) to change the Turkish political system in a presidential
system, while the BDP needs AKP to change the Turkish constitution and include
Kurdish legal rights. Allegedly, the Turkish protests that could weaken the AKP
and endanger the process: The
purpose, one may argue, was to overthrow the ruling Justice and. Read more http://www.todayszaman.com/columnist-317547-from-gezi-park-to-politics.html
How Europe Can Save
Turkey
By Steven A. Cook - THE WASHINGTON POST – 8.6.2013 - Steven A. Cook is the
Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on
Foreign Relations. He is the author of "The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to
Tahrir Square" and blogs at From the Potomac to the Euphrates. In the past five
years, Turkey has veered from what was once a promising path of liberal
democracy -- and the European Union can pull it back. Read more -
http://www.mesop.de/?p=33001
WEST KURDISTAN
(SYRIA)
Pro-PYD Media: KDP Trying To Increase
Voters
8.6.2013
- Pro-PYD media supporting opposition claims against KDP. - Posted by Wladimir
van Wilgenburg / http://networkedblogs.com/LYcsp
YPG Says It Will Continues Operations In
Efrin
8.6.2013
- Hawar News says YPG will continue its operations and clean 'it from gangs'. -
http://networkedblogs.com/LYbHh
/
http://networkedblogs.com/LYbHh
HATAY: THE SYRIAN CRISIS & A CASE OF TURKISH ECONOMIC
RESILIENCE
Didem Collinsworth – Turkish Policy Quarterly Vol.
12
Didem Collinsworth is a
Turkey/Cyprus Analyst at International Crisis Group, which carried out field
work and interviews in Hatay province in January-March 2013 and published the
report “Blurring the Borders: Syrian Spillover Risks for Turkey” on 30 April
2013.
Turkey’s
southern province of Hatay has been deeply affected by the turmoil in Syria
since April 2011. But, remarkably, despite damage in some areas, and new
tensions after border car bombings in early 2013, Hatay’s story is still
reflecting Turkish economic flexibility and resilience. One reason is that the
Turkey-Syria trade boom was too new to have put down deep roots. - Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32964
TORTURE & DEATH : Kurdish rights organization
demanding international community to lift the siege on the Meslemih
prison
8 June 2013
hawarnews -Aleppo-A number of members and representatives of Kurdish
Rights Organizations have demanded, of the international community to act
immediately, to lift the siege on al-Meslemih prison in the city of Aleppo. - Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32990
CHILD SOLDIERS IN WEST
KURDISTAN
Another bone of contention is
the YPG's recruitment of minors, a practice clearly at odds with the values of
civil society. The PYD claims to rely only on adults, but the presence of
underage fighters at the checkpoints is hardly subtle. Shaykhi explained, "We
believe the recruiters should be prosecuted, but we cannot afford to launch a
campaign against them." Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=32993
SOUTH KURDISTAN
(IRAQ)
PUK leadership ‘deceives’ members over
KDP
8.6.2013 – Kurdistan Tribune - With presidential and
parliamentary elections looming, the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) has
recently sought to distance itself from south Kurdistan’s other ruling party,
the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party), on two key issues. – Read more -
http://www.mesop.de/?p=33004
THE GERMAN KURDISH
CHAPTER
Türkei wird nach Ansicht Schäubles nie Vollmitglied
der EU sein
DIE WELT – 7.6.2013 - Bundesfinanzminister Wolfgang
Schäuble (CDU) hat einer Vollmitgliedschaft der Türkei in der EU eine klare
Absage erteilt. "Wenn wir die politische Union Europas zustande bringen, die ich
mir vorstelle, dann wird die Türkei in einem speziellen ... -
http://www.welt.de/newsticker/news2/article116921110/Tuerkei-wird-nach-Ansicht-Schaeubles-nie-Vollmitglied-der-EU-sein.html