25 February 2009
Pakistan's new civilian government has failed to provide information about hundreds of cases of people believed to be held secretly by the government. Hundreds of people have been detained as part of the so-called war on terror, or in response to internal opposition, for instance in Baluchistan. Their failure comes despite several pledges to resolve the country's crisis of enforced disappearances. The Chief Minister of Baluchistan pledged in April 2008 that resolving the cases of enforced Baluch disappearances would be a priority. In May 2008, Senator Babar Awan, the Secretary of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party Reconciliatory Committee on Baluchistan, announced the creation of a committee headed by Nawabzada Haji Lashkri to trace disappeared persons of Baluchistan as part of its efforts to address Baluch grievances.
To date, the government has not revealed the findings of its investigations or any actions it has taken to resolve the Baluch enforced disappearance cases. Amnesty International has called on the Pakistani government to act immediately on its commitment to trace hundreds of Baluch victims of enforced disappearances. "The United Nations should raise the issue of enforced disappearances in Pakistan at the 10th session of the Human Rights Council (Geneva, 2 - 27 March 2009) to follow up on Pakistan's previous pledges to begin to resolve the issue," said Sam Zarifi, Director of Amnesty International's Asia and the Pacific Programme. According to press reports, on 14 February Interior Ministry Adviser Rehman Malik stated that the Baluchistan Chief Minister had given the government an "incomplete list of 800 'missing’ people", of which 200 names on the list had been verified.
A hitherto unknown separatist group, the Baluchistan Liberation United Front, on 2 February kidnapped John Solecki, head of the office of the UN High Commissioner of Refugees in Quetta. The BLUF (not to be confused with the long established Baluchistan Liberation Front) claims that 6,000 Baluch activists have gone “missing”. The BLUF also claims that 141 Baluch women are among the disappeared. The group demanded their release in exchange for Solecki's return. The Pakistani government has denied the allegations. Amnesty International has condemned the kidnapping of John Solecki and called for his immediate and unconditional release and points out that hostage-taking is a crime under international law.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/pakistan-fails-come-clean-secret-detentions-20090225
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
If one want solutions one £$##¤ find them!
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia's U.N. ambassador accused the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Friday of not doing enough to prevent last year's war in Georgia which resulted in a full-scale Russian invasion. "Unfortunately within the context of the August events, the OSCE clearly did not fulfill its role, was not up to its responsibility as an important instrument to ensure security in the Euro-Atlantic area," Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the U.N. Security Council. "The OSCE was not able either to prevent the Georgian attack on southern Ossetia nor to appropriately assess the actions of the Saakashvili regime," Churkin said, referring to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. Russia invaded Georgia in August 2008 to thwart an attempt by Tbilisi to re-establish control over the pro-Russian breakaway region of South Ossetia, which has since declared independence along with another breakaway enclave, Abkhazia. He said military monitors from the OSCE, a Vienna-based security and human rights watchdog, in South Ossetia had information about Georgian plans to attack South Ossetia but did not share it with OSCE members or its key bodies. Instead, OSCE members learned how much the monitors knew after the information was provided to Western media.
Last year the New York Times published an article that cited unnamed sources familiar with the observations of monitors working for the OSCE, a 56-nation body, that called into doubt Tbilisi's assertions that its August 7 attack on the South Ossetian capital was defensive. Instead, the November 7 article said "the accounts suggest that Georgia's inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on August 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm." Georgia denied the allegations in the article.
Speaking to reporters after Friday's council session, Churkin said that if the OSCE monitors' observations had been made available to the Security Council promptly, it might have been able to take action to prevent a full-scale war. Instead, the council was deadlocked at the time as the United States and Russia hurled insults at each other during heated debates reminiscent of the Cold War years. The Americans accused Moscow at the time of trying to topple Georgia's government while Russia suggested that Washington was colluding with Tbilisi prior to the war. Greece's Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, who is currently chairing the OSCE, declined to comment on Churkin's criticisms of the OSCE when she spoke to reporters after the meeting. The Security Council recently extended for four months the mandate for the U.N. observer mission in Abkhazia. Bakoyannis said that the OSCE's observer mission for South Ossetia was technically closed but its staff remained on the ground. Greece is negotiating with Moscow to find a compromise that would keep OSCE monitors in place. Although the Soviet Union played a key role in the creation of the OSCE in the early 1970s and Russia remains a member, Moscow has become one of the body's most vocal critics.
By Louis Charbonneau, Editing by Eric Walsh
Well...There are people in South Ossetia that have staged attacks against neighbouring villagers for a long time and that weren´t even there when Georgian troops attacked, but somewhere else making some money. South Ossetia maybe wants to be a breakaway region or independent, but obvious have hard to make it economically and in other ways, otherwise they would not need to attack and then get help from Russia. We assume the governments in Georgia have not made it easier for them either but instead of cooperating, taking care of all the opportunities and potentials that they have so much of and try to seek cooperation's with brake away regions to, establish relations, stability and develop this huge potentials of Georgia, have this idea of taking back South Ossetia as if the whole Georgian Independence depends on South Ossetia. Start cooperations, expand the tourists sector and find other ways to have exchange with breakaway regions so they can make a living. Or something.. Georgia is a pearl with huge potentials in several aspects that can come to benefits for both Georgia, breakaway regions, Armenia, Russia, Kurdistan, Europe, tourism and every one else so $£## fix it! Don´t stand in the way, either it´s the Georgian government, breakaway regions, Russia, NATO, the U.S. or whatever! Let just people be where they are and start cooperation's so they can make a living instead of wasting time, money, life and opportunities! Move it!
Last year the New York Times published an article that cited unnamed sources familiar with the observations of monitors working for the OSCE, a 56-nation body, that called into doubt Tbilisi's assertions that its August 7 attack on the South Ossetian capital was defensive. Instead, the November 7 article said "the accounts suggest that Georgia's inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on August 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm." Georgia denied the allegations in the article.
Speaking to reporters after Friday's council session, Churkin said that if the OSCE monitors' observations had been made available to the Security Council promptly, it might have been able to take action to prevent a full-scale war. Instead, the council was deadlocked at the time as the United States and Russia hurled insults at each other during heated debates reminiscent of the Cold War years. The Americans accused Moscow at the time of trying to topple Georgia's government while Russia suggested that Washington was colluding with Tbilisi prior to the war. Greece's Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, who is currently chairing the OSCE, declined to comment on Churkin's criticisms of the OSCE when she spoke to reporters after the meeting. The Security Council recently extended for four months the mandate for the U.N. observer mission in Abkhazia. Bakoyannis said that the OSCE's observer mission for South Ossetia was technically closed but its staff remained on the ground. Greece is negotiating with Moscow to find a compromise that would keep OSCE monitors in place. Although the Soviet Union played a key role in the creation of the OSCE in the early 1970s and Russia remains a member, Moscow has become one of the body's most vocal critics.
By Louis Charbonneau, Editing by Eric Walsh
Well...There are people in South Ossetia that have staged attacks against neighbouring villagers for a long time and that weren´t even there when Georgian troops attacked, but somewhere else making some money. South Ossetia maybe wants to be a breakaway region or independent, but obvious have hard to make it economically and in other ways, otherwise they would not need to attack and then get help from Russia. We assume the governments in Georgia have not made it easier for them either but instead of cooperating, taking care of all the opportunities and potentials that they have so much of and try to seek cooperation's with brake away regions to, establish relations, stability and develop this huge potentials of Georgia, have this idea of taking back South Ossetia as if the whole Georgian Independence depends on South Ossetia. Start cooperations, expand the tourists sector and find other ways to have exchange with breakaway regions so they can make a living. Or something.. Georgia is a pearl with huge potentials in several aspects that can come to benefits for both Georgia, breakaway regions, Armenia, Russia, Kurdistan, Europe, tourism and every one else so $£## fix it! Don´t stand in the way, either it´s the Georgian government, breakaway regions, Russia, NATO, the U.S. or whatever! Let just people be where they are and start cooperation's so they can make a living instead of wasting time, money, life and opportunities! Move it!
"The incidents in Iraq are not only a regional problem; they reflect outside the region."
Turkey´s and Turks problems reflects more and goes FAR beyond their "rebel problems" Turkey have refused to solve in other ways than crimes against humanity, slaughter, torture, psychopathic manipulations, fascists murder blamed on the victims of Turkey´s crimes to be able to keep commit crimes and genocides since 1916! We rather get shot than go to Turkey! We have seen MORE THAN ENOUGH for decades and centuries of crimes being committed by Turks to establish the fact that there is something SERIOUS wrong with these people, which are occupied 24 hours a day to either torture, kill, beat or torment people, children or animals or WHATEVER THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON! Call it a genetic mistake or whatever!
While other countries have laws protecting animals which gives hard punishments for torturing and abuse animals, children, people or what ever, Turkey have laws to protect themselves and their £$€¤# crimes! Satan´s jävla mördare och terrorist jävlar!
A happy Turk is a ##€¤# dead Turk!
http://www.gopetition.com/online/25353.html
While other countries have laws protecting animals which gives hard punishments for torturing and abuse animals, children, people or what ever, Turkey have laws to protect themselves and their £$€¤# crimes! Satan´s jävla mördare och terrorist jävlar!
A happy Turk is a ##€¤# dead Turk!
http://www.gopetition.com/online/25353.html
It´s just follow the pipe lines!
And as we said: If not Russia take their responsibility to solve those pipe line issues we hold them as much responsible as the rest being used by Turkey and use Turkey to commit crimes against humanity and a on going genocide they have been very much a part of making conditions for from the beginning!
If Azerbaijani now suddenly gets some #¤## "problems" as another lead in psychopathic manipulations to justify and "legitimize" a genocidal "war-fare" that have been going on for decades to be spread, so £$¤### deal with it, instead of @£$## genocidal "war-fare" that has been going on since the Armenian! Idiots! Psychopaths terrorising this whole £$## planet!
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani heading to the European countries including Italy, Germany and Britain. The aim of the visit is to discuss a number of dossiers including the strengthening of relations between Europe and Iraq in general and activating the European role in the Kurdistan region, in addition to cultivating a new economic ties between Kurdistan region and these countries. President Masoud Barzani on Thursday held talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to boost economical ties. The energy security and bilateral economical ties were other key talking points of the two leaders’ meeting, according to the sources. The sources also revealed that Italy is expected to import Kurdistan region’s natural gas using Turkey’s land.
Yeah..So what are the ¤##&$€ news? It´s the same Italy as both Germany, Britain and generals from the U.S. were aiding and abetting Turkey´s crimes and genocidal "war fare", attacks and manipulations to have PKK on terrorists lists after the EU court annulled it, instead of responding on calls for solutions and laying down arms.
There is no way in hell any ones can cover up genocides that have been going on for decades, like they tried to do with the Armenian! Or a on going genocide against the Kurdish people that have been going on ever since. Or that a genocidal war fare from Turkmenistan to Europe can be covered up with crimes and psychopathic manipulations, instead of respond on calls for case fires and solutions, so just £$$# forget about it!
If Azerbaijani now suddenly gets some #¤## "problems" as another lead in psychopathic manipulations to justify and "legitimize" a genocidal "war-fare" that have been going on for decades to be spread, so £$¤### deal with it, instead of @£$## genocidal "war-fare" that has been going on since the Armenian! Idiots! Psychopaths terrorising this whole £$## planet!
Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barzani heading to the European countries including Italy, Germany and Britain. The aim of the visit is to discuss a number of dossiers including the strengthening of relations between Europe and Iraq in general and activating the European role in the Kurdistan region, in addition to cultivating a new economic ties between Kurdistan region and these countries. President Masoud Barzani on Thursday held talks with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to boost economical ties. The energy security and bilateral economical ties were other key talking points of the two leaders’ meeting, according to the sources. The sources also revealed that Italy is expected to import Kurdistan region’s natural gas using Turkey’s land.
Yeah..So what are the ¤##&$€ news? It´s the same Italy as both Germany, Britain and generals from the U.S. were aiding and abetting Turkey´s crimes and genocidal "war fare", attacks and manipulations to have PKK on terrorists lists after the EU court annulled it, instead of responding on calls for solutions and laying down arms.
There is no way in hell any ones can cover up genocides that have been going on for decades, like they tried to do with the Armenian! Or a on going genocide against the Kurdish people that have been going on ever since. Or that a genocidal war fare from Turkmenistan to Europe can be covered up with crimes and psychopathic manipulations, instead of respond on calls for case fires and solutions, so just £$$# forget about it!
The Kurdish freedom fighters have been just as long as Britain and others took away their land and rights!
After a EU court annulled the terrorists list on PKK, Conservative MP for North Dorest Robert Walter the author of EU Report - Terrorist activities on the Turkey/Iraq border - Political Committee Rapporteur: Robert Walter, drafted a resolution to the EU, labelling the PKK 'terrorists' and calls for action against 'terrorism' of the PKK etc. The report was put together by the now President elect of the European Security and Defence Assembly, UK's Robert Walter. Robert Walter has been lobbying in the UK Parliament for an arms company with direct links to Turkish security forces that are responsible for the most horrendous crimes against humanity. Tory MP Robert Walter Author of EU Report, that lobbies for a large UK arms and defence company in his constituency, with defence contracts links to Turkey. European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has published its' annual report on judgements/applications to the court for 2008 and Turkey tops list of Human Rights offenders in EU countries 2008.http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/2008/12/05/closing-ranks-against-accountability-0
In May of 2007, freedom fighters in Turkey derailed a Turkish train carrying weapons from Iran to Syria that were supposed to be received by the Hezbollah in Lebanon. Despite these disturbing facts, the lack of coverage in the American media along with NATO’s absent investigation of the incident bring about questions in what is controlling U.S. foreign policy; vital interests for stability in foreign nations, or corporate profits that rise with instability. From the Cold War up to the War on Terror, U.S. interests have become blurred by odd alliances and unless such alliances are eliminated, instability can be further instigated and the formal efforts of American troops to create stability in foreign nations may forever go wasted. Regardless of the principles and U.S. foreign objectives, or the moral implications involved, the arms giants whose primary goal is to increase profit would rather see that the business relationship maintained and are ensuring that elected officials see eye-to-eye regarding this preference. Lobbyist efforts that seem to be shaping U.S. foreign policy in regards to Turkey have been very successful in diverting public attention from Turkey’s various human rights issues. The largest manufacturers of arms are golden horn members of the most powerful Turkish lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC), and include Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Bechtel International, Boeing, and BAE Systems. Each of these corporations has made substantial profits off the perceived communist threat in Turkey, and would probably much rather see a conflict continue than for it to come to a solution, which would only end their sales. In fact, this assumption was displayed in 2006 when Kurdish freedom fighters offered a ceasefire that was praised by members of the European Union and provided opportunity to end the decades-long armed conflict. The response by a U.S. diplomat, General Joseph Ralston, in charge of U.S.-Turkish relations regarding Turkish internal conflicts was that a ceasefire would not be accepted and elimination of the group is necessary. At the same time, Lockheed Martin was closing a multi-billion dollar arms deal with the Turkish military, which the general would directly profit from as he sat on the Lockheed Martin Board of Directors.
Submitted by Robert Walter: Page 11 DOCUMENT A/201720. In response to increased political pressure from Turkey, the United States provided it with real-time intelligence that could be used for airstrikes and other military operations. The United States government has also appointed Joseph Ralston, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in order to facilitate relations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government.
The Kurdish freedom fighters represent 50 millions of people which were deprived their land and human rights. And are demanding their human rights according to the U.N. declarations of human rights. For decades Turkey and others in their own interests have refused to respond on calls from a whole people that have been exposed to genocide, with psychopathic manipulations, a lot of different criminal methods, stage attacks against Kurds, use of Kurdish village guards and with threats and systematic murder against those have maintained a genocidal "war-fare" that is still going on.
The Kurdish freedom fighters represent not just the whole Kurdish people but humanity all over this globe. This is not just about the Kurdish people - this is about humanity! A person is lobbying for weapon sells from the same country that was very much a part of depriving the Kurdish people their country and rights, or a general from the United States that were the ones pounding in weaponry, setting up contra forces that have been and still are acting the same as against the Armenians in the most horrific crimes against humanity. Sitting in the same Lockheed Martin Board of Directors, refusing to respond on calls for case fires and solutions and instead setting up bases in Kurdish areas with the last villagers left, being exposed to geographical changes and the same crimes as they always have been under the pretext to have a "war on terrorism", while we all know it´s a refusal to respond on calls for solutions the same way it´s always have been in a genocidal "war-fare". There is no way in hell these crimes can be covered up with staged attacks, media manipulations, banning media coverage or will just pass by people in the world without condemns and furious reactions. And there is no way in hell any ones refusing to find ways for solutions, with a people that have been exposed to the most horrific crimes and genocide with the internationally community and other countries being very much a part of it and committing such crimes, can represent creditable mediators in other conflicts!
As we said: We are not finished yet! And if Germany, Britain, the U.S. and every one else still choose to not just be a part of this genocide they have made conditions for from the beginning, but are very much active in it, they will face so much Anti there is no way in hell they can get away with it or from it!
The time when Germany "helped Turkey fight Armenian rebels" are gone! And there is no way the U.S., Germany, Britain or any ones else with get away with the same genocidal "war-fare" against the Kurdish people they have been occupied with since then, today! While Russia sits silence in the "background" using it for their own advantages! There is no way in hell Turkey with staged attacks or psychopathic manipulations with or without media and others being a part of it in their own interests will get away with it! We ALL know very well that it´s REALLY a genocidal "war-fare"!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
It´s obvious not enough! It´s £$@%¤## ridiculous!
The U.S. State Department released its 2008 Human Rights Report on Turkey Thursday. Don't be caught reading it in Turkey, or spreading it around there: you might be charged with "insulting Turkish identity"--an actual, actionable crime in that paradox of a nation.
The report:
The government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, serious problems remained in some areas. During the year human rights organizations documented a rise in cases of torture, beatings, and abuse by security forces. Security forces committed unlawful killings; the number of arrests and prosecutions in these cases was low compared with the number of incidents, and convictions remained rare. Prison conditions remained poor, with chronic overcrowding and insufficient staff training. Law enforcement officials did not always provide detainees immediate access to attorneys as required by law. Just as it claims it's a democracy where all people enjoy equal rights, Turkey also claims it has no political prisoners. That, too, is a fabrication by its blind-spotting Ministry of Justice, which has a convenient method of hiding political prisoners. It brands them terrorists. According to the State Department report, ... there were several thousand political prisoners, including leftists, rightists, and Islamists, and contended that the government does not distinguish them as such. The government claimed that alleged political prisoners were in fact charged with being members of, or assisting, terrorist organizations. According to the government, 2,232 convicts and 2,017 pretrial detainees were being held in prison on terrorism charges through September 2007.
As for press freedom and freedom of expression, the latest incident on the floor of the Turkish parliament, where a Kurdish legislator was vilified for speaking Kurdish (the television station carrying his speech cut him off once he stopped speaking Turkish) is revealing. "The government, particularly the police and judiciary," the report states, "limited freedom of expression through the use of constitutional restrictions and numerous laws including articles of the penal code prohibiting insults to the government, the state, "Turkishness," Ataturk, or the institutions and symbols of the republic. Other laws also restricted speech, such as the Antiterror Law and laws governing the press and elections."
Read the full 2008 Report on Human Rights in Turkey. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119109.htm
This time around it was not a coup..It was an "alleged attempt to a coup"..With nationalists and bomb attacks..Or if it were by al-Qaida or local groups interpreting these ideals, "Turkish Hezbollah" which are not the same as the Lebanese Hezbollah as they have thier own private forums in Istanbul, IBDA-C, Leftist, Islamist radicals, Ansar al-Islam or some other shadowy group..While no ones even bother about rocket transportations while complaining about it at the same time..Just as there are no follow up´s, no information which the hell it were..Turkey just claimed some detained teenagers..and PKK supporters where the ones ..So every one are pleased with that..
Repeat transmissions..Well..it doesn´t matter to some..Does it..It´s enough "legetimizations" refusee to respond on calls for solutions to kill some more Kurds, burn some more forests, jail children beat children, kick children..
The report:
The government generally respected the human rights of its citizens; however, serious problems remained in some areas. During the year human rights organizations documented a rise in cases of torture, beatings, and abuse by security forces. Security forces committed unlawful killings; the number of arrests and prosecutions in these cases was low compared with the number of incidents, and convictions remained rare. Prison conditions remained poor, with chronic overcrowding and insufficient staff training. Law enforcement officials did not always provide detainees immediate access to attorneys as required by law. Just as it claims it's a democracy where all people enjoy equal rights, Turkey also claims it has no political prisoners. That, too, is a fabrication by its blind-spotting Ministry of Justice, which has a convenient method of hiding political prisoners. It brands them terrorists. According to the State Department report, ... there were several thousand political prisoners, including leftists, rightists, and Islamists, and contended that the government does not distinguish them as such. The government claimed that alleged political prisoners were in fact charged with being members of, or assisting, terrorist organizations. According to the government, 2,232 convicts and 2,017 pretrial detainees were being held in prison on terrorism charges through September 2007.
As for press freedom and freedom of expression, the latest incident on the floor of the Turkish parliament, where a Kurdish legislator was vilified for speaking Kurdish (the television station carrying his speech cut him off once he stopped speaking Turkish) is revealing. "The government, particularly the police and judiciary," the report states, "limited freedom of expression through the use of constitutional restrictions and numerous laws including articles of the penal code prohibiting insults to the government, the state, "Turkishness," Ataturk, or the institutions and symbols of the republic. Other laws also restricted speech, such as the Antiterror Law and laws governing the press and elections."
Read the full 2008 Report on Human Rights in Turkey. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eur/119109.htm
This time around it was not a coup..It was an "alleged attempt to a coup"..With nationalists and bomb attacks..Or if it were by al-Qaida or local groups interpreting these ideals, "Turkish Hezbollah" which are not the same as the Lebanese Hezbollah as they have thier own private forums in Istanbul, IBDA-C, Leftist, Islamist radicals, Ansar al-Islam or some other shadowy group..While no ones even bother about rocket transportations while complaining about it at the same time..Just as there are no follow up´s, no information which the hell it were..Turkey just claimed some detained teenagers..and PKK supporters where the ones ..So every one are pleased with that..
Repeat transmissions..Well..it doesn´t matter to some..Does it..It´s enough "legetimizations" refusee to respond on calls for solutions to kill some more Kurds, burn some more forests, jail children beat children, kick children..
And it goes on and on and on and on...
Worker Cemil Akgül died on 18 February after being electrocuted at the Tuzla Shipyards on the outskirts of Istanbul. The Limter İş trade union for shipyard workers has announced that yet another worker, Cemil Akgül (aged 29) died at the shipyard. He died after receiving an electric shock on 18 February. The trade union spoke of another “work place murder”, and warned: “Our right to life is still the most basic problem on the shipyards.” This is borne out by the list of deaths in 2008, and Akgül’s death is the second this year already. When no place is mentioned in the following list, the death took place at one of the many shipyards in Tuzla.
18 February 2009: Cemil Akgül (29), working for Elta Shipping, died of electric shock
8 February 2009: Selim Sevgili (30), working for the Dentaş subcontractor, died when a storage lid was dropped on him.
13 December 2008: Erdal İnceyol, working for Anadolu Sea Construction Cradles, died in an explosion
19 December 2008: Hızır Akbulut, injured in the same explosion, died in hospital.
20 December 2008: Aydın Kaplan (31) fell from a great height at a shipyard in Gölcük. He died after twenty days in intensive care.
12 September 2008: Muharrem Ceylan (16) died of electric shock at the Kurban shipyard in the Herkes village in Yalova
28 August 2008: Emrah Varol, Ramazan Aygün and Ramazan Çetinkaya died in an accident with a cutter at the Gisan shipyard.
29 July 2008: İbrahim Çelik, working for the Atlas Ship subcontractor at the GEMSAN shipyard in Tuzla, was carrying out repairs in the pump room when an explosion took place. He was hit in the head and seriously injured. He died on the way to hospital.
3 July 2008: Kemal Turan (47), working at the GİSAŞ shipyard, died when a storage lid fell on him.
8 June2008: İhsan Turan (35) also died when a storage lid was dropped on him.
17 May 2008: Murat Çalışkan (31), fell into a depot on deck of a ship and died.
17 May 2008: Deniz Kaşıkeman (26) died when he was mounting metal sheets. A metal sheet estimated to weigh 2.5 tons dropped on him.
8 May 2008: İzzet Gider died in an explosion after gas was compressed in the machine room.
21 April 2008: Hakan Oğuz (18) died at the Yaşar San shipyard in Yalova after falling onto his yed.
30 March 2008: Ali İhsan Çam (31) was working as a painter at the Sedef shipyard. He fell from a height and died.
27 March 2008: Yüksel Özdemir (45) was working as a scraper at Tuzla shipyards. He fell from a great height.
17 February 2008 Hasan Köse (24) suffered 80 percent burns of his body after an oxygen tube exploded at the Selahattin Arslan shipyard in Tuzla.
16 February 2008: Mikail Kavak (26) died of electrocution when working as a welder for the Gemkur subcontractor.
12 February 2008: Osman Göç (26) was poisoned by smoke while welding. He was able to go to the doctor’s who sent him home. When he got worse at night, he was taken to hospital, where he died.
12 February 2008: Cevat Toy (41) was working at the Dearsan shipyard when he fell of the wharf and died.
5 February 2008: Metin Turan (19) was working as a scraper at the Şahin Çelik shipyard: He fell into the sea and died.
14 January 2008 Onur Bayoğlu (19) was working as an electrician for Sedef shipyard. He fell into a depot and died.
Source: Bıa news centre
Ministry of Justice reveals that more than 1 500 were children tried with terror charges in 2006 and 2007 in Turkey.
In 2008, the Iranian regime executed at least 370 people and sentenced 270 others to death. Majority of political prisoners who were sentenced to death were of Kurdish origin. According to a report recently published by Kurdistan Peace and Development Association in Finland, at least 200 Kurdish political detainees have been sentenced between 6 months to 20 years in jail.
Series of killing of Kurds in Syria
At the same time, Europe is opening the door to Syria because this is to its political and economic advantage, while Kurds live in poverty and despair. The Syrian authorities have reported that Kurdish conscripts have committed suicide. It is believed that these people have been killed for their political activity.
19 January 2009: The soldier Barkhwadan Khalid Hammo from Qobani town was killed in al-Hassaka while he was on military service.
13 January 2009: Mohammad Bakkar Sheikh Daada was killed whist in the army. His family was told that he had committed suicide.. His family does not accept this because he was known to be a strong character, and before he went to the army he had been under arrest for six months due of his activity with the Kurdish movement.
27 December 2008, the soldier Ibrahim Rouf’att Charwish from Afrin town was killed in Damascus whilst on service and his family was informed that he had committed suicide.
21 December 2008 the soldier, Siwar Tammo from Durbassia town was killed in Aleppo, another case of ‘suicide’, as reported by the Syrian authorities.
Abuse of non-violent Kurdish activists is widespread. The following examples give just a part of the picture:
18 January 2009: Imran al-Saed was arrested for his involvement with the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria and was released. He was arrested again on 21 August 2008, and was released on 24 December 2008. The court sentenced him on 18 January 2009 to one and a half years in prison for his political activity, for working with a secret organisation.
17 January 2009: Fawaz Kano, born 1966, worked for an international non-governmental organisation called Faw was arrested, together with Zaki Ismael Khalil born 1977, who was working in the laboratory at al-Hassaka hospital. They were arrested by the political security intelligence service. They worked together with others who taught the Kurdish people their mother-tongue in secret, because in Syria the Kurdish language is banned.
16 January 2009: Kadar Mahmoud Saadoh was arrested in Qamishli city by intelligence security services.
13 January 2009: Darwish Qalib Darwish, born 1945, a linguist, and one of the teachers developing the Kurdish language was arrested in Qamishli city by the intelligence security services.
11 January 2009: Nasser Daqori, born 1962 was arrested by the political security services in Amuda town.
10 January 2009: Mustafa Jum’a, aged 62, the deputy secretary of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria was arrested by the Syrian military security services from the office of Farah Palestine in Damascus.
3 January 2009: Seedo Rashid Ali, born 1973, from Afrin town was arrested on in Qamishli city and has not yet been to Court. He was arrested by the intelligence security service.
31 October 2008, Salah Saed Unis, a Kurdish activist was arrested by military security services in Amuda town.
26 October 2008: Two Kurdish activists were arrested - Mohammed Saed Hossein al-Omar and Sadoon Mahmoud Shekho are members of the leading committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria. They were arrested by the Syrian military security services in the towns of Romelan and Raas al-Ein.
12 October 2008: Salah Khalil Ahmad, born 1970, from Afrin town and Mohammed Seif al-Din Khudo and Nadir Nawaf from Durbasier town were arrested and remain in custody without trial or questioning.
17 May 2008: The political activist Latifa Mohammed Morad was arrested in Turba Spier town and is held without trial.
22 April 2008: Mohammad Rasho, Bakara Haaj Muslim, Noori Ismael Khodder and Saima Ismael Kodda were arrested on Arfin town and have been detained without trial since.
3 April 2008: Zena Horro was arrested and remains in detention without trial.
16 March 2007: Rashad Behnav, an activist was arrested by political security services in Afrin town. He is still imprisoned without trial.
18 February 2009: Cemil Akgül (29), working for Elta Shipping, died of electric shock
8 February 2009: Selim Sevgili (30), working for the Dentaş subcontractor, died when a storage lid was dropped on him.
13 December 2008: Erdal İnceyol, working for Anadolu Sea Construction Cradles, died in an explosion
19 December 2008: Hızır Akbulut, injured in the same explosion, died in hospital.
20 December 2008: Aydın Kaplan (31) fell from a great height at a shipyard in Gölcük. He died after twenty days in intensive care.
12 September 2008: Muharrem Ceylan (16) died of electric shock at the Kurban shipyard in the Herkes village in Yalova
28 August 2008: Emrah Varol, Ramazan Aygün and Ramazan Çetinkaya died in an accident with a cutter at the Gisan shipyard.
29 July 2008: İbrahim Çelik, working for the Atlas Ship subcontractor at the GEMSAN shipyard in Tuzla, was carrying out repairs in the pump room when an explosion took place. He was hit in the head and seriously injured. He died on the way to hospital.
3 July 2008: Kemal Turan (47), working at the GİSAŞ shipyard, died when a storage lid fell on him.
8 June2008: İhsan Turan (35) also died when a storage lid was dropped on him.
17 May 2008: Murat Çalışkan (31), fell into a depot on deck of a ship and died.
17 May 2008: Deniz Kaşıkeman (26) died when he was mounting metal sheets. A metal sheet estimated to weigh 2.5 tons dropped on him.
8 May 2008: İzzet Gider died in an explosion after gas was compressed in the machine room.
21 April 2008: Hakan Oğuz (18) died at the Yaşar San shipyard in Yalova after falling onto his yed.
30 March 2008: Ali İhsan Çam (31) was working as a painter at the Sedef shipyard. He fell from a height and died.
27 March 2008: Yüksel Özdemir (45) was working as a scraper at Tuzla shipyards. He fell from a great height.
17 February 2008 Hasan Köse (24) suffered 80 percent burns of his body after an oxygen tube exploded at the Selahattin Arslan shipyard in Tuzla.
16 February 2008: Mikail Kavak (26) died of electrocution when working as a welder for the Gemkur subcontractor.
12 February 2008: Osman Göç (26) was poisoned by smoke while welding. He was able to go to the doctor’s who sent him home. When he got worse at night, he was taken to hospital, where he died.
12 February 2008: Cevat Toy (41) was working at the Dearsan shipyard when he fell of the wharf and died.
5 February 2008: Metin Turan (19) was working as a scraper at the Şahin Çelik shipyard: He fell into the sea and died.
14 January 2008 Onur Bayoğlu (19) was working as an electrician for Sedef shipyard. He fell into a depot and died.
Source: Bıa news centre
Ministry of Justice reveals that more than 1 500 were children tried with terror charges in 2006 and 2007 in Turkey.
In 2008, the Iranian regime executed at least 370 people and sentenced 270 others to death. Majority of political prisoners who were sentenced to death were of Kurdish origin. According to a report recently published by Kurdistan Peace and Development Association in Finland, at least 200 Kurdish political detainees have been sentenced between 6 months to 20 years in jail.
Series of killing of Kurds in Syria
At the same time, Europe is opening the door to Syria because this is to its political and economic advantage, while Kurds live in poverty and despair. The Syrian authorities have reported that Kurdish conscripts have committed suicide. It is believed that these people have been killed for their political activity.
19 January 2009: The soldier Barkhwadan Khalid Hammo from Qobani town was killed in al-Hassaka while he was on military service.
13 January 2009: Mohammad Bakkar Sheikh Daada was killed whist in the army. His family was told that he had committed suicide.. His family does not accept this because he was known to be a strong character, and before he went to the army he had been under arrest for six months due of his activity with the Kurdish movement.
27 December 2008, the soldier Ibrahim Rouf’att Charwish from Afrin town was killed in Damascus whilst on service and his family was informed that he had committed suicide.
21 December 2008 the soldier, Siwar Tammo from Durbassia town was killed in Aleppo, another case of ‘suicide’, as reported by the Syrian authorities.
Abuse of non-violent Kurdish activists is widespread. The following examples give just a part of the picture:
18 January 2009: Imran al-Saed was arrested for his involvement with the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria and was released. He was arrested again on 21 August 2008, and was released on 24 December 2008. The court sentenced him on 18 January 2009 to one and a half years in prison for his political activity, for working with a secret organisation.
17 January 2009: Fawaz Kano, born 1966, worked for an international non-governmental organisation called Faw was arrested, together with Zaki Ismael Khalil born 1977, who was working in the laboratory at al-Hassaka hospital. They were arrested by the political security intelligence service. They worked together with others who taught the Kurdish people their mother-tongue in secret, because in Syria the Kurdish language is banned.
16 January 2009: Kadar Mahmoud Saadoh was arrested in Qamishli city by intelligence security services.
13 January 2009: Darwish Qalib Darwish, born 1945, a linguist, and one of the teachers developing the Kurdish language was arrested in Qamishli city by the intelligence security services.
11 January 2009: Nasser Daqori, born 1962 was arrested by the political security services in Amuda town.
10 January 2009: Mustafa Jum’a, aged 62, the deputy secretary of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria was arrested by the Syrian military security services from the office of Farah Palestine in Damascus.
3 January 2009: Seedo Rashid Ali, born 1973, from Afrin town was arrested on in Qamishli city and has not yet been to Court. He was arrested by the intelligence security service.
31 October 2008, Salah Saed Unis, a Kurdish activist was arrested by military security services in Amuda town.
26 October 2008: Two Kurdish activists were arrested - Mohammed Saed Hossein al-Omar and Sadoon Mahmoud Shekho are members of the leading committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria. They were arrested by the Syrian military security services in the towns of Romelan and Raas al-Ein.
12 October 2008: Salah Khalil Ahmad, born 1970, from Afrin town and Mohammed Seif al-Din Khudo and Nadir Nawaf from Durbasier town were arrested and remain in custody without trial or questioning.
17 May 2008: The political activist Latifa Mohammed Morad was arrested in Turba Spier town and is held without trial.
22 April 2008: Mohammad Rasho, Bakara Haaj Muslim, Noori Ismael Khodder and Saima Ismael Kodda were arrested on Arfin town and have been detained without trial since.
3 April 2008: Zena Horro was arrested and remains in detention without trial.
16 March 2007: Rashad Behnav, an activist was arrested by political security services in Afrin town. He is still imprisoned without trial.
We are FAR from finished yet..
Some can speak to "Talibans", psychopaths, Hamas..and every one ..
But refuse to respond on calls for case fires and solutions from people that demand their human rights according to U.N. declarations of human rights which have been violated for decades, with instigated genocidal "war-fare" carousels, staged attacks blamed on PKK, Kurdish villages guards attacked by Turkish "contra murderers" in PKK clothes and called civilians killed by PKK, while they are Kurdish people being murdered as they have been for decades, economical interests, psychopathic manipulations, crimes against humanity, crimes against a whole people that not just have been committed crimes against for decades but exposed to a on going genocide and displacement since the Armenian in 1916! Now it´s just vanish their historical heritage, just as Turkey did to the the Armenian and have as well erased the worlds oldest Roma neighbourhood as part of an "urban regeneration project"..
We assume the thought is not strange from people that have been very much a part of depriving the Kurdish people their land and rights from the beginning. Or from people that have their own economical interests. Like the "Russian empire" and their use of people ever since the "Armenian rebels" which stood in the way for railways and Germany as well, just as the Kurds have done ever since. Or from those that are not at all strangers in slaughter house provinces with 59 millions 200 thousands slaughtered native Americans that are still struggling to protect and preserve a piece of land and the last heard of Buffalo's with strains from the wild ones!
Yeah..Right..We are sure the Armenian people are very aware of events right now..The geographical changes of kurdish villages..
Submitted by Robert Walter, Rapporteur United Kingdom, Federated Group
"Only after the attacks of 11 September 2001 had the world started listening to Turkey."
Testimonies of villagers and government officials have confirmed the destruction of civilian infrastructure such as homes, schools, mosques, churches, and hospitals. Turkish bombing has killed sheep and cows‑animals many families depend on for their livelihood. The Turkish military has bombed bridges and planted landmines‑as well as internationally prohibited weapons as cluster bombs‑to prevent human movement in areas where civilians live. Turkish military at these bases watch their movement, strike during the time of planting and harvesting, anytime they observe displaced villagers returning to their homes. For eight years, Turkish soldiers have burned the farmers’ crops and orchards at harvest time.
From the UK Parliaments Register of Interests: 28 May-4 June 1999, to Turkey as a guest of the Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce. (Registered 13 July 1999)I want to start off by dealing with two defence matters that relate specifically to my constituency, although they both involve enormous amounts of defence expenditure. The first is the Air Tanker project, for which a company in my constituency—Cobham Air Refuelling and Auxiliary Mission Equipment—provides all the gizmos that enable those tankers to refuel aircraft in flight. The company, which has, essentially, almost a world monopoly, developed the system in the 1930s and has gone on to produce a piece of equipment that is second to none anywhere in the world. My concern, and that of my constituents, is that we have been almost at the signature point of the contract, which is allegedly worth about £13 billion over 27 years —it is a private sector partnership—but we are still not there. That is giving some cause for concern.
After a EU court annulled the terrorists list on PKK, Conservative MP for North Dorest Robert Walter the author of EU Report - Terrorist activities on the Turkey/Iraq border - Political Committee Rapporteur: Robert Walter, drafted a resolution to the EU, labelling the PKK 'terrorists' and calls for action against 'terrorism' of the PKK etc. The report was put together by the now President elect of the European Security and Defence Assembly, UK's Robert Walter. Robert Walter has been lobbying in the UK Parliament for an arms company with direct links to Turkish security forces that are responsible for the most horrendous crimes against humanity. At one point in the report the author states that the conflict between Turkey and the Kurdish people is a CIVIL WAR.
Lobbyist efforts that seem to be shaping U.S. foreign policy in regards to Turkey have been very successful in diverting public attention from Turkey’s various human rights issues. The largest manufacturers of arms are golden horn members of the most powerful Turkish lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC), and include Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Bechtel International, Boeing, and BAE Systems. Each of these corporations has made substantial profits off the perceived communist threat in Turkey. In fact, this assumption was displayed in 2006 when Kurdish freedom fighters offered a ceasefire that was praised by members of the European Union and provided opportunity to end the decades-long armed conflict. The response by a U.S. diplomat, General Joseph Ralston, in charge of U.S.-Turkish relations regarding Turkish internal conflicts was that a ceasefire would not be accepted and elimination of the group is necessary. At the same time, Lockheed Martin was closing a multi-billion dollar arms deal with the Turkish military, which the general would directly profit from as he sat on the Lockheed Martin Board of Directors.
Submitted by Robert Walter: Page 11 DOCUMENT A/201720. In response to increased political pressure from Turkey, the United States provided it with real-time intelligence that could be used for airstrikes and other military operations. The United States government has also appointed Joseph Ralston, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in order to facilitate relations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government. 22.There is limited but nonetheless satisfactory cooperation on intelligence at the military operational level between Turkey and Iran; 26.Nurettin Akman further suspects the Refugee Camp in Makhmur (northern Iraq) set up by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of being a recruitment source for the PKK. This is denied both by the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative, Staffan de Mistura, and by the Kurdistan Regional Government, who claim that the camp houses mainly women and children. However, according to Turkish sources, the UNHCR acknowledged in 2005 that under the pressure and influence of the PKK, the camp had lost its humanitarian character. According to a 2007 census conducted by the UNHCR, the camp provides shelter to a total of some 12 000 refugees, the vast majority of whom are from Turkey. A weapons search conducted by US and Iraqi forces prior to the UNHCR census in early 2007 did not uncover any arms or munitions. The composition of the camp’s population, with refugees from the time when the struggle against the PKK was being waged inside Turkey, does however make it rather likely that PKK finds supporters there. Talks are under way on closing the camp and organising the refugees’ return to or resettlement in Iraq. Turkey welcomes the prospect of a camp closure but, concerned that the resettlement of refugees could be used to alter the demographic composition of Kirkuk, wants it to be carried out in accordance with asecurity requirements plan and to have the Turkish authorities involved in monitoring the process.
LONDON (Reuters) – The United States and Israel must change policy toward Hamas and engage the Palestinian militant group if progress is to be made on peace in the Middle East, a group of former peace negotiators said on Thursday. Writing in Britain's Times newspaper, 14 former foreign ministers and peace negotiators said the three-year policy under which Hamas has been ostracized by the international community had backfired and needed to be changed."There can be no meaningful peace process that involves negotiating with the representatives of one part of the Palestinians while simultaneously trying to destroy the other," wrote the signatories, who include Britain's Paddy Ashdown, a former negotiator in Bosnia, and Michael Ancram, who helped broker peace with the IRA in Northern Ireland. "Bringing Hamas into the process does not amount to condoning terrorism or attacks on civilians," the letter will say, according to excerpts provided in advance. "It can strengthen pragmatic elements and their ability to strike the hard compromises needed for peace."The letter is published ahead of a visit to the region by George Mitchell, the newly appointed U.S. envoy to the Middle East, and Javier Solana, the European Union's envoy. On Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that talking to Hamas was the "right thing to do" but Egypt and other parties were best placed to do so.
"Only after the attacks of 11 September 2001 had the world started listening to Turkey."
Testimonies of villagers and government officials have confirmed the destruction of civilian infrastructure such as homes, schools, mosques, churches, and hospitals. Turkish bombing has killed sheep and cows‑animals many families depend on for their livelihood. The Turkish military has bombed bridges and planted landmines‑as well as internationally prohibited weapons as cluster bombs‑to prevent human movement in areas where civilians live. Turkish military at these bases watch their movement, strike during the time of planting and harvesting, anytime they observe displaced villagers returning to their homes. For eight years, Turkish soldiers have burned the farmers’ crops and orchards at harvest time.
From the UK Parliaments Register of Interests: 28 May-4 June 1999, to Turkey as a guest of the Turkish-British Chamber of Commerce. (Registered 13 July 1999)I want to start off by dealing with two defence matters that relate specifically to my constituency, although they both involve enormous amounts of defence expenditure. The first is the Air Tanker project, for which a company in my constituency—Cobham Air Refuelling and Auxiliary Mission Equipment—provides all the gizmos that enable those tankers to refuel aircraft in flight. The company, which has, essentially, almost a world monopoly, developed the system in the 1930s and has gone on to produce a piece of equipment that is second to none anywhere in the world. My concern, and that of my constituents, is that we have been almost at the signature point of the contract, which is allegedly worth about £13 billion over 27 years —it is a private sector partnership—but we are still not there. That is giving some cause for concern.
After a EU court annulled the terrorists list on PKK, Conservative MP for North Dorest Robert Walter the author of EU Report - Terrorist activities on the Turkey/Iraq border - Political Committee Rapporteur: Robert Walter, drafted a resolution to the EU, labelling the PKK 'terrorists' and calls for action against 'terrorism' of the PKK etc. The report was put together by the now President elect of the European Security and Defence Assembly, UK's Robert Walter. Robert Walter has been lobbying in the UK Parliament for an arms company with direct links to Turkish security forces that are responsible for the most horrendous crimes against humanity. At one point in the report the author states that the conflict between Turkey and the Kurdish people is a CIVIL WAR.
Lobbyist efforts that seem to be shaping U.S. foreign policy in regards to Turkey have been very successful in diverting public attention from Turkey’s various human rights issues. The largest manufacturers of arms are golden horn members of the most powerful Turkish lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC), and include Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, Bechtel International, Boeing, and BAE Systems. Each of these corporations has made substantial profits off the perceived communist threat in Turkey. In fact, this assumption was displayed in 2006 when Kurdish freedom fighters offered a ceasefire that was praised by members of the European Union and provided opportunity to end the decades-long armed conflict. The response by a U.S. diplomat, General Joseph Ralston, in charge of U.S.-Turkish relations regarding Turkish internal conflicts was that a ceasefire would not be accepted and elimination of the group is necessary. At the same time, Lockheed Martin was closing a multi-billion dollar arms deal with the Turkish military, which the general would directly profit from as he sat on the Lockheed Martin Board of Directors.
Submitted by Robert Walter: Page 11 DOCUMENT A/201720. In response to increased political pressure from Turkey, the United States provided it with real-time intelligence that could be used for airstrikes and other military operations. The United States government has also appointed Joseph Ralston, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in order to facilitate relations between Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government. 22.There is limited but nonetheless satisfactory cooperation on intelligence at the military operational level between Turkey and Iran; 26.Nurettin Akman further suspects the Refugee Camp in Makhmur (northern Iraq) set up by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of being a recruitment source for the PKK. This is denied both by the UN Secretary General’s Special Representative, Staffan de Mistura, and by the Kurdistan Regional Government, who claim that the camp houses mainly women and children. However, according to Turkish sources, the UNHCR acknowledged in 2005 that under the pressure and influence of the PKK, the camp had lost its humanitarian character. According to a 2007 census conducted by the UNHCR, the camp provides shelter to a total of some 12 000 refugees, the vast majority of whom are from Turkey. A weapons search conducted by US and Iraqi forces prior to the UNHCR census in early 2007 did not uncover any arms or munitions. The composition of the camp’s population, with refugees from the time when the struggle against the PKK was being waged inside Turkey, does however make it rather likely that PKK finds supporters there. Talks are under way on closing the camp and organising the refugees’ return to or resettlement in Iraq. Turkey welcomes the prospect of a camp closure but, concerned that the resettlement of refugees could be used to alter the demographic composition of Kirkuk, wants it to be carried out in accordance with asecurity requirements plan and to have the Turkish authorities involved in monitoring the process.
LONDON (Reuters) – The United States and Israel must change policy toward Hamas and engage the Palestinian militant group if progress is to be made on peace in the Middle East, a group of former peace negotiators said on Thursday. Writing in Britain's Times newspaper, 14 former foreign ministers and peace negotiators said the three-year policy under which Hamas has been ostracized by the international community had backfired and needed to be changed."There can be no meaningful peace process that involves negotiating with the representatives of one part of the Palestinians while simultaneously trying to destroy the other," wrote the signatories, who include Britain's Paddy Ashdown, a former negotiator in Bosnia, and Michael Ancram, who helped broker peace with the IRA in Northern Ireland. "Bringing Hamas into the process does not amount to condoning terrorism or attacks on civilians," the letter will say, according to excerpts provided in advance. "It can strengthen pragmatic elements and their ability to strike the hard compromises needed for peace."The letter is published ahead of a visit to the region by George Mitchell, the newly appointed U.S. envoy to the Middle East, and Javier Solana, the European Union's envoy. On Wednesday, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said that talking to Hamas was the "right thing to do" but Egypt and other parties were best placed to do so.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
"The free world"..
It would not really be a surprise if we got censored out here as so many else ..In fact..
Quetta
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – John Solecki, an American kidnapped in Pakistan while working for a U.N. refugee agency, was still alive, a spokesman for the group holding him said on Monday after media reports that he had been killed. A spokesman for the Baluchistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) later telephoned a Pakistani news agency office in Quetta to deny any call had been made from the group, and to confirm that Solecki was alive. "He is alive," a spokesman, Shahak Baluch, said in a call to Online news agency. "We have not made any call." "He is sick and suffering from heart and kidney problems. We are giving him medical treatment," the spokesman said. Solecki had complained of failing health in a videotape released earlier by his captors. Solecki, head of the United Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees in Baluchistan province, was abducted on February 2 by gunmen who ambushed his car and shot dead his driver in the provincial capital, Quetta.
The BLUF wants the United Nations to secure the release of 141 women it says have been detained in Pakistan, provide information about more than 6,000 missing persons, and resolve the issue of Baluch independence under the Geneva Convention. Baluchistan, the largest but poorest of Pakistan's four provinces, lies on the border with Afghanistan. The spokesman said the group was considering a U.N. request to open communications through an intermediary.
Reporting by Gul Yousafzai, Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Paul Tait
Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi on Tuesday stressed the need for improvement in the basic infrastructure necessary for the social and economic development of the province. Replying to queries by visiting participants of the Air War Course who called on him here, he strongly rejected the impression suggesting the tribal elders were opposed to development. He referred to the Gwadar deep seaport project and said majority of the people, including tribal elders, favoured the project. However, they had some reservations in this regard, which must be addressed by the quarters concerned, he said. Magsi said the province covered about 43 per cent total landmass of the country as compared with its meagre population on the basis of which it received funds from the central divisible pool under the NFC Award. Hence, the province always confronted with shortage of funds to ensure quality civic facilities to the population residing in far-flung areas, he said. “The province is in dire need of generous funds to build infrastructure necessary for its social and economic development,” he said and asked for transparent utilisation of the available development funds by controlling widespread corruption in the government departments. Referring to the shortage of funds faced by the public-sector universities in the province, he said the ongoing financial constraints of the federal government had affected the flow of funds to many universities in the province, hampering smooth implementation of various education promotion projects.
The BLUF wants the United Nations to secure the release of 141 women it says have been detained in Pakistan, provide information about more than 6,000 missing persons, and resolve the issue of Baluch independence under the Geneva Convention. Baluchistan, the largest but poorest of Pakistan's four provinces, lies on the border with Afghanistan. The spokesman said the group was considering a U.N. request to open communications through an intermediary.
Reporting by Gul Yousafzai, Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; Editing by Paul Tait
Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi on Tuesday stressed the need for improvement in the basic infrastructure necessary for the social and economic development of the province. Replying to queries by visiting participants of the Air War Course who called on him here, he strongly rejected the impression suggesting the tribal elders were opposed to development. He referred to the Gwadar deep seaport project and said majority of the people, including tribal elders, favoured the project. However, they had some reservations in this regard, which must be addressed by the quarters concerned, he said. Magsi said the province covered about 43 per cent total landmass of the country as compared with its meagre population on the basis of which it received funds from the central divisible pool under the NFC Award. Hence, the province always confronted with shortage of funds to ensure quality civic facilities to the population residing in far-flung areas, he said. “The province is in dire need of generous funds to build infrastructure necessary for its social and economic development,” he said and asked for transparent utilisation of the available development funds by controlling widespread corruption in the government departments. Referring to the shortage of funds faced by the public-sector universities in the province, he said the ongoing financial constraints of the federal government had affected the flow of funds to many universities in the province, hampering smooth implementation of various education promotion projects.
Way of living..
Ma’an – Israeli military bulldozers on Wednesday morning began uprooting olive and almond trees on both sides of the Enav checkpoint, east of the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Witnesses said that the Israeli army appeared to be clearing the way to expand the military checkpoint.
Ma’an – Seventeen-year-old Wafa An-Najjar was shot in the leg on Tuesday near the borderline in the town of Khuza’a in the Southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources at Nasser Hospital in the nearby city of Khan Younis reported that the girl had a bullet in her leg. On Tuesday morning, international volunteers reported that Israeli forces opened fire on farmers near Khuza’a, about 300 meters from the Green Line. The volunteers, with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), were accompanying farmers on their lands. “We were only in the fields for about five minutes before the IDF began firing,” said Canadian volunteer Eva Bartlett. “I believe the firing was coming from four army jeeps and a hummer. The shots were coming very close, and were sniper-type of shots. There is great concern that the Israeli army will continue their targeting of these farmers." Four Palestinian farmers have been shot on their lands near the Green Line in three weeks.
Ma’an – Seventeen-year-old Wafa An-Najjar was shot in the leg on Tuesday near the borderline in the town of Khuza’a in the Southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources at Nasser Hospital in the nearby city of Khan Younis reported that the girl had a bullet in her leg. On Tuesday morning, international volunteers reported that Israeli forces opened fire on farmers near Khuza’a, about 300 meters from the Green Line. The volunteers, with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), were accompanying farmers on their lands. “We were only in the fields for about five minutes before the IDF began firing,” said Canadian volunteer Eva Bartlett. “I believe the firing was coming from four army jeeps and a hummer. The shots were coming very close, and were sniper-type of shots. There is great concern that the Israeli army will continue their targeting of these farmers." Four Palestinian farmers have been shot on their lands near the Green Line in three weeks.
Yeah? "Door of genocide and crimes against humanity"..
Addressing the meeting, Turkey’s consul general in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Huseyin Avin Botsali, said his country was “Iraq’s door to Europe”, newspapers reported. “This door will never be closed."
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
PKK demand the Kurdish people their rights according to U.N. declarations of human rights.
23 Feb. (AKI) – The administration of US president Barack Obama should review its foreign policies in the Middle East, in particular in relation to the Kurdish movement, a leader said on Monday. Ramzi Kartal, one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) called for the change in an interview with Adnkronos International. "The Kurdish issue affects more than 40 million people and it is not possible to achieve security and stability in the region without resolving such a question in a just way," Kartal told AKI by telephone. "The intention of the new administration of Barack Obama to move closer to Iran and seek a solution to the differences between the two countries should not be at a cost to the Kurdish people," said Kartal.
"We believe that the decision by America to insert the Kurdish-Iranian opposition party, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) on a list of terror organisations is one of the compromises made by the US to please Iran," he said. He urged the White House to review its political and policy positions in the region. "Without a solution to the Kurdish issue, we cannot have security and stability in the region," he said.
"We believe that the decision by America to insert the Kurdish-Iranian opposition party, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) on a list of terror organisations is one of the compromises made by the US to please Iran," he said. He urged the White House to review its political and policy positions in the region. "Without a solution to the Kurdish issue, we cannot have security and stability in the region," he said.
Erdogan said Saturday that Turkey's Kurds - at least a fifth of this country's population and long repressed by the Turkish state - had equal rights with other citizens and that his party would continue to fight for those rights. The speech was part of a campaign tour ahead of nationwide elections at the end of March.
PKK demand the Kurdish people their rights according to U.N. declarations of human rights. While Erdogan have elections campaigns speaking about rights and at the same time banning party's, jailing people and children, labeling the whole Kurdish people as terrorists, having a "war on terrorism" chasing the whole Kurdish civilian people on the streets, violating human rights in which Turkey was on the top of European lists of countries violating human rights. And refusing to respond on calls for case fires and solutions in a on going genocidal "war-fare" together with the Iraqi government, the U.S. and other in their own personal interests at the same time. ALL at the same time the Turkish General Staff headquarters have their own "Information Support Activity Action Plan", preventing villagers from resettle, preventing conditions for them to have a life hood, displace them and expand their "problems" into Iraq and Europe.
The U.N. cultural body UNESCO's International Mother Language Day
The leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) gave a Kurdish speech in his address during the party's parliamentary group meeting. State TV, TRT, cut the live broadcast, while the parliament speaker said the move was a breach of constitution. Ahmet Turk announced during his parliamentary address that he would continue his speech in Kurdish "in the name of the brotherhood and beauty of the languages". Turk spoke Turkish for several minutes before switching. He said he was speaking Kurdish in recognition of the U.N. cultural body UNESCO's International Mother Language Day this week to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
"Turkey must save itself from the shame of banning a tongue in this era," he said in Turkish. "Everyone should understand that requesting an end to the ban on Kurdish is an extremely natural request," he added. Turkish state television TRT cut the live Parliament TV broadcast of the group meeting of pro-Kurdish party DTP when Turk started speaking in Kurdish. TRT said under the law no language other than Turkish could be used when making parliamentary speeches or group addresses. "The constitution and the law on political parties prohibit the usage of any language other than Turkish in the parliament and in the group meetings. Therefore we had to cut the live broadcast and we apologize for this," a TRT announcement made on the incident said.
A former deputy from a pro-Kurdish party had been jailed in 1995 for speaking Kurdish at an inauguration ceremony in parliament. Turk told reporters after the meeting that he did not inform the parliament speaker about the issue ahead of time. "If it is not allowed to speak in a native language, then women in chadors should not be allowed in parliament as well," he added.Turk's move was a breach of constitution, Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan said in a written statement. "Legislative actions in parliament do not consist only of general assembly works. They also include consultative board meetings, works of commissions and political parties' group meetings. Use of any language except for Turkish means an open violation of the constitution," said a statement released by Turkish Parliament Speaker's Office.
Toptan earlier on Tuesday told reporters that Turkish is the only language that can be spoken at parliamentary group meetings. "The official language is Turkish. It is clear in the constitution and Political Party Law. Turkish must be spoken in such meetings," he said. The speaker however said Turk would not face penalties for defying the law. The Kurdish-language channel, TRT 6, simultaneously translated and aired a speech made by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at an election rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir. The deputy parliamentary group leader of the ruling Justice and Development, Nihat Ergun, said the messages given in parliament should be in Turkish, what he described as the "common language", in order to reach all citizens. "This is a provocative move against the democratic reforms made by the government," he told CNNTurk. But the main opposition party accused TRT of censorship. "TRT’s censoring (of the speech) is not right. This is an act of censors. TRT should not censor the leader of a political party," Mustafa Ozyurek, the spokesman for main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), told TV channels. "Of course, our official language is Turkish. Mr. Turk’s abeyance of this law would be appropriate. But I don’t find it right for TRT to implement censorship for his speaking," he added. The nationalist opposition party said both the parliamentary address made by the DTP leader and the launch of TRT 6 are wrong. Mr.Turk has made a mistake... TRT launching a broadcast in the Kurdish language is the real mistake here... We have asked in the past what would happen if Kurdish was also spoken in parliament," Cihan Pacaci, the General Secretariat of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party told NTV. Former speaker of parliament, Husamettin Cindoruk, also told NTV that using another language other than Turkish is only possible with the approval of parliament. "There is no difference between (speaking Kurdish) either at group meetings or in the general meeting or at a commission. It is not possible to speak Kurdish anywhere because the official language of the country is Turkish," Cindoruk added.
"Turkey must save itself from the shame of banning a tongue in this era," he said in Turkish. "Everyone should understand that requesting an end to the ban on Kurdish is an extremely natural request," he added. Turkish state television TRT cut the live Parliament TV broadcast of the group meeting of pro-Kurdish party DTP when Turk started speaking in Kurdish. TRT said under the law no language other than Turkish could be used when making parliamentary speeches or group addresses. "The constitution and the law on political parties prohibit the usage of any language other than Turkish in the parliament and in the group meetings. Therefore we had to cut the live broadcast and we apologize for this," a TRT announcement made on the incident said.
A former deputy from a pro-Kurdish party had been jailed in 1995 for speaking Kurdish at an inauguration ceremony in parliament. Turk told reporters after the meeting that he did not inform the parliament speaker about the issue ahead of time. "If it is not allowed to speak in a native language, then women in chadors should not be allowed in parliament as well," he added.Turk's move was a breach of constitution, Parliament Speaker Koksal Toptan said in a written statement. "Legislative actions in parliament do not consist only of general assembly works. They also include consultative board meetings, works of commissions and political parties' group meetings. Use of any language except for Turkish means an open violation of the constitution," said a statement released by Turkish Parliament Speaker's Office.
Toptan earlier on Tuesday told reporters that Turkish is the only language that can be spoken at parliamentary group meetings. "The official language is Turkish. It is clear in the constitution and Political Party Law. Turkish must be spoken in such meetings," he said. The speaker however said Turk would not face penalties for defying the law. The Kurdish-language channel, TRT 6, simultaneously translated and aired a speech made by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at an election rally in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir. The deputy parliamentary group leader of the ruling Justice and Development, Nihat Ergun, said the messages given in parliament should be in Turkish, what he described as the "common language", in order to reach all citizens. "This is a provocative move against the democratic reforms made by the government," he told CNNTurk. But the main opposition party accused TRT of censorship. "TRT’s censoring (of the speech) is not right. This is an act of censors. TRT should not censor the leader of a political party," Mustafa Ozyurek, the spokesman for main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), told TV channels. "Of course, our official language is Turkish. Mr. Turk’s abeyance of this law would be appropriate. But I don’t find it right for TRT to implement censorship for his speaking," he added. The nationalist opposition party said both the parliamentary address made by the DTP leader and the launch of TRT 6 are wrong. Mr.Turk has made a mistake... TRT launching a broadcast in the Kurdish language is the real mistake here... We have asked in the past what would happen if Kurdish was also spoken in parliament," Cihan Pacaci, the General Secretariat of the opposition Nationalist Movement Party told NTV. Former speaker of parliament, Husamettin Cindoruk, also told NTV that using another language other than Turkish is only possible with the approval of parliament. "There is no difference between (speaking Kurdish) either at group meetings or in the general meeting or at a commission. It is not possible to speak Kurdish anywhere because the official language of the country is Turkish," Cindoruk added.
In fact..
It´s decades of crimes...Some will "get it"..Some will "get it" so £$€#¤"## hard they will not know what the hell it was that hit them! And North Korea can as well lay down their ¤%¤## missiles..They are not needed..
Well..We assume Palestinians and their situation in Gaza can come handy to get some votes for elections and to expand influences in the region..
In the same way as the Kurds and Turkey´s /U.S. "war on terrorism" can be..In fact..And get rid of the only Kurdish party, people that struggles for the Kurdish peoples rights, expanding the state terrorism,violations, human rights abuses and labeling the whole Kurdish people as terrorists into Europe, expand into northern Iraq, expand inside universities, prevent and destroy Kurdish villagers conditions to make a living, and keep the genocidal "war-fare" at the same time, etc..etc..How practical and healthy..
Defense Undersecretary Bayar sees no problem in Turkish-Israeli relations
Turkey's undersecretary for the defense industry, Murad Bayar, has said that there is no problem in Turkish-Israeli cooperation in the defense area. "Turkey and Israel have mutual interests in defense cooperation, and projects are being conducted in this framework," he told reporters visiting Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, in connection with the International Defence Exhibition & Conference (IDEX) 2009. Bayar stated that no problems should be expected in this respect. "As these are long-term projects. We cannot modify projects in their final phase. Any change will take time," he said, adding that Turkish-Israeli interests are mutual.
According to 2007 figures, arms procurement deals between Turkey and Israel have reached about $2 billion. This amount, which has been in favor of Israel, should now be over $2 billion, bearing in mind that some projects, though few, have been signed with Israel since then. Despite earlier Turkish uneasiness over Israel's failure to deliver military technology, Israel continues to be the major country that does not deny military technology to Turkey in areas where Ankara is seriously lacking.
"No change is planned in ongoing projects. As for future projects, our stance will be to consider Turkey's interests. In the final analysis, the decisions on all projects are made by the Defense Industry Implementation Committee [SSİK]. The SSİK is presided over by the prime minister. The chief of general staff and the defense minister attend its meetings.This committee is capable of shaping the country's policy. In the decision making phase of projects, we act according to its guidance. Nevertheless, my observation is that all of our projects are implemented according to the country's interests," he said.
Turkey and Israel signed military cooperation and defense industry agreements in 1996. Bayar also commented on the impact of the global economic crisis on the defense sector. "The sector is currently unaffected as resources are predefined and projects are long-term projects," he said. Pointing out that short-term changes in the sector are generally not possible for the sector, Bayar noted that the crisis had some benefits for the sector by causing a drop in many hidden costs. Yet, he said, companies dealing with raw materials as well as other companies affiliated with the defense industry may be affected by the crisis.
"In these sectors, for example, in the automotive sector, there are some private companies that produce vehicles both for the military and for the private sector. These companies are likely to be hit by the crisis. The defense industry's affiliated sectors, too, may be affected, but I do not expect problems for the main contractors. I guess all of them saw increases in their turnovers in 2008, and this is likely to also continue in 2009," he said.
Major military projects between Turkey and Israel
Under a deal signed on Dec. 25, 2008, the Turkish Air Force Command (THKK) will upgrade 12 of its McDonnell Douglas RF-4E photographic reconnaissance aircraft with imagery intelligence (IMINT) systems. Elta Systems and Elbit Systems Electro-Optics-Elop, subsidiaries of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems, respectively, will supply IMINT systems over a four-year period. Turkey's Aselsan will act as the systems integrator. The upgrade is intended to provide the THKK with a real-time intelligence-gathering capability. It is understood that there are plans to integrate the same IMINT systems onto F-16 aircraft should they prove successful with the RF-4Es. The Turkish Armed Forces' (TSK) RF-4E aircraft are operated by its 113 Squadron based at Eskisehir. The cost of the project is around $165 million, including the $24 million share of Turkey's Aselsan, which will be the main contractor on the project. Israel's IMI has already started the delivery of the 170 US-made M60 A1 tanks from Turkey's inventory that Israel modernized at a cost of around $1 billion under an agreement signed between Israel and Turkey that became effective in November 2002.
Israel delivered two of 10 long-delayed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Turkey on Nov. 29. Two of the Heron UAV systems arrived in Turkey while the delivery of the remaining eight systems it still awaited. However, the Aselsan-developed electro optical payload (Aselfir300T) prevents the Heron UAVs from reaching a desired altitude of 30,000 feet due to its high weight of 120 kilograms. There are now reports that Turkey may abandon plans to install the Aselfir300T systems on the Israeli Herons to quicken their delivery to the TSK. Turkey signed a $183 million contract with Israel's IUP consortium (then Israeli Aircraft Industries and Elbit Systems) in 2005 for the delivery of the 10 Heron UAVs. But the delivery of the Herons faced an almost two year delay due to problems that have occurred over Aselsan systems. As a stop-gap measure, the Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry (SSM) purchased three Israeli Aeronautics-made tactical Aerostar UAVs, and an Israeli Aerospace Industries Searcher tactical UAV was also bought to replace a Heron UAV that crashed in July of last year on a mission in the Southeast.
A $118 million contract was signed with Israel in July 2002 for the co-production of counter measure dispenser systems (CMDS) currently being equipped on an unspecified number of Turkish helicopter platforms in the inventory of the TSK. When Israel failed to obtain critical SA-7A and SA-7B surface-to-air missile technology from Russia so that Turkey would be able to domestically develop similar types of missiles, Ankara purchased reverse engineering training technology from Belarus's Biltek company. CMDS have been part of Turkey's Helicopter Electronic Warfare Suite (HEWS) project in order to fulfill the TSK's self protection requirements amid threatening environments as well to increase its capabilities in the field of helicopter electronic warfare. The HEWS project was launched in 1997 when outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists shot down a Turkish Super Cobra in May 1997 and a Cougar helicopter in June 1997 using Russian SA-7 "Grail" surface-to-air missiles provided by Iran and supplied through Armenia in which 13 personnel were killed. In another incident in November 1998, 16 Turkish personnel were killed when their Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk utility helicopter was shot down by the PKK.
Israel's IAI completed in 2002 and 2003 the modernization of 54 Turkish F-4Es bringing them to Phantom 2000 standard in a project code named F-4E/2020. The 54 F-4Es are equipped with AGM-142 Popeye medium-range air-to-surface missiles. The upgrade of the 54 F-4Es in an agreement that was signed in January 1997 was financed through an Israeli state credit amounting to over $700 million.
An Israeli and a Singapore consortium modernized 48 F-5A/B and NF-5A/B fighters as lead-in trainers for Turkish F-16s. The first four aircraft were modernized at Eskişehir 1st Air Support and Maintenance Center Command under Israel's IAI's responsibility while the remaining 44 aircraft was upgraded by the Turkish personnel in cooperation with Israel. The project is valued at about $130 million. The modernization involved avionics and structural changes to the F-5s under an agreement signed on Sept. 24, 1998 between the SSM and a consortium comprising IAI, Elbit and Singapore Aerospace. The project went into effect in 1999. IAI has been in charge of system integration, Elbit in software and Singapore Aerospace has been responsible for mechanical harness and routing installations. The project is code named F-5/2000.
24 February 2009
TODAY’S ZAMAN
Defense Undersecretary Bayar sees no problem in Turkish-Israeli relations
Turkey's undersecretary for the defense industry, Murad Bayar, has said that there is no problem in Turkish-Israeli cooperation in the defense area. "Turkey and Israel have mutual interests in defense cooperation, and projects are being conducted in this framework," he told reporters visiting Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, in connection with the International Defence Exhibition & Conference (IDEX) 2009. Bayar stated that no problems should be expected in this respect. "As these are long-term projects. We cannot modify projects in their final phase. Any change will take time," he said, adding that Turkish-Israeli interests are mutual.
According to 2007 figures, arms procurement deals between Turkey and Israel have reached about $2 billion. This amount, which has been in favor of Israel, should now be over $2 billion, bearing in mind that some projects, though few, have been signed with Israel since then. Despite earlier Turkish uneasiness over Israel's failure to deliver military technology, Israel continues to be the major country that does not deny military technology to Turkey in areas where Ankara is seriously lacking.
"No change is planned in ongoing projects. As for future projects, our stance will be to consider Turkey's interests. In the final analysis, the decisions on all projects are made by the Defense Industry Implementation Committee [SSİK]. The SSİK is presided over by the prime minister. The chief of general staff and the defense minister attend its meetings.This committee is capable of shaping the country's policy. In the decision making phase of projects, we act according to its guidance. Nevertheless, my observation is that all of our projects are implemented according to the country's interests," he said.
Turkey and Israel signed military cooperation and defense industry agreements in 1996. Bayar also commented on the impact of the global economic crisis on the defense sector. "The sector is currently unaffected as resources are predefined and projects are long-term projects," he said. Pointing out that short-term changes in the sector are generally not possible for the sector, Bayar noted that the crisis had some benefits for the sector by causing a drop in many hidden costs. Yet, he said, companies dealing with raw materials as well as other companies affiliated with the defense industry may be affected by the crisis.
"In these sectors, for example, in the automotive sector, there are some private companies that produce vehicles both for the military and for the private sector. These companies are likely to be hit by the crisis. The defense industry's affiliated sectors, too, may be affected, but I do not expect problems for the main contractors. I guess all of them saw increases in their turnovers in 2008, and this is likely to also continue in 2009," he said.
Major military projects between Turkey and Israel
Under a deal signed on Dec. 25, 2008, the Turkish Air Force Command (THKK) will upgrade 12 of its McDonnell Douglas RF-4E photographic reconnaissance aircraft with imagery intelligence (IMINT) systems. Elta Systems and Elbit Systems Electro-Optics-Elop, subsidiaries of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Elbit Systems, respectively, will supply IMINT systems over a four-year period. Turkey's Aselsan will act as the systems integrator. The upgrade is intended to provide the THKK with a real-time intelligence-gathering capability. It is understood that there are plans to integrate the same IMINT systems onto F-16 aircraft should they prove successful with the RF-4Es. The Turkish Armed Forces' (TSK) RF-4E aircraft are operated by its 113 Squadron based at Eskisehir. The cost of the project is around $165 million, including the $24 million share of Turkey's Aselsan, which will be the main contractor on the project. Israel's IMI has already started the delivery of the 170 US-made M60 A1 tanks from Turkey's inventory that Israel modernized at a cost of around $1 billion under an agreement signed between Israel and Turkey that became effective in November 2002.
Israel delivered two of 10 long-delayed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Turkey on Nov. 29. Two of the Heron UAV systems arrived in Turkey while the delivery of the remaining eight systems it still awaited. However, the Aselsan-developed electro optical payload (Aselfir300T) prevents the Heron UAVs from reaching a desired altitude of 30,000 feet due to its high weight of 120 kilograms. There are now reports that Turkey may abandon plans to install the Aselfir300T systems on the Israeli Herons to quicken their delivery to the TSK. Turkey signed a $183 million contract with Israel's IUP consortium (then Israeli Aircraft Industries and Elbit Systems) in 2005 for the delivery of the 10 Heron UAVs. But the delivery of the Herons faced an almost two year delay due to problems that have occurred over Aselsan systems. As a stop-gap measure, the Undersecretariat for the Defense Industry (SSM) purchased three Israeli Aeronautics-made tactical Aerostar UAVs, and an Israeli Aerospace Industries Searcher tactical UAV was also bought to replace a Heron UAV that crashed in July of last year on a mission in the Southeast.
A $118 million contract was signed with Israel in July 2002 for the co-production of counter measure dispenser systems (CMDS) currently being equipped on an unspecified number of Turkish helicopter platforms in the inventory of the TSK. When Israel failed to obtain critical SA-7A and SA-7B surface-to-air missile technology from Russia so that Turkey would be able to domestically develop similar types of missiles, Ankara purchased reverse engineering training technology from Belarus's Biltek company. CMDS have been part of Turkey's Helicopter Electronic Warfare Suite (HEWS) project in order to fulfill the TSK's self protection requirements amid threatening environments as well to increase its capabilities in the field of helicopter electronic warfare. The HEWS project was launched in 1997 when outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists shot down a Turkish Super Cobra in May 1997 and a Cougar helicopter in June 1997 using Russian SA-7 "Grail" surface-to-air missiles provided by Iran and supplied through Armenia in which 13 personnel were killed. In another incident in November 1998, 16 Turkish personnel were killed when their Sikorsky S-70A Black Hawk utility helicopter was shot down by the PKK.
Israel's IAI completed in 2002 and 2003 the modernization of 54 Turkish F-4Es bringing them to Phantom 2000 standard in a project code named F-4E/2020. The 54 F-4Es are equipped with AGM-142 Popeye medium-range air-to-surface missiles. The upgrade of the 54 F-4Es in an agreement that was signed in January 1997 was financed through an Israeli state credit amounting to over $700 million.
An Israeli and a Singapore consortium modernized 48 F-5A/B and NF-5A/B fighters as lead-in trainers for Turkish F-16s. The first four aircraft were modernized at Eskişehir 1st Air Support and Maintenance Center Command under Israel's IAI's responsibility while the remaining 44 aircraft was upgraded by the Turkish personnel in cooperation with Israel. The project is valued at about $130 million. The modernization involved avionics and structural changes to the F-5s under an agreement signed on Sept. 24, 1998 between the SSM and a consortium comprising IAI, Elbit and Singapore Aerospace. The project went into effect in 1999. IAI has been in charge of system integration, Elbit in software and Singapore Aerospace has been responsible for mechanical harness and routing installations. The project is code named F-5/2000.
24 February 2009
TODAY’S ZAMAN
The pro-AKP and the pro-military camp are in in fact in the same "camp"..Instead of responding on calls for solutions, or more as a pretext..
JUDGES WILL BE BROUGHT INTO LINE WITH TSK:
The General Staff headquarters Information Support Activity Action Plan aims to bring higher judiciary chiefs into line with the TSK. According to the plan, primarily the judiciary and media, which have influence on society, will be gathered under so-called "working meals".
People to be contacted: The plan calls for "bringing institutions which have the ability to form public opinion, such as universities, the judiciary, journalists, artists, to bring into the military's line by keeping close contact with them. Available times and locations will be created; for this purpose meetings under the label "working meals" will be held. These "working meals" will be held at the levels of the general staff, its vice-chiefs, forces commanders, and the general secretary of the general staff. The selection of people who will be contacted for these working meals requires extreme care. Those people must be the ones who defend the TC's and the TSK's values and "red lines"."
2. JOURNALISTS WILL BE USED:
According to the documents TSK intends to direct media and press members regularly and bring them on TSK's side. The media must be used intensely: The plan calls for "using suitable media channels to demonize TSK's opposition in the eyes of the public. To inform people, suitable media will be used with suitable and effective methods . . . For this purpose, a team of civilian personnel who share TSK's main values and has the same qualifications must be hired under contract."
3. TSK OPPOSITION WILL BE DEMONIZED:
TSK's plan says:"Some artists and authors will be supported and will be brought to the front; anti-TSK activities and people will be targeted to be demonized." The document has been officially approved as coming from the general staff headquarters, has the following suggestions, that seem like psychological warfare methods:
* Using people in important influential positions to counterattack the campaigns and people who endeavor to show TSK as anti-religion and aim to demonize it.
* Those influential people will emphasis that TSK is not anti-religion, it respects the people's national values and religion, TSK is a guide for modernity, and for scientific and social enhancement; It is an institution that makes democratic values live on a modern level, it is on the level of civilized societies' armies, it is the people's army and it is the institution that receives the most support from the people and that "Mehmetciks" and higher ranking personnel come from the people.
* To support the fragmentation of the targeted political and ethnic groups and in order to divide them, TSK should support and contact some people, thus to diminish the targets' power and disable their attempts to demonize TSK.
* Artists and authors that are known to be in line with TSK will be prioritized to create works on pre-selected themes to inform the targeted people. For this purpose, some artists and authors will be supported and will be brought to the fore while the anti-TSK ideas, activities, and authors will be targeted for demonization.
4. REDIRECTING THE INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE:
According to the framework in the plan, article 12 calls for the influential people to be used to keep anti-TSK campaigns ineffective. For this purpose, the costs for these activities will be reimbursed directly or indirectly.
5. IT WILL BE EMPHASIZED THAT DTP IS A "TERRORIST" PARTY:
Because of DTP's attitudes and statements, it will be emphasized that DTP has been recognized as "terrorist" and will not be accepted, except as a nonentity. The region will be disturbed. In the plan, there are some suggestions and implementations about the Kurdish question and DTP.
* In order to cut down support in Northern Iraq, the people in the region will be disturbed under the label of "war against terrorism" and people will be convinced that this disturbance will continue unless they end their support.
* People in the region will be convinced that support for "terrorism" will not be without cost, with frequent checkpoints, intensified operations, and similar activities.
* A similar message will be delivered to the Kurdish people living in Northern Iraq close to the Turkish border, by heavy weapons shelling. In this way, it will be hinted that if they continue to support PKK the disturbance will continue with increasing intensity.
Precautions against DTP's activities: In a high-level press conference, it will be explicitly declared that DTP is seen as a "terrorist" party by TSK because of its statements and activities that it had in various places and locations. For this purpose, following the general staff headquarters' statements, which elaborate in detail why DTP is a "terrorist" party, this approach will be declared again in a seminar or conference related to PKK.
6. THE KURDISH REGION WILL BE DISTURBED WITH WEAPONS (See previous subtitle).
* National security classes in the high schools will be taught by TSK members and textbooks will be reviewed by TSK. The curriculum will be decided by TSK.
* For those classes, CDs and DVDs will be delivered by the TSK class instructor.
* Using suitable NGOs covertly and indirectly, through trustworthy people in order not to risk the NGO as a target for the opposition.
* "Conversation meetings": To avoid the creation of an unsatisfied group within TSK, "conversation meetings" will be held at the level of general, admiral, and similar high-ranking officers. Thus, the feelings and ideas of military personnel can be monitored.
* Enlightenment (Propaganda) Teams: to use experts and experienced staff to make propaganda and impose TSK's views within the military.
* Cyberworld: In order to state TSK's views related to ongoing news in public media, and to inform and direct people, the internet will be used more effectively.
* Accroding to social enhancement support activities in big cities, TSK will go into pilot regions in ghettos to change the people's view about TSK (i.e. the Kurdish people).
* In order to impress the public, scientific seminars, conferences, and similar activities will be supported, and TSK will attend such activities. Activities that promote suitable strategies for TSK will be covertly supported and the activities' costs must be reimbursed.
* Visits from high-ranking officers to martyr or veteran families will be monitored in order to grab media attention. Military spouses will organize the collection and delivery of donations.
The General Staff headquarters Information Support Activity Action Plan aims to bring higher judiciary chiefs into line with the TSK. According to the plan, primarily the judiciary and media, which have influence on society, will be gathered under so-called "working meals".
People to be contacted: The plan calls for "bringing institutions which have the ability to form public opinion, such as universities, the judiciary, journalists, artists, to bring into the military's line by keeping close contact with them. Available times and locations will be created; for this purpose meetings under the label "working meals" will be held. These "working meals" will be held at the levels of the general staff, its vice-chiefs, forces commanders, and the general secretary of the general staff. The selection of people who will be contacted for these working meals requires extreme care. Those people must be the ones who defend the TC's and the TSK's values and "red lines"."
2. JOURNALISTS WILL BE USED:
According to the documents TSK intends to direct media and press members regularly and bring them on TSK's side. The media must be used intensely: The plan calls for "using suitable media channels to demonize TSK's opposition in the eyes of the public. To inform people, suitable media will be used with suitable and effective methods . . . For this purpose, a team of civilian personnel who share TSK's main values and has the same qualifications must be hired under contract."
3. TSK OPPOSITION WILL BE DEMONIZED:
TSK's plan says:"Some artists and authors will be supported and will be brought to the front; anti-TSK activities and people will be targeted to be demonized." The document has been officially approved as coming from the general staff headquarters, has the following suggestions, that seem like psychological warfare methods:
* Using people in important influential positions to counterattack the campaigns and people who endeavor to show TSK as anti-religion and aim to demonize it.
* Those influential people will emphasis that TSK is not anti-religion, it respects the people's national values and religion, TSK is a guide for modernity, and for scientific and social enhancement; It is an institution that makes democratic values live on a modern level, it is on the level of civilized societies' armies, it is the people's army and it is the institution that receives the most support from the people and that "Mehmetciks" and higher ranking personnel come from the people.
* To support the fragmentation of the targeted political and ethnic groups and in order to divide them, TSK should support and contact some people, thus to diminish the targets' power and disable their attempts to demonize TSK.
* Artists and authors that are known to be in line with TSK will be prioritized to create works on pre-selected themes to inform the targeted people. For this purpose, some artists and authors will be supported and will be brought to the fore while the anti-TSK ideas, activities, and authors will be targeted for demonization.
4. REDIRECTING THE INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE:
According to the framework in the plan, article 12 calls for the influential people to be used to keep anti-TSK campaigns ineffective. For this purpose, the costs for these activities will be reimbursed directly or indirectly.
5. IT WILL BE EMPHASIZED THAT DTP IS A "TERRORIST" PARTY:
Because of DTP's attitudes and statements, it will be emphasized that DTP has been recognized as "terrorist" and will not be accepted, except as a nonentity. The region will be disturbed. In the plan, there are some suggestions and implementations about the Kurdish question and DTP.
* In order to cut down support in Northern Iraq, the people in the region will be disturbed under the label of "war against terrorism" and people will be convinced that this disturbance will continue unless they end their support.
* People in the region will be convinced that support for "terrorism" will not be without cost, with frequent checkpoints, intensified operations, and similar activities.
* A similar message will be delivered to the Kurdish people living in Northern Iraq close to the Turkish border, by heavy weapons shelling. In this way, it will be hinted that if they continue to support PKK the disturbance will continue with increasing intensity.
Precautions against DTP's activities: In a high-level press conference, it will be explicitly declared that DTP is seen as a "terrorist" party by TSK because of its statements and activities that it had in various places and locations. For this purpose, following the general staff headquarters' statements, which elaborate in detail why DTP is a "terrorist" party, this approach will be declared again in a seminar or conference related to PKK.
6. THE KURDISH REGION WILL BE DISTURBED WITH WEAPONS (See previous subtitle).
* National security classes in the high schools will be taught by TSK members and textbooks will be reviewed by TSK. The curriculum will be decided by TSK.
* For those classes, CDs and DVDs will be delivered by the TSK class instructor.
* Using suitable NGOs covertly and indirectly, through trustworthy people in order not to risk the NGO as a target for the opposition.
* "Conversation meetings": To avoid the creation of an unsatisfied group within TSK, "conversation meetings" will be held at the level of general, admiral, and similar high-ranking officers. Thus, the feelings and ideas of military personnel can be monitored.
* Enlightenment (Propaganda) Teams: to use experts and experienced staff to make propaganda and impose TSK's views within the military.
* Cyberworld: In order to state TSK's views related to ongoing news in public media, and to inform and direct people, the internet will be used more effectively.
* Accroding to social enhancement support activities in big cities, TSK will go into pilot regions in ghettos to change the people's view about TSK (i.e. the Kurdish people).
* In order to impress the public, scientific seminars, conferences, and similar activities will be supported, and TSK will attend such activities. Activities that promote suitable strategies for TSK will be covertly supported and the activities' costs must be reimbursed.
* Visits from high-ranking officers to martyr or veteran families will be monitored in order to grab media attention. Military spouses will organize the collection and delivery of donations.
Common Article 3 of the four Geneva Conventions lists prohibited acts by parties to the convention
Such acts are:
*Violence to life and person
* Murder
* Mutilation
*Cruel treatment and torture.
*Taking of hostages.
*Outrages against personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.
*Passing out sentences and carrying out executions without previous judgment by a regularly constituted court that affords all the official guarantees that are recognized as indispensable by civilized people.
The provisions in the above paragraph represent a level of conduct that the United States expects each foreign country to observe.
*Violence to life and person
* Murder
* Mutilation
*Cruel treatment and torture.
*Taking of hostages.
*Outrages against personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment.
*Passing out sentences and carrying out executions without previous judgment by a regularly constituted court that affords all the official guarantees that are recognized as indispensable by civilized people.
The provisions in the above paragraph represent a level of conduct that the United States expects each foreign country to observe.
...Ohh. yeah..The scandals goes on and on and on and on..
"The enormous US support for the massive atrocities of the 1990s in this region, which are some of the worst in the world in this period, is based on the role of Turkey within the US system of domination of the region. It’s not out of love of the Turks. It is out of love for the services that Turkey can perform in the region."
~ Noam Chomsky~
Evidence relating to Saddam Hussein's alleged use of poison gas against Kurdish civilians was given to his genocide trial in secret, so as not to embarrass Turkey. After seeing a string of memos issued by Saddam's chief of staff in 1988 ordering "special ammunition" attacks, the court cut off its microphones while studying documents relating to Iraq's northern neighbour.
"We will now cut the microphones because this concerns Iraqi-Turkish relations," said chief prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon, who then presented various documents while the sound in the reporters' box was cut off. No details were given of the evidence presented in this part of the trial, nor was it explained how it touched on Turkey.
Fri, 23 Jan 2009 - Turkey and Iraq agreed to continue cooperation in ridding northern Iraq of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). "There is a new climate, a new atmosphere of cooperation between Iraq, Turkey and the United States," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said in Ankara Friday after talks with his Turkish counterpart Ali Babacan. Zebari said that it was necessary to cooperate politically, and in the fields of economics and intelligence in order to remove what he described a "poisonous element." "Who would have thought five years, or even three years ago that this would have happened," said Zebari, himself an ethnic Kurd.
"Who would have thought five years, or even three years ago that this would have happened."
Well..If any ones involved claim no ones thought this would happen five or three ago they are as much of spectacles as so many else..
Monday, February 23, 2009
Some are going down with Turkey..Well..Yeah..some have proven to be idiots for a longer while..
"A court agreed to try more than 80 suspects - including two retired generals – who are allegedly linked to an ultra-nationalist plot to overthrow the government."
Sunday, February 22, 2009
For eight years, Turkish soldiers have burned the farmers’ crops and orchards at harvest time
Turkey criticised for preventing return of displaced Kurds ..The 37-page report, “Still Critical: Prospects in 2005 for Internally Displaced Kurds in Turkey,” details how the Turkish government has failed to implement measures for IDPs the United Nations recommended nearly three years ago. Since the European Union confirmed Turkey’s membership candidacy in December, the Turkish government appears to have shelved plans to enact those measures.
Turkey Praises US For Help Bombing ...
DOHUK, Iraq, Aug 24, 2006
Saddam Hussein carried out a systematic destruction of Kurdistan," he said. "He not only displaced people, razed their villages and destroyed the economic fabric, but also broke up family units and eliminated the conditions for their possible return." Bakr said such problems were not fully understood by the international community. "We must rehabilitate their villages, but it is not easy as their safety must be guaranteed," he told AFP. "It is also essential that these villages are accessible with proper roads."
April 22, 2008.
There is no official record of the damage that has occurred in northern Iraq as the result of the ongoing conflicts. However, locals say the recent Turkish incursion damaged dozens of villages in the area. Around 160 families from six villages in Zharawa district near the Qandil mountains fled the fighting and now live in an improvised camp, according to Azad Hasso, the district head. Mohammad Muhssin, a local Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP, official, said the fighting also uprooted around 150 families from their villages close to the Turkish border in the Amedi area, northeast of the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil. Muhssin said five bridges have been destroyed in Amedi. "People from more than 200 villages used those bridges. Now the roads have been cut," he said.
The Iranian and Turkish militaries have been allowed to carry out their operations without any accountability for civilian casualties. Despite such conditions, the United Nations and members of the International Community have failed to take any proper action to stop the bombardments. According to several reports, the Kurdistan Regional Government has taken steps by asking the United Nations to help stop the bombing of border villages. So far, there has been no signal of a response by the U.N. regarding these events.
1-12 December 2008
The team traveled to Bamerne to check out the Turkish military base. The Mukhtar told the team that the village is about one hour’s drive from the Turkish border. There are two Turkish military bases, a small one on the hill-top and a big one in the valley. When asked who does have power to change this, he replied, “Your governments. Tell your governments to get Turkey out of our villages and our country.” For eight years, Turkish soldiers have burned the farmers’ crops and orchards at harvest time. The latest such incident was a month ago. "Sixteen years ago our families left our homes in Southeastern Anatolia Turkey because of violence against Kurds, and lived as displaced persons within our own country. Today we are in Iraq and still longing for a Kurdish homeland and for peace," one of the leaders of the Makhmour Refugee Camp told our CPT Iraq group. "In Turkey we were threatened if we continued to speak and teach the Kurdish language. We fled because they would have imprisoned and tortured us if we did not deny our cultural heritage.”
KURDISTAN, Iraq – Approximately 30 people gathered for the grand opening of the Tovo Medical Clinic Feb. 12 in the Kani Karweshkan foothills, located in Halabja, Iraq. The clinic opened in honor of Brig. Gen. Kenneth Tovo, in recognition of his past service in Iraq. The new clinic will help address a need in this northern Iraq community. This new facility, to be equipped with more than $25,000 of medical equipment, will help significantly improve the region’s medical care and provide essential services throughout the Kurdish autonomous region, said a coalition forces advisor. Projects like this one create short-term benefits and long-term potential consistent with the intended goals of the Iraqi and coalition forces partnership. Short-term, the clinic makes medical care for potentially fatal illnesses and injuries more accessible. The clinic provides almost 500 residents from six surrounding villages access to a medical facility and the medical services of a staff of three full-time doctors. The location of the clinic also increases the chances of survivability by providing people in a community, where vehicular transportation is scarce, access because of the clinic’s central location. Access results in more immediate care, so patients can be stabilized before they are moved to another medical facility, if more specialized care is necessary. The long-term potential of this clinic includes a variety of possible development opportunities. Kurdistan regional government officials and CF have already entered into discussions regarding future plans to pave the clinic route to make it more accessible, drill wells to provide water to the clinic, establish nearby electrical lines for communication, and expand clinic services. Projects like the opening of this clinic are just one of several planned to promote local participation and demonstrate the government’s commitment to maintaining security while encouraging social and capital development.
Turkey Praises US For Help Bombing ...
DOHUK, Iraq, Aug 24, 2006
Saddam Hussein carried out a systematic destruction of Kurdistan," he said. "He not only displaced people, razed their villages and destroyed the economic fabric, but also broke up family units and eliminated the conditions for their possible return." Bakr said such problems were not fully understood by the international community. "We must rehabilitate their villages, but it is not easy as their safety must be guaranteed," he told AFP. "It is also essential that these villages are accessible with proper roads."
April 22, 2008.
There is no official record of the damage that has occurred in northern Iraq as the result of the ongoing conflicts. However, locals say the recent Turkish incursion damaged dozens of villages in the area. Around 160 families from six villages in Zharawa district near the Qandil mountains fled the fighting and now live in an improvised camp, according to Azad Hasso, the district head. Mohammad Muhssin, a local Kurdistan Democratic Party, KDP, official, said the fighting also uprooted around 150 families from their villages close to the Turkish border in the Amedi area, northeast of the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Erbil. Muhssin said five bridges have been destroyed in Amedi. "People from more than 200 villages used those bridges. Now the roads have been cut," he said.
The Iranian and Turkish militaries have been allowed to carry out their operations without any accountability for civilian casualties. Despite such conditions, the United Nations and members of the International Community have failed to take any proper action to stop the bombardments. According to several reports, the Kurdistan Regional Government has taken steps by asking the United Nations to help stop the bombing of border villages. So far, there has been no signal of a response by the U.N. regarding these events.
1-12 December 2008
The team traveled to Bamerne to check out the Turkish military base. The Mukhtar told the team that the village is about one hour’s drive from the Turkish border. There are two Turkish military bases, a small one on the hill-top and a big one in the valley. When asked who does have power to change this, he replied, “Your governments. Tell your governments to get Turkey out of our villages and our country.” For eight years, Turkish soldiers have burned the farmers’ crops and orchards at harvest time. The latest such incident was a month ago. "Sixteen years ago our families left our homes in Southeastern Anatolia Turkey because of violence against Kurds, and lived as displaced persons within our own country. Today we are in Iraq and still longing for a Kurdish homeland and for peace," one of the leaders of the Makhmour Refugee Camp told our CPT Iraq group. "In Turkey we were threatened if we continued to speak and teach the Kurdish language. We fled because they would have imprisoned and tortured us if we did not deny our cultural heritage.”
KURDISTAN, Iraq – Approximately 30 people gathered for the grand opening of the Tovo Medical Clinic Feb. 12 in the Kani Karweshkan foothills, located in Halabja, Iraq. The clinic opened in honor of Brig. Gen. Kenneth Tovo, in recognition of his past service in Iraq. The new clinic will help address a need in this northern Iraq community. This new facility, to be equipped with more than $25,000 of medical equipment, will help significantly improve the region’s medical care and provide essential services throughout the Kurdish autonomous region, said a coalition forces advisor. Projects like this one create short-term benefits and long-term potential consistent with the intended goals of the Iraqi and coalition forces partnership. Short-term, the clinic makes medical care for potentially fatal illnesses and injuries more accessible. The clinic provides almost 500 residents from six surrounding villages access to a medical facility and the medical services of a staff of three full-time doctors. The location of the clinic also increases the chances of survivability by providing people in a community, where vehicular transportation is scarce, access because of the clinic’s central location. Access results in more immediate care, so patients can be stabilized before they are moved to another medical facility, if more specialized care is necessary. The long-term potential of this clinic includes a variety of possible development opportunities. Kurdistan regional government officials and CF have already entered into discussions regarding future plans to pave the clinic route to make it more accessible, drill wells to provide water to the clinic, establish nearby electrical lines for communication, and expand clinic services. Projects like the opening of this clinic are just one of several planned to promote local participation and demonstrate the government’s commitment to maintaining security while encouraging social and capital development.
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Afghanistan - Members of the Afghan national army 207th Corps of Camp Zafar, assisted by the International Security Assistance Force Spanish Operational Mentor Liaison Team of Regional Command-West, delivered food and supplies, Feb. 19
For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see, send to Kedar and give deep thought to it, and see if there has ever been such a thing.
And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man.
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you, in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.
Let the desert and its camps raise a tune, calling the Kedar nomads to join in. Let the villagers in Sela round up a choir and perform from the tops of the mountains.
And yes, a great roundup of flocks from the nomads in Kedar and Nebaioth, Welcome gifts for worship at my altar as I bathe my glorious Temple in splendor.
And in the heart of it were the forms of four living beings. And this was what they were like; they had the form of a man.
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
Arabia and all the rulers of Kedar did business with you, in lambs and sheep and goats, in these they did business with you.
Let the desert and its camps raise a tune, calling the Kedar nomads to join in. Let the villagers in Sela round up a choir and perform from the tops of the mountains.
And yes, a great roundup of flocks from the nomads in Kedar and Nebaioth, Welcome gifts for worship at my altar as I bathe my glorious Temple in splendor.
How can any one talking about being a Turk anyway?
When the mongols came there where no such thing as a Turk. There were no Turkey or no one had even heard about the word Turkey. And after the introduction of Georgian, Circassian, Armenian, Greek, Bulgarian and you name it.. women into the harems of the Turkish nobles it´s very clear that the claim that the Turk is the dominant in Turkey is false and fiction!
So much for your Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code insulting peoples intelligence! Shuffle it up somewhere so far up you burp it out!
Talaat Pasha, Minister of the Interior in the Young Turk government was not a descendants of the Mongols..He was in fact from the mountain regions of Thrace -Bulgaria!
A Mongol?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MustafaKemalAtaturk.jpg
So much for your Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code insulting peoples intelligence! Shuffle it up somewhere so far up you burp it out!
Talaat Pasha, Minister of the Interior in the Young Turk government was not a descendants of the Mongols..He was in fact from the mountain regions of Thrace -Bulgaria!
A Mongol?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MustafaKemalAtaturk.jpg
Yeah?
So how was it then? It sure wasn´t PKK that was responsible for bombings in Istanbul, yet there have been no clear statements or information which are! As if it´s not in the interests of people in this world to know if it was the Russian puppets-Iranian supported Ansar al-Islam, al- Qaida or Turkey´s own mass murderers fascists! We recognise genocidal war-fares and crimes when we see them. Turkey maybe can manipulate it´s own people and the western media backing it up, but do not for one second believe every people in this world are as easy to manipulate. Some shall be very sure of that they have eyes on them and do not for one second believe you can keep spreading your "green belts", collective suicide, genocidal war fares, and use religion as a tool to spread a dictatorship whether it´s Russian, Iranian, the U.S., Arabs or others with their $££$%¤## weapon affairs! The times when people laid back and died for some psychopathic manipulations in a few psychopaths own interests are over! Psychopaths, oppressors, and others that do not give a damn about others or even their own people where a few use their own people as personal slaves for their own agendas and "political careers", or even are part of responsibility for genocides and genocidal war fares shall be very aware of that they will find another kind of resistance so do not think for one second some are going to spread their state terror, oppression and genocides at people all over this planets expense!
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Islamic law does not mean taking the law into own hands..
MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters and Pakistani officials have agreed to a "permanent ceasefire" in the northwestern Swat valley, a senior government official said on Saturday. " Maulana Fazlullah, also known as Mullah Radio because he uses illegal FM radio to spread his message, was expected to announce the ceasefire later. "They have made a commitment that they will observe a permanent ceasefire and we'll do the same," Syed Mohammad Javed, the Commissioner of Malakand, told reporters after meeting with elders in Swat.
Around 1,200 people have been killed and between 250,000 and 500,000 people have fled the valley which lies within the Malakand division of North West Frontier Province. Western governments, and many Pakistanis, have been alarmed by the government's offer to reinstate Islamic sharia law in Malakand if the Taliban agreed to peace. They fear that a ceasefire could result in another sanctuary in Pakistan where al Qaeda and Taliban militants could move freely.
Last Sunday, Islamist militants called a 10-day ceasefire in the valley as a "goodwill gesture" toward the peace talks. Javed said efforts were being made to allow girls' schools to reopen. Militants had torched around 200 girls' schools in Swat in a campaign against female education. Boys' schools will reopen on Monday. The ceasefire announcement came a day after Fazlullah met his father-in-law, Maulana Sufi Mohammad, a radical cleric freed by the government to negotiate peace. The deal was agreed in principle on Monday by the government for NWFP and Sufi Mohammad, who then carried back the proposals to Fazlullah. Spokesman Muslim Khan told Reuters that Fazlullah would make an announcement on the radio shortly. "I can't say what he would say but there would be good news for people of Swat," Khan said.
Richard Holbrooke, special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, expressed unease over developments in Swat on Thursday and said he had been told by President Asif Ali Zardari that the pact being negotiated with the Islamists was an "interim arrangement" to stabilize the Swat region. Zardari will not sign off on the re-introduction of Islamic law in Malakand unless peace is assured, according to officials. Holbrooke visited Pakistan last week on his first tour of the region since being appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. Pakistani officials said U.S. officials had urged Pakistan to exert more force in Swat, rather than negotiate. But the army is fighting Taliban insurgencies elsewhere in the northwest, notably the tribal regions of Bajaur and Mohmand, and wants to be supplied with counter-insurgency equipment. Former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who survived at least two assassination attempts by Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers in late 2007, said any agreement would be fragile. "For the time being, Fazlullah might bow to what his father-in-law and teacher says, but later he could sabotage everything by making any excuse," Sherpao said.
By Junaid Khan Junaid Khan, Additional reporting by Kamran Haider; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; editing by Robert Woodward
Around 1,200 people have been killed and between 250,000 and 500,000 people have fled the valley which lies within the Malakand division of North West Frontier Province. Western governments, and many Pakistanis, have been alarmed by the government's offer to reinstate Islamic sharia law in Malakand if the Taliban agreed to peace. They fear that a ceasefire could result in another sanctuary in Pakistan where al Qaeda and Taliban militants could move freely.
Last Sunday, Islamist militants called a 10-day ceasefire in the valley as a "goodwill gesture" toward the peace talks. Javed said efforts were being made to allow girls' schools to reopen. Militants had torched around 200 girls' schools in Swat in a campaign against female education. Boys' schools will reopen on Monday. The ceasefire announcement came a day after Fazlullah met his father-in-law, Maulana Sufi Mohammad, a radical cleric freed by the government to negotiate peace. The deal was agreed in principle on Monday by the government for NWFP and Sufi Mohammad, who then carried back the proposals to Fazlullah. Spokesman Muslim Khan told Reuters that Fazlullah would make an announcement on the radio shortly. "I can't say what he would say but there would be good news for people of Swat," Khan said.
Richard Holbrooke, special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, expressed unease over developments in Swat on Thursday and said he had been told by President Asif Ali Zardari that the pact being negotiated with the Islamists was an "interim arrangement" to stabilize the Swat region. Zardari will not sign off on the re-introduction of Islamic law in Malakand unless peace is assured, according to officials. Holbrooke visited Pakistan last week on his first tour of the region since being appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama. Pakistani officials said U.S. officials had urged Pakistan to exert more force in Swat, rather than negotiate. But the army is fighting Taliban insurgencies elsewhere in the northwest, notably the tribal regions of Bajaur and Mohmand, and wants to be supplied with counter-insurgency equipment. Former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who survived at least two assassination attempts by Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers in late 2007, said any agreement would be fragile. "For the time being, Fazlullah might bow to what his father-in-law and teacher says, but later he could sabotage everything by making any excuse," Sherpao said.
By Junaid Khan Junaid Khan, Additional reporting by Kamran Haider; Writing by Simon Cameron-Moore; editing by Robert Woodward
Constitution is base of Kurdish coalition with any list in Ninevah: says MP
A Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi national assembly says the Kurdish list in Ninevah will work with Sunni Arabs if they respect Kurdish constitutional rights. Kurdish brotherhood list in the ethnically mixed province have won the second position in last month’s provincial election, controlling 12 of the 37 seats on the provinces council. The first list in the province was the nationalist group of Hadba, led by Osmam al Nujefi. Legislator Muhsin al-Saadoun said in a statement to the reporters that the key point of tension is disputed territory in the northern Ninevah province claimed by both Kurds and Arabs. “We will ally with any group who respects the principles of constitution” he said. The Kurdish official's statement Saturday comes almost two weeks after a Sunni Arab politician whose list won 19 seats in Ninevah called for talks with the Kurds to pave the way for cooperation.
Iraqi Kurdish politician wants rights protected
BAGHDAD – A Kurdish politician whose list won nearly a third of the vote in the northern province in last month's local elections said Saturday that his group will cooperate with Sunni Arab if they respect Kurdish territorial rights. They are pushing Iraq's Arab-dominated central government to hold a constitutionally mandated referendum that would let people in these disputed territories decide if they want to join the Kurdish-ruled area. The constitution contained a 2007 deadline for the vote, but it has yet to take place — fueling growing tension between Baghdad and the Kurds. Muhsin al-Saadoun, whose Ninevah Brotherhood list won 12 of 37 seats on the provincial council in Jan. 31 elections, said Sunni Arabs must "respect the Iraqi constitution and the feelings and will of the Kurds."
An American soldier died Saturday while conducting a combat patrol near Baghdad, the U.S. military said. A bomb attached to a car in Tikrit killed a policeman Saturday, said a police official. In Diwaniyah, a city south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a policeman in a drive-by shooting, said another police official. Also Saturday, a roadside bomb in Baghdad wounded a local commander of Sawah.
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, AP, KurdsatTv
Iraqi Kurdish politician wants rights protected
BAGHDAD – A Kurdish politician whose list won nearly a third of the vote in the northern province in last month's local elections said Saturday that his group will cooperate with Sunni Arab if they respect Kurdish territorial rights. They are pushing Iraq's Arab-dominated central government to hold a constitutionally mandated referendum that would let people in these disputed territories decide if they want to join the Kurdish-ruled area. The constitution contained a 2007 deadline for the vote, but it has yet to take place — fueling growing tension between Baghdad and the Kurds. Muhsin al-Saadoun, whose Ninevah Brotherhood list won 12 of 37 seats on the provincial council in Jan. 31 elections, said Sunni Arabs must "respect the Iraqi constitution and the feelings and will of the Kurds."
An American soldier died Saturday while conducting a combat patrol near Baghdad, the U.S. military said. A bomb attached to a car in Tikrit killed a policeman Saturday, said a police official. In Diwaniyah, a city south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a policeman in a drive-by shooting, said another police official. Also Saturday, a roadside bomb in Baghdad wounded a local commander of Sawah.
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, AP, KurdsatTv
'Contra-Guerilla' Nightmare in Bingol 2004 - They are walking around like vagrant landmines
SERDAR ALTANBINGOL (DIHA) - The contra-guerilla whcih came into the spotlight after the raid on Selahattin Oge's home in Bingol continues to worry the villagers of the region. Nazife Atan after Selahattin Oge also asked for support from Human Rights Association (HRA) Bingol Office stating that people wearing guerrilla like clothes raided her home. Selahattin Oge's home in Karliova-Bingol, Yorgancayir village, was attempted to be raided by people calling themselves guerrilla on 13April, with the family responding with fire the people left their village.
Oge was abducted before by "JITEM (Gendarme IntelligenceCentre) members", and tortured, he was left at an empty area thought to be dead. With the last raid Selahattin Oge applied to HRA for support. It was revealed that on the same day as the attempted raid on Oge'shome Nazife Atan's home was also forcibly raided. Nazife Atan living alone with her 3 children indicated that on late 13 April people wearing guerilla type clothing forcibly entered her home. Atan stated that her life was in danger and applied to HRA Bingol Office on 28April asking for help.
"They Threatened to Throw Bombs"
"At night they hit my window. When I opened the door there were 2-3 people in front of the window and 4-5 people sitting on the stairs. They asked me to open the door, however due to no men in home I said I could not open the door. Following this they said that if I didn't open the door they will throw a bomb in my home. When I opened the door 4 people entered, the others stayed outside. They had guerilla clothing. They asked me, my children, they asked for the address of my son in Europe. After ate the food I gave they left."
'If something happens to my family the state is responsible'. Shortly after they left the home she heard gun fire sound, stating the following: "After hearing gunfire we wondered what had happened. The villagers said that the people who came to my home fired on Selahattin Oge's home. People fired from the village and one person was wounded. After the villagers responded they distanced themselves. Shortly after, our home was surrounded by soldiers. Towards morning our village was full of soldiers. They searched the entire village. They searched our home as well. They also beat village chief Ahmet Inan and Musa Ozden, and the son of Selahattin, Hamdullah Oge. The soldiers stayed in the village till night time.
The villagers said that the people who came last night were special units and soldiers. We have no life security. If something happens to our children the state is responsible."HRA: They are walking around like vagrant landmines. With Atan's application HRA (Human Rights Association) Office emphasized that before this incident 2 other people from the same village also applied, stating that, "The villagers are applying to us, stating that they fear for their lives. When we look at the incident the people in that region are seriously in a big threat. This case is evident with the latest incident. If we do not intervene as an association Selahattin Oge may have been killed.
Not just Oge but all the villagers are in danger. Because a group whos eidentities are not known is walking around like vagrant landmines and no one is intervening."'The prosecutors are insensitive to the issue 'Kizgin drew attention to 5 people being killed last year in Pulvillage including the village chief of Dosekkaya, and stated the following: "Last year we insistently emphasized that in the Bingol region there were a group practicing contra-guerilla activities and that precaution needed to be taken. However, the state did not do anything and as a result the deaths in Dosekkaya and Pul village occurred. Despite this no undertaking was done and now the danger inKarliova came to case. The people's life is in dangers. If these are not prevented there could be great difficulties. Also a Republic Prosecutor who investigates any allegation does not do anything about this is thought provoking."
Oge was abducted before by "JITEM (Gendarme IntelligenceCentre) members", and tortured, he was left at an empty area thought to be dead. With the last raid Selahattin Oge applied to HRA for support. It was revealed that on the same day as the attempted raid on Oge'shome Nazife Atan's home was also forcibly raided. Nazife Atan living alone with her 3 children indicated that on late 13 April people wearing guerilla type clothing forcibly entered her home. Atan stated that her life was in danger and applied to HRA Bingol Office on 28April asking for help.
"They Threatened to Throw Bombs"
"At night they hit my window. When I opened the door there were 2-3 people in front of the window and 4-5 people sitting on the stairs. They asked me to open the door, however due to no men in home I said I could not open the door. Following this they said that if I didn't open the door they will throw a bomb in my home. When I opened the door 4 people entered, the others stayed outside. They had guerilla clothing. They asked me, my children, they asked for the address of my son in Europe. After ate the food I gave they left."
'If something happens to my family the state is responsible'. Shortly after they left the home she heard gun fire sound, stating the following: "After hearing gunfire we wondered what had happened. The villagers said that the people who came to my home fired on Selahattin Oge's home. People fired from the village and one person was wounded. After the villagers responded they distanced themselves. Shortly after, our home was surrounded by soldiers. Towards morning our village was full of soldiers. They searched the entire village. They searched our home as well. They also beat village chief Ahmet Inan and Musa Ozden, and the son of Selahattin, Hamdullah Oge. The soldiers stayed in the village till night time.
The villagers said that the people who came last night were special units and soldiers. We have no life security. If something happens to our children the state is responsible."HRA: They are walking around like vagrant landmines. With Atan's application HRA (Human Rights Association) Office emphasized that before this incident 2 other people from the same village also applied, stating that, "The villagers are applying to us, stating that they fear for their lives. When we look at the incident the people in that region are seriously in a big threat. This case is evident with the latest incident. If we do not intervene as an association Selahattin Oge may have been killed.
Not just Oge but all the villagers are in danger. Because a group whos eidentities are not known is walking around like vagrant landmines and no one is intervening."'The prosecutors are insensitive to the issue 'Kizgin drew attention to 5 people being killed last year in Pulvillage including the village chief of Dosekkaya, and stated the following: "Last year we insistently emphasized that in the Bingol region there were a group practicing contra-guerilla activities and that precaution needed to be taken. However, the state did not do anything and as a result the deaths in Dosekkaya and Pul village occurred. Despite this no undertaking was done and now the danger inKarliova came to case. The people's life is in dangers. If these are not prevented there could be great difficulties. Also a Republic Prosecutor who investigates any allegation does not do anything about this is thought provoking."
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