According to Amnesty International four Kurdish are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment in Syria. Hassan Saleh, Muhammad Ahmed Mustafa and Ma’rouf Mulla Ahmed - all senior members of the Syrian Kurdish Yeketi Party in Syria - and Anwer Naso, also a member of the Yeketi Party, were arrested on 26 December by members of Political Security, one of Syria’s security agencies. Amnesty International believes that the four activists are likely to be prisoners of conscience, detained solely for peacefully expressing their political opinions regarding issues relating to Kurds in Syria. It therefore urges people to sent appeals to Syrian officials before 9 March in Arabic, English, French or other languages to release the Kurdish activists
HRW World Report 2010: Syria
Syria’s poor human rights situation deteriorated further in 2009, as the authorities arrested political and human rights activists, censored websites, detained bloggers, and imposed travel bans. No political parties are licensed. Emergency rule, imposed in 1963, remains in effect and Syria’s multiple security agencies continue to detain people without arrest warrants. The Supreme State Security Court (SSSC), an exceptional court with almost no procedural guarantees, resumed trials in March 2009, following an eight-month suspension.
Syria’s repressive policies toward its Kurdish minority continue. Security agencies prevented political and cultural gatherings, and regularly detain and try Kurdish activists demanding increased political rights and recognition of Kurdish culture.
Arrest and Trial of Political ActivistsThe SSSC sentenced over 45 people in 2009 on various grounds, including membership in the banned Muslim Brotherhood, Kurdish activism, membership in political groups, and independent criticism of the government. On February 4, political security detained two members of the Communist Party for collecting signatures opposing a government decree that imposes new restrictions on real estate transactions in border areas. Three months later, on May 21, political security detained five members of the Communist Work Party during a gathering at a member’s house. At this writing, all remain in detention.
On March 15 a Damascus criminal court sentenced writer and political analyst Habib Saleh to three years in jail for “spreading false information” and “weakening national sentiment” for writing articles criticizing the government and defending opposition figure Riad al-Turk.
12 leaders of the Damascus Declaration, a prominent gathering of opposition groups, continue to serve 30-month prison terms imposed in October 2008 after attending a political meeting. Among those detained is Riad Seif, 62, a former member of parliament who is in poor health. A Damascus criminal court tried Walid al-Bunni, another of the 12, for voicing criticism of the government while in prison, but acquitted him of the new charge on June 17.
In March 2009 the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention deemed arbitrary the imprisonment of Kamal al-Labwani, a physician and founder of the Democratic Liberal Gathering, who is serving a 15-year sentence for advocating peaceful reform.
Authorities released prominent writer Michel Kilo and political activist Mahmud `Issa, in May and June respectively, after the two finished serving three-year sentences for signing a petition calling for Syrian-Lebanese relations to be based on mutual respect for sovereignty.
Freedom of Expression and Civil Society Activism
Syria has no independent press. The government has extended to online outlets restrictions it imposes on other media. Internet censorship of political websites is pervasive and extends to popular websites such as Blogger (Google’s blogging engine), Facebook, and YouTube. On September 13 the SSSC sentenced blogger Karim `Arbaji to three years in prison on the charge of “spreading false information that can weaken national sentiment” for moderating a popular online youth forum, akhawia.net, that contained criticisms of the government. Also on September 13, security forces shut down the office of Mazen Darwish, president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), without providing any explanation or legal order.In April a military prosecutor charged human rights lawyer Khalil Ma`touk with “insulting the president and public administrations” and “inciting sectarian conflict” after Ma`touk called for prosecuting security officials suspected of killing his nephew in October 2008 while reportedly pursuing smugglers. Ma`touk’s trial is ongoing at this writing.
On July 28, 2009, State Security detained Muhannad al-Hasani, president of the Syrian Human Rights Organization (Swasiah), and two days later an investigating judge charged him with “weakening national sentiment” and “spreading false or exaggerated information” in connection with his monitoring of the SSSC. His trial is ongoing. On November 10 the Syrian Bar Association issued a decision to permanently disbar him.
On October 14, State Security detained Haytham al-Maleh, 78, a prominent human rights lawyer, following his appearance on an opposition television station in which he criticized the ongoing repression of freedom of expression in Syria. On November 3 a military judge charged him with “spreading false or exaggerated information that can weaken national sentiment.” His trial is ongoing.
The government continues to prevent activists from traveling abroad, and in some cases, their families. Among the human rights activists whom security services prevented from traveling in 2009 are Musa Shanani, a lawyer, Abdel Karim Rehaoui, president of the Syrian Human Rights League, Abdel Rahim Ghamaza, a lawyer with the National Organization for Human Rights, and Najib Dadam, board member of the Human Rights Association of Syria. The SCM issued a report in February listing 417 political and human rights activists banned from traveling.
All Syrian human rights groups remain unlicensed, as officials consistently deny their requests for registration. The National Organization for Human Rights has challenged before an administrative court the decision of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to deny its registration request. The ministry responded by calling for the organization’s members to be prosecuted.Arbitrary Detention, Enforced Disappearances, and TortureSyria’s multiple security services continue to detain people without arrest warrants and frequently refuse to disclose their whereabouts for weeks and sometimes months-in effect forcibly disappearing them.
The fate of at least 10 men detained in August 2008 from the region of Deir al-Zawr because of suspected ties to Islamists remains unknown. The authorities have also kept silent about the fate of at least eight Kurds detained since September 2008 on suspicion of ties to a separatist Kurdish movement.
As in previous years, the government failed to acknowledge security force involvement in the “disappearance” of an estimated 17,000 persons, mostly Muslim Brotherhood members and other Syrian activists detained by the government in the late 1970s and early 1980s, as well as hundreds of Lebanese and Palestinians detained in Syria or abducted from Lebanon. The vast majority remains unaccounted for and many are believed to have been killed.
More than one year after security forces opened fire on rioting inmates in Sednaya prison, killing at least nine, the government has not disclosed any information about the casualties. The authorities have not released Nizar Rastanawi, a prominent human rights activist who was scheduled to complete a four-year sentence in Sednaya on April 18, 2009, and there is no information about his well-being or whereabouts.Human Rights Watch received numerous reports of ill-treatment and torture by security agencies.
On January 10, 2009, the security services returned the body of Muhammad Amin al-Shawa, 43, who had been detained in August 2008, to his family. According to Syrian human rights groups, he died under torture. Ten Kurdish activists told Human Rights Watch that agents of security agencies tortured them in 2009.
Discrimination and Repression against Kurds
Kurds, Syria’s largest non-Arab ethnic minority, remain subject to systematic discrimination, including the arbitrary denial of citizenship to an estimated 300,000 Syria-born Kurds. Authorities suppress expressions of Kurdish identity, and prohibit the teaching of Kurdish in schools. On February 28, 2009, security forces violently dispersed Kurds who had gathered to protest the decree restricting real estate transactions in border areas, and subsequently detained 21 demonstrators.
In March police stopped a musical event organized by a Kurdish political party in Qamishli, and security forces broke up gatherings celebrating the Kurdish New Year in Qamishli and Derbassiyeh. Security forces detained at least nine prominent Kurdish political leaders in 2009, including, on January 10, Mustapha Jum`a, acting general secretary of the Azadi Party.
On April 14 a military court sentenced two Yekiti party leaders, Fuad `Aliko and Hasan Saleh, to 8 and 13 months in prison respectively for membership in an unlicensed political organization. On May 11 a criminal court sentenced Mesh`al Tammo, spokesperson for the Kurdish Future Movement in Syria, to three-and-a-half years in prison for “weakening national sentiments” and “broadcasting false information.” On October 20 a criminal court sentenced Ibrahim Berro, a Yekiti party leader, to eight months in prison for membership in an unlicensed political organization.
Women’s and Girls’ Rights
Syria’s constitution guarantees gender equality, and many women are active in public life, but personal status laws as well as the penal code contain provisions that discriminate against women and girls. On June 5 the Syrian media revealed that the Ministry of Justice had submitted a new draft personal status law that still kept discriminatory clauses against women intact, such as denying women married to non-Syrians the right to pass on their nationality to their husbands and children, and requiring women to receive male permission to travel abroad and to work outside the home. After numerous protests from Syrian women’s rights groups, President Bashar al-Asad cancelled the draft law in July.On July 1 President al-Asad amended the Penal Code to require a minimum two-year sentence for so-called “honor” crimes. While the number of honor crimes is unknown, the Syrian Women’s Observatory, an unlicensed group, documented at least 12 in 2009, including the killing in August of an 18-year-old by her father because a neighbor had tried to rape her.
Situation of Refugees Fleeing Iraq
Syria hosts more Iraqi refugees than any other country. Resurgent violence in Iraq caused Iraqis to continue to arrive in Syria: During the first six months of 2009 the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees officially registered 19,000 new Iraqi refugees, bringing the total number of registered Iraqi refugees to 210,000. This represents only a portion of the Iraqis in Syria, the actual number being an estimated 1-1.5 million. Syria gives Iraqi refugees, registered or not, access to public hospitals and schools, but prohibits them from working. While Syria has generally maintained its doors open to Iraqi refugees, it has implemented since 2007 more restrictive entry requirements. Syria has forcibly returned to Iraq some Iraqi refugees whom Syria accused of committing criminal acts or working illegally.
Syria continues to refuse entry to Palestinians fleeing Iraq. At this writing, at least 2,700 remain at makeshift camps in the no-man’s-land between Iraqi and Syrian border checkpoints. Chile and Sweden have accepted to resettle some of these refugees.
Key International Actors
Syria’s diplomatic isolation eroded further in 2009, with at least nine high-level foreign officials visiting Damascus, including German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and United States envoy George Mitchell. The renewed ties have had little impact on Syria’s human rights record, however. During 2009 the European Parliament issued public statements expressing concern over the human rights situation in Syria, but this did not impede progress toward signing an Association Agreement, a process that had been frozen following the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005.
January 20, 2010ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-897-5HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH WORLD REPORT 2010/ EVENTS OF 2009/ Syria© Human Rights Watch
Friday, January 29, 2010
"The Mentality Has Not Changed"
Not a bit! It´s the same as in 1916! It´s the same "rebel problems" both Turkey and others with their weapon industry refuse to solve even if there is every opportunity to it and with the same psychopathic manipulations that characterize serial killers and mass murderers takes Iraqis and U.S. troops with them at the same time, or who or which ever happens to live in the way, at any cost!
Those being involved in theses crimes are REAL psychon and a danger to people in both this region and the world and should have been locked in a LONG time ago!
Those being involved in theses crimes are REAL psychon and a danger to people in both this region and the world and should have been locked in a LONG time ago!
Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoğlu: "Turkey is not coming from a 30-year war.”
Well..No...it´s actually a whole lot of more years than that..We maybe should take a look at Turkey´s "history"! Turkey speaks to people on the U.S. terrorists lists in Damascus, supporting policies to include moderate factions of the Taliban in the reconciliation process, but refuses to acknowledge it´s own Kurdish populations rights, but is jailing politicians and mediators under the pretext they have links with those they are to mediate with. And not only refuse to come to solutions when there are every opportunity and conditions for it, but is VERY busy with politicides, violations, jailing, massacres, and bombings with "Assad´s legitimization's", DESPITE the destabilization affect on Iraq and people coming in and attack Iraqis at the same time from Syria!
It tells us a WHOLE LOT of the status of the Turkish mentality!
So while Turkey has "concerns" for Turkmen after the instigated genocidal "war-fare" where people have came in and attacked Iraqis
We would very much like to hear people in Turkey explain to us WHY the hell Kurds in Turkey or anywhere else would support a "initiative" from jail and prefer to be in the chains of Turkey since Dersim, rather than MIND THEIR OWN "#¤# BUSINESS WITH THE RIGHTS AS EVERY ONE ELSE HAVE ON THIS PLANET!
Yaman stated that executives of the recently closed pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and of BDP were taken into custody together with about 20 Kurdish artists and intellectuals in the scope of so-called "KCK" operations. KCK (Koma Civaken Kurdistan) is the Union of Kurdistan Societies.
Yeah..Because KCK, DTP and every one else were to mediate to come to solutions and peace, AT THE SAME TIME Erdogan urges Israel with their lobbyists in the U.S. to start peace negotiations with Syria, AT THE SAME TIME people have came in and massacred Iraqis in masses SIMULTANEOUSLY with Turkey´s and the regime in Iran´s bombings! The so called leaders in Turkey have used every effort for mediation's and solutions to label the whole Kurdish people as criminals and commit the same #%# crimes against humanity under the pretext of a "initiative" as they have done since 1916 and their and Britain's and every ones else "rebel problems" the same ¤%¤ year!
So now...WE DO wonder WHY the hell the Kurdish people would prefer violations, jail, massacres and directors of weapon companies in a genocidal "war-fare" on the stock market, than minding their own #¤%¤ business with their rights to life and every #¤# other rights as ANY ONES ELSE?
Barzani urges Turkey’s Kurds to support gov’t "initiative"
Yeah..Some must be joking? With "rebel concerns", PKK concerns", KCK, DTP, "BDP and children concerns", the whole "Kurdish people concerns", pipe line "concerns", Dam concerns", Kirkuk concerns", Turkmen "concerns" and every other #¤# "concern" expert for it´s workers that are dying in in Tuzla shipyards!
'Azeri-Kurdish conflict is planned'
Well..Yeah..with pipe line and dam "concerns", Hasankeyf concerns, "Turkmen concerns" and every other #¤# "concern", it´s just a big "remodeling" all over the region and a cleaning just like when Turkey "cleaned" out the Armenians! The rest is just #¤# bullshit talk, while Turkey arrests Kurdish students after they have been attacked and Richard Holbrooke and his global "East Timor" made plans in Kurdish refugee camps, while some have earned in some cash on weapon sells.
While Turkey have not only "concerns" and "problems" but has refused to solve them when there are conditions and every opportunity and possibility to come to solutions, at the same time Iraqis have been attacked in masses and Israeli leaders have been busy with everything else but negotiations!
Explosion in Tuzla shipyards: 4 workers injured 2 severe.
Iran's army is bombing Kandil- Iran army bombed the Kandil region this morning The Turkish army bombed areas in the Zap'ın region. HPG Press Contact Center said: On January '28 daytime between 12:00-12:30 hours attacks have been made in the media Zap'ın Defense Field.
4 people arrested in Hakkari
6 people were arrested. while protesting DTP's closure
6 people were arrested in Aydın
Second child found dead in Bingöl
House raids in Siirt: 12 detained
Police raid the building Tutak County, 5 BDP´s detained
House raids in Bitlis, 17 detained
In Diyarbakir's Kulp County ferrous (Temıra), in the rural areas in Hamlet Birazeyna, soldiers and "special operations teams" launched an "operation".
42 contractors were arrested in Diyarbakir with accusations of "Corruption in public tenders"
We ALL know what Turkey can do with it´s "problems" Turkish leaders refuse to solve, at the same time Iraqis have been attacked that amounts to another genocide! It´s very #¤# obvious Turkish leaders just as the Syrian and Iranian regimes and Israeli leaders and their #¤%¤ lobbyists do not give a damn about Iraqis, "initiatives", human rights, Palestinians or their "allies" troops in Iraq which have been targeted as well, while having troops in Afghanistan, or anything else than building their ¤%¤ houses, and killing Kurds, torture Kurds, jailing Kurds, hanging Kurds, may it be with Iraqis getting massacred in another genocide at the same time!
WHO the hell needs these people? Iraq have had it´s oil trough the Gulf all the time and so can the Kurds have! WHAT´S YOURS #¤%¤ "PROBLEMS" OTHER THAN ETHNICALLY CLEANING THIS REGION?
Yaman stated that executives of the recently closed pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and of BDP were taken into custody together with about 20 Kurdish artists and intellectuals in the scope of so-called "KCK" operations. KCK (Koma Civaken Kurdistan) is the Union of Kurdistan Societies.
Yeah..Because KCK, DTP and every one else were to mediate to come to solutions and peace, AT THE SAME TIME Erdogan urges Israel with their lobbyists in the U.S. to start peace negotiations with Syria, AT THE SAME TIME people have came in and massacred Iraqis in masses SIMULTANEOUSLY with Turkey´s and the regime in Iran´s bombings! The so called leaders in Turkey have used every effort for mediation's and solutions to label the whole Kurdish people as criminals and commit the same #%# crimes against humanity under the pretext of a "initiative" as they have done since 1916 and their and Britain's and every ones else "rebel problems" the same ¤%¤ year!
So now...WE DO wonder WHY the hell the Kurdish people would prefer violations, jail, massacres and directors of weapon companies in a genocidal "war-fare" on the stock market, than minding their own #¤%¤ business with their rights to life and every #¤# other rights as ANY ONES ELSE?
Barzani urges Turkey’s Kurds to support gov’t "initiative"
Yeah..Some must be joking? With "rebel concerns", PKK concerns", KCK, DTP, "BDP and children concerns", the whole "Kurdish people concerns", pipe line "concerns", Dam concerns", Kirkuk concerns", Turkmen "concerns" and every other #¤# "concern" expert for it´s workers that are dying in in Tuzla shipyards!
'Azeri-Kurdish conflict is planned'
Well..Yeah..with pipe line and dam "concerns", Hasankeyf concerns, "Turkmen concerns" and every other #¤# "concern", it´s just a big "remodeling" all over the region and a cleaning just like when Turkey "cleaned" out the Armenians! The rest is just #¤# bullshit talk, while Turkey arrests Kurdish students after they have been attacked and Richard Holbrooke and his global "East Timor" made plans in Kurdish refugee camps, while some have earned in some cash on weapon sells.
While Turkey have not only "concerns" and "problems" but has refused to solve them when there are conditions and every opportunity and possibility to come to solutions, at the same time Iraqis have been attacked in masses and Israeli leaders have been busy with everything else but negotiations!
Explosion in Tuzla shipyards: 4 workers injured 2 severe.
Iran's army is bombing Kandil- Iran army bombed the Kandil region this morning The Turkish army bombed areas in the Zap'ın region. HPG Press Contact Center said: On January '28 daytime between 12:00-12:30 hours attacks have been made in the media Zap'ın Defense Field.
4 people arrested in Hakkari
6 people were arrested. while protesting DTP's closure
6 people were arrested in Aydın
Second child found dead in Bingöl
House raids in Siirt: 12 detained
Police raid the building Tutak County, 5 BDP´s detained
House raids in Bitlis, 17 detained
In Diyarbakir's Kulp County ferrous (Temıra), in the rural areas in Hamlet Birazeyna, soldiers and "special operations teams" launched an "operation".
42 contractors were arrested in Diyarbakir with accusations of "Corruption in public tenders"
We ALL know what Turkey can do with it´s "problems" Turkish leaders refuse to solve, at the same time Iraqis have been attacked that amounts to another genocide! It´s very #¤# obvious Turkish leaders just as the Syrian and Iranian regimes and Israeli leaders and their #¤%¤ lobbyists do not give a damn about Iraqis, "initiatives", human rights, Palestinians or their "allies" troops in Iraq which have been targeted as well, while having troops in Afghanistan, or anything else than building their ¤%¤ houses, and killing Kurds, torture Kurds, jailing Kurds, hanging Kurds, may it be with Iraqis getting massacred in another genocide at the same time!
WHO the hell needs these people? Iraq have had it´s oil trough the Gulf all the time and so can the Kurds have! WHAT´S YOURS #¤%¤ "PROBLEMS" OTHER THAN ETHNICALLY CLEANING THIS REGION?
Barzani urges Turkey’s Kurds to support gov’t "initiative"
Then the question is just HOW? From jail? For protesting against violations refusals to come to solutions, massacres where Turkey has actually done everything possible to spoil any "initiatives"! Some must take people in this world for COMPLETELY IDIOTS, while behaving like COMPLETELY CRIMINAL IDIOTS THEMSELVES!
28 Jan 2010 - A Turkish high criminal court has sentenced an adolescent Kurdish girl to nearly eight years in prison on charges of hurling stones at police officers and chanting illegal slogans during a protest in the southeastern city of Batman. Police claimed that the 15-year-old Kurdish teenager, Berivan attended an illegal march in October and concealed her face behind a scarf. Berivan rejected the accusation saying that she was detained while going to visit her aunt, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Wednesday. “I did not hurl stones at police officers. I do not have any relation with the march. I noticed a crowd and walked towards it to see what it was. Police surrounded the crowd before I reached them. A policeman detained me because he thought I was a protester but I was not. I was just going to visit my aunt living in the central part of the city,” Berivan said.
The court had originally sentenced her to a total of 13 years in prison - seven years on charges of committing a crime on behalf of an outlawed organization, five years on charges of attending an illegal demonstration, and one year on charges of propaganda for the group. However, her sentence was commuted to seven years and nine months because she is an adolescent. After the judge announced the sentence, the girl's mother burst into tears and shouted, “Did she murder? The murderers are not sentenced to such a long prison term.”
Kurdish Politicians Arrested in One YearPeace and Democracy Group Chairman Yaman said: "The AKP government takes revenge by arresting mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections". He urged the government to stop the operations. Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Group Chairman Nuri Yaman said in the party's regular weekly general meeting that almost 800 Kurdish politicians were arrested in the course of political operations throughout the last year. Yaman reminded the latest incident when Nuri Güneş, Mayor of Iğdır (a province on the Armenian border) was arrested together with another seven people, among them members of the city council. "The Justice and Development Party (AKP) takes revenge by arresting the mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections", Yaman argued.
Yaman stated that executives of the recently closed pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and of BDP were taken into custody together with about 20 Kurdish artists and intellectuals in the scope of so-called "KCK" operations. KCK (Koma Civaken Kurdistan) is the Union of Kurdistan Societies, the umbrella organisation that includes the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Numerous cases have been filed against Kurdish artists, Yaman claimed and urged the government to stop the operations.
"The arrests of mayors are nothing else but interventions against the will of the people. They try to intimidate DTP Chairman Osman Baydemir of the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality with notifications and threats. Is this not the indication for a new complot?" Yaman pointed out. He criticized that what is currently experienced is nothing else but a coup attempt of AKP on behalf of the democratic initiative and the AKP government's imposing the 12 September on the Kurds, referring to the military coup in 1980. Yaman stated that the operations are carried out on the directive of Interior Minister Beşir Atalay. "The aim is to eliminate the BDP staff, the elected mayors and the people's free political will in order to make room for AKP politics", Yaman added. "The coup attempts are carried out within the scope of the AKP's democratic initiative itself"; he argued and compared the incidents with the military coup of 1980, saying that "the AKP government imposed another 12 September to the Kurds".
"This process increasingly pervades Turkey from the east to the west. While opposing the abettors of the "Balyoz" coup plans in the west, AKP should also stop the putchists in the east at the same time. This is the only way to make both banks of Euphrates get closer", Yaman stated. He called all Turkish democratic forces to strive together with intellectuals and writers.
BİA News Center
28 Jan 2010 - A Turkish high criminal court has sentenced an adolescent Kurdish girl to nearly eight years in prison on charges of hurling stones at police officers and chanting illegal slogans during a protest in the southeastern city of Batman. Police claimed that the 15-year-old Kurdish teenager, Berivan attended an illegal march in October and concealed her face behind a scarf. Berivan rejected the accusation saying that she was detained while going to visit her aunt, Hurriyet newspaper reported on Wednesday. “I did not hurl stones at police officers. I do not have any relation with the march. I noticed a crowd and walked towards it to see what it was. Police surrounded the crowd before I reached them. A policeman detained me because he thought I was a protester but I was not. I was just going to visit my aunt living in the central part of the city,” Berivan said.
The court had originally sentenced her to a total of 13 years in prison - seven years on charges of committing a crime on behalf of an outlawed organization, five years on charges of attending an illegal demonstration, and one year on charges of propaganda for the group. However, her sentence was commuted to seven years and nine months because she is an adolescent. After the judge announced the sentence, the girl's mother burst into tears and shouted, “Did she murder? The murderers are not sentenced to such a long prison term.”
Kurdish Politicians Arrested in One YearPeace and Democracy Group Chairman Yaman said: "The AKP government takes revenge by arresting mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections". He urged the government to stop the operations. Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Group Chairman Nuri Yaman said in the party's regular weekly general meeting that almost 800 Kurdish politicians were arrested in the course of political operations throughout the last year. Yaman reminded the latest incident when Nuri Güneş, Mayor of Iğdır (a province on the Armenian border) was arrested together with another seven people, among them members of the city council. "The Justice and Development Party (AKP) takes revenge by arresting the mayors of the provinces they did not win in the elections", Yaman argued.
Yaman stated that executives of the recently closed pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and of BDP were taken into custody together with about 20 Kurdish artists and intellectuals in the scope of so-called "KCK" operations. KCK (Koma Civaken Kurdistan) is the Union of Kurdistan Societies, the umbrella organisation that includes the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Numerous cases have been filed against Kurdish artists, Yaman claimed and urged the government to stop the operations.
"The arrests of mayors are nothing else but interventions against the will of the people. They try to intimidate DTP Chairman Osman Baydemir of the Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality with notifications and threats. Is this not the indication for a new complot?" Yaman pointed out. He criticized that what is currently experienced is nothing else but a coup attempt of AKP on behalf of the democratic initiative and the AKP government's imposing the 12 September on the Kurds, referring to the military coup in 1980. Yaman stated that the operations are carried out on the directive of Interior Minister Beşir Atalay. "The aim is to eliminate the BDP staff, the elected mayors and the people's free political will in order to make room for AKP politics", Yaman added. "The coup attempts are carried out within the scope of the AKP's democratic initiative itself"; he argued and compared the incidents with the military coup of 1980, saying that "the AKP government imposed another 12 September to the Kurds".
"This process increasingly pervades Turkey from the east to the west. While opposing the abettors of the "Balyoz" coup plans in the west, AKP should also stop the putchists in the east at the same time. This is the only way to make both banks of Euphrates get closer", Yaman stated. He called all Turkish democratic forces to strive together with intellectuals and writers.
BİA News Center
Well..It´s rather obvious..
Mr Olmert gave more space for Gaza fishing waters and pledged to have no more olive trees destroyed...
And after Nasrallah screamed from Lebanon, lobbyists in the U.S. lobbying for Turkey and the instigated genocidal "war-fare" carousel..With Iranians, Iraqis, Palestinians and Kurds squeezed between Israel, Syria, Turkey and the regime in Iran. And with NATO´s most armed member refusing to respond on calls for case fires and peace, speaking to people on the U.S. terrorists lists in Damascus, destroying the whole North of Iraq/South of Kurdistan, jailing every one and spreads their "problems" at the same time people have "suiciders" in masses coming into Iraq from Syria..We see very clear where we stand today..
And after Nasrallah screamed from Lebanon, lobbyists in the U.S. lobbying for Turkey and the instigated genocidal "war-fare" carousel..With Iranians, Iraqis, Palestinians and Kurds squeezed between Israel, Syria, Turkey and the regime in Iran. And with NATO´s most armed member refusing to respond on calls for case fires and peace, speaking to people on the U.S. terrorists lists in Damascus, destroying the whole North of Iraq/South of Kurdistan, jailing every one and spreads their "problems" at the same time people have "suiciders" in masses coming into Iraq from Syria..We see very clear where we stand today..
And while Israeli leaders have lobbyists in the U.S. with a whole lot of money in their pockets..and genocidal "war-fares" against the Kurdish people
Maan-Gaza – Thousands made homeless by Israel's 23-day military assault on the Gaza Strip, which ended just over a year ago, are still in tents and damaged buildings; cold weather and recent flash floods have exacerbated their plight, say aid workers and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA). Heavy rain and flooding on 25 January badly hit tented communities in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza; Al-Mughraqa, a town six km southwest of Gaza City; and Ezbet Abed-Rabbo, east of Jabaliya town in northern Gaza, said Hamas officials. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) described conditions in Al-Mughraqa as "shocking." Most of the residents there have no land of their own and live in shelters or tents with their livestock, on which they depend for their livelihoods.
Residents said many of their animals were killed in the floods and people were surviving on food distributed by Hamas. In Beit Lahiya, rain brought misery to many local residents, according to Hamas officials. "We don't sleep at all when it rains like this in winter," said Um Subhi Awaja, 33, who is pregnant and lives in a tent in Beit Lahiya with her husband and five children. "We stay up the whole night scooping water out and trying to dig a small ditch around the tent to prevent more water getting in, but it doesn't help. My children are afraid and we don't have enough blankets or clothes. It's so cold we're freezing." Um Subhi's husband is unemployed, in debt, and has six children with a second wife who lives in another tent in Beit Lahiya. "I'm not sure how we will cope. The children are always getting sick, coughing or getting a fever," she said. Um Subhi Awaja, 33, sits with her children in her family tent in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. Their house was destroyed during the Israeli offensive in Gaza in January 2009.
According to an April 2009 UNRWA and UN Development Programme assessment of the damaged caused by the Israeli assault, some 4,036 houses in Gaza were totally destroyed or beyond repair, and 11,514 partially destroyed. Those made homeless have squeezed in with relatives, rented apartments or made do in their damaged homes, aid workers said. Ahmed Harb Al-Kurd, Hamas social affairs minister, said on 27 January that Hamas has offered to pay rent of up to 3,000 US dollars a year to any Gazans who lost their homes during the war. He told IRIN that this would be until "the government finds a solution to reconstruct their houses once Israel lifts its barbaric siege, and construction materials, such as cement, are allowed to cross to Gaza." Israel has not allowed cement and building materials into Gaza since June 2007, shortly after Hamas took over in the Strip, because it says they could be seized by Hamas to fortify their military structures.
"We have seen nothing" of the 4.4 billion dollars pledged to the Palestinian Authority by more than 80 states and organizations at a donor conference in Sharm Ash-Sheikh, Egypt in March 2009, Al-Kurd said. The money was meant for the Palestinian economy as a whole and Gaza in particular. Everything agreed at that conference was merely ink on paper," he said. "The humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza is going to deteriorate if something doesn't give," Jamal Hamad, an UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, told IRIN on 27 January.
Maan-Jerusalem – Ma'an – Israeli forces injured five members of the Awad family, including a pregnant woman, when an undercover force raided their home in the Shufat Refugee Camp on Thursday night, the family said. Jamal Awad, director of the UNRWA office in the camp, said the forces entered his home on the pretext of pursuing a child fleeing the scene of crime that allegedly took place in the Pisgat Ze'ev settlement in Jerusalem. The family refused entry to the force, which they said used tear gas and batons to force their way into the home. Jamal said that he, his son Muhammad, his pregnant daughter-in-law, and relatives Ashraf and Muammar were all injured in the assault.
Gaza – Ma'an – A Palestinian fisherman was injured overnight by Israeli warships, when they opened fire on a cluster of small fishing boats of the Rafah coast before sunrise on Friday. Medical sources at Abu Yousef Najar Hospital identified the injured man as 39 year old Wael Al-Bardawil, who arrived in critical condition after sustaining gunshot wounds to the back. Al-Bardawil was transferred to the European Hospital in Khan Younis once he was stabilized, medics said. He is being kept in the intensive care unit. An Israeli military spokesman said the navy was not familiar with any such incident.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report on the Protection of Civilians for 2009, said Israeli policing of the Gaza fishing waters and the resulting reduction of areas accessible by Palestinian fishermen "has been the main factor behind the sharp decline in the fishing catch from 3,117 tonnes in 2008 to 1,850 tonnes in 2009, according to the Fishing Syndicate in Gaza."
Residents said many of their animals were killed in the floods and people were surviving on food distributed by Hamas. In Beit Lahiya, rain brought misery to many local residents, according to Hamas officials. "We don't sleep at all when it rains like this in winter," said Um Subhi Awaja, 33, who is pregnant and lives in a tent in Beit Lahiya with her husband and five children. "We stay up the whole night scooping water out and trying to dig a small ditch around the tent to prevent more water getting in, but it doesn't help. My children are afraid and we don't have enough blankets or clothes. It's so cold we're freezing." Um Subhi's husband is unemployed, in debt, and has six children with a second wife who lives in another tent in Beit Lahiya. "I'm not sure how we will cope. The children are always getting sick, coughing or getting a fever," she said. Um Subhi Awaja, 33, sits with her children in her family tent in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. Their house was destroyed during the Israeli offensive in Gaza in January 2009.
According to an April 2009 UNRWA and UN Development Programme assessment of the damaged caused by the Israeli assault, some 4,036 houses in Gaza were totally destroyed or beyond repair, and 11,514 partially destroyed. Those made homeless have squeezed in with relatives, rented apartments or made do in their damaged homes, aid workers said. Ahmed Harb Al-Kurd, Hamas social affairs minister, said on 27 January that Hamas has offered to pay rent of up to 3,000 US dollars a year to any Gazans who lost their homes during the war. He told IRIN that this would be until "the government finds a solution to reconstruct their houses once Israel lifts its barbaric siege, and construction materials, such as cement, are allowed to cross to Gaza." Israel has not allowed cement and building materials into Gaza since June 2007, shortly after Hamas took over in the Strip, because it says they could be seized by Hamas to fortify their military structures.
"We have seen nothing" of the 4.4 billion dollars pledged to the Palestinian Authority by more than 80 states and organizations at a donor conference in Sharm Ash-Sheikh, Egypt in March 2009, Al-Kurd said. The money was meant for the Palestinian economy as a whole and Gaza in particular. Everything agreed at that conference was merely ink on paper," he said. "The humanitarian situation of Palestinians in Gaza is going to deteriorate if something doesn't give," Jamal Hamad, an UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, told IRIN on 27 January.
Maan-Jerusalem – Ma'an – Israeli forces injured five members of the Awad family, including a pregnant woman, when an undercover force raided their home in the Shufat Refugee Camp on Thursday night, the family said. Jamal Awad, director of the UNRWA office in the camp, said the forces entered his home on the pretext of pursuing a child fleeing the scene of crime that allegedly took place in the Pisgat Ze'ev settlement in Jerusalem. The family refused entry to the force, which they said used tear gas and batons to force their way into the home. Jamal said that he, his son Muhammad, his pregnant daughter-in-law, and relatives Ashraf and Muammar were all injured in the assault.
Gaza – Ma'an – A Palestinian fisherman was injured overnight by Israeli warships, when they opened fire on a cluster of small fishing boats of the Rafah coast before sunrise on Friday. Medical sources at Abu Yousef Najar Hospital identified the injured man as 39 year old Wael Al-Bardawil, who arrived in critical condition after sustaining gunshot wounds to the back. Al-Bardawil was transferred to the European Hospital in Khan Younis once he was stabilized, medics said. He is being kept in the intensive care unit. An Israeli military spokesman said the navy was not familiar with any such incident.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) report on the Protection of Civilians for 2009, said Israeli policing of the Gaza fishing waters and the resulting reduction of areas accessible by Palestinian fishermen "has been the main factor behind the sharp decline in the fishing catch from 3,117 tonnes in 2008 to 1,850 tonnes in 2009, according to the Fishing Syndicate in Gaza."
So while NATO´s most armed memeber is busy with crimes against the Kurdish people, spreads their "problems" and has "concerns" in Mosul..
KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces on Tuesday arrested four al-Qaeda gunmen in central Karbala, the province’s governor said.“Security authorities, using accurate intelligence information on a possible attack by the four gunmen on Shiite visitors,” Engineer Amal al-Din al-Herr told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.“The information assert that the gunmen were planning to attack Shiite visitors during Imam al-Hussein Arbaeen,” he added.
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces on Tuesday discovered a large weapons cache during a raid in northern Wassit, according to a police commander.“On Tuesday, forces from the Quick Response Department (QRD) found a large cache north of Kut City,” Maj. Aziz al-Amara told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The cache contained 174 mortar shells of 60mm caliber, five mortars of 120mm caliber, 41 explosive belts, 17 rockets, 3kg of C4 explosives, four Austrian-made shells, etc, according to the official.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Karbala Police Commander showed the media on Tuesday arms and explosives seized by police forces.“These arms and explosives were seized in mid Dec.,” Gen. Ali Jassim al-Ghreri told the press, including Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He praised the performance of his staff who seized the materials.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Casualties from the car bomb blast that hit Baghdad’s area of al-Karada earlier today have reached 98, the Iraqi police said on Tuesday.“The toll includes 18 dead and 80 others wounded,” a police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.Earlier in the day, a police source said that a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb near the Criminal Evidence Department in Baghdad’s al-Tahariyat Square, killing two civilians and wounding 10 others, according to an initial count. A spokesperson for the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), Staff Maj. Gen. Qassem Ata, said that the majority of the casualties were personnel from the Criminal Evidence Department. On Monday (Jan. 25), three car bombs went off near Sheraton, al-Hamraa and Babel hotels in Baghdad, killing 36 persons and wounding 71 others.
IED injures 4 soldiers in Baghdad
Soldiers wounded by gunmen in western Mosul
Gunman injures cop in Baghdad
Gunmen kill mosque’s Imam in Baghdad
Forgery gangs arrested in Baghdad
Police seize explosive belts west of Anbar
Suspects detained in Mosul
People wounded by mortar shell in Kirkuk
Kirkuk blast wounds 7 policemen
Police forces seize arms cache in Ramadi
Suspects arrested on terror charges in Kirkuk
Gunmen nabbed, arms seized in Mosul
Bomb wounds civilian in Kirkuk
Gunmen kill civilian in Mosul
Mayor gunned down in Mosul
Wanted men nabbed in Basra
2 bombs defused in western Kut
Suicide bomber wounds 5 people northwest of Mosul
U.S. troops arrest national reconciliation official in Dalouiya
Former Baathists arrested in Karbala
Iranian killed, 5 Shiite visitors wounded in Baghdad
Civilians wounded by sticky bomb in Baghdad
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces on Tuesday discovered a large weapons cache during a raid in northern Wassit, according to a police commander.“On Tuesday, forces from the Quick Response Department (QRD) found a large cache north of Kut City,” Maj. Aziz al-Amara told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The cache contained 174 mortar shells of 60mm caliber, five mortars of 120mm caliber, 41 explosive belts, 17 rockets, 3kg of C4 explosives, four Austrian-made shells, etc, according to the official.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Karbala Police Commander showed the media on Tuesday arms and explosives seized by police forces.“These arms and explosives were seized in mid Dec.,” Gen. Ali Jassim al-Ghreri told the press, including Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He praised the performance of his staff who seized the materials.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Casualties from the car bomb blast that hit Baghdad’s area of al-Karada earlier today have reached 98, the Iraqi police said on Tuesday.“The toll includes 18 dead and 80 others wounded,” a police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.Earlier in the day, a police source said that a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb near the Criminal Evidence Department in Baghdad’s al-Tahariyat Square, killing two civilians and wounding 10 others, according to an initial count. A spokesperson for the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC), Staff Maj. Gen. Qassem Ata, said that the majority of the casualties were personnel from the Criminal Evidence Department. On Monday (Jan. 25), three car bombs went off near Sheraton, al-Hamraa and Babel hotels in Baghdad, killing 36 persons and wounding 71 others.
IED injures 4 soldiers in Baghdad
Soldiers wounded by gunmen in western Mosul
Gunman injures cop in Baghdad
Gunmen kill mosque’s Imam in Baghdad
Forgery gangs arrested in Baghdad
Police seize explosive belts west of Anbar
Suspects detained in Mosul
People wounded by mortar shell in Kirkuk
Kirkuk blast wounds 7 policemen
Police forces seize arms cache in Ramadi
Suspects arrested on terror charges in Kirkuk
Gunmen nabbed, arms seized in Mosul
Bomb wounds civilian in Kirkuk
Gunmen kill civilian in Mosul
Mayor gunned down in Mosul
Wanted men nabbed in Basra
2 bombs defused in western Kut
Suicide bomber wounds 5 people northwest of Mosul
U.S. troops arrest national reconciliation official in Dalouiya
Former Baathists arrested in Karbala
Iranian killed, 5 Shiite visitors wounded in Baghdad
Civilians wounded by sticky bomb in Baghdad
Well..Congratulations..
A key al-Qaida in Iraq figure involved in smuggling hundreds of suicide bombers across the border from Syria has been killed in a raid in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday. The man was identified as Saad Uwayid Obeid Mijbil al-Shammari, also known as Abu Khalaf, the military said in a statement. Abu Khalaf was killed Jan. 22 during a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in the northern city of Mosul, some 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Syrian border. He was killed after he broke free from his restraints and attacked his guard, the military said. He was believed to have been moving foreign fighters across the border since 2006, the same year a U.S. airstrike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq. The military said he also worked as a financier, gathering and distributing money and weapons to al-Qaida throughout the country.
Well..Imgaine..And there the most armed member of NATO and "one of the most experienced country in fighting terrorism" according to USAK, has been sitting in meetings in "high level Syrian cooperation's" since the genocidal "war-fare" was instigated the same time in 2006, speaking to others on the U.S. terrorist lists...and at the same time refuse to respond on calls for case fires and solutions from both PKK and the whole Kurdish people, while Turkey the regimes in Iran and Syria has been busy with crimes and massacres of Kurds. And has been busy bombing the whole North of Iraq since Abu Khalaf has been busy moving foreign fighters across the border since 2006, or since the genocidal "war-fare" was instigated with Jospeh Ralston as director on the board for Lockheed Martin "defusing tensions", directors of weapon companies and Israeli lobbyists have been busy lobbying for terrorists lists and selling weaponry at the same time.
And after having problems with PKK and refusing to respond on calls for solutions and have had a "war" against the whole Kurdish people, destroying the whole #¤# North of Iraq, the Turkish consular in Mosul city is concerned about Turkmen in Kirkuk..That would be a few that suits Turkey then, because there has not been any problems for Turkmen in Kirkuk overall. In fact..Turkey´s "problems" seems to be ended very fast as it has bombed the whole North of Iraq, cattle's and animals, the whole infrastructure, destroyed the environment, burnt down the last forests where there are no conditions of life left. And together with the regimes in Syria and Iran, jailed, killed, tortured, hanged every Kurdish politicians and every one else..ALL while Abu Khalaf has been busy moving foreign fighters across the border since 2006..
Well..Yeah..NATO´s most armed member has been very busy while the attacks and massacres against Iraqis have been done simultaneously with the regimes in Iran and Turkey´s bombings! Ever since 2006 and information about PKK on Nasdaq..
Well..Imgaine..And there the most armed member of NATO and "one of the most experienced country in fighting terrorism" according to USAK, has been sitting in meetings in "high level Syrian cooperation's" since the genocidal "war-fare" was instigated the same time in 2006, speaking to others on the U.S. terrorist lists...and at the same time refuse to respond on calls for case fires and solutions from both PKK and the whole Kurdish people, while Turkey the regimes in Iran and Syria has been busy with crimes and massacres of Kurds. And has been busy bombing the whole North of Iraq since Abu Khalaf has been busy moving foreign fighters across the border since 2006, or since the genocidal "war-fare" was instigated with Jospeh Ralston as director on the board for Lockheed Martin "defusing tensions", directors of weapon companies and Israeli lobbyists have been busy lobbying for terrorists lists and selling weaponry at the same time.
And after having problems with PKK and refusing to respond on calls for solutions and have had a "war" against the whole Kurdish people, destroying the whole #¤# North of Iraq, the Turkish consular in Mosul city is concerned about Turkmen in Kirkuk..That would be a few that suits Turkey then, because there has not been any problems for Turkmen in Kirkuk overall. In fact..Turkey´s "problems" seems to be ended very fast as it has bombed the whole North of Iraq, cattle's and animals, the whole infrastructure, destroyed the environment, burnt down the last forests where there are no conditions of life left. And together with the regimes in Syria and Iran, jailed, killed, tortured, hanged every Kurdish politicians and every one else..ALL while Abu Khalaf has been busy moving foreign fighters across the border since 2006..
Well..Yeah..NATO´s most armed member has been very busy while the attacks and massacres against Iraqis have been done simultaneously with the regimes in Iran and Turkey´s bombings! Ever since 2006 and information about PKK on Nasdaq..
US: Key al-Qaida leader killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD – A key al-Qaida in Iraq figure involved in smuggling hundreds of suicide bombers across the border from Syria has been killed in a raid in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday. The military called the death a blow to the insurgent organization in Iraq, though acknowledged it remains very much capable of carrying out well planned, coordinated assaults with large body counts. A series of attacks against three hotels and a police crime lab in Baghdad this week killed dozens. Though past claims by U.S. and Iraqi officials to have captured or killed key al-Qaida operatives have proven wrong, the U.S. military said it had confirmed the identity of the body of the operative through fingerprints and other means.
The man was identified as Saad Uwayid Obeid Mijbil al-Shammari, also known as Abu Khalaf, the military said in a statement. Abu Khalaf was killed Jan. 22 during a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in the northern city of Mosul, some 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Syrian border. He was killed after he broke free from his restraints and attacked his guard, the military said. He was believed to have been moving foreign fighters across the border since 2006, the same year a U.S. airstrike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq. The military said he also worked as a financier, gathering and distributing money and weapons to al-Qaida throughout the country.
Earlier this week, Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said intelligence indicated there were between five and 10 main insurgent leaders planning the attacks in Baghdad. Odierno also said there has been a decline in the number of foreign fighters crossing from Syria into Iraq, citing political pressure from Syria and beefed up security along the border. In an interview Thursday, Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told The Associated Press that al-Qaida has been hampered by the decreased flow of foreign fighters. "The decline in the infiltration of terrorists has weakened al-Qaida. But we think that al-Qaida and other networks linked to it are still able to carry out some operations from time to time," he said.
In a sign of government efforts to divert attention to Saddam-era atrocities, state TV broadcast a clip of beheadings allegedly carried out by Saddam's forces in 1998 against members of the militant Shiite opposition faction Dawa, which included al-Maliki as a member. The video was presented during the trial of 22 suspects accused of roles in crushing Shiite dissidents using groups such as the Fidayeen Saddam, a militia led by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Odai. Among the defendants is former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and Saddam's half-brother Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan, who served as interior minister. Aziz was in court despite reports earlier this month that he suffered a stroke. He has already been sentenced to 15 years in prison for other crimes during Saddam's rule. Al-Hassan was sentenced to death in an earlier trial. "Are you not ashamed of yourselves?" barked Chief Judge Mahmoud al-Hassan, his voice rising with emotion. "Some of the defendants have tried to close their eyes in order not to see this scene," he continued. "You, as senior officials in the former regime, do you think that those who carried out this act are related in any way to humanity or, you yourselves, related to any religion?"
The clip shows several blindfolded men being bent over a low wall as their captors brandish long, curved knives. In the next scene, a Fidayeen Saddam militiamen raises a severed head as other fighters dance in celebration in what the prosecution says is the southern city of Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. Meanwhile, Iraq's election planning has been muddied by the banning of candidates for suspected ties to Baath Party. Some Sunnis claim the blacklist is an attempt by the Shiite-led government to undermine their candidates — though the list does include some Shiites. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has asked for a legal ruling on the legitimacy of the vetting panel itself, which is led by a candidate for the March 7 elections, Ali al-Lami. But al-Maliki's government has supported the effort to keep these perceived loyalists to Saddam's Baath party out of the politics. Al-Lami told The Associated Press the banned candidate list has been reduced from 511 candidates to 456, but still includes prominent Sunni politician Saleh al-Mutlaq. Nearly 6,600 candidates have been cleared to run, he said. In an interview with The Times of London, the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, noted that others have accused al-Lami's panel of being influenced by Iran's Revolutionary Guard. "It seems that our decision of banning Baathists has annoyed Petraeus because it was against his wishes," said al-Lami. "We do not work according to Petraeus's wishes, but we work according to the constitution and law. Let him face me if he dares."
By CHELSEA J. CARTER, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Brian Murphy contributed to this report.
The man was identified as Saad Uwayid Obeid Mijbil al-Shammari, also known as Abu Khalaf, the military said in a statement. Abu Khalaf was killed Jan. 22 during a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in the northern city of Mosul, some 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Syrian border. He was killed after he broke free from his restraints and attacked his guard, the military said. He was believed to have been moving foreign fighters across the border since 2006, the same year a U.S. airstrike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq. The military said he also worked as a financier, gathering and distributing money and weapons to al-Qaida throughout the country.
Earlier this week, Gen. Raymond Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said intelligence indicated there were between five and 10 main insurgent leaders planning the attacks in Baghdad. Odierno also said there has been a decline in the number of foreign fighters crossing from Syria into Iraq, citing political pressure from Syria and beefed up security along the border. In an interview Thursday, Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told The Associated Press that al-Qaida has been hampered by the decreased flow of foreign fighters. "The decline in the infiltration of terrorists has weakened al-Qaida. But we think that al-Qaida and other networks linked to it are still able to carry out some operations from time to time," he said.
In a sign of government efforts to divert attention to Saddam-era atrocities, state TV broadcast a clip of beheadings allegedly carried out by Saddam's forces in 1998 against members of the militant Shiite opposition faction Dawa, which included al-Maliki as a member. The video was presented during the trial of 22 suspects accused of roles in crushing Shiite dissidents using groups such as the Fidayeen Saddam, a militia led by Saddam Hussein's eldest son Odai. Among the defendants is former Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and Saddam's half-brother Watban Ibrahim al-Hassan, who served as interior minister. Aziz was in court despite reports earlier this month that he suffered a stroke. He has already been sentenced to 15 years in prison for other crimes during Saddam's rule. Al-Hassan was sentenced to death in an earlier trial. "Are you not ashamed of yourselves?" barked Chief Judge Mahmoud al-Hassan, his voice rising with emotion. "Some of the defendants have tried to close their eyes in order not to see this scene," he continued. "You, as senior officials in the former regime, do you think that those who carried out this act are related in any way to humanity or, you yourselves, related to any religion?"
The clip shows several blindfolded men being bent over a low wall as their captors brandish long, curved knives. In the next scene, a Fidayeen Saddam militiamen raises a severed head as other fighters dance in celebration in what the prosecution says is the southern city of Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad. Meanwhile, Iraq's election planning has been muddied by the banning of candidates for suspected ties to Baath Party. Some Sunnis claim the blacklist is an attempt by the Shiite-led government to undermine their candidates — though the list does include some Shiites. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has asked for a legal ruling on the legitimacy of the vetting panel itself, which is led by a candidate for the March 7 elections, Ali al-Lami. But al-Maliki's government has supported the effort to keep these perceived loyalists to Saddam's Baath party out of the politics. Al-Lami told The Associated Press the banned candidate list has been reduced from 511 candidates to 456, but still includes prominent Sunni politician Saleh al-Mutlaq. Nearly 6,600 candidates have been cleared to run, he said. In an interview with The Times of London, the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. David Petraeus, noted that others have accused al-Lami's panel of being influenced by Iran's Revolutionary Guard. "It seems that our decision of banning Baathists has annoyed Petraeus because it was against his wishes," said al-Lami. "We do not work according to Petraeus's wishes, but we work according to the constitution and law. Let him face me if he dares."
By CHELSEA J. CARTER, Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Brian Murphy contributed to this report.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Barzani: We will not be part of the military or political pressure
Well..This is more than "political pressure." It´s actually crimes in an agenda since way back with the regime in Iran, in Syria and Turkey on "each side of the genocidal "war-fare" carousel with Iraqis, Kurds and Palestinians squeezed in the middle, where criminals have equal exchange of each other and their crimes, as it always have been done! And even if the media in the U.S. choose to not show the documentaries of how Kurds have been gassed to death it´s just a matter of time before the American people wakes up and want their country back, while the regime in Iran have their own little "private genocide" on Iranians and Kurds and Baluch and every one else on Kurds and on every one else!
Now....We have had #¤%¤ enough!
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Israel's leaders, with Iran on their minds, vowed never again to allow the "hand of evil" to kill Jews as the world marked International Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday.
No ones wants another Holocaust! In fact the ones dying in genocidal "war-fares" and on going genocides are doing that with Lockheed Martin, British and Israeli weaponry and Israeli lobbyists in the U.S., while Israelis are busy uprooting trees in the thousands and behave like #¤%¤ outlaws!
The only Holocausts are done by Israeli weaponry sold to Sri Lanka and Turkey since the Vietnam village genocidal system was set up in Kurdish villages! In fact the ones selling weaponry to the Tamils Holocaust was the Israeli state and the regime in Iran! The Israeli state and the regime in Iran sits on "each side" of the genocidal "war-fare" with Turkish and Iranian foot soldiers doing the "work" in a ongoing genocide against the Kurds! The Israeli state and the regime in Iran are cooperating and have the same #¤%¤ exchange as when the Romans invaded Israel and Daniel cooperated with the Magics to try to get people into the Romans siege! ¤%¤ Idiots! All while there are some "al-Qaidas" in Iraq on the payroll of Turkey that is more than willing to get in and destabilize, just to offer it´s "services" like #¤%¤ Mafiosos with lobbyists in the U.S. and the stock market!
Shut the hell up! Go to #¤# Hell! Oh..Some are already there! On the Turkish high way to hell! Well..That´s a WELL KNOWN OLD PATH! ISN´T IT!
No ones wants another Holocaust! In fact the ones dying in genocidal "war-fares" and on going genocides are doing that with Lockheed Martin, British and Israeli weaponry and Israeli lobbyists in the U.S., while Israelis are busy uprooting trees in the thousands and behave like #¤%¤ outlaws!
The only Holocausts are done by Israeli weaponry sold to Sri Lanka and Turkey since the Vietnam village genocidal system was set up in Kurdish villages! In fact the ones selling weaponry to the Tamils Holocaust was the Israeli state and the regime in Iran! The Israeli state and the regime in Iran sits on "each side" of the genocidal "war-fare" with Turkish and Iranian foot soldiers doing the "work" in a ongoing genocide against the Kurds! The Israeli state and the regime in Iran are cooperating and have the same #¤%¤ exchange as when the Romans invaded Israel and Daniel cooperated with the Magics to try to get people into the Romans siege! ¤%¤ Idiots! All while there are some "al-Qaidas" in Iraq on the payroll of Turkey that is more than willing to get in and destabilize, just to offer it´s "services" like #¤%¤ Mafiosos with lobbyists in the U.S. and the stock market!
Shut the hell up! Go to #¤# Hell! Oh..Some are already there! On the Turkish high way to hell! Well..That´s a WELL KNOWN OLD PATH! ISN´T IT!
Ocalan: "Kurdish-Turkish peace-not-free"
Well..Right now none are..It´s all about the #¤%¤ pipelines where humanity is sold out. As we said: It´s really no differences between the Reichsbank during World War Two and the stock market today! While working for recognizing one genocide Israeli lobbyists in the U.S. gets a whole lot of money by lobbying for the pipe lines through Turkey, with the whole Kurdish people paying the price, as it´s obvious not in some´s interests to have some of them going Georgia. Both Israeli leaders seems to have interests in common with Russian leaders to rather use Turkey than having some pipe lines going through Georgia, so one wonder what the hell the Georgian "war" was all about!
Turkey´s "war" against terrorism for decades and the rest of #¤#¤ bullshit coming from the U.S. and Israel and directors of weapon companies lobbying for terrorists lists in the E.U. and having weapon sells used against the Kurdish people as it has been for decades are JUST #¤# SIMPLE CRIMINALS, selling out humanity just as Reichsbank during World War Two. The rest is just #¤# bullshit talk!
While Turkey wants to privatise everything and workers are taken away all their rights, none are free until these so called leaders are replaced!
Turkey´s "war" against terrorism for decades and the rest of #¤#¤ bullshit coming from the U.S. and Israel and directors of weapon companies lobbying for terrorists lists in the E.U. and having weapon sells used against the Kurdish people as it has been for decades are JUST #¤# SIMPLE CRIMINALS, selling out humanity just as Reichsbank during World War Two. The rest is just #¤# bullshit talk!
While Turkey wants to privatise everything and workers are taken away all their rights, none are free until these so called leaders are replaced!
Monday, January 25, 2010
A dirtier alliance between the U.S and the Iranian regime is revealed
The US and Iran clandestinely met regarding Qendil, it has been revealed. KCK Executive Council member, Duran Kalkan, said the US and Iran met at least three times regarding the Qendil attacks. Kalkan said: "The US and Iranian regimes met three or four times until now. In all these meetings, the attacks against the Medya Defense Zones by Iranian artillery was negotiated and has been decided. Pointing out the cooperation between the US and Iran, he said, on this basis, they attack PJAK. I mean, it is obvious that the US approved and supported this attack. "For that reason, a dirtier alliance is revealed."
"The US can have an alliance with Iran, categorized by the US as one member of the "Axis of Evil", to strike Kurds." The artillery shelling of Qendil-Xinere regions is completely under American permission and support, Kalkan said.
Remembering that the 1975 Algeria Accords were signed by the US, Iran, and Iraq regimes, Kalkan stressed the cooperation against Kurds, thus, is not a new event.
"The US can have an alliance with Iran, categorized by the US as one member of the "Axis of Evil", to strike Kurds." The artillery shelling of Qendil-Xinere regions is completely under American permission and support, Kalkan said.
Remembering that the 1975 Algeria Accords were signed by the US, Iran, and Iraq regimes, Kalkan stressed the cooperation against Kurds, thus, is not a new event.
Well..
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suicide bombers attacked three hotels used by foreigners in the heart of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 people and raising questions about government pledges to keep Iraqis safe before a March election.
They said they do not want Turkey there..
And WHO CAN #¤# BLAME THEM FOR THAT? If Syria has become a province of Turkey, so does the militants coming from into Iraq! I.E a Province of Turkey, while Turkey being busy with a total destruction and the same #¤# crimes as was set up for in the 80´s!
It seems like Richard Holbrooke and company, with the global East Timor and the steamroller have got themselves some problems, while the U.N is ALL SHUT UP AND PSYCHOPATHS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE MEDIA!
BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers struck in quick succession Monday at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists in well-planned assaults that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100.
- Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has observed an increase in press freedom violations and violence against independent journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan since the 25 July regional elections.
Well..Yeah..If they have not been killed in Iraq, they are jailed in Iran, Syria and Turkey and being stopped in Israel! While there sits some psychopaths believing they can control this whole world through Reuters, while having their eyes on the stock market! As we said: It will NOT work in Europe!
They said they do not want Turkey there..
And WHO CAN #¤# BLAME THEM FOR THAT? If Syria has become a province of Turkey, so does the militants coming from into Iraq! I.E a Province of Turkey, while Turkey being busy with a total destruction and the same #¤# crimes as was set up for in the 80´s!
It seems like Richard Holbrooke and company, with the global East Timor and the steamroller have got themselves some problems, while the U.N is ALL SHUT UP AND PSYCHOPATHS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE MEDIA!
BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers struck in quick succession Monday at three Baghdad hotels favored by Western journalists in well-planned assaults that killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 100.
- Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has observed an increase in press freedom violations and violence against independent journalists in Iraqi Kurdistan since the 25 July regional elections.
Well..Yeah..If they have not been killed in Iraq, they are jailed in Iran, Syria and Turkey and being stopped in Israel! While there sits some psychopaths believing they can control this whole world through Reuters, while having their eyes on the stock market! As we said: It will NOT work in Europe!
Investments?
In Turkey, the U.S. or whatever..And the crimes being committed against the whole Kurdish people, the Tamils the wars in Afghanistan with warlords and luxury apartments in the U.S.? NATO having a "war-fare" against the whole Kurdish people while people have came in and destabilized Iraq with massacres at the same time. Stupid "leaders" actually believes people are not aware of that the crimes being committed against the Kurdish people and the Tamils simultaneously are on some´s agendas for expansions, geopolitical interests and natural resources and have been so ever since the 80´s?
And now they are looking for investments and business, while lobbyists have genocidal "war-fares" on the stock markets, crimes are being committed in the most disgusting psychopathic ways. While some wants to implement slavery conditions for workers and takes not only developments back to the 30´s, but spreads their crimes all over! Again: In short: Some are totally stupids, idiots refusing to listen and WAY out of line and it will backfire! This will NOT work in Europe with workers there, so JUST #¤# FORGET about crimes against humanity, privatisations and slavery conditions!
And now they are looking for investments and business, while lobbyists have genocidal "war-fares" on the stock markets, crimes are being committed in the most disgusting psychopathic ways. While some wants to implement slavery conditions for workers and takes not only developments back to the 30´s, but spreads their crimes all over! Again: In short: Some are totally stupids, idiots refusing to listen and WAY out of line and it will backfire! This will NOT work in Europe with workers there, so JUST #¤# FORGET about crimes against humanity, privatisations and slavery conditions!
One wonder..
Really..Over Turkey´s military built up at the border to Iraq/South of Kurdistan. We mean...there have been militants that have came in and in attacks massacred Iraqis in masses that amounts to another genocide for many years now. Turkey with militants inside it´s border should have secured it´s border to Iraq a LONG time ago, instead of being busy destroying the whole environment, burn wheat fields, massacre all life stocks, poisoning sheep's, bombing sheep's, burning the last forests, like Turkey burnt the cedar forest for it´s trains and then it just have went on ever after that, and having a "war" against case fires, peace and stability!
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Baghdad blast kills civilian, wounds 3
Sticky device kills civilian in Mosul
15 persons arrested, arms seized in Basra
4 cops killed, wounded in Falluja blast
Integrity Committee says explosives detectors ineffective
2 arrested, 8 mortars seized in Kirkuk
Interior Ministry adviser dies of wounds from Baghdad blast
2 AQI operatives nabbed in Kirkuk
Civilian wounded in blast in Anbar
Cop wounded in mortar attack in Mosul
Vehicle carrying rocket launch pad seized in Basra
Gunmen kill civilian in Mosul
Mosul police find remains of three persons
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen found the body of a young man whose throat was slit with a knife and photos of his slaughter with...
6 suspects nabbed in Jalawlaa
Baghdad blast kills civilian, wounds 3
Sticky device kills civilian in Mosul
15 persons arrested, arms seized in Basra
4 cops killed, wounded in Falluja blast
Integrity Committee says explosives detectors ineffective
2 arrested, 8 mortars seized in Kirkuk
Interior Ministry adviser dies of wounds from Baghdad blast
2 AQI operatives nabbed in Kirkuk
Civilian wounded in blast in Anbar
Cop wounded in mortar attack in Mosul
Vehicle carrying rocket launch pad seized in Basra
Gunmen kill civilian in Mosul
Mosul police find remains of three persons
One could say it would REALLY be about time for Turkey to secure it´s border in a "high level cooperation with Syria" and which Turkey have claimed doing for 30 years, while militants have came into Iraq. It´s just that Turkey´s intentions as so many else are very much questioned!
In fact...It do looks like using Turkey as a transit for gas and oil from the coast of Israel/Gaza ? and to Europe was the stupidest idea ever some could come up with! Now it´s massacres, "wars" against peace and human rights, violations against the whole Kurdish people, psychopathic manipulations and crimes, privatisations and slavery conditions for workers all along the pipe lines! ALL while the U.S. steamroller is running over everything and every one and Russia sits and playing with their monopoly and Israeli leaders are riding on the genocidal "war-fare" carousel and do not give a #¤# damn about any ones or anything except from their #¤# houses, with lobbyists in the U.S., directors of weapon companies and stock markets!
In short: Some are totally stupids, idiots refusing to listen and WAY out of line and it will backfire! This will NOT work in Europe with workers there, so JUST #¤# FORGET about crimes against humanity, privatisations and slavery conditions!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Well..
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia regrets that Iran has apparently rejected a UN-brokered nuclear fuel exchange deal to ease the stand-off over its atomic programme, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
They also had plans for a train to Armenia that would come to very much benefits for Armenia as well..#¤%¤ j*la Russian helveten..
They also had plans for a train to Armenia that would come to very much benefits for Armenia as well..#¤%¤ j*la Russian helveten..
Armenia accused Turkey of trying to block a deal
YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenia accused Turkey on Friday of trying to block a deal to establish diplomatic ties and open their border and warned their bid to overcome a century of hostility could collapse. The comments by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian cast fresh doubt on the future of the rapprochement, after Turkey accused Armenia's Constitutional Court of trying to re-write the text of the deal with a court ruling last week.
Faced with a backlash from Turkish ally Azerbaijan, the rhetoric in both countries has grown increasingly bitter since they inked accords in October designed to overcome the legacy of the World War One mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. The deal stands to burnish Turkey's credentials as a potential EU entry state and boost its clout in the Caucasus. It would bring big economic benefits to poor, landlocked Armenia. But asked on Friday if the process was in danger of collapsing, Nalbandian said: "If Turkey is not ready to ratify the protocols, if it continues to speak in the language of preconditions and to block the process, then I don't exclude it." But he added: "I hope Turkey will ratify the documents." The two protocols require parliamentary ratification in both countries before they enter into force.
Turkey, stung by the backlash from oil-producing Azerbaijan, says it first wants Christian Armenia to make concessions in the festering conflict with Muslim Azerbaijan over the mainly Armenian breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in solidarity with Azerbaijan during the war. Armenia rejects any link between the two issues, but diplomats say international mediators have stepped up efforts to squeeze at least some sign of progress out of negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh -- which resume on Monday in Russia. Turkey is anxious to keep Azerbaijan on side, with the former Soviet republic courted by the West and Russia for its energy reserves in the Caspian Sea and as a potential supplier for Europe's planned Nabucco gas pipeline.
Turkey said the Armenian court ruling, which endorsed the protocols, could derail the process by reaffirming the state's obligation to pursue international recognition of the World War One killings as genocide, a term Turkey vehemently rejects. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday it was "contradictory to the letter and spirit of the protocols," but added that talks would continue.
Nalbandian played down hope of an imminent breakthrough on Nagorno-Karabakh, which broke away from Azerbaijan with Armenian backing in the early 1990s in a war that killed 30,000 people. The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan hold the latest round of talks on Monday in Russia's Black Sea city of Sochi. "If the Azeri side takes a more constructive approach, there might be movement," Nalbandian said. "But that there might be some kind of breakthrough in the near future, I can't say that."
By Hasmik Mkrtchyan, reporting by Thomas Grove in Istanbul; Writing by Matt Robinson in Tbilisi; Editing by Charles Dick
Well..That wouldn´t be the only thing Turkey is blocking. Turkey have been occupied with crimes against humanity and have had a "war" against peace, ever since some claim they are to mediate peace between Israel and Syria at the instigated genocidal "war-fare" carousel..
Turkey have a "war" against peace, under the cover of mediating peace, against those that are to mediate peace and those they suppose to mediate with! And the rest is just pure #¤# bullshit talk..
There are actually more in the "Turkish-Israeli strategic partnership", than Turkey´s building schools in Palestinian territories..
Faced with a backlash from Turkish ally Azerbaijan, the rhetoric in both countries has grown increasingly bitter since they inked accords in October designed to overcome the legacy of the World War One mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks. The deal stands to burnish Turkey's credentials as a potential EU entry state and boost its clout in the Caucasus. It would bring big economic benefits to poor, landlocked Armenia. But asked on Friday if the process was in danger of collapsing, Nalbandian said: "If Turkey is not ready to ratify the protocols, if it continues to speak in the language of preconditions and to block the process, then I don't exclude it." But he added: "I hope Turkey will ratify the documents." The two protocols require parliamentary ratification in both countries before they enter into force.
Turkey, stung by the backlash from oil-producing Azerbaijan, says it first wants Christian Armenia to make concessions in the festering conflict with Muslim Azerbaijan over the mainly Armenian breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Turkey closed its border with Armenia in 1993 in solidarity with Azerbaijan during the war. Armenia rejects any link between the two issues, but diplomats say international mediators have stepped up efforts to squeeze at least some sign of progress out of negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh -- which resume on Monday in Russia. Turkey is anxious to keep Azerbaijan on side, with the former Soviet republic courted by the West and Russia for its energy reserves in the Caspian Sea and as a potential supplier for Europe's planned Nabucco gas pipeline.
Turkey said the Armenian court ruling, which endorsed the protocols, could derail the process by reaffirming the state's obligation to pursue international recognition of the World War One killings as genocide, a term Turkey vehemently rejects. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Friday it was "contradictory to the letter and spirit of the protocols," but added that talks would continue.
Nalbandian played down hope of an imminent breakthrough on Nagorno-Karabakh, which broke away from Azerbaijan with Armenian backing in the early 1990s in a war that killed 30,000 people. The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan hold the latest round of talks on Monday in Russia's Black Sea city of Sochi. "If the Azeri side takes a more constructive approach, there might be movement," Nalbandian said. "But that there might be some kind of breakthrough in the near future, I can't say that."
By Hasmik Mkrtchyan, reporting by Thomas Grove in Istanbul; Writing by Matt Robinson in Tbilisi; Editing by Charles Dick
Well..That wouldn´t be the only thing Turkey is blocking. Turkey have been occupied with crimes against humanity and have had a "war" against peace, ever since some claim they are to mediate peace between Israel and Syria at the instigated genocidal "war-fare" carousel..
Turkey have a "war" against peace, under the cover of mediating peace, against those that are to mediate peace and those they suppose to mediate with! And the rest is just pure #¤# bullshit talk..
There are actually more in the "Turkish-Israeli strategic partnership", than Turkey´s building schools in Palestinian territories..
And you said which the terrorists were?
Journalists Claim: Government Knew about Hrant Dink MurderLawyer Belen claimed that several sources give proof of murder suspect ..
According to Taraf newspaper, a plan to bring the country into disorder was worked out in 2003. Bombings of mosques during the Friday prayer, crashing a Turkish jet plane and warplanes flying over the parliament should lead to martial law and a coup.
Taraf newspaper's front page story of the daily's Wednesday issue (20 January) stirred up the Turkish media by reporting about a coup plotted by the armed forces. Apparently, a group of people mapped out a 5,000 pages strong plan from the end of 2002 till March 2003 called the "Balyoz ('Hammer') Operation Plan. According to the news, the then 1st Army Commander Çetin Doğan was designated for the leadership of the coup. He is referred to as "Balyoz Martial Law Commander". The plan is signed by İbrahim Fırtına, Army Academy Command at the time and later on Air Force Commander and by Özden Örnek, then navy commander. It furthermore includes minutes written by Colonel Süha Tanyeri, Head of the 1st Army Operations.
As reported in the first part of the news published by Taraf on 20 January, certain information from the documents can be summarized as follows: Friend and foeThe Balyoz plan was aimed at "once and for all eliminating the obstacles to the movement of a secular and democratic order without rising the obstacles' reasons again". As far as the analysis of the enemy situation is concerned, the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and interventions of the USA and the European Union are counted for as "reactionary groups" and "divisive elements". The opposition parties are said to make characterless, low-key opposition just to save the day.
The analysis of the ally situation yielded the result that groups of "allies of the movement" are among those people voting for AKP. Several further decisions are listed, for instance: controlling the high rank officers of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) who are not allies of the movement; providing coordination for reference related to the recruitment of TSK staff to organizations like the Contemporary Life Support Association, the Kemalist Thoughts Association or the Youth Union; economic operations of "allied elements" outside TSK; media events; closely following social responsibility projects; providing coordination; opposing "all sorts of contrary propaganda and legal amendment initiatives" and aligning the ideas and activities of the opposition parties. Regarding 137 journalists cooperating with Taraf newspaper, 36 are going to be arrested. The names of these 36 journalists
The plan included the names of 137 journalists collaborating with the putchists. 36 of them were going to be arrested and Taraf newspaper was supposed to continuously publish information on the following events. Bombs on mosques, an airplane crash, low flights over the parliament Among the actions intended to lead to the declaration of martial law there were plans with the code names "Chador", "Beard", "Suga" or "Thunderstorm". All these plans comprise actions to create disorder.
The "Thunderstorm" plan for example: Crashing a plane: Bringing down a war plane and blaming Greece for shooting at the plane; put forward the government's incapability. Performances: Organizing shows on invitation by the 134th fleet command every second day regarding industrial chambers, business environment and bar councils; distribution of gifts to the public and to children in particular. "Two shows will be organized in Istanbul. Kadıköy military students, private soldiers and non-commissioned officers will take part in civil clothes. The second show is going to be organized in Fatih Çarşamba. On the same evening, "people dressed in gowns, turbans and chadors will attack the aviation museum with Molotov cocktails and green flags and will cause destruction". "Groups in favour of the Shari'a" will attack the air force regular army. After this, the situation will be handled without waiting for the authorization of the armed forces territorial commanders, firearms and weapons will be used if necessary".
Aircraft flying over the parliament with low altitude: "Activities will be continued uninterrupted" until the government declares martial law. The Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO) will be invited to an air show performed above the city centre. During the show, "planes will fly at a very low altitude" above the parliament to "make them feel the presence of TSK".
Bombs on mosques: The "Chador" plan targets the Fatih mosque, the "Beard" plan aims at a bomb attack on the Beyazit mosque. The latter mosque is known in particular for being very crowded on Fridays. According to the plans, bombs are going to explode in the mosques before the Friday prayer. After this, "provocation teams" will instigate shopkeepers around the mosque and abet them to "protest by shouting slogans and voicing their reactions". The bombs will cause more injuries than deaths. At the same time, camera teams will be installed inside the mosques and start live broadcasts. The plan includes information on who will be appointed for those live broadcasts which will be directed from Ankara. The plan provides for the use of false names and rented cars and indicates the use of "secure mobile phones".
Suspicious Death of Naval Colonel - AgainRetired Colonel Yılmaz was found dead in front of his house. Eight military officers and one special operation manager have died under suspicious circumstances from May 2007 till the present. Seven of the deceased were from the naval forces. As reported by Hürriyet, Yılmaz retired from the Black Sea Ereğli Directorate of the Military Department in 1999.
Nine deaths under suspicious circumstances since May 2007. Yılmaz is the seventh person in a chain of deaths of naval forces officers since May 2007. A total of nine people have lost their lives under suspicious circumstances in the meantime. Other than the naval officers, the deaths of one officer of JİTEM, the Turkish gendarmerie's clandestine intelligence and counterterrorism service, and of one executive of the Special Operations Unit of the Police General Directorate were registered.
Retired Marine Colonel Birol Atatkan: He died in a questionable traffic accident on the road between Istanbul and Ankara in May 2007. Atakan presumably got hold of crucial information regarding the Ergenekon case. Ergenekon is a clandestine ultra-nationalist terrorist organization charged with plotting to overthrow the government. Atatkan was an orderly officer to former Naval Forces Commander Yener Karahanoğlu. Before that, he worked together with Özden Örnek at the Naval Forces Command. Atakan was supposedly responsible for the deliberate or inadvertend leakage of the coup diaries attributed to Özden Örnek to the internet. Atakan was the alleged connection between Karahanoğlu and Örnek.
Physician Lieutenant Colonel Nursal Gedik: He allegedly committed suicide on 11 November 2007. However, his family denied suicide claims.
Retired Colonel Abdülkerim Kırca: He was found dead in his military accommodation in January 2009. Kırca had held PKK militant and JİTEM member Addülkadir Aygan responsible for several unsolved murders. The retired colonel was paralysed below the waist since a clash in 1998. In 2004, he was awarded the "State Medal of Pride". Kırca as former JİTEM Regional Commander in Diyarbakır was also involved in the Ergenekon investigation.
Head of Special Operations Department Behçet Oktay: After holding the position of Head of the Police Special Operations Department for 13 years, Oktay was found severely wounded in his office in February 2009. He was brought to hospital where he died of his serious injuries. Oktay was on duty in Diyarbakır between 1994 and 1997, coinciding with the term of Colonel Kırca's duty.
Elazığ Police Special Operations Branch Chief Ayhan Atabek, detained in the context of the Ergenekon investigation, and Antalya Special Operations Group Supervisor Servet Kaynak said that they wanted Oktay's help to set up a team for the assassination of former member of the Special Forces İbrahim Şahin, also detained due to the Ergenekon investigation. The prosecution had found out about numerous phone calls between Oktay and Şahin.
Senior Captain Olgun Vural: He was said to have committed suicide after the announcement of the second Ergenekon indictment in March 2009. Vural was included in the evidence section of the first Ergenekon case. In the indictment he was quoted as saying: "Vural is an Alevi from the Sivas district of Gemerekli. He was appointed by Captain Ali Tatar".
Judge Lieutenant Colonel Tanju Ünal: He supposedly committed suicide on 26 June 2009 when he was on duty at the Southern Sea Area Command. Ünal was president judge in the trial against Retired Naval Forces Commander İlhami Erdil.
Retired General Staff Colonel Ali Bergütay Varımlı: As one of the military officers testifying in the Ergenekon case, Varımlı allegedly committed suicide on 21 November 2009. He was involved in the trial against İlhami Erdil as a witness. We was claimed to be the military officer who deciphered the 'Blond Girl' and 'Moonlight' coup plans.
Marine Lieutenant Colonel Ali Tatar: Tatar's name was known in the context of the "vice admirals' assassination" investigation. 42-year-old Tatar was arrested on 7 December related to documents confiscated in Poyrazköy. He was released on 16 December upon the objection of his lawyers. Though, a new arrest warrant was issued upon the prosecution's appeal on 18 December. Tatar committed suicide in his military accommodation on 20 December 2009.
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According to Taraf newspaper, a plan to bring the country into disorder was worked out in 2003. Bombings of mosques during the Friday prayer, crashing a Turkish jet plane and warplanes flying over the parliament should lead to martial law and a coup.
Taraf newspaper's front page story of the daily's Wednesday issue (20 January) stirred up the Turkish media by reporting about a coup plotted by the armed forces. Apparently, a group of people mapped out a 5,000 pages strong plan from the end of 2002 till March 2003 called the "Balyoz ('Hammer') Operation Plan. According to the news, the then 1st Army Commander Çetin Doğan was designated for the leadership of the coup. He is referred to as "Balyoz Martial Law Commander". The plan is signed by İbrahim Fırtına, Army Academy Command at the time and later on Air Force Commander and by Özden Örnek, then navy commander. It furthermore includes minutes written by Colonel Süha Tanyeri, Head of the 1st Army Operations.
As reported in the first part of the news published by Taraf on 20 January, certain information from the documents can be summarized as follows: Friend and foeThe Balyoz plan was aimed at "once and for all eliminating the obstacles to the movement of a secular and democratic order without rising the obstacles' reasons again". As far as the analysis of the enemy situation is concerned, the government of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and interventions of the USA and the European Union are counted for as "reactionary groups" and "divisive elements". The opposition parties are said to make characterless, low-key opposition just to save the day.
The analysis of the ally situation yielded the result that groups of "allies of the movement" are among those people voting for AKP. Several further decisions are listed, for instance: controlling the high rank officers of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) who are not allies of the movement; providing coordination for reference related to the recruitment of TSK staff to organizations like the Contemporary Life Support Association, the Kemalist Thoughts Association or the Youth Union; economic operations of "allied elements" outside TSK; media events; closely following social responsibility projects; providing coordination; opposing "all sorts of contrary propaganda and legal amendment initiatives" and aligning the ideas and activities of the opposition parties. Regarding 137 journalists cooperating with Taraf newspaper, 36 are going to be arrested. The names of these 36 journalists
The plan included the names of 137 journalists collaborating with the putchists. 36 of them were going to be arrested and Taraf newspaper was supposed to continuously publish information on the following events. Bombs on mosques, an airplane crash, low flights over the parliament Among the actions intended to lead to the declaration of martial law there were plans with the code names "Chador", "Beard", "Suga" or "Thunderstorm". All these plans comprise actions to create disorder.
The "Thunderstorm" plan for example: Crashing a plane: Bringing down a war plane and blaming Greece for shooting at the plane; put forward the government's incapability. Performances: Organizing shows on invitation by the 134th fleet command every second day regarding industrial chambers, business environment and bar councils; distribution of gifts to the public and to children in particular. "Two shows will be organized in Istanbul. Kadıköy military students, private soldiers and non-commissioned officers will take part in civil clothes. The second show is going to be organized in Fatih Çarşamba. On the same evening, "people dressed in gowns, turbans and chadors will attack the aviation museum with Molotov cocktails and green flags and will cause destruction". "Groups in favour of the Shari'a" will attack the air force regular army. After this, the situation will be handled without waiting for the authorization of the armed forces territorial commanders, firearms and weapons will be used if necessary".
Aircraft flying over the parliament with low altitude: "Activities will be continued uninterrupted" until the government declares martial law. The Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO) will be invited to an air show performed above the city centre. During the show, "planes will fly at a very low altitude" above the parliament to "make them feel the presence of TSK".
Bombs on mosques: The "Chador" plan targets the Fatih mosque, the "Beard" plan aims at a bomb attack on the Beyazit mosque. The latter mosque is known in particular for being very crowded on Fridays. According to the plans, bombs are going to explode in the mosques before the Friday prayer. After this, "provocation teams" will instigate shopkeepers around the mosque and abet them to "protest by shouting slogans and voicing their reactions". The bombs will cause more injuries than deaths. At the same time, camera teams will be installed inside the mosques and start live broadcasts. The plan includes information on who will be appointed for those live broadcasts which will be directed from Ankara. The plan provides for the use of false names and rented cars and indicates the use of "secure mobile phones".
Suspicious Death of Naval Colonel - AgainRetired Colonel Yılmaz was found dead in front of his house. Eight military officers and one special operation manager have died under suspicious circumstances from May 2007 till the present. Seven of the deceased were from the naval forces. As reported by Hürriyet, Yılmaz retired from the Black Sea Ereğli Directorate of the Military Department in 1999.
Nine deaths under suspicious circumstances since May 2007. Yılmaz is the seventh person in a chain of deaths of naval forces officers since May 2007. A total of nine people have lost their lives under suspicious circumstances in the meantime. Other than the naval officers, the deaths of one officer of JİTEM, the Turkish gendarmerie's clandestine intelligence and counterterrorism service, and of one executive of the Special Operations Unit of the Police General Directorate were registered.
Retired Marine Colonel Birol Atatkan: He died in a questionable traffic accident on the road between Istanbul and Ankara in May 2007. Atakan presumably got hold of crucial information regarding the Ergenekon case. Ergenekon is a clandestine ultra-nationalist terrorist organization charged with plotting to overthrow the government. Atatkan was an orderly officer to former Naval Forces Commander Yener Karahanoğlu. Before that, he worked together with Özden Örnek at the Naval Forces Command. Atakan was supposedly responsible for the deliberate or inadvertend leakage of the coup diaries attributed to Özden Örnek to the internet. Atakan was the alleged connection between Karahanoğlu and Örnek.
Physician Lieutenant Colonel Nursal Gedik: He allegedly committed suicide on 11 November 2007. However, his family denied suicide claims.
Retired Colonel Abdülkerim Kırca: He was found dead in his military accommodation in January 2009. Kırca had held PKK militant and JİTEM member Addülkadir Aygan responsible for several unsolved murders. The retired colonel was paralysed below the waist since a clash in 1998. In 2004, he was awarded the "State Medal of Pride". Kırca as former JİTEM Regional Commander in Diyarbakır was also involved in the Ergenekon investigation.
Head of Special Operations Department Behçet Oktay: After holding the position of Head of the Police Special Operations Department for 13 years, Oktay was found severely wounded in his office in February 2009. He was brought to hospital where he died of his serious injuries. Oktay was on duty in Diyarbakır between 1994 and 1997, coinciding with the term of Colonel Kırca's duty.
Elazığ Police Special Operations Branch Chief Ayhan Atabek, detained in the context of the Ergenekon investigation, and Antalya Special Operations Group Supervisor Servet Kaynak said that they wanted Oktay's help to set up a team for the assassination of former member of the Special Forces İbrahim Şahin, also detained due to the Ergenekon investigation. The prosecution had found out about numerous phone calls between Oktay and Şahin.
Senior Captain Olgun Vural: He was said to have committed suicide after the announcement of the second Ergenekon indictment in March 2009. Vural was included in the evidence section of the first Ergenekon case. In the indictment he was quoted as saying: "Vural is an Alevi from the Sivas district of Gemerekli. He was appointed by Captain Ali Tatar".
Judge Lieutenant Colonel Tanju Ünal: He supposedly committed suicide on 26 June 2009 when he was on duty at the Southern Sea Area Command. Ünal was president judge in the trial against Retired Naval Forces Commander İlhami Erdil.
Retired General Staff Colonel Ali Bergütay Varımlı: As one of the military officers testifying in the Ergenekon case, Varımlı allegedly committed suicide on 21 November 2009. He was involved in the trial against İlhami Erdil as a witness. We was claimed to be the military officer who deciphered the 'Blond Girl' and 'Moonlight' coup plans.
Marine Lieutenant Colonel Ali Tatar: Tatar's name was known in the context of the "vice admirals' assassination" investigation. 42-year-old Tatar was arrested on 7 December related to documents confiscated in Poyrazköy. He was released on 16 December upon the objection of his lawyers. Though, a new arrest warrant was issued upon the prosecution's appeal on 18 December. Tatar committed suicide in his military accommodation on 20 December 2009.
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Turkey gives "Improved" Slavery a Second Try
Turkey - January 2010, The draft law enables private employment offices to contract workers temporarily to enterprises without recognizing social and other basic workers' rights. The government once more brought the bill on leased labour to the parliament, this time it is put forward within a law package. President Abdullah Gül had previously vetoed the bill which was designed in favour of "Private Labour Offices" to place workers in companies on a temporary basis. Unions referred to the draft law as a "system of slavery".
The bill was discussed by the parliamentary Planning and Budged Commission and the Commission for Health, Family, Work and Social Affairs on 18 January. The new bill does not differ from the former draft law. It gives private labour offices the right to rent labourers out to employers under a "temporary employment contract". The employers of leased labourers bear no responsibility regarding social rights. Severance pay, the right to strike and to collective agreement for the workers are not included. Additionally, leased labourers will not be able to join trade unions because in Turkey the membership to a union is based on the branch of business.
The bill is part of a package as one single law article. Some of the regulations are listed below:
- A written contract is made between the private labour office and the employer who is hiring the worker. The contract is not to the expense of the worker. - No discrimination is made between "wages, occupational health and security, vocational training at the workplace and other basic work and employment conditions" of the hired workers and "newly employed workers at the workplace for the same or equivalent work". This article was included by the government in accordance with the European Union's directive for private employment agencies. The guideline prevents the employment of workers under worse conditions compared to a worker doing "similar" work in the same company on a permanent basis concerning working hours, rest periods, holidays and wages.
- The total number of leased labourers in a company must not exceed one fifth of the staff. This ratio was defined as a quarter of the workforce in the previous bill.
- The duration of the "temporary employment contract" may not exceed 18 months. If the employment exceeds this duration, a written contract or temporary employment contract is not concluded and the duration of the contract is exceeded, a "unlimited employment contract" is concluded between the employer and the formerly leased labourer.
- The contract between the private employment office and the worker is recognized as "chain contracts", as defined in the former draft law as well.
- In case of strike or lock-out at the work place, the private employment office cannot lease the worker to another work place and is obliged to pay half of the wage. This amount cannot fall below the minimum wage.
- If the employment contract is called off by the worker, he or she cannot be employed in the same workplace for the duration of one year.
Regulations contrary to ILOAgreement no. 181 and the recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the private employment offices contain many safeguards such as the protection of migrant workers or the right to association and collective negotiations.
- BİA News Center
The bill was discussed by the parliamentary Planning and Budged Commission and the Commission for Health, Family, Work and Social Affairs on 18 January. The new bill does not differ from the former draft law. It gives private labour offices the right to rent labourers out to employers under a "temporary employment contract". The employers of leased labourers bear no responsibility regarding social rights. Severance pay, the right to strike and to collective agreement for the workers are not included. Additionally, leased labourers will not be able to join trade unions because in Turkey the membership to a union is based on the branch of business.
The bill is part of a package as one single law article. Some of the regulations are listed below:
- A written contract is made between the private labour office and the employer who is hiring the worker. The contract is not to the expense of the worker. - No discrimination is made between "wages, occupational health and security, vocational training at the workplace and other basic work and employment conditions" of the hired workers and "newly employed workers at the workplace for the same or equivalent work". This article was included by the government in accordance with the European Union's directive for private employment agencies. The guideline prevents the employment of workers under worse conditions compared to a worker doing "similar" work in the same company on a permanent basis concerning working hours, rest periods, holidays and wages.
- The total number of leased labourers in a company must not exceed one fifth of the staff. This ratio was defined as a quarter of the workforce in the previous bill.
- The duration of the "temporary employment contract" may not exceed 18 months. If the employment exceeds this duration, a written contract or temporary employment contract is not concluded and the duration of the contract is exceeded, a "unlimited employment contract" is concluded between the employer and the formerly leased labourer.
- The contract between the private employment office and the worker is recognized as "chain contracts", as defined in the former draft law as well.
- In case of strike or lock-out at the work place, the private employment office cannot lease the worker to another work place and is obliged to pay half of the wage. This amount cannot fall below the minimum wage.
- If the employment contract is called off by the worker, he or she cannot be employed in the same workplace for the duration of one year.
Regulations contrary to ILOAgreement no. 181 and the recommendations of the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the private employment offices contain many safeguards such as the protection of migrant workers or the right to association and collective negotiations.
- BİA News Center
The Great Pyramids were not built by slaves..
CAIRO, Egypt -- Who built the pyramids? Slaves, as Hollywood's version would have it? Jewish slaves, as an Israeli prime minister famously remarked? Neither, say Egyptian archaeologists, who Monday presented further evidence to reinforce what they have long maintained: The Great Pyramids were built by free men -- paid labourers who worked out of reverence for the pharaohs and were rewarded with burial near the ancient monuments, in graves discovered last week.
The latest findings come from a dozen skeletons in newly discovered pits more than 4,000 years old, perfectly preserved by dry desert sand, along with jars that had once contained beer and bread to feed the dead in the afterlife. The mud-brick tombs, each three metres deep, were found last week beyond a larger burial site first discovered near the pyramids in 1990 and dating to the 4th Dynasty (2575 B.C. to 2467 B.C.).
The latest findings reinforce the paid-labourer theory, according to Egypt's archaeology chief, Zahi Hawass. They are the first to be found containing supplies for the afterlife, indicating how respected the workers were. Herodotus, the Greek historian of the ancient world, described the pyramid-builders as slaves. Hollywood films and an offhand remark by the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin put forth the idea that those slaves were ancient Israelites. Archaeologists generally agree that the Jewish role is a myth. "No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn't exist at the period when the pyramids were built," said Amihai Mazar, professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
AP, from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition
Well..We can start questioning if the Jews ever were slaves. In fact they have had the mentality for using others for a LONG time. We find it hard to believe Jews ever have been slaves in Egypt. In fact some Jews used slaves. And for what we have seen the last decades they are capable of participating in many ways, for a very long time, and in very calculating manners, in all aspects and very cynical economical interests, to be very much part of committing crimes against humanity, just to use what´s left of a whole people to get own gains of, JUST like politicians in the U.S. and Turkey.
In fact we VERY #¤#¤ MUCH DOUBT THERE HAVE BEEN ANY JEWS AS SLAVES! Not these ones living in Israel, no way! Maybe those of other tribes had been that, that fled the country to Aria because there were to many priests that didn´t give a damn about humanity but just for their business..and which now are massacred in another genocide on the stock market, by Britain and the U.S. ..maybe..
And just as the other tribes fleeing from Israeli business men and which now have been massacred in masses in another genocide on the stock market by Britain and the U.S., so have the Kurds been that were chased up in the mountains, in Iran, Turkey, Syria and on every #¤%¤ border for decades, in instigated genocidal "war-fare" carousels with CIA Vietnam village guard genocidal system, staged attacks and crimes, until the country is totally destroyed, Kurds can not bee living in it, except for those that are left that can be trained and used!
While people are "stick out their necks" for them, they are busy lobbying for a whole lot of money, with weapon sells and genocides that have been going for decades, while outlaws and bandits are destroying farm lands, olive trees and private properties, a whole lot of hard work, and others hard works and taxes workers pays for!
The latest findings come from a dozen skeletons in newly discovered pits more than 4,000 years old, perfectly preserved by dry desert sand, along with jars that had once contained beer and bread to feed the dead in the afterlife. The mud-brick tombs, each three metres deep, were found last week beyond a larger burial site first discovered near the pyramids in 1990 and dating to the 4th Dynasty (2575 B.C. to 2467 B.C.).
The latest findings reinforce the paid-labourer theory, according to Egypt's archaeology chief, Zahi Hawass. They are the first to be found containing supplies for the afterlife, indicating how respected the workers were. Herodotus, the Greek historian of the ancient world, described the pyramid-builders as slaves. Hollywood films and an offhand remark by the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin put forth the idea that those slaves were ancient Israelites. Archaeologists generally agree that the Jewish role is a myth. "No Jews built the pyramids because Jews didn't exist at the period when the pyramids were built," said Amihai Mazar, professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
AP, from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition
Well..We can start questioning if the Jews ever were slaves. In fact they have had the mentality for using others for a LONG time. We find it hard to believe Jews ever have been slaves in Egypt. In fact some Jews used slaves. And for what we have seen the last decades they are capable of participating in many ways, for a very long time, and in very calculating manners, in all aspects and very cynical economical interests, to be very much part of committing crimes against humanity, just to use what´s left of a whole people to get own gains of, JUST like politicians in the U.S. and Turkey.
In fact we VERY #¤#¤ MUCH DOUBT THERE HAVE BEEN ANY JEWS AS SLAVES! Not these ones living in Israel, no way! Maybe those of other tribes had been that, that fled the country to Aria because there were to many priests that didn´t give a damn about humanity but just for their business..and which now are massacred in another genocide on the stock market, by Britain and the U.S. ..maybe..
And just as the other tribes fleeing from Israeli business men and which now have been massacred in masses in another genocide on the stock market by Britain and the U.S., so have the Kurds been that were chased up in the mountains, in Iran, Turkey, Syria and on every #¤%¤ border for decades, in instigated genocidal "war-fare" carousels with CIA Vietnam village guard genocidal system, staged attacks and crimes, until the country is totally destroyed, Kurds can not bee living in it, except for those that are left that can be trained and used!
While people are "stick out their necks" for them, they are busy lobbying for a whole lot of money, with weapon sells and genocides that have been going for decades, while outlaws and bandits are destroying farm lands, olive trees and private properties, a whole lot of hard work, and others hard works and taxes workers pays for!
"Setbacks"..
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians belittled each other's commitment to peace as U.S. President Barack Obama admitted on Thursday he had underrated the difficulty of reviving deadlocked Middle East negotiations.
There are crimes being committed against the whole Kurdish people, even with declared case fires, sending in peace groups and the whole Kurdish people have been working hard to come to solutions. And during this time where people have lobbed for terrorists lists to be able to sell weaponry, caching in money, on both weaponry and for to be lobbying, staged attacks blamed on PKK, instigating the genocidal "war-fare" carousel the same way as it always have been done, while some have been very busy to use the time of destabilization for expanding and crimes, work in a ongoing process to label the whole Kurdish people as criminals which have been going on for decades, which we see very clear at this very moment, there have been an ongoing destabilization and attacks in masses in Iraq.
There have been and are crimes being committed in crimes and an agenda that has been going on for decades and we can prove that it´s crimes and the fact that it´s intended crimes!
We are not speaking "Setbacks".. here...We are speaking problems for some! Actually some have managed to get themselves HUGE problems which will show..
Some have actually been acting like totally irresponsible 16 years old, except for the fact that the damages is FAR worse than what a 16 years old can accomplish, without any thoughts of the consequences what so ever!
We would in fact claim that some have TOTALLY LOST IT and have been WAY out of line and without any connection with reality what so ever this last years!
There are crimes being committed against the whole Kurdish people, even with declared case fires, sending in peace groups and the whole Kurdish people have been working hard to come to solutions. And during this time where people have lobbed for terrorists lists to be able to sell weaponry, caching in money, on both weaponry and for to be lobbying, staged attacks blamed on PKK, instigating the genocidal "war-fare" carousel the same way as it always have been done, while some have been very busy to use the time of destabilization for expanding and crimes, work in a ongoing process to label the whole Kurdish people as criminals which have been going on for decades, which we see very clear at this very moment, there have been an ongoing destabilization and attacks in masses in Iraq.
There have been and are crimes being committed in crimes and an agenda that has been going on for decades and we can prove that it´s crimes and the fact that it´s intended crimes!
We are not speaking "Setbacks".. here...We are speaking problems for some! Actually some have managed to get themselves HUGE problems which will show..
Some have actually been acting like totally irresponsible 16 years old, except for the fact that the damages is FAR worse than what a 16 years old can accomplish, without any thoughts of the consequences what so ever!
We would in fact claim that some have TOTALLY LOST IT and have been WAY out of line and without any connection with reality what so ever this last years!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
On going politicide, violations, torture, crimes and genocide against the Kurdish people, in Turkey, Iran and Syria..
Well..Yeah..Jopseh Ralston, British Directors of weapon companies lobbying in the E.U., Italy, Israeli leaders with their lobbyists in the U.S. and weapon sells have actually been lobbying for it. So while Israeli leaders are pushing to get one genocide recognized, they actually have had people in the U.S. getting a whole lot of money lobbying for another genocide and selling weaponry for it, for decades.
The same way as against the Tamils..
And now Turkey´s Erdogan speaks about investments and people are having fairs to promote tourism..
"Good luck"..
The same way as against the Tamils..
And now Turkey´s Erdogan speaks about investments and people are having fairs to promote tourism..
"Good luck"..
“Today, the very same Iranian officials who carried out the 1988 massacres are urging another similar massacre of political prisoners"
Well...As we said: It starts with some wining about journalists in Qom in for elections the same way as in 2005 and then the crimes and massacres begins..
Banned pro-Kurdish DTP appeals to European court
Turkey bombs southern Kurdistan, in mountainous areas Şeladize near Kurejare. Attacking with howitzers and mortars close to residential areas.
Diyarbakir's 4 people were arrested.
5 people were arrested in Bismil and Malazgirt
27 people were arrested in Istanbul and Van
13 people and children were arrested Güroymak'ta
9 was detained in Silvan
Igdir Mayor was taken into custody
Dozens BDP´s people were arrested in Batman
5 people were arrested in Istanbul
Police raid houses in Dogubayazit township, a large number of detentions
2 people were arrested in Batman
Erdemir newspaper employees Nevin Azadiya Welat was arrested
15-year-old boy was arrested in Yüksekova
More than 70 people were arrested in Turkey. Among those detained also are Igdir Mayor
Police raided homes and offices in Istanbul, the southeastern provinces of Batman and Diyarbakır as well as the eastern province of Van and the eastern city of Iğdır, the governor's office in Batman said in a statement. Iğdır mayor, Mehmet Nuri Güneş, who is from the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, was arrested. He was arrested along with eight other members of the DTP.
Banned Kurdish DTP appeals to European court. Brussels - Former members of the banned pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) have filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights. According to the Kurdish politicians the Constitutional Court is not impartial since it was established by a constitution drafted by the military junta that took over the government on Sept. 12, 1980.
Former DTP and current Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Şırnak Deputy Hasip Kaplan submitted the petition to the court yesterday. The petition filed by former DTP members stresses that the Constitutional Court cannot be impartial as it is a remnant of the Sept. 12 coup. “This is in clear violation of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the right to a fair trial,” the petition reads.
Message From Sur Mayor Abdullah Demirbas in Prison
Dear Sir/Madam,
First of all I would like to tell you about my health problems that really give me unbearable pain in my legs which this illness called (vein thrombosis (DVT) and need to be controlled by my doctor all the time. If I will not be controlled by the doctor that it may cause bad illness while I am in the jail. As you may know I have been arrested and jailed with another 23 members of the BDP political party including 7 mayors.
The Turkish state have started a new war against the civilian Kurdish political movement in 11 provinces from Diyarbakir and neighboring cities to İstanbul and İzmir. Homes of prominent DTP (the Kurdish party recently banned by the Constitutional Court) leaders houses were broken into 5 a.m. and around 60 party members, including mayors of Kurdish provinces and districts and the human rights association chairperson in Diyarbakir were arrested. Also these party members and mayors brought up to court building with handcuffs on their hands. All the media were recording and taking pictures of this shameful scene.
I would like to point out an important fact to you that those party members never use a gun or never connected with the violence acts. All we have been trying to do to solve the Kurdish problem in a democratic ways. The Turkish court has charged 23 Kurdish officials, including eight mayors. This was the third operation during this year. More than 100 people have already been charged in the investigation led by the chief prosecutor’s office in Diyarbakir. 54 party members got arrested and jailed on the March 2009. Unfortunately they haven’t brought up the court or Turkish Court hasn’t opened a case against these jailed party members.
As you can see that the government categorically rejects dialogue with the Kurdish movement.
The Kurdish question cannot be resolved without recognizing the will of the Kurdish people and holding dialogue with its interlocutors. I believe that Turkish government refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as adistinct minority. I believe that Turkish government refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as a distinctminority.
The European Union, which Turkey wants to join, has praised Turkish Prime Minister R. T. Erdogan’s efforts to end the conflict. His so-called democratic initiative. But as you see the government instead of making dialogue with the Kurdish, they make these operations. The Turkish Government cannot endure the Kurdish people and their party as a free decision so this operation is against the Kurdish free volition and they want to break the Kurdish free volition. As I mantioned above that I also have a seriously bad ill condition which I have to be under the doctor control all the time. Therefore I cannot stay in the jail with any conditions. Even Turkish law agreed that it was inappropriate for me to stay in the jail. But still they put me in jail with (POLITICAL) reasons.
Therefore, I kindly wish from you dear friends; We are waiting considerably your quick reaction for this unjustice act, If you take this act and shared in international arena which you connected with society, associations and etc.. and If you request from them to respond about our situation that we will be really appriciated, I hope to see you soon in a near future together in our free live days.
All best wishes to you,
Yours Sincereley.
Abdullah DEMİRBAŞ, Mayor of Sur Municipality (Diyarbakir)
derbaz66@mynet.com
Diyarbakir's 4 people were arrested.
5 people were arrested in Bismil and Malazgirt
27 people were arrested in Istanbul and Van
13 people and children were arrested Güroymak'ta
9 was detained in Silvan
Igdir Mayor was taken into custody
Dozens BDP´s people were arrested in Batman
5 people were arrested in Istanbul
Police raid houses in Dogubayazit township, a large number of detentions
2 people were arrested in Batman
Erdemir newspaper employees Nevin Azadiya Welat was arrested
15-year-old boy was arrested in Yüksekova
More than 70 people were arrested in Turkey. Among those detained also are Igdir Mayor
Police raided homes and offices in Istanbul, the southeastern provinces of Batman and Diyarbakır as well as the eastern province of Van and the eastern city of Iğdır, the governor's office in Batman said in a statement. Iğdır mayor, Mehmet Nuri Güneş, who is from the Peace and Democracy Party, or BDP, was arrested. He was arrested along with eight other members of the DTP.
Banned Kurdish DTP appeals to European court. Brussels - Former members of the banned pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) have filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights. According to the Kurdish politicians the Constitutional Court is not impartial since it was established by a constitution drafted by the military junta that took over the government on Sept. 12, 1980.
Former DTP and current Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Şırnak Deputy Hasip Kaplan submitted the petition to the court yesterday. The petition filed by former DTP members stresses that the Constitutional Court cannot be impartial as it is a remnant of the Sept. 12 coup. “This is in clear violation of Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights concerning the right to a fair trial,” the petition reads.
Message From Sur Mayor Abdullah Demirbas in Prison
Dear Sir/Madam,
First of all I would like to tell you about my health problems that really give me unbearable pain in my legs which this illness called (vein thrombosis (DVT) and need to be controlled by my doctor all the time. If I will not be controlled by the doctor that it may cause bad illness while I am in the jail. As you may know I have been arrested and jailed with another 23 members of the BDP political party including 7 mayors.
The Turkish state have started a new war against the civilian Kurdish political movement in 11 provinces from Diyarbakir and neighboring cities to İstanbul and İzmir. Homes of prominent DTP (the Kurdish party recently banned by the Constitutional Court) leaders houses were broken into 5 a.m. and around 60 party members, including mayors of Kurdish provinces and districts and the human rights association chairperson in Diyarbakir were arrested. Also these party members and mayors brought up to court building with handcuffs on their hands. All the media were recording and taking pictures of this shameful scene.
I would like to point out an important fact to you that those party members never use a gun or never connected with the violence acts. All we have been trying to do to solve the Kurdish problem in a democratic ways. The Turkish court has charged 23 Kurdish officials, including eight mayors. This was the third operation during this year. More than 100 people have already been charged in the investigation led by the chief prosecutor’s office in Diyarbakir. 54 party members got arrested and jailed on the March 2009. Unfortunately they haven’t brought up the court or Turkish Court hasn’t opened a case against these jailed party members.
As you can see that the government categorically rejects dialogue with the Kurdish movement.
The Kurdish question cannot be resolved without recognizing the will of the Kurdish people and holding dialogue with its interlocutors. I believe that Turkish government refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as adistinct minority. I believe that Turkish government refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as a distinctminority.
The European Union, which Turkey wants to join, has praised Turkish Prime Minister R. T. Erdogan’s efforts to end the conflict. His so-called democratic initiative. But as you see the government instead of making dialogue with the Kurdish, they make these operations. The Turkish Government cannot endure the Kurdish people and their party as a free decision so this operation is against the Kurdish free volition and they want to break the Kurdish free volition. As I mantioned above that I also have a seriously bad ill condition which I have to be under the doctor control all the time. Therefore I cannot stay in the jail with any conditions. Even Turkish law agreed that it was inappropriate for me to stay in the jail. But still they put me in jail with (POLITICAL) reasons.
Therefore, I kindly wish from you dear friends; We are waiting considerably your quick reaction for this unjustice act, If you take this act and shared in international arena which you connected with society, associations and etc.. and If you request from them to respond about our situation that we will be really appriciated, I hope to see you soon in a near future together in our free live days.
All best wishes to you,
Yours Sincereley.
Abdullah DEMİRBAŞ, Mayor of Sur Municipality (Diyarbakir)
derbaz66@mynet.com
20 Kurdish Political Prisoners at Risk of Execution following Unfair Trials
2 jailed Kurdish political prisoners in Iran have been sentenced to death by an appeals court in the northwestern city of Orumiyeh, the pro-reform Jaras website reported on Wednesday. The two men were identified as Mohammad Amin-Abdollahi, 25, and Qader Mohammad-Zadeh, 32. They were arrested in the town of Mirabad in West Azarbaijan Province and accused of “cooperating with Kurdish opposition parties”. They were later transferred to the central prison in Orumiyeh, the provincial capital. Amin-Abdollahi was originally sentenced to 20 years in prison, but on 16 January, an appeal court sentenced him to death, on charges of “acting against national security” and “moharebeh” [waging war against God]. Mohammad-Zadeh, for his part, was first sentenced to a 32-year prison term, before the appeal court sentenced him to death on the same charges as Amin-Abdollahi.
Source: Jaras website
Death Sentence Issued for Female Kurdish Political Prisoner. 20 Kurdish Political Prisoners at Risk of Execution following Unfair Trials
21 January 2010, The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concern regarding the increasing number of death sentences issued for Kurdish political prisoners following unfair trails. According to Kurdish human rights organizations, at least 20 political prisoners have been condemned to death. During the past few weeks, two Kurdish political prisoners, Ehsan Fattahian and Fasih Yasamini were executed, and there are credible fears of imminent executions of other political prisoners on death row. “The Iranian Judiciary is moving fast to implement a wave of political executions, particularly of Kurdish activists. These sentences are politically motivated and the trials do not conform to internationally accepted standards of due process,” said Hadi Ghaemi, a spokesperson for the Campaign.
The latest death sentence has been issued for a female Kurdish prisoner, Shirin Alam Holi (28), by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Salevati. The Kurdistan Human Rights Organization reported that the trial was held on 19 December 2009, and the conviction was announced to her lawyer on 3 January 2010.
Alam Holi is from the village of Deym Shalagh near the city of Makoo in western Iran. Security forces belonging to the Revolutionary Guard arrested her on 26 May 2008. She was detained for 21 days at a secret Revolutionary Guard detention center and subsequently transferred to Evin prison ward 209, which is under the control of the Intelligence Ministry. After five months of imprisonment in ward 209, Alam Holi was transferred to the general ward for women in Evin prison, where she is currently being held.
According to an interview by her lawyer, Feridun Shami, her physical condition was so bad that Evin officials at ward 209 refused to take custody of her when she was transferred there from the Revolutionary Guard detention center. She spent a week in Evin’s medical clinic before being transferred to ward 209. Shami also alleged that her client was severely tortured while she was held at the unknown detention facility of the Revolutionary Guard. Alam Holi is accused of enmity toward God, Moharebeh, by cooperating with armed Kurdish opposition groups. However the prosecution did not provide any evidence of armed activity by her. Her lawyer told the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization that he did not expect the death sentence for her client as it does not conform to evidence against her and that he will appeal the sentence. In addition to Shirin Alam Holi, according to several Kurdish human rights organizations, there are 19 other Kurdish political prisoners on death row who could be executed soon.
On 11 January 2010, the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization announced the names of 17 Kurdish prisoners at risk of imminent execution: Zeinab Jalilian, Farzad Kamangar, Habibollah Latifi, Shirkoo Moarefi, Farhad Vakili, Ali Heidarian, Hussein Khazri, Rostam Arkia, Mostafa Salimi, Anvar Rostami, Rashid Akhkandi, Mohammad Amin Agooshi, Ahmad Pooladkhani, Seyed Sami Husseini, Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, Hasan Talei, and Iraj Mohammadi.
Also, on 20 January 2010 the Campaign in Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, announced that the execution sentences of two other young Kurdish political prisoners, Mohammad Amin Abollahi (20) and Ghader Mohammadzadeh (32), have been confirmed by the appeals court in the city of Urumieh.
“The recourse to executing political prisoners under the guise of enmity towards God is deplorable. No religion allows for such summary killings and even more troubling is the naked political nature of these killings to help cement the power of extremist hardliners in charge of most institutions in Iran,” Ghaemi said.
The Campaign notes that the Iranian government extrajudicially executed thousands of political prisoners during the summer of 1988, an act that has been widely recognized by human rights organizations as a crime against humanity. “Today, the very same officials who carried out the 1988 massacres are urging another similar massacre of political prisoners, and the world should not sit by idly until such a crime is underway. The increasing execution of Kurdish prisoners, Iran’s most vulnerable and voiceless prisoners, is an alarm bell. The UN Human Rights Council should take on its responsibility of holding Iran accountable before we face a human rights catastrophe,” Ghaemi said.
Source: Jaras website
Death Sentence Issued for Female Kurdish Political Prisoner. 20 Kurdish Political Prisoners at Risk of Execution following Unfair Trials
21 January 2010, The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed serious concern regarding the increasing number of death sentences issued for Kurdish political prisoners following unfair trails. According to Kurdish human rights organizations, at least 20 political prisoners have been condemned to death. During the past few weeks, two Kurdish political prisoners, Ehsan Fattahian and Fasih Yasamini were executed, and there are credible fears of imminent executions of other political prisoners on death row. “The Iranian Judiciary is moving fast to implement a wave of political executions, particularly of Kurdish activists. These sentences are politically motivated and the trials do not conform to internationally accepted standards of due process,” said Hadi Ghaemi, a spokesperson for the Campaign.
The latest death sentence has been issued for a female Kurdish prisoner, Shirin Alam Holi (28), by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Salevati. The Kurdistan Human Rights Organization reported that the trial was held on 19 December 2009, and the conviction was announced to her lawyer on 3 January 2010.
Alam Holi is from the village of Deym Shalagh near the city of Makoo in western Iran. Security forces belonging to the Revolutionary Guard arrested her on 26 May 2008. She was detained for 21 days at a secret Revolutionary Guard detention center and subsequently transferred to Evin prison ward 209, which is under the control of the Intelligence Ministry. After five months of imprisonment in ward 209, Alam Holi was transferred to the general ward for women in Evin prison, where she is currently being held.
According to an interview by her lawyer, Feridun Shami, her physical condition was so bad that Evin officials at ward 209 refused to take custody of her when she was transferred there from the Revolutionary Guard detention center. She spent a week in Evin’s medical clinic before being transferred to ward 209. Shami also alleged that her client was severely tortured while she was held at the unknown detention facility of the Revolutionary Guard. Alam Holi is accused of enmity toward God, Moharebeh, by cooperating with armed Kurdish opposition groups. However the prosecution did not provide any evidence of armed activity by her. Her lawyer told the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization that he did not expect the death sentence for her client as it does not conform to evidence against her and that he will appeal the sentence. In addition to Shirin Alam Holi, according to several Kurdish human rights organizations, there are 19 other Kurdish political prisoners on death row who could be executed soon.
On 11 January 2010, the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization announced the names of 17 Kurdish prisoners at risk of imminent execution: Zeinab Jalilian, Farzad Kamangar, Habibollah Latifi, Shirkoo Moarefi, Farhad Vakili, Ali Heidarian, Hussein Khazri, Rostam Arkia, Mostafa Salimi, Anvar Rostami, Rashid Akhkandi, Mohammad Amin Agooshi, Ahmad Pooladkhani, Seyed Sami Husseini, Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, Hasan Talei, and Iraj Mohammadi.
Also, on 20 January 2010 the Campaign in Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, announced that the execution sentences of two other young Kurdish political prisoners, Mohammad Amin Abollahi (20) and Ghader Mohammadzadeh (32), have been confirmed by the appeals court in the city of Urumieh.
“The recourse to executing political prisoners under the guise of enmity towards God is deplorable. No religion allows for such summary killings and even more troubling is the naked political nature of these killings to help cement the power of extremist hardliners in charge of most institutions in Iran,” Ghaemi said.
The Campaign notes that the Iranian government extrajudicially executed thousands of political prisoners during the summer of 1988, an act that has been widely recognized by human rights organizations as a crime against humanity. “Today, the very same officials who carried out the 1988 massacres are urging another similar massacre of political prisoners, and the world should not sit by idly until such a crime is underway. The increasing execution of Kurdish prisoners, Iran’s most vulnerable and voiceless prisoners, is an alarm bell. The UN Human Rights Council should take on its responsibility of holding Iran accountable before we face a human rights catastrophe,” Ghaemi said.
Well..Yeah..."Good luck"..
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli and Iranian ministers exchanged a rare handshake on Wednesday while attending a fair to promote tourist destinations in their respective nations, an Israeli official said.
Turkey bombs south Kurdistan
Turkish army bombs southern Kurdistan in mountainous areas Şeladize near Kurejare. Howitzers and mortars attacks are reported close to residential areas. Villagers in the region are worry.
Well..Yeah..Jopseh Ralston, British Directors of weapon companies and Israeli leaders with their lobbyists in the U.S. and weapon sells have actually been lobbying for it. So while Israeli leaders are pushing to get one genocide recognized, they actually have had people in the U.S. getting a whole lot of money lobbying for another genocide and selling weaponry for it, for decades.
In total, in the span of one year, Neusner Communications contacted or met with Jewish American groups at least 100 times – 32 times specifically to discuss Armenian Genocide legislation or Armenian American concerns. Neusner is well-known to Jewish American leaders, having served as President Bush’s liaison to the U.S. Jewish community from 2002 through 2005, in addition to his capacity as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Speechwriting.
Neusner’s DOJ filings indicate that he was hired by the “Embassy of the Republic of Turkey through DiNovo Strategies and Fleishman Hilliard.” DiNovo Strategies partner Jay Footlik served as Clinton Administration liaison to Jewish Americans and to European and Mediterranean groups, including the Armenian American community.
According to the Foreign Agent Registration Act, a firm must register within ten days of agreeing to become an agent and before performing any activities for the foreign entity. It is unclear why Neusner Communications’ filings were submitted over one-year after it began lobbying for Turkey, a lapse that may represent a violation of U.S. DOJ registration guidelines.
FARA also mandates that all communications from public relations firms must conspicuously cite any connection to a foreign government. Copies of email communications submitted by Neusner Communications to the U.S. DOJ make no reference to his firm’s representation of the Turkish Government.
Neusner Communications, Inc. is one of four public relations firms currently representing the Government of Turkey, including DLA Piper, Fleishman Hilliard, and the Gephardt Group, who together receive over $3 million a year for their services.
Neusner Communications is currently paid $8,500 a month by the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey. Leading the campaign to clean up Turkey’s image in the United States are former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and House Majority Leader Dick Armey. Former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston ended his eight-year, $13 million lobbying stint with Turkey earlier this year, after which he picked up a lucrative $2.4 million contract with Libya.
Well..Yeah..Jopseh Ralston, British Directors of weapon companies and Israeli leaders with their lobbyists in the U.S. and weapon sells have actually been lobbying for it. So while Israeli leaders are pushing to get one genocide recognized, they actually have had people in the U.S. getting a whole lot of money lobbying for another genocide and selling weaponry for it, for decades.
In total, in the span of one year, Neusner Communications contacted or met with Jewish American groups at least 100 times – 32 times specifically to discuss Armenian Genocide legislation or Armenian American concerns. Neusner is well-known to Jewish American leaders, having served as President Bush’s liaison to the U.S. Jewish community from 2002 through 2005, in addition to his capacity as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Speechwriting.
Neusner’s DOJ filings indicate that he was hired by the “Embassy of the Republic of Turkey through DiNovo Strategies and Fleishman Hilliard.” DiNovo Strategies partner Jay Footlik served as Clinton Administration liaison to Jewish Americans and to European and Mediterranean groups, including the Armenian American community.
According to the Foreign Agent Registration Act, a firm must register within ten days of agreeing to become an agent and before performing any activities for the foreign entity. It is unclear why Neusner Communications’ filings were submitted over one-year after it began lobbying for Turkey, a lapse that may represent a violation of U.S. DOJ registration guidelines.
FARA also mandates that all communications from public relations firms must conspicuously cite any connection to a foreign government. Copies of email communications submitted by Neusner Communications to the U.S. DOJ make no reference to his firm’s representation of the Turkish Government.
Neusner Communications, Inc. is one of four public relations firms currently representing the Government of Turkey, including DLA Piper, Fleishman Hilliard, and the Gephardt Group, who together receive over $3 million a year for their services.
Neusner Communications is currently paid $8,500 a month by the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey. Leading the campaign to clean up Turkey’s image in the United States are former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt and House Majority Leader Dick Armey. Former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston ended his eight-year, $13 million lobbying stint with Turkey earlier this year, after which he picked up a lucrative $2.4 million contract with Libya.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Flooding in Gaza..
The Gaza government is taking steps towards ensuring that the situation in Gaza does not deteriorate. Projectile lands in Eshkol Regional Council. Haniyeh concluded that Hamas has undertaking a policy of self-restraint but that the recent escalation in Israeli attacks, must be stopped.
Two Gaza crossings opened, limited fuel supplies transferred. Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli authorities opened on Wednesday the Kerem Shalom and Karni crossings in the south and north of Gaza respectively, to allow the transfer of aid and fuel. Palestinian border crossing official, Raed Fattouh, said that between 69 and 79 truckloads of humanitarian aid for the commercial and agriculture sector will be transferred into Gaza via Kerem Shalom.Additionally, limited quantities of industrial diesel and cooking gas will be allowed through the same crossing. Aproximately 98 truckloads of wheat and animal feed will enter Gaza through the Karni crossing. On Tuesday, Israeli authorities opened the Nahal Oz fuel terminal for the first time since it announced its closer in December. Around 259 tons of domestic gas and 752 tons of fuel were transferred into the Strip for the population’s use, while 40 tons of petrol was allowed in for the UN. Meanwhile, 71 truckloads of commercial and agricultural goods were allowed into Gaza through Kerem Shalom, as well as 84 tons of cooking gas.
Well..As if there is not enough hardship in Gaza there are flooding as well. If we try to look at in a positive way it can be good for the soil..like a "cleaning up"..There is no way the Hamas leadership can rebuild and solve the situation in Gaza all by themselves, so we do understand there is need to get people in, making sure the Gaza citizens have what they need to withstand the flooding...So how about the commission and the plans to start rebuilding?
Two Gaza crossings opened, limited fuel supplies transferred. Gaza – Ma’an – Israeli authorities opened on Wednesday the Kerem Shalom and Karni crossings in the south and north of Gaza respectively, to allow the transfer of aid and fuel. Palestinian border crossing official, Raed Fattouh, said that between 69 and 79 truckloads of humanitarian aid for the commercial and agriculture sector will be transferred into Gaza via Kerem Shalom.Additionally, limited quantities of industrial diesel and cooking gas will be allowed through the same crossing. Aproximately 98 truckloads of wheat and animal feed will enter Gaza through the Karni crossing. On Tuesday, Israeli authorities opened the Nahal Oz fuel terminal for the first time since it announced its closer in December. Around 259 tons of domestic gas and 752 tons of fuel were transferred into the Strip for the population’s use, while 40 tons of petrol was allowed in for the UN. Meanwhile, 71 truckloads of commercial and agricultural goods were allowed into Gaza through Kerem Shalom, as well as 84 tons of cooking gas.
Well..As if there is not enough hardship in Gaza there are flooding as well. If we try to look at in a positive way it can be good for the soil..like a "cleaning up"..There is no way the Hamas leadership can rebuild and solve the situation in Gaza all by themselves, so we do understand there is need to get people in, making sure the Gaza citizens have what they need to withstand the flooding...So how about the commission and the plans to start rebuilding?
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