While Chemical weapons are used against Kurds with thousands of children and politicians in jail, 1.5 millions of Iraqis deaths and thousands of US troops and Syrians are massacred all over the whole #¤#¤¤ Syrian country..
US administrations, former CIA directors, Secretary´s of defence, former CIA as presidents, CIA´s, various Jewish leaders and so on have really surpassed themselves this time, with their "US-Turkish guys democratic example and key ally in the war on terrorism", have they not..Where people are jailed in the masses or killed for protesting against war fare and advocating peace and protesting against war-fare!
Any more doubts that this is actually a global Nazi genocidal steamroller?
"As Turkey plays a greater role with the Syrian opposition, it will have an ever-larger say in the political landscape of post-Assad." http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/turkeys-hand-in-the-syrian-opposition/247330/
While these #%¤#¤¤¤ Turks are protesting something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDs-X1l9t-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJsw1sSpWu4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VQlcAhbTyg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=555qVE5UIYw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8E711s7eXU
Monday, October 31, 2011
"Is there a stock of chemical weapons?"
31 October 2011, Autopsy reports are not given to families. In a statement concerning 24 bodies at Malatya State Hospital, BDP Deputy Co-chair Lawyer Meral Danış Beştaş remarked that guerillas had been killed with chemical weapons.
Beştaş stated that the nonbeing of a bullet mark on the bodies -which were burnt and torn into pieces- strengthened the allegations regarding use of chemical weapons.
Beştaş also reacted to the silence of the media on the subject of and commented this silence as a sign of press associations’ loyalty to the instructions given recently by Prime Minister Erdoğan. “Authorities, press and judiciary are silent about the subject”, added Beştaş and directed the following questions to the AKP government;
“Is there a stock of chemical weapons?
Were chemical weapons used in the recent operations?
Why are the autopsy reports of guerillas kept secret?
What is the cause of death written on these autopsy reports? ”
While still 15 families couldn’t identify their children’s bodies and had to give blood samples for DNA test, a delegation, consisting of DTK, BDP, IHD, MEYADER, MAZLUMDER, Diyarbakır Bar Association, Peace Mothers, DTK Coordination Board Member Demir Çelik and BDP Mardin MP Emine Ayna, has arrived in Malatya to stand by families and meet with Prosecutor to ask for autopsy reports.
D.F. - ANF / NEWS DESK http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3425
http://news.yahoo.com/libyas-pm-confirms-presence-chemical-weapons-230833268.html
Dutch businessman who sold raw materials for the production of chemical weapons to Iraq during the reign of Saddam Hussein. http://www.chak.info/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=4&id=15&Itemid=29
Dutch FM supports Turkish cross border raids on PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2011/10/turkey3441.htm
Iraq: Former Regime Weapons Programs and Outstanding U.N. Issues
United Nations, conducted the post-war WMD searches. U.S. teams attempted to find WMD and related production programs. www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL32379.pdf
Reporters Without Borders also voiced concerns about the security agreement which France and Turkey signed on 7 October and which, according to French interior minister Claude Guéant, “goes much further than the agreements that France usually signs in the security domain.” “We hope that the French authorities will not be much more discriminating than their Turkish counterparts as regards combating terrorism,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We urge them not to be sucked in by Ankara’s indiscriminate and repressive approach, which causes many collateral victims, including journalists.”
US-Turkish key alliy in "the war on terrorism and democratic example around Europe":
30 October 2011, Turks attack Kurds in Amsterdam, France and Germany. Many attacks carried out by Turkish nationalists against Kurdish community centers were reported all over Europe.
The attack on Kurds in Holland seems to be a part of a Europe wide coordinated effort by Turks, against Kurdish associated buildings, shops and or businesses. In many European cities Turkish nationalist gathered to carry out attacks on Kurdish community centers and other social places used by Kurds. Attacks against Kurds have been going on for some weeks now all over Europe.
The demonstrators tried to go to Sloterkade, where the Kurdish centre is located. When the riots started, the demonstrators came to blows with the police and smashed in car windshields and the Kurdish cultural center was damaged. Protesters threw stones and beat police with sticks. There are many rumors that shots were fired during the riots.
France: smashed Kurdish shop in Saint-Etienne in France with fascist chants.
Beştaş stated that the nonbeing of a bullet mark on the bodies -which were burnt and torn into pieces- strengthened the allegations regarding use of chemical weapons.
Beştaş also reacted to the silence of the media on the subject of and commented this silence as a sign of press associations’ loyalty to the instructions given recently by Prime Minister Erdoğan. “Authorities, press and judiciary are silent about the subject”, added Beştaş and directed the following questions to the AKP government;
“Is there a stock of chemical weapons?
Were chemical weapons used in the recent operations?
Why are the autopsy reports of guerillas kept secret?
What is the cause of death written on these autopsy reports? ”
While still 15 families couldn’t identify their children’s bodies and had to give blood samples for DNA test, a delegation, consisting of DTK, BDP, IHD, MEYADER, MAZLUMDER, Diyarbakır Bar Association, Peace Mothers, DTK Coordination Board Member Demir Çelik and BDP Mardin MP Emine Ayna, has arrived in Malatya to stand by families and meet with Prosecutor to ask for autopsy reports.
D.F. - ANF / NEWS DESK http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3425
http://news.yahoo.com/libyas-pm-confirms-presence-chemical-weapons-230833268.html
Dutch businessman who sold raw materials for the production of chemical weapons to Iraq during the reign of Saddam Hussein. http://www.chak.info/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=4&id=15&Itemid=29
Dutch FM supports Turkish cross border raids on PKK in Iraqi Kurdistan http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2011/10/turkey3441.htm
Iraq: Former Regime Weapons Programs and Outstanding U.N. Issues
United Nations, conducted the post-war WMD searches. U.S. teams attempted to find WMD and related production programs. www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL32379.pdf
Reporters Without Borders also voiced concerns about the security agreement which France and Turkey signed on 7 October and which, according to French interior minister Claude Guéant, “goes much further than the agreements that France usually signs in the security domain.” “We hope that the French authorities will not be much more discriminating than their Turkish counterparts as regards combating terrorism,” Reporters Without Borders said. “We urge them not to be sucked in by Ankara’s indiscriminate and repressive approach, which causes many collateral victims, including journalists.”
US-Turkish key alliy in "the war on terrorism and democratic example around Europe":
30 October 2011, Turks attack Kurds in Amsterdam, France and Germany. Many attacks carried out by Turkish nationalists against Kurdish community centers were reported all over Europe.
The attack on Kurds in Holland seems to be a part of a Europe wide coordinated effort by Turks, against Kurdish associated buildings, shops and or businesses. In many European cities Turkish nationalist gathered to carry out attacks on Kurdish community centers and other social places used by Kurds. Attacks against Kurds have been going on for some weeks now all over Europe.
The demonstrators tried to go to Sloterkade, where the Kurdish centre is located. When the riots started, the demonstrators came to blows with the police and smashed in car windshields and the Kurdish cultural center was damaged. Protesters threw stones and beat police with sticks. There are many rumors that shots were fired during the riots.
France: smashed Kurdish shop in Saint-Etienne in France with fascist chants.
‘They have lies to spin; we have truths to tell’
Huwaida Arraf: ‘They have lies to spin; we have truths to tell’
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/huwaida-arraf-they-have-lies-to-spin-we-have-truths-to-tell.html
Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.unicef.org/crc/
IRIN: Concerns over Palestinian children in Israeli custody
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49558
http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2009/03/04/children_being_jailed_under_anti/
http://kurdishrights.org/2011/08/02/kurdish-children-in-turkish-prisons-go-hungry-rather-than-go-unheard/
http://www.demotix.com/news/273988/demonstration-against-imprisonment-kurdish-children-turkish-jails
Jailing Kurdish Children to Undermine Dissent http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49558
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/turkey-children-political-prisoners/
Immunity and impunity in elite America
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175458/tomgram%3A_glenn_greenwald%2C_how_the_rich_subverted_the_legal_system/
Tomgram: Glenn Greenwald, How the Rich Subverted the Legal System TomDispatch
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/20111026151321967970.html
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/10/huwaida-arraf-they-have-lies-to-spin-we-have-truths-to-tell.html
Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.unicef.org/crc/
IRIN: Concerns over Palestinian children in Israeli custody
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49558
http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2009/03/04/children_being_jailed_under_anti/
http://kurdishrights.org/2011/08/02/kurdish-children-in-turkish-prisons-go-hungry-rather-than-go-unheard/
http://www.demotix.com/news/273988/demonstration-against-imprisonment-kurdish-children-turkish-jails
Jailing Kurdish Children to Undermine Dissent http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49558
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/turkey-children-political-prisoners/
Immunity and impunity in elite America
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175458/tomgram%3A_glenn_greenwald%2C_how_the_rich_subverted_the_legal_system/
Tomgram: Glenn Greenwald, How the Rich Subverted the Legal System TomDispatch
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/20111026151321967970.html
Karayilan: "PKK would “lay weapons down” if Turkey also recognized the rights of Kurds to self-governance."
"We demand a profound solution through the way of politics and dialogue.”
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3422
The United Nations INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html
Article 30: Children of “ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities … shall not be denied the right to enjoy his or her own culture … religion or … language.”
Article 37: “No child should be subjected to torture or … degrading treatment nor be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully ....”
Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.unicef.org/crc/
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3422
The United Nations INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html
Article 30: Children of “ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities … shall not be denied the right to enjoy his or her own culture … religion or … language.”
Article 37: “No child should be subjected to torture or … degrading treatment nor be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully ....”
Convention on the Rights of the Child http://www.unicef.org/crc/
"Everyone should ask themselves why Ebru went to the mountains, joined the guerrilla, at such a young age."
Guerrilla Ebru Muhikancı was held in Malatya where other 23 bodies are still to be returned to their families. This country has lost thousands of youths in this dirty war. Tear and blood continue here while Israel releases a thousand Palestinian prisoners in exchange for one Israeli prisoner. I grieve so badly in my heart that I don’t want the same thing happen to other mothers. Our pain is so big.” said Birgül Muhikancı, mother of a guerrilla whose body was among those held in Malatya.
People’s Defense Forces (HPG) guerrilla Ebru Muhikancı (Eylem Ararat), who lost her life in the clash in Çukurca district of Hakkari on October 22-24 when chemical weapons were used by Turkish army, making the bodies of guerrillas almost unrecognizable, was buried with the participation of thousands of people in Istanbul yesterday.
BDP Co-Chair Gülten Kışınak, BDP Istanbul MPs Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Sebahat Tuncel also attended the funeral ceremony at Habipler Yayla Neighborhood Cemetery in in Sultangazi district.
Making a speech after the burial, Gülten Kışanak remarked that everyone should ask himself “Why Ebru went to the mountains [i.e. joined the guerrilla] at such a young age”. Kışanak said; “We have lost 30 thousand young people but nobody asks the reason why these young people go to mountains."
"The denial mindset that causes the death of so many young people needs to leave revenge speeches aside and think about the real point.” Referring to President Abdullah Gül’s s statements promising “equal response in return”, Kışanak said; “I am calling them to look at Ebru’s photo for five minutes.”
Kışanak ended her speech promising Ebru to honor their debt when the country obtained peace. “We feel abashed before you for not being able to solve this problem and living your deaths”, added Kışanak.
Following the HPG statement announcing the names of the guerrillas who lost their live in clashes in Çukurca, families went to Malatya and applied to the Prosecution Office to reclaim the burnt bodies of their children. Families are accompanied by executives of Democratic Society Congress (DTK), Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Mesopotamia Solidarity Association for Families of the Missing (MEYADER).
ANF NEWS AGENCY Funeral of guerrilla Ebru held in Istanbul
BDP: Chemical weapons used against guerillas
Use of chemical weapons by Turkish army a reality
Guerrilla families: Bodies are beyond recognition
http://www.yuksekovahaber.com/haber/4-pkklinin-kimligi-aciklandi-60731.htm
Example on "Turkey's efforts to win over ordinary Kurds to its side in the conflict." At the same time as being a "US democratic example" and hosting the Syrian opposition in Istanbul while Syrians are massacred, eliminated, exterminated and #¤#¤¤ committed genocide on all over the country.
Former DTK co-chair Yüksel Genç arrested
Academicians mobilized for arrested colleagues
My bag is ready, Şanar Yurdatapan
Publisher Zarakolu and others appeared in Court
People’s Defense Forces (HPG) guerrilla Ebru Muhikancı (Eylem Ararat), who lost her life in the clash in Çukurca district of Hakkari on October 22-24 when chemical weapons were used by Turkish army, making the bodies of guerrillas almost unrecognizable, was buried with the participation of thousands of people in Istanbul yesterday.
BDP Co-Chair Gülten Kışınak, BDP Istanbul MPs Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Sebahat Tuncel also attended the funeral ceremony at Habipler Yayla Neighborhood Cemetery in in Sultangazi district.
Making a speech after the burial, Gülten Kışanak remarked that everyone should ask himself “Why Ebru went to the mountains [i.e. joined the guerrilla] at such a young age”. Kışanak said; “We have lost 30 thousand young people but nobody asks the reason why these young people go to mountains."
"The denial mindset that causes the death of so many young people needs to leave revenge speeches aside and think about the real point.” Referring to President Abdullah Gül’s s statements promising “equal response in return”, Kışanak said; “I am calling them to look at Ebru’s photo for five minutes.”
Kışanak ended her speech promising Ebru to honor their debt when the country obtained peace. “We feel abashed before you for not being able to solve this problem and living your deaths”, added Kışanak.
Following the HPG statement announcing the names of the guerrillas who lost their live in clashes in Çukurca, families went to Malatya and applied to the Prosecution Office to reclaim the burnt bodies of their children. Families are accompanied by executives of Democratic Society Congress (DTK), Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Mesopotamia Solidarity Association for Families of the Missing (MEYADER).
ANF NEWS AGENCY Funeral of guerrilla Ebru held in Istanbul
BDP: Chemical weapons used against guerillas
Use of chemical weapons by Turkish army a reality
Guerrilla families: Bodies are beyond recognition
http://www.yuksekovahaber.com/haber/4-pkklinin-kimligi-aciklandi-60731.htm
Example on "Turkey's efforts to win over ordinary Kurds to its side in the conflict." At the same time as being a "US democratic example" and hosting the Syrian opposition in Istanbul while Syrians are massacred, eliminated, exterminated and #¤#¤¤ committed genocide on all over the country.
Former DTK co-chair Yüksel Genç arrested
Academicians mobilized for arrested colleagues
My bag is ready, Şanar Yurdatapan
Publisher Zarakolu and others appeared in Court
Kurdish children stamped and characterized as terrorists for protesting against a INSTIGATED war-fare against Kurds
‘’Putting a child into prison and preventing interaction with the family has the effect of making the family collapse,’’ she told IPS. ’The target of this repression is Kurdish society as a whole, the goal is to obstruct the democratic demands of the population.’
“Some children are constantly being kept under observation by the police on their way to school, in the neighbourhood and on the street. After some time, this develops into harassment like saying “We will arrest you again” and into oppression such as saying “What are you doing on the street? Don’t wander around or we will take you into custody.”
Rasmussen: "NATO allies stand in solidarity in the fight against terrorism.”
http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2009/03/04/children_being_jailed_under_anti/
http://kurdishrights.org/2011/08/02/kurdish-children-in-turkish-prisons-go-hungry-rather-than-go-unheard/
http://www.demotix.com/news/273988/demonstration-against-imprisonment-kurdish-children-turkish-jails
Jailing Kurdish Children to Undermine Dissent
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49558
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/turkey-children-political-prisoners/
“Some children are constantly being kept under observation by the police on their way to school, in the neighbourhood and on the street. After some time, this develops into harassment like saying “We will arrest you again” and into oppression such as saying “What are you doing on the street? Don’t wander around or we will take you into custody.”
Rasmussen: "NATO allies stand in solidarity in the fight against terrorism.”
http://www.ifex.org/turkey/2009/03/04/children_being_jailed_under_anti/
http://kurdishrights.org/2011/08/02/kurdish-children-in-turkish-prisons-go-hungry-rather-than-go-unheard/
http://www.demotix.com/news/273988/demonstration-against-imprisonment-kurdish-children-turkish-jails
Jailing Kurdish Children to Undermine Dissent
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49558
http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/turkey-children-political-prisoners/
Chief US Ally Kenya Air Force Accused of Refugee Camp Bombing In Somalia
Chief US Ally Kenya Air Force Accused of Refugee Camp Bombing In Somalia
Yeah...that would be at the same time tens of thousands Somali children are starving to death..More over, just take a good look at the "war on terrorism" against the Kurds for decades, while Iraqis and US troops are attacked and killed in Iraq..
Yeah...that would be at the same time tens of thousands Somali children are starving to death..More over, just take a good look at the "war on terrorism" against the Kurds for decades, while Iraqis and US troops are attacked and killed in Iraq..
Yeah..leave some to have an open market through..exterminate and commit genocide on the rest..that´s what people all over are dying for..isn´t it..
Kurdistan Trade Fair Attracts Hundreds of Businesses
http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/4098.html
While busy committing crimes against humanity and peace, bombing and killing generation after generation after generation, as that´s what ethnically cleaning is about, in earthquakes and as a key ally on the "war on terrorism in Iraq"..
"Where is my son"? http://www.yuksekovahaber.com/haber/berfo-ananin-son-bir-umudu-kaldi--60524.htm
http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/4098.html
While busy committing crimes against humanity and peace, bombing and killing generation after generation after generation, as that´s what ethnically cleaning is about, in earthquakes and as a key ally on the "war on terrorism in Iraq"..
"Where is my son"? http://www.yuksekovahaber.com/haber/berfo-ananin-son-bir-umudu-kaldi--60524.htm
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Psychopaths and their global genocidal Nazi steamroller ARE already in a town near you!
30 October 2011, Many attacks carried out by Turkish nationalists against Kurdish community centers reported all over Europe. French police fired tear gas to break up clashes that erupted between Turkish protesters and young Kurds in central Paris on Sunday.
In reality, today, like in many European cities Turkish nationalist gathered to carry out attacks on Kurdish community centers and other social places used by Kurds. Attacks against Kurds have been going on for some weeks now all over Europe.
ANF / PARIS http://en.firatnews.com/index.php
Medics: Israeli airstrike kills 1, critically wounds another
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) --Israel launched an airstrike on the Gaza Strip hours after a ceasefire truce was agreed upon by Gaza militants. Medical spokesman in the Gaza Strip Adham Abu Salmiya said that one man was killed in the airstrike on Rafah. The victim was identified as Ahmad Jarkhoun. Another man was critically wounded and rushed to hospital, he added.
The latest strike on the coastal enclave comes as the Islamic Jihad movement confirmed earlier on Sunday that it would abide by truce efforts. "Islamic Jihad is committed to the truce as long as the occupation commits to it," an official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"This decision comes after Egyptian efforts to convince the resistance factions, especially Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus," he added.
Slain Pekin (IL) Marine Killed on First Deployment Was Only Child
San Diego (CA) Army Ranger Dies on 14th War Deployment
California Soldier Who Died in Iraq Leaves Wife, Infant Son
Friend Remembers Round Rock (TX) Soldier Killed in Afghan Attack
Virginia Army Sergeant Dies in Iraq, Remembered as Hard Worker
Essex County Sheriff's Officer Killed Serving With NJ Guard
Colorado Army Ranger Killed in Afghanistan
Ashford (AL) Marine Who Surprised Family at Christmas Killed in Afghanistan
Alliance Area (OH) Mourns Loss of Spec Ops Servicewoman Killed in Afghanistan
Two soldiers killed in west Mosul
Katyusha rocket falls on south Baghdad's Jadririya district
Woman killed west Mosul
3 cops wounded in west Mosul
Soldier killed, 3 wounded in Falluja
Two goldsmiths killed, their shops stolen in Wassit Province
Sunday 30 October 2011 , Kurdish activist Salman Ako died after suffering a gunshot to the head by security forces and shabeha, while he was participating in a peaceful demonstration in the city of Keswa in Damascus province.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKYZQH1tBE&feature=channel_video_title
Publisher and Human Rights Defender Ragip Zarakolu Arrested
"They ran up ahead, and we walked for about 15 seconds when I heard a strange whiz, a whistle, eerily close to my ear. I paused, a bullet?" Red hoodie and two younger boys up ahead hit the floor as I momentarily pondered the strange sound. The kids turned around and yelled at us to stupid foreigners to get down. We bent down and started to walk away — fast — and they yelled at us to get completely on the ground. The Israeli army left us no time to be scared. No gunshots over our heads. No warnings. A second bullet whizzed past the three kids, and then us.
The Israelis were shooting at us from the towers 500 meters ahead. This time, we were on the ground. I continued to look at these 9-year-olds or 10-year-olds or whatever they were for cues–walking towards their school under Israeli fire was clearly routine for them and they knew what they were doing.
The Israeli Army shot at me and 3 Palestinian kids in Gaza today
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
In reality, today, like in many European cities Turkish nationalist gathered to carry out attacks on Kurdish community centers and other social places used by Kurds. Attacks against Kurds have been going on for some weeks now all over Europe.
ANF / PARIS http://en.firatnews.com/index.php
Medics: Israeli airstrike kills 1, critically wounds another
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) --Israel launched an airstrike on the Gaza Strip hours after a ceasefire truce was agreed upon by Gaza militants. Medical spokesman in the Gaza Strip Adham Abu Salmiya said that one man was killed in the airstrike on Rafah. The victim was identified as Ahmad Jarkhoun. Another man was critically wounded and rushed to hospital, he added.
The latest strike on the coastal enclave comes as the Islamic Jihad movement confirmed earlier on Sunday that it would abide by truce efforts. "Islamic Jihad is committed to the truce as long as the occupation commits to it," an official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"This decision comes after Egyptian efforts to convince the resistance factions, especially Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus," he added.
Slain Pekin (IL) Marine Killed on First Deployment Was Only Child
San Diego (CA) Army Ranger Dies on 14th War Deployment
California Soldier Who Died in Iraq Leaves Wife, Infant Son
Friend Remembers Round Rock (TX) Soldier Killed in Afghan Attack
Virginia Army Sergeant Dies in Iraq, Remembered as Hard Worker
Essex County Sheriff's Officer Killed Serving With NJ Guard
Colorado Army Ranger Killed in Afghanistan
Ashford (AL) Marine Who Surprised Family at Christmas Killed in Afghanistan
Alliance Area (OH) Mourns Loss of Spec Ops Servicewoman Killed in Afghanistan
Two soldiers killed in west Mosul
Katyusha rocket falls on south Baghdad's Jadririya district
Woman killed west Mosul
3 cops wounded in west Mosul
Soldier killed, 3 wounded in Falluja
Two goldsmiths killed, their shops stolen in Wassit Province
Sunday 30 October 2011 , Kurdish activist Salman Ako died after suffering a gunshot to the head by security forces and shabeha, while he was participating in a peaceful demonstration in the city of Keswa in Damascus province.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFKYZQH1tBE&feature=channel_video_title
Publisher and Human Rights Defender Ragip Zarakolu Arrested
"They ran up ahead, and we walked for about 15 seconds when I heard a strange whiz, a whistle, eerily close to my ear. I paused, a bullet?" Red hoodie and two younger boys up ahead hit the floor as I momentarily pondered the strange sound. The kids turned around and yelled at us to stupid foreigners to get down. We bent down and started to walk away — fast — and they yelled at us to get completely on the ground. The Israeli army left us no time to be scared. No gunshots over our heads. No warnings. A second bullet whizzed past the three kids, and then us.
The Israelis were shooting at us from the towers 500 meters ahead. This time, we were on the ground. I continued to look at these 9-year-olds or 10-year-olds or whatever they were for cues–walking towards their school under Israeli fire was clearly routine for them and they knew what they were doing.
The Israeli Army shot at me and 3 Palestinian kids in Gaza today
http://www.maannews.net/eng/Default.aspx
"Creating work opportunities for the marginalized" i.e construction companies..like in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya. The "marginalized" are exterminated
Militarization's, Youths, any ones for democracy, movements, human rights defenders, "The marginalized" are exterminated, like in Iraq, just like in Turkey and Iran in the 70´s, still going on, just like in Argentine, Chile, just like the Nazis did!
While mass genocidal psychopaths talks a whole LOT of bullsh*t there are actually, ethnically cleanings, exterminations and genocides going on, while every one wonder where the hell the UN body and the international community are!
While mass genocidal psychopaths talks a whole LOT of bullsh*t there are actually, ethnically cleanings, exterminations and genocides going on, while every one wonder where the hell the UN body and the international community are!
It´s just oppress people enough, commit crimes and pick up some youths movements and then set the genocidal steamroller in motion.
That´s what has been put in system since the 70´s, done against the Kurds, just like in Iran and Argentine and that´s exactly what we see on face book today! Where mass genocidal psychopaths are "promoting democracy for every one except from some", against their promoted dictators and totalitarian military states with aided, armed, trained forces, after made sure people are oppressed enough and committed the most gross crimes against, just as a promoted Saddam to power, aided and armed!
Chemical weapons during intensive air assaults
Kurdish guerrillas denounced use of chemical weapons in air raids by Turkish army
People’s Defence Forces press office HPG-BIM has reported that at least 24 guerrillas lost their lives as a result of severe clashes and air attacks where chemical weapons were used in Guze Reşê and Gunde Pîre areas of Çukurca district on October 22.
The statement said that the 24 bodies at Malatya Forensic Medicine Institution are those of HPG guerrillas who lost their life in these clashes. HGP remarked that researches made had confirmed the usage of napalm bombs and chemical weapons during these clashes.
The statement underlined that altogether there was a unit of a total of 35 guerrillas who were in the region during intensive air assaults, intensive chemical bombardment and clashes in Çukurca on 22-24 October. Contacts have been stopped since the bombing.
HPG released the names of all of the 35 guerrillas in that unit, not being able to declare for sure who are those lying in Malatya.
HPG ended the statement calling on all human rights organizations and democratic institutions and establishments to demand investigation into the usage of chemical weapon.
ANF / NEWS DESK
As we said: The Kurds should take their case to a civil court, since the UN body and its members have never prevent any crimes and Turkey with seats in the security council and NATO is actually a GLOBAL #¤#¤¤ GENOCIDAL STEAMROLLER through the UN body while people all over the region and beyond wonder where the hell the international community, the UN, the EU are when people are committed genocide on.
It´s just take a good lock at the #¤"¤¤¤ UN body and its security council if any ones wondered, where it is, while genocides, massacres, ethnically cleanings and exterminations are committed, while mass genocidal psychopaths speaks about democracy, human rights, equal rights, "efforts to win over ordinary people to their side in conflicts", opportunities and free choices and you ¤##¤¤ name it!
Its just take a good look at the UN body and its security council and no ones ever know if, when they are next!
This GLOBAL genocidal steamroller is spreading all over whole #¤#¤¤ continents, while mass genocidal psychopaths speaks a whole LOT of bullsh*t, while every one wonder where the International community and UN are! Every one every where should not live with the illusion they are so #¤#¤¤ safe!
It´s a very relevant question to wonder..if the governments in US and UK deems the situation so alarming and sever on several places where the most gross crimes, intent to destroy whole populations - genocide, are committed that they evacuate their embassies and staff, why don´t they come out with stronger statements, denounce these crimes and take actions against them! Preferable NOT with a #¤#¤¤ global genocidal steamroller they are plowing all over whole peoples with!
People have been demonstrating for decades and we know by now exactly where the hell governments needs to be toppled and overthrown! It´s no coincident that people from all over the globe are gathered in the UK and US to demonstrate, since the 70´s or before!
People’s Defence Forces press office HPG-BIM has reported that at least 24 guerrillas lost their lives as a result of severe clashes and air attacks where chemical weapons were used in Guze Reşê and Gunde Pîre areas of Çukurca district on October 22.
The statement said that the 24 bodies at Malatya Forensic Medicine Institution are those of HPG guerrillas who lost their life in these clashes. HGP remarked that researches made had confirmed the usage of napalm bombs and chemical weapons during these clashes.
The statement underlined that altogether there was a unit of a total of 35 guerrillas who were in the region during intensive air assaults, intensive chemical bombardment and clashes in Çukurca on 22-24 October. Contacts have been stopped since the bombing.
HPG released the names of all of the 35 guerrillas in that unit, not being able to declare for sure who are those lying in Malatya.
HPG ended the statement calling on all human rights organizations and democratic institutions and establishments to demand investigation into the usage of chemical weapon.
ANF / NEWS DESK
As we said: The Kurds should take their case to a civil court, since the UN body and its members have never prevent any crimes and Turkey with seats in the security council and NATO is actually a GLOBAL #¤#¤¤ GENOCIDAL STEAMROLLER through the UN body while people all over the region and beyond wonder where the hell the international community, the UN, the EU are when people are committed genocide on.
It´s just take a good lock at the #¤"¤¤¤ UN body and its security council if any ones wondered, where it is, while genocides, massacres, ethnically cleanings and exterminations are committed, while mass genocidal psychopaths speaks about democracy, human rights, equal rights, "efforts to win over ordinary people to their side in conflicts", opportunities and free choices and you ¤##¤¤ name it!
Its just take a good look at the UN body and its security council and no ones ever know if, when they are next!
This GLOBAL genocidal steamroller is spreading all over whole #¤#¤¤ continents, while mass genocidal psychopaths speaks a whole LOT of bullsh*t, while every one wonder where the International community and UN are! Every one every where should not live with the illusion they are so #¤#¤¤ safe!
It´s a very relevant question to wonder..if the governments in US and UK deems the situation so alarming and sever on several places where the most gross crimes, intent to destroy whole populations - genocide, are committed that they evacuate their embassies and staff, why don´t they come out with stronger statements, denounce these crimes and take actions against them! Preferable NOT with a #¤#¤¤ global genocidal steamroller they are plowing all over whole peoples with!
People have been demonstrating for decades and we know by now exactly where the hell governments needs to be toppled and overthrown! It´s no coincident that people from all over the globe are gathered in the UK and US to demonstrate, since the 70´s or before!
One of 23 deceased HPG member’s father: "Our children were burnt by chemicals."
29.10.2011, MALATYA (DİHA) – Nurettin Muhikancı, father of Ebru Muhikancı who is one of 23 deceased People’s Defence Force (HPG) members, said that HPG members’ bodies were burnt by chemicals since no bullet mark on his daughter’s body.
The bodies of 24 HPG members, who were killed on October 19 in the countryside of Hakkari, were being kept at the Malatya Medical Forensic Institute for a week. Identifying Ebru Muhikancı’s body, father Muhikancı stated that many of the bodies are unrecognizable.
However, Mesopotamia Solidarity Association with Families of Disappeared (MEYADER) Chair Hüseyin Kuğu defined the deaths of HPG members as a massacre since they were killed by the use of chemicals. Kuğu will apply to prosecutor in order to make denouncement against Turkish Military and Security Forces. Muhikancı’s body will be brought to Istanbul this night and burry tomorrow in the Başakşehir District.
(DİHA) Thousands of people continued protest demonstrations for 23 bodies of People Defence Forces (HPG) members in the Kızıltepe and Nusaybin districts of Mardin, Malatya, in the Cizre and Silopi districts of Şırnak and in the Ceylanpınar district of Urfa and Hakkari today.
In Hakkari, demonstrators called on the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputies to suspend their work at the Parliament in order to bring the political operations against Kurdish politicians to its agenda.
Many BDP executives, municipal council members and non-governmental organizations’ representatives were among the protestors. The skirmishes in Diyarbakır ended while police took many people into custody.
Police’ brutal intervention against demonstrators in Diyarbakır and Şırnak
29.10.2011, (DİHA) – Police brutally intervened against demonstrators in Diyarbakır and Şırnak’s district İdil where people gathered today to protest. According to allegations, the bodies belong to People’s Defense Forces (HPG) members who were killed during an armed clash with Turkish Military Forces (TSK) on October 19 in Hakkari-Çukurca.
In Diyarbakır, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Muş Deputy Demir Çelik and Batman Deputy Ayla Akat Ata were assaulted by police during intervention to disperse thousands protestors that gathered subsequent to the call of Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and BDP.
The mass, including assaulted deputies and many other BDP and DTK executives, continued to march despite police attack, while shops weren’t opened in many cities and Diyarbakır as well.
Great hunt for Kurds and pro-Kurdish continues: Publisher Zarakolu and Prof. Ersanlı detained
29.10.2011, (DİHA) - Writer and Publisher Ragıp Zarakolu, Chairman of the Turkish Broadcasting Union’s Committee for Publication Freedom; and Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Assembly Member; were taken into custody yesterday within the scope of the ‘KCK’ arrest terror in Istanbul.
While 42 people were taken into custody as a result of house raids in Mersin, Muğla and Yalova besides Istanbul where BDP Istanbul Political Academy and many houses were raided by Istanbul police, detentions continue in parallel with the unconfirmed information that the police have a list of 70 people to be arrested.
Zarakolu’s son Deniz Zarakolu was also detained with 97 others in Istanbul on October 7. subsequent to the wave of arrests, the Solidarity Platform of Arrested Reporters (TGDP), Oppressed People’s Socialist Party (ESP), Equality and Democracy Party (EDP), Association to Support and Educate Women Candidates (KA.DER) and BDP’s many branches issued press releases and hold demonstration to protest the arrests of writer Zarakolu, academician Ersanlı and many other activists and politicians as well.
EDP, KA.DER, TGDP defined the wave of arrests as the government policy to intimidate and suppress people to make them silent.
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The bodies of 24 HPG members, who were killed on October 19 in the countryside of Hakkari, were being kept at the Malatya Medical Forensic Institute for a week. Identifying Ebru Muhikancı’s body, father Muhikancı stated that many of the bodies are unrecognizable.
However, Mesopotamia Solidarity Association with Families of Disappeared (MEYADER) Chair Hüseyin Kuğu defined the deaths of HPG members as a massacre since they were killed by the use of chemicals. Kuğu will apply to prosecutor in order to make denouncement against Turkish Military and Security Forces. Muhikancı’s body will be brought to Istanbul this night and burry tomorrow in the Başakşehir District.
(DİHA) Thousands of people continued protest demonstrations for 23 bodies of People Defence Forces (HPG) members in the Kızıltepe and Nusaybin districts of Mardin, Malatya, in the Cizre and Silopi districts of Şırnak and in the Ceylanpınar district of Urfa and Hakkari today.
In Hakkari, demonstrators called on the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputies to suspend their work at the Parliament in order to bring the political operations against Kurdish politicians to its agenda.
Many BDP executives, municipal council members and non-governmental organizations’ representatives were among the protestors. The skirmishes in Diyarbakır ended while police took many people into custody.
Police’ brutal intervention against demonstrators in Diyarbakır and Şırnak
29.10.2011, (DİHA) – Police brutally intervened against demonstrators in Diyarbakır and Şırnak’s district İdil where people gathered today to protest. According to allegations, the bodies belong to People’s Defense Forces (HPG) members who were killed during an armed clash with Turkish Military Forces (TSK) on October 19 in Hakkari-Çukurca.
In Diyarbakır, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Muş Deputy Demir Çelik and Batman Deputy Ayla Akat Ata were assaulted by police during intervention to disperse thousands protestors that gathered subsequent to the call of Democratic Society Congress (DTK) and BDP.
The mass, including assaulted deputies and many other BDP and DTK executives, continued to march despite police attack, while shops weren’t opened in many cities and Diyarbakır as well.
Great hunt for Kurds and pro-Kurdish continues: Publisher Zarakolu and Prof. Ersanlı detained
29.10.2011, (DİHA) - Writer and Publisher Ragıp Zarakolu, Chairman of the Turkish Broadcasting Union’s Committee for Publication Freedom; and Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Assembly Member; were taken into custody yesterday within the scope of the ‘KCK’ arrest terror in Istanbul.
While 42 people were taken into custody as a result of house raids in Mersin, Muğla and Yalova besides Istanbul where BDP Istanbul Political Academy and many houses were raided by Istanbul police, detentions continue in parallel with the unconfirmed information that the police have a list of 70 people to be arrested.
Zarakolu’s son Deniz Zarakolu was also detained with 97 others in Istanbul on October 7. subsequent to the wave of arrests, the Solidarity Platform of Arrested Reporters (TGDP), Oppressed People’s Socialist Party (ESP), Equality and Democracy Party (EDP), Association to Support and Educate Women Candidates (KA.DER) and BDP’s many branches issued press releases and hold demonstration to protest the arrests of writer Zarakolu, academician Ersanlı and many other activists and politicians as well.
EDP, KA.DER, TGDP defined the wave of arrests as the government policy to intimidate and suppress people to make them silent.
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Interview with Leyla Amed, commander-in-chief of HRK
While Hillary Clinton met Tawakkul Karmanat speaking about democracy, political and economic opportunities for all and human rights, people are massacred in Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and 11 Kurdish women and more Kurds, have been killed at the border to Iran and by Turkey and mutilated beyond recognition as they have been for decades.
In systematic violations and denial of right to life, democracy, human rights, The United Nations International covenant of civil and political rights, according to UN declarations, Universal human rights, in crimes against humanity and peace, in a extermination and genocidal agenda against the Kurdish people in all spheres and aspects, put in system for decades in cooperations between Turkey, the US administrations, UK, the Iranian regime, Israel..
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Tawakkul Karman Friday at the State Department, where she praised Karman's commitment to democracy and human rights. Clinton said the U.S. wants to be a good partner to the Yemeni people in their political revolution ...and to continue supporting the creation of a new Yemen with political and economic opportunities for all. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Karman the Nobel Peace Prize three weeks ago, along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee.
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Interview with Leyla Amed, commander-in-chief of HRK
30 October 2011, QENDIL, -- Leyla Amed the commander-in-chief of East Kurdistan Defence Forces (HRK) and member of PJAK’s coordination is evaluating the Iranian’s goal to attack Qendil Mountains, the martyrdom of Simko Serhildan and the role of women in the Epic of Qendil.
Iran had a strategic goal in attacking PJAK (Free Life Party of Kurdistan). The goal was not PJAK and Qendil Mountains only. By such an offensive, Iran wanted to liquidate the entire Kurdish resistance movement. Its objective was the neutralisation of all the attainments the Kurds – though enduring struggle - have achieved. From this dimension, one could say that such offensive was aiming for the entire Kurdish population.
This is time for freedom of the Kurds and our freedom movement has made our people to become ever closer to freedom. Kurdish people have created life out of nothing. It has acquired national unity now.
Such things are unbearable for the Islamic Republic of Iran. By such an offensive Iran wanted to weaken the positions of the Kurds. Iranian regime wanted to say I want to liquidate you like I did the other Kurdish groups; it wanted to say I can undo your achievement in a week or two. But they never thought that the guerrillas of East Kurdistan Defence Forces would respond them with a devastating resistance.
The guerrillas of PJAK proved that they are well able to defend themselves and the Kurdish nation from oppression, annihilation, and the criminal policies of the Islamic Republic. They proved they are capable of defending all the Kurdish national values including Qendil as a national symbol of resistance.
Kurdish people have been struggling for decades in the Qendil Mountains. Iranian regime was hoping to crush such a struggle conveying the message to the world that she can, once again, defeat the Kurdish resistance and wipe them out. But the Kurdish guerrillas, once again, showed that no power would be able to crush the guerrillas equipped with the Apoist philosophy.
The Epic of Qendil was a golden page in the history of Kurdish struggle. The most straightforward message behind such a resistance was that today’s Kurd is not the classical Kurd, whom could easily be weakened and overcome by Iranian regime. Kurds now have a massive organisation. They have their own unique ideology and most importantly, they are “condemned” to be free, for they have already lost what they had to.
The Iranian regime didn’t take this into account that if the guerrillas take a position, they would not lose it easily and they will defend it to their last drop of blood. In the Epic of Qendil, Iran could not hit its targets, and tasted a bitter defeat at the hands of Kurdish guerrillas. Iran was hoping to conquest Qendil Mountains in the course of a weak or two, but in a two months battle, and despite employing all forces of Revolution Guards Corps armed with advanced weaponries, they did achieve nothing!
Kurdish guerrilla showed that, not only Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) but the entire Iranian military forces could not do anything. The guerrillas proved that they are not afraid of Iranian tanks and missiles. The guerrillas showed that they have their own unique techniques and possess such a power that no one is able to weaken them. With the martyrdom of Simko Serhildan our resistance in Qendil reached its apex.
Martyr Simko was a symbol of impeccable revolutionary who dedicated his entire life for the Kurdish freedom movement. After the international conspiracy of 1999, he joined the Kurdish resistance movement. He had worked in various difficult and challenging areas such as Dersim and Black Sea. From this perspective he can be regarded as the symbol of national unity, because he didn’t work only in a certain area of Kurdistan.
Martyr Simko always took the national interest, freedom for the Kurdish people and freedom for Leader Apo as the bases of his campaign. In the hardest time, he never complained about the hardness of situations. From ideological and organisational perspective, he made a significant progress in a very short time. As a commander he was positioned in the East Kurdistan, and met all the requirements from both ideological and organisational perspectives. He was well aware that he should safeguard the achievement of the Kurdish nation in every situation.
Martyr Simko was one of the comrades who had fulfilled the national unity in his character. One of the most outstanding points in his personality as a commander was that in all ranges of affairs he was a pioneer. His heart was beating for the Kurds, Kurdistan and the Kurdish youths. His aim was to spread the policy of self-defence to all parts of East Kurdistan. All of his concern was that Kurdish people in East Kurdistan develop to the level of essential-natural--defence. He could never accept the coercion of the Islamic Republic in East Kurdistan and wanted to develop a response to them. One of his aims was to respond to the execution of our comrades in the Iranian detentions. He was extraordinary courageous!
After the execution of Comrade Hemin (HusenXezri), despite the cold winter, he responded to such an act of the Iranian regime in Bane. His message to the Islamic Regime was clear: if you kill one of us; we will kill ten of your forces. From organisational perspective and of targeting the position of the enemy under any circumstance, he was a pioneer. From the smallest thing to the biggest, nothing could have escaped his attention. The right positions of Martyr Simko and the other martyred comrades, led to our victory in Qendil prior to the start of the war, because prior to the start of war you should beat your enemy with your own morale and dedication.
The resistance of Martyr Simko and our other comrades prevented Iran to achieve their goals. What caused Iranian defeat were the high morale and the extraordinary self-esteem of our comrades in the battle. This is only one side of the war. Another side was about the organisation of our comrades. In the mid-summer, a resistance was led that Kurdish history never had experienced. When we saw high morale and the everlasting spirit of our comrades, our strength doubled. In each hill there were only 20-25 comrades. Whereas the Iranian Revolution Guards were armed to teeth with heavy weapons such tanks, mortar and missile launchers etc. The Revolution Guards militated all its power and availed of advanced technology against our few comrades, but could achieve nothing!
There were only two comrades in each fortification, but each of them had at least 5 different weapons. I saw that one of the comrades was using RPG, machine-gun, sniper, Kalashnikov and grenade from his fortification. This is not only an adage that if a guerrilla has the right position can fight a column of enemy’s army. In fact we experienced that in the Epic of Qendil; a fortification of guerrillas did crush a column of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
With such a resistance, the guerrillas of PJAK showed that they will defend their nation and their symbol of national struggle, Qendil, to their last drop of blood, making it a cemetery for the enemy forces. What I should point out is that in the Epic of Qendil, there were Kurdish guerrillas from four parts of Kurdistan resisting the offensives. It would be suitable to regard this resistance as the struggle of the Kurds for national unity.
The role of women in this resistance was heroic and extraordinary. We saw this struggle in the martyrdom of comrades Ewindar and Befrin. Despite all the difficulties from unbearable heat to water shortage, these comrades fought to their last bullets. To void being captured by the enemy, they killed themselves by their last bullet. Such a task needs an extraordinary will-power that the Kurdish women have generated under the influence Apoist philosophy.
Martyr Befrin had used all of her weapons in her fortification and neutralised one entire column of the Revolution Guards. This indicates the power and the organisation of the Kurdish women in East Kurdistan. This resistance of Kurdish women was representing the organisation of Kurdish women throughout Mesopotamian history, representing the Ishtar.
Once again the Kurdish women in East Kurdistan proved that they can be the rightful representatives of the STAR and of the history of Kurdish resistance. The female martyrs in the Epic of Qendil didn’t only show that they are well able to fight against the Revolution Guards, but they also showed that they have the power to fight against the patriarchal system that has been in place for the last 5,000 years; the system that execute women or stone them to death.
The resistance of martyrs Befrin and Ewindar should be evaluated in this way; in the initial offensives launched on 16 July the martyred commander Sarya Onor and Egid were in Serdesht Mountains. They straightforward realised that such operations were aimed at all the entire achievements of the Kurdish people. To neutralise the operations, these comrades carried out suicide attack on a garrison of Revolution Guard in Zimziran.
Commander Sarya well understood the scale of the violence inflicted on women by the Iranian Islamic system. Her foremost objective was to promote the strategy of essential-natural-defence among women in East Kurdistan. The struggle of the Zilans and the Beritans were once again revived in the character of the martyrs such as Sarya. She showed that East Kurdistan has powerful female campaigner, who never submit or surrender, and prefer martyrdom for a free life, rather than submissive life where there is no will-power.
The motto of these women was “or a free life, or a free life”. The resistance of these martyred women has a message for all women in East Kurdistan to rally around the female martyrs and Qendil Mountains to empower themselves.
For the only possible way for a free life and empowerment is found in Qendil Mountains. The only possible way for the freedom of women is to obtain a special level of organisation, to gain the power of essential-natural-defence; and such traits can be obtained in the Qendil Mountains.
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In systematic violations and denial of right to life, democracy, human rights, The United Nations International covenant of civil and political rights, according to UN declarations, Universal human rights, in crimes against humanity and peace, in a extermination and genocidal agenda against the Kurdish people in all spheres and aspects, put in system for decades in cooperations between Turkey, the US administrations, UK, the Iranian regime, Israel..
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Tawakkul Karman Friday at the State Department, where she praised Karman's commitment to democracy and human rights. Clinton said the U.S. wants to be a good partner to the Yemeni people in their political revolution ...and to continue supporting the creation of a new Yemen with political and economic opportunities for all. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Karman the Nobel Peace Prize three weeks ago, along with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee.
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Interview with Leyla Amed, commander-in-chief of HRK 30 October 2011, QENDIL, -- Leyla Amed the commander-in-chief of East Kurdistan Defence Forces (HRK) and member of PJAK’s coordination is evaluating the Iranian’s goal to attack Qendil Mountains, the martyrdom of Simko Serhildan and the role of women in the Epic of Qendil.
Iran had a strategic goal in attacking PJAK (Free Life Party of Kurdistan). The goal was not PJAK and Qendil Mountains only. By such an offensive, Iran wanted to liquidate the entire Kurdish resistance movement. Its objective was the neutralisation of all the attainments the Kurds – though enduring struggle - have achieved. From this dimension, one could say that such offensive was aiming for the entire Kurdish population.
This is time for freedom of the Kurds and our freedom movement has made our people to become ever closer to freedom. Kurdish people have created life out of nothing. It has acquired national unity now.
Such things are unbearable for the Islamic Republic of Iran. By such an offensive Iran wanted to weaken the positions of the Kurds. Iranian regime wanted to say I want to liquidate you like I did the other Kurdish groups; it wanted to say I can undo your achievement in a week or two. But they never thought that the guerrillas of East Kurdistan Defence Forces would respond them with a devastating resistance.
The guerrillas of PJAK proved that they are well able to defend themselves and the Kurdish nation from oppression, annihilation, and the criminal policies of the Islamic Republic. They proved they are capable of defending all the Kurdish national values including Qendil as a national symbol of resistance.
Kurdish people have been struggling for decades in the Qendil Mountains. Iranian regime was hoping to crush such a struggle conveying the message to the world that she can, once again, defeat the Kurdish resistance and wipe them out. But the Kurdish guerrillas, once again, showed that no power would be able to crush the guerrillas equipped with the Apoist philosophy.
The Epic of Qendil was a golden page in the history of Kurdish struggle. The most straightforward message behind such a resistance was that today’s Kurd is not the classical Kurd, whom could easily be weakened and overcome by Iranian regime. Kurds now have a massive organisation. They have their own unique ideology and most importantly, they are “condemned” to be free, for they have already lost what they had to.
The Iranian regime didn’t take this into account that if the guerrillas take a position, they would not lose it easily and they will defend it to their last drop of blood. In the Epic of Qendil, Iran could not hit its targets, and tasted a bitter defeat at the hands of Kurdish guerrillas. Iran was hoping to conquest Qendil Mountains in the course of a weak or two, but in a two months battle, and despite employing all forces of Revolution Guards Corps armed with advanced weaponries, they did achieve nothing!
Kurdish guerrilla showed that, not only Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) but the entire Iranian military forces could not do anything. The guerrillas proved that they are not afraid of Iranian tanks and missiles. The guerrillas showed that they have their own unique techniques and possess such a power that no one is able to weaken them. With the martyrdom of Simko Serhildan our resistance in Qendil reached its apex.
Martyr Simko was a symbol of impeccable revolutionary who dedicated his entire life for the Kurdish freedom movement. After the international conspiracy of 1999, he joined the Kurdish resistance movement. He had worked in various difficult and challenging areas such as Dersim and Black Sea. From this perspective he can be regarded as the symbol of national unity, because he didn’t work only in a certain area of Kurdistan.
Martyr Simko always took the national interest, freedom for the Kurdish people and freedom for Leader Apo as the bases of his campaign. In the hardest time, he never complained about the hardness of situations. From ideological and organisational perspective, he made a significant progress in a very short time. As a commander he was positioned in the East Kurdistan, and met all the requirements from both ideological and organisational perspectives. He was well aware that he should safeguard the achievement of the Kurdish nation in every situation.
Martyr Simko was one of the comrades who had fulfilled the national unity in his character. One of the most outstanding points in his personality as a commander was that in all ranges of affairs he was a pioneer. His heart was beating for the Kurds, Kurdistan and the Kurdish youths. His aim was to spread the policy of self-defence to all parts of East Kurdistan. All of his concern was that Kurdish people in East Kurdistan develop to the level of essential-natural--defence. He could never accept the coercion of the Islamic Republic in East Kurdistan and wanted to develop a response to them. One of his aims was to respond to the execution of our comrades in the Iranian detentions. He was extraordinary courageous!
After the execution of Comrade Hemin (HusenXezri), despite the cold winter, he responded to such an act of the Iranian regime in Bane. His message to the Islamic Regime was clear: if you kill one of us; we will kill ten of your forces. From organisational perspective and of targeting the position of the enemy under any circumstance, he was a pioneer. From the smallest thing to the biggest, nothing could have escaped his attention. The right positions of Martyr Simko and the other martyred comrades, led to our victory in Qendil prior to the start of the war, because prior to the start of war you should beat your enemy with your own morale and dedication.
The resistance of Martyr Simko and our other comrades prevented Iran to achieve their goals. What caused Iranian defeat were the high morale and the extraordinary self-esteem of our comrades in the battle. This is only one side of the war. Another side was about the organisation of our comrades. In the mid-summer, a resistance was led that Kurdish history never had experienced. When we saw high morale and the everlasting spirit of our comrades, our strength doubled. In each hill there were only 20-25 comrades. Whereas the Iranian Revolution Guards were armed to teeth with heavy weapons such tanks, mortar and missile launchers etc. The Revolution Guards militated all its power and availed of advanced technology against our few comrades, but could achieve nothing!
There were only two comrades in each fortification, but each of them had at least 5 different weapons. I saw that one of the comrades was using RPG, machine-gun, sniper, Kalashnikov and grenade from his fortification. This is not only an adage that if a guerrilla has the right position can fight a column of enemy’s army. In fact we experienced that in the Epic of Qendil; a fortification of guerrillas did crush a column of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
With such a resistance, the guerrillas of PJAK showed that they will defend their nation and their symbol of national struggle, Qendil, to their last drop of blood, making it a cemetery for the enemy forces. What I should point out is that in the Epic of Qendil, there were Kurdish guerrillas from four parts of Kurdistan resisting the offensives. It would be suitable to regard this resistance as the struggle of the Kurds for national unity.
The role of women in this resistance was heroic and extraordinary. We saw this struggle in the martyrdom of comrades Ewindar and Befrin. Despite all the difficulties from unbearable heat to water shortage, these comrades fought to their last bullets. To void being captured by the enemy, they killed themselves by their last bullet. Such a task needs an extraordinary will-power that the Kurdish women have generated under the influence Apoist philosophy.
Martyr Befrin had used all of her weapons in her fortification and neutralised one entire column of the Revolution Guards. This indicates the power and the organisation of the Kurdish women in East Kurdistan. This resistance of Kurdish women was representing the organisation of Kurdish women throughout Mesopotamian history, representing the Ishtar.
Once again the Kurdish women in East Kurdistan proved that they can be the rightful representatives of the STAR and of the history of Kurdish resistance. The female martyrs in the Epic of Qendil didn’t only show that they are well able to fight against the Revolution Guards, but they also showed that they have the power to fight against the patriarchal system that has been in place for the last 5,000 years; the system that execute women or stone them to death.
The resistance of martyrs Befrin and Ewindar should be evaluated in this way; in the initial offensives launched on 16 July the martyred commander Sarya Onor and Egid were in Serdesht Mountains. They straightforward realised that such operations were aimed at all the entire achievements of the Kurdish people. To neutralise the operations, these comrades carried out suicide attack on a garrison of Revolution Guard in Zimziran.
Commander Sarya well understood the scale of the violence inflicted on women by the Iranian Islamic system. Her foremost objective was to promote the strategy of essential-natural-defence among women in East Kurdistan. The struggle of the Zilans and the Beritans were once again revived in the character of the martyrs such as Sarya. She showed that East Kurdistan has powerful female campaigner, who never submit or surrender, and prefer martyrdom for a free life, rather than submissive life where there is no will-power.
The motto of these women was “or a free life, or a free life”. The resistance of these martyred women has a message for all women in East Kurdistan to rally around the female martyrs and Qendil Mountains to empower themselves.
For the only possible way for a free life and empowerment is found in Qendil Mountains. The only possible way for the freedom of women is to obtain a special level of organisation, to gain the power of essential-natural-defence; and such traits can be obtained in the Qendil Mountains.
http://www.rojhelat.se/english/
While people are massacred in Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Kurds that are defending themselves against a genocidal agenda "are terrorists and free to kill"
Rallies are to take place in many Kurdish cities. Shutters are down and shops are closed today in most Kurdish cities. People are condemning the horrible torture suffered by 24 people whose bodies have been lying in Malatya's morgue since 24 October. It is understood that the bodies might been those of Kurdish guerrillas. One body at least has indeed been identified as being the body of guerrilla Ebru Muhi Kancı who was born in Kars.
After visiting the morgue, yesterday, BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş had said that “It is a great tragedy and sadness for us to see the children of this people, who try to end the war, who demand peace and make so much effort for a solution, to lose their lives in this way.”
The bodies have been tortured and teared to pieces.
Demirtaş had call on the people to shout their outrage and condemnation of this violence. The call is being answered today in many Kurdish cities both with the shops not opening and rallies. There will be rallies in Diyarbakır where most shops are closed, Cizre, Hazro, Silvan, Bismil, Idil, Mardin among other places.
ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
Photo: dismembered body of Kurdish guerrillas
Shops closed to protest Turkish savagery on body of 24 guerrillas
Pressure on Kurdish activists increases in Iran
Iranian soldiers killed 4 Kurdish workers
After visiting the morgue, yesterday, BDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş had said that “It is a great tragedy and sadness for us to see the children of this people, who try to end the war, who demand peace and make so much effort for a solution, to lose their lives in this way.”
The bodies have been tortured and teared to pieces.
Demirtaş had call on the people to shout their outrage and condemnation of this violence. The call is being answered today in many Kurdish cities both with the shops not opening and rallies. There will be rallies in Diyarbakır where most shops are closed, Cizre, Hazro, Silvan, Bismil, Idil, Mardin among other places.
ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
Photo: dismembered body of Kurdish guerrillas
Shops closed to protest Turkish savagery on body of 24 guerrillas
Pressure on Kurdish activists increases in Iran
Iranian soldiers killed 4 Kurdish workers
Saturday, October 29, 2011
While promoting Turkey as the US democratic example, there are not much difference in Turkey´s past and ongoing crimes to the ones committed in Syria
While Turkey bombs its way into Iraq.. There are 916 more aftershocks reported in Van since Sunday.
Actually, it sure looks like some are not promoting democracies but more cementing their militarization's, and the genocidal fascism they introduced decades ago all over the region and beyond and finish off the genocides and totally ethnically cleanings that have been going since. ALL instigated, aided, administrated, orchestrated, systematically, wide spread, intended and maintained for decades.
Actually, it sure looks like some are not promoting democracies but more cementing their militarization's, and the genocidal fascism they introduced decades ago all over the region and beyond and finish off the genocides and totally ethnically cleanings that have been going since. ALL instigated, aided, administrated, orchestrated, systematically, wide spread, intended and maintained for decades.
American Jewish Committee Director of Strategic Studies, Barry Jacobs: "We want our media to accurately reflect Turkey's importance and achievements."
In 2007, Ghalioun went on Al Jazeera and said, in Arabic, that the two biggest problems besetting the Arab world were dictatorship and clerical control of the media, adding that these were mutually reinforcing.
27 October 2011, ANF - BDP motion concerning hate language in the media Racist and natinalist speeches in the Turkish media increased in the recent term Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) demanded a Parliamentary Research into the use of media language that instigates hate speeches.
The motion with the signatures of BDP Istanbul MP Sebahat Tuncel and 20 other deputies was presented to the Speakership of Parliament with an emphasis that “the media uses a language that produces hate speeches and instigates nationalism and sexism''.
Underlining that necessary legal arrangements needed to be discussed for the formation of an independent and objective press, the motion said; “We propose that the required legal regulations to be made in this regard should be addressed in collaboration with the non-governmental organizations working in this field and a parliamentary commission of investigation should be established to take effective measures in this respect."
BDP motion concerning hate language in the media
Journalists under pressure, RSF
21 October 2011, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salihi has arrived in Ankara on Friday to have talks with both Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Abdullah Gül. Salihi will probably have talks with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoğlu before meeting the president and prime minister.
BDP: This is a war against those demanding rights
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3349
Crimes by Turkey and Iran against Kurds and International Law
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3308
Kışanak: The attempt to close BDP is the an act by war-supporters http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3307
July 16 2011, ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday said she was troubled by Turkey's arrests of dozens of journalists, calling it "inconsistent" with the economic and political progress the moderate Muslim nation has made. Despite those concerns, she said the country could be a model for Arab nations now in the throes of revolt or democratic transition.
Speaking at a coffee house event in Istanbul, Clinton said Turkey's 11 percent growth rate was impressive and that it, along with democratic secular traditions, could inspire Arabs in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria who are demanding reform. She said Turkey has "a lot of lessons to share" and that they could translate with its neighbors in the Arab world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9747182
To date, over 700 individuals and organisations around the world have joined the Set Turkish Journalists Free campaign thank to your support. They have sent a petition letter to the Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling for the release of the jailed journalists in Turkey. However, 68 Turkish journalists still remain in prison with many facing the threat of imprisonment. 36 journalists are being prosecuted and around 50 journalists faced sanctions and fines.
The EFJ together with its affiliate in Turkey, the Turkish Union of Journalists, launched an international postcard campaign by sending a postcard from Brussels with wishes for the Turkish national holiday bairam to the 66 colleagues currently in Turkish prisons. Everyone is invited to join this solidarity campaign for journalists in jail in Turkey by sending a postcard before 6th November to a or several journalists.
They will appreciate very much all international support and solidarity. Don't forget to use the phrase in Turkish "iyi bayramlar" which means "happy fest/happy bairam".
TURKEY: Solidarity Campaign for Journalists in Jail
(04.05.2011) An EFJ delegation represented by the Vice-President, Philippe Leruth, together with ten Turkish colleagues from the Turkish Journalists' Union (TGS), visited the 15 journalists in Silivri Prison in Istanbul marking the World Press Freedom Day. During the visit, Leruth was denied entry to the prison by the Turkish Ministry of Justice because his is a foreign journalist.
EFJ Condemns Police Raid as Turkey Tries to Discipline Dissent in Journalism
(03.03.2011) The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today condemned Turkish police raids into the homes of nine journalists this morning in Istanbul, saying they represent a serious violation of the confidentiality of journalists' sources
http://europe.ifj.org/en/pages/turkey-campaign-set-journalists-free
25 Jul 2011, Journalists held without due process in Turkey
According to Reporters Without Borders, at least nine Azadyia Welat journalists are currently in prison on "propaganda" charges, including two other former editors, Vedat Kursun, serving a 166-year sentence, and Ozan Kilinc, serving for 21 years.
Reporters Without Borders deplores Turkey's abuse of its anti-terrorism law to censor and punish journalists who raise the issue of its Kurdish minority or quote certain Kurdish leaders," the organization states. "Under Article 7/2 of the law, propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization is punishable by imprisonment. [But] as neither 'propaganda' nor 'terrorist organization' is defined, the article can easily be interpreted in the broadest possible way to target almost any journalist or media."
The organization claims Turkey's insistence that Kurdish independence "remains taboo" constitutes "judicial harassment" of the press "used as a pretext for legal proceedings against too many media and journalists in Turkey."
Demir's 138-year sentence was calculated by counting 18 months in jail for each one of her 84 articles written in Azadiya Welat between 2008 and 2009, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. "Reporters Without Borders calls on the appeal court in Diyarbakir to cancel the arrest warrant against Emin Demir and on the appeal court to reject the iniquitous and disproportionate sentence against the journalist," the group's website states.
The organization repeats its call for amendments to the anti-terror law and for the release of Berivan Eker, Bedri Adanir, Vedat Kursun, Ozan Kilinc and all the other journalists imprisoned under this law for their work as journalists.
Read more: Journalist faces 138 years in prison http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=248841#ixzz1cCQ7Ato9
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=248841
Pressure is mounting on journalists in eastern Turkey as the government intensifies its military offensive against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an offensive that is spilling over into neighbouring countries.
As well as a spate of trials and cases of prolonged detention, journalists are now the target of government directives. Journalists who cover Kurdish issues critically continue to be accused of supporting the separatists by officials who cite the war on terror as their overriding imperative. And concern is growing that the government is trying to control coverage of its offensive.
Jailed for an interview?
The Turkish judicial system continues to treat the publication of interviews with PKK members as terrorist propaganda, even if they are accompanied by commentary that stops far short of praising the PKK.
Nese Düzel, a journalist with the liberal daily Taraf, and his editor, Adnan Demir, for example, are being prosecuted for two April 2010 reports containing interviews with former PKK leaders Zübeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal. A prosecutor asked an Istanbul court on 14 October to sentence them to seven and a half years in prison. The next hearing in their trial is to be held on 9 December.
Several Turkish journalists' organizations have voiced strong criticism of Prime Minister Erdogan's meeting with national media owners and executives on 21 October, at which Erdogan urged journalists to show restraint in their coverage of the conflict, to take account of its consequences and to avoid relaying PKK propaganda.
Even more disturbing is the communiquee that five leading Turkish news agencies - AA, AHT, ANKA, CIHAN and IHA - issued jointly on 24 October announcing that, "Common principles have been adopted concerning the coverage of terrorist incidents."
They said they had undertaken to "take account of public order (...) keep a distance from interpretations that encourage fear, chaos hostility, panic or intimidation (...) not include propaganda for illegal organizations" and, above all, to "comply with the publication bans issued by the competent authorities." The communiquee also said: "Account will be taken of social utility and solidarity when selecting reports and photos for transmission to subscribers."
"We had hoped that the era of government directives telling the media how to cover the most sensitive subjects was long over in Turkey," Reporters Without Borders said. "The very vaguely formulated undertaking by the leading news agencies to toe the official line now poses a serious threat to freedom of information.
"Will these agencies, whose job is to provide content to all the media, willingly participate in a news blackout? Minimizing the scale of human losses or choosing not to report certain operations will just increase mistrust of the media. Complete and objective coverage of developments in eastern Turkey is an essential precondition for reaching a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue."
Reporters Without Borders also has concerns about the security agreement which France and Turkey signed on 7 October and which, according to French interior minister Claude Guéant, "goes much further than the agreements that France usually signs in the security domain."
"We hope that the French authorities will be much more discriminating that their Turkish counterparts as regards combating terrorism," Reporters Without Borders said. "We urge them not to be sucked in by Ankara's indiscriminate and repressive approach, which causes many collateral victims, including journalists."
http://www.trust.org/trustmedia/news/turkey-journalists-under-pressure-as-government-pursues-military-offensive-against-pkk/
Turkey 'world leader' in imprisoned journalists, IPI report says
8 Apr 2011 ... Turkey has more journalists in prison than any other country, including China and Iran, according to a press release www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=ipi...turkey...journalists.
Turkish journalist arrested over alleged conspiracy to topple. 14 Feb 2011 ... "This raid isn't against Oda TV, it is against press freedoms," said Atilla Sertel, who heads the Turkish Federation of Journalists.
Turkey's press freedom attack is a disgrace. 6 Apr 2011 ... At an Istanbul protest rally staged last month by concerned Turkish journalists it was claimed that 68 were in detention. There was a similar ...www.thisislondon.co.uk/.../article-23938918-turkeys-press-freedom-attack-is-a-disgrace.do
Imprisonment of Turkish journalists draws MEP rebuke - EUobserver. 9 Mar 2011 ... BRUSSELS - MEPs have condemned the imprisonment of a growing number of journalists in Turkey, scoring the issue as a major black mark ...euobserver.com/9/31951
Reporters Without Borderstwo of turkey's best-known investigative journalists, Ahmet sik and nedim sener, ... plight of journalists in turkey and the zeal with which the authorities prosecute ...
en.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rsf_report_turkey_2011_en.pdf
Jailed Kurdish, Turkish journalists write for freedom in Turkey www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2011/7/turkey3299.htm
Turkey: Journalists' Arrests Chills Free Speech - Bikya Masr : Bikya ...5 Mar 2011 ... Those arrested include Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener, two prominent journalists known for critical reporting on the Turkish criminal justice system ...bikyamasr.com/29601/turkey-journalists’-arrests-chills-free-speech/
English :: Arrests of Journalists Protested in Turkey and Abroad ...7 Mar 2011 bianet.org/.../128386-arrests-of-journalists-protested-in-turkey-and-abroad
Imprisoned Turkish journalists invited to global conference,. 23 Jul 2011 ... Sener and Sik, two of Turkey's leading investigative journalists, are currently incarcerated because of their work. www.gijn.org/.../imprisoned-turkish-journalists-invited-to-global-conference/
19 May 2011. Turkey: Journalism behind bars - Jailed Reporters, With eleven more Turkish journalists also facing charges, the total number could soon double the records of Iran and China. www.jailedreporters.com/jailed-reporters/turkey-journalism-behind-bars.html
IPI: At least 57 journalists in prison in Turkey 5 Apr 2011 blogs.journalism.co.uk/.../ipi-at-least-57-journalists-in-prison-in-turkey/
19 Jul 2011, The Turkish Journalists Association reported earlier this year that 60 journalists were being detained in prison with more than 2000 cases ww.worldpress.org/Europe/3782.cfm
3 Aug 2011, Blue murder is being cried over the lack of press freedom in Turkey. www.journalistinturkey.com/.../objective-journalism-not-in-turkey_2259/
Turkey: Journalism behind bars Independent World ReportTurkey leads world in jailing journalist
Turkey Arrests Journalists in Wave of Media Repression
19 May 2011, Turkey: Journalism behind bars, the total number could soon double the records of Iran and China
Pressure is mounting on journalists in eastern Turkey. 7 Mar 2011, A Turkish court Monday charged five more journalists with involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow Turkey's government.
5 Nov 2010, Those journalists who are committed to truthful reporting suffers
See how American journalists are being silenced too with "Shut Up, America!: The End of Free Speech"
27 October 2011, ANF - BDP motion concerning hate language in the media Racist and natinalist speeches in the Turkish media increased in the recent term Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) demanded a Parliamentary Research into the use of media language that instigates hate speeches.
The motion with the signatures of BDP Istanbul MP Sebahat Tuncel and 20 other deputies was presented to the Speakership of Parliament with an emphasis that “the media uses a language that produces hate speeches and instigates nationalism and sexism''.
Underlining that necessary legal arrangements needed to be discussed for the formation of an independent and objective press, the motion said; “We propose that the required legal regulations to be made in this regard should be addressed in collaboration with the non-governmental organizations working in this field and a parliamentary commission of investigation should be established to take effective measures in this respect."
BDP motion concerning hate language in the media
Journalists under pressure, RSF
21 October 2011, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salihi has arrived in Ankara on Friday to have talks with both Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Abdullah Gül. Salihi will probably have talks with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoğlu before meeting the president and prime minister.
BDP: This is a war against those demanding rights
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3349
Crimes by Turkey and Iran against Kurds and International Law
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3308
Kışanak: The attempt to close BDP is the an act by war-supporters http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3307
July 16 2011, ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday said she was troubled by Turkey's arrests of dozens of journalists, calling it "inconsistent" with the economic and political progress the moderate Muslim nation has made. Despite those concerns, she said the country could be a model for Arab nations now in the throes of revolt or democratic transition.
Speaking at a coffee house event in Istanbul, Clinton said Turkey's 11 percent growth rate was impressive and that it, along with democratic secular traditions, could inspire Arabs in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Syria who are demanding reform. She said Turkey has "a lot of lessons to share" and that they could translate with its neighbors in the Arab world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9747182
To date, over 700 individuals and organisations around the world have joined the Set Turkish Journalists Free campaign thank to your support. They have sent a petition letter to the Turkish Prime Minister, Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan, calling for the release of the jailed journalists in Turkey. However, 68 Turkish journalists still remain in prison with many facing the threat of imprisonment. 36 journalists are being prosecuted and around 50 journalists faced sanctions and fines.
The EFJ together with its affiliate in Turkey, the Turkish Union of Journalists, launched an international postcard campaign by sending a postcard from Brussels with wishes for the Turkish national holiday bairam to the 66 colleagues currently in Turkish prisons. Everyone is invited to join this solidarity campaign for journalists in jail in Turkey by sending a postcard before 6th November to a or several journalists.
They will appreciate very much all international support and solidarity. Don't forget to use the phrase in Turkish "iyi bayramlar" which means "happy fest/happy bairam".
TURKEY: Solidarity Campaign for Journalists in Jail
(04.05.2011) An EFJ delegation represented by the Vice-President, Philippe Leruth, together with ten Turkish colleagues from the Turkish Journalists' Union (TGS), visited the 15 journalists in Silivri Prison in Istanbul marking the World Press Freedom Day. During the visit, Leruth was denied entry to the prison by the Turkish Ministry of Justice because his is a foreign journalist.
EFJ Condemns Police Raid as Turkey Tries to Discipline Dissent in Journalism
(03.03.2011) The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today condemned Turkish police raids into the homes of nine journalists this morning in Istanbul, saying they represent a serious violation of the confidentiality of journalists' sources
http://europe.ifj.org/en/pages/turkey-campaign-set-journalists-free
25 Jul 2011, Journalists held without due process in Turkey
According to Reporters Without Borders, at least nine Azadyia Welat journalists are currently in prison on "propaganda" charges, including two other former editors, Vedat Kursun, serving a 166-year sentence, and Ozan Kilinc, serving for 21 years.
Reporters Without Borders deplores Turkey's abuse of its anti-terrorism law to censor and punish journalists who raise the issue of its Kurdish minority or quote certain Kurdish leaders," the organization states. "Under Article 7/2 of the law, propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization is punishable by imprisonment. [But] as neither 'propaganda' nor 'terrorist organization' is defined, the article can easily be interpreted in the broadest possible way to target almost any journalist or media."
The organization claims Turkey's insistence that Kurdish independence "remains taboo" constitutes "judicial harassment" of the press "used as a pretext for legal proceedings against too many media and journalists in Turkey."
Demir's 138-year sentence was calculated by counting 18 months in jail for each one of her 84 articles written in Azadiya Welat between 2008 and 2009, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest. "Reporters Without Borders calls on the appeal court in Diyarbakir to cancel the arrest warrant against Emin Demir and on the appeal court to reject the iniquitous and disproportionate sentence against the journalist," the group's website states.
The organization repeats its call for amendments to the anti-terror law and for the release of Berivan Eker, Bedri Adanir, Vedat Kursun, Ozan Kilinc and all the other journalists imprisoned under this law for their work as journalists.
Read more: Journalist faces 138 years in prison http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=248841#ixzz1cCQ7Ato9
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=248841
Pressure is mounting on journalists in eastern Turkey as the government intensifies its military offensive against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), an offensive that is spilling over into neighbouring countries.
As well as a spate of trials and cases of prolonged detention, journalists are now the target of government directives. Journalists who cover Kurdish issues critically continue to be accused of supporting the separatists by officials who cite the war on terror as their overriding imperative. And concern is growing that the government is trying to control coverage of its offensive.
Jailed for an interview?
The Turkish judicial system continues to treat the publication of interviews with PKK members as terrorist propaganda, even if they are accompanied by commentary that stops far short of praising the PKK.
Nese Düzel, a journalist with the liberal daily Taraf, and his editor, Adnan Demir, for example, are being prosecuted for two April 2010 reports containing interviews with former PKK leaders Zübeyir Aydar and Remzi Kartal. A prosecutor asked an Istanbul court on 14 October to sentence them to seven and a half years in prison. The next hearing in their trial is to be held on 9 December.
Several Turkish journalists' organizations have voiced strong criticism of Prime Minister Erdogan's meeting with national media owners and executives on 21 October, at which Erdogan urged journalists to show restraint in their coverage of the conflict, to take account of its consequences and to avoid relaying PKK propaganda.
Even more disturbing is the communiquee that five leading Turkish news agencies - AA, AHT, ANKA, CIHAN and IHA - issued jointly on 24 October announcing that, "Common principles have been adopted concerning the coverage of terrorist incidents."
They said they had undertaken to "take account of public order (...) keep a distance from interpretations that encourage fear, chaos hostility, panic or intimidation (...) not include propaganda for illegal organizations" and, above all, to "comply with the publication bans issued by the competent authorities." The communiquee also said: "Account will be taken of social utility and solidarity when selecting reports and photos for transmission to subscribers."
"We had hoped that the era of government directives telling the media how to cover the most sensitive subjects was long over in Turkey," Reporters Without Borders said. "The very vaguely formulated undertaking by the leading news agencies to toe the official line now poses a serious threat to freedom of information.
"Will these agencies, whose job is to provide content to all the media, willingly participate in a news blackout? Minimizing the scale of human losses or choosing not to report certain operations will just increase mistrust of the media. Complete and objective coverage of developments in eastern Turkey is an essential precondition for reaching a peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue."
Reporters Without Borders also has concerns about the security agreement which France and Turkey signed on 7 October and which, according to French interior minister Claude Guéant, "goes much further than the agreements that France usually signs in the security domain."
"We hope that the French authorities will be much more discriminating that their Turkish counterparts as regards combating terrorism," Reporters Without Borders said. "We urge them not to be sucked in by Ankara's indiscriminate and repressive approach, which causes many collateral victims, including journalists."
http://www.trust.org/trustmedia/news/turkey-journalists-under-pressure-as-government-pursues-military-offensive-against-pkk/
Turkey 'world leader' in imprisoned journalists, IPI report says
8 Apr 2011 ... Turkey has more journalists in prison than any other country, including China and Iran, according to a press release www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=ipi...turkey...journalists.
Turkish journalist arrested over alleged conspiracy to topple. 14 Feb 2011 ... "This raid isn't against Oda TV, it is against press freedoms," said Atilla Sertel, who heads the Turkish Federation of Journalists.
Turkey's press freedom attack is a disgrace. 6 Apr 2011 ... At an Istanbul protest rally staged last month by concerned Turkish journalists it was claimed that 68 were in detention. There was a similar ...www.thisislondon.co.uk/.../article-23938918-turkeys-press-freedom-attack-is-a-disgrace.do
Imprisonment of Turkish journalists draws MEP rebuke - EUobserver. 9 Mar 2011 ... BRUSSELS - MEPs have condemned the imprisonment of a growing number of journalists in Turkey, scoring the issue as a major black mark ...euobserver.com/9/31951
Reporters Without Borderstwo of turkey's best-known investigative journalists, Ahmet sik and nedim sener, ... plight of journalists in turkey and the zeal with which the authorities prosecute ...
en.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rsf_report_turkey_2011_en.pdf
Jailed Kurdish, Turkish journalists write for freedom in Turkey www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2011/7/turkey3299.htm
Turkey: Journalists' Arrests Chills Free Speech - Bikya Masr : Bikya ...5 Mar 2011 ... Those arrested include Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener, two prominent journalists known for critical reporting on the Turkish criminal justice system ...bikyamasr.com/29601/turkey-journalists’-arrests-chills-free-speech/
English :: Arrests of Journalists Protested in Turkey and Abroad ...7 Mar 2011 bianet.org/.../128386-arrests-of-journalists-protested-in-turkey-and-abroad
Imprisoned Turkish journalists invited to global conference,. 23 Jul 2011 ... Sener and Sik, two of Turkey's leading investigative journalists, are currently incarcerated because of their work. www.gijn.org/.../imprisoned-turkish-journalists-invited-to-global-conference/
19 May 2011. Turkey: Journalism behind bars - Jailed Reporters, With eleven more Turkish journalists also facing charges, the total number could soon double the records of Iran and China. www.jailedreporters.com/jailed-reporters/turkey-journalism-behind-bars.html
IPI: At least 57 journalists in prison in Turkey 5 Apr 2011 blogs.journalism.co.uk/.../ipi-at-least-57-journalists-in-prison-in-turkey/
19 Jul 2011, The Turkish Journalists Association reported earlier this year that 60 journalists were being detained in prison with more than 2000 cases ww.worldpress.org/Europe/3782.cfm
3 Aug 2011, Blue murder is being cried over the lack of press freedom in Turkey. www.journalistinturkey.com/.../objective-journalism-not-in-turkey_2259/
Turkey: Journalism behind bars Independent World ReportTurkey leads world in jailing journalist
Turkey Arrests Journalists in Wave of Media Repression
19 May 2011, Turkey: Journalism behind bars, the total number could soon double the records of Iran and China
Pressure is mounting on journalists in eastern Turkey. 7 Mar 2011, A Turkish court Monday charged five more journalists with involvement in an alleged plot to overthrow Turkey's government.
5 Nov 2010, Those journalists who are committed to truthful reporting suffers
See how American journalists are being silenced too with "Shut Up, America!: The End of Free Speech"
While promoting Turkey with the most gross crimes against humanity and right to life and "democracy" in Syria, there are not much differences..
While promoting Turkey with committing politicied "as an effort to get ordinary Kurds at the right side of the conflict", which wouldn´t have been necessary in the first place if Kurds have not been denied their political rights and right to life from the beginning. And Syrians are massacred in the masses, activists are eliminated, militarizations, tanks on the streets in both Syria and Turkey and into Iraq, Syrians are exterminated and "#¤#¤¤ committed genocide on, just as the extermination against Kurds in their own land into the borders to Iran has been instigated again and severely inflicting on the Kurds, Iraqis and peoples conditions of life all over the region..
The United Nations INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html
Or maybe some claim that it´s legally and justified to commit genocide on distinguish ethnically groups because of their political views?
Thousands marched in Diyarbakır
BDP MPs attacked by police
Clashes in Cizre
Shops closed in many Kurdish cities
Publisher Zarakolu detained
Western journalists return to Syria Media guardian.co.uk . 24 Jun 2011 ... Return of press for first time since being expelled in March suggests Syrian regime willing to engage in propaganda war. www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/.../western-journalists-return-syria
Yet less than a week later, on Saturday, a Syrian journalist and contributor to the
pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat was arrested, CPJ reported. Just two days before the ...
www.cpj.org/mideast/syria/
Syrian journalist arrested, held without charge , 6 Sep 2011, The Committee to Protect ...
cpj.org/2011/09/syrian-journalist-arrested-held-without-charge.php
Syrian journalist at risk of torture Amnesty International
24 Aug 2011 ... 'Adel Walid Kharsa was arrested by security forces in Hama last week, seemingly in connection with his news reports on the protests. www.amnesty.org/en/.../syrian-journalist-risk-torture-2011-08-24
Fears for Syrian journalist and activist Al Jazeera Blogs, 4 Jul 2011 ... Omar al-Asaad, a Syrian journalist and activist, was arrested yesterday evening during a funeral for a protestor killed in the Damascus suburb ... blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/.../fears-syrian-journalist-and-activist
Syrian journalist missing, Reuters reporter deported. 1 Mar 2011 ... Reporters Without Borders is worried about what may have happened to Syrian journalist Rana Akbani, who has been missing in the east of ... en.rsf.org/libya-syrian-journalist-missing-reuters-31-03-2011,39934.html
Journalist released from Syrian detention describes harrowing ... 10 maj 2011, Days after he was released from a Syrian jail where he was detained for 23 days, journalist Khaled Sid Mohand told FRANCE 24 www.france24.com/.../20110510-algerian-journalist-khaled-sid-mohand
www.amnestyusa.org/news/news.../syrian-journalist-at-risk-of-torture
Syria the next danger zone for journalists? 25 Mar 2011, blog The Cutline on
news.yahoo.com/.../syria-next-danger-zone-journalists-20110325-112720-578.html
The United Nations INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS http://www.hrweb.org/legal/cpr.html
Or maybe some claim that it´s legally and justified to commit genocide on distinguish ethnically groups because of their political views?
Thousands marched in Diyarbakır
BDP MPs attacked by police
Clashes in Cizre
Shops closed in many Kurdish cities
Publisher Zarakolu detained
Western journalists return to Syria Media guardian.co.uk . 24 Jun 2011 ... Return of press for first time since being expelled in March suggests Syrian regime willing to engage in propaganda war. www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/.../western-journalists-return-syria
Yet less than a week later, on Saturday, a Syrian journalist and contributor to the
pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat was arrested, CPJ reported. Just two days before the ...
www.cpj.org/mideast/syria/
Syrian journalist arrested, held without charge , 6 Sep 2011, The Committee to Protect ...
cpj.org/2011/09/syrian-journalist-arrested-held-without-charge.php
Syrian journalist at risk of torture Amnesty International
24 Aug 2011 ... 'Adel Walid Kharsa was arrested by security forces in Hama last week, seemingly in connection with his news reports on the protests. www.amnesty.org/en/.../syrian-journalist-risk-torture-2011-08-24
Fears for Syrian journalist and activist Al Jazeera Blogs, 4 Jul 2011 ... Omar al-Asaad, a Syrian journalist and activist, was arrested yesterday evening during a funeral for a protestor killed in the Damascus suburb ... blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/.../fears-syrian-journalist-and-activist
Syrian journalist missing, Reuters reporter deported. 1 Mar 2011 ... Reporters Without Borders is worried about what may have happened to Syrian journalist Rana Akbani, who has been missing in the east of ... en.rsf.org/libya-syrian-journalist-missing-reuters-31-03-2011,39934.html
Journalist released from Syrian detention describes harrowing ... 10 maj 2011, Days after he was released from a Syrian jail where he was detained for 23 days, journalist Khaled Sid Mohand told FRANCE 24 www.france24.com/.../20110510-algerian-journalist-khaled-sid-mohand
www.amnestyusa.org/news/news.../syrian-journalist-at-risk-of-torture
Syria the next danger zone for journalists? 25 Mar 2011, blog The Cutline on
news.yahoo.com/.../syria-next-danger-zone-journalists-20110325-112720-578.html
Barry Jacobs: "We want our media to accurately reflect Turkey's importance and achievements." Such as this example?
Promoting Turkey - While Turkey´s fascism, violations against universal human rights, the most basic fundamental rights, right to expression with journalists and politicians in jail, including right to life and peace, and exterminations are instigated ones again. The US democratic example while the most gross crimes against humanity is going on in both Syria and as actually lobbed for, aided, maintained and administrated in Turkey for decades. At the borders into Iraq and while attacks and crimes against the Iraqis have been going on for over 8 years.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in late March: “I’ve just come from Egypt, where the Egyptian army stood on the sidelines and allowed people to demonstrate. The Syrians might take a lesson from that.”
In 2007, Ghalioun went on Al Jazeera and said, in Arabic, that the two biggest problems besetting the Arab world were dictatorship and clerical control of the media, adding that these were mutually reinforcing.
After seven months of wrangling to form a cohesive opposition movement, Syrian activists finally pulled it off with the formal announcement in Istanbul of the Syrian National Council (SNC). But the opposition group, which formed in Istanbul and is headquartered there, appears to be increasingly influenced by the Turkish government, which has so far played a significant role in helping to usher Syria toward a post-Assad era.
The group began by reaffirming its desire to see a democratic Syria with constitutional guarantees on civil and political rights. It also says it rejects foreign military intervention, arguing that the only way to topple Assad is through "peaceful" and "legal" means.
Although previously friendly to Assad, AKP's Turkey has since taken the lead among Islamic nations in condemning the regime's violence. Turkey has hosted the majority of Syrian opposition conferences on its soil, from Istanbul to Antalya. Ten thousand Syrian refugees who fled a massacre in the Idleb province last June are currently living in tents on the Turkish border.
Since the Arab Spring kicked off, Erdogan has attempted to play a larger role in Arab politics. The trouble is, Turkey's credibility among many Syrian protesters plummeted in recent weeks after it was reported that Turkish intelligence agents may have been involved in the abduction of Lieutenant Colonel Hussain Harmoush, a leading figure in the Free Syrian Army, a contingent of defected soldiers. Harmoush went missing on August 29, after which his brother quickly claimed that he'd been ambushed in a Turkish refugee camp after government security contacts betrayed him, handing him over to Assad's infamous mukhabarat secret police. Turkey denies any responsibility and has vowed to conduct a government inquiry.
Another headache for Ankara will be the SNC's National Consensus Charter language on Kurdish rights, which are tightly curtailed in Turkey.
The Assad regime is increasingly aggressive against Syrian Kurds' participation in this revolution: Syrian forces recently assassinated Kurdish SNC member Mishal Tammo and closed the border with Turkey to prevent more Kurds from coming in to demonstrate.
Syrian security forces have, in the last several weeks, conducted a dragnet of prominent activists as well as rebel soldiers, thought to be as many as 10,000. Rape and organ theft are allegedly new state policies of intimidation and repression.
Syria's transition stands to be the most dangerous and crucial for the Middle East -- as Turkey plays a greater role with the Syrian opposition, it will have an ever-larger say in the political landscape of post-Assad Syria.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/turkeys-hand-in-the-syrian-opposition/247330/
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in late March: “I’ve just come from Egypt, where the Egyptian army stood on the sidelines and allowed people to demonstrate. The Syrians might take a lesson from that.”
In 2007, Ghalioun went on Al Jazeera and said, in Arabic, that the two biggest problems besetting the Arab world were dictatorship and clerical control of the media, adding that these were mutually reinforcing.
After seven months of wrangling to form a cohesive opposition movement, Syrian activists finally pulled it off with the formal announcement in Istanbul of the Syrian National Council (SNC). But the opposition group, which formed in Istanbul and is headquartered there, appears to be increasingly influenced by the Turkish government, which has so far played a significant role in helping to usher Syria toward a post-Assad era.
The group began by reaffirming its desire to see a democratic Syria with constitutional guarantees on civil and political rights. It also says it rejects foreign military intervention, arguing that the only way to topple Assad is through "peaceful" and "legal" means.
Although previously friendly to Assad, AKP's Turkey has since taken the lead among Islamic nations in condemning the regime's violence. Turkey has hosted the majority of Syrian opposition conferences on its soil, from Istanbul to Antalya. Ten thousand Syrian refugees who fled a massacre in the Idleb province last June are currently living in tents on the Turkish border.
Since the Arab Spring kicked off, Erdogan has attempted to play a larger role in Arab politics. The trouble is, Turkey's credibility among many Syrian protesters plummeted in recent weeks after it was reported that Turkish intelligence agents may have been involved in the abduction of Lieutenant Colonel Hussain Harmoush, a leading figure in the Free Syrian Army, a contingent of defected soldiers. Harmoush went missing on August 29, after which his brother quickly claimed that he'd been ambushed in a Turkish refugee camp after government security contacts betrayed him, handing him over to Assad's infamous mukhabarat secret police. Turkey denies any responsibility and has vowed to conduct a government inquiry.
Another headache for Ankara will be the SNC's National Consensus Charter language on Kurdish rights, which are tightly curtailed in Turkey.
The Assad regime is increasingly aggressive against Syrian Kurds' participation in this revolution: Syrian forces recently assassinated Kurdish SNC member Mishal Tammo and closed the border with Turkey to prevent more Kurds from coming in to demonstrate.
Syrian security forces have, in the last several weeks, conducted a dragnet of prominent activists as well as rebel soldiers, thought to be as many as 10,000. Rape and organ theft are allegedly new state policies of intimidation and repression.
Syria's transition stands to be the most dangerous and crucial for the Middle East -- as Turkey plays a greater role with the Syrian opposition, it will have an ever-larger say in the political landscape of post-Assad Syria.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/turkeys-hand-in-the-syrian-opposition/247330/
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and AIPAC was in effect protecting another country against the charge of genocide
Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt writes in the Sabah Report that “back when Israel and Turkey were strategic allies with extensive military-to-military ties...groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and AIPAC encouraged Congress not to pass resolutions that would have labeled what happened to the Armenians at the hands of the Turks during World War I a ‘genocide’.
The fact that the ADL was in effect protecting another country against the charge of genocide is more than a little ironic.
The fact that the ADL was in effect protecting another country against the charge of genocide is more than a little ironic.
Lobbying against the Kurds in North Iraq and have military trade for billions at the same time
2007-10-24 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Phone Neil Goldstein (AJ Congress) PKK/Iraq.
2007-10-24 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Email Neil Goldstein (AJ Congress) PKK/Iraq.
2007-10-24 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Phone Tom Neumann (JINSA) PKK/Iraq.
2007-10-24 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Phone Jon Missner (AIPAC) PKK/Iraq.
2007-10-31 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Email Neil Goldstein (AJ Congress) PKK/Iraq.
2008-02-11 Noam Neusner Turkey Jerusalem Post Article on Israeli military shipments to Turkey. Various Jewish Leaders.
2008-02-22 Noam Neusner Turkey Transcript of White House briefing on Turkey/PKK conflict. Various Jewish leaders.
2008-04-04 Noam Neusner Turkey Email EU Ruling on PKK issue, Various Jewish leaders
In 2007, bilateral trade between Turkey and Israel rose to $2.7 billion
2007-10-24 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Email Neil Goldstein (AJ Congress) PKK/Iraq.
2007-10-24 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Phone Tom Neumann (JINSA) PKK/Iraq.
2007-10-24 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Phone Jon Missner (AIPAC) PKK/Iraq.
2007-10-31 Noam Neusner Neusner Communications Turkey Email Neil Goldstein (AJ Congress) PKK/Iraq.
2008-02-11 Noam Neusner Turkey Jerusalem Post Article on Israeli military shipments to Turkey. Various Jewish Leaders.
2008-02-22 Noam Neusner Turkey Transcript of White House briefing on Turkey/PKK conflict. Various Jewish leaders.
2008-04-04 Noam Neusner Turkey Email EU Ruling on PKK issue, Various Jewish leaders
In 2007, bilateral trade between Turkey and Israel rose to $2.7 billion
Noam Neusner, former liaison to the Jewish community from the Bush White House, is hired by Turkey. Lobbying through Noam Neusner
Genocide denial a dirty pact between Turkey and Israel and its lobby in the U.S.
Once the 2009 protocols between Armenia and Turkey were signed, a leader of the Turkish ruling party declared, “Now we don’t need the Jews anymore,” according to an article in the Jewish Times. This statement was “a reference to the aid American Jews, as part of the pro-Israel lobby, had given to Turkey in the U.S. Congress to prevent the passing of an Armenian genocide resolution,” according to the article which analyses the history of the strategic relationship between Turkey and Israel.
“Armenian activists were crying foul over Turkey’s hiring of a Jewish lobbyist to work against the recognition of the Armenian genocide,” reports The Forward.
Noam Neusner, former liaison to the Jewish community from the Bush White House, was hired by Turkey “to promote strong ties with major Jewish groups and to urge these groups to oppose House Resolution 106, which would have labeled the murders genocide.”
Filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act reveal that Neusner’s firm communicated heavily with most major Jewish organizations during the Congressional debate on the resolution; groups contacted included the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the American Jewish Congress, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian called Turkey’s hiring of Neusner “a misguided attempt to manipulate Jewish-American opinion.”
American Jewish groups, including the ADL, the American Jewish Committee, B’nai B’rith, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), met with Turkey’s ambassador to the United States, Namik Tan, to discuss the Congressional resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide, among other issues, reports Hurriyet Daily News. One day after the meeting, JINSA released a report entitled, “The Armenian Resolution Should be Opposed and Defeated.”
Aysor reports that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan will meet with representatives of American Jewish organizations, including the ADL, AJC, and AIPAC, when he visits the United States. “The announced meeting is especially important as it comes to be held before April 24,” writes Aysor. “Erdogan appears to have hoped to receive support by the Jewish lobby.”
The JINSA report opposing the Armenian Genocide resolution has been published by the Armenian Weekly. “The Armenian resolution – driven largely by the Armenian American community – should be opposed and defeated,” states the report. “The Congress of the United States is not the place to debate the history of other people in other times. The Ottoman and Soviet Empires are gone; Turkey and Armenia are independent countries. Their governments have to find whatever understanding and accommodation are possible. Meddling by Congress – particularly when Turkey has fallen out of political favor – won’t help.”
JINSA issued its statement shortly after meeting with the Turkish ambassador and other Jewish organizations, including the ADL.
“The American Jewish community has long been supportive of Turkish interests in the United States, as a NATO ally and based on its strategic relationship with Israel,” writes Abe Foxman on the Huffington Post. Foxman outlines the “shared history based on mutual interests and concerns,” but threatens that “politically active Jewish organizations may have to revisit” the alliance due to recent events.
Foxman wrote: “Hopefully, what we are seeing today from Turkey is a temporary detour from the path it has pursued so successfully for years. Hopefully, the friendship we had come to know and to rely on will re-emerge . . . Then we will be able to continue to celebrate our long-held affection and respect for Turkey.”
Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt writes in the Sabah Report that “back when Israel and Turkey were strategic allies with extensive military-to-military ties...groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and AIPAC encouraged Congress not to pass resolutions that would have labeled what happened to the Armenians at the hands of the Turks during World War I a ‘genocide’.
The fact that the ADL was in effect protecting another country against the charge of genocide is more than a little ironic, but who ever said that political organizations had to be ethically consistent?”
In 2007, the Turkish ambassador to Israel told the Post that “Turkey expected Israel to ‘deliver’ American Jewish organizations and ensure that the US Congress does not pass a resolution.” Turkish officials did, however, meet with American Jewish groups, including the ADL, in order to enlist their support.
Meanwhile, in Israel, Meretz chairman Haim Oron called on the Knesset to recognize the Armenian Genocide, stating “the attempts to deny it and erase it from history is part of a campaign that has consequences for other denials.”
The Post reports that “Due to the special relationship and close alliance between Israel and Turkey...Israel has avoided recognizing the Armenian genocide at all costs, and the government has in the past thwarted all attempts to promote such an official recognition.”
Abe Foxman says the ADL decided to boycott of a meeting between American Jewish organizations and Turkish officials because, “I believe in dialogue and meetings but there is a point at which it becomes useless to have a conversation,” reports Haaretz. Foxman says Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s comparison of the Star of David to a swastika is “ugly and anti-Semitic.” Yet Foxman says he would be “delighted to talk” to Turkish officials once they reconcile with the Israeli government.
Foxman admitted, “Our focus is Israel. If helping Turkey helps Israel, then that’s what we’re in the business of doing.” Foxman then questioned whether the Armenian Genocide was even a genocide, saying, “It was wartime. Things get messy.” He also asserted that the Jewish community and Congress should not be the “arbiter” of history.
Also boycotting the meeting with Turkey were the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and B’nai B’rith International, who, like the ADL, had previously lobbied for the Turkish government against Armenian Genocide recognition. The American Jewish Committee, however, “decided to attend the meeting” according to Haaretz, “believing that traditional ties should not be abandoned hastily.”
An AJC spokesperson told Haaretz, “There is a history of relations between the U.S. and Turkey and Israel and it shouldn’t be easily discarded.” Like the others, the AJC has a long history of lobbying for Turkey against affirmation of the Armenian Genocide.
Former LA Times reporter Mark Arax writes for Salon that recent acknowledgements of the Armenian Genocide by major American Jewish organizations is a “shameless turnaround” because “for decades, they have helped Turkey cover up its murderous past,” in support of Israel’s alliance with Turkey. Now because “the game has changed,” with Turkey and Israel feuding over Gaza, “the Armenian Genocide has become a new weapon in the hands of Israel and its supporters in the U.S., a way to threaten Turkey.”
In 2007, Arax wrote an article for the Times “that revealed how genocide denial had become a dirty little pact between Turkey and Israel and its lobby in the U.S.” While researaching the story, he interviewed the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman, who “had just returned from a meeting with Turkish military and government leaders to discuss pressuring Congress, the State Department and President Bush to turn back the genocide resolution once again.”
Arax writes that when he “pointed out that the genocide had already been documented as a fact” and that “Congress recognizes all sorts of people’s history” and has passed “resolutions commemorating the victims of the Holocaust,“ Foxman was affronted that “the oneness of the Holocaust was being debased by Armenians.” Foxman, he says, asked him, “You’re not suggesting that an Armenian Genocide is the same as the Holocaust, are you?”
After describing how the Times killed his story, Arax concludes that the recent “rush of Jewish leaders” confessing their past role in genocide denial “aren’t confessions at all. Rather, they are reminders of the debt Turkey owes Israel – and they come with teeth bared.”
Writing in The Jewish Week, James Besser says it is “offensive” that Jewish organizations for years rebuffed Armenian appeals for help in getting official recognition of the Armenian Genocide.“The fight against genocide is supposed to be absolute – not a matter of politics but of basic morality,” he writes, “a core lesson we have sought to teach the world through Holocaust remembrance . . . memory and historical accuracy matter. ”So why,” he asks, “were we so willing to treat Armenian memory as something that could be modified according to the immediate needs of pro-Israel politics?”
Now that Turkey is no longer a friend to Israel, Jews are suddenly discussing supporting Armenian demands for recognition, according to Besser.“It was offensive when we defended Turkey because it was somehow ‘good for Israel,’ and it’s doubly offensive when we use the threat of ending that protection as just another political bludgeon in the pro-Israel wars...threatening to change your position on an issue as fundamental as genocide – that’s crossing a line the Jewish community should never cross.”
A coalition was formed in reaction to the Anti-Defamation League’s lobbying for the Turkish government to prevent affirmation of the genocide. “Many in the Jewish community were shocked that the ADL and other national Jewish organizations would actively work to deny another people’s genocide,” explain the coalition’s co-founders. “Coalition members cite the double standard of the Holocaust being universally recognized, while affirmation of the Armenian Genocide is subordinated to politics.”
Once the 2009 protocols between Armenia and Turkey were signed, a leader of the Turkish ruling party declared, “Now we don’t need the Jews anymore,” according to an article in the Jewish Times. This statement was “a reference to the aid American Jews, as part of the pro-Israel lobby, had given to Turkey in the U.S. Congress to prevent the passing of an Armenian genocide resolution,” according to the article which analyses the history of the strategic relationship between Turkey and Israel.
“Armenian activists were crying foul over Turkey’s hiring of a Jewish lobbyist to work against the recognition of the Armenian genocide,” reports The Forward.
Noam Neusner, former liaison to the Jewish community from the Bush White House, was hired by Turkey “to promote strong ties with major Jewish groups and to urge these groups to oppose House Resolution 106, which would have labeled the murders genocide.”
Filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act reveal that Neusner’s firm communicated heavily with most major Jewish organizations during the Congressional debate on the resolution; groups contacted included the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the American Jewish Congress, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian called Turkey’s hiring of Neusner “a misguided attempt to manipulate Jewish-American opinion.”
American Jewish groups, including the ADL, the American Jewish Committee, B’nai B’rith, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), met with Turkey’s ambassador to the United States, Namik Tan, to discuss the Congressional resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide, among other issues, reports Hurriyet Daily News. One day after the meeting, JINSA released a report entitled, “The Armenian Resolution Should be Opposed and Defeated.”
Aysor reports that Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan will meet with representatives of American Jewish organizations, including the ADL, AJC, and AIPAC, when he visits the United States. “The announced meeting is especially important as it comes to be held before April 24,” writes Aysor. “Erdogan appears to have hoped to receive support by the Jewish lobby.”
The JINSA report opposing the Armenian Genocide resolution has been published by the Armenian Weekly. “The Armenian resolution – driven largely by the Armenian American community – should be opposed and defeated,” states the report. “The Congress of the United States is not the place to debate the history of other people in other times. The Ottoman and Soviet Empires are gone; Turkey and Armenia are independent countries. Their governments have to find whatever understanding and accommodation are possible. Meddling by Congress – particularly when Turkey has fallen out of political favor – won’t help.”
JINSA issued its statement shortly after meeting with the Turkish ambassador and other Jewish organizations, including the ADL.
“The American Jewish community has long been supportive of Turkish interests in the United States, as a NATO ally and based on its strategic relationship with Israel,” writes Abe Foxman on the Huffington Post. Foxman outlines the “shared history based on mutual interests and concerns,” but threatens that “politically active Jewish organizations may have to revisit” the alliance due to recent events.
Foxman wrote: “Hopefully, what we are seeing today from Turkey is a temporary detour from the path it has pursued so successfully for years. Hopefully, the friendship we had come to know and to rely on will re-emerge . . . Then we will be able to continue to celebrate our long-held affection and respect for Turkey.”
Harvard professor Stephen M. Walt writes in the Sabah Report that “back when Israel and Turkey were strategic allies with extensive military-to-military ties...groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and AIPAC encouraged Congress not to pass resolutions that would have labeled what happened to the Armenians at the hands of the Turks during World War I a ‘genocide’.
The fact that the ADL was in effect protecting another country against the charge of genocide is more than a little ironic, but who ever said that political organizations had to be ethically consistent?”
In 2007, the Turkish ambassador to Israel told the Post that “Turkey expected Israel to ‘deliver’ American Jewish organizations and ensure that the US Congress does not pass a resolution.” Turkish officials did, however, meet with American Jewish groups, including the ADL, in order to enlist their support.
Meanwhile, in Israel, Meretz chairman Haim Oron called on the Knesset to recognize the Armenian Genocide, stating “the attempts to deny it and erase it from history is part of a campaign that has consequences for other denials.”
The Post reports that “Due to the special relationship and close alliance between Israel and Turkey...Israel has avoided recognizing the Armenian genocide at all costs, and the government has in the past thwarted all attempts to promote such an official recognition.”
Abe Foxman says the ADL decided to boycott of a meeting between American Jewish organizations and Turkish officials because, “I believe in dialogue and meetings but there is a point at which it becomes useless to have a conversation,” reports Haaretz. Foxman says Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s comparison of the Star of David to a swastika is “ugly and anti-Semitic.” Yet Foxman says he would be “delighted to talk” to Turkish officials once they reconcile with the Israeli government.
Foxman admitted, “Our focus is Israel. If helping Turkey helps Israel, then that’s what we’re in the business of doing.” Foxman then questioned whether the Armenian Genocide was even a genocide, saying, “It was wartime. Things get messy.” He also asserted that the Jewish community and Congress should not be the “arbiter” of history.
Also boycotting the meeting with Turkey were the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and B’nai B’rith International, who, like the ADL, had previously lobbied for the Turkish government against Armenian Genocide recognition. The American Jewish Committee, however, “decided to attend the meeting” according to Haaretz, “believing that traditional ties should not be abandoned hastily.”
An AJC spokesperson told Haaretz, “There is a history of relations between the U.S. and Turkey and Israel and it shouldn’t be easily discarded.” Like the others, the AJC has a long history of lobbying for Turkey against affirmation of the Armenian Genocide.
Former LA Times reporter Mark Arax writes for Salon that recent acknowledgements of the Armenian Genocide by major American Jewish organizations is a “shameless turnaround” because “for decades, they have helped Turkey cover up its murderous past,” in support of Israel’s alliance with Turkey. Now because “the game has changed,” with Turkey and Israel feuding over Gaza, “the Armenian Genocide has become a new weapon in the hands of Israel and its supporters in the U.S., a way to threaten Turkey.”
In 2007, Arax wrote an article for the Times “that revealed how genocide denial had become a dirty little pact between Turkey and Israel and its lobby in the U.S.” While researaching the story, he interviewed the Anti-Defamation League’s Abe Foxman, who “had just returned from a meeting with Turkish military and government leaders to discuss pressuring Congress, the State Department and President Bush to turn back the genocide resolution once again.”
Arax writes that when he “pointed out that the genocide had already been documented as a fact” and that “Congress recognizes all sorts of people’s history” and has passed “resolutions commemorating the victims of the Holocaust,“ Foxman was affronted that “the oneness of the Holocaust was being debased by Armenians.” Foxman, he says, asked him, “You’re not suggesting that an Armenian Genocide is the same as the Holocaust, are you?”
After describing how the Times killed his story, Arax concludes that the recent “rush of Jewish leaders” confessing their past role in genocide denial “aren’t confessions at all. Rather, they are reminders of the debt Turkey owes Israel – and they come with teeth bared.”
Writing in The Jewish Week, James Besser says it is “offensive” that Jewish organizations for years rebuffed Armenian appeals for help in getting official recognition of the Armenian Genocide.“The fight against genocide is supposed to be absolute – not a matter of politics but of basic morality,” he writes, “a core lesson we have sought to teach the world through Holocaust remembrance . . . memory and historical accuracy matter. ”So why,” he asks, “were we so willing to treat Armenian memory as something that could be modified according to the immediate needs of pro-Israel politics?”
Now that Turkey is no longer a friend to Israel, Jews are suddenly discussing supporting Armenian demands for recognition, according to Besser.“It was offensive when we defended Turkey because it was somehow ‘good for Israel,’ and it’s doubly offensive when we use the threat of ending that protection as just another political bludgeon in the pro-Israel wars...threatening to change your position on an issue as fundamental as genocide – that’s crossing a line the Jewish community should never cross.”
A coalition was formed in reaction to the Anti-Defamation League’s lobbying for the Turkish government to prevent affirmation of the genocide. “Many in the Jewish community were shocked that the ADL and other national Jewish organizations would actively work to deny another people’s genocide,” explain the coalition’s co-founders. “Coalition members cite the double standard of the Holocaust being universally recognized, while affirmation of the Armenian Genocide is subordinated to politics.”
Barry Jacobs: "We don't want those who are not friends of Turkey to have the means to use human rights or other issues against "your" interests."
Noam Neusner, former liaison to the Jewish community from the Bush White House, was hired by Turkey “to promote strong ties with major Jewish groups and to urge these groups to oppose House Resolution 106, which would have labeled the Armenian genocide.”
Filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act reveal that Neusner’s firm communicated heavily with most major Jewish organizations during the Congressional debate on the resolution; groups contacted included the Anti-Defamation League, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the American Jewish Congress, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
American Jewish Committee Director of Strategic Studies Barry Jacobs is retiring, according to Harut Sassounian in an article published in AZG. Jacobs, according to Sassounian, "has been at the forefront of AJC's attempts over the years to undermine the adoption of various congressional resolutions on the Armenian Genocide."
On February 21, Jacobs declared, "The position of all the Jewish organizations, including ADL, was not to have a position on the facts of what happened, or not taking a public position on what happened in 1915, we did not think, do not think, that the United States Congress is the place to settle this."
In 1999, Jacobs told the Turkish Daily News that "We will champion to the best of our ability Turkish interests in the U.S. Congress. We don't want those who are not friends of Turkey to have the means to use human rights or other issues against your interests."
Representatives of the Jewish lobby made a public pledge to do everything in their power to help enact pro-Azeri and pro -Turkish legislation and counter Armenian and Greek initiatives in the U.S. Congress.
This chilling disclo-sure was printed in the Turkish Daily News. Reporter Yasemin Dobra-Manco wrote a lengthy two-part article after speaking with Barry Jacobs, the assistant director of the American Jewish Committee and Daniel Mariaschin, the director of the B'nai B'rith International Center for Public Policy.
Several Jewish-American groups have been lobbying in favour of Turkey and Azerbaijan for some time. Mariaschin told the Turkish Daily News that there are a number of Jewish-American groups that have "U.S-Turkish and Turkish- Israeli relations high on their agenda."
The article lists the following organisations as playing "an increasingly active role in the advocacy of Turkish positions on many issues in the United States:
The American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League, B'nai B'rith, the Conference of Presidents of Major Ameri-can Jewish Organisations, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs."
Both Jacobs and Mariaschin travelled to Istanbul and Ankara to explain "the unique role their organisations can play in the lobbying process in the United States."
Jacobs and a Jewish-American delegation also visited Armenia and Karabagh, in addition to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. They had made a firm decision to support the Turks and the Azeris long before their "fact-finding" trip.
Mariaschin discloses that "Jewish groups are now addressing an expanded agenda of issues," including support for the Baku - Ceyhan pipeline.
In Part II of the article, Jacobs pledges that Jewish organisations will "take an active and vigorous role in being friends of Turkey in the United States.... We will champion to the best of our ability Turkish interests in the U.S. Congress. We will be Turkey's friends officially in Congress and work to help get favourable legislation passed."
Jacobs gives as an example the criticism that Jewish groups received following the placement of an ad in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune to congratulate the Turkish Republic's 75th anniversary. Jacobs admits that many Jews who are members of his group questioned, "why are we supporting Turkey which has a terrible human rights record?"
In trying to minimise the failure of the Jewish groups to lift the ban on aid to Azerbaijan, he calls Section 907 "largely symbolic." He then contradicts himself by disclosing that because of Section 907, Israel's Overseas Development Program cannot send Israeli technicians to Azerbaijan, since the Program receives funds from the U.S. government.
Jacobs states that "it is unfair to single out Azerbaijan, a pro-western and pro-NATO country that has diplomatic relations with Israel." Jacobs says that Armenian forces with the backing of Russia, occupy 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory and have created 1 million in internally displaced persons. Therefore, he explained, "the organised American-Jewish community has come to the conclusion that it is wrong to further victimise Azerbaijan."
Ignoring the fact that Turkey has hired the best U.S. lobbying firms, Jacobs says that the Turkish lobby in the United States is "very small, unorganised and almost non-existent, while Turks in general failed to under-stand the modern lobbying process." His implied message is: "Ignorant and badly organised Turks desperately need Jewish help."
Jacobs also conveniently fails to mention that the entire U.S. government, including the White House, the State and Defence departments, has acted as a giant Turkish lobby for the past 50 years.
Speaking as if he were a Turkish agent, Jacobs makes the following declaration: "We want to work with your Embassy in Washington, the Turkish-American community and Turkey's many friends and win our battles on Capitol Hill. We want the American people and our leaders to understand what Turkey and its citizens have accomplished."
And further states that: "We want our media to accurately reflect Turkey's importance and achievements. We don't want those who are not friends of Turkey to have the means to use human rights or other issues against your interests."
Filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act reveal that Neusner’s firm communicated heavily with most major Jewish organizations during the Congressional debate on the resolution; groups contacted included the Anti-Defamation League, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, B’nai B’rith International, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, the American Jewish Congress, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
American Jewish Committee Director of Strategic Studies Barry Jacobs is retiring, according to Harut Sassounian in an article published in AZG. Jacobs, according to Sassounian, "has been at the forefront of AJC's attempts over the years to undermine the adoption of various congressional resolutions on the Armenian Genocide."
On February 21, Jacobs declared, "The position of all the Jewish organizations, including ADL, was not to have a position on the facts of what happened, or not taking a public position on what happened in 1915, we did not think, do not think, that the United States Congress is the place to settle this."
In 1999, Jacobs told the Turkish Daily News that "We will champion to the best of our ability Turkish interests in the U.S. Congress. We don't want those who are not friends of Turkey to have the means to use human rights or other issues against your interests."
Representatives of the Jewish lobby made a public pledge to do everything in their power to help enact pro-Azeri and pro -Turkish legislation and counter Armenian and Greek initiatives in the U.S. Congress.
This chilling disclo-sure was printed in the Turkish Daily News. Reporter Yasemin Dobra-Manco wrote a lengthy two-part article after speaking with Barry Jacobs, the assistant director of the American Jewish Committee and Daniel Mariaschin, the director of the B'nai B'rith International Center for Public Policy.
Several Jewish-American groups have been lobbying in favour of Turkey and Azerbaijan for some time. Mariaschin told the Turkish Daily News that there are a number of Jewish-American groups that have "U.S-Turkish and Turkish- Israeli relations high on their agenda."
The article lists the following organisations as playing "an increasingly active role in the advocacy of Turkish positions on many issues in the United States:
The American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League, B'nai B'rith, the Conference of Presidents of Major Ameri-can Jewish Organisations, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs."
Both Jacobs and Mariaschin travelled to Istanbul and Ankara to explain "the unique role their organisations can play in the lobbying process in the United States."
Jacobs and a Jewish-American delegation also visited Armenia and Karabagh, in addition to Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey. They had made a firm decision to support the Turks and the Azeris long before their "fact-finding" trip.
Mariaschin discloses that "Jewish groups are now addressing an expanded agenda of issues," including support for the Baku - Ceyhan pipeline.
In Part II of the article, Jacobs pledges that Jewish organisations will "take an active and vigorous role in being friends of Turkey in the United States.... We will champion to the best of our ability Turkish interests in the U.S. Congress. We will be Turkey's friends officially in Congress and work to help get favourable legislation passed."
Jacobs gives as an example the criticism that Jewish groups received following the placement of an ad in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune to congratulate the Turkish Republic's 75th anniversary. Jacobs admits that many Jews who are members of his group questioned, "why are we supporting Turkey which has a terrible human rights record?"
In trying to minimise the failure of the Jewish groups to lift the ban on aid to Azerbaijan, he calls Section 907 "largely symbolic." He then contradicts himself by disclosing that because of Section 907, Israel's Overseas Development Program cannot send Israeli technicians to Azerbaijan, since the Program receives funds from the U.S. government.
Jacobs states that "it is unfair to single out Azerbaijan, a pro-western and pro-NATO country that has diplomatic relations with Israel." Jacobs says that Armenian forces with the backing of Russia, occupy 20 percent of Azerbaijani territory and have created 1 million in internally displaced persons. Therefore, he explained, "the organised American-Jewish community has come to the conclusion that it is wrong to further victimise Azerbaijan."
Ignoring the fact that Turkey has hired the best U.S. lobbying firms, Jacobs says that the Turkish lobby in the United States is "very small, unorganised and almost non-existent, while Turks in general failed to under-stand the modern lobbying process." His implied message is: "Ignorant and badly organised Turks desperately need Jewish help."
Jacobs also conveniently fails to mention that the entire U.S. government, including the White House, the State and Defence departments, has acted as a giant Turkish lobby for the past 50 years.
Speaking as if he were a Turkish agent, Jacobs makes the following declaration: "We want to work with your Embassy in Washington, the Turkish-American community and Turkey's many friends and win our battles on Capitol Hill. We want the American people and our leaders to understand what Turkey and its citizens have accomplished."
And further states that: "We want our media to accurately reflect Turkey's importance and achievements. We don't want those who are not friends of Turkey to have the means to use human rights or other issues against your interests."
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