Rep. Jean Schmidt Found Guilty of Accepting $500,000 in ‘Indirect’ Turkish Lobby Payment
Friday, August 26, 2011
GET THE PICTURE: Turkey/NATO/UN security council: People of Hopa on trial for defending right to life
26 August 2011, Seven people are facing "terrorist propaganda" charges in Hopa after PM election visit unrest. Seven people who were arrested in the course of unrests before and after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's visit to Hopa in June this year are now being tried in Erzurum under allegations of "spreading propaganda for an illegal organization".
Reporting on the news, Bianet writes that the defendants stand accused of "making propaganda for the Turkey's People's Liberation Party-Front (THKP-C). Erdoğan had visited the city on the eastern Black Sea coast during the run-up to the general elections.
The four-page indictment indicates slogans, marches, banners and raising the left fist as 'evidence' of the seven people propaganda making. In the previous ruling, the prosecutor had written that the defendants "had no connections to an illegal organization".
Lawyer Gülşen Uzuner, Secretary General of the Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) Ankara Branch, told bianet, "The people of Hopa are being punished because they defended their right to life and their right for water and because they have revolutionary opinions".
Hundreds of people demonstrated against hydroelectric power plants in Hopa (Artvin) on 31 May, the day of Erdoğan's rally in the city. 54-year old retired teacher Metin Lokumcu died of a heart attack when the police intervened against the demonstrators with the massive use of tear gas. Police officer Servet Erkan was injured when he fell off a vehicle.
Bianet recalls that a total of 36 people were arrested in Hopa, Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir during protests against Lokumcu's death and the police intervention. Only in Hopa 14 people were arrested, seven of whom are now on trial under Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law (TMK) related to propaganda for an illegal organization.
The indictment prepared by Special Authority Public Prosecutor Rasim Karakullukçu was accepted this Wednesday (24 August). It demands prison sentences of between one and three years each for defendants Ali Aksu, İbrahim Aksu, Görgü Demirpençe, İdris Akbıyık, Erhan Köse, Şafak Ustabaş and Önder Öner. The first hearing before the Erzurum 4th High Criminal Court is set for 14 September.
Bianet underlines that the indictment mentions that the legal action started upon the statement of the Artvin Provincial Police Anti-Terror Branch Directorate claiming that "the incidents in Hopa were organized by illegal left-wing organizations". It is furthermore said that members of the legal organizations of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) Hopa District Organization, the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and the Community Centres gathered to protest the rally of PM Erdoğan.
ANF / NEWS DESK
Reporting on the news, Bianet writes that the defendants stand accused of "making propaganda for the Turkey's People's Liberation Party-Front (THKP-C). Erdoğan had visited the city on the eastern Black Sea coast during the run-up to the general elections.
The four-page indictment indicates slogans, marches, banners and raising the left fist as 'evidence' of the seven people propaganda making. In the previous ruling, the prosecutor had written that the defendants "had no connections to an illegal organization".
Lawyer Gülşen Uzuner, Secretary General of the Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) Ankara Branch, told bianet, "The people of Hopa are being punished because they defended their right to life and their right for water and because they have revolutionary opinions".
Hundreds of people demonstrated against hydroelectric power plants in Hopa (Artvin) on 31 May, the day of Erdoğan's rally in the city. 54-year old retired teacher Metin Lokumcu died of a heart attack when the police intervened against the demonstrators with the massive use of tear gas. Police officer Servet Erkan was injured when he fell off a vehicle.
Bianet recalls that a total of 36 people were arrested in Hopa, Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir during protests against Lokumcu's death and the police intervention. Only in Hopa 14 people were arrested, seven of whom are now on trial under Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law (TMK) related to propaganda for an illegal organization.
The indictment prepared by Special Authority Public Prosecutor Rasim Karakullukçu was accepted this Wednesday (24 August). It demands prison sentences of between one and three years each for defendants Ali Aksu, İbrahim Aksu, Görgü Demirpençe, İdris Akbıyık, Erhan Köse, Şafak Ustabaş and Önder Öner. The first hearing before the Erzurum 4th High Criminal Court is set for 14 September.
Bianet underlines that the indictment mentions that the legal action started upon the statement of the Artvin Provincial Police Anti-Terror Branch Directorate claiming that "the incidents in Hopa were organized by illegal left-wing organizations". It is furthermore said that members of the legal organizations of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP) Hopa District Organization, the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) and the Community Centres gathered to protest the rally of PM Erdoğan.
ANF / NEWS DESK
It´s not about bilateral trade is it. It´s actually total exterminations, total destruction's and it´s put in system for decades and intended
US, NATO and International Community should help the Baloch instead of relying on Pakistan: Hyrbyair Marri
Protest spread in South Kurdistan
Military convoy stopped by human shields for one hour
The intentions of crimes against humanity put in system for decades will be VERY #¤¤ clear!
Protest spread in South Kurdistan
Military convoy stopped by human shields for one hour
The intentions of crimes against humanity put in system for decades will be VERY #¤¤ clear!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
4 months ago
Waiting for Turkey in the UN security council and NATO as the savior of wounded and be promoted as the US democratic example world wide in cooperation's with the Iranian regime. Meanwhile, we should count the exterminations, ethnically cleanings and genocides going on.
Benchmark, standard on NATO
Kurdish youth marched to Turkish consulate in Erbil
Kurdish youth to march to war zones as human shields
Fifth day of action by peace mothers in Şırnak
Seven policemen killed, 3 others, 2 civilians injured in Ramadi
Iraqi soldier killed, 2 injured in Falluja, west Iraq
Civilian assassinated in Ninewa
2 women injured in west Mosul
Over 50 Kurdish families desert their homes
Iraqi Police officer, his bodyguard, injured in assassination attempt in Baaquba
Pro-government Sahwa element killed in Baaquba
Four killed, 3 injured in explosion against immigrant family in Diala
Cop killed in Mosul
West Iraq Hit City Council Member killed with his son
Tribal leader and his son, killed in Mosul
Fao's mayor demands area be declared "disaster area"
A Kurd from Mako was killed by the Iranian soldiers on a check point, and 7 other were arrested in Meriwan on the ground of working with the Kurdish political parties.
According to the latest information we received from East Kurdistan, on 21st August, Yousef Mirzayi Alem Holi from the village of Dim Qishlaq of Mako province, came under the gun fire of the Iranian soldiers while he was going back to his house with his children.
Mr Mirzay Alem Holi was killed on the spot; his daughter and son were taken captive by the Iranian soldiers.
In the meantime a brigade of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) raided the villages of Gweze Kor and Espriz in Meriwan areas arrested 7 people.
Kurdish youth to march to war zones as human shields
Fifth day of action by peace mothers in Şırnak
Seven policemen killed, 3 others, 2 civilians injured in Ramadi
Iraqi soldier killed, 2 injured in Falluja, west Iraq
Civilian assassinated in Ninewa
2 women injured in west Mosul
Over 50 Kurdish families desert their homes
Iraqi Police officer, his bodyguard, injured in assassination attempt in Baaquba
Pro-government Sahwa element killed in Baaquba
Four killed, 3 injured in explosion against immigrant family in Diala
Cop killed in Mosul
West Iraq Hit City Council Member killed with his son
Tribal leader and his son, killed in Mosul
Fao's mayor demands area be declared "disaster area"
ISAF operation sparks protest in Ghazni
24 August 2011, IRAN, -- While Iran is escalating its military attacks in East Kurdistan; it also sees no constraint in killing and arresting of the local residents.A Kurd from Mako was killed by the Iranian soldiers on a check point, and 7 other were arrested in Meriwan on the ground of working with the Kurdish political parties.
According to the latest information we received from East Kurdistan, on 21st August, Yousef Mirzayi Alem Holi from the village of Dim Qishlaq of Mako province, came under the gun fire of the Iranian soldiers while he was going back to his house with his children.
Mr Mirzay Alem Holi was killed on the spot; his daughter and son were taken captive by the Iranian soldiers.
In the meantime a brigade of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) raided the villages of Gweze Kor and Espriz in Meriwan areas arrested 7 people.
Ahmadinejad is a CIA asset since 1979..
Just like the "rebel Libyan leader" with Libyan "rebels" forced to fight against forced US and British trained Gaddafi forces..It´s actually no coincident trained "special forces" and British sniper rifles are spread over whole continents, while militants have came through Syria to participate in the Iraqi genocide.
As we said: This so called blog is just a hint..of what´s to be expected.
As we said: This so called blog is just a hint..of what´s to be expected.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
A whole lot of bullsh*t talk..decade after decade after decade of crimes..
It´s to "choose ones enemies"..Isn´t it.."It´s worth it" ...Isn´t it..
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=2918
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=2918
Palestinians rally, British Gas (BG Group) and Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields
22/08/2011 RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Palestinians rallied in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday night in a show of support for the people of Gaza and Syria. Dozens gathered in the city streets holding Syrian and Palestinian flags.
The protesters slammed Israel's air strikes on Gaza, which have killed 14 Palestinians since Thursday, calling on international human rights organizations to intervene to end the hostilities.
A youth campaign to end division between the ruling West Bank party Fatah, and Gaza leaders from Hamas, called the event, which also slammed the killing of civilians by the Syrian army.
Demonstrators held banners demanding the international community intervene to stop the military strikes in Gaza, and chanted slogans slamming the ongoing assault "while the whole world is watching."
Protesters said the UN Security Council should take responsibility to halt hostilities, and called for Palestinians in the diaspora to stand beside Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415221
Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680
The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline.
British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) owned by Lebanon's Sabbagh and Koury families, were granted oil and gas exploration rights in a 25 year agreement signed in November 1999 with the Palestinian Authority.
The rights to the offshore gas field are respectively British Gas (60 percent); Consolidated Contractors (CCC) (30 percent); and the Investment Fund of the Palestinian Authority (10 percent). (Haaretz, October 21, 2007).
The PA-BG-CCC agreement includes field development and the construction of a gas pipeline.(Middle East Economic Digest, Jan 5, 2001).
The BG licence covers the entire Gazan offshore marine area, which is contiguous to several Israeli offshore gas facilities. It should be noted that 60 percent of the gas reserves along the Gaza-Israel coastline belong to Palestine.
The BG Group drilled two wells in 2000: Gaza Marine-1 and Gaza Marine-2. Reserves are estimated by British Gas to be of the order of 1.4 trillion cubic feet, valued at approximately 4 billion dollars. These are the figures made public by British Gas.
The protesters slammed Israel's air strikes on Gaza, which have killed 14 Palestinians since Thursday, calling on international human rights organizations to intervene to end the hostilities.
A youth campaign to end division between the ruling West Bank party Fatah, and Gaza leaders from Hamas, called the event, which also slammed the killing of civilians by the Syrian army.
Demonstrators held banners demanding the international community intervene to stop the military strikes in Gaza, and chanted slogans slamming the ongoing assault "while the whole world is watching."
Protesters said the UN Security Council should take responsibility to halt hostilities, and called for Palestinians in the diaspora to stand beside Palestinians in Gaza.
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=415221
Gaza's Offshore Gas Fields http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680
The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. Discovered in 2000, there are extensive gas reserves off the Gaza coastline.
British Gas (BG Group) and its partner, the Athens based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) owned by Lebanon's Sabbagh and Koury families, were granted oil and gas exploration rights in a 25 year agreement signed in November 1999 with the Palestinian Authority.
The rights to the offshore gas field are respectively British Gas (60 percent); Consolidated Contractors (CCC) (30 percent); and the Investment Fund of the Palestinian Authority (10 percent). (Haaretz, October 21, 2007).
The PA-BG-CCC agreement includes field development and the construction of a gas pipeline.(Middle East Economic Digest, Jan 5, 2001).
The BG licence covers the entire Gazan offshore marine area, which is contiguous to several Israeli offshore gas facilities. It should be noted that 60 percent of the gas reserves along the Gaza-Israel coastline belong to Palestine.
The BG Group drilled two wells in 2000: Gaza Marine-1 and Gaza Marine-2. Reserves are estimated by British Gas to be of the order of 1.4 trillion cubic feet, valued at approximately 4 billion dollars. These are the figures made public by British Gas.
Iranian Human Rights Urges UN to Intervene Immediately
Iran Human Rights seriously concerned about the safety of human rights defender Kouhyar Goudarzi
IHR Urges UN to Intervene Immediately: Serious concern about political prisoners on hunger strike in Iran http://iranhr.net/?debut_articles_recents=15#pagination_articles_recents
Full fledged Genocides, exterminations, total ethnically cleanings going on for decades. Exterminations under occupations for exploitations and the rest is PURE #¤¤ BULLSH*T talk!
IHR Urges UN to Intervene Immediately: Serious concern about political prisoners on hunger strike in Iran http://iranhr.net/?debut_articles_recents=15#pagination_articles_recents
Full fledged Genocides, exterminations, total ethnically cleanings going on for decades. Exterminations under occupations for exploitations and the rest is PURE #¤¤ BULLSH*T talk!
The extermination, genocide actually continues, while "promoting democracy" in Libya and Syria while exploiting oil and gas in Iraq and Kurdistan
KSI strongly condemns Turkish air raid
22 August 2011, -- Seven civilians killed by Turkish actions across the Iraqi border which have been targeting Kurdish positions for five days. The Turkish action has been met by silence from the international community and media.
Kurdistan Solidarity Ireland (KSI) strongly condemns the cross border air raids being carried out against Kurdish targets – both civilian and guerrilla – by Turkey. Beginning on the night of Wednesday August 17 Turkish fighter jets have repeatedly targeted dozens of locations in the Medya Defence Regions – the areas of South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) controlled by PKK – including villages.
The electricity supply to many villages has been interrupted in the area since Wednesday and a number of villages have been evacuated. Kurdish sources stated that the guerrillas have suffered no losses in the attacks, which had been anticipated. Today Firat News Agency named seven Kurdish civilians, including four children and one woman, who were killed by the Turkish attacks. The victims were reportedly fleeing the bombing when their vehicle was targeted by Turkish warplanes.
On behalf of Kurdish exiles living in Ireland, their friends and supporters, we condemn the Turkish government of AKP for these attacks and for their increasingly intolerant attitude to the Kurdish population. Despite constant calls for peace and dialogue from the Kurdish side, the government response has been intransigence, repression and denial, culminating in this latest escalation of war.
We call on European leaders and the Irish government in particular to condemn these airstrikes, to recognise Kurdish autonomy within the state of Turkey and to draw upon their own experience of peacemaking to encourage their Turkish counterparts to recognise the futility of a military response to this conflict and to seek a peaceful, negotiated and democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.
KCK prisoners: declaration of deadlock
24 August 2011, Statement by the Kurdish politicians and activists under trial
Once again the prisoners in the so called KCK (Confederation of Kurdish Communities) trial have expressed their worries for a trial which is so clearly a bluff and unmotivated trial that the only way to keep it going is to continue to postpone it. Two years have passed since the first arrests of many Kurdish politicians and activists and yet to date not a single "evidence" has been produced in court. Because there is no "crime" and so there could be no evidence.
The operation was designed to be a "preventive" operation: indeed thousands of politicians and activists have been arrested in the hope that after their detention some kind of evidence of some kind of crime would come up. Of course it could work like that. And yet scores of politicians, elected representatives, activists are being kept in prison for the sake of it. Or rather with the precise aim to prevent them from doing what they have been elected to do, run the cities, municipalities, councils, civil society organisations. In this sense, yes, the operation succeed in being 'preventive'.
The prisoners, in a long statement write that:
“This concept of attack on the democratic political struggle of the Kurdish people has been implemented with the approval of Prime Minister Erdogan himself and through police force, militants of the Gulen Sect, and judiciary support."
"The main purpose of these operations, as the democratic public opinion knows, is to break the will of Kurdish people and to make them submit through their leading institutions and administrators. The attempt to attack on the Kurdish language, culture, identity and demands with all kinds of special warfare methods is the intention to reach a definitive conclusion failed by the September 12 military coup which was trying to destroy the awakening conscience of the Kurdish people".
Similarly, the statement reads, "April 14 coup aimed at making Kurds disorganized and weak. The mentality is two of a kind in terms of perspective and purpose. Therefore, the trial judging is a conjuncture result of a plan with strategic goals. The trial is therefore an unlawful political conspiracy, as we have expressed many times. Through us, the case intends to judge a people’s struggle for freedom and equality, the democratic politics and all achievements obtained on this democratic ground. This reality necessitates a political approach to the case.”
The prisoners of the KCK trial further state that “Despite everything, in order to respond to the accusation which was ordered to keep the truths hidden, to adjust the reversed facts and to decipher the political conspiracy, we prepared our defenses written both in Kurdish and Turkish so that we could take advantage of our right of defense which we individually regard as divine."
"We also issued a common defense speech which in the same way reflected our common thoughts. However, our demand and right to express ourselves in our mother tongue was denied at the first hearing which first took place 18 months after our imprisonment. Our language was despised and recorded as “unintelligible language”. We once more faced the naked face of the policy of denial and ignore. Our demand for translator was also rejected. We were exposed to unjust accusations and lie allegations and insults during the reading of the indictment which lasted for days."
When we were after a very long time allowed to speak, the court didn’t let us to defend ourselves in our mother language. We were forced to abandon our “language and identity”.
ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
ANF NEWS AGENCY
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
22 August 2011, -- Seven civilians killed by Turkish actions across the Iraqi border which have been targeting Kurdish positions for five days. The Turkish action has been met by silence from the international community and media.
Kurdistan Solidarity Ireland (KSI) strongly condemns the cross border air raids being carried out against Kurdish targets – both civilian and guerrilla – by Turkey. Beginning on the night of Wednesday August 17 Turkish fighter jets have repeatedly targeted dozens of locations in the Medya Defence Regions – the areas of South Kurdistan (Northern Iraq) controlled by PKK – including villages.
The electricity supply to many villages has been interrupted in the area since Wednesday and a number of villages have been evacuated. Kurdish sources stated that the guerrillas have suffered no losses in the attacks, which had been anticipated. Today Firat News Agency named seven Kurdish civilians, including four children and one woman, who were killed by the Turkish attacks. The victims were reportedly fleeing the bombing when their vehicle was targeted by Turkish warplanes.
On behalf of Kurdish exiles living in Ireland, their friends and supporters, we condemn the Turkish government of AKP for these attacks and for their increasingly intolerant attitude to the Kurdish population. Despite constant calls for peace and dialogue from the Kurdish side, the government response has been intransigence, repression and denial, culminating in this latest escalation of war.
We call on European leaders and the Irish government in particular to condemn these airstrikes, to recognise Kurdish autonomy within the state of Turkey and to draw upon their own experience of peacemaking to encourage their Turkish counterparts to recognise the futility of a military response to this conflict and to seek a peaceful, negotiated and democratic solution to the Kurdish issue.
KCK prisoners: declaration of deadlock
24 August 2011, Statement by the Kurdish politicians and activists under trial
Once again the prisoners in the so called KCK (Confederation of Kurdish Communities) trial have expressed their worries for a trial which is so clearly a bluff and unmotivated trial that the only way to keep it going is to continue to postpone it. Two years have passed since the first arrests of many Kurdish politicians and activists and yet to date not a single "evidence" has been produced in court. Because there is no "crime" and so there could be no evidence.
The operation was designed to be a "preventive" operation: indeed thousands of politicians and activists have been arrested in the hope that after their detention some kind of evidence of some kind of crime would come up. Of course it could work like that. And yet scores of politicians, elected representatives, activists are being kept in prison for the sake of it. Or rather with the precise aim to prevent them from doing what they have been elected to do, run the cities, municipalities, councils, civil society organisations. In this sense, yes, the operation succeed in being 'preventive'.
The prisoners, in a long statement write that:
“This concept of attack on the democratic political struggle of the Kurdish people has been implemented with the approval of Prime Minister Erdogan himself and through police force, militants of the Gulen Sect, and judiciary support."
"The main purpose of these operations, as the democratic public opinion knows, is to break the will of Kurdish people and to make them submit through their leading institutions and administrators. The attempt to attack on the Kurdish language, culture, identity and demands with all kinds of special warfare methods is the intention to reach a definitive conclusion failed by the September 12 military coup which was trying to destroy the awakening conscience of the Kurdish people".
Similarly, the statement reads, "April 14 coup aimed at making Kurds disorganized and weak. The mentality is two of a kind in terms of perspective and purpose. Therefore, the trial judging is a conjuncture result of a plan with strategic goals. The trial is therefore an unlawful political conspiracy, as we have expressed many times. Through us, the case intends to judge a people’s struggle for freedom and equality, the democratic politics and all achievements obtained on this democratic ground. This reality necessitates a political approach to the case.”
The prisoners of the KCK trial further state that “Despite everything, in order to respond to the accusation which was ordered to keep the truths hidden, to adjust the reversed facts and to decipher the political conspiracy, we prepared our defenses written both in Kurdish and Turkish so that we could take advantage of our right of defense which we individually regard as divine."
"We also issued a common defense speech which in the same way reflected our common thoughts. However, our demand and right to express ourselves in our mother tongue was denied at the first hearing which first took place 18 months after our imprisonment. Our language was despised and recorded as “unintelligible language”. We once more faced the naked face of the policy of denial and ignore. Our demand for translator was also rejected. We were exposed to unjust accusations and lie allegations and insults during the reading of the indictment which lasted for days."
When we were after a very long time allowed to speak, the court didn’t let us to defend ourselves in our mother language. We were forced to abandon our “language and identity”.
ANF / DIYARBAKIR/AMED
ANF NEWS AGENCY
http://en.firatnews.com/index.php?rupel=home
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