Mesopotamische EntwicklungsGesellschaft - Mezopotamian Development Society (Registered) THE MOST REQUESTED DAILY & ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSSERVICE ON KURDISTAN FOR THE HIGHLY INVOLVED PEOPLE MESOP English & German Version - (FOUNDED 1988) / PO Box 5135 - D 61440 OBERURSEL – Germany VISIT & SUBSCRIBE (or unsubscribe) MESOP NEWSLETTER ON OUR WEBSITE : mesop.de Editors Facebook: facebook/guy.debod PEACE FRUITS OF GENEVA (I) The Assad delegation also told the opposition, “Syria was and is still ruled by men of State, not by amateurs or semi-men.” TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION - FRUITS OF GENEVA (II) 1,900 Killed in Syria During Peace Talks, Report Activists Global News. Canada. 1 Feb 2014 TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION (III) – Downplay of Islam in Kurdistan Nazim Abdulla, a senior member of the Kurdistan Islamic Group led by Ali Bapir, has recently called on the party to drop the term “Islamic” from its name in order to strengthen its presence on the political scene. He warned that the Islamist group—colloquially referred to as Komal—might be losing potential supporters due to some Kurds being intimidated by the “Islamic” nature of the group. Abdulla said it was important to clarify that the Kurdistan Islamic Group was seeking to serve the interests of all Kurds “regardless of their ideological views or background.” (…) ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/1/state7709.htm TODAY’S MESOP QUOTATION (IV) - THE INFAMOUS EXPLOITATION OF AUSCHWITZ TO USE THE TERM ‚HOLOCAUST‘ WITHOUT MENTIONING THE JEWS IS LIKE TO USE THE TERM OF ‚HALABJA‘ WITHOUT NAMING THE KURDS ‘Holocaust Commemoration & Genocide Awareness 6 pm to 8 pm, Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 - House of Commons, Committee Room 16 Hosted by Mr. Virendra Sharma MP - Speakers include Rev. Dr. Marcus Braybrooke, Ruth Barnett, Desmond Fernandes and Edwin Shuker You are cordially invited to address the conference on Genocide Awareness and Holocaust Commemoration on Tuesday 4th of February in the House of Commons. It is important to understand the stages of the path to genocide. (..) The Holocaust was the culmination of a series of social, cultural and political developments. “A series of social, cultural and political developments”?! - Useful Auschwitz! This intentional relativization of the historically singular Holocaust in everything transfers the original term into just a brief moment in history which has passed by. Completed by Jean Marie Le Pen’s & Lady Ashtons successors. An infamous Commemoration! (MESOP). MESOP DOCUMENTATION / The Politics of the Islamic Front : Part 5 - The Kurds 30. 1. 2014 - Carnegie Europe - The Islamic Front, widely seen as the largest alliance of rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is an umbrella movement of seven different groups. It has presented unified positions on a number of issues, but in one case the Islamic Front has had trouble reconciling its stated ideological agenda with political reality—namely, the Kurdish question. m.ceip.org/syriaincrisis/index.cfm?fa=54367 WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) MESOP’S MUST READ: Understanding Syria – From Pre-Civil War to Post-Assad How drought, foreign meddling, and long-festering religious tensions created the tragically splintered Syria we know today. (Click bottom link for pictures & Graphics) – The Atlantic – By William R. POLK (Dec. 2013) - Now he offers an updated report on the grim prospects in Syria. Like his previous offerings, it is long and detailed—but as with the others, it offers both a coherent perspective and a myriad of facts and insights you will not find elsewhere. —James Fallows. Read all : mesop.de/?p=42650 FOLLOW UP GENEVA Syria Daily: Geneva II Ends, Regime Bombings Soar By Scott Lucas February 1, 2014 – eaworldview - The Geneva II conference adjourned on Friday with no significant advance, overtaken by the Assad regime’s escalating campaign of bombing in southern Syria. - Almost 40 bombs fell on the Damascus suburb of Darayya yesterday, bringing the today to more than 70 since Wednesday. Airstrikes were also carried out on other areas in the south such as Zabadani and East Ghouta near Damascus, as well as in the northwest with attacks in Idlib Province. – Read more + click for Video’s : mesop.de/?p=42682 Left Party Leaves KNC ANHA: Kurdish left party leaves KNC. - Posted by Wladimir van Wilgenburg PYD ally in KNC didnt withdrew from KNC Head of Democratic Left Party, Salih Gaddo, and head of foreign relations for the province of Hasakah denies he has withdrawn from the KNC reports Welati. His party supports self-management administration in the Kurdish areas of Syria. The KNC will hold a meeting soon to discuss the joining of the administration by the Left party and Akram Hissou (an independent KNC-member). The were reports the Left Party withdrew from the KNC. - Posted by Wladimir van Wilgenburg A Rift in the National Coordination Body /WHAT IS KURDISH AUTONOMY ? Aron Lund Friday, Carnegieendowment - January 31, 2014 - It was never really a marriage made to last, and the alliance between Syria’s Arab nationalist and pacifist opposition and its most hardline Kurdish guerrilla movement may now be nearing a divorce. – Read more: mesop.de/?p=42680 Support from Assyrians for West Kurdistan cantons ANF - Qamishlo 01.02.2014 - The Assyrian Unity Party (AUP) and Assyrian Womens Union (AWU) have greeted the democratic autonomous canton administrations in West Kurdistan and pledged their support. – Read more: mesop.de/?p=42676 SIGN – DISTRIBUTE & DONATE ! Claim : Support the Democratic Opposition in Syria – in their fight against Baath-Regime & Jihadists! Freedom for Syria! When one thinks of the cruelty, squalor, and futility of War …, there is always the temptation to say: ‘One side is as bad as the other. I am neutral’. In practice, however, one cannot be neutral, and there is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.(George Orwell) War ravages Syria since 2011. At that time, peaceful protests were answered with torture, atrocities and massacres by the Assad-Regime. The civil-war forced upon the opposition consumed 120.000 lives so far. It left entire cities in ruins. – Sign + click for donating instructions : mesop.de/?p=42692 NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY) MESOP BOOK-RECOMMENDATION : Hakan Yavuz. Toward an Islamic Enligthenment – The Gülen Movement. 2013 Oxford University Press. - 300 Seiten / pages. Hard Cover: 31,50 US-Dollar. Tensions Kurdish Islamist party & BDP in Lice Hüda-par (tr hizbullah) attacked 3 other kurdish politicians. Pro-BDP: DTK: Hüda-Par’lılar kirli ve provokatif amaçlı saldırı gerçekleştird HÜDA-PAR yine halka saldırdı - HUDA-Par again attacks the people Pro-Huda par: Statement from HUDA-PAR - PKK/BDP büyük bir katliam hedefledi - Posted by Wladimir van Wilgenburg KRG oil agreement among Turkey’s current problems 01.02.2014 - Hemin Khoshnaw - BasNews, Erbil - Several political analysts believe many of the current problems encountered by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are due to the export of oil from the Kurdistan Region to Cihan Port. Other disagree, however, noting that Turkey has no other option. – Read more: mesop.de/?p=42678 Demirtaş Salutes Rojava Revolution / Warns HÜDA-PAR Against Further Provocations (ANF) 1.2.2014 - The Co-president of the BDP, Selahattin Demirtaş, is on a two-day visit to Colemêrg (Turkish: Hakkâri) Province, as part of the BDP’s campaign for the upcoming election. Demirtaş spoke to a large crowd on the significance of the struggles taking place throughout Kurdistan and the wider region, and the significance that the upcoming elections in Turkey would play in these struggles more generally. Read more: mesop.de/?p=42674 SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ) The PUK is haunted by the endemic corruption it has fostered across the south of Kurdistan. For example, many businessman have being targeted for hostile takeovers by the PUK’s inner circle. PUK lost in their internal political sandstorm 1.2.2014 – Kurdistan Tribune - By Mufid Abdulla : Last October the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) leadership held a short general meeting plenum with the aim of filling the vacuum that caused their defeat in the 21/9/13 election, a result that has hugely disrupted the party. Read all: mesop.de/?p=42668 Jalal Talabani replaced by 3 people who hate each other January 31, 2014 - SULÊMANÎ, Kurdistan region Iraq,— Prior to its 4th congress, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has replaced the ailing party leader and President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, with a three-person council. The PUK has been trying to organise a party congress since its poor showing in the last general elections in Iraqi Kurdistan. – Read all: mesop.de/?p=42666 THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER AUFRUF UNTERSCHREIBEN & SPENDEN SYRIEN – DEN RICHTIGEN HELFEN ! : Für ein Freies Demokratisches Syrien – Ohne Jihadisten ! Aufruf - Ja, es gibt sie wirklich: Die demokratische Opposition in Syrien braucht Ihre Unterstützung – gegen Baath-Regime und Djihadisten, Freiheit für Syrien! Wenn man an die Grausamkeit, das Elend und die Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges denkt, liegt die Versuchung nahe, zu sagen: ›Die eine Seite ist ebenso schlecht wie die andere. Ich bleibe neutral.‹ In Wirklichkeit jedoch kann man nicht neutral bleiben, und es gibt kaum einen Krieg, bei dem es keinen Unterschied macht, wer gewinnt. Fast immer steht die eine Seite mehr oder weniger für den Fortschritt, die andere Seite mehr oder weniger für die Reaktion. (George Orwell). Volltext: mesop.de/?p=42694 Islamisten ohne Islam / Thomas von der Osten-Sacken Scheint ganz so, als wäre es momentan nicht besonders in, sich als politische Partei in Kurdistan auf den Islam zu berufen. Zwar sind das noch vereinzelte Stimmen, daß sie sich allerdings solches Gehör zu verschaffen mögen, zeigt doch, dass zumindest in Irakisch-Kurdistan der Islamismus an Attraktivität verliert: Volltext: mesop.de/?p=42670
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