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Erdogan heads to the Gulf states to divide and concur Arab

July 24, 2017 By administrator

Erdogan divide and conquer Arab ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan heads to the Gulf this weekend in an attempt to patch up the rift between Qatar and its neighbors, but the firm Qatari ally may find himself with little room to maneuver as a mediator.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties and imposed sanctions on Qatar last month, accusing it of supporting terrorism. Doha denies the charges.

In what has become the region’s worst diplomatic crisis in years, the neighbors have since issued more than a dozen demands, telling Qatar to close down Al Jazeera television, curb relations with Iran and shutter a Turkish military base.

Erdogan has said the demands are unlawful and has called for an end to the crisis, citing the need for Muslim solidarity and strong trade ties in the region.

“We will work until the end for the solution of the dispute between the brotherly nations of the region,” he said in comments after prayers on Friday. “Political problems are temporary, whereas economic ties are permanent, and I expect the investors from Gulf countries to choose long-term ties.”

While looking to defend Doha, Erdogan is also wary of alienating its neighbors. He will visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar during the two-day trip that starts on Sunday.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arab, conquer, divide, Erdogan

Armenia to supply organic food to luxury hotels in six Arab countries

March 29, 2017 By administrator

By Siranush Ghazanchyan

Four Memorandums of Understanding were signed within the framework of the Armenia-UAE Investment Forum held in Abu Dhabi last week, the Development Foundation of Armenia reports.

The “Hydro Corporation” Group of Companies and Estekshaf Investment Company signed a MoU on investments in the field of renewable energy, which envisages implementation of large-scale and long-term programs. The programs aim to upgrade the small HPPs.

“Tamara Fruit” CJSC and Natural Organic Healthy Food Company signed an agreement, under which the Armenian company will supply organic food to luxury hotels in six Arab countries. The first delivery is expected in the first decade of April.

The Armenian-Emirati Business Union and the Natural Organic Healthy Food signed a Memorandum on opening of organic food processing center in Armenia.

Under a MoU signed with the Armenian Ministry of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources, the Ocean Holding intends to invest 100 million USD in solar photovoltaic power plants in Armenia and operate them using the best technology available to the sector.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arab, Armenia, food, hotels, organic

US-Backed Kurdish Forces Peshmerga in Iraq Accused of War Crimes

November 13, 2016 By administrator

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Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq, trained and equipped by the United States, are allegedly razing Arab towns liberated from the Islamic State group.

A human rights group is accusing the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government of carrying out a deliberate campaign to prevent the return of Arabs to towns in Iraq once occupied by the Islamic State group, a practice it says may amount to war crimes.

Armed and equipped by the United States and other major powers – and backed by U.S. airstrikes – Peshmerga forces and allied militias have played a key role in reclaiming territory captured by the Islamic State group.

However, Amnesty International is accusing those forces of razing the predominantly Arab villages they have liberated from the extremist group as part of an apparent attempt to expand the autonomous region’s territory.

More than 3 million people have been refugees by the latest conflict in Iraq, with the country experiencing “the highest and fastest rate of people displaced in the world in 2015,” according to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The U.S. government has pledged to help rebuild those towns and villages its allied forces have retaken from the Islamic State group. However, some Arab Iraqis are discovering that their former homes no longer exist, having been bulldozed to the ground soon after liberation. “These villages were terrorists,” one KRG security official told Amnesty International, according to the report. “They didn’t just support IS, they were part of it.”

That the largely Sunni residents of razed towns either sympathized with or actively supported the extremist Islamic State is a frequent charge, but other KRG officials offered different explanations, including that areas freed from the Islamic State’s control were not yet safe enough for refugees to return to — or that Kurdish forces were merely correcting past wrongs.

“We are just taking back some of what was ours,” one official reportedly told Amnesty International, referring to former Baathist dictator Saddam Hussein’s efforts to “Arabise” formerly Kurdish parts of Iraq.

Whatever the motivation, Maher Nubul, a father of 11, told Amnesty International, “All I know is that when the Peshmerga retook the village the houses were standing.”

“We could not go back but could see it clearly from the distance. And later they bulldozed the village, I don’t know why. There is nothing left. They destroyed everything for no reason.”

According to Amnesty’s International’s Donatella Rovera, that destruction could be grounds for a criminal prosecution.

“The forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification may amount to war crimes,” said Rovera, part of a team that carried out field research in 13 towns and villages and interviewed 120 witnesses.

What researchers saw and heard on the ground was also backed by satellite imagery — and it was not isolated. “Rather,” the report states, the alleged crimes “are examples of a wider pattern across the disputed areas of northern Iraq, where parties which had long vied for exclusive control of these areas are now intent on consolidating territorial gains they have made as a result of battlefield successes against IS.”

WATCH: Amnesty International’s Donatella Rovera on the Ground in Northern Iraq

Source: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/US-Backed-Kurdish-Forces-in-Iraq-Accused-of-War-Crimes-20160120-0005.html

https://youtu.be/WeU7FUoDZnk

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arab, Kurd, Mosul, war crime

The New York Times Magazine has dedicated an entire issue to a single story: the Arab world’s undoing since the invasion of Iraq

August 11, 2016 By administrator

Fractured arab landMore than a decade of war, terror and revolution has left a trail of ruin in the Arab world. This is the story of how a region came apart, seen through the eyes of six people whose lives were changed forever.

By Scott Anderson
Photographs by Paolo Pellegrin

This is a story unlike any we have previously published. It is much longer than the typical New York Times Magazine feature story; in print, it occupies an entire issue. The product of some 18 months of reporting, it tells the story of the catastrophe that has fractured the Arab world since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. The geography of this catastrophe is broad and its causes are many, but its consequences — war and uncertainty throughout the world — are familiar to us all. Scott Anderson’s story gives the reader a visceral sense of how it all unfolded, through the eyes of six characters in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. Accompanying Anderson’s text are 10 portfolios by the photographer Paolo Pellegrin, drawn from his extensive travels across the region over the last 14 years, as well as a landmark virtual-reality experience that embeds the viewer with the Iraqi fighting forces during the battle to retake Falluja.

It is unprecedented for us to focus so much energy and attention on a single story, and to ask our readers to do the same. We would not do so were we not convinced that what follows is one of the most clear-eyed, powerful and human explanations of what has gone wrong in this region that you will ever read.

Read More: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html?emc=edit_ta_20160811&nlid=49769097&ref=headline&_r=0

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arab, fractured, land

Dreuz.info report Arab migrants to the EU’s doors with false Turkish passports

May 25, 2016 By administrator

Turkish passport(dreuz.info) Thousands of Turkish passports are available on social networks. The offer is open to Arab migrants seeking to enter Europe by taking advantage of the Ankara-Brussels agreement on the abolition of visas for Turkish citizens.

This agreement is not yet in force that migrants are already organizing. The online shopping Turkish passports crescent moon rage.

Simply connect on Facebook, to enroll in one of many groups of asylum seekers traveling to Europe, to realize that the black market documents is the most flourishing.

When last summer, Angela Merkel promised to open the doors of his country to Syrians fleeing the war, thousands of applicants for asylum became suddenly all Syrians and offered real fake passports via some mafia networks.

The EU has decided to better track the bogus refugees, migrants excogité a simple solution: buy Turkish nationality.

It is not necessary to delve into the depths of the “deep-web” to find out. Just go to Facebook or Twitter.

There are, for example, a certain Ahmad Alhamwi, trafficker in documents, which sets selling passports and identity cards to suit all needs.

“You want to take Turkish nationality – he wrote on Twitter – then call this number for information. “

All accompanied by an address in Mersin, coastal town 300 km crescent of the Syrian border. A real sorting center mercenaries, weapons and all sorts of illegal goods.

On Facebook, you can also buy diplomatic, special documents for parliamentarians and government senior officials, valid for travel with women and children. Color photos of other items available are also promoted.

Even the slogan coined to encourage the purchase looks like a special offer of a large area.

“Our company writes Alhamwi, is open every day, including Sundays, from 08:00 to 18:30. Passports and identity cards will be delivered within 30 days. Perfectly done, ready to be used at airports, they will allow you to impersonate for tourists and reach your destination in a perfectly legal manner. “

There are thousands of online buyers: Saudis, Pakistanis, Palestinians. These migrants, who have little chance of obtaining international protection, have found another way to come to Europe. A bonanza for the terrorists, who have long found in Turkey a very fertile breeding ground for criminal activity.

yet these are refugees whom we have much to learn … as good pro-migrant souls, including Pope Francis

“Let them give us a lesson in humanity. Change our way of life, our policies, our economic choices, our behaviors, our attitudes of cultural superiority. On learning of the victims and those who suffer, we will be able to build a more humane world. “

Source:  Dreuz.info .

Source: “Migranti alle door dell’Ue con i documenti finti turchi” – It Giornale.It (translated and adapted by Rosaly)

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arab, Dreuz, EU, false turkish, migrants, Passport

Syria: Trial of Kurdish fighters have damaged property

January 21, 2016 By administrator

The main Syrian Kurdish militia said Tuesday it arrested four of its fighters accused of damaged properties in a community decision to jihadist Islamic State Group (EI).

This news comes after accusations of activists and Amnesty International on abuse of Kurdish forces against Arab residents in areas listed in EI in northern Syria.

In a statement, the Kurdish people’s Protection Units (YPG) indicate that four of its members were arrested “on charges of damaging property of citizens in al-Hol and surrounding villages” in the province of Hasaka (northeast).

“At the end of the investigation and interrogations, their membership of YPG was withdrawn and they will go on trial in court” the statement said.

The four defendants were identified by their initials and pictures of them taken back were broadcast.

Al-Hol was taken in November at the EI by a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters.

The arrests come in the wake of several reports of tensions between the YPG and the Arab inhabitants of the northern regions of Syria where the militia led battles against the IE with air support from the coalition led by the United STATES.

In October, Amnesty International accused the Kurdish forces to engage in forced displacement and destruction of homes in the north and northeast of the country consideration of these acts of “war crimes”.

The NGO claimed that they were carrying out “collective punishment campaigns” against residents, Arab majority, villages formerly held by the EI.

YPG had denounced these accusations and emphasized its alliance with Arab combatant groups which “removes any doubt” in their desire on any discrimination against an ethnic group.

Amnesty and activists also accused the Kurdish forces to prevent people from returning to their village after the EI has been driven.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) had recently reported demonstrations in Al-Hol people wanting to go home.

According to Kurdish forces, residents were not allowed to return during clearance operations or in places where the risk remained infiltration of IE.

Thursday, January 21, 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arab, fighters, Kurdish, Syria, Trial

Kurdish Forces Bulldoze Thousands of Arab Homes in Northern Iraq

January 19, 2016 By administrator

1033406396According to a report by a prominent rights watchdog, Kurdish militias have destroyed thousands of homes belonging to Arabs in northern Iraq for their alleged support of the Daesh militant group.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Kurdish militias have destroyed thousands of homes belonging to Arabs in northern Iraq for their alleged support of the Daesh militant group, a report by a prominent rights watchdog said Wednesday.

“Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Kurdish militias in northern Iraq have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of homes in Arab villages,” Amnesty International said in the report.

The 46-page report documents widespread burning of homes and property in villages and towns in Nineveh, Kirkuk and Diyala governorates which Peshmerga forces captured from Daesh militants.

Accusations of widespread destruction in Arab communities were substantiated by a field investigation in 13 villages, satellite images and reports from over a hundred witnesses.

Many Arabs displaced by fighting in northern Iraq have been prevented from returning to their homes by Kurdish militias, while others were expelled after Peshmerga forces had taken control of the areas, the report said.

“They are examples of a wider pattern across the disputed areas of northern Iraq, where parties which had long vied for exclusive control of these areas are now intent on consolidating territorial gains,” the report said.

Amnesty International has called on KRG, as well as states from the US-led coalition providing support to Kurds, to take steps to ensure those responsible for the abuses are held accountable for what the watchdog said constituted a war crime.

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Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arab, Bulldoze, forces, Iraq, Kurdish

Arab League condemns Turkish ‘intervention’ in N. Iraq

December 6, 2015 By administrator

5664a04fc46188104c8b4615The Arab League has condemned deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, saying it amounts to “an intervention.” Iraq demands that Ankara withdraws its troops, saying it will go to the UN Security Council if they remain.

Nabil Elaraby, Secretary-General of the Arab league has condemned the deployment of Turkish troops in Northern Iraq calling it a “blatant intervention,” Al Youm El Sabea reports.

He said, however, that the Arab League members can do nothing but make a joint statement condemning the action.

Earlier this week, Turkey deployed over 100 troops equipped with tanks and artillery in the town of Bashiqa, 10 kilometers northeast of Mosul, which is a stronghold of the Islamic State terror group (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

The move is considered “a serious breach of sovereignty” by Iraqi authorities. Baghdad has been railing against the action and stepping up its rhetoric – on Sunday the country threatened to go to the UN Security Council unless Turkey withdraws its troop within 48 hours.

“Iraq has the right to use all available options, including resorting to the UN Security Council if these forces are not withdrawn within 48 hours,” Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement.

The same demand was made by Khaled al-Obeidi, the Iraqi defense minister, who said that Turkey had to coordinate its actions with Iraq irrespective of its purposes.

“No matter the size of the force entering Iraq, it is rejected. It was possible to undertake this sort of prior coordination without creating circumstances which contributed to a crisis between the two countries,” he said in a separate statement.

Iran has also criticized Turkey for the “intervention.” Deputy Foreign Minister Amir Abdallahaan said that it was a serious mistake on the part of the Turkish government to deploy Turkish troops in Iraq without the permission of its government, ISNA reports.

Responding to the criticism, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had first said that the military activity was just a routine troop rotation at a camp set up more than a year ago to train Kurdish militia.

However, on Sunday Davutoglu was reduced to saying that Turkey would cease further troop transfers to Bashiqa out of respect for Iraq’s sovereignty. It remains unclear whether the remaining Turkish “training” troops will be called back.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arab, Baghdad Legally Challenges Oil Exports from Iraqi Kurdistan to Turkey, Condemns, Iraq, league, Turkey

#Egypt, Libya, Syria, Palestine Arab-Nationalism pushing back Turkish Pan-Islamism

March 2, 2015 By administrator

History repaid itself Turkey wish to force neo-ottoman empire, Pan-Islamism on Arab again but it is failing miserably 

  • In libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said his government would stop dealing with Turkey as it was sending weapons to a rival Islamist group in tripoli so “the Libyan people kill each other,” ramping up his rhetoric against ankara.
  • In Egypt President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi drove Muslim brotherhood out of power which was supported by Turkish Islamic government
  • In Syria Bashar Al-Assad 3 years fight against Turkish backed islamist Terrorist  try to hold on  Arab nationalism against Turkish Pan-Islamist 
  • In Iraq Government fighting Turkish islamist with multi names ISIS, ISIL, Islamic State etc.
  • In Palestine, Ankara deeply engaged with Hamas at the expense of the President Mahmoud Abbas government just to curry favor with the parochial political Islamist base in Turkey.

Davutoglu zero problem neighborhood now Turkey is the number one Problem.

US and Turkey again starting to train Turkish terrorist called FSA against Syria.

  • Davutoglu image‘Pan-Islamist Davutoğlu’ thesis ruffling feathers in Turkey and in Arab world

Is Turkey’s new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu a pan-Islamist ideologue, with imperialist ambitions to reshape the Middle East into a post-national order based on Turkish and Sunni religious supremacy? That is the blockbuster thesis currently turning heads both inside and outside Turkey, thanks to a series of recent articles by Marmara University Assistant Professor Behlül Özkan.

Özkan, a one-time student of Davutoğlu’s from the latter’s time as an international relations professor, bases his provocative conclusion on close study of 300 articles penned by Davutoğlu in the 1980s and 90s. He first made his case in an essay for the August-September edition of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ journal “Survival,” before introducing it to a wider English audience with pieces on Al-Monitor and in the New York Times.

In his NYT op-ed “Turkey’s Imperial Fantasy” published last week, Özkan remembered Professor Davutoğlu as a hard-working and “genial figure” who “enjoyed spending hours conversing with his students.” In contrast with his academic peers, however, he believed that Turkey would “soon emerge as the leader of the Islamic world by taking advantage of its proud heritage and geographical potential … encompass[ing] the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and include Albania and Bosnia”:

Mr. Davutoglu’s classroom pronouncements often sounded more like fairy tales than political analysis. He cited the historical precedents of Britain, which created a global empire in the aftermath of its 17th-century civil war, and Germany, a fragmented nation which became a global power following its 19th-century unification. Mr. Davutoglu was confident that his vision could transform what was then an inflation-battered nation, nearly torn apart by a war with Kurdish separatists, into a global power.

He crystallized these ideas in the book ‘Strategic Depth,’ in 2001, a year before the Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P., came to power. In the book, he defined Turkey as a nation that does not study history, but writes it — a nation that is not at the periphery of the West, but at the center of Islamic civilization … Mr. Davutoglu saw himself as a grand theorist at the helm of his country as it navigated what he called the ‘river of history.’ He and his country were not mere pawns in world politics, but the players who moved the pieces.

Özkan rejects that Davutoğlu’s ideas amount to “neo-Ottomanism,” as often accused. Instead, he gives Turkey’s new prime minister the even heftier label of “pan-Islamist”:

The movement known as Ottomanism emerged in the 1830s as the empire’s elites decided to replace existing Islamic institutions with modern European-style ones, in fields from education to politics. By contrast, Mr. Davutoglu believes that Turkey should look to the past and embrace Islamic values and institutions.

But, ironically, he bases his pan-Islamist vision on the political theories that were used to legitimize Western imperial expansion prior to 1945. While purporting to offer Turkey a new foreign policy for the 21st century, his magnum opus draws on the outdated concepts of geopolitical thinkers like the American Alfred Thayer Mahan, the Briton Halford Mackinder and the German Karl Haushofer, who popularized the term “Lebensraum,” or living space, a phrase most famously employed by Germany during the 1920s and 1930s to emphasize the need to expand its borders.

According to Mr. Davutoglu, the nation states established after the breakup of the Ottoman Empire are artificial creations and Turkey must now carve out its own Lebensraum — a phrase he uses unapologetically. Doing so would bring about the cultural and economic integration of the Islamic world, which Turkey would eventually lead. Turkey must either establish economic hegemony over the Caucasus, the Balkans and the Middle East, or remain a conflict-riven nation-state that risks falling apart.

After becoming Turkey’s foreign minister from 2009, Davutoğlu had the opportunity to put these ideas into practice – with disastrous results:

As foreign minister, Mr. Davutoglu fervently believed that the Arab Spring had finally provided Turkey with a historic opportunity to put these ideas into practice. He predicted that the overthrown dictatorships would be replaced with Islamic regimes, thus creating a regional ‘Muslim Brotherhood belt’ under Turkey’s leadership.

He sought Western support by packaging his project as a ‘democratic transformation’ of the Middle East. Yet today, instead of the democratic regimes promised three years ago, Turkey shares a border with ISIS’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Two months ago, its fighters raided the Turkish consulate in the Iraqi city of Mosul, and is still holding 49 Turkish diplomats hostage. Mr. Davutoglu, who has argued that Turkey should create an Islamic Union by abolishing borders, seems to have no idea how to deal with the jihadis in Syria and Iraq, who have made Turkey’s own borders as porous as Swiss cheese.

To repair this dire situation as prime minister, Özkan says Davutoğlu needs to pragmatically reconnect Turkey’s regional policy with reality:

The new prime minister is mistaken in believing that the clock in the Middle East stopped in 1918 — the year the Ottoman Empire was destroyed — or that Turkey can erase the region’s borders and become the leader of an Islamic Union, ignoring an entire century of Arab nationalism and secularism. What Mr. Davutoglu needs to do, above all, is to accept that his pan-Islamist worldview, based on archaic theories of expansionism, is obsolete.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Arab, Davutoglu, pan-islamist, Turkey

Serzh Sargsyan: Armenian-Arab relations date back to depths of centuries

September 9, 2014 By administrator

arab-armenianYEREVAN. – On Tuesday, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s new Ambassador to Armenia, Mohammad Nour Othman Yousef Balkar, presented his credentials to President Serzh Sargsyan.

The President congratulated the ambassador for commencing his diplomatic mission in Armenia, wished him success, and expressed the hope that Ambassador Balkar will use his experience and knowledge to strengthen bilateral relations.

Stressing that Armenian-Arab relations date back to the depths of centuries, Sargsyan noted that it is on this foundation that Armenia develops its relations with the Arab countries, including Jordan.

The Armenian President and the Jordanian diplomat shared the view that there is great potential for the strengthening of interstate relations and the development of cooperation in several domains. In this connection, they underscored the need to expand the legal and the contractual framework between the two countries.

The interlocutors also spoke with delight about the two countries’ cooperation within international organizations.

The new Jordanian ambassador, for his part, assured that he will spare no effort to achieve closer ties between Armenia and Jordan.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Arab, Armenian, relation

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