JEAN-CHRISTOPHE LAGARDE Turkey: “Holland has veto ‘

March 18, 2016 By administrator

arton123391-480x359 Paris, March 18, 2016 (AFP) – Jean-Christophe Lagarde, president of the UDI: “What is happening is scandalous. François Hollande fouls and even a crime against the European spirit. It must veto the opening of negotiations with Turkey. “

“Turkey is a state that clearly today disorders relations Daech (organization Islamic state, note), with traffic suspected. This is a state that wants to blackmail the European Union by using millions of poor people who want to escape death and Daech barbarians by dropping them on European roads.

Turkey is a state where, the same day he was discussing with the European Union of a possible future membership, the Erdogan government took control of the main opposition newspaper “.

“This is not a state that respects the democratic rules. And if the European Union will wallow with a state that behaves in this way, which is supposed to be our ally and that actually plays against us (…) whereas the EU suicide, it kills the European project and Mr. Holland carries a serious responsibility. “

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France: Hollande wants to make “no concessions” to Turkey on human rights or visas

March 12, 2016 By administrator

arton123154-480x320 Francois Hollande said Saturday that he intends to make “no concessions” to Turkey on human rights or visas in exchange for guarantees on the control of migratory flows, after a meeting with a dozen social-leaders European Democrats at the Elysee. “There should be no concessions on human rights or the visa liberalization criteria,” said the president during a brief

Dutch opposition says has documents proving Turkey sent arms to Syrian jihadists

January 19, 2015 By administrator

The Dutch opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDA) announced that it has confidential documents proving that Turkey had sent weapons to al-Qaeda militants in Syria and that it conveyed the documents to the Dutch government, according to a BBC Turkish report published on Sunday.

CDA deputy Pieter Omtzigt said his party acquired the confidential documents in November and shared them with Dick Schoof, the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism (NCTV). According to the report, the documents are duplicates from an ongoing criminal investigation in Turkey into the 2014 interception and search on three Syria-bound trucks that belonged to the National Intelligence Organization (MİT).

Turkish gendarmes and several prosecutors are accused of unlawfully intercepting and conducting search on the MİT trucks, which, according to media claims, transported arms to radical Islamists in Syria.

The BBC Turkish report said former Adana Governor Hüseyin Avni Coş, who was in office at the time of the interception of the MİT trucks, said in a testimony that the arms-filled trucks belonged to MİT and were being sent to Syria upon orders from then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Omtzigt asked Dutch Minister of Security and Justice Ivo Opstelten whether he conveyed the documents to Foreign Minister Bert Koenders ahead of his recent visit to Turkey. Koenders visited Turkey on Jan. 5-7.

Meanwhile, CDA deputy Raymond Knops, a member of the Dutch Parliament Foreign Affairs Contact Group, accused the Dutch government of “playing ostrich” regarding Turkey’s relations with terrorist groups in Syria. Knops submitted a parliamentary question addressing Koenders regarding the claims of Turkey aiding al-Qaeda in Syria with weapons and ammunition. In his parliamentary question, Koenders cited the report by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team.

Koenders stated that the UNSC report had highlighted that the weapons and ammunition held by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the al-Nusra Front were largely transported via Turkey through secret ways. According to Koenders, this information has also been confirmed by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

The Dutch lawmaker asked, “Do you find it disturbing that weapons and ammunition have been sent to terrorist organizations in Syria through the land of NATO member Turkey?” Koenders described launching air strikes on ISIL while Syrian jihadists receive arms via Turkey as “mopping the floor while the faucet remains open.”

Last Thursday, five Turkish prosecutors who investigated the claims of illegal arms shipments to opposition groups in Syria by the MİT trucks were suspended by a top judicial board.

The suspension of the prosecutors came a day after the government obtained a blanket gag order from Adana Fifth Criminal Court of Peace, preventing the Turkish media from reporting on documents that were leaked on Twitter on Jan. 12 by anonymous Twitter user @LazepeM, who claimed the information came from the General Staff and gendarmerie investigations.

Why Hollande and Erdogan in bed on Syria not on Kobani. “$4 billion missile defense systems”

November 3, 2014 By administrator

Why the rapprochement? Turkey knows how to corrupt

Paris is the only capital that seriously supports Ankara’s proposal to set up a buffer zone along the Syrian border. At the same time, Hollande and Erdogan are the only leaders who prioritize the slogan “Assad must go!” Assad is already in the crosshairs of Ankara and Paris. While the United States hints at cooperation with Tehran and Damascus in its strategy against IS, Turkey and France insist on calling the Assad regime “the real enemy.” The two capitals resist any solution that includes Assad, and both leaders continue to support the “moderate Syrian opposition,” which is far from being a real force on the ground today. Ankara, resistant to both Assad remaining in power and the emergence of a new Kurdish entity at its borders, seeks out the conditions denied by Washington by flirting with Paris. write Arzu Cakir Morin

France eagerly watches other mouth-watering projects in Turkey, such as nuclear energy deals and the TANAP pipeline project to carry Azeri natural gas to Western markets. Turkey’s recent cancelation of a $4 billion deal with China to procure long-range missile defense systems also seems to be an opportunity for France to keep relations with Turkey as close as possible.

But why is France the only Western country backing Ankara’s buffer zone proposal? Paris was originally behind the idea of creating an “autonomous zone” in northern Syria in 2012. The idea was to settle the opposition there and set up a transitional government. A well-known French journalist and Middle East expert, Georges Malbrunot of Le Figaro, objected to the idea and said the autonomous zone would make Free Syrian Army commanders easy targets. The United States turned down the idea for the same reason.

After a decade of frozen ties, Turkey appears to be satisfied with the thaw in relations with France. As a senior Turkish diplomat based in Paris often repeats, “If the bilateral ties collapsed years ago, it would not have much significance. But the relations are so high up these days, any fall from that height will be disastrous for both of us.”

source: al monitor

The Hague: President Serzh Sargsyan spoke about events Kessab

March 25, 2014 By administrator

President Serzh Sargsyan spoke yesterday about events Kessab from The Hague where he is for the summit on denuclearization.

The President expressed his deep emotion about events happening Kessab: “We all remember the story perfectly Kessab is unfortunately rich throughout the last hundred years infernal events such as deportations of Armenians “.

The Chairperson recalled that the first serious event for the region Kessab took place in 1909, when Turkish troops invaded Kessab to April. Armenians took refuge in the hills and on the shores of Kaladouran. After Kessab looted and burned, the Turks rushed on Kaladouran and burned and plundered the houses of the upper quarter. The population was moved to Latakia with a French ship transport. After spending nearly a year in Latakia, refugees were able to return to Kessab where they rebuilt their homes.

Referring to these historic events, Sarkisian also cited another date, that of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, which did not spare either to Kessab emigration and exile. The kessabiotes were deported in two directions, Der-Zor, north, and south, to Jordan. Thousands of Kessabiotes were martyred, mostly in the deserts of Der-Zor.

“This new deportation of Armenians Kessab, the third, is the biggest challenge for the defense mechanisms of minorities in the 21st century. I think we all understand that the comparisons that come immediately to mind all must invite us to be very careful, “stressed the President Sargsyan. After thanking the Syrian authorities for the measures taken for the protection of Armenians Kessab, President Sarkisian added: “I have already recommended to diplomatic representatives of the Republic of Armenia UN offices in New York and Geneva to act in the structures dedicated to the defense of human rights and minority issues to protect Armenians Kessab and ensure their return and security in their permanent places of residence. ” President S. Sargsyan assured that the Armenian Embassy in Syria is working on a plan to support Armenians Kessab which will be fully realized.

The information office of the Presidency of the Republic has announced that today, the President had discussed the situation with the Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia.

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