PARIS The Kurds condemn the murderous duplicity of Turkey

July 28, 2015 By administrator

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Since the suicide attack against the Kurdish community to Suruç, near the Syrian border, and the Turkish air strikes in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Kurdo-Alevi diaspora and Yezidi multiplies mobilizations to denounce the duplicity of the Turkish state is in its -disante military intervention against Daech.

Monday, July 27 late in the afternoon, while Kobanî was the target of the Turkish Air Force in the morning, the Kurdish Democratic Council in France and Kurdish progressive organizations brought together nearly a hundred militants near the Turkish Embassy in Paris, “protected” by a CRS platoon to hammer again if it were, that the international community should not fall into the Turkish trap aimed only at eliminating the Kurdish fighters, sworn enemies of Daech the purpose to monopolize the region and take power. This was denounced in essence Berivan Akyol (CNDK), Ara Toranian (CFC), Dominique Adenot (PCF mayor of Champigny-sur-Marne) and representatives of the Kurds, Alevis, Yezidis and the Kabyle people.

The Kurdish Democratic Council in France demands the immediate cessation of the bombing of the Turkish Air Force on the Kurdish people, predicting a possible next fall of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It also calls on the international community to mobilize for any purpose to find a political solution to the crisis and restore peace.

Servan Varto, military leader of the PKK killed in Turkish bombing in northern Iraq

European Armenian Federation condemns Turkey terrorist attack on Suruc

July 28, 2015 By administrator

European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD) President Kaspar Karampetian condemned the July 20 terrorist attack in the Kurdish-populated town of Suruc, Turkey and conveyed condolences to the families, Armenian Weekly reported.

“This terrorist act is all the more monstrous considering that the youth was gathered in Suruc to go and volunteer in Kobane, and assist the reconstruction of the city after the destruction by Daesh (ISIS). Our thoughts go to the families of those killed and the hundreds injured,” said Karampetian.

Karampetian stressed that the attack is clearly the result of the Turkish authorities’ open support of ISIS. “Sooner or later, Erdogan’s policy of supporting the terrorists in Syria would turn against him; unfortunately, this is the case now, with the loss of innocent young lives,” said Karampetian.

“The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy with all its organizations joins the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), the Party of European Socialists (PES), and the whole democratic world in condemning this terrorist act. It’s the moral obligation of democratic forces to support the Kurds in their fight for democracy and justice,” he added.

At least 31 people were killed and over 100 were injured in a terrorist attack on Monday.

#Erdogan Kill more #Kurd last three Days than #ISIS did in A month #BoycottTurkishProduct

July 27, 2015 By administrator

Kurdish YPG forces retake Syrian town from ISIL despite of Turkey & its allay ISIS attack on Kurd #BoycottTurkishProduct

July 27, 2015 By administrator

A fighter from the Kurdish People Protection Unit (YPG) watches smoke billowing into the sky in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah on June 28, 2015. (© AFP)

Kurdish fighters have managed to retake a town in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo from Takfiri ISIL militants as they continue to push the terrorists back from the area. Report Presstv

The People’s Protection Units (YPG) forces took full control of the town of Sarrin, which lies northeast of the provincial capital of Aleppo and situated 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) east of the Euphrates River, on Sunday, following days of heavy clashes with ISIL terrorists, the Kurdish-language Rudaw television network reported on Monday.

Kurdish troopers also wrested control of the nearby districts of Mujbala, Iza’a, Tal Showaiha and Shaikh Salih.

Meanwhile, Syrian army forces inflicted heavy losses on foreign-backed militants as they carried out mop-up operations against them.

On Monday, scores of al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front terrorists were killed during intense clashes with Syrian troops in the Khan al-Sheeh neighborhood southwest of the capital, Damascus, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.

Syrian troopers also fired a barrage of mortar rounds at militant hideouts in Jubata al-Khashab and Tranja villages, located approximately four kilometers (2.4 miles) north of Syria’s southwestern city of Quneitra. A number of al-Nusra Front Takfiris were reportedly killed in the attacks.

Separately, Syrian government forces killed several ISIL militants on the outskirts of the ancient city of Palmyra, situated 215 kilometers (133 miles) northeast of Damascus.

The developments come as Syrian army soldiers and Kurdish forces have managed to make gains against ISIL terrorists in Syria’s northeastern city of Hasakah.

Last month, ISIL terrorists began their assault on Hasakah before capturing a number of its neighborhoods and forcing the evacuation of many of its residents.

The conflict in Syria, which started in March 2011, has reportedly claimed more than 230,000 lives up until now.

The violence has also forced over 3.8 million Syrians to take refuge in neighboring countries, including Jordan and Lebanon. More than 7.2 million others have been displaced within Syria, according to the United Nations.

How Erdogan foul the Kurd with Peace Process & now resumed the violent confrontation with the PKK

July 27, 2015 By administrator

The Arab Spring was the invention of Davutoglu the neo-ottoman project 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.

Davutoglu predicted that the overthrown of Arab dictatorships would be replaced with Islamic regimes, thus creating a regional ‘Muslim Brotherhood belt’ under Turkey’s leadership.

Davutoglu, who has argued that Turkey should create an Islamic Union by abolishing borders,

Arab Spring where going on in the Arab world and Turkey where concern that the Kurd my take the opportunity to ask for independent, therefore to coming down the Kurd Erdogan/Davutoglu use Turkish MIT to secretly negotiated with jailed PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and started the so called peace process. there was a reason why they called peace process because a process can be stopped and reversed.

Edrdogan wanted to become president needed Kurdish vote which even Iraqi Kurdish leader Barazani was campaign for Erdogan and it was successful.

Turkey wanted to get in EU the Kurd peace process was positive point.

So why Erdoğan resumed the violent confrontation with the PKK

The election of 2015 change everything because he was not expecting that the Kurdish party HDP will pass the threshold of 10% which they did and Erdogan lost the parliamentary majority that infuriated Erdogan.

The Kurd in Syria YPJ was and is having success in cleaning up the the Turkish allay Islamic State ISIS and the Kurds where making it very difficult for the Turks to supply ISIS with weapons and needed material.

Turkey needed the annexation of northern Syrian to destroy all evidence of Turkish link to Islamic state ISIS ISIL.

Davutoglu and Turkish MIT False Flag operations one failure after another prompted Erdogan to switch to military operation instate of MIT Turkish military intelligent.

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Turkey could ‘tip Syria balance’ as Kurdish villages shelled

July 27, 2015 By administrator

By Fulya Ozerkan,

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Ankara (AFP) – Turkish tanks shelled Kurdish-held villages in northern Syria as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned Monday that a military campaign by Ankara could “change the balance” in the region.

With its warplanes hitting Kurdish targets in neighbouring northern Iraq again on Sunday, Turkey also called an extraordinary NATO meeting for Tuesday over its cross-border “anti-terror” offensive against Kurdish separatists and Islamic State jihadists.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg defended Turkey’s right to defend itself but told the BBC “of course self-defence has to be proportionate”.

And he cautioned Turkey about burning bridges with the Kurds. “ForTurkish tanks shelled Kurdish-held villages in northern Syria as Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu warned Monday that a military campaign by Ankara could “change the balance” in the region. years there has been progress to try to find a peaceful political solution,” he told Norwegian state broadcaster NRK. “It is important not to renounce that… because force will never solve the conflict in the long term.”

The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) — which pushed IS out of the Syrian flashpoint of Kobane early this year with the help of Western air strikes — said Turkish tanks hit its positions and those of allied Arab rebels in the village of Zur Maghar in Aleppo province.

The “heavy tank fire” wounded four members of the allied rebel force and several villagers, the YPG — which Turkey accuses of being allied to its outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — said in a statement.

It said there was later a second round of shelling against Zur Maghar and another village in the same area.

The tank fire was also reported by activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

But Turkish officials denied the military was deliberately targeting Syrian Kurds said it was responding to fire from the Syrian side of the border.

“The bombing of the village is out of the question,” a foreign ministry official told AFP. “Turkey has its rules of engagement. If there’s fire from the Syrian side, it will be retaliated in kind.”

Zur Maghar is on Turkish border, east of the town of Jarabulus, which is held by IS.

– Deal with US –

“Instead of targeting IS terrorist occupied positions, Turkish forces attack our defenders’ positions,” the YPG added.

As the bombardments were going on Davutoglu told a group of Turkish newspaper editors that Turkey’s intervention would “change the balance” in the region, but ruled out sending ground troops into Syria.

He denied Turkey was worried by Kurdish gains against jihadists in northern Syria.

“Why should we be disturbed? If we had been disturbed by Kurdish gains we would have been by Barzani’s Kurdish region,” he said, referring to the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq.

Turkey has given a green light to the United States to use of its Incirlik air base to attack IS targets in Syria after months of tough negotiations.

Davutoglu declined to provide details of the agreement but said the concerns of Ankara, which had been pressing for a no-fly zone, were addressed “to a certain extent”, according to the Hurriyet daily.

“Air cover is important, the air protection for the Free Syrian Army and other moderate elements fighting Daesh,” he said, referring to IS by its Arabic acronym.

“If we will not send ground forces — and that we will not do — then certain elements that cooperate with us on the ground must be protected,” Davutoglu added.

Tensions are running high in Turkey, with police routinely using water cannon to disperse nightly protests in Istanbul and other major cities denouncing IS and the government’s policies on Syria.

Davutoglu ordered the air strikes and artillery barrages after IS violence spilled over into Turkey last Monday with a suicide bombing in a town close to the Syrian border that killed 32 people.

This incensed Turkey’s Kurds, who have long accused the government of actively colluding with IS, allegations the government categorically denies.

Protests raged in a flashpoint Kurdish and leftist district of Istanbul, leaving one policeman dead, as police said 900 people with alleged links to IS, the PKK and other leftist organisations had been rounded up.

Ankara started its campaign on Friday against IS targets in Syria but then expanded it to PKK rebels in neighbouring northern Iraq who are bitterly opposed to the jihadists.

The strikes seemed to torpedo long-running peace talks, with the separatists saying conditions were no longer in place to observe its ceasefire.

The Turkish army Sunday blamed PKK militants for a deadly car bomb attack that killed two of its soldiers in the Kurdish-dominated southeast, further shaking the truce.

The PKK’s military wing, the People’s Defence Forces (HPG), claimed the car bomb attack in the Lice district of Diyarbakir province but gave much higher toll of eight soldiers killed.

– ‘Don’t give up on peace’ –

The HPG said three more PKK fighters had been killed in Turkish air strikes Saturday, after one was killed in the first wave.

Two Turkish policemen were shot dead Wednesday while sleeping in their homes in the southeast, in murders also claimed by the PKK.

Meanwhile Turkey, NATO’s only majority Muslim member, called an extraordinary meeting of ambassadors of NATO states on Tuesday for talks on its military operations.

With Washington gladdened by Turkey’s readiness to step up its fight against IS, the White House backed Turkey’s right to bomb the PKK which the United States categorises as a terror group.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel however urged Davutoglu “not to give up the peace process with the Kurds but to continue it despite all the difficulties,” her spokesman Georg Streiter said.

ISIS Daech / Kurdistan: Erdogan games fooled by Ara Toranian

July 26, 2015 By administrator

Leading to so-called parallel strikes against Daech ISIS of positions in Syria and the PKK in Iraq, the Turkish authorities have once again delivered to this consummate art of manipulation that made the heyday of their history. Many media are they not in fact fell into the trap, by titrating on Turkey’s shift in strategy toward the Islamic state, each of which must now until he enjoyed the convenience of Ankara. By lifting its veto on the use of anti-Daech for the American base at Incirlik, which was still strange for this pseudo pillar of NATO, Turkish leaders clearly want to give the feeling of a changing political, less understood internationally. An impression they hope credibility by strikes against jihadist positions in Syria, highlighted with a lot of media hype. But what is it really?

After the shock that followed the terrible suicide bombing Suruc, which Erdogan has earned numerous condolence telegrams – including one of Armenia – it appeared very quickly that this massacre (32 dead) was actually at least as much the Kurdish movement in the strict sense that the Turkish state. And that it was therefore not impossible that the responsibility of Ankara, the double game towards Daech only matched his hostility to the Kurds, is implicated in the slaughter. The immediate reaction of the PKK who performed two Turkish police estimated Islamist accomplices in the attack showed at least the limits of credulity vis-à-vis Erdogan.

By authorizing the use of Incirlik base and hitting Daech, it actually has especially made a classic diversionary tactic to divert attention from its primary objective is to weaken the Kurdish movement. The opening of the US base, the coalition forces were able to go so far, no one seems to take effect at this stage of the operations that a purely symbolic significance. As for the military relevance of highly claimed air strikes against the Islamists, it leaves skeptical. According to the Kurds, they would indeed reached that target devoid of any strategic interest. This would not be the case for those anti-PKK launched on July 24 in the regions of Qandil, Xakurke, Behdinan, Zap, Gare, Haftanin, Basya, Metina and Avasin. “The bombings that have caused deaths among the civilian population as well as substantial property damage,” according to a statement of the Kurdistan National Congress.

Although he struggles to shuffle the cards, the game Erdogan appears after all in this case quite clearly. Particularly with regard to their perception of risk strengthening the Kurdish armed resistance along its borders, perceived as a threat to Turkey’s territorial integrity. It is this danger never stops wanting ward, as evidenced passivity of his soldiers who were present at the foot arms to jihadist aggression against Kobanî for months. But how weaken the Kurds, who are on the ground the only credible bulwark against Daech of barbarians, without throwing the mask and trigger the disapproval of his allies, an uproar of the civilized world? Erdogan, whose touchy nationalism feeds on narcissism, thought he had found the solution, pretending to radicalize his position at the location of Daech to actually hit better its main enemy, the Kurdish resistance. Which ultimately returns to the field to strengthen Daech …

The Turkish authorities are familiar with this type of shenanigans. YouTube was published in March 2014 a very interesting conversation between Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the heads of the armed Yasa Guler and the intelligence official Haka Fidan, in which the three “strategists” planned to launch from Syria a false attack against the Turkey so as to justify a military intervention in return and annex part of the neighboring territory by war. The situation today, which follows the same logic, rests the question of nuisance force of a Turkish nationalism which means more play leading roles, he has just suffered an electoral setback, with including the introduction in Parliament of its own pro-Kurdish HDP, and his old rival in the race for regional leadership, Iran, made a spectacular come back on the international and local scene.

The West, and primarily the United States, will they again fooled by the maneuvers of the Turkish state, so that they form in the anti-Daech battle a kind of united front with units of Kurdish popular defense ( YPG), linked to the PKK, some as air forces, the other as ground forces? Finally, by dint of playing with Daech whose sorcerer’s apprentice Erdogan has encouraged the development so far, Turkey does not risk being contaminated in turn by the conflict which it hoped to capitalize against her Syrian neighbor blowing embers on Islamist?

Issues of interest to the highest degree of security of Armenia, and behind which looms that of Western complacency regarding this Turkish hypernationalisme which history has shown, through the extermination of the Christian minorities of the country , it was never as dangerous as when it was trying to exploit jihadism.

Armenians, Kurds stage protest in Washington against Turkey’s complicity in terrorist attack

July 25, 2015 By administrator

Washington area Kurdish and Armenian Americans joined together for a protest against the Turkish government’s complicity in the ISIS attacks on Suruc, the Armenian National Congress reported on Facebook.

During the protest they drew attention to similar assaults against Kobane, Kessab, and Der-Zor.

As reported earlier, at least 32 people were killed in a terrorist attack in the town of Suruc in Turkey.

A group of young people from different regions of Turkey gathered in Suruc to voice their protest against terrorism and transport clothes and toys to the children of Syria’s Kobane town.

Paris Turkish ’MİT involved in murder of 3 KURD women in Paris’ indictment says in Le Monde

July 24, 2015 By administrator

A prosecutor’s office in Paris has accused Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) of the assassination of three senior female members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Paris in 2013, according to an indictment published by the Le Monde newspaper, the Zaman daily reported on Friday.

According to the report, the Paris prosecutor overseeing the investigation is demanding that Ömer Güney, the only suspect in the case, be indicted for the killing of PKK members Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez on Jan. 9, 2013. The three Kurdish women were found dead with gunshot wounds at the Kurdistan Information Bureau in Paris. The prosecutor completed the 70-page indictment after two and a half years of work.

According to the indictment, Güney was in touch with top MİT official K.T., but the Turkish government did not respond to a request for information regarding K.T. “A large amount of evidence strengthens the idea that MİT was involved in the preparation and committing of the assassination. It was discovered that Ömer Güney was engaged in spying activities and there were a number of spies in Turkey he had been secretly in touch with,” Le Monde quoted the indictment as saying.

Güney will appear before a French court in September as the single suspect in the murder. The indictment was finalized on July 7 and a gag order was issued on the probe. However, Le Monde obtained the indictment and shared crucial details in its Thursday edition. Le Monde also mentioned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s remarks on March 14, 2014, saying that he had admitted that the Turkish state was behind the killings. Erdoğan had blamed the incident on a faction within MİT which was allegedly linked to the “parallel state,” a term coined by Erdoğan in reference to the faith-based Gülen movement. During an election rally in Lyon, Erdoğan claimed that the “parallel state” aimed at sabotaging the settlement process between the Turkish government and the PKK through the Paris murders.

According to Le Monde, Erdoğan’s “parallel state theory” was refuted with the disclosure of internal correspondence by MİT on Jan. 14, 2014. The document in question, alleged to belong to MİT, was published in the Turkish media and suggested that Cansız was the main target of the attack and 6,000 euro was paid for her to be killed.

The assassination of the three women took place shortly after the Turkish government launched talks with the PKK, recognized as a terrorist organization by the European Union, the United States and Turkey, in order to resolve the country’s long-standing Kurdish problem in the its Southeast. Turkish daily Karşı claimed in February last year that Güney had close ties to the MİT. The claim was previously denied by MİT following the release of a voice recording allegedly featuring a conversation between Güney and two MİT agents. The French forensic police concluded that it was highly likely that the voice recording was authentic.

Karşı’s report came after Ankara rejected a request from the French Ministry of Justice to reveal the identity of Güney’s contacts. Of the 13 numbers on Güney’s phone, five were landlines, while the others belonged to mobile phones, the report claimed. According to Le Monde’s report, one of the 13 phone numbers on Güney’s phone contact list belonged to MİT.

Turkey’s former Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ in January last year denied any links between MİT and the murders. MİT also denied allegations that it was the instigator of the murders. A statement released by the intelligence organization said an internal administrative investigation into the claims was launched.

Source: Zaman

Turkey arrests over 250 in raids targeting IS, Kurdish militants

July 24, 2015 By administrator

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(Reuters) Turkish police launched raids targeting Islamic State and Kurdish militants in 13 provinces across Turkey on Friday, July 24, the Prime Minister’s office said, saying it was determined to fight all “terrorist” groups “without distinction”.

It said in a statement that 251 people had so far been detained in the simultaneous raids, Reuters reports.