Energy minister’s leaked email Expose Turkey’s tacit support for ISIL

September 29, 2016 By administrator

email-turkey-isil A leaked email belonging to Berat Albayrak, Turkey’s energy minister and son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, shows weapons supply routes to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) through the Turkish border, in a tacit acknowledgement of Turkish support for the extremist group.

Albayrak’s email account was hacked by RedHack, a Turkish Marxist-Leninist-Maoist computer hacker group on Friday, and the group threatened to disclose 20 GB of secret information if the Turkish government failed to release Alp Altınörs, deputy co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and prize-winning novelist and journalist Aslı Erdoğan by Monday.

The email was shared among a number of persons, including Cüneyt Arvasi, Halil Danışmaz, executive director of the Turkish Heritage Organization, a pro-Justice and Development party (AKP) institute in the US, Energy Minister Albayrak and his brother Serhat Albayrak.

The email provides information to the energy minister and says that ISIL will launch full-scale attacks in northern Syria against Kurdish militias that Turkey views as the enemy, after the August 2014 presidential elections in Turkey.

Maps of arms supply routes and jihadist crossings through the Turkish border to Syria are also attached to the email, the content of the email shows.

In a striking comment, the email says the war between the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) had turned into another fight in Syria between ISIL and Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG). The YPG is the Syrian extension of the PKK, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the US, the EU and Turkey.

In 2014, there was no actual fighting between the TSK and the PKK as a truce declared in 2013 was still in place despite some problems. The fragile two-year cease-fire collapsed last summer.

Albayrak: We’ve lost the Kurds

Just weeks before the Nov. 1 parliamentary elections last year, the energy minister said in an email sent to an advisor of President Erdoğan that the government has mostly lost the Kurds due to an escalation in the fighting in Turkey’s Southeast.

The PKK’s decision to bring the war to cities and towns triggered an intensification of fighting between security forces and the terrorist group, reducing cities to rubble.

The government’s heavy-handed response also worsened the conditions of civilians trapped in the urban fight.

Albayrak shared with the advisor a draft of field research conducted by the pro-government SETA think tank titled “Kurdish People and Turkey”.

“This is a draft version of field research about Kurds’ tendencies. Not the final version. We seem to have lost the Kurds. This is done. May Allah help our final situation,” Albayrak wrote.

Another field survey measuring voter behavior across the region shows that prior to the Nov. 1 elections, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) had won 67.7 percent of the vote, while the AKP garnered 23.1 percent. The figure fueled government fears, but the election results saw the ruling AKP recoup some of the losses it sustained in the June 7 elections.

Source: http://www.turkishminute.com/2016/09/27/energy-ministers-leaked-email-reveals-turkeys-tacit-support-isil/

Israeli MP: Tel Aviv aiding al-Nusra in Syria

September 12, 2016 By administrator

This picture taken on August 6, 2016 shows members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham terrorist group sitting in a trench in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. ©AFP

An Israeli lawmaker has criticized the Tel Aviv regime for supporting Takfiri terrorists who are fighting in Syria to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

In a Facebook post on Sunday, Akram Hasson said the Fateh al-Sham terrorist group, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, is operating in Syria with “unprecedented logistical and medical” support from Israel.

He said Israel’s recent escalation of attacks on the Syrian army positions in the Golan Heights are aimed at paving the way for the terrorist group to gain more grounds.

Golan belongs to Syria, and the international community has never recognized Israel’s occupation of around 1,200 square km (460 square miles) of the territory during the 1967 Six-Day War and its annexation later.

Scores of illegal settlements have been built in the area over the years while the Israeli regime has used the area to launch attacks against the Syrian government and its allies.

Israel has recently intensified its airstrikes on the Golan Heights, targeting the Syrian army and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, which is assisting Damascus in the fight against Takfiri terrorists.

The Israeli lawmaker further said that the Fateh al-Sham terrorist group is bombing the Syrian Druze village of Khadr, with the support of Israeli Minister of Military Affairs Avigdor Lieberman.

“This new strategy led by Lieberman since he took office has strengthened the Nusra Front and it’s raising its head to attack our brothers,” Hasson wrote.

Citing eyewitnesses, Hasson said the Takfiri terrorist group is using advanced technological equipment, adding Israel’s strategic support has been broadened over the past few months.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

Damascus has blamed regional players, including Saudi Arabia and Israel, for supporting Takfiri militants inside the country.

Angela Merkel’s government says it has PROOF Turkey is SUPPORTING Islamic State AND Hamas

September 4, 2016 By administrator

As well as ISIS, Turkey has been accused of supporting Hamas

TURKEY has been accused of supporting the Islamic State and other Islamist groups across the Middle East, a leaked German government report has claimed.

By CHARLIE PEAT PUBLISHED: Wed, Aug 17, 2016 | UPDATED:

The document, produced by Angela Merkel’s Interior Ministry, claims president Erdogan’s government also supports Palestinian Hamas, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as other extremist groups in Syria.

The damning report, seen by German media, said: “The many expressions of solidarity and support actions by the ruling AKP and president Erdogan for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and groups of armed Islamist opposition in Syria emphasise their ideological affinity with the broader Muslim Brotherhood.”

The revelation will send tensions between Germany and Ankara into meltdown following a series of spats in the wake of the failed military coup in Turkey last month.

Hamas is an EU and US listed terrorist organisation and it is the first time Germany has made a link between the terror cell and Turkey.

Ankara has also deepened its ties with the depraved groups and has become a “platform for action” in the region, according to the report.

The report adds: “As a result of the step-by-step Islamisation of its foreign and domestic policy since 2011, Turkey has become the central platform for action by Islamist groups in the Middle East.”

Left-wing party Die Linke made the confidential request to the Bundestag, the German parliament, which was leaked to broadcaster ARD.

Lawmaker and member of the party, Sevim Dagdalen, said: “The German government cannot publicly designate the godfather of terrorism Erdogan as a partner, while internally warning about Turkey as a hub for terrorism.”

He also criticised German officials for blocking his appearance via a live video stream at a rally in Cologne last month.

He added: “The European Union is not behaving in a sincere manner with Turkey.

“If our demands are not satisfied then the readmissions will no longer be possible.”

Source: http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/700826/Angela-Merkel-Turkey-Erdogan-Islamic-State-ISIS-Daesh-Hamas-Germany

U.S. Election: neocon warmongering gangs lining up behind Clinton

August 27, 2016 By administrator

neo-con-lining-up The former deputy defense secretary said that he has “serious reservations” about Clinton, but that Trump is too reckless. He joins a growing chorus of prominent Republicans who oppose the party’s standard bearer.

Paul Wolfowitz, a neoconservative who as a senior advisor to then-US President George W. Bush was a vociferous advocate for the preemptive war against Iraq in 2003, says that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump poses a security risk to the country and that he will vote for the Democratic candidate, Secretary Hillary Clinton.

Wolfowitz told Der Spiegel magazine that he has “serious reservations” about Clinton, but that he could not vote for Trump.

“It’s important to make it clear how unacceptable he is,” Wolfowitz told the magazine.

“I wish there was a candidate whom I could support enthusiastically,” he said. “I will have to vote for Hillary Clinton, although I have serious reservations about her.”

Wolfowitz, who was deputy defense secretary to fellow neocon Donald Rumsfeld, joins a long list of “neocons” who have said they will vote against the Republican nominee.

Earlier this month more than 70 prominent Republicans signed a letter urging the party to divert its multimillion dollar budget for Trump’s presidential campaign to down-ballot congressional races ahead of the November election.

The letter was both a recognition of Trump’s fading prospects – he is down six points in national polls, and trails by substantially larger margins in several swing state tabulations – and the antipathy felt by mainstream Republicans towards Trump’s unconventional and populist views.

Fearing a rout by Democrats

The letter, which was sent to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, said Trump’s “divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity” threatened to turn the election into a “Democratic landslide.”

“Dump Trump” calls emerged earlier this year when Mitt Romney, the Republican’s 2012 nominee, slammed the real estate magnate and reality TV celebrity. Since then the trickle of Republican defections to the Clinton camps has steadily grown.

Clinton also has the wind in her sails according to nationwide polls. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released this week gives the Democrat a 95 percent chance of winning the election, citing sizable leads that she holds in key swing states, such as Florida, Ohio and Virginia.

Wolfowitz is remembered mostly for his strident support of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Fear that Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was a driving force behind the invasion.

UN weapons inspectors warned the US and Great Britain in the run-up to the war that they could not find any WMDs, despite a comprehensive inspection regime. Despite such warnings the neocons in Washington professed surprise after the war when it was conclusively determined that Iraq had no WMD program.

“Of course we would have proceeded differently if we had known that Saddam Hussein was not stockpiling weapons of mass destruction,” he said. “We would not have invaded.”

bik/kl (Reuters, AFP, AP, dpa)

Report: German officials say Erdogan supports militants “ideological affinity” with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

August 16, 2016 By administrator

Erdogan-islamic-connection Members of Germany’s government have accused Turkey’s regime of supporting militant groups in the Middle East public media report. ARD cited a classified document sent from the Interior Ministry to the Left party.

Citing a classified document from the Interior Ministry to representatives of the Left party on Tuesday the German public broadcaster ARD reported, that members of the government consider Turkey’s regime a supporter of militant groups in the Middle East.

German officials appear to have publicly acknowledged, if in a classified document, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s weapons support for militants fighting the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, which Turkish journalists have reported in the past. “Especially since the year 2011 as a result of its incrementally Islamized internal and foreign policy, Turkey has become a central platform for action for Islamist groups in the Middle East,” the German officials said, according to ARD.

German security officials also said Erdogan had an “ideological affinity” with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, ARD reported. Suppressed under Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship, the movement went on to produce Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi.

Despite the “affinity,” Erdogan has been publicly at odds with the Muslim Brotherhood in the past though he has since also criticized current Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who overthrew Morsi in a 2013 coup. Neither the United States nor the EU considers the Muslim Brotherhood a terror organization.

The German officials also said Erdogan supported Hamas, the democratically elected governing party in the Gaza Strip. Turkey’s president has said as much in the past, having told the US news host Charlie Rose, that “I don’t see Hamas as a terror organization.” Though the United States and EU do list Hamas as a prohibited group, nations such as Norway, Switzerland and Brazil do not.

“It is a resistance movement, trying to protect its country under occupation,” Erdogan added in the 2011 interview, referring to the Israeli state, with which Turkey also enjoys diplomatic ties.

mkg/rc (Reuters, KNA, dpa)

Source: http://www.dw.com/en/report-german-officials-say-erdogan-supports-militants/a-19477846

Yerevan: Gathering August 7 to 14 h before the statue of Komitas

August 4, 2016 By administrator

support-political-prisoners FIGHTER OF CAUSE IN ARMENIA ARMENIAN TRAPS! RALLY SUPPORT FOR REBELS SASSOUN, ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN ARMENIA AND OUR DEAR ALEC YENIKOMSHIAN ITS STRUGGLES AT CLASSMATES THE STRUGGLES OF ARMENIAN PEOPLE Sunday, August 7, 2016, at 14h in front of the statue of Father Komitas, Jardin d ‘ Yerevan to Paris

• We demand the immediate release of Alec Yenikomshian that prison conditions fall of absolute inhumanity. • We support fully the Rebels Sasun. • We demand the release of all political prisoners. • We condemn put in custody, illegal arrest of hundreds of our compatriots in Armenia. • We support the Armenian people in their quest for freedom and in his will to establish in Armenia a state of law, we support when demanding the resignation of corrupt oligarchic political authorities that make the devastated country.

Gathering at the initiative of the COMMITTEE SUPPORT FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS IN ARMENIA For information, contact Schanth Vosgéritchian 06-60-68-43-10 or by mail to zartonk75@free.fr

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Hillary Clinton wins the nomination but not the support

July 27, 2016 By administrator

bernie-bust Bernie Sanders supporters protested at the Democratic National Convention even as Hillary Clinton won a large majority of votes and backing from her progressive rival. DW’s Hecko Flores reports from Philadelphia.

Thousands of Bernie Sanders’ supporters protesting outside the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia cheered loudly during roll call as states cast their votes in favor of the senator. They ultimately erupted in boos once Hillary Clinton clinched the nomination.

The number of votes needed for the nomination was 2,382. Bernie Sanders won 14 states and territories with a total of 1,865 votes, while Hillary Clinton won 42 states and territories with 2,842 votes.

“When was the last time that so many people from our own party came out to protest our own candidate?” asked Natalie Delgado, a fervent 27-year-old Bernie supporter from Lodi, New Jersey.

She drove down to Philadelphia to protest the DNC along with her friends. Natalie is just one of many young people who are inspired by Sanders’ rhetoric to participate actively in politics and who are unhappy with the current political system in the US.

“We love Bernie’s ideals and we stand by those ideals but not the man necessarily,” said Nick Santacroce, a 29-year-old medical technologist and Natalie’s friend.

Disillusioned with the end of Bernie’s campaign, neither will be voting for Hillary Clinton despite Sanders’ recent endorsement of the former First Lady.

“They view us as Bernie’s puppets and that we will blindly follow anything that he tells us – because they are party puppets and follow anything their chairman tells them,” said Delgado. “I’ll be writing in Bernie on the ballot.”

Voting your blue conscience

Her friend, Nick, is currently undecided but is also considering writing Bernie on the ballot. “I’ll most likely write in Bernie’s name but only because I live in a blue state,” says Nick.

Being in a “blue state” means that the state majority will vote Democrat and guarantees that the state’s votes will go to Clinton in the electoral college during the general election, another aspect of American politics that has been heavily criticized as it does not represent a direct democracy.

Deborah Kim from Seattle flew to Philadelphia also to protest and show her discontent with the Democratic Party. “I will not be voting Democrat during this election. We want to make a point and show the party that we do not agree with their practices,” said Kim, who will be voting for third-party candidate Jill Stein.

Kim admitted that she feels safe voting for Jill Stein since she lives in a blue state as well. If she lived in a swing state, she would reluctantly vote for Hillary Clinton as she understands that voting third-party could translate into helping the Republican Party.

Third-party candidates have failed to obtain more than one percent of the popular votes in the last three elections, while the rest of the votes have been divided within the well-established Democratic and Republican parties.

“This is no longer working for us. We need to free ourselves from the two-party system,” said Maria Guido from Pittsburgh. She made the trip to her state’s largest city to show support for Bernie Sanders.

“I have not lost any respect for Bernie. I understand that he was forced to play ball with the Democrats and did what he had to do,” said Guido, who was sporting a “Bernie or Bust” T-shirt and buttons with #NeverHillary written on them.

‘I’m with him’

Protesters carrying signs continued their anti-Clinton chants in unison despite the summer heat until sunset. Among them was Christopher Norris, an activist with NextGen Climate. He made blue buttons with the inscription “Flip-a-Delegate” on them in the hope of getting delegates to change their vote for the senator from Vermont.

source: http://www.dw.com/en/hillary-clinton-wins-the-nomination-but-not-the-support/a-19428938

74% of Germans support Bundestag resolution on Armenian Genocide

June 3, 2016 By administrator

74 percent german support The majority of Germans support the resolution which the Bundestag passed, and which defines the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

The data publicized by the German ARD media company show that 74 percent of respondents are in favor of this resolution, whereas 18 percent said this decision was a wrong step.

Furthermore, 57 percent of respondents expressed the view that the adoption of this resolution could have a negative impact on Turkish-German relations.

A total of 91percent believe that Turkey cannot be trusted as a partner, whereas solely 7 percent of respondents considered this country to be reliable.

The Bundestag, the lower house of the German parliament, on Thursday formally recognized the Armenian Genocide, with the aforesaid resolution and with only one vote against and one abstention. The resolution also notes that the Bundestag regrets that the German government at the time did nothing to stop this crime against humanity, and therefore the Bundestag also acknowledges the respective historical accountability of Germany.

BREAKING NEWS: Paul Ryan said he would vote for Donald Trump.

June 2, 2016 By administrator

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Speaker Paul D. Ryan endorsed Donald J. Trump for president on Thursday, finally giving his backing after weeks of reluctance about supporting the man who ran against the party’s establishment, of which Mr. Ryan is the titular leader.
In a column posted on GazetteXtra.com, Mr. Ryan made clear he believed that Mr. Trump was the best candidate to help establish the agenda that he himself wants to get through Congress.

ADL: We would support U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide

May 14, 2016 By administrator

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO has called on the U.S. government to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

“What happened to the Armenian people was unequivocally genocide,” Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. “The genocide began with the ruling government arresting and executing several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, Armenian families were removed from their homes and sent on death marches. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre and starvation.”

Mr. Greenblatt said it is important to educate each generation about the tragedies of the past.

“That is why I am speaking out today and why we would support U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Silence is not an option,” he emphasized.

“Collectively, this background makes it imperative for groups who, sadly, share a history of oppression to stand together. When individuals or groups deny the Armenian genocide, as recently took place with a billboard in Boston, ADL will speak out and denounce that denial. In that spirit, I am optimistic about greater cooperation going forward to end all forms of hate and bigotry,” he resumed.