NEW ZEALAND: A leader Iwi Maori calls to boycott Memorial Day Dardanelles support for Armenians

April 8, 2015 By administrator

David Rankin clan chief and researcher Ngapuhi Maori called to boycott the centenary celebrations of the ANZAC (battles of the Dardanelles) this year “because the Turkish government used the event to distract the Armenian Genocide in which more than a million indigenous Armenians were killed by the Turks. ”

“The Armenian holocaust began April 24, 1915, so what better way for Turkey to hide than putting all the attention on ANZAC Day,” said Mr. Rankin. “The indigenous Armenian population was killed by the colonizers Turks and our involvement in the centenary of the Gallipoli ANZAC supports the genocide of the colonizer. Indigenous peoples must stand up and fight the oppressor ”

“Turkey was the Islamic State of his day,” said Mr. Rankin. “It killed nearly a million and a half Armenians because they were Christians and that they were the territories that the Turks wanted to colonize. We effectively support by going to the commemorations that are orchestrated at Gallipoli. This is a diversionary tactic. ”

Mr. Rankin has written to the Turkish ambassador in New Zealand about it in January, but has not received a response. “This shows me that their attitude towards indigenous peoples has not changed in a hundred years. We can still be ignored and treated like crap, “said Mr. Rankin.

Mr. Rankin called Maori and other indigenous groups to boycott the events of the ANZAC Memorial Day this year and as a sign of solidarity with the indigenous Armenians, to stop wearing poppies this year.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015,
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Turkish Journalist EMRE USLU: #Turkey Do not lend support to al-Qaeda

February 28, 2015 By administrator

EMRE USLU Turkish Journalist

By EMRE USLU –

Message to #Turkey Do not lend support to al-Qaeda

Do you think Western countries are stupid?

No one but your trolls accepts this Eastern guile. Are Westerners stupid and silly? Do you think Germany, which acknowledged it had wiretapped your communication, does not know what you are up to? Do you think the United Nations, which examined arm shipments and drafted a report about it, does not know what you are doing? Former US Ambassador to Turkey Francis J. Ricciardone openly said: “The [Turkish] government was supporting al-Nusra. We warned, but they didn’t take heed. They continued to work with al-Nusra.” The US already knows what you are doing, so they don’t need the perception-engineering efforts of mine as you claimed. In the White House, US President Barack Obama once accused Turkey of backing al-Qaeda.

Egypt court to consider listing Turkey as ‘state that supports terrorism’

February 10, 2015 By administrator

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (R) and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi salute the members of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Turkey. (Photo: Turkish Prime Minister’s Press Service via AP)

An Egyptian court on Saturday set Feb. 24 as the date for the first hearing in a lawsuit demanding that Turkey be designated a “state that supports terrorism,” according to a report by UK-based news portal Middle East Monitor (MEMO).

Citing a source who spoke on the condition of anonymity, MEMO reported that the Egyptian Court of Urgent Matters in the coastal city of Alexandria had scheduled the first hearing in the case for Feb. 24.

The report says a lawyer named Tarek Mahmoud filed the lawsuit with the court, claiming that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had supported the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) movement.

Egypt’s former military head and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ousted former President Mohamed Morsi a year after Morsi came to power in a free vote in July 2013. Turkey had forged a close alliance with Morsi and strongly criticized the military coup in Egypt that toppled the Morsi government.

The MB, which Morsi is part of, was declared a terrorist organization by the Egyptian government in December 2013.

The source also said that the lawyer filing the case further claimed that Turkey was the main source of arms entering Egypt and ending up in the hands of Muslim Brotherhood members.

Mahmoud also pointed out that Turkey hosted several meetings with members of the MB and hosts satellite channels owned by some of the MB leaders.

Since the ouster of Morsi, Turkish authorities, including President Erdoğan, have been lashing out at the Sisi administration and accusing the international community of “hypocrisy” for not taking a firm stance against someone who came to power by military coup.

Assad’s Syria says giving military support to Kurds in Kobani

October 22, 2014 By administrator

October 22, 2014

DAMASCUS, Syria,— Syria’s armed forces, including its aircraft, have been providing military support to Kurdish fighters defending the town of Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan besieged by jihadists, the information minister said.

“The state with its military forces and planes has been providing military and logistical support, and has supplied ammunition and arms to the town,” said Omran al-Zohbi, in comments published in the Syrian press on Wednesday.

Although it is not part of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, Damascus “will continue to give military aid to Kobani at the highest level”, he said.

“From the outset of the battle, the state has not hesitated to play its military, political, social and humanitarian role” because the town is “Syrian territory and its residents are Syrians”, said Zohbi.

Syrian Kurdish forces in Kobani on the border with Turkey have been holding out against the IS, whichwww.Ekurd.net controls swathes of territory in northern and eastern Syria and neighbouring Iraq, with the backing of US-led air strikes.

Fierce clashes since September 16 have left more than 700 dead, according to monitors, and sent over 300,000 people into flight across the border in Turkey.

Regions and cities names in Kurdish may have been changed or added to the article by Ekurd.net.

Has Turkey helped ISIL? yes ample proof that has been published by international media outlets.

August 31, 2014 By administrator

By EMRE USLU
e.uslu@todayszaman.com

Turkish authorities and pro-government academics have been busy in recent days, visiting world capitals in an effort to convince them that Turkey has not provided assistance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces. This has been a nice effort, but it is far from convincing major foreign powers. Such efforts are nothing but a reflection of a state that was caught helping a brutal terror organization.

Visiting Washington, London and Brussels to protest that Turkey has never helped ISIL is a lie that even Turks are not buying. Beyond the evidence collected by foreign intelligence agencies, there is ample proof that has been published by international media outlets.

While the dirty relationship between Turkey and ISIL is clear, Turkish authorities think that Western observers might be stupid enough to believe their tall tales.

If there was no hard evidence concerning Turkey’s dark relations with ISIL-like terrorist organizations, the court testimony of the drivers who were carrying ammunition to Syria is convincing enough to make a case that Turkey is helping al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists in Syria.

For example, truck driver L.K., who was arrested carrying 9,000 mortar rounds, testified in Adana in 2013 saying, “I carried similar loads more than once, unloading them at a gendarmerie station on the border. The load did not belong to the Turkish Armed Forces.” The court in Adana determined that the direction which the truck drivers reported that their loads were being taken to was that of an al-Qaeda camp.

When the police and gendarmerie stopped the trucks full of ammunition at the Reyhanlı border, Turkish authorities claimed that the trucks were carrying aid to Turkmens in Syria. It is ridiculous for any reasonable person to believe that these trucks were carrying aid to Turkmens.

This was an obvious lie for two simple reasons: Turkmens in Syria live right across the border from the Turkish town of Yayladağı, which is located at the very southern corner of Hatay province. However, the trucks were stopped at the Cilvegozu Gate, which is at the top of Hatay province. The distance between Cilvegozu and Yayladağı is 100 miles.

More importantly, extremist al-Qaeda-affiliated groups were controlling the Syrian side of the Cilvegozu gate, Bab-Al-Hawa at that time. ISIL forces were controlling the highways on the Syrian side in 2013, when the trucks were stopped.

Pro-government academics and analysts who want us — and the world community — to believe that Turkey has not helped al-Qaeda affiliated groups want us to believe that those trucks full of ammunition were carrying aid — even military aid — to Turkmens, not through Turkish territory, but through Syrian territory controlled by al-Qaeda and ISIL forces.

Dealing with terrorists and helping terrorism is like a boomerang; sooner or later it will come back on those who engage in it. This was Turkey’s argument back in 1990, telling the countries of Europe that helping the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) would hurt them in the long run, which was true.

Yet, the “new Turkey,” as pro-government analysts love to say, has forgotten its own argument in helping al-Qaeda-affiliated terror groups to topple the Assad regime. Not surprisingly, the boomerang has come back to strike Turkey quite severely. Now 49 Turkish diplomatic staff and dependents are being held captive by ISIL and Turkey has not even lifted a finger to rescue them thus far.

There is little doubt that government authorities violated international law pursuing aggressive policies to topple the Assad regime. If there is a price to be paid, it should not be Turkey; rather, it should be those who made such decisions and played such dangerous games.

Unfortunately, Turkey’s contribution is one of the reasons ISIL wields so much power today. This is not only limited to Turkey’s passive support by turning a blind eye to ISIL fighters using Turkish territory to cross into Syria, but it is also due to these shadowy arms transfers from Turkey to Syria. ISIL officials are not even shy about confessing that they carried their weapons through Turkey on their way to jihad.

Egyptian newspapers: Turkey supports Daash (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria

August 29, 2014 By administrator

Ahmed Ragab

29/08/2014

Egyptian newspapers attributed to the Egyptian security apparatus for monitoring information that contacts are underway between the Turkish intelligence services and the organization (Daash)(Islamic State). report iraqhurr.org

She pointed out that these newspapers, “the Turkish government provide full support to the organization and help him in recruiting fighters Europeans into Iraq and Syria in the framework of the organization’s efforts to control the two countries and establish an Islamic emirate, according to the alleged scheme.”

Local newspapers reported that the hardware information in Egypt continues to track the movements (Daash- Islamic State) within the region as a whole, and found that the intelligence Turkish supplied (Daash) during the last period with information and maps of the most important banks and exchange offices in Syria and Iraq to the armed robbery them and harvested from the large sums of money assist them in spending on terrorist operations carried out by.

She newspapers that the Turkish government helped (Daash) also in robberies on several wells for oil Baham and sale of oil using the Turkish border with Iraq and Syria, and even benefited Turkey of oil, which steals (Daash) of the wells the two countries and transferring it to the Turkish soil cheaply less than its real .

To the president of the Astronomical Institute of Science, Dr. Hatem return of “The Institute strongly monitor earthquakes first 4 and 7 per ten degrees on the Richter Mkabbas last weak and very strongly less than two degrees in the early hours of Friday morning.”

On the other hand, reports said unidentified fired in the early hours of Friday morning fire on a police station Fayoum, while the forces insurance circumference them back to the police department was an exchange of fire in the vicinity of the section, provided the unsung without causing any injuries between the two parties.

As violent clashes broke out between the Central Security Forces, and elements of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the vicinity of Helwan metro station, and Central Security forces fired tear gas canisters to disperse the elements of the Brotherhood received items pelted troops with stones. The police dispersed the march of the elements of the Muslim Brotherhood in the area of Dokki.

This announced the public prosecutor that it started an investigation with 141 defendants, members of the Ultras Zamalek Club “White Knights”, arrested in clashes with security forces rotation of Shubra on Thursday evening (August 28), following the exit of tens of “White Nights” in rotation Shubra to go in the march to the Office Attorney General to demand the release of 11 members of their colleagues who were arrested last week on charges of trying to assassinate Prime Zamalek Murtada Mansour, and clashes resulted in the injury of three recruits and 6 members of the Ultras Zmalkkawi.

أحمد رجب

29.08.2014

نسبت صحف مصرية الى أجهزة الأمن المصرية رصدها معلومات تفيد عن اتصالات تجري بين أجهزة المخابرات التركية وتنظيم (داعش).

واشارت هذه الصحف الى إن “الحكومة التركية تقدم دعما كاملا للتنظيم وتساعده في استقدام مقاتلين أوربيين إلى داخل العراق وسوريا فى إطار مساعي التنظيم للسيطرة على الدولتين وإقامة إمارة إسلامية وفقا لمخططه المزعوم”.

وأضافت الصحف أن أجهزة المعلومات في مصر تواصل تتبع تحركات (داعش) داخل المنطقة ككل، وتبين لها أن أجهزة مخابرات تركية أمدت (داعش) خلال الفترة الماضية بمعلومات وخرائط عن أهم البنوك ومكاتب الصرافة في سوريا والعراق لكي تقوم بسطو مسلح عليها وتحصد من ذلك أموالا طائلة تساعدها في الإنفاق على العمليات الإرهابية التي تقوم بها.

وتابعت الصحف أن الحكومة التركية ساعدت (داعش) أيضا في عمليات السطو على آبار عديدة للنفط بالشام وبيع النفط باستخدام الحدود التركية مع العراق وسوريا بل واستفادت تركيا من النفط الذي تسرقه (داعش) من آبار الدولتين وتقوم بنقلها إلى الأراضى التركية بثمن رخيص أقل من سعره الحقيقي.

إلى ذلك اعلن رئيس معهد العلوم الفلكية الدكتور حاتم عودة إن “المعهد رصد زلزالين أولهما بقوة 4 و7 بالعشرة درجة على مقباس ريختر وآخر ضعيف للغاية بقوة أقل من درجتين في الساعات الأولى من صباح اليوم الجمعة”.

من جهة أخرى ذكرت تقارير ان مجهولين اطلقوا في ساعة مبكرة من صباح الجمعة النار على قسم شرطة الفيوم، فيما قامت قوات التأمين بمحيط قسم الشرطة بالرد عليهم وتم تبادل إطلاق النار في محيط القسم، وفر المجهولون دون وقوع أية إصابات بين الطرفين.

كما نشبت اشتباكات عنيفة بين قوات الأمن المركزي، وعناصر جماعة الإخوان، في محيط محطة مترو حلوان، وأطلقت قوات الأمن المركزي قنابل الغاز المسيل للدموع على عناصر الإخوان لتفريقهم وردت العناصر برشق القوات بالحجارة. وفرقت قوات الشرطة مسيرة لعناصر جماعة الإخوان في منطقة الدقي.

هذا واعلنت النيابة العامة انها باشرت التحقيق مع 141 متهما من أعضاء ألتراس نادى الزمالك “وايت نايتس”، المقبوض عليهم فى اشتباكات مع قوات الأمن بدوران شبرا مساء الخميس(28آب)، إثر خروج عشرات الـ”وايت نايتس” في دوران شبرا للتوجه في مسيرة لمكتب النائب العام من أجل المطالبة بالإفراج عن 11 عضوا من زملائهم الذين تم إلقاء القبض عليهم الأسبوع الماضي لاتهامهم بمحاولة اغتيال رئيس الزمالك مرتضى منصور، وأسفرت الاشتباكات عن إصابة 3 مجندين و6 من أعضاء الألتراس الزمالكاوي.

Turkey played part in Islamic State’s success, commander says

August 13, 2014 By administrator

An Islamic State militant stand guard at a checkpoint captured from the Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq. AP Photo

The so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), recently renamed has Turkey to thank for growing strong enough to conquer large swathes of Syria and Iraq, one of its commanders has suggested in an interview with the Washington Post published on Aug. 12.

The 27-year-old commander, identified as Abu Yusef, who traveled to the town of Reyhanlı in the southern province of Hatay for the interview, explained that they received most of their supplies from across the Turkish border until a recent crackdown against them.

“We used to have some fighters — even high-level members of the Islamic State — getting treated in Turkish hospitals. And also, most of the fighters who joined us in the beginning of the war came via Turkey, and so did our equipment and supplies,” Yusef told the Washington Post.

Although it has now become more difficult to rely on the Turkish borders since the recent crackdown, the jihadists now have more than enough access to weapons in Iraq.

“It is not as easy to come into Turkey anymore. I myself had to go through smugglers to get here, but as you see, there are still ways and methods,” he said.

The piece, penned by Anthony Faiola and Souad Mekhennet, suggested that Turkey’s recent measures could prove “too little, too late.”

Click here to read the Washington Post’s article.

Kurdish security chief: Turkey must end support for jihadists

August 7, 2014 By administrator

Author Wladimir van Wilgenburg

QAMISHLI, Syria — The head of the Kurdish security police in northeast Syria, Ciwan Ibrahim, said that his security forces are willing to cooperate with Turkey if it ends its support for radical jihadist groups.

In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, Ibrahim accused Turkey of continuing to support jihadist groups such as the Islamic State (IS), which is in the throes of a major and vicious assault against Kurdish populations in Syria and Iraq.

The Kurdish security police, known as Asayish in Kurdish, operates in Syrian Kurdish cities to combat crime and terrorism. Amid the turmoil of Syria’s civil war, the Kurds established their own autonomous system and security apparatus in northeastern Syria in January.

The Asayish is seen as being affiliated with the Democratic Union Party (PYD), although Ibrahim denied any link to any political party.

Relations between the Syrian Kurds, steered by the PYD, and Turkey have been hostile, fueling repeated accusations from the PYD and the Asayish that the Erdogan government is supporting the radical IS, which is currently besieging the Kurdish enclave of Kobani and massacring Kurdish Yazidis in Iraq.

Ibrahim also accused the Syrian government of backing IS to prevent the Kurds from achieving autonomy in northeast Syria.

“Ali Mamlouk, the head of the intelligence, is responsible for all IS attacks in the Kurdish region,” he said.

The Asayish head rebutted claims that the Kurds sought independence from Syria, stating that they only seek to be part of Syria where all their rights are respected.

Speaking on the fight against IS, Ibrahim urged Western powers to provide technology to his forces to help beat IS.

“If they would support us some way with technology, we would not have this problem.”

The text of the interview follows:

Al-Monitor: There have been media reports that Turkey is backing jihadist groups, such as IS and Jabhat al-Nusra. Do you agree with these reports?

Ibrahim: Ankara supports radical groups. Near the border with Rojava [Syrian Kurdistan], a refugee camp is used as a training camp for jihadist fighters. They also support them with medicine and treat wounded jihadist fighters in their hospitals. Ankara does not control the border’s security and allows Islamist groups to operate under the name Free Syrian Army, Islamic Front or IS. These groups are collaborating together in the Jazeera area against the Kurds to destroy the region.

Al-Monitor: Why would Turkey support IS? Are they not a threat to Turkey?

Ibrahim: The Turkish government is afraid of Rojava because of the new self-rule system here. Turkey does not want to happen here what happened in northern Iraq. If Turkey did not support people fighting our revolution, we would not have any problems with having ties with Turkey. They always say that we are the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party], but we are not the PKK.

Al-Monitor: Do you think ties with Turkey could improve in the future?

Ibrahim: If Turkey changes its behavior regarding its support for radical groups, then we don’t have any problems with the government of Turkey, or the people of Turkey.

Al-Monitor: Do you have any relations with your counterparts in Iraqi Kurdistan?

Ibrahim: Officially, we have relations with the Asayish of the PUK [Patriotic Union of Kurdistan]. We have good connections with the people in Bashur [Iraqi Kurdistan]. But we do not have any relations with the Asayish of the Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP]. The KDP sides with Turkey, and they are an enemy of the Rojava revolution. We want to have a good relationship with the KDP, and the Asayish in Erbil and Dahuk, but they are taking Turkey’s side.

Al-Monitor: There are accusations that the Syrian government has also supported IS. In June, Syrian Kurdish politician Abdullah Ahmad Qirtimini was assassinated and his son blamed it on the government. What do you think of these accusations?

Ibrahim: The main security risks for us are the regime and IS. I can assure you 100% that there is a connection between the Syrian regime and IS. So far, the regime has not attacked IS bases because IS is fighting Jabhat al-Nusra and the Free Syrian Army.

Al-Monitor: Is it just IS fighting the Kurds in the Hasakah region, or are there other groups as well?

Ibrahim: Here in the Cizire canton [Kurdish for Hasakah province], IS and other groups have united to fight the Kurds. They are afraid of the Kurds and say the Kurds want their own country and want a piece from Syria. But the truth is that the Kurdish movement just wants the rights of Kurds. This whole situation is created by the Syrian intelligence. Ali Mamlouk united every group that did not accept Kurdish rights. They’ve turned the opposition into just IS. They want IS to fight Arabs who are not with the regime. Ali Mamlouk, the head of the intelligence, is responsible for all IS attacks in the Kurdish region. Damascus has failed in its attempt to unite all radical groups against the Kurds.

Al-Monitor: Do you have problems with the Arab tribes in Hasakah province?

Ibrahim: In Tirbespiyeh [Al-Qahtaniyah], some Arab tribes brought by the regime in the late 1960s and 1970s, and that are supporting IS, are trying to create problems. There are IS sleeper cells. Mohammed Fares’ tribe [the pro-government Tay tribe] can become an IS partner in the future and create problems in the region. The Arabs don’t mind who the ally is, they just want to fight the Kurds. In Sweidiah village, near Rumeilan, there are connections between the local Arab population and radical groups.

Al-Monitor: Does that mean you have problems with Arabs?

Ibrahim: We have a future to live all together. Our problem is the al-Qaeda ideology that came here and brought terror. It’s not an ethnic problem. Some Arabs accept the new Kurdish system, and some Kurds work with IS. We do not want independence from Damascus, we want to be a part of Syria, with all our rights.

Al-Monitor: The West has not supported your struggle against jihadist groups. How has that hindered your fight?

Ibrahim: If you fight terrorism, you need support, like from the West. They had explosions in London and Madrid. We need Europe and the United States to support us with technology. Detectors and explosive deactivators are needed to fight IS. If they would support us in some way with technology, we would not have this problem.