Turkish Politics & Internal Affairs

[passo_del_bosniako]

i saw no report of Clan Army of Al-Sharqiyah can you elaborate or share a news link about this? Thanks

source for this info is anti-regime acivist https://twitter.com/VivaRevolt, who has a realible track record for some time now.
Its hardly a suprise considering already existing tensions between YPG and Arabs in those provinces; the later accused YPG of ethnic cleansing, destroying arab viliges and so on. And this YPG stunt will for sure be the last drop. They and the rest of the rebelion are not stupid they seee this the way it is; carving exclusively kurdish enclave in which there will be no place for them. We will probably see a video soon, maybe its already on d facebook or something but Im kinda to lazy tonight to go hunting FSA and other rebel pgs for it.

I do know that many of them after ISIS takeover of these provinces went for Turkey, and refused later to join so called SDF. But were left w/o any support in terms of weapons so they took refuge in Turkey. Now with this YPG announcement. Turkey will probably take care of this "logistic and weapons problem". Some joined Aleppo rebel brigades, now fighting YPG, Regime and ISIS in that small pocket of north Aleppo.

 

[passo_del_bosniako]

What Kurdish federalism means for Syria

What Kurdish federalism means for Syria

sober analysis, worth a read

 

[Solomon2]

TodayKurds in Northern Syrian Linked 3 Cantons and Declared Federation USA and Syrian Goverment made it clear that they will not recognice Kurdish Federation. At This Point Peace Talks are useless. There is no hope for peace. After the Failed Peace Talks Turkish Army should destroy this Puppet State

Is your idea to destroy a "state" or replay the fate of the Armenians a century later or both?

I note the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, unlike the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire of a hundred years ago, cannot be accused of disloyalty to Turkey.

 

[blackeyes90]

Is your idea to destroy a "state" or replay the fate of the Armenians a century later or both?

I note the Kurds in Iraq and Syria, unlike the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire of a hundred years ago, cannot be accused of disloyalty to Turkey.

ITs nor a State merely a Puppet to Russia and noone in the region not Assad not Turkey not ISIS and not even Arabs want this kind of arrangements.

 

[passo_del_bosniako]

As i said earlier

As a Response to the Kurdish federalism , "Army of the Eastern tribes" establishment in Syria

http://en.eldorar.com/node/1783

69 FSA groups from across Syria condemn & reject PYD's plans for Kurdish zone & reiterate desire for Syrian unity:

 

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@Hurshid Celebi Bro, why are Russian Passenger Planes falling out of the sky so often recently?

 

[Bismarck]

@Hurshid Celebi Bro, why are Russian Passenger Planes falling out of the sky so often recently?

Technical issue or terror attack?

 

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First it was a cheap airliner from Dubai. "FlyDubai".
Second in the region of Rostov on Dona was heavy rain and storm.
Third other planes turned back e.g. Turkish Airlines machine turned back to Istanbul, Czech Airlines back to Prague,
others flew to Moskva.
"FlyDubai" Boeing -737 was almost looping 2 hours in the air and insisted landing but crashed at the second landing attempt.

fanks for the facts

 

[Yellow-place]

 

[Solomon2]

Turkey's (Not So) Creeping Islamization
by Burak Bekdil
Hürriyet Daily News
April 29, 2016

Turkey is a wonderland according to the official narrative. Not so much according to facts and figures.

Turkey's per capita income is less than half of Greece's – the country which, over the past few years, has gone through one of the worst financial crises in modern history.

Turkey is where four murders occurred on average every day in 2015. In addition to a poorly educated population of nearly 80 million, Turkey is home to nearly 3 million Syrian refugees.

The Turkish-Kurdish dispute has taken the lives of over 400 security officials and nearly 6,000 militants since last July. In addition, nearly 200 people, including over a dozen tourists, have been killed in suicide bomb attacks since October 2015. This week, once again, the United States warned its citizens in Turkey about "credible" terrorist threats to tourist areas in the country. Foreign carriers are either mulling pulling out or are pulling out.

Turkey is fertile ground for child rapists and abusers. In 2009, a total of 12,635 cases on charges of child sex abuse were opened, according to the Justice Ministry's judicial records and statistics office. That number rose by 43 percent to 18,104 in 2014. The increase between 2004 and 2014 was nearly 350 percent.

In Turkey, children die much more easily than their peers who live in more decent places. A Turkish children's rights organization found that at least 875 children from across Turkey were killed in preventable incidents over the past year. Had they been lucky enough to grow a little bit older, they would have been happy brides and grooms.

The Family and Social Planning Ministry has revealed that the number of girls who were wed before the age of 18 since 2010 is at least 232,313. But that figure includes official marriages only, and it is anyone's guess, empirically, how much higher the actual number would be when unofficial marriages, more common in rural Anatolia, are included.

Turkey sports a backward democratic culture. And its president holds two important global titles: Possibly the world's "most insulted president" and the president for whom a blasphemy competition abroad has been launched.

Freedom House classifies Turkey as 'not free' and suffering one of the world's 'largest declines' in liberties.

Turkey declined by over six points on the 2016 World Press Freedom Index prepared by Reporters Without Borders due to "systematic censoring of the media in addition to a sharp rise in charges of 'insulting the president' and loosely defined 'terrorism.'" It lagged behind Russia, Cambodia and Qatar in the index's "bad" section.

Freedom House's 2016 report classifies Turkey as "not free" and suffering one of the world's 'the largest declines' in liberties in 2015.

And, according to Freedom House's 2016 report, Turkey continues to be defined as "not free," with its score going up six points and thus signifying a "deteriorating" trend. Turkey is among the countries that "suffered the largest declines" over 2015, along with Bangladesh, Burundi, France, Serbia, Yemen, Egypt, Macedonia and Zimbabwe.

After Germany issued a travel advisory that its citizens visiting Turkey should not make public statements against the Turkish state, Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders warned that the Netherlands cannot guarantee the safety of citizens travelling to Turkey "if they have been critical of Turkish leaders."

Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman, who is overseeing the process of rewriting Turkey's constitution, says that "the new constitution should not have secularism ... it should be a religious constitution."

And divided the Turks stand. According to a recent German Marshall Fund study, Turkey is where 76 percent of people do not wish to be neighbors with someone who would be supporting a political party other than the one they support and where 83 percent would oppose their daughters marrying someone supporting a party "distant" to their ideology.

Against such backdrop, Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman suggests that (for a better Turkey), the new constitution should not feature secularism but feature a (Sunni Muslim) "devout" ethos. A Qur'an-based constitution would no doubt make the wonderland a far better – and more amusing – wonderland.

Turkey's president, prime minister and other prominent ruling party officials quickly rebuffed the idea. The new constitution should feature secularism, they say. But what they intend by secularism will be worth revisiting in next week's column.

Turkey's creeping Islamization? The word "creeping" looks so funny in that depiction.

Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based columnist for the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Daily News and a fellow at the Middle East Forum.

 

[Jamaal Yelmaaz]

EU countries lift Shengen Visa for TR citizens as from 01.07.2016...

 

[Gufi]

What good diplomacy achieves from strong leaders. Congrats Turkey

 

[Timur]

for this we only had to take back the million muslim refugees, to acknowledge the over 70 "to do list", accept Israel in Brüksel, and give the germans a own special place in incirlik that sound like a win win situation ..

 

[A-Team]

What good diplomacy achieves from strong leaders. Congrats Turkey

On the expense of other refugees!

 

[shah1398]

Dont know if the deal is good for Turkey or not. Because not only Turkey had to accept lots of refugees now plus few other modalities with regards to some countries. Also this visa waiver is valid for only 3 months and that too with one condition i.e Turkish visitors would not be allowed to work in Schengen area. So its a No Work Visa. Really do not know if end result would be good or bad for Turkey. But in any case we are wishing best of luck to Turkey. Hope this turns out to be a good deal in any case.