لماذا هي مبادرة إنقاذ الأسد؟
Why is AL Agreement intended to save Asad?
طارق الحميد/ الشرق الأوسط
Tareq AlHomayed/Asharq Alawsat
06/11/2011
http://www.aawsat.com/leader.asp?section=3&article=648475&issueno=12031
http://backupurl.com/hhju55
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Therefore, and further to all of the above, what did the Arab League recently cannot only be described as an initiative to save Bashar al-Assad, at the expense of all the tragedies of the Syrians, and cannot be compared to the Arab initiative toward Syria initiative Gulf to Yemen, the difference is significant, as the dialogue Yemeni proposal file is about the transfer of power and the departure of the benefit, and the dialog with Syria, it seems to prolong the life of the Assad regime, no more, no less.
Barzani snubs calls for anti-PKK strikes
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=barzani-snubs-calls-for-anti-pkk-strikes-2011-11-04
http://backupurl.com/negdyz
Friday, November 4, 2011
CANSU ÇAMLIBEL
İSTANBUL – Hürriyet
Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, says he opposes military action on the PKK and calls for leaders to find a political solution
Hurriyet Daily News and Posta columnist Mehmet Ali Birand, Hürriyet correspondent Cansu Çamlıbel was among media members talking to leader of KRG Barzani (L) in Istanbul.
Hurriyet Daily News and Posta columnist Mehmet Ali Birand, Hürriyet correspondent Cansu Çamlıbel was among media members talking to leader of KRG Barzani (L) in Istanbul.
The leader of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has expressed opposition to any Turkish military raids against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in his territory, suggesting such operations were likely to fail.
"My own experience [with guerilla warfare] tells me that no matter how much might and technology you have, conducting raids [against guerillas] is very difficult," northern Iraqi leader Masoud Barzani said during a visit to Turkey on Nov. 4.
"We understand the Turkish military is a strong, capable army, but who do you fight with? It is not a frontal war," he said. "Regardless of how many more operations are carried out, there won't be any result," he said. "It is not a frontal war that we are fighting against an army, military barracks, camps or air force bases."
Barzani, who met with a group of Turkish journalists at a round table in Istanbul on Nov. 4, said tensions have risen since Turkey began operations against the PKK after the militant group killed 24 soldiers on Oct. 19 in the eastern province of Hakkari's Çukurca district. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey and much of the international community.
Barzani said his duty to all concerned parties was to stop the war between the violence in Southeast Anatolia. "The continuation of war is not a solution," he added.
"I told [the PKK] very openly and frankly that I am against war because war does not serve the Kurdish people's or Turkey's interest. My message is very clear that we have to pursue peaceful means and not think about other alternatives," he said. "Killing [Turkish] soldiers is a mistake, is a crime. It is not in the interest of Kurdish people and that should stop. War has to come to an end, dialogue has to start. That is the best alternative. No matter how long it takes, dialogue is still better."
Difficult to dislodge PKK
Barzani also said it was difficult to remove the PKK from his territory. "A partisan war or a guerilla war is a very difficult one. In fact, in order to find solutions, you should not deal with the outcome, you should deal with the reasons."
He said Turkey had not yet asked him to take on a negotiator role with the PKK. "Whether Turkey makes that request or not, I see that as my responsibility to tell the PKK to stop the war. And I believe the moment that the PKK stops fighting, then there will be no reason for Turkey to continue with military operations. The first thing is to stop the war and then the dialogue will start about the next steps. The first thing is to stop the operations."
Asked about speculation that Turkey was pressing to deploy its own troops at checkpoints in Iraqi Kurdish territory, Barzani said: "If that problem can be solved by specifically having a few checkpoints in the area, why would it not be on the Turkish side of the border? We have to be realistic. Neither through military means, nor through establishing checkpoints in the area will this problem be solved. We believe that with democratic measures and peaceful solutions, we can put an end to war."
The Iraqi Kurdish leader also said the recent arrests in the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) case, which is probing the PKK's alleged urban wing, were not in the interests of Turkey or the democratic process. "If somebody has committed a security breach, it is something, but if people have been detained for political reasons, this is not going to serve the interests of a democratic process."
Syria to have effect on Kurdish region
The outcome of the Syrian uprising will be felt across Kurdish-populated areas in the Middle East regardless of what ultimately transpires, Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani has said on a visit to Turkey.
"Whatever happens in Syria will have a direct effect on Kurdistan. In the beginning there were efforts to drag the Kurds to take a tough stance so that [Syrian authorities] would have an excuse to say that the Kurds are separatists," he said, but added that Syrian Kurds did not fall into the trap.
"As far as we are concerned it is very important that there is a democratic system in Syria and rights of Kurdish people are recognized. Unfortunately neither the current government has done this, and we do not know if they will do it in the future," he said.
Turkey offers role to Barzani
Turkey is pressuring Iraqi Kurds to take action against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), suggesting to the visiting head of northern Iraq that Arbil could take an active role in the process to end the militant group's activity."We expect a clear stance and active support and cooperation from the regional administration against this terror," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Nov. 4 during a joint press conference with Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Barzani's visit to Turkey ahead of the Kurban Bayram holiday conveyed a positive message of Turkish-Kurdish kinship, Davutoğlu said. "No action will cause destruction to the brotherhood of Turks and Kurds." Barzani said. Turkey urged the Iraqi Kurdish leader to take an active role in the process of convincing the PKK to lay down its arms, the Hürriyet Daily News has learned.
Turkey's main opposition warns of 'war plot' against Syria
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=turkeys-main-opposition-warns-of-8216war-plot8217-against-syria-2011-11-03
http://backupurl.com/ybeyfr
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Hüseyin Hayatsever
ANKARA – Hürriyet Daily News
A deputy leader of Turkey's main opposition party has said a "plot" is being staged in unrest-hit Syria to pave the way for the country's foreign occupation. She also said the Republican People's Party (CHP) does not back all practices of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but is against a foreign intervention in Syria.
"The West has written a plot about democracy and liberty, and they are staging it. But this plot of democracy and liberty is nothing but the plot for an invasion," Birgül Ayman Güler told the Hürriyet Daily News. She said this plan would result in thousands of deaths.
A delegation of female members of the CHP crossed into Syria over the weekend for a five-day visit to observe the situation on the ground along with representatives from the Worker's Party (İP), Labor Party (EMEP), Turkish Women's Union, Republican Women's Association and other women's groups. They were invited by the General Union of Syrian Women.
The female Turkish delegation visited Aleppo, Latakia and Damascus and met with high-ranking politicians including Vice President of Syria Najah al-Attar, who is the country's top female politician, Grand Mufti of Syria Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, whose son was shot dead Oct. 3, and Chair of the General Union of Syrian Women Majida Qteit.
Güler said almost every Syrian politician they met had lamented Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's attitude toward the Syrian administration. "We had very good relations with Turkey until six months ago," Güler quoted al-Attar as saying. "We were discussing removing the borders. We don't understand why he has this hostile attitude toward us at the moment. He should give up supporting the terrorists."
The Syrian administration made a distinction between the Syrian opposition demanding reforms and the armed rebels, Güler said. "They told us they understood the opposition who demand more reforms, but they are against armed protesters, whom they called as terrorists."
In response to Erdoğan's hailing the "glorious resistance" in Syria, Güler said they never faced a "resistance," and the daily routine continues in the Syrian cities they visited.
Stressing that the CHP does not back all the practices of the al-Assad administration, she said: "If you say 'al-Assad is a bad statesman, that's why foreign intervention is a must,' I'm against it. I did not think highly of Gadhafi in Libya, but look at the post-Gadhafi era. The first thing they've done is to allow marrying with four women. They said, 'Democracy and liberty would come,' but an unacceptable reactionary has come. I'm complaining about anti-democratic actions of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). But if there were a foreign intervention to overthrow the AKP, I would be the first to defend it. Democracy never comes with foreign intervention" said Güler.
The CHP also requested permission from officials to visit the refugee camps established in Hatay for nearly 7,000 Syrian people who have fled the violence in their country.
Ankara weighs options in Syria stalemate
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-262013-ankara-weighs-options-in-syria-stalemate.html
06 November 2011, Sunday / NOAH BLASER , İSTANBUL
In the wake of last week's failed bid by the Arab League to halt violence in Syria, Turkey now more than ever may be pressured into creating a humanitarian "buffer zone" in Syria, a form of interventionwhich regional experts say, carries unknown consequences.
"Some form of intervention in Syria will be considered seriously if events worsen and international action is absent." Middle East expert Oytun Orhan told Sunday's Zaman on Friday. Orhan, a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Strategic Studies (ORSAM), says that such a development would prove to be a "last choice" for Turkey in an eight-month conflict that has seen Syria's President Bashar al-Assad crack down against an anti-regime protest movement.
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بلغت 66 قتيل وأسير واحد .. حزب العمال الكردستاني يكشف حصيلة العمليات في شهر تشرين الأول الماضي ضد الجيش التركي
Of 66 dead and one prisoner .. PKK reveals the outcome of operations in October last against the Turkish army
http://www.aksalser.com/index.php?page=view_news&id=75efbead7af8bea919a92cff1feb4da6&ar=164990933
Sunday - November 6 - 2011 - 13:06:35
Aks al-Ser learned that the outcome of operations in October of the PDF of the PKK, namely, 66 killed by the party and one prisoner by the Turkish army.
The number of clashes and battles that took place between the forces of Alkrla (PKK forces) and the forces of the Turkish army clashes 10 and 52 process.
Ranged from about 51 campaigns Altmsheetih campaign, in a time when the number of people killed by the Turkish army to 166 soldiers and 22 police officers and 3 members of the protectors of the villages.
And Aks al-Ser learned that the number of mechanisms, the Turkish army destroyed by the forces of the party machinery was 15, also struck four helicopters helicopter by forces of the party.
The following is the number of weapons and supplies that have been taken over by the PKK forces:
15 - a weapon of the type "g 3" - 3 of type "EE 33" - 2 "MK 3" - 1 Pistol - 2 lens - 1 Wireless - 1 mine detectors
- Number of times the air strikes by Turkish warplanes F 16 - 43 times
- Number of times the air strikes by Turkish Cobra helicopter (19) times
- Number of times the Turkish artillery shelling by mortars and Alaubis 63 times
- Number of times the outbreak of fire in the forest by the Turkish shelling - 4.
منصور: ردود الافعال على المبادرة العربية لحل الأزمة الراهنة في سورية لا تساعد على الحل
Lebanese FM Mansour: Reactions to the Arab initiative to resolve the current crisis in Syria does not help solve
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/06/380141.htm
November 6, 2011
Beirut, (SANA) -
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Lebanese Adnan Mansour sees that the reactions have been issued after the approval of Syria on the Arab Plan of Action to resolve the current crisis which is not conducive to the solution called for the Syrian opposition to respond to the plan.
Mansour said in an interview with MTV in the Lebanese yesterday that the Syrian leadership had agreed from the outset on the Arab initiative to resolve the current crisis in Syria, but the reactions that were issued from here and there do not help the solution, adding that after two days of the initiative and found the tension on the part of the Syrian opposition is still standing because it did not accept the solution.
In the context between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants of Lebanon that is based on Syria's keenness of his concern for the interests of his country and its stability, pointing to the interdependence of security and stability of Lebanon's security and stability of the region.
He .. If we want the solution we need to help the Syrian leadership to emerge from the crisis and not vice versa, especially after starting the implementation of reforms.
Arab League to hold emergency meeting on Syria Saturday
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-11/06/c_122243102.htm
English.news.cn 2011-11-06 23:08:42
CAIRO, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Arab League (AL) will hold an emergency ministerial meeting on Saturday to discuss the continued violence in Syria whose government has accepted an Arab initiative to end the country's seven-month-long turmoil, the Egyptian official news agency MENA reported Sunday.
The report, quoting an AL statement, said Qatari Prime Minister Shaikh Hamad bin Jassim had called for "an emergency Arab League council meeting at foreign minister level next Saturday to look at the latest developments in Syria."
The meeting, after one AL committee meeting to be attended by foreign ministers of some Arab countries slated for Friday evening, will focus on "the continuing violence and the government's failure to stick to its obligations under the Arab Action Plan to solve the crisis in Syria," according to the statement.
The Syrian government on Wednesday accepted a peace plan put forward by the AL to end the crisis in the country without any reservation in an extraordinary meeting.
The plan calls for ending violence, withdrawing military vehicles from Syrian streets, in addition to releasing detainees and holding dialogue between the government and the opposition at the AL headquarters.
مصدر دبلوماسي عربي :القيادة السورية بدأت بتطبيق المبادرة.. ثمّة قوى متطرّفة تحمل السلاح لا علاقة لها بالمعارضة الحقيقية
An Arab diplomat: the Syrian leadership began to apply the initiative .. There are extremist forces carry weapons unrelated to the real opposition
http://www.syrianow.sy/index.php?d=2&id=39793
Dolly Bash'alaani - al-Diyar (note: of Lebanon, perhaps)
الأحد 2011/11/06 SyriaNow
Committee Arab observers and the media of Arab and foreign intervention Syria next week to see the situation closely .. Arab diplomat: the Syrian leadership began to apply the initiative .. and join the National Council or the isolation
The Syrian opposition does not show in all its spectra so far, agreed to dialogue with the political power in Syria, and the evidence the visible is the continuation of demonstrations and acts of violence and murder, and further U.S. intervention in the internal affairs in the country through its warning to comply with the amnesty decision issued by the leadership ... .
However, the leadership, according to Arab diplomatic source, will not make interventions such as hinder their efforts and commitment to the implementation of the Arab initiative as a whole, has taken a decision to withdraw military vehicles all from the streets of cities and areas of Syria to implement the provision of the cease-fire and began to apply it to the ground, and will be seen of the Arab League later this step, it is responsible for tampering with security in the country.
Everyone knows, what he said, that there are extremist forces with weapons unrelated to the opposition true, is that some Arab countries were turning a blind eye to this, but now it has to allow the Committee of Arab observers (designated by the Secretary-General of the Arab League Nabil al-Arabi during the week Next, after the Eid al-Adha) as well as the Arab media and foreign entry to Syria, will prove to the world the existence of these terrorist groups, and will identify observers and journalists then between peaceful demonstrators, and those groups that did not stop until the time for straining the security situation at the behest external, as Selhzawn seriousness of the Syrian leadership on the development of the internal structure to strengthen Syria.
As for what was to prevent the Arab media and foreign since the start of the protests in Syria, the transfer of what is happening on the ground, makes it clear the source that the center of what is happening is preventing journalists not to ensure their personal security, and the day will come and at their own risk, may choose to media, including those who used work in hot areas, dominated by wars, and therefore accustomed to take precautions to preserve their lives.
He believes that the Arab countries that put the Arab initiative to resolve the crisis in Syria did not say where any assurances to the current system, you will not blame the power after today if you try to deter these terrorist groups if attacked an army barracks or on innocent civilians during the movement of transport from their homes to their businesses, in particular, and it is the right of every state to use legitimate means to maintain security there.
Because the agreement between the Council of the Arab League and the Syrian authorities did not specify a certain period to implement the power provisions of the initiative, the source says that the time stands for the Syrian government is even with the continuation of the demonstrations that are supposed to be peaceful, but will not waste time, but began to apply the withdrawal of armed manifestations on the ground, a manifestation of for its good intentions towards its commitment to the Arab initiative, and a confirmation of it refuses to «internationalization» crisis in Syria, particularly as it agreed to the Arab plan to solve without any reservations.
And the non approval of the national dialogue with the authorities, especially since the cease-fire and acts of violence should lead, according to the Arab initiative, to the national dialogue held at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo after about two weeks, according to some weights, confirming the source to the solution of two: to join the Arab mechanism in place to resolve them, or be isolated. It is better for him to change his stance of refusing to dialogue, because no other choice, having agreed with the authority to engage opponents in order to achieve political reform in the country.
And dissatisfaction with the United States and its allies on the «Arabization» crisis in Syria, the source says: «despite warnings from the U.S. State Department recently, the French position, the foreign countries did not reject the Arab initiative, but expressed welcome to all plan that would stop the violence and the repression in Syria. Everyone is aware that the priority of the United States is to protect the security of Israel without the security of other countries in the Middle East ».
Assuming the failure of the Syrian leadership to implement the provisions of the initiative, it will be used to «internationalization» Syrian crisis and the intervention of NATO «NATO», as in Libya, answers to the same source: «Syria is not Libya, and to enter the« NATO »in Syria lacking until a consensus of Member States in the Security Council, especially as both Russia and China, along with other countries, is along with Arab support, and that the refusal of military intervention in Syria is that now prevails, has been increased emphasis on this matter after the approval of Syria the Arab initiative.
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