[RADIOSHABELLE] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... ’s state aid agency provided medical equipment to a hospital in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement on Tuesday.
The Ottoman Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) said 216 devices and medical equipment including an ultrasound device, echocardiography equipment, autoclave were provided for the Hargeisa State Hospital, which serves around 3 million patients.
Ottoman Turkish Ambassador in Mogadishu Mehmet Yilmaz, Somaliland Health Minister Hassan Ismail Yusuf and TIKA’s coordinator in Somalia Galip Yilmaz attended the delivery ceremony of the medical supplies.
Speaking at the ceremony, Yusuf said the equipment provided by Turkey will contribute to the people of Somaliland receiving healthcare in much better circumstances.
Also speaking at the ceremony, Yilmaz emphasized the brotherhood between the people of Turkey and Somalia.
He said: "Turkey will continue to increase assistance in the region. We welcome the Somaliland administration deporting the FETO [Fetullah Terrorist Organization] terror group and handing the management of the FETO-linked schools over to the Maarif Foundation."
Turkey established the Maarif Foundation after 2016 defeated coup attempt to take over the administration of overseas schools linked to FETO. It also establishes schools and education centers abroad.
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[PRESSTV] Jordan has announced that it will host a round of UN-brokered negotiations between delegates from Yemen’s Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... Ansarullah movement and representatives loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to discuss a prisoner swap deal between the two warring sides.
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced in a statement on Tuesday that the kingdom had accepted a request from UN Special Envoy for Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... Martin Griffiths to host the talks.
The statement, however, did not say when the meeting would take place.
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[Al Jazeera] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebel and Yemeni government representatives did not meet face-to-face in the port city of Hodeidah over the past week despite a recently-inked peace plan, United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... front man Stephane Dujarric said on Monday.
The UN's Patrick Cammaert has been forced to "shuttle" between the rebel and government sides, who had twice met together under the so-called Redeployment Coordination Committee (RDC) before those direct talks broke down, the UN said.
Their refusal to sit together highlights the difficulty in implementing the UN-brokered deal, reached between the government and rebels on December 13 in Rimbo, Sweden.
Dujarric said that Cammaert's meetings were aimed at finding a "mutually acceptable way forward for the redeployment of forces from the three ports and critical parts of the city associated with humanitarian facilities".
Under the terms of the Rimbo deal, the Houthis were expected to hand over control of the ports of Hodeidah, Saleef and Ras Isa to local security forces in liaison with Cammaert and envoys from the Saudi-backed government. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... both sides have disagreed over the wording of the agreement.
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[PRESSTV] A series of austerity measures imposed by the British government have left police in London with a significant decrease in the number of officers investigating homicides.
The number of police personnel investigating murder cases in London’s Metropolitan Police Service, also known as the Met or Scotland Yard, has shrunk by more than 25 percent in the last decade, data obtained by the Press Association showed.
That reported drop in the number of officers comes as London recorded its highest number of homicides in a decade last year with 128 cases.
Many blame government cuts in the police force as a major reason, saying officers have been forced to save around 850 million pounds over the past decade.
The worst year for staffing was 2017, when the homicide and major crime command (HMCC) had just 590 officers and 168 other staff, making a total strength of 758. The number of major investigation teams also plummeted - from 26 to just 18.
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[Al Jazeera] Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... said his country would set up a security zone in northern Syria as suggested by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... as both leaders sought to ease growing tensions.
Addressing his deputies on Tuesday, Erdogan said he held a "quite positive" telephone conversation with Trump late on Monday where he reaffirmed "a 20-mile [32-km] security zone along the Syrian border ... will be set up by us".
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[MEMRI.ORG] Since the overthrow of the Moslem Brüderbund (MB) government of President Mohammed Morsi in Egypt in 2013, several TV channels affiliated with the Egyptian Moslem Brüderbund have started broadcasting from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Journalists, pundits, activists, and Islamic holy mans who escaped the crackdown against the MB and its media outlets carried out by the regime of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi have set up shop in Istanbul, where they operate freely under Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... and his MB-affiliated Justice and Development party (AKP). The new channels promote the goal of restoring an MB regime in Egypt, and also promote a variety of regional and global causes, while using Lion of Islam jihadi and antisemitic rhetoric.
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Baghadad (IraqiNews.com) Iraq is under pressure from the United States and Iran involving conflicting calls regarding the retention of Shia-led forces that played a major role in the fight against Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... krazed killers.
Iraqi Alghad Press said the United States is demanding Iraqi premier Adel Abdul Mahdi to disband the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), aka al-Hashd al-Shaabi, while Iran is warning against attempts to weaken the force.
It said that while Iranian Foreign Minister,, Javad Zarif, who was on a visit to Baghdad on Monday, carried an unpublicized message to the government "warning against attempts to weaken the PMF", Abdul-Mahdi, according to Saudi-owned al-Arabiya, asked the U.S. side "to give him sometime" to respond to its renewed call to freeze and disarm the force.
Alghad Press pointed to what it described as "a regional lobby, backed by Iraqi figures working on weakening the force as a premise to its dissolution".
The PMF, composed of some 60 forces, mostly Shia, was formed as per a call from the Iraqi top Shia clergy to fight Islamic State Sunni krazed killers. Many of the troops working under the PMF pledge strong allegiance to Iran and are believed to have enjoyed generous finances and training from the Islamic republic. The force won official Iraqi government recognition as a national force late 2016. Several of its current and former leaders are now members of the Iraqi parliament elected in May.
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[Rudaw] The Kurdish administration in northern Syria will not accept a Ottoman Turkish role in a safe zone over their areas, but would be open to such a scheme being controlled by an uninterested country or organization, said an official.
"We can accept a safe zone in the following form ‐ if it is a safe zone under the administration of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... , the Coalition, and uninterested countries," said Aldar Khalil, head of the foreign relations department of the ruling TEV-DEM coalition in Rojava, in an interview with Hawar News published on Tuesday.
They will not accept The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... as a guarantor because that is the country making the threats, he added.
US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey... have both floated the idea of a safe zone in northern Syria as a solution to prevent a Ottoman Turkish military offensive against Kurdish forces in the area. Ankara alleges that the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) are a terror organization and a threat to Turkey. The YPG denies the charge and says Turkey is the aggressor.
Trump and Erdogan discussed the proposal in a phone call on Monday, after Trump tweeted about it.
Khalil said they are still trying to figure out what exactly Trump and Erdogan envision for this safe zone.
"If it refers to a zone providing safety from Ottoman Turkish threats, then we say okay as something right is being done," Khalil told Hawar News.
Turkey wants a safe zone going 32 kilometres (20 miles) into northern Syria and running the length of the border.
Khalil said that if the proposed zone targets or pushes the YPG and its sister force the YPJ, "protectors of the region," then they would reject it.
The Americans haven't made things clear, he said.
"If the Americans say it is true, that it is a safe zone under Ottoman Turkish control, then we will undoubtedly not accept that," Khalil vowed.
Trump regularly makes policy announcements on Twitter that leave even his closest advisors stumped.
Turkey wants to be in control of the safe zone as part of its "fight against terrorism and terror groups," Erdogan’s aide Ibrahim Kalin said on Tuesday.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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