[Aljazeera] Le Point accuses the Turkish president of ethnic cleansing in northeastern Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint against a French magazine after it accused him of conducting "ethnic cleansing" in northeastern Syria in a cover story entitled "The Eradicator".
State-owned Anadolu Agency said on Friday that Erdogan had asked prosecutors to open a case against Etienne Gernelle, the managing editor of Le Point magazine, and Romain Gubert, the author of the story.
Erdogan's lawyer Huseyin Aydin said the cover was "publicly insulting" to the president - a crime in Turkey carrying a prison sentence up to four years and eight months.
A source in the Ankara public prosecutor's office told AFP news agency that an investigation had been launched after the complaint.
Le Point's cover uses a photo of Erdogan giving a military salute with a tagline reading: "Ethnic cleansing, Erdogan style" and another asking "Will we let him massacre Kurds (and threaten Europe)?".
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Will we let him massacre Kurds (and threaten Europe)?".
How dare infidels in their own country sit in judgement of a member of the Master Religion! They must be made to submit even in their own homes and minds.
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... is forcibly sending Syrian refugees to an area of Syria near the border where it aims to set up a "safe zone" even though the conflict there has not ended, Amnesia Amnesty International said in a report published on Friday.
Human Rights Watch said in a separate report Friday that authorities had arbitrarily detained and deported dozens of Syrians to northern Syria between January and September.
Turkey currently hosts some 3.6 million refugees who fled Syria's eight-year-long civil war. But, with Ottoman Turkish public sentiment towards them souring, Ankara hopes to resettle up to two million in the planned safe zone in northeast Syria.
Ankara says more than 350,000 Syrian refugees have already voluntarily returned to their country.
In its report, Amnesty said refugees it had spoken to complained of being threatened or physically forced by Ottoman Turkish police to sign documents stating that they were voluntarily returning to Syria.
"In reality, Turkey put the lives of Syrian refugees under serious danger by forcing them to return to a war zone," the British-based human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... group said.
Amnesty said it believed the number of forced returns in recent months to be in the hundreds, based on interviews it conducted between July and October, but said it was able to confirm 20 cases.
There was no immediate reaction from Ankara to the Amnesty report but it has previously denied sending any Syrians home against their will.
Syrians who are deported are generally told they are not registered or live outside the Ottoman Turkish province in which they are registered, the report said, adding that people were also deported from provinces in which they had been registered.
Anna Shea, Amnesty's Researcher on Refugee and Migrant Rights, said Turkey deserved recognition for hosting so many Syrians over many years, adding: "But it cannot use this generosity as an excuse to flout international and domestic law by deporting people to an active conflict zone."
A plan agreed between Turkey and Russia this week envisages Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters being removed from a 30 km (19 mile) strip of territory along the Ottoman Turkish border and refugees being allowed to return there "in a safe and voluntary manner".
Addressing world leaders at the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... in September, President Tayyip Erdogan set out ambitious proposals to build dozens of new villages and towns in the planned safe zone along the Ottoman Turkish border.
Pro-government newspaper Yeni Safak said on Friday that life would "normalise" in the Syrian border towns of Tel Abyad and Ras Al Ain, now that Turkey has taken control of the area from the YPG.
It said Turkey would reconstruct the two towns ravaged by years of war, establish security forces and a judiciary there and work to bring economic stability to the region.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, 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. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... said on Thursday that northeastern Syria is suitable for Arab people to live, but not Kurdish people, because of the area’s desert topography.
"What is important is to prepare a controlled life in this enormous area, and the most suitable people for it are Arabs. These areas are not suitable for the lifestyle of Kurds ... because these areas are virtually desert," Erdogan said, pointing to a map of the Syria, in an interview with Ottoman Turkish television channel TRT.
Erdogan’s remarks attempt to defend Ankara’s military offensive, "Operation Peace Spring," against Kurdish-led militias in Syria, which is still ongoing according to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), despite a truce.
The SDF accused The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... on Thursday of targeting three villages in northeast Syria despite a US-brokered ceasefire and a Turkey-Russia peace plan.
Ankara views the Kurdish-led fighters as turbans and justifies the operation as self-defense.
Launched on October 9, the incursion sparked widespread condemnation from the US, who saw Kurdish forces as an effective tool in the fight against ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... , and Arab leaders, who condemned the operation as an invasion of an Arab state’s land.
Erdogan specifically addressed the negative reaction of the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... to Turkey’s operation on Thursday.
"The Arab League’s reaction to our Operation Peace Spring is strange, as they have kicked Syria out of the union. Turkey is actively helping Arabs in the region while they are attacking them with barrel bombs," he said in the interview with TRT.
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on October 12 that the Ottoman Turkish offensive was an "invasion of an Arab state’s land and an aggression on its illusory sovereignty."
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the UAE, Bahrain, and Egypt condemned the Ottoman Turkish military operation at its start.
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said the Ottoman Turkish attack was causing the Syrian people further suffering and demanded all foreign forces withdraw from the country.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] US authorities must extradite the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... when he enters the US, Ottoman Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gul said Friday after Ankara slammed Washington for treating him as a "legitimate political figure."
US senators urged the State Department on Wednesday to quickly provide a visa to Gen. Mazloum Kobani so he can visit the US to discuss Syria. Ankara says he is a terrorist linked to Kurdish gunnies waging an insurgency in Turkey.
Speaking to news hounds, Gul said Turkey will demand that US authorities detain Mazloum as soon as he enters the United States. He said the foreign ministry had conveyed the extradition request to the US.
[DAWN] As a first major step towards mainstreaming the religious seminaries, the government has established a directorate for registration and facilitation of the madaris functioning all over the country, sources told Dawn.
The notification regarding setting up of the Directorate General of Religious Education (DGRE) has been issued by Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training which has also been working on preparing a uniform curricula for all the schools and religious seminaries of the country.
According to the notification, the new directorate with its head office in Islamabad’s G-8 Sector will have 16 regional offices all over the country and the ministry has already posted officers as directors in these offices.
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[DAWN] Prime Minister Imran Khan ...aka The Great Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality disorders... has directed the Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... government to submit an appeal against the verdict handed down by a special anti-terrorism court (ATC) acquitting all suspects in the Sahiwal encounter case, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Friday.
In a post shared on Twitter, Dr Awan said the premier had also instructed the authorities to investigate weaknesses and shortfalls in the case presented by the complainant pleading the case.
Later in the day, Punjab Law Minister Basharat Raja announced that the prosecutor general had been notified of the government's decision to become a complainant in the case.
He further said that a "fact finding commission" had been formed to ascertain the lapses in the case's prosecution and investigation which led to the suspects' acquittal.
The law minister also raised concerns over the family's "acceptance" of the court's verdict. He said that "even if the family is satisfied, the government is not.”
[DAWN] The Pakistain Army's media wing on Friday said that Indian army chief Bipin Rawat with "irresponsible statements" and "blood of innocents on his hand" seeks to become the Indian Chief of Defence Staff.
The Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) is a proposed position for the combined head of the Indian army, Indian air force and Indian navy. The creation of the post was announced by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his independence day speech in August.
Director general of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor said that Gen Rawat has been "repeatedly provoking war" through his statements, which threaten peace in the region, with the aim of facilitating "electioneering of political masters".
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Pak court on Friday bailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ...served two three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... indefinitely on medical grounds, court officials said, days after he was taken to hospital from prison where he is serving seven years for corruption.
The Lahore High Court granted Sharif -- who was PM three times before he was ousted over corruption allegations in 2017 -- bail at 10 million Pak rupees ($63,900) on medical grounds "for an indefinite period", a court official told AFP.
A second court official said the ruling had come after doctors confirmed Sharif was suffering from an autoimmune blood disorder requiring immediate medical attention.
It was not immediately clear where Sharif would receive treatment or how severe his condition is.
The 69-year-old was taken to hospital on Tuesday when his blood platelet count dropped to dangerous levels, local media reported.
The Supreme Court disqualified Sharif from politics for life over graft allegations in 2017, and he later received a seven-year jail sentence.
He denies all the corruption charges against him and claims he is being targeted by the country's powerful security establishment.
[Rudaw] More than 10,000 refugees have now crossed into the Kurdistan Region of Iraq fleeing the Ottoman Turkish offensive in northeast Syria, according to the UN refugee agency UNHCR.
Many Syrian refugees have been moved to Bardarash camp in Duhok province, where local and international aid agencies are providing food and shelter.
"Many of our people and relatives are still there [in northeast Syria]," Aya Ibrahim, a mother of four, told Rudaw in the camp on Thursday. "We plead to countries and the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... to assist Kurds, Arabs, and Assyrians. We are all one."
Assisting the fresh influx of refugees is not an easy task, says Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the UN Secretary-General’s special representative for Iraq.
"For now we have people coming in high numbers. We are cooperating, the UN family in Iraq is closely cooperating with the KRG authorities, in this case with the Duhok authorities, to make sure we can offer tents, food and certain facilities to the people arriving here. This is our first priority, for people to come in and to give them shelter," she told Rudaw.
"Obviously, we are trying to look into possibilities for other camps and facilities. Not on our own, but together with authorities. But it is not easy, I can tell you."
Aiyn Faiz, a mother displaced from Darbasiyah, says although life in a tent is miserable, she is grateful her family is safe.
"We fled from Rojava along with my four little children. We fled explosions and conflict. We have only this tent but we are grateful. There is no fear here," she said.
The Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF), a local aid agency which supervises Bardarash camp, is expecting many more arrivals in the coming days and weeks, despite a shaky ceasefire agreement.
Botan Mohammed, a BCF aid worker, urged international organizations to extend assistance.
"We prepare hot food to give them three meals a day. We have provided heating oil. Whenever new groups of refugees arrive, we are here to give them [what they need]," he said.
Bardarash camp was established in 2014 to house people fleeing the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute... ) rampage across northern Iraq.
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Of course he did. I think that’s a brilliant precedent to spend ever more limited Palestinian Authority funds to rebuild what the Israelis will only tear down again.
[Ynet] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... has instructed the Paleostinian Authority to begin rebuilding the home of convicted terrorist Islam Abu Hamid, which was demolished earlier Thursday by the IDF.
Hamid was convicted of killing Staff Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky, 20, by dropping a marble slab on him from a rooftop during an arrest raid in the al-Am'ari refugee camp near Ramallah on May 24, 2018.
The house in the same camp has previously been demolished and rebuilt. Abbas said construction costs will be covered by the PA
[Jpost] Accused of transferring funds to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the three lost access to their accounts.
The US treasury has frozen the banks accounts and several other assets of three businessmen from the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, accusing them of transferring funds to Iran
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iran’s today is stronger than its "enemies," who have power but are unable to use it, claimed the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami on Friday, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.
"Being powerful is not just about having power, but also to be able to exercise your power," said Salami, addressing a group of IRGC commanders in south-west Iran.
"Our enemies have power, but are incapable of using it," he added, adding that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is more powerful than its opponents for that reason.
Salami had previously claimed that Iran is capable of attacking its enemies anywhere, and that Israel’s destruction is now an "achievable goal."
Iran is accused of pursuing aggressive policies in the region, including attacking Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... ’s oil facilities, threatening shipping in the Arabian Gulf, and continuing to support proxy organizations in Leb, Iraq, and 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... Tensions in the region have been heightened after the September 14 attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities, which Iran is widely accused of carrying out.
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[Aljazeera] Le Point accuses the Turkish president of ethnic cleansing in northeastern Syria.
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...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
[Jpost] Accused of transferring funds to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the three lost access to their accounts.
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