Diplomacy appears to be faltering as the Turkish-Kurd crisis continues to broil, reports Nermeen Al-Mufti from Baghdad
Just as the Iraq-Turkey talks in Ankara failed to defuse the current crisis, Iran expressed sympathy with the Turkish position. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is said to have phoned both President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki and urged them to close the camps of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) and hand over its leaders to Turkey, according to the local Iraqi press.
The phone calls took place while Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan was in Tehran for talks with his Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki. On his way to Tehran, Babacan stopped over in Baghdad for talks. Aydin Aksu, a key member of the Iraqi Turkomen Front, told Al-Ahram Weekly that during his talks in Baghdad, Babacan said that his country was committed to the safety and integrity of Iraqi territory.
Masoud Barzani, president of the Regional Government of Kurdistan, called on the Turkish government to settle the crisis through negotiations. "The federal government should consult with us about any negotiations with Ankara," Barzani said in an apparent reference to the failure of Iraqi diplomacy. Still, Ankara threatened to attack PKK facilities in northern Iraq.
A Kurdish official speaking on condition of anonymity said that one of the stumbling blocks facing the Iraqi-Turkish talks held in Ankara last Friday was the Turkish refusal to allow the peshmerga (Kurdish militia loyal to the northern government) to take charge of border security. The Iraqi delegation to Ankara included two Kurdish officials, but they were both excluded form the talks.
Barzani said Ankara refused to receive a Kurdish delegation that was due in Turkey Monday. One of the reasons, reportedly, is that Barzani and other Kurdish leaders, men who once travelled on Turkish diplomatic passports, wouldn't call the PKK a terror group. News reports in Ankara indicate that Turkey suspects Kurdish officials of aiding and abetting PKK fighters. Ankara is particularly incensed by the refusal of Kurdish officials to hand over PKK leaders. The Kurds are also refusing to coordinate with Turkey in any military operation against the PKK.
The Turkish government is actually thinking of imposing economic sanctions on northern Iraq, according to the Turkish newspaper Sabah. Turkey can reduce electricity supplies to Iraqi Kurdistan, tighten border crossings, and obstruct Barzani's business deals in Turkey. According to the paper, the Khabur border crossing, through which 2,500 trucks pass everyday, might be subjected to "administrative measures". Should Turkey send its trucks through Syria instead of northern Iraq, the Kurdish administration would lose the $100 fee it imposes on each truck.
Barzani and his aides operate about 118 companies in Turkey, all of which may fall under punitive measures from Turkish authorities. Turkey sells electricity the Kurds at 4-6 cents a kilowatt, a much lower rate than what Turkish companies have to pay.
Kurdish officials maintain that PKK facilities have all been closed in keeping with the Iraqi constitution that doesn't allow terrorist groups to operate in Iraq. However, a Kirkuk-based Turkomen network, Turkmeneli TV, last week showed pictures of PKK flags on office buildings close to the US and British consulates. The network also aired footage of another building allegedly housing PKK radio stations. Transmission towers were clearly visible atop the building. The PKK is said to be operating these facilities in the name of the Kurdistan Democratic Solution Party (KDSP).
Ruzgar Ali, chairman of the Kirkuk Governorate Council, said that the KDSP is a recognised Iraqi party and has taken part in Iraqi general elections, denying any knowledge of the PKK radio station. "This crisis cannot be resolved through military action. The only way forward is through negotiated settlement," he added.
The Iraqis are divided over Turkish threats. Some want Turkey to teach the Kurds a lesson, while others take sides with the Kurds in the hope of bringing them back into the national fold. Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani told reporters that US forces should protect Iraqi borders against any incursion by Turkey. America is after Iraq's oil and wealth and must therefore defend the country, he said.
Turkomen writer Aziz Samanci said that the PKK wants to provoke a Turkish incursion in order to drag the peshmerga into the confrontation. The PKK is hoping to push the crisis to the point where the US would have to take sides with Iraq against Iran. Interestingly, the recent attacks happened soon after a US Congress decision on Armenian massacres alienated the Turks. The PKK may also be trying to drive a wedge between Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party and the Kurdish Democratic Society Party, which has representatives in the Turkish parliament.
US Secretary Condoleezza Rice is expected in Turkey 2 November for a conference of Iraq's neighbouring states. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due in Washington 5 November for talks with President George Bush. The Kurdish crisis is likely to top the agenda of talks on both occasions.
Al-Ahram Weekly. Al-Ahram Weekly Online : Located at: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/869/re91.htm
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For photo of PKK flags on office buildings near the US and British consulates see:
http://turkmenfriendship.blogspot.com/2007/10/photos-of-pkk-terrorist-groups.html
vendredi 2 novembre 2007
jeudi 1 novembre 2007
Türk-Amerikan ilişkileri' konferansı
http://www.stargazete.com/index.asp?haberid=34889
Star Gazetesi
Türk-Amerikan ilişkileri' konferansı 01/11/2007
ABD'nin New Jersey eyaletinin önemli üniversitelerinden Stevens Teknoloji Enstitüsü'nde, ''Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Orta Doğu'' konulu bir konferans düzenlendi.
New Jersey'de bulunan Stevens Teknoloji Enstitüsü'nün ''Cinsiyet ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Programı'' tarafından düzenlenen konferansta, New York Türkmen Enstitüsü Kurucusu Dr. Ali Koçak ve üniversitenin siyaset bilimi ve tarih bölümü öğretim üyelerinden Dr. Akif Kireçci konuştu.
Irak, İran, İsrail ve Ermeni politikaları bağlamında Türkiye-ABD ilişkilerinin ele alındığı konfersansta yaptığı konuşmada, Türkmenlerin Irak'taki tarihi rolünü anlatan Koçak, bin yıldan beri bölgede yaşayan Türkmenlerin, ülkedeki ikinci en büyük etnik grup olmalarına rağmen dikkate alınmadıklarını; Şiiler, Sünniler ve Kürtler arasındaki güç denkleminde en çok ezilen grubun Türkmenler olduğunu belirtti. Koçak, Kürtlerin Türkmen şehirlerini, özellikle de Kerkük'ü demografik olarak değiştirmek istediklerini, bu amaçla nüfus kayıtlarının yakıldığını vurguladı.
Türkmenlerin, ABD'nin bölgeye gelmesi ile özgürlük ve bağımsızlık için büyük bir ümide kapıldığını ancak bunun kısa sürdüğüne işaret eden Koçak, ''Saddam diktatörlüğü Kürt kabilelerinin diktatörlüğü ile yer değiştirdi'' diye konuştu. Koçak, bölgede, bütün askeri grupların silahlarından arındırılıp merkezi otoritenin güçlendirilmesi gerektiği üzerinde durdu.
Konferansta, Türk-Amerikan ilişkilerinin tarihini anlatan Kireççi ise 11Eylül'den sonra Türkiye'nin terörle mücadele konusunda Batı'nın ve ABD'ninkendisini daha iyi anlayacağı beklentisine girdiğini, ancak ABD'nin 2003'te Irak'ı işgali ile olayların değiştiğini belirtti.
Türk kamuoyunun Amerikalıların terör örgütü PKK'ya gizlice destek olduğunu düşündüğünü ifade eden Kireçci, ABD'nin ilişkilerde bu tür sorunları çözmek için daha aktif olması gerektiğine işaret etti. Kireçci, Orta Asya, Kafkaslar, Akdeniz ve Balkanlar'da etkin bir ülke konumundaki Türkiye'nin, bir grup aşirete tercih edilmemesi gerektiğini vurguladı.
Star Gazetesi
Türk-Amerikan ilişkileri' konferansı 01/11/2007
ABD'nin New Jersey eyaletinin önemli üniversitelerinden Stevens Teknoloji Enstitüsü'nde, ''Türk-Amerikan İlişkileri ve Orta Doğu'' konulu bir konferans düzenlendi.
New Jersey'de bulunan Stevens Teknoloji Enstitüsü'nün ''Cinsiyet ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Programı'' tarafından düzenlenen konferansta, New York Türkmen Enstitüsü Kurucusu Dr. Ali Koçak ve üniversitenin siyaset bilimi ve tarih bölümü öğretim üyelerinden Dr. Akif Kireçci konuştu.
Irak, İran, İsrail ve Ermeni politikaları bağlamında Türkiye-ABD ilişkilerinin ele alındığı konfersansta yaptığı konuşmada, Türkmenlerin Irak'taki tarihi rolünü anlatan Koçak, bin yıldan beri bölgede yaşayan Türkmenlerin, ülkedeki ikinci en büyük etnik grup olmalarına rağmen dikkate alınmadıklarını; Şiiler, Sünniler ve Kürtler arasındaki güç denkleminde en çok ezilen grubun Türkmenler olduğunu belirtti. Koçak, Kürtlerin Türkmen şehirlerini, özellikle de Kerkük'ü demografik olarak değiştirmek istediklerini, bu amaçla nüfus kayıtlarının yakıldığını vurguladı.
Türkmenlerin, ABD'nin bölgeye gelmesi ile özgürlük ve bağımsızlık için büyük bir ümide kapıldığını ancak bunun kısa sürdüğüne işaret eden Koçak, ''Saddam diktatörlüğü Kürt kabilelerinin diktatörlüğü ile yer değiştirdi'' diye konuştu. Koçak, bölgede, bütün askeri grupların silahlarından arındırılıp merkezi otoritenin güçlendirilmesi gerektiği üzerinde durdu.
Konferansta, Türk-Amerikan ilişkilerinin tarihini anlatan Kireççi ise 11Eylül'den sonra Türkiye'nin terörle mücadele konusunda Batı'nın ve ABD'ninkendisini daha iyi anlayacağı beklentisine girdiğini, ancak ABD'nin 2003'te Irak'ı işgali ile olayların değiştiğini belirtti.
Türk kamuoyunun Amerikalıların terör örgütü PKK'ya gizlice destek olduğunu düşündüğünü ifade eden Kireçci, ABD'nin ilişkilerde bu tür sorunları çözmek için daha aktif olması gerektiğine işaret etti. Kireçci, Orta Asya, Kafkaslar, Akdeniz ve Balkanlar'da etkin bir ülke konumundaki Türkiye'nin, bir grup aşirete tercih edilmemesi gerektiğini vurguladı.
Analysis: U.S. OK's Saddam law oil deals
http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Energy/Analysis/2007/10/31/analysis_us_oks_saddam_law_oil_deals/5653
Published: Oct. 31, 2007
By BEN LANDO - UPI Energy Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department says an oil law implemented under Saddam Hussein is good enough for Iraq’s national government to sign oil deals, though it would prefer a new national law -- mired in controversy and far from approved -- to be used instead. The new position is a shift for the U.S. government, or at least a nuance in its stance, which has pressed hard for a new hydrocarbons legal regime and condemned deals signed between a regional government and private firms -- especially when it’s an American company.
“We would prefer these laws to be passed before any deals are signed,” Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Lawrence Butler told United Press International. “However, in the absence of passage of the hydrocarbon law, Iraq as a sovereign state can continue to use the Saddam-era laws to manage the sector in the meantime.”
It’s not clear what effect the U.S. stance will have on the international oil industry, salivating at the prospect of entering the third-largest oil reserves in the world, as Iraq’s Oil Ministry says it will not wait forever for a new law before signing deals. Iraq is under explored and experts predict the country's reserve totals could be twice as much as the 115 billion barrels that have already been found.
Iraq’s Kurds, who control territory covering less than 1 percent of Iraq’s proven reserves, are signing oil deals to explore and develop an oil sector of their own, which Washington sees as exacerbating the already weighty wedge in Iraqi national politics.“We have many opportunities to excite you,” KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami told UPI recently when asked what the "sales pitch" is to international oil firms. “And if you don’t come forward now, you will lose.”
India’s Reliance Industries will apparently be the latest to sign a production-sharing contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government. A company official confirmed the two are in end-stage talks for two exploration blocks, the global energy information firm Platts reports. The KRG has signed nine deals since the fall of Saddam, most of which have been called “illegal” by Baghdad, which considers the Kurds’ unilateral moves unconstitutional.
Security is a major factor, but top officials from international oil companies told UPI on condition of anonymity they’re waiting for a law detailing their rights as investors before entering the Iraqi oil scene.The sector is nationalized now and many Iraqis -- including the stronger workers’ unions -- fear opening it up to international investors will squander their resources. The most recent draft of the hydrocarbons framework law, which is stuck in Parliament’s Energy Committee, would ease some restrictions. The production-sharing contracts, however, are controversial.
The darling deals of the international oil industry, PSCs allow companies to recover their total cost for exploration and development, and then split oil proceeds after that; the percentage of that split is what drives Iraqi concerns.
The company can include the reserves on its books, bolstering its value. The law is also held up by disagreements between the KRG and Baghdad over how decentralized control over the oil fields and exploration blocks will be. Separate laws governing revenue sharing, the Ministry of Oil and the Iraqi National Oil Co. round out the hydrocarbons package but are further behind than the oil law.
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told potential investors at an Iraq oil conference held in Dubai nearly two months ago there is no “legislative vacuum” in Iraq. He said if there is no national oil law, the ministry would begin implementing its strategic plan for Iraq’s oil and gas reserves using the Saddam law. The KRG passed its own oil law in August, which the region says the 2005 Constitution allows for, another dig at the slow pace of the national oil law. Since passing the regional oil law it signed three production-sharing contracts: Heritage Energy Middle East Ltd., a subsidiary of the Canadian company Heritage Oil and Gas, and Perenco Kurdistan Ltd., a subsidiary of Perenco S.A. of France, earlier this month; Dallas-based Hunt Oil Corp. on Sept. 8.
The Hunt deal row spread to Washington, as the State Department became vocal and members of Congress raised red flags. Prominent congressional committee chairmen have sent letters of query to the State Department, White House and Hunt Oil, asking what the government knew about the deal and what it told Hunt before it signed. President Bush said he “knew nothing” but is concerned if it “undermines” national law efforts. The State Department said it tells companies that approach it that such deals widen the gap between the federal government and the KRG, delaying resolution on a national package of laws governing the hydrocarbons sector.
Hunt Chief Executive Officer Ray Hunt told The Wall Street Journal there were no conversations with the U.S. government prior to signing the deal. The company admitted to the meeting after being confronted with internal State Department documents obtained by UPI that revealed a meeting in Irbil, the KRG capital. According to the document, the department gave Hunt its “do not sign” talking points. Aside from monkey-wrenching U.S. plans to prop up a strong and stable central government, the department says companies signing deals with the region without a national law will be on shaky legal grounds.“We continue to advise companies from outside of Iraq that they incur significant political and legal risk in signing any contracts with any party inside of Iraq before a national law package is passed by the Iraq Parliament,” the State Department’s Butler, who oversees Iraq policy, told a U.S.-Arab policymakers conference last week.
It appears most of the international oil community is listening to the State Department, especially the majors, fearing a deal with the KRG will blacklist them from the rest of Iraq’s black-gold bounty. “We continue to encourage Iraq’s political leaders to agree on the passage of a national hydrocarbon law and companion legislation,” Butler told UPI. Washington says such a law will ease tensions and lead to reconciliation, and has been pushing the law and Iraqi legislators behind the scenes for years. But if Baghdad joins the KRG in signing oil deals without a nationally approved strategy for the oil sector -- regardless of each government’s claim the Constitution allows it -- and international oil companies rush in, it could cause chaos in the Iraqi oil sector, exacerbating an already tense political standoff.
--(e-mail: blando@upi.com)
Published: Oct. 31, 2007
By BEN LANDO - UPI Energy Editor
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The U.S. State Department says an oil law implemented under Saddam Hussein is good enough for Iraq’s national government to sign oil deals, though it would prefer a new national law -- mired in controversy and far from approved -- to be used instead. The new position is a shift for the U.S. government, or at least a nuance in its stance, which has pressed hard for a new hydrocarbons legal regime and condemned deals signed between a regional government and private firms -- especially when it’s an American company.
“We would prefer these laws to be passed before any deals are signed,” Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Lawrence Butler told United Press International. “However, in the absence of passage of the hydrocarbon law, Iraq as a sovereign state can continue to use the Saddam-era laws to manage the sector in the meantime.”
It’s not clear what effect the U.S. stance will have on the international oil industry, salivating at the prospect of entering the third-largest oil reserves in the world, as Iraq’s Oil Ministry says it will not wait forever for a new law before signing deals. Iraq is under explored and experts predict the country's reserve totals could be twice as much as the 115 billion barrels that have already been found.
Iraq’s Kurds, who control territory covering less than 1 percent of Iraq’s proven reserves, are signing oil deals to explore and develop an oil sector of their own, which Washington sees as exacerbating the already weighty wedge in Iraqi national politics.“We have many opportunities to excite you,” KRG Natural Resources Minister Ashti Hawrami told UPI recently when asked what the "sales pitch" is to international oil firms. “And if you don’t come forward now, you will lose.”
India’s Reliance Industries will apparently be the latest to sign a production-sharing contract with the Kurdistan Regional Government. A company official confirmed the two are in end-stage talks for two exploration blocks, the global energy information firm Platts reports. The KRG has signed nine deals since the fall of Saddam, most of which have been called “illegal” by Baghdad, which considers the Kurds’ unilateral moves unconstitutional.
Security is a major factor, but top officials from international oil companies told UPI on condition of anonymity they’re waiting for a law detailing their rights as investors before entering the Iraqi oil scene.The sector is nationalized now and many Iraqis -- including the stronger workers’ unions -- fear opening it up to international investors will squander their resources. The most recent draft of the hydrocarbons framework law, which is stuck in Parliament’s Energy Committee, would ease some restrictions. The production-sharing contracts, however, are controversial.
The darling deals of the international oil industry, PSCs allow companies to recover their total cost for exploration and development, and then split oil proceeds after that; the percentage of that split is what drives Iraqi concerns.
The company can include the reserves on its books, bolstering its value. The law is also held up by disagreements between the KRG and Baghdad over how decentralized control over the oil fields and exploration blocks will be. Separate laws governing revenue sharing, the Ministry of Oil and the Iraqi National Oil Co. round out the hydrocarbons package but are further behind than the oil law.
Iraqi Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani told potential investors at an Iraq oil conference held in Dubai nearly two months ago there is no “legislative vacuum” in Iraq. He said if there is no national oil law, the ministry would begin implementing its strategic plan for Iraq’s oil and gas reserves using the Saddam law. The KRG passed its own oil law in August, which the region says the 2005 Constitution allows for, another dig at the slow pace of the national oil law. Since passing the regional oil law it signed three production-sharing contracts: Heritage Energy Middle East Ltd., a subsidiary of the Canadian company Heritage Oil and Gas, and Perenco Kurdistan Ltd., a subsidiary of Perenco S.A. of France, earlier this month; Dallas-based Hunt Oil Corp. on Sept. 8.
The Hunt deal row spread to Washington, as the State Department became vocal and members of Congress raised red flags. Prominent congressional committee chairmen have sent letters of query to the State Department, White House and Hunt Oil, asking what the government knew about the deal and what it told Hunt before it signed. President Bush said he “knew nothing” but is concerned if it “undermines” national law efforts. The State Department said it tells companies that approach it that such deals widen the gap between the federal government and the KRG, delaying resolution on a national package of laws governing the hydrocarbons sector.
Hunt Chief Executive Officer Ray Hunt told The Wall Street Journal there were no conversations with the U.S. government prior to signing the deal. The company admitted to the meeting after being confronted with internal State Department documents obtained by UPI that revealed a meeting in Irbil, the KRG capital. According to the document, the department gave Hunt its “do not sign” talking points. Aside from monkey-wrenching U.S. plans to prop up a strong and stable central government, the department says companies signing deals with the region without a national law will be on shaky legal grounds.“We continue to advise companies from outside of Iraq that they incur significant political and legal risk in signing any contracts with any party inside of Iraq before a national law package is passed by the Iraq Parliament,” the State Department’s Butler, who oversees Iraq policy, told a U.S.-Arab policymakers conference last week.
It appears most of the international oil community is listening to the State Department, especially the majors, fearing a deal with the KRG will blacklist them from the rest of Iraq’s black-gold bounty. “We continue to encourage Iraq’s political leaders to agree on the passage of a national hydrocarbon law and companion legislation,” Butler told UPI. Washington says such a law will ease tensions and lead to reconciliation, and has been pushing the law and Iraqi legislators behind the scenes for years. But if Baghdad joins the KRG in signing oil deals without a nationally approved strategy for the oil sector -- regardless of each government’s claim the Constitution allows it -- and international oil companies rush in, it could cause chaos in the Iraqi oil sector, exacerbating an already tense political standoff.
--(e-mail: blando@upi.com)
Drive-by shootings in Kerkuk
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gkx-3oYeFwuWKCusr2jrojs98w8wD8SKAKKO1
U.S. forces hunting for a senior al-Qaida militant leader accused in assassinations and car bomb attacks killed three suspected militants after surrounding a building in the northern city of Kirkuk, the military said.
The clash came around the same time as a failed assassination attempt on an investigative judge in the violence-plagued northern city. Police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said gunmen in a vehicle attacked Judge Zaher al-Bayati around 8:30 a.m. in the city's southern al-Wasiti neighborhood. Two bodyguards were killed, Qadir said, but al-Bayati, a Turkoman, was unharmed.
About 20 minutes later, there was a drive-by shooting attack on an intelligence officer as he was driving with his wife and daughter, the police chief said. The intelligence officer escaped injury, but his wife and 5-year-old daughter were both hurt.
Tensions are rising in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, in advance of a proposed referendum on whether the oil-rich city will join the self-governing Kurdish region.
U.S. forces hunting for a senior al-Qaida militant leader accused in assassinations and car bomb attacks killed three suspected militants after surrounding a building in the northern city of Kirkuk, the military said.
The clash came around the same time as a failed assassination attempt on an investigative judge in the violence-plagued northern city. Police Brig. Gen. Sarhat Qadir said gunmen in a vehicle attacked Judge Zaher al-Bayati around 8:30 a.m. in the city's southern al-Wasiti neighborhood. Two bodyguards were killed, Qadir said, but al-Bayati, a Turkoman, was unharmed.
About 20 minutes later, there was a drive-by shooting attack on an intelligence officer as he was driving with his wife and daughter, the police chief said. The intelligence officer escaped injury, but his wife and 5-year-old daughter were both hurt.
Tensions are rising in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, in advance of a proposed referendum on whether the oil-rich city will join the self-governing Kurdish region.
mercredi 31 octobre 2007
نائب برلماني يطالب بانصاف التركمان بوزارة اخرى
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نائب برلماني يطالب بانصاف التركمان بوزارة اخرى
طالب النائب فوزي اكرم عضو مجلس النواب عن الائتلاف العراقي في لقاء بعدد من الوسائل الاعلامية بوزارة اخرى للتركمان بالاضافة الى وزارة الشباب من الاستحقاق الوطني في التشكيلة الجديدة حسب للتعديلات المقدمة من قبل دولة السيد رئيس الوزراء ،واشار النائب فوزي اكرم ان التركمان يمثلون القومية الاساسية والمهمة الثالثة في العراق وان التركمان يشعرون بالغبن والتهميش في مقاصل الدولة وهرم السلطة في حقوقهم الوطنية المشروعة السياسية والادراية قياسا الى التضحيات التي قدمها التركمان في سبيل حرية العراق جنب الى جنب مع بقية مكونات الاخرى ولايمكن المزايدة على وطنيتهم التي لطالما كانوا في الصف الاول وكان لهم الدور البارز في وحدة العراق ارضا وشعبا اون حجم التمثيل التركماني في الحقائب الوزارية بوزارة واحدة هي وزارة الشباب لايلبي طموحات التركمانية في المشاركة ببناء هذا الوطن ، واستغرب النائب فوزي اكرم من ان الحكومة الوطنية اطلقت مبادرة المصالحة الوطنية مع جميع مكونات الشعب العراقي وحتى الذين حملوا السلاح ضدها ولكنهم تناسوا هذه الشريحة المهمة من الشعب العراقي وناشد النائب فوزي اكرم دولة السيد رئيس الوزراء بانصاف التركمان واعطائهم حقوقهم الادارية والسياسية وبما يتناسب وحجم تضحيات هذه الشريحة وحجم وجودهم الحقيقي .المكتب الاعلامي للنائب
نائب برلماني يطالب بانصاف التركمان بوزارة اخرى
طالب النائب فوزي اكرم عضو مجلس النواب عن الائتلاف العراقي في لقاء بعدد من الوسائل الاعلامية بوزارة اخرى للتركمان بالاضافة الى وزارة الشباب من الاستحقاق الوطني في التشكيلة الجديدة حسب للتعديلات المقدمة من قبل دولة السيد رئيس الوزراء ،واشار النائب فوزي اكرم ان التركمان يمثلون القومية الاساسية والمهمة الثالثة في العراق وان التركمان يشعرون بالغبن والتهميش في مقاصل الدولة وهرم السلطة في حقوقهم الوطنية المشروعة السياسية والادراية قياسا الى التضحيات التي قدمها التركمان في سبيل حرية العراق جنب الى جنب مع بقية مكونات الاخرى ولايمكن المزايدة على وطنيتهم التي لطالما كانوا في الصف الاول وكان لهم الدور البارز في وحدة العراق ارضا وشعبا اون حجم التمثيل التركماني في الحقائب الوزارية بوزارة واحدة هي وزارة الشباب لايلبي طموحات التركمانية في المشاركة ببناء هذا الوطن ، واستغرب النائب فوزي اكرم من ان الحكومة الوطنية اطلقت مبادرة المصالحة الوطنية مع جميع مكونات الشعب العراقي وحتى الذين حملوا السلاح ضدها ولكنهم تناسوا هذه الشريحة المهمة من الشعب العراقي وناشد النائب فوزي اكرم دولة السيد رئيس الوزراء بانصاف التركمان واعطائهم حقوقهم الادارية والسياسية وبما يتناسب وحجم تضحيات هذه الشريحة وحجم وجودهم الحقيقي .المكتب الاعلامي للنائب
فوزي اكرم
Iraq Body Count, Human Rights Watch and that empire-building business
by Gabriele Zamparini
Summary: Iraq Body Count has become one of the most powerful weapons against the anti-war movement, 60 Minutes wonders if killing civilians is bad to us and Human Rights Watch explains that the only thing the US can do is drop bombs. It must be read to be believed! [continued]
please click on link below:
http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2007/10/business-as-usual-iraq-body-count-human.htm
Summary: Iraq Body Count has become one of the most powerful weapons against the anti-war movement, 60 Minutes wonders if killing civilians is bad to us and Human Rights Watch explains that the only thing the US can do is drop bombs. It must be read to be believed! [continued]
please click on link below:
http://www.thecatsdream.com/blog/2007/10/business-as-usual-iraq-body-count-human.htm
NY Times: Iraqi Kurdish Leaders allow the PKK to exist on their territory
http://www.turkishweekly.net/news.php?id=49917
Wednesday , 31 October 2007
* By Kamil OSMANOGLU (USAK Iraqi Studies Desk)
SABRINA TAVERNISE, New York Times correspondent, who visited the PKK terrorist camps in Northern Iraq claimed in her recent article that “logistical flows remained uninterrupted despite of the strong Barzani and Talabani intelligence network”:
“Even logistical flows remain uninterrupted, despite the fact that Iraqi Kurdish leaders have some of the most precise and extensive intelligence networks in the country” she wrote in New York Times.
Sabrina Tavernise also wrote that the Iraqi Kurdish officials “politely” ignore American calls for action against the terrorists in northern Iraq. Tavernise also said the Iraqi Kurdish leaders allow the PKK to exist on their territory.
Similarly Mark Parris, a former American ambassador to Turkey who is now at the Brookings Institution say “They have allowed the P.K.K. to be up there. That couldn’t have happened without their permitting them to be there. That’s their turf. It’s as simple as that.”
Another American journalist Seymour Hersh told Zaman, Turkish daily that the United States and Israel also support the PKK terrorists in the region.
31 October 2007
JTW, An USAK Publication
Wednesday , 31 October 2007
* By Kamil OSMANOGLU (USAK Iraqi Studies Desk)
SABRINA TAVERNISE, New York Times correspondent, who visited the PKK terrorist camps in Northern Iraq claimed in her recent article that “logistical flows remained uninterrupted despite of the strong Barzani and Talabani intelligence network”:
“Even logistical flows remain uninterrupted, despite the fact that Iraqi Kurdish leaders have some of the most precise and extensive intelligence networks in the country” she wrote in New York Times.
Sabrina Tavernise also wrote that the Iraqi Kurdish officials “politely” ignore American calls for action against the terrorists in northern Iraq. Tavernise also said the Iraqi Kurdish leaders allow the PKK to exist on their territory.
Similarly Mark Parris, a former American ambassador to Turkey who is now at the Brookings Institution say “They have allowed the P.K.K. to be up there. That couldn’t have happened without their permitting them to be there. That’s their turf. It’s as simple as that.”
Another American journalist Seymour Hersh told Zaman, Turkish daily that the United States and Israel also support the PKK terrorists in the region.
31 October 2007
JTW, An USAK Publication
UN/US CRIMINAL SANCTIONS ON IRAQ RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LACK OF MOSUL DAM UPKEEP
http://www.juancole.com/
Iraq's Katrina? The Army Corps of Engineers is worried that a dam north of Mosul will collapse. CBS warns, ' A catastrophic failure, engineers believe, could unleash a 60-foot-high wall of water that would be inundate Mosul - and flood Baghdad to a depth of 15 feet.The casualty count would be in the hundreds of thousands. '
If this happened on the Bush administration's watch, it would certainly be blamed on the United States, and even the lack of dam upkeep can be traced in some part to the UN/ US sanctions on Iraq of the 1990s, which debilitated its infrastructure. An article in the Scientific American in 1999 warned that a Katrina could happen to New Orleans. Now we have the ACE warning of this dam/ flood catastrophe. I have a sinking feeling that George W. Bush is incapable of taking such threats to civilian lives seriously.
Imagine if the great United States, having occupied a major Muslim Arab country in the world's driest region, managed to drown two of the most revered cities in Islamic history.
Iraq's Katrina? The Army Corps of Engineers is worried that a dam north of Mosul will collapse. CBS warns, ' A catastrophic failure, engineers believe, could unleash a 60-foot-high wall of water that would be inundate Mosul - and flood Baghdad to a depth of 15 feet.The casualty count would be in the hundreds of thousands. '
If this happened on the Bush administration's watch, it would certainly be blamed on the United States, and even the lack of dam upkeep can be traced in some part to the UN/ US sanctions on Iraq of the 1990s, which debilitated its infrastructure. An article in the Scientific American in 1999 warned that a Katrina could happen to New Orleans. Now we have the ACE warning of this dam/ flood catastrophe. I have a sinking feeling that George W. Bush is incapable of taking such threats to civilian lives seriously.
Imagine if the great United States, having occupied a major Muslim Arab country in the world's driest region, managed to drown two of the most revered cities in Islamic history.
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