Toronto´da 5 Kitap

Toronto’da Yéngi qurulan Türkman Evi’ne, merkezi İstanbul’da bulunan Kerkük Vakfı Yayınevi terefinden maqul bir miqdarada 5 ayrı kitap gönderilipti. Kitapların ikisi Türkçe ve diger ikiside ingilizce olmağ suretiyle , erepca yazılan bir tek kitapta var. Kitapların içinde Prof. Dr. Suphi Sa’atçı´nın qeleme aldığı ve yayın piyasasına yéngi giren "Irak Türkmen Boyları Oymakları ve Yerleşim Bölgeleri" adlı eserde , Türkmeneli cuğrafyasındaki Türkman aşiretleri ve ailelerini cox güzel tanıtırı. Türkmanların yaşadığları belde ve nahiyeleri tek tek el alıptı. Oxuyana çox teferrüatlı ma’alumatlar teqdim ediri ve geleceğteki araştırmacı ve yazarlara eyyi bir qayanağ sunmağtadı .

Diger kitaplarsa :

Kitabın Adı : The Iraqi Turkmen 1921-2005 ( ingilizce )

Yazarın Adı: Ali Gökhan Kayalı

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Kitabın Adı : The Turkmen Reality in Iraq ( ingilizce )

Yazarın Adı: Erşed Hürmüzlü

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Kitabın Adı : Kerkük’ün Milli Kimliği ve kültürü ( Erebce )

Yazarın Adı: Mahir Neqib

Erebceye Tercüme :Habib Hürmüzlü

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Kitabın Adı : Kerkük Seni Yazdım ( Türkçe )

Yazarın Adı: Kemal Beyatlı

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Kerkük Vakfının yayın yelpazesini denizlerötesi ülkelerinden Kanada´ya genişlettiği için şukran ve minnettarlığımı bu nacizane satırlardan bildirirem özlerine.

Burhan Bayatlı

Toronto / Kanada

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Not:Kanada´daki Türkmanlar bu kitapları Toronto´daki Türkmen Evinden Temin édebilirlerAdres:

Türkmen Evi

967 Albion Road

Etobicoke, ON, M9V 1A6

Canada

Tel: 1-416-873 6760
http://www.kerkukmedya.com/index.php?action=view&id=552&page=1

TOO MANY 9/11 COMMISSION QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED

TOO MANY 9/11 COMMISSION QUESTIONS STILL UNANSWERED
Allen L Roland

When Pandora's Box is finally fully opened on the deceptions and abuses of power by the Cheney/Bush administration ~ the 9/11 conspiracy and coverup will stand alone as the most treasonous act in American history. Here are 40 experts, including Commission members, who share their misgivings about the 9/11 Commission and the questions left unanswered : Allen L Roland

The resignation Sunday of longtime Bay Area activist Van Jones as a White House environmental adviser left many progressives, including myself, rightfully angry at the Obama administration for crumbling to conservative criticism of Jones' controversial past comments and actions ~ particularly regarding 9/11. Jones resigned amid a furor over his signature on a 2004 petition rightfully questioning the government's actions around the Sept.11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A petition that I and many other Progressive leaders proudly signed and still support.

As Gandhi once said ~ An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because very few choose to see or acknowledge it.

So let's set the record straight, Van Jones was not alone in his misgivings about the government's actions around the 9/11 attacks and most certainly it's response ~ as alluded to in the obviously deeply flawed 9/11 Commission report.

Some recent facts ~ “More than one-quarter of all footnotes in the 9/11 Report refer to CIA interrogations of al Qaeda operatives subjected to the now-controversial interrogation techniques ( torture ),” writes former NBC producer Robert Windrem in The Daily Beast. “In fact, information derived from the interrogations was central to the 9/11 Report’s most critical chapters, those on the planning and execution of the attacks.”

Approximately Sixty percent of the 9/11 commissioners have publicly stated that the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11 and that the Pentagon was involved in deliberate deception about their response to the attack according to the Washington Post ~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.html

Here are 40 experts, including the Chairman, 9/11 Commission, Thomas H. Kean, Former Governor of New Jersey and Vice Chairman, 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Homeland Security Advisory Council ~ sounding off in short quotes about their misgivings with the 9/11 commission and the far too many questions that are still UNANSWERED.

9/11 REVISITED AND QUESTIONED

Summarized from http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/.

Please see:

http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/09/08.html

It will take an international effort to solve Iraq's water crisis

Comment by John Robson to article :http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/26/water-shortage-threat-iraq

A reconstruction effort to match the 20 years of destruction should be a top priority

John Robson
The Guardian,
Thursday 10 September 2009

Your article on water shortages in southern Iraq is a timely reminder of the conditions facing a devastated rural community (Water shortage threatens two million people in southern Iraq, 27 August). It draws attention to those still affected by the wars that have raged over the last 20 years. The need for action is desperate.

The destruction of the Iraq marshes and the way of life of the Marsh Arabs has long been acknowledged, but awareness of the destruction of agriculture and rural life in the irrigated lands of the Euphrates and Tigris are less well known.

No significant action on these problems has ever been taken. A programme of reconstruction and development to match the 20 years of destruction now needs to be given top priority.

The government officials quoted in your article illustrate different ways of understanding and different priorities. Salah Aziz, director of planning, mentions the cultivation of "wheat, rice, barley, fruit and vegetables" and that "for thousands of years that land was 100% in use – this year less than 50%". The implication is that "significantly lower than normal rainfalls" are the reason for this – but rainfall in southern Iraq is never adequate for any crop.

From the early 1960s to the 1990s, I was directly involved in Iraq as an irrigation consultant, working with the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. I was aware of significant progress in many areas, but of only limited improvements in land settlement and farming. These latter weaknesses are still unresolved.

Farming and cultivation under the harsh climatic conditions of Mesopotamia require exceptional technical and management skills. A fresh approach is now needed to raise irrigated agriculture to a new level.
By comparison, conditions for rain-fed agriculture in northern Mesopotamia are far more favourable.

The lack of an international agreement on division and operation of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers between Turkey, Syria and Iraq demonstrates that it has been a low priority. But examples of working agreements exist (such as the Niles Water Agreement between Sudan and Egypt), and the situation is not irretrievable. Turkey requires its water mainly to generate power, plus some irrigation for agriculture during the slightly dryer summer season.

Historically there is relatively little need for diversion of supplies to the foothills along the Syrian border. Syria has relatively little river plain, and has never been a major abstracter. Similar conditions apply to the Tigris. But as a historic downstream user, Iraq's water needs must be internationally recognised. On the southern Iranian rivers flowing into the Iraqi marshes, a broad strategy for agreement could be drawn up, bringing more stability to this long-disputed area.

There is wide national and international responsibility for the tragic conditions under which the rural poor of Iraq are now living. Now is the time for effective international help.

John Robson was a rivers, irrigation and agriculture consultant in Iraq from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s

john.f.robson@btinternet.com

US actually increasing personnel in Iraq: More contractors, fewer troops

John Byrne, Raw Story
rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/us-replacing-iraq-troops-with-private-contractors/

September 9, 2009

US forces are not withdrawing from Iraq.
Well, its soldiers are. But not civilian contractors. Despite President Barack Obama's pledge to withdraw US troops from the war-torn country, the US is planning to award contracts to protect US installations at a cost to taxpayers that could near $1 billion.

In fact, the Multi-National Force-Iraq just awarded $485 million in contracts just last week, while Congress enjoyed its summer recess. Five firms will handle private security deals to provide security for US bases. It's a neat rhetorical loophole that will allow US officials to say that the country has withdrawn from Iraq, while its contractors remain.

"Under a similar contract with five security contractors that began in September 2007, the MNF-I spent $253 million through March 2009, with needs growing over that 18-month period," the Washington Post's Walter Pincus wrote in Wednesday editions. "That contract, which was to run three years, had a spending limit of $450 million.

Pincus cites an Inspector General's report, whose fine print notes that these contracts could swell to a whopping $935 million. An earlier IG report documented manifold allegations of fraud and government waste (PDF here).

Victory Base Camp, one of the US' largest installations, will likely require "approximately 2,600 security personnel," the report said -- just by itself.

The Pentagon's "quarterly report on contracting showed a 19 percent increase from the three previous months in the number of security guards in Iraq hired by the Defense Department. The Central Command attributed the increase, from 10,743 at the end of March to 13,232 at the end of June, mainly to "an increased need for PSCs [private security companies] to provide security as the military begins to draw down forces."
Private guards replaced soldiers at 19 locations. Are taxpayers getting their money's worth by awarding contracts to more efficient private firms?

Nope: security companies are billing the US for more people to do what the military is able to do with less.
"Camp Bucca, primarily a detention facility, called for '417 personnel to free up approximately 350 soldiers for combat operations,'" Pincus notes. "At Forward Operating Base Hammer, the task order called for 124 private guards to allow 102 soldiers to take on combat activities."

At another installation, Camp Taji, about 900 private contractors replaced 400 soldiers.

-John Byrne

Is Barzani forming a naval fleet?

Energy Peace (II) – Is Barzani forming a naval fleet?

CÜNEYT ÜLSEVER
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Yesterday, I wrote about the concept of “energy peace” with the goal of examining international economic projections leading to the Kurdish initiative.

I am not saying that the Kurdish initiative is simply based on factors in the international economy. I am perfectly aware that the Kurdish question stems from a historic, social, cultural and political background of internal dynamics. But I believe economic reasons are the driving force behind the conflict, that the struggle for economic interests in the international arena fuels this “historic opportunity.”

Yesterday, I roughly described “energy peace” in the following way:
“This concept [energy peace], led by such countries as the United States, the United Kingdom and Norway, supports [the idea] that projects for transporting energy resources such as oil and natural gas to the West can also serve [the goal of] peace. Thanks to the pipelines and ports to be shared, countries of the region that have great disputes among themselves can attain peace more easily as their economic interests overlap, provided that the cooperating countries are chosen properly.”
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A few years ago, Massoud Barzani, the leader of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Administration, applied for membership to the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization, or IMO, a 166-member umbrella organization for maritime trade.
Barzani and the IMO’s secretary-general, retired Greek Adm. Eftimous Mitropoulos, have quite warm ties. Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has also specially requested that Mitropoulos not turn down Barzani.

Barzani’s moral courage stems from his seeing the Faroe Islands of Denmark, Hong Kong and Macau as a precedent for northern Iraq, though the regional administration has not been officially declared as “Kurdistan” yet. The examples presented here are not independent states yet, but they, as autonomous regions, are associate members to the IMO.
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Why is Barzani insisting on membership to the IMO?

Northern Iraq has no sea border. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says, however, that a country having no connection to the sea has no chance to stand on its own. So northern Iraq should, somehow, open up to the sea. The Red Sea option is impossible for now. The Tartus Port of Syria is another option. However, Turkey is the most feasible option: Reaching out to the Mediterranean via Turkey!
At this point, the Mersin Port is an option.
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Plans for opening northern Iraq to the sea through the Mersin Port in Turkey are not clearly explained yet. But infrastructure studies continue for some time.

The Turkish province of Mersin being selected for provocative attempts by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, is not for nothing. Attempts at burning flags, attacks against the police and the PKK rallies organized in this particular city are not at all a coincidence.

It has been claimed that representatives of companies owned by Barzani are making serious investments in Turkey; that they are even trying to become dominant in the Mersin Free Trade Zone and at the Iskenderun Port. Plus. Let us not forget that current ethnic and political makeup in Mersin is based on migration.
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“Energy Peace” excludes the PKK. But let us also not forget that the PKK helps out Barzani. Please do remember, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party, or DTP, and the PKK keep stressing “autonomy.”
Let’s be realistic:
1) The northern Iraq initiative triggered the issue.
2) If peace is the goal, we cannot reach it without convincing the PKK.

© 2009 Hurriyet Daily News URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=energy-peace-ii---is-barzani-forming-a-naval-fleet-2009-09-08

'Kürt Bölgesinde Yahudi Partisi Kuruldu' Haberine Yalanlama

08 Eylül 2009, Salı


Irak'ın kuzeyinde bulunan bölgesel Kürt hükümeti, kendi bölgelerinde bölgelerin bir Yahudi partisi kurulduğu yönündeki haberleri yalanladı.

Irak'ın kuzeyinde bulunan bölgesel Kürt hükümeti, kendi bölgelerinde bölgelerin bir Yahudi partisi kurulduğu yönündeki haberleri yalanladı. Bölgesel hükümet adına açıklama yapan Bölge Divan Başkanı Fuat Hüseyin, Kürt bölgesinde Yahudi ve Yahudi partisinin olmadığını kaydetti. Hüseyin, çıkan haberlerin ise doğru olmadığını ve belgeye dayanmadığını vurguladı.

Bu arada, Erbil'de yayınlanan aylık İsrail-Kürt dergisinin üçüncü sayısı çıktı. Davut Bağıstani'nin imtiyaz sahipliğini, Mevlüt Afand'in başyazarlığını yaptığı İsrail-Kürt dergisi Kürt Gazeteciler Sendikası'ndan alınan resmî izinle faaliyetlerini sürdürüyor.
(CHA)

Iraqi Turkmen groups agree on joint action

Representatives of more than 20 Iraqi Turkmen groups who gathered in Ankara last week released a joint declaration on Sunday announcing that they have decided to maintain a joint strategy in order to better protect the interests of Iraqi Turkmens in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iraq, scheduled to take place in January.

Iraqi Turkmen representatives had gathered in the Turkish capital upon an invitation by Bilkent University Rector Ali Doğramacı, whose family's origin is Iraqi Turkmen. President Abdullah Gül last week hosted the representatives at an iftar (fast-breaking dinner) at the presidential palace.

“Participants at the meeting in Ankara decided to call on the Iraqi Turkmen society to participate in the elections more actively; to maintain more participation with other segments of Iraq; and to make contributions to the best way to represent their own identities,” the joint declaration said, announcing that they will establish a “joint coordination board” for determining plans and mechanisms of joint efforts by Iraqi Turkmens.

07 September 2009, Monday
TODAY'S ZAMAN ANKARA

EU 'breaking promise' to Turkey

The European Union is in danger of breaking its promise that Turkey will eventually be granted membership, an influential group has warned.

The Independent Commission on Turkey accuses some European leaders of trying to derail Turkey's membership bid.
Behind the carefully balanced language of diplomacy is a hard hitting report, a BBC correspondent says.

It points the finger most firmly at France, whose President Nicolas Sarkozy is strongly opposed to Turkish entry.
"France has publicly declared that it will not allow five key areas of the negotiations to go forward, specifically because the current French leadership opposes Turkish accession," the report says.

Cyprus impasse
The Independent Commission on Turkey is made up of senior European politicians and academics, and is led by the former Finnish President and Nobel Laureate Martti Ahtisaari.
Its report says negative statements from some leaders, and efforts to substitute full membership for some other kind of privileged partnership or special relationship, are putting the EU's credibility at stake.


"In 1999... we said that Turkey is a candidate state destined to join the union on the basis of the same criteria as apply to other candidate states. So it's the credibility of the EU [at stake]," Mr Ahtisaari said.

France, Germany and Austria are among the countries that object to Turkey having full membership of the EU, proposing instead a privileged partnership.

The report says a vicious circle has developed.

"Fierce opposition from some European politicians combined with growing public resistance to further EU enlargement in turn has deepened resentment in Turkey and slowed the necessary reforms," the report says.
It acknowledges that some serious obstacles remain to Turkish membership - not least, the impasse over the divided island of Cyprus.

Solving that frozen conflict would boost Turkey's membership bid - but the commission warns that talks are running short of time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8241543.stm