Turkish PM's wife says Shimon Peres lied in Davos
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's wife Emine Erdogan said on Thursday that Israeli president Shimon Peres lied at the tense Gaza in Davos.
“Everything (Israeli President Simon) Peres said was lie,” Emine Erdogan told reporters in Davos after she burst into tears.
Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of an angry debate on the Gaza war with Peres at the Davos forum on Thursday. Erdogan said his reaction targeted the moderator of the session not Peres or the Israeli people.
Emine Erdogan organized earlier this month an Istanbul meeting entitled "Women for peace in Palestine” in which first ladies from Muslim countries condemned the Israeli offensive on Gaza and called on the international community to end the suffering of women and children there.
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/10887742.asp?gid=244
Friday, 30 January 2009
Turkey's Prime Minister hailed on his return from Davos
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Erdogan, right, was angered by the moderator not giving him a chance to counter Peres’ argument (AFP)
Erdogan hailed after Davos walkout
Turkey's prime minister has returned home from the World Economic Forum in Davos to a warm welcome after he stormed out of a debate over Israel's war on the Gaza Strip.
More than 5,000 people, many waving Palestinian and Turkish flags, greeted Recep Tayyip Erdogan after his aeroplane touched down early on Friday.
Erdogan walked out of a televised debate on Thursday with Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, after the moderator refused to allow him to rebut Peres' justification about the war.
Before storming out, Erdogan told Shimon Peres, the Israeli president:
"You are killing people."
At least 1,300 Palestinians were killed during Israel's 22-day aerial, naval and ground assault on Gaza. Thirteen Israeli citizens died over the same period.'
'No return'
During the heated panel discussion in the Swiss town, Peres told Erdogan that Turkey would have acted in the same manner as Israel if rockets had been falling on Istanbul.
Moderator David Ignatius, a Washington Post columnist, then told Erdogan that he had "only a minute" to respond to a lengthy monologue by Peres.
Erdogan said: "I find it very sad that people applaud what you said. There have been many people killed. And I think that it is very wrong and it is not humanitarian."
Ignatius twice attempted to finish the debate, saying, "We really do need to get people to dinner."
Erdogan then said: "Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I don't think I will come back to Davos after this."
'Understandable'
Amr Moussa, the secretary-general of the Arab League and former Egyptian foreign minister, said Erdogan's action was understandable.
"Mr Erdogan said what he wanted to say and then he left. That's all. He was right," he said, adding that Israel "doesn't listen".
Turkey has in recent months brokered indirect talks between Israel and Syria over the Golan Heights region, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967.
The exchange between Erdogan and Peres took place on the second day of the summit, where business and political leaders have been discussing trade, financial regulation and global security.
Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary-general, used the forum to announce the launch of an emergency appeal for $613m to help Palestinians recover from Israel's attack on Gaza.
Gaza appeal
The UN secretary-general said he had been deeply moved by his visit to Gaza and that he had given his word that the UN would help the Gazans in their hour of need.
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He said the appeal for funds covered the requirements of the UN and other aid organisations for the next six to nine months.
Ban said it would help provide aid such as medical care and clean water and that an appeal for longer-term needs would be launched later.
Asked about achieving peace in Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of Israel's Likud party who was attending the forum, swiftly turned his answer to Iran, which he said was in a "100-yard dash" to get nuclear weapons.
While he did not specify any planned military action, Netanyahu said if Iranian rulers were "neutralised", the danger posed to Israel and others by Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in south Lebanon would be reduced.
Meanwhile, Manouchechr Mottaki, Iran's foreign minister, who is also in Davos, said Tehran had taken note of the intention of Barack Obama, the US president, to withdraw troops from Iraq and believed he should also pull troops out of Afghanistan.
Mottaki told a panel at the forum that Obama had "courage" to say which of the policies of George Bush, the former US president, he disagreed with and said his approach marked a "milestone" away from an era of "might equals right".
Source:
Agencies
Comments:
zamir ahmedAfghanistan
30/01/2009
Erdogan hailed after Davos walkout
This is natural who has heart to accept the justice who ever no matter will condemned the inhuman act of Israel killing innocent women and childeren and massacre to capture Paletine land and this is not acceptable to any body who is still human heart
TruthslingerThailand
30/01/2009
David Ignatius
It is interesting that the so-called "moderator", David Ignatius, is also Jewish, as well as being a major player in US print media (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ignatius).
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/01/20091303153967187.html
Thursday, 29 January 2009
The Peshmerga stand in front of the Polling Centres in Tuz Khurmatu
Iraq’s Provincial Elections: Kurds are positioning their Peshmerga militias in front of the polling centres of Tuz Khurmatu .
ITC Media Kerkuk - COMMUNIQUE
29th January 2009
Yesterday, two police members, one of whom was an officer, have been killed in front of one of the polling centres in the city of Tuz Khurmatu (75 Km south of Kerkuk).
As usual, the identities of the perpetrators of these assassinations are not known.
Using these attacks as a pretext, the Kurds have brought the Suleymaniya battalion from the fourth squad, known as Peshmerga, to Tuz Khurmatu and they have positioned 15 elements of this battalion to each of the city’s polling centres with an excuse of weakness in security. This, despite the fact that a battalion from the Governorate of Salaheddin had arrived immediately after the attack as has been confirmed by an official source from the Ministry of Interior.
When the Tuz Khurmatu branch of the Iraqi Turkmen Front objected to this procedure the Kurds suggested they would position their Peshmerga 200 meters from the polling centres. ITF refused this proposal and demanded the withdrawal of the Peshmerga outside the boundaries of the city.
The Iraqi Turkmen Front asked the government authorities to intervene immediately and together with other political parties ITF demanded that the security of the polling districts should be under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior in order to ensure the transparency and impartiality of the elections so as to avoid the vote rigging and forgeries committed by the Kurds during the January 2005 elections.
ITC Media Kerkuk - COMMUNIQUE
29th January 2009
Yesterday, two police members, one of whom was an officer, have been killed in front of one of the polling centres in the city of Tuz Khurmatu (75 Km south of Kerkuk).
As usual, the identities of the perpetrators of these assassinations are not known.
Using these attacks as a pretext, the Kurds have brought the Suleymaniya battalion from the fourth squad, known as Peshmerga, to Tuz Khurmatu and they have positioned 15 elements of this battalion to each of the city’s polling centres with an excuse of weakness in security. This, despite the fact that a battalion from the Governorate of Salaheddin had arrived immediately after the attack as has been confirmed by an official source from the Ministry of Interior.
When the Tuz Khurmatu branch of the Iraqi Turkmen Front objected to this procedure the Kurds suggested they would position their Peshmerga 200 meters from the polling centres. ITF refused this proposal and demanded the withdrawal of the Peshmerga outside the boundaries of the city.
The Iraqi Turkmen Front asked the government authorities to intervene immediately and together with other political parties ITF demanded that the security of the polling districts should be under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior in order to ensure the transparency and impartiality of the elections so as to avoid the vote rigging and forgeries committed by the Kurds during the January 2005 elections.
"The Hidden Invasion of Iraq" by Paulo Casaca MEP
Extract from Member of EU Parliament, Paulo CASACA’s (*) book:
“The Hidden Invasion of Iraq”.
Regarding the Funds the EU allocated for the reconstruction of Iraq and the Iraqi Electoral Process
Page 182 to page 187
QUOTE:
Being the spokesperson for the socialists of the Budgetary Control Committee, this is my most important responsibility within the European Parliament. I was particularly interested to know the whereabouts of the 800 plus million Euro that had been approved within the European Budget for the Iraqi reconstruction in the first five years of the post-Saddam era, and I was puzzled to realised that none of my Iraqi friends, members of the Parliament, Governors or former ministers, had ever heard of any European cooperation effort to Iraq.
Although modest in comparison with the bilateral budgetary efforts of the main Allied forces, the European budget is indeed the largest contributor to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) and this should be visible somehow.
This was my starting point for a query to the European Commission on what has happened with the European budget for Iraqi reconstruction. This would prove to be an exhausting and time-consuming task, but in the end rewarding. The Commission took several months ignoring my questions before answering with an eight-page summary made in partnership with the Iraqi Government. I found this partnership rather awkward.
There I learned that the European Commission had hired a consultant who claimed to be an international organisation as a “global facility” for organising its action in Iraq, without tendering procedures with the argument of urgency (although the contract was established by the end of 2006, more than three years after the invasion).
I learned afterwards that contracts had been established with the very same company for similar tasks in Palestine and Lebanon, always without public tendering procedures.
The bulk of the European funds was attributed to the IRFFI and was managed by the UN and the World Bank. As for the rest, the Commission had made some bilateral contracts with UN agencies and with the Iraqi authorities and substantially financed the Iraqi electoral process.
I could hardly believe that the European Commission had spent all this money on the Iraqi elections and would not even have invited the European Parliament to monitor the elections. Actually, the Commission did not make any thorough public appraisal of the electoral process and did not respond to the generalised criticism of the electoral failures. Given the general attitude of the Commission I would not have been surprised if they had not even bothered to make any sort of observation in spite of the 136 Million they invested in the electoral process.
The answers we received from the UN or the World Bank regarding the funds used in a multilateral way were far from satisfactory, to say the least, and we decided to ask for on the spot controls of a least some of the huge numbers of schools, hospitals and all sorts of infrastructure that the European funds had presumably helped to build or rehabilitate.
The answers seemed confused and elusive and always hard to obtain. I asked to accompany the Commission in a mission to Baghdad to get a glimpse of what was going on over there, but the Commission turned down my request since it would not respect the independence of the institutions. Surprisingly, this explanation came from the very same European executive that answered the Parliamentary Budget Controls’ queries in joint papers with the Iraqi Government.
Evidence on the lack of reliability of the Iraqi authorities regarding public funds was everywhere and could be seen in the main European as well as American media. Iraq was indeed classified as the second most corrupt country in the World, only bypassed by Haiti. Anyway, I did my best to ensure the Commission could not argue with lack of information and handed them extensive media reports on the general Iraqi mismanagement.
Finally, the European Commission proposed the participation of COCOBU in an observation mission that would be organised by the World Bank. The World Bank duly met with COCOBU. By this time many of my colleagues were also very curious to find out what had happened to EU funds in Iraq.
A mission was organised to Nasyriah. The meeting point was at a hotel in Abu Dhabi, early in the morning of 18 May 2008. After we were supplied with helmets and bullet proof vests, we embarked in a military Italian aircraft to Tallil, the airfield of an enormous military complex in the Southern flank of Nasyriah.
As we got there, we were told that there would be no visits to the famous projects we had been so curious to see for security reasons. Actually, we never left the military compound during our stay, although it was huge and comprised, among other things, the ancient ruins of Ur with its famous Ziguratt.
The World Bank, which was supposed to have had the idea of the mission and which had prepared the participation of our committee for quite some time did not bother to show up or to give us an explanation in advance of its absence.
The team leader of the Dhi Qar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)/ Reconstruction Support Unit (RSU), Anna Prouse, a bright and active Italian lady, showed us a mobile surgery hospital offered by the Italian cooperation performing eye surgeries. This was our only chance to get in touch with common Iraqi citizens and with something that was really working for the benefit of Iraqis (although not financed by our European budget).
For the rest, we had the opportunity to hear the political speech of the local Governor as well as the speech of the Iraqi general in command plus theatrical performances, music and the rest of entertaining activities, the whole of it amounting to a typical tourist political act with the main difference that all of it was performed in a heavily guarded security perimeter.
So, although the visit was of little use to learn about the real Iraq, it was very useful to understand the logic of the main actors in the financial cooperation effort. With the exception of the World Bank and some embassies, all the main financial actors in this reconstruction effort were over there, namely representatives of several UN agencies.
The UN people included two Iraqi refugees who were hired in Amman to help the reconstruction effort. One of them was an Armenian doctor from Basra and the other a Baghdad Kurdish engineer. I found the UN agencies’ idea brilliant, although very telling on the political solution to the problem: to allow refugees, for the most part professionals, to come back and help their country out of the problems of “capacity building” (using the Euro-jargon in the meantime fully absorbed by the local Iraqi Governor).
Otherwise the UN teams were made of people – interesting, kind and humble for the most part – who really reflected an idea of trans-national commitment for human values that you normally associate with the UN.
The presentation of the work of the several UN agencies was not outstanding, and one got the idea that the several agencies were basically doing the same sort of things using the same sort of opaque wording to describe what they were doing. The Iraqi people, however, conveyed the image of being actively engaged in real productive work on behalf of Iraq.
UNQUOTE
(*)Mr Paulo Casaca, MEP, Member of the Socialist Party, has been an elected member of the Azorean Regional Parliament, of the Portuguese Parliament and of the European Parliament, where he has been representing Azores since 1999.
He was born in Lisbon in 1957.
He is a founding member and co-president of the “Friends of a Free Iran” and a founding member of “European Friends of Israel”, the former being an EP-wide initiative and latter being a European and National European Parliaments wide initiative. Along with the late Mohammad Al-Ahwad, he founded the “EURO-IRAQI” parliamentary dialogue platform, “IRAQ WITH A FUTURE” (IF).
“The Hidden Invasion of Iraq”.
Regarding the Funds the EU allocated for the reconstruction of Iraq and the Iraqi Electoral Process
Page 182 to page 187
QUOTE:
Being the spokesperson for the socialists of the Budgetary Control Committee, this is my most important responsibility within the European Parliament. I was particularly interested to know the whereabouts of the 800 plus million Euro that had been approved within the European Budget for the Iraqi reconstruction in the first five years of the post-Saddam era, and I was puzzled to realised that none of my Iraqi friends, members of the Parliament, Governors or former ministers, had ever heard of any European cooperation effort to Iraq.
Although modest in comparison with the bilateral budgetary efforts of the main Allied forces, the European budget is indeed the largest contributor to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) and this should be visible somehow.
This was my starting point for a query to the European Commission on what has happened with the European budget for Iraqi reconstruction. This would prove to be an exhausting and time-consuming task, but in the end rewarding. The Commission took several months ignoring my questions before answering with an eight-page summary made in partnership with the Iraqi Government. I found this partnership rather awkward.
There I learned that the European Commission had hired a consultant who claimed to be an international organisation as a “global facility” for organising its action in Iraq, without tendering procedures with the argument of urgency (although the contract was established by the end of 2006, more than three years after the invasion).
I learned afterwards that contracts had been established with the very same company for similar tasks in Palestine and Lebanon, always without public tendering procedures.
The bulk of the European funds was attributed to the IRFFI and was managed by the UN and the World Bank. As for the rest, the Commission had made some bilateral contracts with UN agencies and with the Iraqi authorities and substantially financed the Iraqi electoral process.
I could hardly believe that the European Commission had spent all this money on the Iraqi elections and would not even have invited the European Parliament to monitor the elections. Actually, the Commission did not make any thorough public appraisal of the electoral process and did not respond to the generalised criticism of the electoral failures. Given the general attitude of the Commission I would not have been surprised if they had not even bothered to make any sort of observation in spite of the 136 Million they invested in the electoral process.
The answers we received from the UN or the World Bank regarding the funds used in a multilateral way were far from satisfactory, to say the least, and we decided to ask for on the spot controls of a least some of the huge numbers of schools, hospitals and all sorts of infrastructure that the European funds had presumably helped to build or rehabilitate.
The answers seemed confused and elusive and always hard to obtain. I asked to accompany the Commission in a mission to Baghdad to get a glimpse of what was going on over there, but the Commission turned down my request since it would not respect the independence of the institutions. Surprisingly, this explanation came from the very same European executive that answered the Parliamentary Budget Controls’ queries in joint papers with the Iraqi Government.
Evidence on the lack of reliability of the Iraqi authorities regarding public funds was everywhere and could be seen in the main European as well as American media. Iraq was indeed classified as the second most corrupt country in the World, only bypassed by Haiti. Anyway, I did my best to ensure the Commission could not argue with lack of information and handed them extensive media reports on the general Iraqi mismanagement.
Finally, the European Commission proposed the participation of COCOBU in an observation mission that would be organised by the World Bank. The World Bank duly met with COCOBU. By this time many of my colleagues were also very curious to find out what had happened to EU funds in Iraq.
A mission was organised to Nasyriah. The meeting point was at a hotel in Abu Dhabi, early in the morning of 18 May 2008. After we were supplied with helmets and bullet proof vests, we embarked in a military Italian aircraft to Tallil, the airfield of an enormous military complex in the Southern flank of Nasyriah.
As we got there, we were told that there would be no visits to the famous projects we had been so curious to see for security reasons. Actually, we never left the military compound during our stay, although it was huge and comprised, among other things, the ancient ruins of Ur with its famous Ziguratt.
The World Bank, which was supposed to have had the idea of the mission and which had prepared the participation of our committee for quite some time did not bother to show up or to give us an explanation in advance of its absence.
The team leader of the Dhi Qar Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT)/ Reconstruction Support Unit (RSU), Anna Prouse, a bright and active Italian lady, showed us a mobile surgery hospital offered by the Italian cooperation performing eye surgeries. This was our only chance to get in touch with common Iraqi citizens and with something that was really working for the benefit of Iraqis (although not financed by our European budget).
For the rest, we had the opportunity to hear the political speech of the local Governor as well as the speech of the Iraqi general in command plus theatrical performances, music and the rest of entertaining activities, the whole of it amounting to a typical tourist political act with the main difference that all of it was performed in a heavily guarded security perimeter.
So, although the visit was of little use to learn about the real Iraq, it was very useful to understand the logic of the main actors in the financial cooperation effort. With the exception of the World Bank and some embassies, all the main financial actors in this reconstruction effort were over there, namely representatives of several UN agencies.
The UN people included two Iraqi refugees who were hired in Amman to help the reconstruction effort. One of them was an Armenian doctor from Basra and the other a Baghdad Kurdish engineer. I found the UN agencies’ idea brilliant, although very telling on the political solution to the problem: to allow refugees, for the most part professionals, to come back and help their country out of the problems of “capacity building” (using the Euro-jargon in the meantime fully absorbed by the local Iraqi Governor).
Otherwise the UN teams were made of people – interesting, kind and humble for the most part – who really reflected an idea of trans-national commitment for human values that you normally associate with the UN.
The presentation of the work of the several UN agencies was not outstanding, and one got the idea that the several agencies were basically doing the same sort of things using the same sort of opaque wording to describe what they were doing. The Iraqi people, however, conveyed the image of being actively engaged in real productive work on behalf of Iraq.
UNQUOTE
(*)Mr Paulo Casaca, MEP, Member of the Socialist Party, has been an elected member of the Azorean Regional Parliament, of the Portuguese Parliament and of the European Parliament, where he has been representing Azores since 1999.
He was born in Lisbon in 1957.
He is a founding member and co-president of the “Friends of a Free Iran” and a founding member of “European Friends of Israel”, the former being an EP-wide initiative and latter being a European and National European Parliaments wide initiative. Along with the late Mohammad Al-Ahwad, he founded the “EURO-IRAQI” parliamentary dialogue platform, “IRAQ WITH A FUTURE” (IF).
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Sayın Barack Obama
26 Ocak 2009, Pazartesi
Türkmen Cephesi Başkanı Sadettin Ergeç, ABD’nin yeni Başkanı Barack Obama’ya, göreve başlaması dolayısıyla bir kutlama mesajı yayınladı
Sayın Barack Obama
Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Başkanı
Türkmen halkı ve meşru temsilcisi Irak Türkmen Cephesi adına ve şahsım sizi ve Amerikan halkını, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri başkanlığı görevini almanız münasebeti ile kutlar halis temenilerimiz iktidarınız süresince barış dolu bir dünya, Irak ve Amerikan halkları arasında daha iyi ilişkilerin olmasıdır, hatırlatmak isteriz Irak'ta Türkmen halkının umudu, uğradığı baskıların sona ermesi ve Irak'ta gerçek değişimin tamamlanmasıdır .
Irak Türkmen Cephesi
ENFORMASYON DAİRESİ
Kerkuk.net
Kerkuk.net
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Impact of the Obama Presidency
Part One :
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insideiraq/2009/01/2009123145141493820.html
Part Two :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMa3JEAIICU
The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United Sates represents an historic American event and a landmark milestone in the story of Iraq.
President Obama's plan to bring US combat troops home in 16 months, however, raises important security questions.
Will militias, death squads and al-Qaeda resume their attacks against the Iraqi government? Will Iran re-activate its agents in an attempt to dominate Iraqi politics?
But perhaps the two most important questions to be asked are: Will the US departure afford Iraqi politicians a chance to rectify the political process, especially the sectarian quota system and the controversial constitution? Will Iraq's politicians put the interests of the nation above personal and partisan interests?
Our guests this week are former US ambassador to Iraq David Newton, who is also a scholar at the Middle East Institute; Peter Harling, the director of the Iraq-Syria-Lebanon Project at the International Crisis Group; and Iraqi elder statesman and member of the Iraqi Parliament Adnan Pachachi.
This episode of Inside Iraq airs from Friday, January 23, 2009
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/insideiraq/2009/01/2009123145141493820.html
Part Two :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMa3JEAIICU
The election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United Sates represents an historic American event and a landmark milestone in the story of Iraq.
President Obama's plan to bring US combat troops home in 16 months, however, raises important security questions.
Will militias, death squads and al-Qaeda resume their attacks against the Iraqi government? Will Iran re-activate its agents in an attempt to dominate Iraqi politics?
But perhaps the two most important questions to be asked are: Will the US departure afford Iraqi politicians a chance to rectify the political process, especially the sectarian quota system and the controversial constitution? Will Iraq's politicians put the interests of the nation above personal and partisan interests?
Our guests this week are former US ambassador to Iraq David Newton, who is also a scholar at the Middle East Institute; Peter Harling, the director of the Iraq-Syria-Lebanon Project at the International Crisis Group; and Iraqi elder statesman and member of the Iraqi Parliament Adnan Pachachi.
This episode of Inside Iraq airs from Friday, January 23, 2009
The Strength of Palestinian Children (video)
January 26, 2009...12:13 am
The Strength of Palestinian Children
For video please click on:
http://veganfishtacos.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/the-strength-of-palestinian-children/
Watch this child talk about life under the occupation. He is probably 5 or 6 years old, no older than 7. I have pasted a rough translation afterwards.
“We want the world to come and see us and see our children, how they are locked in the classrooms (UNRWA Schools) sitting on the floor without mattresses or blankets. No food, no water, no electricity, is it a life? It is a siege, this is the biggest siege for Israel.
Come and see how we are all living, thrown aside. We don’t play we don’t laugh, we can’t learn or have fun, also we cant watch TV or cartoon shows. When we open TV, the only thing we see is funerals, death, fire, tanks, shooting and invasions. I don’t ever see children’s TV shows or cartoons to watch and enjoy and learn from. It’s all about siege its all about the invasion and watching the shooting.
No food, no water, no drink, there is nothing. We are thrown aside like beggars. While other people are living in peace, playing laughing and happy, we are under siege, we have been under siege for almost 2 years, we don’t eat, drink, we don’t do anything.
They won’t even open the borders to let in a little bit of food or anything else.”
The Strength of Palestinian Children
For video please click on:
http://veganfishtacos.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/the-strength-of-palestinian-children/
Watch this child talk about life under the occupation. He is probably 5 or 6 years old, no older than 7. I have pasted a rough translation afterwards.
“We want the world to come and see us and see our children, how they are locked in the classrooms (UNRWA Schools) sitting on the floor without mattresses or blankets. No food, no water, no electricity, is it a life? It is a siege, this is the biggest siege for Israel.
Come and see how we are all living, thrown aside. We don’t play we don’t laugh, we can’t learn or have fun, also we cant watch TV or cartoon shows. When we open TV, the only thing we see is funerals, death, fire, tanks, shooting and invasions. I don’t ever see children’s TV shows or cartoons to watch and enjoy and learn from. It’s all about siege its all about the invasion and watching the shooting.
No food, no water, no drink, there is nothing. We are thrown aside like beggars. While other people are living in peace, playing laughing and happy, we are under siege, we have been under siege for almost 2 years, we don’t eat, drink, we don’t do anything.
They won’t even open the borders to let in a little bit of food or anything else.”
Orphanage in Baghdad
Photos of Iraqi Orphans in a Baghdad Orphanage
Aren't they simply adorable?
These little children need all our love and care
for THEY are the future of Iraq
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These pictures were taken by Mr. Mohammed KELENCHY (Iraqi Turkmen photographer) during his recent visit to Iraq.
Monday, 26 January 2009
EU agrees to take Iran group (PMOI) off terror list
EU agrees to take Iran group off terror list
Reuters
European states agreed on Monday to remove exiled Iranian opposition group the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) from an EU list of banned terrorist groups, an EU official said.
The official confirmed EU foreign ministers approved a decision to remove it from a list that includes Palestinian Hamas and Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. The decision follows a number of court rulings against its inclusion on the blacklist.
"What we are doing today is abiding by the resolution of the European court," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters just before the ministers finalized the decision.
The PMOI is the group which exposed Iran's covert nuclear programme in 2002. It began as a leftist-Islamist opposition to the late Shah of Iran and has bases in Iraq.
Western analysts say its support in Iran is limited because of its collaboration with Iraq during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. It remains banned in the United States.
The decision means that the PMOI will now be able to raise funds in Europe, but may not be the end of a years-long saga.
France announced last week an appeal against the December judgment of the European Court of First Instance which called for the delisting of the group, and EU officials stress that court ruling was based on procedure rather than substance.
"This does not mean the court does not think the PMOI is a terrorist group," one EU official said. "We are taking it out for procedural reasons."
PMOI allies have repeatedly accused the EU -- which has led efforts to persuade Iran to curb a nuclear programme suspected as a cover for the atom bomb -- of seeking to "appease" Tehran by keeping the group blacklisted.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband insisted that the delisting of the PMOI should have no effect on international diplomacy aimed at persuading Tehran to curb uranium enrichment.
"We have to find a way to respect the court judgment ... I think the Iranian standoff with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is very clear. During 2009 there will and should be significant focus on this issue.
26 Ocak 2009
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/10857759_p.asp
Reuters
European states agreed on Monday to remove exiled Iranian opposition group the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) from an EU list of banned terrorist groups, an EU official said.
The official confirmed EU foreign ministers approved a decision to remove it from a list that includes Palestinian Hamas and Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. The decision follows a number of court rulings against its inclusion on the blacklist.
"What we are doing today is abiding by the resolution of the European court," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters just before the ministers finalized the decision.
The PMOI is the group which exposed Iran's covert nuclear programme in 2002. It began as a leftist-Islamist opposition to the late Shah of Iran and has bases in Iraq.
Western analysts say its support in Iran is limited because of its collaboration with Iraq during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. It remains banned in the United States.
The decision means that the PMOI will now be able to raise funds in Europe, but may not be the end of a years-long saga.
France announced last week an appeal against the December judgment of the European Court of First Instance which called for the delisting of the group, and EU officials stress that court ruling was based on procedure rather than substance.
"This does not mean the court does not think the PMOI is a terrorist group," one EU official said. "We are taking it out for procedural reasons."
PMOI allies have repeatedly accused the EU -- which has led efforts to persuade Iran to curb a nuclear programme suspected as a cover for the atom bomb -- of seeking to "appease" Tehran by keeping the group blacklisted.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband insisted that the delisting of the PMOI should have no effect on international diplomacy aimed at persuading Tehran to curb uranium enrichment.
"We have to find a way to respect the court judgment ... I think the Iranian standoff with the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is very clear. During 2009 there will and should be significant focus on this issue.
26 Ocak 2009
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/10857759_p.asp
Saturday, 24 January 2009
IRAK TÜRKMEN CEPHESI -- Communiqué
ITC media
24/1/2009
الدكتور اركيج في تلعفر و الموصل
تلعفر قلعة التركمان الشامخة
بتاريخ 22/1/2009 زار الدكتور سعد الدين اركيج رئيس الجبهة التركمانية العراقية و عضو مجلس النواب و الوفد المرافق له الذي ضم عدد من اعضاء الهيئة التنفيذية للجبهة و منظمات المجتمع المدني التركماني و دائرة الانتخابات و اتحاد نساء التركمان و اعضاء الدائرتين الاعلامية و السياسية في الجبهة و اتحاد طلبة توركمن ايلي و هيئة طبية من مستشفى الشفاء الخيري مدينة تلعفر التركمانية و كان في استقبالهم عدد كبير من شيوخ ووجهاء تلعفر و جموع حاشدة من اهالي المدينة يتقدمهم السيد نبيل حربو مسؤول الجبهة التركمانية العراقية فرع تلعفر
و بعد عزف النشيد القومي التركماني مع قراءة سورة الفاتحة و قوفا على ارواح الشهداء التركمان قدمت كلمات ترحيبة و قصائد شعرية ثم القى الدكتور اركيج كلمة في جموع الحاضرين جاء فيها التأكيد على و حدة الصف التركماني و ان تركمان تلعفر يأتون في مقدمة مناطق توركمن لان تلعفر القلعة التركمانبة الشامخة مدينة تركمانية مئة بالمئة وانه يحمل تحيات و سلام كركوك الى هذه القلعة التركمانية
و قد ركز السيد رئيس الجبهة على وجوب الترجه الى صناديق الاقتراع و التصويت لقائمة الجبهة التركمانية العراقية بالرقم 206 لانها تمثل مستقبل التركمان و لاثبات و جوده و ثقله القومي , اننا جئنا لا لكي نقدم الدعم الى تلعفر بل نأخذ دعم تلعفر الى كركوك و جميع مناطق توركمن ايلي
وبعد ذلك وزع الدكتور اركيج هدايا الجبهة التركمانية العراقية التي تمثلت في كراسي المقعدين على بعض المعوقين من اهالي تلعفر فيما كانت جموع المتواجدين يعبرون عن دعمهم التام للقائمة 206 لانها تمثل التركمان جميعا
ثم توجه الدكتور اركيج و الوفد المرافق له الى ملعب حسن كوي الرياضي الشعبي لرعاية مهرجان الفرق الشعبية في قضاء تلعفر الذي نظمته اللجنة الرياضية العليا للجبهة التركمانية العراقية في تلعفر و بمشاركة 72 فريقا في استعراض جميل و كبير و خاطب السيد رئيس الجبهة الرياضين مؤكدا على دور الشباب التركماني في المرحلة الحالية و القادمة من اجل توعية اهاليهم و اقربائهم و جميع ابناء الشعب للمشاركة الفعلية في الانتخابات المحلية و التصويت للقائمة المرقمة (206) و التي تمثل جميع الشعب التركماني , و تم خلال الحفل الاستعراضي توزيع هدايا الجبهة على جميع الفرق الرياضية من ملابس و تجهيزات رياضية
و بعد ذلك زار السيد رئيس الجبهة التركمانية العراقية بصحبة الوفد حي الخضراء في تلعفر و التقى في حسينية الحي مع السيد رضا جولاق و الشيخ سيد هاشم اللذان القيا كلمات ترحيبية تؤكد تركمانية تلعفر و ان اهالي تلعفر جميعا سند و دعم كامل للجبهة و قائمتها الانتخابية (206)باعتبارها الممثل الشرعي للشعب التركماني
وفي كلمة وجهها الدكتور اركيج إلى الحاضرين من شيوخ و سادة و جماهير حي الخضراء اكد على أهمية حتى الصوت الواحد في تحديد مصير القائمة أو الانتخابات و حث الجميع رجالا و نساءا للتوجه إلى الصناديق و التصويت لقائمة الجبهة و بدورهم عبر الشيوخ و الأهالي عن دعم و مساندتهم لقائمة الجبهة لأنها تمثل مستقبل التركمان جميعا
ثم القي بعض الشعراء قصائد تؤكد تركمانية تلعفر و قد استمع الدكتور إلى طلبات المواطنين و مشاكلهم و كانت اللجنة الطبية المرافقة للوفد تقوم بفحص و علاج المرضى و توزيع الأدوية اللازمة عليهم
و في صباح يوم الجمعة 23/1/2009و صل الدكتور أركيج الى مدينة الموصل
و زار ناحية الرشيدية و مقر الجبهة في الناحية و استقبل الدكتور من فبل الجموع الحاشدة و السيد ياوز افندي اوغلوا مسؤول الجبهة فرع الموصل، و تحدث السيد رئيس الجبهة عن أهمية الانتخابات المحلية لبيان ثقل التركمان الحقيقي و إن دعم مرشحي الجبهة انما هو دعم لكركوك و ديالى و صلاح الدين و لإنهاء مسلسل الظلم الذي عانى منه التركمان منذ تأسيس الدولة العراقية الحديثة
ثم عبر مرشحي القائمة 206 عن العمل بروح قومية من اجل إيصال الصوت التركماني عبر مجلس المحافظة إلى كل المنابر لانتزاع الحقوق القومية
و بعد ذلك غادر الدكتور الى قرية قره قوين و بعد استماعه الى الكلمات الترحيبية من السيد ياوز افندي اوغلوا و مرشحي القائمة وجه كلمة الى جمع الحاضرين قال فيها
بدلا من ان نلعن الظلام فلنقم بإشعال شمعة لإنارة طريقنا في المستقبل و يكون ذلك بالتوجه الى الانتخابات و التصويت لقائمة الشعب التركماني قائمة الجبهة التركمانية العراقية بالرقم 206 لإثبات وجودنا و ثقلنا على الساحة العراقية
لقد جئتكم من كركوك برجاء و امل و هو ان الجبهة التركمانية العراقية تفعل كل شيء من اجل رفع المظالم عن التركمان في توركمن ايلي و أملنا بان تكونوا أصحاب كركوك و أن تدافعوا عن قلعة كركوك و يكون ذلك بالتوجه إلى الصناديق و التصويت للتركمان
اننا عندما نقدم دعمنا لمرشحي تلعفر و الموصل فان هذا هو دعم لنا و لكركوك
و صلاح الدين و ديالى و الكوت لان نحن هو انتم و انتم نحن و كلنا تركمان و لا ادنى فرق بين جميع ابناء الشعب التركماني
ان مصيرنا بيدنا ....و لا نسلم مصيرنا الى غيرنا...ولنكن عصافير و بلابل نغرد على اغصاننا و اشجارنا لا على اشجار الغرباء، فان تاريخنا معلوم و ها هي قلاعنا في كركوك و اربيل و تلعفر تثبت تاريخنا العريق في العراق
بعدها حضر الدكتور مجلس الفاتحة لاحد المواطنين التركمان في القرية، و قد عبر شيوخ ووجهاء و سادة و اهالي تلعفر و الموصل عن وقوفهم التام خلف الجبهة التركمانية العراقية و التصويت لقائمتها 206 لانها قائمة كل الشعب التركماني على امتداد مناطق توركمن ايلي
24/1/2009
الدكتور اركيج في تلعفر و الموصل
تلعفر قلعة التركمان الشامخة
بتاريخ 22/1/2009 زار الدكتور سعد الدين اركيج رئيس الجبهة التركمانية العراقية و عضو مجلس النواب و الوفد المرافق له الذي ضم عدد من اعضاء الهيئة التنفيذية للجبهة و منظمات المجتمع المدني التركماني و دائرة الانتخابات و اتحاد نساء التركمان و اعضاء الدائرتين الاعلامية و السياسية في الجبهة و اتحاد طلبة توركمن ايلي و هيئة طبية من مستشفى الشفاء الخيري مدينة تلعفر التركمانية و كان في استقبالهم عدد كبير من شيوخ ووجهاء تلعفر و جموع حاشدة من اهالي المدينة يتقدمهم السيد نبيل حربو مسؤول الجبهة التركمانية العراقية فرع تلعفر
و بعد عزف النشيد القومي التركماني مع قراءة سورة الفاتحة و قوفا على ارواح الشهداء التركمان قدمت كلمات ترحيبة و قصائد شعرية ثم القى الدكتور اركيج كلمة في جموع الحاضرين جاء فيها التأكيد على و حدة الصف التركماني و ان تركمان تلعفر يأتون في مقدمة مناطق توركمن لان تلعفر القلعة التركمانبة الشامخة مدينة تركمانية مئة بالمئة وانه يحمل تحيات و سلام كركوك الى هذه القلعة التركمانية
و قد ركز السيد رئيس الجبهة على وجوب الترجه الى صناديق الاقتراع و التصويت لقائمة الجبهة التركمانية العراقية بالرقم 206 لانها تمثل مستقبل التركمان و لاثبات و جوده و ثقله القومي , اننا جئنا لا لكي نقدم الدعم الى تلعفر بل نأخذ دعم تلعفر الى كركوك و جميع مناطق توركمن ايلي
وبعد ذلك وزع الدكتور اركيج هدايا الجبهة التركمانية العراقية التي تمثلت في كراسي المقعدين على بعض المعوقين من اهالي تلعفر فيما كانت جموع المتواجدين يعبرون عن دعمهم التام للقائمة 206 لانها تمثل التركمان جميعا
ثم توجه الدكتور اركيج و الوفد المرافق له الى ملعب حسن كوي الرياضي الشعبي لرعاية مهرجان الفرق الشعبية في قضاء تلعفر الذي نظمته اللجنة الرياضية العليا للجبهة التركمانية العراقية في تلعفر و بمشاركة 72 فريقا في استعراض جميل و كبير و خاطب السيد رئيس الجبهة الرياضين مؤكدا على دور الشباب التركماني في المرحلة الحالية و القادمة من اجل توعية اهاليهم و اقربائهم و جميع ابناء الشعب للمشاركة الفعلية في الانتخابات المحلية و التصويت للقائمة المرقمة (206) و التي تمثل جميع الشعب التركماني , و تم خلال الحفل الاستعراضي توزيع هدايا الجبهة على جميع الفرق الرياضية من ملابس و تجهيزات رياضية
و بعد ذلك زار السيد رئيس الجبهة التركمانية العراقية بصحبة الوفد حي الخضراء في تلعفر و التقى في حسينية الحي مع السيد رضا جولاق و الشيخ سيد هاشم اللذان القيا كلمات ترحيبية تؤكد تركمانية تلعفر و ان اهالي تلعفر جميعا سند و دعم كامل للجبهة و قائمتها الانتخابية (206)باعتبارها الممثل الشرعي للشعب التركماني
وفي كلمة وجهها الدكتور اركيج إلى الحاضرين من شيوخ و سادة و جماهير حي الخضراء اكد على أهمية حتى الصوت الواحد في تحديد مصير القائمة أو الانتخابات و حث الجميع رجالا و نساءا للتوجه إلى الصناديق و التصويت لقائمة الجبهة و بدورهم عبر الشيوخ و الأهالي عن دعم و مساندتهم لقائمة الجبهة لأنها تمثل مستقبل التركمان جميعا
ثم القي بعض الشعراء قصائد تؤكد تركمانية تلعفر و قد استمع الدكتور إلى طلبات المواطنين و مشاكلهم و كانت اللجنة الطبية المرافقة للوفد تقوم بفحص و علاج المرضى و توزيع الأدوية اللازمة عليهم
و في صباح يوم الجمعة 23/1/2009و صل الدكتور أركيج الى مدينة الموصل
و زار ناحية الرشيدية و مقر الجبهة في الناحية و استقبل الدكتور من فبل الجموع الحاشدة و السيد ياوز افندي اوغلوا مسؤول الجبهة فرع الموصل، و تحدث السيد رئيس الجبهة عن أهمية الانتخابات المحلية لبيان ثقل التركمان الحقيقي و إن دعم مرشحي الجبهة انما هو دعم لكركوك و ديالى و صلاح الدين و لإنهاء مسلسل الظلم الذي عانى منه التركمان منذ تأسيس الدولة العراقية الحديثة
ثم عبر مرشحي القائمة 206 عن العمل بروح قومية من اجل إيصال الصوت التركماني عبر مجلس المحافظة إلى كل المنابر لانتزاع الحقوق القومية
و بعد ذلك غادر الدكتور الى قرية قره قوين و بعد استماعه الى الكلمات الترحيبية من السيد ياوز افندي اوغلوا و مرشحي القائمة وجه كلمة الى جمع الحاضرين قال فيها
بدلا من ان نلعن الظلام فلنقم بإشعال شمعة لإنارة طريقنا في المستقبل و يكون ذلك بالتوجه الى الانتخابات و التصويت لقائمة الشعب التركماني قائمة الجبهة التركمانية العراقية بالرقم 206 لإثبات وجودنا و ثقلنا على الساحة العراقية
لقد جئتكم من كركوك برجاء و امل و هو ان الجبهة التركمانية العراقية تفعل كل شيء من اجل رفع المظالم عن التركمان في توركمن ايلي و أملنا بان تكونوا أصحاب كركوك و أن تدافعوا عن قلعة كركوك و يكون ذلك بالتوجه إلى الصناديق و التصويت للتركمان
اننا عندما نقدم دعمنا لمرشحي تلعفر و الموصل فان هذا هو دعم لنا و لكركوك
و صلاح الدين و ديالى و الكوت لان نحن هو انتم و انتم نحن و كلنا تركمان و لا ادنى فرق بين جميع ابناء الشعب التركماني
ان مصيرنا بيدنا ....و لا نسلم مصيرنا الى غيرنا...ولنكن عصافير و بلابل نغرد على اغصاننا و اشجارنا لا على اشجار الغرباء، فان تاريخنا معلوم و ها هي قلاعنا في كركوك و اربيل و تلعفر تثبت تاريخنا العريق في العراق
بعدها حضر الدكتور مجلس الفاتحة لاحد المواطنين التركمان في القرية، و قد عبر شيوخ ووجهاء و سادة و اهالي تلعفر و الموصل عن وقوفهم التام خلف الجبهة التركمانية العراقية و التصويت لقائمتها 206 لانها قائمة كل الشعب التركماني على امتداد مناطق توركمن ايلي
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