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Minorities in Iraq’s North Seen as Threatened
The policies and tactics of Kurdish authorities could expose minority groups in northern Iraq to “another full-blown human rights catastrophe” unless the minorities receive better protection, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.
Members of the minority groups are being singled out by extremist insurgent groups and also are caught in the middle of a struggle for land and resources between Arabs and the central government on one hand and leaders of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region on the other, said the report, which was released in the Kurdish region’s capital, Erbil, and focused on Christians, Shabaks and Yazidis in Nineveh Province.
Obama offers support for Turkey-Iraq relationship
U.S. President Barack Obama has told Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan he hoped to strengthen ties with their country and expressed support for Turkey’s growing relationship with Iraq, the White House said on Monday.
Obama spoke to the two men by phone earlier in the day.
“In both calls, the leaders discussed a number of current issues, including U.S. support for the growing Turkish-Iraqi relationship, the importance of cooperation in Middle East peace efforts, and the U.S. review on Afghanistan and Pakistan policy,” the White House said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkey wary over status of Kirkuk
Middle East Times
Turkey cautioned against moving too quickly on a referendum to settle the disputed status of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, officials said.
Abbas al-Bayati, a Shiite Turkomen with the United Iraqi Alliance coalition, said Turkish President Abdullah Gul invited members from the ethnic community in Kirkuk to meet in Ankara to discuss the way forward on the disputed city, Turkey’s daily newspaper Hurriyet reported Monday.
Iraq holds provincial elections in 14 of the 18 provinces Jan. 31. The vote is delayed in the three Kurdish provinces and Kirkuk because of territorial disputes.
Ethnic Kurds, Sunnis and Turkomen disagree over whether Kirkuk should be considered part of greater Iraq or Iraqi Kurdistan. The vote in Kirkuk is postponed indefinitely. Read the rest of this entry »
Three Turkmen Shiite brothers shot dead in Iraq
AFP
Three Shiite Turkmen, including a local leader of the Badr political group, were shot dead outside their home in northern Iraq on Thursday, a security official said.
The incident occurred in the village of Amerli, south of the oil hub of Kirkuk, local police Lieutenant Colonel Jowdat Abdullah told AFP.
“We have opened up an investigation to see whether the killing was the result of a terrorist act or a family feud,” he said, adding that one of the brothers was a member of the local police force. Read the rest of this entry »
Arbitrary Detention of Iraqi Turkmen by Kurdish Islamic Terrorists
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis, American Chronicle
The extent of the Islamic terror performed by the pseudo-Kurdish militias that are not controlled - as many erroneously believe - by either Talabani or Barzani is obvious in the extremely preoccupying case reported by the Dr. Sheth Jerjis, Chairman SOITM, the Netherlands-based Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation. It consists in a provocative case of arbitrary detention of an Iraqi Turkmen by the crypto-terrorist militias that will be playing for a while their theatrical parody of “Kurdish” forces. Then, the game will change….
I republish it from their website as a document testifying to the need for a dramatic U-turn that has to take place in Iraq before the ´Kurdish´ mask of Al Qaeda falls and dozens of millions of innocent people throughout the Middle East are sacrificed in the next Holocaust. Read the rest of this entry »
Denunciation of the Lies Diffused by Anglo-French Colonials and ´Kurdish” Terrorists About Iraq
American Chronicle
In a previous article entitled “Devastating Refutation of the UK-promoted Fallacy about ´Kurdish´ Historical Presence in Kerkuk” (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/devastating-refutation-of-the-uk-promoted-fallacy-about-kurdish-historical-presence-in-kerkuk.html), I underscored the historical reality that the assumption that Kerkuk has been a historically ´Kurdish” area, and that there has been a significant “Kurdish” presence there, is a colonial fallacy of criminal dimensions.
In fact, Kerkuk belongs to the Turkmen, and this is what all the Europeans and the English said by themselves, when they crossed the Ottoman Empire during the last two centuries of its existence.
I specified that the fallacy about “Kurdish Kerkuk” is now being diffused only to misinform Western audiences and readerships, and thus promote a consensus and a public support for a ´Kurdish” state in the area of Northern Iraq that will – illegally, criminally and ominously – control the Oil-rich territory of Kerkuk only to further finance wars and discords, conflicts and calamities throughout the region, according to the messianic and eschatological plans of the Apostate Freemasonic Lodge. Read the rest of this entry »
Thousands of Iraqi Arabs attend anti-Kurdish protests in Tikrit
AFP
Thousands of Sunni and Shiite Arabs took to the streets across Iraq Saturday to defend Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki against criticism from leaders of the country’s Kurdish minority.
Demonstrations were held in the northern Sunni town of Tikrit — the hometown of executed dictator Saddam Hussein — the once-restive Sunni town of Hawijah, and the mostly Shiite southern cities of Karbala, Najaf, Nasiriyah, Samawah, and Hilla, AFP correspondents said.
They came out to protest remarks made earlier this week by Kurdish regional president Massud Barzani, who accused Maliki of illegally allying with tribes in areas with large Kurdish populations to expand the power of the state.
In his remarks Barzani had compared the tribal alliances — which Maliki refers to as “Support Councils” — to the so-called Jackass Brigades of Kurds who fought for Saddam against Kurdish rebels from the 1980s up until 2003. Read the rest of this entry »
Turkey to Intervene in North Iraq Now, Terminate Evil Plans for a Fake State Kurdistan
American Chronicle
In an article “Unilateral Turkish Intervention in Northern Iraq, Demanded by All Local Populations”(http://www.buzzle.com/articles/unilateral-turkish-intervention-in-northern-iraq-demanded-by-all-local-populations.html), I emphasized on the need for a Turkish intervention in Northern Iraq to save the Turkmen, the Aramaean Christians, the Yazidis and all the other minorities of Northern Iraq from the murderous hands of the criminal gangsters Talabani and Barzani, the collaborators of Al Qaeda and PKK.
I stated that in the same way a fake nation, the ´Arabs´, was created gradually (between 1798 and 1920), so that African and Asiatic territories inhabited by different non-Arabic peoples (Berbers, Copts, Kushites, Yemenites and Aramaeans) be detached from the Ottoman Empire and colonially controlled, today another fake nation is being created, the so-called Kurds, only to plunge the Freemasonic-programmed ´Kurdistan´ and all the adjacent lands into a maelstrom of destruction.
I insisted on the fact that the correct timing for a Turkish intervention is now as the exploded economic crisis is totally uncontainable either by America or the world´s top economies. Turkey should work with China and Russia to make them understand that their existence is threatened by the American presence in, and the Anglo-French colonial plans for, the Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »
Iraqi Turkmen Appeal to the European Union
American Chronicle
In a series of articles I expanded on the Turkmen of Iraq and their strife against ´Kurdish´ terrorism and evil colonial plans for the Mesopotamian north that promote the rise of a false ´Kurdish´ state – curse for all the indigenous populations.
I published a key document “Kerkuk Problem and Article 140: Defining Alternatives - The Views of Kerkuk´s Turkmen and Arabs”, which is a Conference Report submitted last June to the European Parliament by the Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation (SOITM) and he Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO). For reference, I mention here the last of the series: ´Kerkuk – Homeland for Mesopotamia´s Turkmen´ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/79010).
In this article, I will publish the entire text of the speech given by Muzaffer Arslan, Advisor on Turkmen Affairs to the President of Iraq, in the aforementioned Conference. In forthcoming articles, I will publish selected speeches given in the Conference. Read the rest of this entry »
Kerkuk – Homeland for Mesopotamia´s Turkmen
American Chronicle
In a previous article under the title ´Freedom for the Forgotten Turkomans (Turkmen) of Iraq´ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/78315), I focused on the Turkoman Vision as presented in a major portal of the Turkmen of Iraq, www.kerkuk.net. In another article entitled ´Turkmen: Fighting for Freedom, National Independence, and Cultural Integrity in Occupied Iraq´ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/78588), I presented a list of Turkmen organizations, cultural and political, in an effort to highlight the vibrant passion of the Iraqi Turkmen for national integrity and independence.
In three subsequent articles entitled ´Kerkuk and the Turkmen of Iraq´ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/78509), ´Kerkuk belongs to Turkmen´ (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/78584) and ´Turkmen Kerkuk Says No to Arabization, and No to Kurdification´ ( http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/78733), I published several parts of a key document “Kerkuk Problem and Article 140: Defining Alternatives - The Views of Kerkuk´s Turkmen and Arabs”, a Conference Report that was submitted last June to the European Parliament by the Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation (SOITM) and he Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO). The three articles comprise following parts of the report: Introduction, The Turkmen of Iraq, Human Rights Violations, Kerkuk – A Brewing Crisis – Key Iraqi Legal Documents – Extracts and Overviews of Contributions. Read the rest of this entry »