Newsletter Projekt »Die Fragmentierung Syriens«

SWP Nachrichten aus den kurdischen Gebieten 18.11.2015 Pelican Mourad StiftungWissenschaft und Politik

Politische Meinung / Kommentare

18.11.2015 By Hawar Abdulrazaq: US Congressman Criticizes Washington For Not Arming Peshmerga Directly http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/world/244184

17.11.2015 Kurdistan Region — More than 100 families who had lived under the Islamic State occupa- tion of Shingal have been received by Peshmerga forces in the newly liberated city, but a Peshmerga official has cautioned that Kurdish forces cannot be sure of the loyalties of these families, and that some may have pro-ISIS sympathies. http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/161120154 Looting and retribution in Iraq’s Yazidi Sinjar town, after liberation from Islamic State http://ekurd.net/looting-iraq-yazidi-sinjar-2015-11-17

16.11.2015 Sicherheit und Politik Internationale für Institut Deutsches By Journalist Bashdar Ismaeel: As Kurds celebrate liberation of Sinjar, mass terror attacks in Paris http://ekurd.net/kurds-celebrate-liberation-paris-attacked-2015-11-16 Êzîdî Press: Machtkampf um Shingal: Jeder gegen Jeden http://ezidipress.com/blog/machtkampf-um-shingal-jeder-gegen-jeden/

12.11.2015 AL Monitor, by Mahmut Bozarslan: East Kurdish infighting complicates Sinjar offensive http://bit.ly/1QJRi43

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10.11.2015 Turkey will not allow the United States or other countries to help the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its affiliated groups, but Ankara does support the idea of arming Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu told CNN. http://ekurd.net/turkey-supports-arming-peshmerga-2015-11-10 Al Monitor, by Cengiz Candar: Kurds in postelection Turkey: Silver lining or tough times? http://bit.ly/1j5jPTR

30.10.2015 NZZ, Daniel Steinvorth: Mit seiner Kurdenpolitik ist Erdogan nicht nur im eigenen Land gescheitert – auch in Syrien hat er sich verkalkuliert. Die Entstehung eines weiteren Kur- denstaates will er um jeden Preis verhindern http://www.nzz.ch/meinung/kommentare/ankaras-angst-vor-rojava-1.18638042

28.10.2015 Report by “The Syrian Network for Human Rights” documents the violations that were committed by Kurdish Self-Management Forces between February 2015 and up till August 2015. “We noticed a surge in the violations committed by this party compared to previous times; especially since some these violations had ethnic dimensions towards Arabs mainly, Turkmens and Assyrians”, according to the Assyrian Human Rights Network. http://sn4hr.org/wp-content/pdf/english/Violations_of_Kurdish_forces_in_Hasaka_en.pdf

Militärische Entwicklungen

17.11.2015 Jabar Yawar, chief of staff of the Peshmerga ministry: "Violence in Khurmatu has resulted in the death and wounding of 21 people, including seven Kurds and others from Arabs and Turkmens of the city." http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/17112015 The Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) regained nearly 200 villag- es and towns from the radical group of Islamic State (ISIS) in the northeastern Syrian prov- ince of Hasakah http://aranews.net/2015/11/kurdish-arab-alliance-regains-200-villages-and-towns-from-isis-in- northeastern-syria/

12.11.2015 Clashes broke out between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Iraqi Shiite popular mobilization units in the town of Tuz Khurmatu http://ekurd.net/clashes-peshmerga-iraqi-shiites-2015-11-12

11.11.2015 The New York Times, by Michael R. Gordon: Kurds, Backed by U.S. Air Power, Try to Regain Sinjar from ISIS

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/12/world/middleeast/isis-iraq-syria.html

08.11.2015 Backed by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes, Kurdish-Arab alliance of the Syrian Democrat- ic Forces (SDF) recaptured 36 villages, after killing 178 militants of the extremist group of Islamic State (ISIS) since the start of the Hasakah campaign in northeastern Syria. By ARA News: a Syrian independent press agency, mainly staffed by a group of journalists and media activists. http://aranews.net/2015/11/kurds-allied-rebels-regain-dozens-of-villages-after-clashes-with- isis-in-hasakah/

01.11.2015 The recently founded rebel group of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF, consisting of sev- eral Syrian rebel groups, including Syrian Christians, Kurds and Arabs, that have backed the People’s Protection Units YPG.) announced Saturday the start of a military campaign that aims to liberate the southern countryside of Hasakah. By ARA News: a Syrian independent press agency, mainly staffed by a group of journalists and media activists. http://aranews.net/2015/11/kurdish-and-arab-forces-launch-anti-isis-military-campaign-in- hasakah/

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