Home | 2 Business | 17 Sport | 27 QU seminar QIIB, CIH in joint Tabata leading proposes ‘cultural venture to set up scorer as QSL marketing day’ Moroccan Bank teams go into break The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar SUNDAY 26 DECEMBER 2015 • 16 Rabia I 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6657 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 RAF drive for QU selects Sheikh Joaan as CSR person of the year DOHA: Qatar University the 4th Edition of the annual The ceremony will include the selected H E Sheikh Joaan bin national CSR report in the first official inauguration of the CSR Hamad Al Thani (pictured), quarter of next year. person of the year painting by president of the Qatar Olympic The awarding ceremony will be an international artist assigned Syria collects Committee (QOC), as the CSR attended by top officials includ- by Qatar University. During the person of the year 2015 in rec- ing the CSR person of last year ceremony, H E Sheikh Joaan will ognition of his significant role in H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al also be awarded a Crystal Shield supporting CSR and for being a Attiyah, ministers, ambassadors appreciating his efforts in CSR. role model in inspiring the youth and other recognised members On the occasion, Dr Has- QR21.5 million of Qatar. of the society who contributed to san Rashid Al Derham, Presi- The annual national CSR the report. dent of Qatar University, said: report, which is produced under Other attendees include repre- “H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad the supervision of Qatar Univer- sentatives of non-governmental Al Thani is a motivating leader Project benefits 2,377 families sity, observes the achievements organisations and academic insti- of CSR in Qatar. His contribu- of selective inspiring person- tutions, public and non-profit tion is significant, especially in DOHA: An initiative launched the family or families, if required. alities who represent distin- associations, senior officials rep- supporting the special needs and by the Sheikh Thani bin Abdul- Al Suwaidi said that so far guished leadership in the CSR resenting Qatar University, and education programmes.” lah Foundation for Humanitar- some 2,377 families had benefited concepts. the awarding ceremony of H E a large number of university stu- ian Services, popularly known as from the initiative. Qatar University will host Sheikh Joaan while launching dents. THE PENINSULA RAF, to support Syrian refugee Some 55 percent of total money families in Syria’s neighbouring collected through donations were countries, has evoked massive spent on paying the rent of the response from Qatari people who houses that are accommodating have donated generously with the beneficiary families. After the downpour total collection this year alone The deputy CEO said that the being QR21.5m. remaining 45 percent of the cash Armed Kurdish “The initiative is entitled collected through donations were “Taadud”, an Arabic word which used to pay medical bills, day-to- group claims means to patronise. And it was day expenditures and school fees launched by RAF two years ago of children in these beneficary Turkey airport to help Syrian families who fled families. The incentive is being to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey in executed by the representatives large numbers due to the violence of RAF and in collaboration with explosion in their home country. international and local humani- This was disclosed by Ahmad tarian organisations operating in DIYARBAKIR: An armed Rashid Al Suwaidi, Deputy CEO the three countries, namely, Leba- Kurdish group yesterday claimed for International Projects at RAF. non, Jordan and Turkey. responsibility for an explosion He told Qatar News Agency If a beneficiary family has some near a plane at Istanbul’s second (QNA) that the initiative is to urgent need, RAF is able to pro- international airport which killed sponsor one or more Syrian vide succour in a timely fashion, a female cleaner and wounded families who are not staying in he said. The initiative is getting another. refugee camps in the above-said remarkable response from Qatari “We ... claim the attack carried countries. They are staying inde- families as they have donated out by mortar bombs at Istan- pendently. QR21.5m in a matter of just a bul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport,” on The sponsor of a family or sev- year. Most donor families are pay- Wednesday, the Freedom Falcons eral of the displaced families is ing for all the necessities of the of Kurdistan (TAK) said on its supposed to pay for the expendi- refugee families including medical website. ture of the beneficiary families for bills, house rents, school fees of Airport cleaner Zehra Yamac, six months to a year, including children and food expenses. 30, died of head wounds hours medical bill, if any, school fees of after the blast on the tarmac children or to cover other needs of THE PENINSULA at the airport on the Asian Vehicles stuck near a flooded traffic intersection in Doha yesterday. ABDUL BASIT side of Turkey’s largest city. See also page 4 The wounded victim was also a cleaner. The attack came as Turkey wages an all-out offensive against Qataris could occupy up to 90pc the Kurdistan Workers’ Party UN eyes January 25 Syria talks (PKK), which launched an armed insurgency against the Turkish public sector jobs: Minister state in 1984, initially fighting UNITED NATIONS: The opments on the ground should not ian government and opposition for Kurdish independence, then DOHA: The Ministry of Admin- other state authorities in achiev- United Nations said yesterday be allowed to derail it,” said the and a roughly two-year timeline pressing for greater autonomy istrative Development organised ing the required progress in the it aims to bring together Syria’s statement, which was issued a day to create a unity government and for the country’s largest ethnic yesterday a meeting between performance of administrative warring parties on January 25 in after Zahran Alloush, a top Syr- hold elections. The resolution minority. employees in supervisory roles work. Geneva to begin talks to try to ian rebel leader, was killed in an asked the United Nations to con- Turkish officials say TAK is a participating in a programme for Such cooperation will ulti- end nearly five years of civil war. air strike on the edge of Damas- vene the peace talks with a target front for PKK attacks on civilian skills development. mately enable Qatari citizens to UN Syria mediator Staffan de cus. The UN Security Council start date of early January. targets, but the PKK claims TAK Minister of Administrative occupy up to 90pc of the public Mistura plans to convene repre- unanimously approved a resolu- Syria is ready to take part in is a splinter group over which it Development H E Dr Issa Saad sector jobs over the next 10 years, sentatives of the Syrian govern- tion on December 18 endorsing an peace talks in Geneva and hopes has no control. Al Jafali Al Nuaimi said that such the Minister added. The Minister ment and “the broadest possible international road map for a Syria that the dialogue will help it form On its website, TAK lashed out meetings were important as they then discussed plans to rationalise spectrum of the Syrian opposition peace process, in a rare show of a national unity government, Syr- at what it described as a “war open the doors for discussions public spending in light of the new and others,” his spokesman said in unity among major powers. ian Foreign Minister Walid Al coalition” between Turkish Presi- between head of authorities and budget and ways to avoid going a statement. It gave UN blessing to a plan Muallem said on Thursday dur- dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and ministers. above the limits set by the gov- “He counts on full cooperation negotiated previously by world ing a visit to Beijing. the Islamic State group against The Minister spoke about coop- ernment. of all the relevant Syrian parties powers in Vienna that calls for a the Kurds. eration between the Ministry and QNA in this process. Continuing devel- ceasefire, talks between the Syr- REUTERS It also said the airport attack was a response to the “fascist attacks that turn Kurdish cit- ies into ruins.” The armed group, Victory for Qatar which had been silent for some time, claimed the attack had US-backed alliance retakes inflicted “serious damage” to the airport and five planes. The Turkish military said yesterday key dam from Islamic State nearly 200 PKK rebels had been killed in the army offensive in the BEIRUT: A US-backed alliance Since the US-backed alliance southeast. The operation, which of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel was formed last October, its fight- has targeted the towns of Cizre groups, supported by US coalition ers have opened several major and Silopi in the province of Sir- planes, captured a dam yesterday offensives against Islamic State nak as well as a neighbourhood in from Islamic State, cutting one of with the ultimate goal of captur- Diyarbakir, the largest city in the its main supply routes across the ing Raqqa. region, began in mid-December. Euphrates, an alliance spokes- Selo said the alliance troops In a statement posted on its man said. had cut one main IS supply line website, the army said 156 PKK Colonel Talal Selo said the sei- from the towns of Bab and Minbij rebels were killed in Sirnak and zure of the Tishrin dam helps in the northern Aleppo country- 40 in Diyarbakir. It is not possible isolate the militants’ strongholds side held by the militants on the to independently verify the toll.