Showing posts with label Obama's new BFF Morsi. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 6, 2016

Egypt says Hamas, Turkish Muslim Brotherhood involved in assassination of top prosecutor


Egypt says Hamas, Turkish Muslim Brotherhood involved in assassination of top prosecutor.(AlAhram).

The Egyptian interior minister said on Sunday that leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey and the group's Palestinian offshoot Hamas were behind the assassination of top prosecutor Hisham Barakat on 29 June, 2015.

Barakat died from injuries sustained in a Cairo bomb attack; the only successful assassination attempt against a state official since an upswing in militant violence following the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghafar said that Turkish-based leaders of the Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails, masterminded the assassination, while Hamas "provided training for militants to execute it and also took part in planning it."

"We intercepted electronic communications in a way that had never been done in the history of the Egyptian security apparatus," Abdel-Ghafar told a news conference.

"There is a major conspiracy targeting the Egyptian state… It began a long while ago and included a number of militant attacks, including the assassination of prosecutor-general Hisham Barakat."


Abdel-Ghafar said that Hamas was not involved in the operation within Egypt, but planned and provided training for militants in Gaza.

Though Islamic State group affiliate Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis claimed responsibility for a large number of militant attacks in Egypt over the past two years, no one has claimed responsibility for Barakat's assassination.

Abdel-Ghafar added that police had identified a number of apartments across the country where militants were manufacturing explosives.

"All of those arrested were referred to the prosecution... they all admitted to being Brotherhood members," Abdel-Ghafar said.

During the conference, a video was played showing testimonies of a group of people admitting to being involved in terror activities.

They said that the assassination was initially planned for 28 June but was called off after the militants’ “tracking unit” informed the others that Barakat's convoy was not taking its usual path.

The suspects said that former health ministry spokesperson and now-fugitive Yehia Moussa told them to “prepare themselves” for the planned assassination of Barakat.


Some of the men said they had received training from Hamas in Gaza, including in “tracking” and “planned operations.”

Monday, November 9, 2015

Annual Brussels Muslim Fair in Brussels Draws as usual 'Global Muslim Brotherhood'.

By the way nice zabiba burn.

Annual Brussels Muslim Fair in Brussels Draws as usual 'Global Muslim Brotherhood'. HT: globalMBwatch.

Turkish media is reporting that this year’s annual Muslim Fair in Brussels has attracted thousands of visitors. According to the report:

A fair organized by Muslims in Belgian capital Brussels has attracted thousands of visitors at its stands mainly theming clothes, accessories, halal food and natural cosmetics as well as Rabia movement (a civil movement protesting against the military coup in Egypt) and resistance against Syria’s brutal regime. Organizers think the fair will reach a total visitors number of 25 thousand by the end of tomorrow, the final day of the fair.

The Muslim Fair aiming the struggle against Islamaphobia and intercultural dialogue is being held at Brussels’s historic Tour & Taxi Cultural Centre.

The fair is also an opportunity for the visitors to meet and listen to speeches from intellectuals and scholars from Europe and the Arab world including Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Sudan on several topics like reform in Islam, refugee crisis in Europe, message of the Quran.

The 4-day fair was organised by the League of Muslims in Belgium in collaboration with Gedis Company which is based in Paris.

Islamic Relief, a humanitarian organization, has established a refugee tent to draw attention to the living conditions of Syrian refugees at camps. A Palestinian humanitarian organization has opened a stand to receive donations for Palestinians in need. They are running a campaign for Gazan children with the motto "Do you want to change the life of a Gazan child?" The organization also carries out campaigns for Palestinians living in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.

The program for this year’s Fair indicates that numerous Muslim Brotherhood figures were scheduled to speak including:

Also scheduled to speak were two Salafi figures-  Abdullah al Mosleh,  Chairman of the International Commission on Scientific Signs in Qur’an & Sunnah in Makkah and Omar Abdelkafy, an Egyptian cleric who recently made controversial remarks about the 911 attacks. Read the full story and more on the Muslim Brotherhood here.


Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Ex Egyptian Pres Mubarak, sons jailed for 3-4 years on corruption charges.


Ex Egyptian Pres Mubarak, sons jailed for 3-4 years on corruption charges.(AA).
An Egyptian court has sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to jail for corruption.
Mubarak was sentenced to three years in prison and his two sons, Alaa and Gamal, received four-year sentences for embezzling LE125 million ($17.9 million) of funds earmarked for the renovation of presidential palaces.

The three were also fined LE125 million ($17.6 million) and ordered to reimburse LE21.19 million ($2.9 million) to the state treasury.

Four other defendants were acquitted in the case.

Mubarak and his two sons – who both face a separate corruption case – also face trials for involvement in the killing of protesters during the January 2011 uprising.

The ailing former president could serve his sentence in hospital if doctors advise that his health does not permit his transfer to prison, and if prosecutors approve, a judicial source told Ahram Online.

Mubarak, 86, was released from jail in August but has been kept under house arrest in a military hospital in Maadi, a Cairo suburb, because he had spent the maximum amount of time in pretrial detention.

Since he was taken into custody in early 2011, Mubarak has spent much of his detention in hospitals due to his fragile health.

Mubarak settled a separate corruption case by returning gifts he had received from state-run institutions.

In June 2012, Mubarak and his interior minister Habib El-Adly were sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring in the killing of protesters. The sentence was overturned on appeal in January 2013 and a retrial was ordered on account of "procedural failings."

Friday, May 2, 2014

Video - Krauthammer's Take: Benghazi Akin to Watergate

Muslim Brotherhood leaders deported from Qatar arrive Libya.


Muslim Brotherhood leaders deported from Qatar arrive Libya.(GulfNews).
Dubai: Dozens of Muslim Brotherhood leaders reportedly deported by Qatar have arrived in Libya, a London-based daily said.
The leaders have landed at Maeetiqiya international airport in the Libyan capital over three days, Libyan political, military and security sources told Al Arab newspaper.

They were ferried away to unidentified places in cars waiting at the airport located around 11km west of Tripoli and dominated by an armed Islamist group, the sources added.

According to the daily, Qatar has been looking for a country that would host the senior leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood following intense pressure by fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries — Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — to change its policy of supporting the movement.

The three countries on March 5 pulled out their ambassadors from Doha to protest against what was seen as Qatar’s meddling in their domestic affairs and its backing of the Islamist movement rejected by some GCC countries as an illegal organisation.

The three countries insisted their ambassadors would not be reinstated until Qatar complied fully with an agreement it signed on April 17 in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

Although the details of the accord have not been made public, reports citing “well-informed sources” said that the three countries wanted Qatar’s alignment with GCC common policies and the deportation of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders from Qatar who should be denied access to all Qatari or Qatar-supported media.

Other conditions included deporting around Qatar-based 15 Gulf nationals whose activities have been considered suspicious.

The agreement was signed in Riyadh following an intense mediation by the Emir of Kuwait that has been richly acknowledged. Kuwait and Oman, the other two GCC members, did not recall their ambassadors from Doha.

In separate statements, the foreign ministers of Oman and Qatar have said that the divergences between Qatar and the three other GCC countries that constituted the most serious political crisis within the alliance since it was founded in 1981 were over.

Khalid Al Atiyyah, the Qatari minister, said last week that the “divergences in opinions are over and it is up to the countries to decide on sending their ambassadors back to Doha.”

However, Shaikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Khalifa, Bahrain’s foreign minister, on Wednesday said that the reinstatement of the ambassadors was linked to Qatar’s commitment to the implementation of the Riyadh agreement.

The committee would then monitor the application process with a three-month deadline, it added.
Some of the points include deportation of Muslim Brotherhood leading figures to their home countries and reviewing the policies of the Doha-based pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera.

The three countries also want Qatar not to allow religious preachers to use mosques or media to attack other GCC countries and to cancel all forums by organisations seen by the GCC as having links with terrorism.

They also insist that Qatar must shut down research centres directed by Saudi nationals who had been given the Qatari citizenship. Read the full story here.

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Eight killed as suspected Islamist militants attack security HQ in Libya 

Monday, April 28, 2014

Egypt court sentences Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 682 others to death.


Egypt court sentences Muslim Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and 682 others to death.(AA).
A court in Minya has passed death sentences on 683 supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi, including leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Islamist group's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie was among the defendants found guilty of attacking Adawa police station and killing a police officer, Mamdouh Kotb Mohamed Kotb, on 14 August 2013 -- following the dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins at Rabaa and Nahda squares.

They were also found guilty of committing violence, rioting, destroying public and private property, attacking police officers, and inciting violence.

The verdicts must be ratified by the grand mufti before they can be carried out.

The court has set 21 June for the final verdict to be passed, after the grand mufti has made his assessment.The law allows the verdicts to be appealed. 

The same judge sentenced 529 people to death in March.
On Monday, he confirmed 37 of the death sentences and commuted 492 others to life imprisonment upon the instructions of the grand mufti.
The defendants were accused of killing a police officer and storming Matay police station on 14 August 2013.

Khaled El-Koumi, lawyer for one of the defendants sentenced to death, told Ahram Online that he would appeal against the verdict as soon the court has issued its reasoning within the next 60 days.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

New Muslim Brotherhood mass trial opens in Egypt with nearly 700 defendants.


New Muslim Brotherhood mass trial opens in Egypt with nearly 700 defendants.(maan).

Around 700 supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi, including the supreme guide of his Muslim Brotherhood movement, were Tuesday due in court, a day after 529 co-defendants were sentenced to death.

The trial of more than 1,200 Islamists in the southern province of Minya comes amid a sweeping crackdown on Morsi's supporters since his overthrow by the army last July.

They are accused of killing two policemen and rioting on August 14, after police killed hundreds of protesters while dispersing two Cairo protest camps.

Monday's largest mass death sentencing in Egypt's modern history came after just two hearings and drew criticism from rights groups, the United States and European Union.

Legal experts said the shock verdict would likely be overturned on appeal because the court had rushed the trial without following the required procedures.

Washington and the European Union expressed concern and questioned the fairness of proceedings against so many defendants lasting just two days.

But Egypt's army-installed interim government defended the court's handling of the case, insisting that the sentences had been handed down only "after careful study" and were subject to appeal.Read the full story here.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Turkish PM Erdogan's New Law on Judiciary Sparks Fistfights in parliament.


Turkish PM Erdogan's New Law on Judiciary Sparks Fistfights in parliament. HT: Aina.
Turkey's parliament approved a law boosting government control over the appointment of judges and prosecutors on Saturday, after a heated debate and a brawl that left one opposition lawmaker hospitalized.

Dozens of MPs broke into fights during the tense 20-hour debate and insults flew across party lines. When an opposition deputy called Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan a dictator, deputies from the leader's party shouted back "are you drunk?"

The battle for control of the Higher Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), which appoints senior members of the judiciary, lies at the heart of a feud between Erdogan and influential U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Gulen, whose followers say they number in the millions, is believed to have built up influence in the police and judiciary over decades and leads a powerful worldwide Islamic movement from a forested compound in the United States.

Erdogan, head of the ruling AK Party, blames him for unleashing a corruption investigation he sees as an attempted "judicial coup" designed to undermine him in the run-up to local and presidential elections this year. Government accused of trying to stifle corruption probe.

Opposition parties said the HSYK bill aimed to stifle a graft investigation launched on Dec. 17 in which dozens of prominent business people, the sons of three cabinet ministers, and state officials were questioned.
"The government is in a great hurry, this shows how deep the corruption and bribe allegations are," Oktay Vural MP for the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said.

"They are trying to pass a law which will increase the grip of the execution on judges and prosecutors in such a hurry and with unlawful means," he added.

Government supporters say the HSYK is dominated by Gulen sympathisers and the bill will strengthen, not weaken, judicial independence. Gulen has denied orchestrating the corruption investigation.

The decision to approve the HSYK law came after a night of fierce debate and a brawl which left one opposition member of parliament with a bloody broken nose requiring hospitalisation and an AKP deputy with broken fingers, local media reported.

The bill had been frozen since early January, when the last debate on it resulted in fist fights in parliament and mass protests outside. Erdogan vowed to push on, denying he was trampling on the constitution as the government faces one of the biggest challenges of his 11-year rule.

Since the graft scandal erupted late last year, the government has reassigned or dismissed thousands of police officers and hundreds of judges and prosecutors in what was widely seen as retaliation and a bid to impede investigations.

Details of the corruption allegations have not been made public, but are believed to relate to construction and real estate deals and Turkey's gold trade with Iran, according to Turkish newspaper reports that cite prosecutors' documents.

The HSYK debate lasted from 2 p.m. local time and finished at 10 a.m. on Saturday, with 210 members voting in support of the bill and 28 voting against. Many MPs slept through parts of the debate.

CHP (Republican People's Party) had said on Thursday it would appeal the bill in the Constitutional Court if it was approved in parliament.
"If you accept this law, soon you will be repealing the constitution," CHP MP Akif Hamzacebi said during the debate.
"This cover-up of the allegations of corruption and bribery today has dealt a big blow to democracy and freedom."
The Erdogan-Gulen power struggle has highlighted fractures in the religiously conservative support base underpinning Erdogan's decade in power.

The feud has shaken markets, helping drive the lira to new lows, and prompted expressions of alarm from Washington and Brussels about threats to the credibility of the legal system.

Hmmmm...."The Erdogan-Gulen power struggle has highlighted fractures in the religiously conservative support base underpinning Erdogan's decade in power." I think it's more the hardline 'Islamist Muslim brotherhood' against the Secular Kemalist Turks.





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Turkish website R4BIA.com - "R4BIA is the end of Zionists." 


Saturday, February 15, 2014

Turkey’s Davutoğlu: " PM Erdogan has a very respectful relations with Pres. Obama, can talk to him if needed"



Turkey’s Davutoğlu claims in live TV that PM Erdoğan has a very respectful relations with Pres. Obama, can talk to him if needed. Source.


Davutoğlu says removing restrictions on Gaza by Israel is important for delivery of Turkish aid that was implicitly referred in apology text

Turkish FM Davutoğlu says Gaza will benefit most from last demand of lifting blockade from Israel after Egyptian coup suffocated Gaza

Davutoğlu recalls 7 demands from Israel in his speech at the UN in the aftermath of flotilla incident, 2 demands are left for normalization

Hmmmm.....A man is known by the company he keeps, both leaders claim not to be dictators, both support the Muslim Brotherhood.........Purely coincidental.





Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Egypt Charges 20 Al-Jazeera Journalists headed by an Egyptian-Canadian, With Belonging To Muslim Brotherhood.


Egypt Charges 20 Al-Jazeera Journalists headed by an Egyptian-Canadian, With Belonging To Muslim Brotherhood.(GMBR).

UK media are reporting that Egyptian prosecutors have charged 20 al-Jazeera journalists with belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, fabricating news reports and tarnishing Egypt’s reputation abroad. According to a report in the The Guardian:

January 29, 2014 Egyptian prosecutors say they have charged 20 al-Jazeera journalists, including two British citizens, with belonging to Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, fabricating news reports and tarnishing Egypt’s reputation abroad.
The journalists include the Australian ex-BBC correspondent Peter Greste and Canadian-Egyptian bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy, who has worked for the New York Times.
‘Investigations showed the defendants created a media network headed by an Egyptian-Canadian Muslim Brotherhood member [Fahmy] that has specialised in creating video scenes contrary to reality and aired them through Qatari al-Jazeera English to distort Egypt’s international reputation,’ the prosecution alleged.
Other charges included ‘disturbing public peace, instilling terror, harming the general interests of the country, possessing broadcast equipment without permit, possessing and disseminating images contrary to the truth’.
The identities of most of the 20 defendants were not revealed by prosecutors. It is thought that some of them could be tried in absentia, and lawyers were unclear about whether the defendants included members of al-Jazeera’s Arabic channel who were arrested in August, or just the al-Jazeera English journalists seized several months later.
Read the rest here.
The GMBDW reported in January that Egypt had summoned the Qatari Ambassador to the Egyptian foreign ministry in order to object to Qatari criticism of the crackdown on the Brotherhood as well as to Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera’s coverage of events. We also noted at that time that the Washington Post had featured a story which looked at criticism in Egypt of Al Jazeera over its relationship to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The GMBDW reported in September 2013 on the ongoing conflicts regarding Al-Jazeera’s coverage of events in Egypt. In July 2012, the GMBDW had reported on the resignation of the 22 members of the Al-Jazeera Egyptian bureau in protest over what they say were instructions from the management to “favor the Muslim Brotherhood.” In 2009, Egyptian authorities were reported to be in the process of revoking Al-Jazeera’s license to broadcast and that the network was planning to close its bureau office in Cairo.
Leaked US State Department cables indicate that Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar and funded by the Qatari government, operates as an arm of Qatari foreign policy which has recently been strongly supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood and the recently deposed Mohamed Morsi. Our predecessor publication extensively covered the role of Qatar as a supporter of the Global Muslim Brotherhood and was the first to report on the strong ties to the Global Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas of Wadah Khanfar, the former Director-General of Al-Jazeera who resigned in 2011 after serving for eight years.
In 2009, the Jerusalem Post ran an article that explored the role of the Muslim Brotherhood at Al Jazeera

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Video - Former Egyptian Minister: Jews Rule the World, I Read It in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.




Video - Former Egyptian Minister: Jews Rule the World, I Read It in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

In a January 10, 2014 interview on the Egyptian Sada Al-Balad TV, former Egyptian housing minister Hasaballah El Kafrawy said that he had read "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and believed that the Jews "rule the world." In the past, El Kafrawi has expressed similar views (see MEMRI TV clip 3745 at www.memritv.org).

Following are excerpts the interview:

Interviewer: What made the Muslim Brotherhood turn into a hostile terrorist organization that throws Molotov cocktails? It has reached the point that even their women beat people up in the streets, and so on. Have they gone made, or what?

Hasaballah El Kafrawy: Let me tell you, I believe that there is a conspiracy. I have read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. You follow me? According to The Protocols, one of the methods... By the way, there are 16 million Jews in the world.

Interviewer: That is the total number?

Hasaballah El Kafrawy: There are 16 million Jews in the world, out of a total of 6,000 million people.

Interviewer: Only 16 million of them are Jews...

Hasaballah El Kafrawy: Only 16 million out of 6,000 million. Those 16 control the 6,000.

Interviewer: The 16 million rule the 6,000 million?

Hasaballah El Kafrawy: That goes without saying. When you read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, written in Basel, Switzerland, in 1895, you can see that it is all mentioned there.

Interviewer: Including what's happening to us?

Hasaballah El Kafrawy: Yes. Have you forgotten Morsi's letter to what's-his-name...?

Interviewer: Do you mean his "dear friend" Peres?

Hasaballah El Kafrawy: Right. He addressed him as "dear friend" and signed it with "your loyal friend."

Interviewer: He wrote that he wished progress and prosperity upon Israel.

Hasaballah El Kafrawy: Exactly.

Out of the 16 million Jews, six million live in Israel, four or five million live in the U.S., two or three million in Britain, two or three million in France, and approximately one million in what they call "the Diaspora" around the world.

They rule the world. There is no doubt about it. They monopolize... They excel in science, in technology, in the economy, and in the media.

They use the non-Jewish fools, and have them fight to prevent a holocaust of the 16 million Jews.Source: Memri.

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Mohamed Morsi and 35 others will be tried for collaborating with foreign organisations (Hamas) to commit terrorist acts.


Mohamed Morsi and 35 others will be tried for collaborating with foreign organisations (Hamas) to commit terrorist acts.(AlAhram).
Toppled Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi will stand trial over allegations he collaborated with Hamas, Hezbollah and other organisations to commit terrorist acts in Egypt, judicial sources have told Ahram Online.

The deposed leader and thirty five co-defendants – including prominent members of his Muslim Brotherhood and former presidential advisers – will face trial for "collaborating with foreign organisations to commit terrorist acts in Egypt, revealing defence secrets to a foreign country, funding terrorists and military training to achieve the purposes of the international organisation of the Brotherhood," a statement by the prosecutor-general's office said.

The statement added: Brotherhood leaders collaborated with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah and other organisations "inside and outside" Egypt to smuggle arms, organised military training for group members in the Gaza Strip, and funded a plan to stir chaos and threaten national security in Egypt.

Prosecutors also accuse the group of sponsoring terrorist attacks on army and police targets in the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israel, following Morsi's ouster.

Nineteen defendants are already being detained and prosecutors have ordered the arrest of the seventeen others, the statement added.

Among Morsi's co-defendants are Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, his two deputies Khairat El-Shater and Mahmoud Ezzat, and prominent members Saad El-Katatni, Essam El-Erian and Mahmoud El-Beltagy. Former presidential aide Refaa El-Tahtawy along with his two deputies are also on trial.

The statement added that Morsi presidential aides, including Essam El-Haddad, his national security advisor, had divulged secret reports to the Brotherhood international organisation, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah in return for their cooperation in terrorist operations.

The charges against the defendants span the period between 2005 and 2013.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas or Hezbollah. The charge sheet called it “the biggest case of conspiracy in the history of Egypt.” The charges leveled against Morsi and other brotherhood members could result in their execution.

The Egyptian authorities have since launched a sustained crackdown on his Islamist supporters, in which hundreds were killed in clashes with security forces and thousands others arrested.
Morsi is on trial for the killing of opposition protesters outside the presidential palace in December 2012.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Hans Swoboda: "Turkey has increasingly authoritarian way of government."


Hans Swoboda: "Turkey has increasingly authoritarian way of government."(TZ).
Hannes Swoboda, president of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, said on Friday in İstanbul that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has an ever more authoritarian way of governance as he argued that Turkey is moving away from EU values and principles.
Talking to Today’s Zaman following his address at the Friedrich Ebert Foundation’s (FES) panel discussion on Turkey, Swoboda said the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has made correct moves in the past, but that “it has become an Islamo-conservative movement with authoritarian leadership.”

Criticizing the ruling AK Party especially on its rhetoric on women and education, Swoboda asked Erdoğan not to tell women and young people how to live their lives. “These policies move Turkey away from Europe,” he said in reference to a recent remark from an AK Party deputy favoring separate education for girls and boys at schools.

“The government should build bridges rather than promote one side on moral issues,” Swoboda further said as he stated that few countries are as divided as Turkey on such basic issues as the constitution and the EU.

In a critical remark on the AK Party’s decision to join the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR) as a full member after leaving Europe's largest political family, the European People's Party (EPP), Swoboda said that he considers it a “clear sign from Erdoğan that he wants to leave the EU not alone, but with all the others,” referring to the EU skeptics.

However, describing Turkey a strategic partner of Europe, he added, “We do not want to lose Turkey.”From the European perspective, he expressed support for the opening of new chapters in negotiations with the EU, in particular Chapters 23 and 24 focusing on fundamental rights and freedoms.'You cannot expel a member over difference of opinion'

In response to a question on a request to expel AK Party deputy İdris Bal from the party for expressing opposition to the government’s plan to shut down private prep schools, Swoboda said: “You do not expel someone for one different opinion. If it is a permanent revolt against the government, you can ask, but for me it is a sign of an authoritarian tendency.”

According to Swoboda, authoritarian parties and governments use economic instruments to punish opposition as he said that he observes such a pattern in the AK Party government.

Responding to a question on the prep school row, Swoboda said that as a social democrat he is a defender of public schools, but “in today’s society private institutions supporting public education systems are good in terms of competition.”

According to Swoboda, the future of the direction of Turkey depends on the upcoming presidential elections and whether the ruling party remains united.

“I do not think Erdoğan has no control of his party, but he lets people like the deputy express radical ideas to see what the reaction would be,” Swoboda said, commenting on the AK Party’s controversial policies.

Results must be seen in Kurdish issueSwoboda also argues that Turkey is suffering from ambiguous policies because policies change frequently, such as with the Syrian and Kurdish issues. “It must be a deliberate policy, a trial and error process,” he went on to say.

As far as the Kurdish issue is concerned, “we need results in the Kurdish issue, but I do not see too many results,” Swoboda states. While welcoming Erdoğan’s meeting with the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Massoud Barzani, Swoboda says that the meeting could have positive consequences “if it means moving forward for all Kurdish rights.”

Recommending a “viable regionalization and decentralization” for Turkey in local governments, Swoboda says big countries such as Turkey need a less centralized government. Why should the Kurdish party not be represented in the İstanbul local assembly, he asked.

Commenting on regional issues, Swoboda said peace in the region is possible if there is a balance between Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.“I am in favor of strengthening relations with all four of them to solve the crisis in Syria,” he commented, highlighting his desire for a political solution. “I do not want people to be killed by Assad or the jihadists,” Swoboda also pointed out.

Concern over Turkey’s direction among social democrats of Turkey Prior to Swoboda’s arrival, the panel on Turkey organized by FES witnessed a lively debate on the direction Turkey is heading in. The speakers expressed concern over Turkey’s direction as they argued that Turkey has been becoming more authoritarian.

CHP Deputy Chairwoman Şafak Pavey talked about “social division” in Turkey as she argued that nothing can stand in the way of “religious populism in Turkey.”

Addressing specifically the EP members in the room, she asked, “Can you imagine a Turkey without the secularists of this country,” after arguing that religion as an institution has begun to rule Turkey.

Professor Ahmet İnsel, on the other hand, said that authoritarianism in Turkey dates back to the establishment of modern Turkey as he said that Turkish democracy has the minimum elements of democracy despite a tendency towards authoritarianism. “Turkey is not Putinism, but we feel the necessity to make a comparison with Putin’s rule,” he commented.

An academic and a columnist for the Radikal daily, Koray Çalışkan argued that Turkey has one more year before it institutes a “soft Shariah.”

The Turkey director of FES, Michael Meier, who focused on Turkey’s relations with the EU in the opening remarks of the panel discussion, said Turkey is not high on the agenda in Germany’s coalition talks. Encouraged by the opening of Chapters 23 and 24, Meier said more positive signals from both sides are necessary. Listing the Kurdish issue, the writing of a new constitution and polarization as the main challenges in Turkey, Meier said compromise is not a typical Turkish trait.Hmmm....As i said before Turkey not entering Europe will make it mend closer ties with the Mullahs and Create an Islamist Turkey.

Turkish Technology Minister: "China met demands in missile deal, other countries 'Unreasonable".


Turkish Technology Minister: "China met demands in missile deal, other countries 'Unreasonable".(HD).

Turkey chose a Chinese firm for its missile deal because it alone met Turkey’s demands for technology transfer and co-production, Turkish Technology Minister Nihat Ergün said during an interview with private broadcaster NTV on Nov. 22.
Turkey announced in September that it was beginning negotiations with the China Precision Machinery Export-Import Corporation (CPMIEC) to buy its first long-range anti-missile system.

The Chinese contender defeated a U.S. partnership of Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, Russia’s Rosoboronexport and the Italian-French consortium Eurosam.

“It wasn’t a technological point that put the Chinese firm forward. Turkey’s way of business has changed. We want a main technology transfer and the co-production of at least some parts in Turkey. The reason for the selection was because the Chinese firm was ahead in the ease of technology transfer and accepted co-production,” Ergün said. The reason for eliminating the other countries is that their offers were not reasonable and they did not accept Turkey’s demands, he added.

The technology minister stressed that this was not the final decision and that other countries had begun to revise their offers, which was important for Turkey to achieve its goals.

The deal has irritated Turkey’s NATO allies, particularly the United States, which has imposed sanctions on CPMIEC for selling arms and missile technology to Iran and Syria.

  Hmmm....It's high time NATO and the US recognizes the Agressive future of Turkey.

Erdoğan Obama's BFF responds to Egypt by making ‘Rabaa’ gesture.


Turkish website R4BIA.com - "R4BIA is the end of Zionists."

Erdoğan Obama's BFF responds to Egypt by making ‘Rabaa’ gesture. (HD).
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has responded to Egypt’s decision of expelling the Turkish ambassador and downgrading ties by flashing “Rabaa” gesture during a rally in the Black Sea province of Trabzon Nov. 23.
Erdoğan has often used the gesture during his party rallys to show his support to the president Mohamed Morsi ousted after a military takeover on July 3.

The four-finger sign became the symbol of pro-Morsi supporters at the protests in Rabaa (which translates to “four” in Arabic) al-Adawiyah Square.

“Let’s reply in kind to Rabaa al-Adawiyah and call here the Rabaa al-İstasyon Square,” Erdoğan said at the end of his speech.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that they undertook the decision to downgrade the ties following Erdoğan’s remarks prior his departure to Russia showing sympathy with Morsi.

“I applaud Morsi’s conduct at the court. I respect him, but I have no respect for those who put him on trial,” Erdoğan said at Ankara’s Esenboğa airport referring to the trial of the toppled Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated figure.

Without openly mentioning Egypt, Erdoğan said that in foreign policy countries could severe relations in a controlled way. “We will have good relations with the ones who act positively to us. We will be friends with those who want to be friend and open our doors. There can sometimes be quarrels but these can later be repaired,” Erdoğan said.

“We can carefully, and in a controlled manner severe our good relations with those who are bad. We can start new process when relations are bad with those who are good. This is diplomacy’s rule and the logic of foreign policy,” he added.

Erdoğan said that Turkey had upgraded its relations with almost every neighboring country during the ruling Justice and development Party (AKP) government. “With the exception of Syria, our relations with Iraq and Iran are in a satisfactory level and improving. Our relations with Russia and Ukraine are manifest,” Erdoğan said arguing that a great power should have a vision on foreign policy. “A great [power] is not such state who fears its own shadow but acts by establishing with courage peace and brotherhood and embraces the world,” Erdoğan said also with implicit references to criticisms against last week’s Diyarbakıor meeting with the Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani.

“A state which fears its artist cannot be a great power. A state which does not protect the victims and who fears its own population, cannot be a great power,” he said.During his speech Erdoğan has also defended the government’s plans on closing test prep schools and sasked support for the ongoing Kurdish peace process. Hmmmm....'Empty barrels do make the most noise'.

                                             Where have we seen that 'hand' Before?



Turkey's Relationship With the Muslim Brotherhood.




Egypt expels Turkish ambassador, limits diplomat ties


Egypt expels Turkish ambassador, limits diplomat ties.(AA).

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday it had asked the Turkish ambassador to leave the country, the state-run MENA news agency said.

The ministry also recalled its Egyptian envoy from Ankara and stated that diplomatic ties with Turkey will be downgraded, replacing ambassadors with a charge d'affairs.

"The people and government of Egypt appreciate the people of Turkey. However, it holds the Turkish government responsible for taking ties between the two nations so far [that] required such procedures to be taken," read the foreign ministry's statement.

The ministry accused Turkey of "offending the will of the people in Egypt" through statements "aimed to incite the international community against the interests of Egypt."

In response to Egypt's decision, Turkish President Abdullah Gul spoke live on state run TRT television saying, "I hope our relations will again get back to its track."

But a Turkish foreign ministry spokesman said Ankara was in touch with the ambassador "and we will respond with reciprocal steps in coming hours".

The conflict between Egypt's interim government and Turkey's Islamic-rooted Justice and Development Party (JDP) government arose following the ouster of Mohamed Morsi who struck up a close alliance with Turkey following his election in June 2012.

His ouster was fiercly criticised by Turkey's Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who repeatedly condemned the crackdown on Islamists that followed Morsi's removal from power.

Egypt has summoned Turkey's ambassador several times since Morsi's 3 July ouster over Ankara's critical statements on the ruling government in Cairo.

Tensions heightened further when both countries cancelled planned joint naval exercises scheduled for October.

On 12 November, the Turkish ambassador was summoned after Turkey called for the release of Morsi after he appeared in court 4 November — his first public appearance since being deposed — to face trial for inciting the murder of protesters.

On Saturday, the independent daily newspaper al-Watan reported on its front page that the international members of the Muslim Brotherhood continued "their plotting" against Egypt in a meeting in Istanbul. The paper was referring to a human rights conference in which participants said they will take legal actions against Egypt's new leaders for what it said were "massacres" against supporters of Morsi.

In comments Thursday, Erdogan said according to the state-run Anadolu news service that "there is a humanitarian drama going on in Egypt."

Morsi himself is on trial accused of inciting the murder of protesters during his tenure in office. He dismissed the trial as illegitimate in his first public comments, and insisted he was still Egypt's leader.

"I applaud Mr. Morsi's stance in front of the judiciary. I have no respect for those who are trying him," Erdogan said Thursday.

The interim government in Egypt has accused Turkey of "falsifying facts about the situation in Egypt" and "defying the will of the people."Hmmmm.......Morsi Obama's BFF......Erdogan Obama's BFF and friend of Hamas.....follow the dots.....The Middle East would be a much better place without the 'Neo Ottoman' Turkish meddling

Friday, November 22, 2013

"Al-Watan publishes transcripts of 5 calls between Morsi and Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri.



Al-Watan publishes transcripts of 5 calls between Morsi and Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri.(AlWatan) [Google Translate].


Security sources said, «home»: «The registered contacts between President Mohamed Morsy isolated, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader, held by security agencies - reveals the relationship between the institution of the presidency in the era of the isolated and al-Qaeda. The two parties agreed on which version (Anchorage) a presidential pardon for the 20 terrorists, including one who has been associated with (Al-Zawahiri) since childhood, and another runs the organization (Ansar Jerusalem) from the Gaza Strip, in addition to opening the door of Jihad in Syria ».
The sources added that the first contact was from the institution of the presidency of Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the brother of al-Qaeda leader, after his release, conducted by the happiest Elder, and Tahtawi, head of the Office of the Presidency-Herzegovina at the time, who was a mediator in the release, and then connect the isolated himself for 59 seconds. , bless his release, and confirmed that he is no longer a wanted man, and that he had issued instructions not monitored or followed, and he will meet him soon.
Fourth: 4 processing training camps in Western Sahara .. The call «June 30»: «Marina» asks support «Al-Qaeda» in the suppression of opposition
The sources added: «institution of the presidency has been in constant contact with Mohammed al-Zawahiri, was the link between the institution of the presidency, and his brother, Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader». The sources revealed that «Marina» Contact «Ayman al-Zawahiri,» the first time after assuming the presidency of the month, and asked him «Marina» During the call, which lasted for two minutes and 56 seconds, with the support of the Mujahideen and the need to support the Brotherhood's success in Egypt.As congratulated «Zawahiri» «Marina» stint judgment, and said «Zawahiri» for «Marina»: «the wisest laws of God to stand next to you, from the beginning there is no so-called democracy, and get rid of your opponents».The sources pointed out that the first call ended with the agreement of the parties to support al-Qaeda for the Muslim Brotherhood, especially with the continued regulation of the International Brotherhood with members of al-Qaeda, and that Khairat Al-Shater, deputy guide Brotherhood organization, met with Mohammed al-Zawahiri, most of the time after that.
The sources revealed that the second call between «Marina» and «Al-Zawahiri» after the first call a month and a half month. The sources pointed out that «Marina» admonished «Zawahiri» by attacking and criticizing the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, said: «We are going to apply the law and legitimacy to the satisfaction of the group, but we are at the stage of empowerment, and we need to support all the parties, and may not apply from now the same approach Iranian or Taliban rule in Egypt, because it is impossible to apply now », with student« Zawahiri »by calling for the release of jihadists arrested during the rule of« Mubarak », saying:« necessary to release the jihadists Elly were in prisons (Mubarak), and directed all Islamists from prison as collateral The era of the deal, and to emphasize turn the page »and promised« Marina »facilitate the return of« Al-Zawahiri »to Cairo again.
The sources pointed out that Mohammed Al-Zawahiri made a list, in coordination with his brother, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the names that are demanding her release, ratified by the presidency and granted amnesty. The sources added: «The third call before visiting (Anchorage) to Pakistan, and fourth during the same visit and lasted 43 seconds. And carried Almkalmtan third and fourth surprises, was to provide (Anchorage) promises to (Al-Zawahiri) not to arrest jihad, or restrictions on the jihadi groups, and the Salafist jihadist, and communicate with them from the presidency, and to prevent the prosecution of security groups in the Sinai, and that it will not allow the army to operate. The student (Al-Zawahiri) of (Anchorage) to open camps in the Sinai to support jihadists, training, and here confirmed (Anchorage) that the Brotherhood intends to form a Revolutionary Guards to defend the president against any attempt to overthrow the legitimate, and asked (Al-Zawahiri) support groups and training, and promised to work training camps in the Sinai, while providing them with all facilities in the Sinai and the western region near the Libyan border, and it is equipped with four training camps for jihadist groups on the border with Libya. He (Anchorage) to that halted military operations in the Sinai, despite knowing that there are elements of al-Qaeda in the Sinai, and the work (Anchorage) there to create an army of Mujahideen for the defense of the Muslim Brotherhood organization ».


«Isolated» met broker «Zawahiri» Hotel in Pakistan for two and a half hoursThe sources revealed that «Marina» met with a mediator for «Ayman Al-Zawahiri» at a hotel in Pakistan for two and a half hours, and added: «Following the return (Marina) of Pakistan has issued a new list of presidential pardon for a number of terrorists, despite security warnings and reports of devices Sovereign, and the list included the names of 20 people a threat to national security, and that the organization of the International Brotherhood gave 50 million dollars to the leaders of al-Qaeda, against the Brotherhood support ». The sources added: «last call between (Anchorage) and (Al-Zawahiri), was the dawn of June 30, in the presence of the happiest Elder, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Tahtawi, head of the Office of the Presidency of the Republic, and the official security presidency, and met (Sheikha) after Mohammed al-Zawahiri, and asked him to support Jihadi groups for the presidency to suppress any form of opposition ». He met «Shater» also a delegation from the jihadists and Mohammed Al-Zawahiri morning June 30, and asked them the support of the community and the presidency to prevent the early fall.
The sources pointed out: «call (Anchorage), the last of (Al-Zawahiri) was an incitement to the military establishment in the Sinai, and his claim to support the legitimacy of the president and create chaos, and said to him (in which people want to have overthrown the legitimate, and must be eliminated opposition, Bntalib jihadists everywhere to help us », and in this time gave« Marina »signal to start terrorist attacks in the Sinai, and stressed that they would not allow al-Qaida falling, and said« Zawahiri »:« We will fight the army and police, and Snhal Sinai ».
Ended with calls that reveal the relationship Qaeda Brotherhood and their relationship to some extent and provide support and incitement to the military establishment.
And concluded Sources: «organizing International Brotherhood him Ayman Zawhry CD empty shell upon information on the location of the various devices and security elements are important for her assassination and targeting of support (Anchorage), and became (Al-Zawahiri) manages the operations himself, and established a military wing secret inside Egypt depends on terrorist operations, and that the two calls between (Shatter) and (Al-Zawahiri) revealed the involvement of al-Qaeda's support of armed groups in the Sinai ».Hmmm.......Morsi Obama's BFF

Assassinated police officer disclosed evidence Morsy spied for Hamas And Al-Qaeda.


Assassinated police officer disclosed evidence Morsy spied for Hamas And Al-Qaeda.(EI).
Prosecution investigations on assassinations of senior police officer Mohamed Mabrouk, of Interior Ministry’s national security branch, have revealed that Mabrouk was killed one week after submitting CD to investigations authority levelling spying charges against deposed President Mohamed Morsy and other Muslim Brotherhood figures.

According to judicial sources, the CD includes evidence indicating Morsy’s involvement in spying for Hamas and al-Qa’eda. It included a recorded phone call between Morsy and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the organization leader.

Sources added that the phone conversation included confession by Morsy on informing Hamas about important information on security situation in Sinai. Sources did not mention the timing of the call.The call was included to prosecution investigations in the case.

In related news, prosecution heard testimonies of three witness who were at the accident spot when it took place.

Prosecution called on Interior Ministry to investigate truth of statement by the Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group claiming responsibility of the incident to see if it was merely a way to mislead authorities’ investigations.

Regarding investigations of the South Sinai security department explosion, judicial sources said the car which appeared in the video posted by the group was the same on in the accident, and that the DNA of the crime perpetrator was for Mohamed Hemdan al-Sawarka, known as abu Hagar, who appeared in the video claiming his responsibility.

Prosecution also called on security services to arrest people who appeared in the video and took part in planning and carrying out the attack.

Updated: 

"Al-Watan publishes transcripts of 5 calls between Morsi and Al Qaeda leader Al-Zawahiri.


Sunday, November 10, 2013

Benghazi Gate: Can Survivors Answer the Growing List of Questions?


Benghazi Gate: Can Survivors Answer the Growing List of Questions?HT: Heritage.
Next week’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee by three survivors of the Benghazi terrorist attack is spurring an intense new round of questions and media interest.
One year after the attack that killed four Americans, books by survivors of the attack are starting to come out. Their stories challenge the narrative presented by the White House and the CIA. The three witnesses lined up for next week are reportedly working on their own book about the events. Their testimony before the committee will be classified.
As reported by CNN, questions are becoming very pointed. This week, committee member Devin Nunes (R–CA) sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner (R–OH) asking for the appointment of a special independent investigator for Benghazi if the testimony heard by the committee differs significantly from the Obama Administration’s account. Last week, Representative Frank Wolf (R–VA) spoke at length on the House floor of the need to create a House select committee on Benghazi.
Among questions Nunes wants answered:
  • Who at the White House signed off on the decision not to dispatch a Foreign Emergency Support Team to Benghazi when the attack occurred?
  • Was there any undisclosed communication between the Benghazi diplomatic mission, where Ambassador Chris Stevens and communications expert Sean Smith were killed, and the CIA annex as the attack was taking place? Or was there communication with other U.S. agencies?
  • Which terrorist groups had the capacity to identify, in the dark of night, the coordinates of the roof of the CIA annex? The terrorists scored three direct hits on the roof, killing former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
  • What purchases were made in Benghazi by the State Department and other U.S. agencies prior to the attack? This information could either substantiate or debunk speculation that the U.S. government was buying up Libyan arms to send to the Syrian rebels.
  • Who did the State Department and other U.S. officials meet with in Benghazi in the week before the attack?
  • Were there attempts made by the State Department and other U.S. agencies to silence eyewitnesses by demanding that they sign nondisclosure agreements and take polygraph tests? Such demands would amount to witness intimidation.

The calamity that President Obama and his spokesmen had the gall to call a “phony scandal” is clearly not going away. Quite the opposite.
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