Former officer of the Free Syrian Army: "250 ISIS members sent from Jarablus to Europe"

Former officer of the Free Syrian Army: "250 ISIS members sent from Jarablus to Europe". (ANF).

Mihemed Casim El Hesen was an officer of the Free Syrian Army, which participated alongside other groups in the Turkish-led invasion operation "Euphrates Shield" on the triangle area between Jarablus, Azaz and Bab. He then joined the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Speaking to the Mezopotamya News Agency (MA), El Hesen said Turkey has very close ties with Islamist groups such as ISIS and Al-Nusra.

33 years old Mihemed Casim El Hesen is from Dêir ez-Zor and was a former police officer. In 2012, according to his own statements, he joined the FSA. After the invasion of the area by the ISIS and Al-Nusra, he went to Hatay province south of Turkey, then to Jarablus, where the Turkish army and the Euphrates Shield groups have taken control. "There I was responsible for the contact between the tribes from Dêir ez-Zor and the Euphrates Shield commanders”, he says.

El Hesen also provided significant information about the operation on Jarablus which Turkey entered with the Euphrates Shield and took over from ISIS in just three hours. He told:

"Turkey negotiated the takeover of Jarablus with ISIS before the operation. Russia and the Syrian regime were also informed about this negotiation. There was a meeting between Russian, Syrian and Turkish officials in Karkamış before the operation. When the Turkish troops entered Jarablus, 250 selected ISIS fighters were taken to Kilis and Antep via the Karkamış border crossing. One of the people responsible for the transport was me. Later I learned that these ISIS fighters had been sent to Europe. Other ISIS fighters were brought to Bab, Hama and Raqqa with their families.”

Commenting on his own motives for moving from the FSA to the SDF, El Hesen explained: "The FSA came into being to fight the regime, but now it serves the Turkish state. Turkey uses the FSA only for its own interests and gives ISIS much more support. Many relatives and acquaintances of mine told me how the SDF approached the people after the liberation of Manbij, Raqqa and the rural areas of Dêir ez-Zor. That's how I realized what it really is. Many of the Euphrates Shield fighters and especially those from Dêir ez-Zor want to go with their families to SDF-controlled areas. I talked to 300 friends of mine in the Euphrates Shield and told them how the SDF behaves me. Now they all want to come.” Read the full story here.

'Europe cannot be the new home for millions of people in need' Helmut Kohl.

'Europe cannot be the new home for millions of people in need' Helmut Kohl. (Euractiv).

In the preface to the Hungarian edition of his book, “Out of Concern for Europe”, Helmut Kohl has written that the continent cannot become the new home for millions of people. EurActiv’s partner Der Tagesspiegel reports.

In the lead up to his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Tuesday (19 April) former German chancellor Helmut Kohl has criticised the opening up of borders to refugees in Europe. “The solution lies in the affected regions. Not in Europe. Europe cannot be the new home for millions of people in need,” Kohl wrote in the preface to the Hungarian edition of his book, ”Out of concern for Europe”, which was published in an abbreviated form in Der Tagesspiegel on Sunday (17 April).

Kohl, one of only three people to be granted the status of Honorary Citizen of Europe, also criticised the refugee policy of Angela Merkel, without actually referring to her by name. The ex-chancellor voiced his disapproval of Merkel’s September 2015 decision to invite refugees from Hungary to continue their journey on to Germany. Kohl also criticised the fact that the current chancellor did not discuss the matter with her EU partners beforehand.

Additionally, Kohl went on to list Viktor Orbán, one of Merkel’s fiercest opponents when it comes to her so-called “open-door policy”, as “my friend”. On European questions, “I know that I agree with my friend Viktor Orbán”. On Tuesday, Kohl intends to welcome the Hungarian prime minister at his home.

Kohl believes that the refugee crisis is an “acid test” for the EU, adding that a “relapse into an old nation-state mentality” would “endanger our peace and our freedom”. The ex-chancellor urged the bloc, in addition to the humanitarian aspects, to bear in mind Europe’s “well-founded cultural and security interests”. Many refugees come “from different cultural backgrounds. They follow, to a great extent, faiths other than the Judeo-Christian faith, which is one of the foundations of our values ​​and society,” he added. Read the full story here.

H&M found Syrian refugee children being employed in Turkish factories that supply them.

H&M found Syrian refugee children being employed in Turkish factories that supply them. (MEE).

High-street clothes retailers Next and H&M found Syrian refugee children being employed in Turkish factories that supply them, according to a survey by a British charity released on Monday.

The report by the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, a corporate responsibility watchdog, said both companies had acted to tackle the problem after finding Syrian children working in three of their suppliers.

But the charity warned that for other big brands "refugee workers appear out of sight and out of mind," saying only 10 of the 28 companies surveyed responded fully and five failed to do so at all.

The charity says an estimated 250,000 to 400,000 Syrian refugees are working illegally in Turkey, from around 2.2 million who have fled the almost five-year civil war at home.

It added that the Turkish government's move last month to issue work permits for Syrian refugees would reduce their vulnerability although it warned that "many refugee workers are likely to remain illegal". Read the full story here.

HT and Source:

H&M has found evidence of child labor among #SyriaRefugees working in #Turkey's sweatshops that provide them#Syriahttps://t.co/sSetFzbzrT

— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) February 2, 2016

Related: Syrian child labour, a ticket to Europe

Erdoğan going all-out Sharia: calls for ‘neighbourhood pressure’ against smokers, alcohol drinkers.

Erdoğan going all-out Sharia: calls for ‘neighbourhood pressure’ against smokers, alcohol drinkers. (TZ).

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has renewed his fight against smoking and alcohol consumption, calling on people to exert “neighborhood pressure” on those who smoke and consume alcohol.

“Serious neighborhood pressure is needed against smokers and alcohol drinkers. We should altogether establish a social environment in which smokers are chided and drug addicts are treated like ill,” Erdoğan said during a speech on Wednesday night.

Erdoğan also voiced concern over the possibility of an increase in alcohol consumption across Turkey. “All these bad habits are like hulks of a disastrous chain which feed each other,” he said.

Erdoğan, who has long been fighting against smoking and alcohol consumption, vowed during his presidential campaign a struggle against alcohol, tobacco and drugs with his "full power." Hmmm.......Great i've heard already many Europeans say they won't go to Turkey on vacation  anymore, this can only help Greek economy.Read the full story here.

Video - Russia Today interview takes stand against FSA organizers, blaming them for CharlieHebdo terror act

Video - video with the talks between BFM TV and the terrorists Kouachi and Coulibaly.

Turkish cartoonists threatened after Charlie Hebdo attacks, no surprise considering Hamas celebrates attackers.

Turkish cartoonists threatened after Charlie Hebdo attacks, no surprise considering Hamas celebrates attackers. HT: AlMonitor.

While the Islamist Turkish Gov declares that Wanted terrorists from Terror organization are welcome to stay in Turkey, their own Turkish critical cartoonists are being threatened.

I learned about the Charlie Hebdo attack from a phone call in the early morning hours of Jan. 7. The messenger was a political satirist and friend calling from Istanbul. He was calm as he explained the brutal attack. Then he said, “I received a call from a private number. The voice on the line ordered me to turn on the television to take a sneak peak at my own future.” It was not the first time my friend had been threatened. When I asked what he was going to do, he replied with his usual dark humor, “I will first mourn the loss of my colleagues and caricaturize my sorrow.” Read the full story here.

Turkey 'buddies' #Hamas newspaper 'gloryfying' the #CharlieHebdo terrorists "the heroes of France invasion" @etabori pic.twitter.com/642ir9nTI8
— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) January 9, 2015

Turkey says Hamas chief is free to come http://t.co/rAO0yXs7J1 via @todayszamancom
— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) January 9, 2015

#Turkey pro-govt Sabah's chief columnist @MehmetBarIas says #France is paying the price of meddling ruthlessly in Muslim world in the past
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) January 8, 2015

Erdogan's close associates: "We don't care about the attack in Paris." pic.twitter.com/qRVofwXeQl
— Emre Uslu (@EmreUslu) January 7, 2015

In Turkey... MT @histericus: The only one to condemn this in a politically correct way has been Abdullah Gül.

— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) January 9, 2015

Charlie Hebdo a wake-up call for Moderate Turkey as well.

Charlie Hebdo a wake-up call for Moderate Turkey as well. HT: TodaysZaman. By Abdullah-bozkurt.

The restrained reaction of the ruling political Islamist establishment in Turkey to the despicable killing of 12 people at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the provocative headlines in government-subsidized media effectively “justifying” the attack have exposed once again the chilling totalitarian mindset of believing twisted conspiracy theories that exists among Islamists who are biased and unable to reject cold-blooded murders unconditionally without any proviso.

On the morning of the day the killers attacked Charlie Hebdo, I was meeting with French Senator Nathalie Goulet, who was heading a delegation of parliamentarians investigating French jihadists who use Turkey as a transit route back and forth from Syria and Iraq. She was in Turkey and meeting with officials and touring border provinces. I told her the main problem is the lack of strong political will to come down hard on extremist groups in Turkey. Unfortunately, a quick glance at the recent remarks from Islamist politicians against the background of the Paris killings has proved that point once again. Read the full story here.

WORLD : #JeSuisCharlie Most popular hashtag ever in @twitter history http://t.co/yBiMTN1omj pic.twitter.com/mju44rRgiB

— Dominique Delport (@domdelport) January 9, 2015

Dutch journalist in Turkey says she's being taken under custody by terrorist police - Updates

Erdogan making sure we got it: There is no freer press either in EU or world @freethought41: At the very same minutes pic.twitter.com/lZJILX5NTv
— ilhan tanir (@WashingtonPoint) January 6, 2015

i wasnt taken into custody although they said that initially.only statement.8 folks strong armed terrorism squad at door very intimidating.

— Frederike Geerdink (@fgeerdink) January 6, 2015

free again. terrorism squad takes me home now. i insisted on that :-p #amed

— Frederike Geerdink (@fgeerdink) January 6, 2015

#FrederikeGeerdink is freed after giving statement! First hand info from her attorney, Suzan Erik.

— Asezeal (@aus_fallen) January 6, 2015

Suzan Erik tells Frederike shall not be deported, either. :) for those who're not familiar with Turkish foreigners law, they tend to deport+

— Asezeal (@aus_fallen) January 6, 2015

THIS IS A VERY RARE MOMENT WHEN I REALLY LOVE BEING A LAWYER!

— Asezeal (@aus_fallen) January 6, 2015

Suzan Erik, attorney at law at Diyarbakır Bar is wtill with #FrederikeGeerdink

— Asezeal (@aus_fallen) January 6, 2015

terrorism police just searched my house, team of 8 guys. they take me to the station now. charge: 'propaganda for terrorist organization'
— Frederike Geerdink (@fgeerdink) January 6, 2015

Head of Diyarbakir Bars Assoc tweets: Dutch journo @fgeerdink, under interrogation by police, may be released in the next couple of hours.

— Zeynep Erdim (@zeynep_erdim) January 6, 2015

several people in #kurdish movement told me that they are always ready to get #detained. and that the #struggle never stops, inside or out.
— Frederike Geerdink (@fgeerdink) January 5, 2015

Ehm, no one agrees “@hasandoganTR: #PresidentErdogan "There is no freer press, either in Europe or anywhere in the world, than in #Turkey"”
— Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) January 6, 2015

Journaliste Frederike Geerdink opgepakt in Turkije http://t.co/uo1x4Me9lB Koenders is in Turkije - NVJ heeft contact met Buitenlandse Zaken
— Bas Paternotte (@baspaternotte) January 6, 2015

Geerdink writes a blog, http://kurdishmatters.com, and runs a website http://www.journalistinturkey.com/

Journaliste Frederike Geerdink opgepakt in Turkije Frederike GeerdinkBert Koenders in Turkije - NVJ heeft contact met Buitenlandse Zaken

De Nederlandse journaliste Frederike Geerdink is in Turkije opgepakt door een anti-terrorisme eenheid. Dat meldde zij dinsdagmiddag op Twitter. Ze wordt naar eigen zeggen verdacht van propaganda voor een terroristische organisatie.

Koenders is op dit moment in Turkije Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Bert Koenders is op dit moment in Turkije. Hij is daar op uitnodiging van zijn Turkse collega Mevlüt Cavusoglu. Koenders en Cavusoglu spraken elkaar eind november telefonisch over de rel die was ontstaan tussen Nederland en Turkije. Die volgde op een verklaring waarin de Turkse overheid Nederland ervan beschuldigde de Turkse gemeenschap in ons land te discrimineren en op een racistische manier te bejegenen. Koenders gaat in Turkije ook in gesprek met bewindslieden, mensenrechtenactivisten en journalisten. Die gesprekken gaan onder meer over rechtsstaatontwikkeling, persvrijheid en vrijheid van meningsuiting, aldus het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken.

De Nederlandse Vereniging van Journalisten is met de zaak bezig, meldt Algemeen Secretaris Thomas Bruning.  Hmmm.....Going after a Dutch journalist just when the Dutch min of foreign affairs is in Turkey...Coincidence? 

@fgeerdink @baspaternotte Buza inmiddels gesproken, ze gaan erachteraan, Koenders is nog hele dag in Turkije.
— thomas bruning (@thomasbruning) January 6, 2015

via @heavie: Erdoğan tells diplomats Turkey has the freest media in the world while terror police arrest Dutch journo pic.twitter.com/SPpw0m8yci
— Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) January 6, 2015

Wrong timing: police arrest Dutch journo @fgeerdink while President says "There is no freer press...anywhere in the world than in #Turkey"
— Marc Pierini (@MarcPierini1) January 6, 2015

Dutch journalist @fgeerdink in #Turkey detained within minutes of Erdoğan’s claim that Turkey has the freest press in the world @DutchMFA
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) January 6, 2015

President @RT_Erdogan claims all the news articles in the Western media about #Turkey are all lies @pressfreedom @OSCE_RFoM @FreedomHouseDC
— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) January 6, 2015

#PT Attention! #Turkey tries to silence a foreign journalist under draconian anti-terror laws. cc @RSF_RWB @fredabrahams @hrw @fgeerdink
— A Dunon (@ArjDnn) January 6, 2015

Hey @gertjansegers and @PieterOmtzigt Dutch journalist arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey http://t.co/DlA0pMxEDI
— Mike van der Galien (@MichaelvdGalien) January 6, 2015

Minister Koenders responds: "shocked by the arrest of @fgeerdink I will personally bring it up with colleague Cavusoglu
— Peter Nut (@nipped) January 6, 2015

#Turkey slips further into the dictatorial morass: Dutch journalist detained on charges of terrorism propaganda http://t.co/EFidjZM7hP
— Julie Lenarz (@MsIntervention) January 6, 2015

Could this be why @fgeerdink was detained for "terrorist propaganda"? http://t.co/IVwdwYQ8VO #Turkey pic.twitter.com/cr2OxvXrAC

— Erik Meyersson (@emeyersson) January 6, 2015

i find it so #manipulative to say 'turkey is a country where people live in fear'. its not true and a gross exaggeration. #kilicdaroglu

— Frederike Geerdink (@fgeerdink) February 6, 2012

'Grexit' - Germany Open to Possible Greek Euro Zone Exit.

'Grexit' - Germany Open to Possible Greek Euro Zone Exit. (Spiegel).

There was a time when Germany feared the consequences were Greece to leave the euro zone. Now, though, with Greek elections approaching, Chancellor Angela Merkel is willing to accept a "Grexit" should a new leftist government in Athens demand concessions.

At midnight, Lithuania's days without the euro came to an end. As the calendar flipped to 2015, the countdown clock hanging over the entrance to the country's central bank hit zero and fireworks shot into the air above the city palace in Vilnius. People celebrated in the streets and in the bars of the Lithuanian capital as a euro symbol was projected onto the facade of the city's neoclassical cathedral. Not long later, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius withdrew a 10-euro note from a cash machine decorated especially for the occasion.

Lithuania is now the 19th member of the euro zone. The country's currency, the litas, is history, making way for the "euras," as the European common currency is known in the country. 

In Greece, meanwhile, 2,000 kilometers (1,243 miles) to the south, a different kind of countdown is proceeding apace. In contrast to Lithuania, however, the days being counted could be the final ones in the country's participation in the euro zone. On Jan. 25, Greek voters will be heading to the polls for parliamentary elections. Should the leftist alliance Syriza win, as polls show it might, the euro could soon be history in the country. Read the full story here.

Motherhood is not a career for men: Turkish health minister

Motherhood is not a career for men: Turkish health minister. (HD).

Turkey’s health minister has revisited his New Year’s Day comments about motherhood being the only acceptable career for women, while informing men that they need not apply for the task of being mothers.

The opportunity for Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu to continue in his foray into career counseling and gender relations presented itself on Jan. 2 when reporters asked him to comment on the uproar over his assertion that women’s place is to rear children.

“Motherhood is a career, the importance of which can never be [underestimated], and a career which can exist from the coming into being of the human until his end. Motherhood is indisputably a career,” Müezzinoğlu told reporters as he attended an event at Istanbul’s Feshane International Fair Congress and Culture Center.

While visiting the first baby born in 2015 early on Jan. 1, the minister floated his thesis that mothers should not put any career before motherhood. This time, however, he delivered recommendations to men who might have been considering a career in motherhood.

“Hence, motherhood is not a career which every person can have. It is not a career that men can have. It is a career which is never disputable and is sacred,” Müezzinoğlu said. Read the full story here.

"Women's only career should be motherhood" Turkish health minister.

"Women's only career should be motherhood" Turkish health minister.(HD).

Mothers should not put any career before motherhood, Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Müezzinoğlu has said during a visit to the first baby born in 2015 in Istanbul early on Jan. 1.

Müezzinoğlu and Istanbul Gov. Vasip Şahin visited the baby and congratulated her parents at a hospital in Zeytinburnu while also giving advice to mothers.

“Mothers have the career of motherhood, which cannot be possessed by anyone else in the world. Mothers should not put another career other than motherhood at the center of their lives. They should put raising good generations at the center of their attention,” Müezzinoğlu said.

The minister also urged mothers to have normal deliveries rather than using a C-section, saying medicine should be used for extraordinary situations.Read the full story here.

Hmmmm......Compare with Hitler's Nazi Germany:


Five key points of Nazi approach to women's role:

1. Nazi attitudes toward women reflected the traditionalist, patriarchal views of Hitler and other Nazi leaders. 

2. Through both policy and propaganda, women were removed and discouraged from paid employment. 

3. The Nazis attempted to boost the birthrate by promoting and rewarding motherhood with loans and incentives. 

4. They also restricted abortion and contraception, and attempted to regulate the way women dressed and behaved. 

5. Despite these policies, there was only a slight increase in the birthrate in the first five years of Nazi rule.

“the triumphant task of women is to bear and tend babies”; “men are willing to fight … women must be there to nurse them”

Turkey president Erdogan: Women are not equal to men.

Hitler:

“The granting of equal rights to women, which Marxism demands, in reality does not grant equal rights … it instead constitutes a deprivation of rights, since it draws women into realms of society where they are inferior. The woman has her own battlefield. With every child that she brings into the world, she fights her battle for the nation.”

Makes you wonder where they get their 'ideas'? Not really if you know this! 

"Advanced Sweatshop Turkey" Child labor and Syrian refugees children their plight exposed

"Advanced Sweatshop Turkey" Child labor and Syrian refugees children their plight exposed. By David Lepesca.

The size of a much younger boy, the 14 year old wears a black apron over a red-and-white checked shirt, blue jeans and plastic sandals. Over more than an hour of conversation, his expressions range from exhaustion, to concern, to concentration.

For his nearly 90 hours of weekly labour he earns 25 Turkish lira, or about $0.12 an hour. Sweatshop workers in Bangladesh earn about two dollars a day. In China they make more than four. Zain takes home about a dollar and a half.

“I asked my parents,” he says, “and they told me, according to our situation, the pay is good.” Read their full story here.

NATO 'Ally' Turkey providing free medical care to ISIS Fighters in military hospital.

Abu Al-Waleed Al-Libi(the Libyan),an #ISIS field commander,receiving medical treatment in a Turkish military hospital pic.twitter.com/E16wAu4AXv
— Nizar Nayouf (@nizarnayouf) September 4, 2014

Abu Al-Waleed Al-Libi(the Libyan),an #ISIS field commander,receiving medical treatment in a Turkish military hospital .

@IsraelMatzav Via @aaronstein1 PRICELESS ! pic.twitter.com/BfUDIrOsIx
— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) September 5, 2014

Hmmm....this is not the first recorded case, when will we finally designate Turkey as a 'STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM'? 

@WebsterGTarpley why does everyone forgets Turkey's role in all this? Even treating ISIS leaders in their hospitals? pic.twitter.com/xQ2IKwFEEr

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) June 15, 2014

Video - [Erdoganistan] - Protester: "We don't even know how many died there yet and you are attacking us???

10 workers killed in construction site accident in Istanbul. (HD).

Ten workers were killed at a construction site in Istanbul when an elevator carrying them suddenly plunged to the ground from the 32th floor late on Sept. 6.

The accident occurred at the construction site of the Torunlar Center, which is being built on the former site of Galatasaray’s Ali Sami Yen Stadium in Şişli’s Mecidiyeköy neighborhood.

The elevator malfunctioned due to an unknown reason while the workers were trying to leave the construction at around 7:45 p.m. after the completion of their shift.

Paramedics, firefighters and search and rescue teams were rushed to the scene, recovering the bodies of 10 workers.

Hmmm..... When terrorist die in Gaza the gov 'cries' when workers die in Turkey they send the cops to beat them up......."Advanced Democracy" they call it.Read the full story here.