‘Islamist wing’ opens in Belgian prison, notorious 'Santa Claus’ jihadist first long term 'guest'.

‘Islamist wing’ opens in Belgian prison, notorious 'Santa Claus’ jihadist first long term 'guest'. (RT).

 A special ‘Islamist wing’ has opened in a jail in Ittre, Belgium, according to local newspaper Derniere Heure. Its first prisoner is Khalid Zerkani, nicknamed ‘Santa Claus of jihad’. He was charged with recruiting young Muslims and is now serving 12 years.

Zerkani was transferred to Ittre from another facility in the Brussels commune of Forest, where the Brussels attacker Mohamed Abrini has been incarcerated. Authorities worried the two would make contact in Forest.

So, the transfer was made, with due discretion and high security in place.

However, the Ittre prison administration is now fearful that Zerkani, who has a great deal of influence with jihadists, may attempt to escape.

The ‘Islamist wing’ project was developed by Minister of Justice Koen Geens. It finally came into force on Monday, and was specifically applied to Ittre.

The proposal hasn’t been unanimously welcomed, but after talks between the unions and the justice minister’s office, it was agreed to open the Ittre wing, on condition that it would only house four jihadist prisoners, not 20 as was initially planned. Hmmm....They're going to have to build a lot of new prisons if only four Jihadist a prison is the norm. Read the full story here.

More on Itre prison here:

As the Brussels-Capital Region has no house of sentences, the prison of Ittre is a house of penalties intended to accommodate definitively convicted prisoners from the Brussels region.

The proximity of Ittre with the Brussels region maintains the relationships between inmates and their family members whereas before these were convicted serve their sentences in remote institutions in Brussels. All sentences categories are represented in Ittre. Moreover, the prison of Ittre also contributed to decongestion of overcrowded or renovating prisons.

The prison of Ittre applies a cellular system where all inmates take their meals in cell except prisoners put to work in the workshops that take their lunch there in mess rooms provided for this purpose. Solitary confinement of workers held however outweighed by the opportunity to enjoy the whole week of joint activities on section 15:15 to 20:00 (7 sections). Solitary confinement of detainees workers not leave them the ability to access common activities from 18:15 to 20:00.

Each section has a space provided for that purpose, with a table tennis table, a kicker and with a kitchenette. All inmates can rent a television (cable and satellite) and telephone access seven days a week (system managed by computer). All also feature a fridge in their cells. Besides the prison linen and bed sheets, the laundry room is also responsible for washing personal laundry of the inmates who wish. Every prisoner has the opportunity to take a shower every day and go to the playground between half past one ET seven hours a day.

The prison of Ittre has a gym and body building available five days a week. If desired, each prisoner has access to the gym / body three times a week. Each inmate receives five visits to table a week (1h30 per visit) and three out monitoring visits per month.

Purchases that detainees wish to achieve is done through accounting, in partnership with private firms that deliver several times a week ( "generalist" canteen halal canteen canteen pastry, pharmacy, newspapers, stereo ).

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Uganda: Pastor Hacked to Death by Muslims, Bible Study Members Poisoned in Eastern Uganda.

Pastor Hacked to Death by Muslims, Bible Study Members Poisoned in Eastern Uganda.(Morningstarnews).

A pastor in eastern Uganda was hacked to death on Wednesday (Dec. 23) as he and other church members resisted an effort by Muslims to take over their land, area church leaders said.

In Nansololo village near Mazuba, in Namudumba District, Muslims erected a boundary fence with poles and barbed wire that included land of the Pentecostal Church Ministry (PCM), a church elder told Morning Star News. A church member who lives close to the church building telephoned pastor Bongo Martin, who immediately came to the site.

“Why are you encroaching on the church’s land and removing the boundary marks?” Pastor Martin asked. A church member said the imam answered, “We have told you many times that we do not want the church to be located near our mosque. Your church has been taking our members to your church.”

A Muslim named Abdulhakha Mugen then drew his sword and struck the pastor’s neck, church members said. Pastor Martin fell down bleeding, and after more sword blows and decapitation, he died. He was 32.

“When I saw such a brutal killing of my pastor, fear gripped me and, fearing for my life, I went to report the incident to Nabitende area police,” a church elder said.

Muslims threw Pastor Martin’s body into a nearby river at 10 a.m., sources said. He is survived by a widow and two children.

“When I arrived at the scene, the pastor’s body had just been thrown into the river, and many people came to witness the sad incident,” the church leader said. “Tension remains high in the area.”

The PCM church has documents showing it bought the disputed land from Kamya Ephraim for 3.4 million Uganda shillings (US$1,000), the church leader said.

“The church building extends to a nearby river that borders mosque land, and on several occasions we have been threatened that our church building should be removed from its present location,” the church leader said.


The church intended to establish an orphanage in the center of Nansololo, but plans are now on hold.

Christians Poisoned to Death.

In another area of eastern Uganda, five underground Christians in a predominantly Muslim village, including a pregnant mother, have died from a pesticide put into their food after a Bible study, area sources said.

The Bible study took place on Dec. 18 in Kachomo village, Kachomo Sub-County, Budaka District at the home of Hajii Suleiman Sajjabi, a convert from Islam who had begun the study with eight family members who had come to faith in Christ under his influence.

Sajjabi is in a coma after someone put a pesticide into the food the group ate after the study, and four of his relatives have died, according to area sources: Katooko Aisha Sajjabi, 22, died at 4 a.m. on Dec. 19; Mwanje Husain Sajjabi, 24, died at 5 a.m. that day; Eric Ali Sajjabi, 29, later died; and Musa Namusongi Sajjabi, 26, later died. A fifth person, neighbor Mariam Kurumu, a pregnant mother, died at 5 a.m. on Dec. 19 at Mbale Regional Hospital.


Budaka central police and Kaderuna police are searching for one of Sajjabi’s sons, 32-year-old Isa Sajjabi, who had opposed leaving Islam for Christianity and had distanced himself from his converted relatives. He was at the home at the time of the Bible study but did not participate in it.

Survivors said that when his mother left the study to get water for one of the group members during the study, she found Isa Sajjabi in the kitchen. After the study ended at 7:30 p.m. and the group began to eat, Isa Sajjabi and a Muslim friend disappeared. Group members began to feel ill after half an hour.
A doctor at Mbale Regional Hospital said a postmortem test showed a substance known as Malathion, a low-toxicity pesticide, in those who had died. Though low-level toxic, Malathion when ingested quickly metabolizes into highly toxic Tomalaoxon.

Late last month word reached the Kaderuna mosque that Hajji Suleiman Sajjabi was distributing Bibles to Muslims. The local imam wrote a letter of rebuke to Sajjabi.


“Please be informed that we have known of your deception, and we cannot take this lightly,” the imam wrote. “You should stop trying to change the Muslims to Christianity in the name of providing support to our members of the Muslim ummah [community].”

Sajjabi stopped going to the mosque after receiving the letter, and he and his family became fearful. Sajjabi had begun the study after distributing clothes and food in Kaderuna in October, and then inviting some close friends to his home for a luncheon. At that time he gave out eight Bibles, a local Christian leader said, and the Bible study meetings began in his house.

The local Christian leader, whose name is withheld for security reasons, said Sajjabi was previously a secret disciple who had helped the Muslim community through several outreaches to the poor.

“For about two years, Hajji had managed to win eight members of his household, except one son who became resistant to the gospel,” the ministry leader said. “Hajji Sajjabi was using the service outreach approach to reach members of the mosque, which he used to attend with the intention of winning some to the Christian faith, but he tried to remain secret in the Christian faith.”


The Christian leader said he fears also for his life.

The incidents were the latest in a series of attacks on Christians in eastern Uganda.

Islamic extremists in eastern Uganda on Dec. 8 set a deadly trap for a Christian policeman who had left Islam, and the next day other hard-line Muslims kidnapped three children from another convert in a nearby village.

More than 20 Muslim extremists in the Komodo area of Kadama Sub-County, Kibuku District, killed officer Ismail Kuloba at about 4 p.m. after he responded to an urgent call to intervene in a supposed land dispute between warring parties, an area Christian told Morning Star News. Kuloba was 43.

There are more incidents. Hmmm.......It seems Extremist Islam has reached Uganda. Read the full story here.

Video - EU[Rabia]: Who benefits from Muslim mass migration? Only the elite Left

Video - EU[Rabia]: Who benefits from Muslim mass migration? Only the elite Left. HT: The Rebel.

For many of them, this enthusiasm is an act of emotional therapy, especially for guilty white liberal Germans, for whom taking in all these migrants will be akin to committing cultural suicide.

In Europe, as in America, the elite Left's "humanitarian" open borders policy is often just a thinly disguised desire for cheap labour.

Plus all these new "underprivileged" people will suddenly "need" social workers and welfare bureaucrats...

I predict that this mass migration will uncork new bigotry among ordinary citizens, as Europe's good will is taken advantage of.

And that's not all I see happening. Hmmm....Expect 'Far right to rise in EU[Rabia].

Austria to deploy army as part of tougher border controls.

Police at Austrian -Hungarian Border (Source)

Austria to deploy army as part of tougher border controls.(Itv).(HLB)[Google translated].

Austria is following Germany in introducing tougher border controls, and it is deploying the army to assist in dealing with an influx of migrants, Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner has said.

"If Germany carries out border controls, Austria must put strengthened border controls in place. We are doing that now", Mr Mitterlehner said.

At the German border controls today thirty human smugglers have been apprehended near Passau , police said.

The German checks will continue for weeks , said the interior minister of the southern German state of Bavaria , Joachim Herrmann. According to him, the controls are not there to stop refugees, but they are necessary because many people who are not refugees keep up with the flow.

During the past weekend 40 thousand refugees entered Germany, 12 thousand of them entered Munich, where local police said the city is in full capacity and cannot absorb any more refugees. In Austria, 40 people were found in a refrigerator truck. Thirty four immigrants, half of them children, drowned to death yesterday (Sunday) across from Greek shores.

A report of the German intelligence agency claims that extreme Islamic elements in Germany are working to recruit asylum seekers who flow into the country in recent weeks.

“The extremists are trying to approach the young unaccompanied refugees, who arrive in our country without their families and are particularly looking for contacts and support,” a spokesperson for the intelligence service said. “The extremists want to take advantage of the insecurity and distress of the refugees,” he said. Read the full story here.

Stephen Coughlin, a former Pentagon Intell Analyst on the Refugee flood: "This is truly a clear and present existential threat"

Stephen Coughlin, a former Pentagon Intell Analyst on the Refugee flood: "This is truly a clear and present existential threat"

The U.S. Refugee Resettlement numbers, the sky is the limit?

The U.S. Refugee Resettlement numbers, the sky is the limit? (NationalReview).

The White House announced that it plans to admit 10,000 Syrians next year through the refugee resettlement program, on top of the 1,500 or so we’ve already admitted.

But the number could go much higher, since the president claims the right to “parole” into the United States anyone he wants, in any number he wants, for any reason he wants. 

As Senator Grassley put it this week after being informed by Secretary of State Kerry of Obama’s 2016 refugee edict: But when pressed, the administration indicated that they were considering opening the floodgates and using emergency authority to go above what they proposed to Congress in today’s consultation. The administration also has not ruled out potentially paroling thousands of Syrians into the United States.


Here’s why we shouldn’t be resettling any more than a handful of Syrians:

Cost. Reihan yesterday at a panel discussion cited a study that found caring for a refugee resettled in Norway costs 25 times more than in the Middle East. 

In the U.S., such costs are borne almost entirely by the taxpayers of the local communities where the State Department dumps its refugees (without even informing the local authorities). 

Even the resettlement groups and local “sponsors,” such as churches, only assume responsibility for their costs for several months, until they’re signed up for welfare; in fact, the main function of “sponsors” is to get refugees signed up for welfare. 

That’s why more than 90% of recent Middle Eastern refugees are on welfare. Concern over costs seems to be the basis of a bill offered by Representative Brian Babin (R-Texas) to suspend refugee resettlement until the GAO thoroughly studies its costs. Hmmm......If You Can't Vet'Em properly, You Shouldn't Let 'Em In. In. Read the full story here. 

Hmmm.........They have no money for providing food in the Middle East, but they do have money For a 25 times higher food cost in the EU - North America?

Ontario Lib Gov. will spend $10M to bring Syrian refugees to province.

Ontario Lib Gov. will spend $10M to bring Syrian refugees to province. (TheStar).

Ontario will spend $10.5 million to open the province’s doors to 10,000 Syrian refugees, the Star has learned. Premier Kathleen Wynne, who will make an official announcement on Saturday at the COSTI office on College Street, said “the desperate situation” had been building for months.

“So to see this child, it was tragic and hard not relate to your own children, to relate to your own grandchildren,” Wynne said in an interview here Friday, referring to the images of drowned toddler Alan Kurdi, which have shocked the world and spurred calls for action. “There are moments in political life where you just think this is not good enough. We have to now do more. We have to push the system, because the system’s clearly not working.”

Sources say the Ontario government needs Ottawa to expedite the arrival of the refugees while helping to ensure security is kept tight enough so that no terrorists slip into the country.

Likening the humanitarian crisis to a natural disaster, like a tsunami or a flood or a huge forest fire, Wynne said public officials “have to go above and beyond” because exceptional circumstances demand it.

To that end, senior government officials confide that the premier will earmark $8.5 million to help bring 10,000 Syrian refugees to Ontario over the next two years.

That’s money from a new fund that will “backstop” churches, non-governmental organizations, and charities in their efforts to sponsor refugees.

The province cannot directly sponsor refugees under the current process, but Queen’s Park is hopeful that guaranteeing the funding will prove to the federal government that Ontario has “the capacity” to accept more newcomers.

At the same time, Ontario will immediately donate $1 million each to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Food Program for relief efforts overseas.(See pic at top of post).

The $10.5 million is in addition to the $330,000 that Queen’s Park has already committed to Lifeline Syria, the Toronto organization that is helping resettle refugees.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has said Canada will accept 10,000 more refugees over four years in addition to an earlier commitment to help 11,300 people. Canada welcomes around 14,000 refugees annually from around the world.

NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has pledge to bring 10,000 Syrian refugees within two months of the election. The NDP has promised to help resettle 46,000 Syrians in Canada over four years.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau wants to immediately accept 25,000 refugees.

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark, meanwhile, has earmarked $1 million to assist around 1,000 refugees. Hmmmm.....So the premier is 'sponsoring the food for coming refugees' she did not mention that in her interview. Seems like Wynne is pretty sure the Liberals will win the coming 'rigged?' election. Read the full story here.

German Paper claims: "Already 29 Syria fighters found among Fugitive stream".

German Paper claims: "Already 29 Syria fighters found among Fugitive stream". (Sueddeutsche).[GoogleTranslated].

"Is Germany a "Hippie-State" who has lost touch with reality, a country that follows his heart and not his brain?"

Ex-Interior Minister Friedrich warns terrorists could come together with the refugees to Germany. Intelligence agencies and experts estimate this risk rather low. More cause for concern them attempts by Islamists to win the refugees upon their arrival in Germany for their goals.

Is Germany a "Hippie-State" who has lost touch with reality, a country that follows his heart and not his brain? Hans-Peter Friedrich has not used these words of the British Politilogen Anthony Glees . But the CSU politician and former Interior Minister is apparently of the opinion that Germany has literally lost his mind when it decided, refugees to leave just arriving from Hungary. Unbureaucratic, without registration, without control.

Germany durchwankt in the eyes of Frederick just a humanitarian drunken stupor. And Friedrich warns of a bad hangover.

In an interview with the Passauer Neue Presse, he refers to the unbureaucratic recording thousands of refugees as "unprecedented political blunder" that would have "devastating long-term consequences." 

It was "completely irresponsible" to allow the refugees to enter without being able to estimate "how many of them IS fighters or Islamist sleepers" were. No other country in the world would be such a "naive and naive to expose such a risk," said Friedrich on. "We have lost control."

How silently, which calls not only the alarmist Heckling from Bavaria in memory. This is evident also with a view to the debate in other countries: A Hungarian bishop spoke of a Muslim "invasion", the head of the US Homeland Security Committee warned against the "largest concentration of Islamic terrorists of all time" in Syria and Iraq , a French town wants to refugees only enter when the "absolute security" there, "that there are no terrorists in disguise".

The Passauer Neue Presse has also presented to Friedrich interview a number: 29. So many "proven Syrian fighters" had identified the security authorities already among the asylum seekers. The Interior Ministry immediately denied. Although there were always hints that "may also be IS-combatants among the refugees," said a spokesman for the news agency dpa. "However, no such indication has been concretely confirmed."

The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution announced on SZ-request that can not be ruled out "the theoretical possibility for terrorist organizations to smuggle members as asylum-seekers". Reliable findings that jihadists used the refugees as entry route, but it does not give. Even robust findings "for stays of IS-members or -Symapthisanten in refugee camps" were missing so far.

Rauf Ceylan, Islamic scholar at the University of Osnabrück, does not believe in an increased danger of terrorism - and warns of a general suspicion towards Muslim refugees. "These are people who flee from extremists," says Ceylan. "Otherwise, they would have remained in Syria." Even Gerhard Schindler, head of the Federal Intelligence Service, said in a recent image interview: "Refugees are not terrorists." Hmmm.....ISIS would be a fool not to grab this possibility with both hands, and they're not fools, and if not ISIS then other groups of fighters as can be seen here on this facebook page. And in pictures below.Read the full story here.

Why #Canadian @PMHarper is right in giving preference to Minority fugitives & Christians fleeing from #Syria. pic.twitter.com/yIqaqkSUNX

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) September 11, 2015

Hyderabad - Woman, Allegedly IS Recruiter Arrested.

Hyderabad - Woman, Allegedly IS Recruiter Arrested. (NDtv).

A woman thought to be an online recruiter for the Islamic State has been arrested by the Cyberabad police. She was reportedly deported last night from Dubai along with her husband, identified as Devender Batra, who goes by "Mustafa".

In January, the woman's alleged IS link was outed by a young techie who was detained at the Hyderabad airport when he was headed to Dubai.

Salman Moinuddin, in his early 30s, reportedly told the police that a woman posing as a British national, who used the name Nicky Joseph, had met him online and claimed that she was in love with him and would elope with him to Syria to join the IS.

Mr Moinuddin is married, has a master's in Science, and had worked earlier in the US.

More details are awaited. Hmmm......So much for the poor uneducated jobless terrorist theory.

Vidme – Latest Video-Sharing Service Embraced By ISIS, Other terrorist Jihadis.

Vidme – Latest Video-Sharing Service Embraced By ISIS, Other terrorist Jihadis – Follows In Footsteps Of YouTube, Internet Archive. HT: Memri.By: Steven Stalinsky.

In the past few months, the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) has found that the video-sharing service Vidme has joined other services such as YouTube, the Internet Archive, Sendvid, Daily Motion, and more that host hosting numerous pro-Islamic State (ISIS) videos.

The videos on Vidme, many of which are produced by the ISIS media wing Al-Hayat, feature beheadings; children receiving ISIS military training and religious education; ISIS fighters from Canada, Germany, Russia, and other countries; Indonesian and other jihadis swearing allegiance to ISIS;  ISIS fighters training and fighting in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria, and other places; fighters from Jabhat Al-Nusra and other groups captured by ISIS; ISIS women fighters training; speeches by ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and others; Western media reports about ISIS with pro-ISIS commentary; and more.

Some of the videos are subtitled in English. Accounts and video pages, some of which feature ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and ISIS flags as avatars, can also include links to accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media, and also to other websites. Read the full story here. (Warning link contains graphic images).

Taking down 'Ataturk's legacy' - Turkey’s top court rules security cannot ask covered women to remove coat.

“Thank God Almighty,” said Mr. Erdogan in 1994, when he was the mayor of Istanbul. “I am a servant of Shariah.” 

Taking down 'Ataturk's legacy' - Turkey’s top court rules security cannot ask covered women to remove coat. (BGNews).


Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that asking headscarved women to take off their topcoats while entering a public legal institution is a violation of religious freedom.

Esma Nur Özbey filed a lawsuit after she was denied access to Istanbul’s Bakırköy Courthouse in January 2013 when she refused security guards’ request she take off her topcoat while passing through the electromagnetic security checkpoint. Her attempt to sue the guards on the grounds they had insulted her was rejected by the courts.

Özbey then appealed to the Constitutional Court claiming her religious freedom had been violated. The Constitutional Court ruled unanimously on Monday that Özbey’s freedom of religion and conscience, secured in Article 24 of the constitution, had in fact been violated.

The court noted that wearing a topcoat and her refusal to remove it are practices required by Islam, “There is a direct link between the plaintiff’s religious beliefs and her refusal to take off her clothing. For this reason, there is a need to accept that the applicant’s freedom of religion and conscience was interfered with.”

The ruling also noted that both administrative and legal officials had failed to fully explain why and how security would be jeopardized if Özbey didn’t take off her coat.

The court ruled that the plaintiff receive TRY 3,000 (USD 1,076) in damages for emotional distress.

'Transparent' Turkish AK Party has destroyed 2 truckloads of documents since election.

'Transparent' Turkish AK Party has destroyed 2 truckloads of documents since election.(TZ).

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has destroyed two truckloads of official documents since it lost its overall majority in Parliament for the first time in 13 years in the June 7 general election, according to a report in the Taraf daily.

The report, published on Monday, claims that sources within the civil service told Taraf that, following June 7, the AK Party ordered civil servants to destroy official documents such as those pertaining to discretionary fund expenditures and documents profiling dissenters, which could implicate AK Party officials if a coalition is unable to be formed or if the AK Party falls from grace in a snap election.

The report also claims that official papers pertaining to expenditures by the Prime Ministry via the discretionary fund have been destroyed and that most of the destruction has been done in the Prime Ministry and its lower departments. In addition, the report said that mail pertaining to exceptional appointments to certain government posts by direct ministerial authorization have been destroyed to prevent any possible liability.

Taraf's report states that the go-ahead for the eradication of documents, which the AK Party has labeled a “clean-up,” came on June 8 -- one day after the AK Party lost its single-party majority but continued to command a presence within the ministries. Some of the destroyed documents are said to be concerned with the recruitment process to the civil service, in which acts of nepotism and favoritism by the AK Party were reported earlier this year.

There have been claims that, when it was in power, the AK Party appointed its own partisans to public offices to ensure that the party's brand of Islamist political ideology would become dominant within the government bureaucracy. Hmmm.....How many Billions went to terrorism from the PM's discretionary fund? Read the full story here.

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'Advanced Islamist State' Turkey faces more convictions at ECtHR as human rights violations grow.

'Advanced Islamist State' Turkey faces more convictions at ECtHR as human rights violations grow. (TZ).

Turkey, which remains one of the “high case-count states” with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), continues to violate more and more fundamental rights as set out by the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) almost every single day.

According to data disclosed by the ECtHR in January, Turkey remains one of the “high case-count states” within the court, coming in fourth after Ukraine, Italy and Russia with nearly 9,500 applications pending before the court, amounting to 13.6 percent of the court's total applications that number 69,900. The court said Turkey is responsible for 24 out of the 47 violations as determined by the ECtHR; only Hungary with seven infringements came anywhere near Turkey in this category.

Turkey also ranks poorly in terms of the right to liberty and security, with 45 infringements determined by the ECtHR, coming in second only to the Russian Federation, which has 56 violations to its name. Turkey is also the leader in violations of the right to a fair trial -- as articulated in Article 6 of the ECHR -- with 31 violations.

The data on countries dating from 1959 to 2014 further casts a shadow on Turkey's reputation for respecting human rights and freedom of expression, showing 248 violations of freedom of expression, 671 violations of the right to liberty and security and 801 violations of the right to a fair trial.

Observers say Turkey faces more convictions by the European court since violations of rights granted by the ECHR -- such as the right to a fair trial, the right to freedom of expression, the right to liberty and security, the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, the right to freedom of assembly and association and the right to an effective remedy -- have peaked in the past few years.

One of the most frequently violated rights in Turkey is undoubtedly freedom of expression, which is defined in Article 10 of the ECHR. According to data released by the ECtHR, Turkey single-handedly surpassed the 46 other states in the Council of Europe (CoE) in terms of cases involving violations of the right to freedom of expression in 2014, which highlights the country's poor record in terms of freedom of expression. Hmmmm......Who in his right mind would want to vacation in such a country? Read the full story here.

Pro-Kurdish rallies hit European capitals following Neo - Ottoman Conqueror Turkey's bombing raids.

Pro-Kurdish rallies hit European capitals following  Neo - Ottoman Conqueror Turkey's bombing raids. (RT).

Hundreds of pro-Kurdish protesters have taken to the streets in the capitals of Europe’s three largest economies, rallying against Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq and Syria.

Protesters in Germany, France and the UK rallied on Saturday against the Turkish government, whose airstrikes on Kurdish Peshmerga militia positions in northern Iraq broke a truce that had lasted since 2013.

In Great Britain, a pro-Kurdish rally blocked BBC headquarters in London, during a march that started at Downing Street. Protestors were angry with the Turkish government in a show of solidarity with the victims of the Suruc massacre.

The protesters carried banners “Turkish government funds ISIS,” “Mass action to defeat ISIS,” “Down with fascism in Turkey,” “Erdogan [Turkish PM], blood on your hands” “No to terror! No to imperialism,” and chanted “BBC, shame on you!” and “We want justice!”

Many protesters held photos bearing victims’s names in the terror act in Turkey’s Suruc last Monday. Others carried red flags of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Hundreds of pro-Kurdish protesters rallied in the German capital on Saturday to remember the Suruc massacre victims and express support for the Turkish Kurds. The demonstrators carried portraits of Suruc victims, red and green flags of the PKK, flags of the unrecognized Kurdistan state and chanted songs in Kurdish.

The pro-Kurdish rally in France was probably the largest, with around 2,000 protesters gathering in the streets of Paris to rally against the recent Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq.

Young activists in red T-shirts carried portraits of Suruc victims and chanted “Erdogan assassin.”

Last Monday, a suicide bomber, a 20-year-old Kurdish national, killed 32 youth activists in the town of Suruc. All the victims were Kurds and Islamic State claimed responsibility for the atrocity.

Turkey, US to create 98-km-long, 40-km-wide ISIS-free zone in Syria -- in area now mostly under ISIS control.

Turkey, US to create 98-km-long, 40-km-wide KURD ISIS-free zone in Syria -- in area now mostly under ISIS control. (HD).

Turkey and the United States have agreed on a military action plan with the objective of clearing the Turkish-Syrian border of jihadist terrorists in what the two countries have called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-free zone.

This action plan was part of a comprehensive deal between the two allies which has been seen a “a game changer” in the fight against ISIL by the United States administration, whose warplanes will be able to use this region’s most strategic military base in İncirlik as part of its aerial campaign against jihadist positions.

The ISIL-free zone will be 98 kilometers long and 40 kilometers wide and situated between the Mare-Jarablus line. A good portion of this area is currently under ISIL control, and Turkey already vowed it would not tolerate Kurds the jihadists posing a threat to the Turkish border. 

Sources emphasized they have opted to call it the “ISIL-free zone” instead of a “security or safe zone” because the objections raised by Washington, who refrained from giving the wrong message to the Syrian regime, as well as Russia and Iran.

The idea of the name is to show that the main objective of this Turkish-American joint fight is eliminating KURDS ISIL in this particular area and not fighting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The aerial campaign will be largely carried out by U.S. jets deployed to the İncirlik base and Turkish participation will be considered only when necessary, sources stressed. However, this aerial protection will not be classified as an effort to build a no-fly zone over Syrian airspace. Together with aerial strikes, Turkish long-range artillery units will also be used if necessary.

The plan crafted by Ankara and Washington foresees the deployment of FSA units to this area if ISIL is completely cleared from that particular zone, which would both prevent the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) from further expanding its influence towards the West and create a safe environment for either sheltering Syrians fleeing violence or those who want to return to their homelands.   Hmmmm.......Sounds like the Obama 'Admin' gave Erdo carte blanche to wipe the 'zone' clean of Kurds.

Turkey's İncirlik base poised to host anti-ISIL coalition aircraft, NO - Fly Zone promised by Obama 'Admin'?

Turkey's İncirlik base poised to host anti-ISIL coalition aircraft, NO - Fly Zone promised by Obama 'Admin'? (HD).

A key military air base in southern Turkey is expected to be opened to aircraft of the coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after the Turkish and U.S. presidents conducted a phone call to finalize the deal.

The two sides agreed in principle about the use of the İncirlik base in Adana during talks on July 7-8.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agreed in a telephone call on July 22 to work together to “stem the flow of foreign fighters and secure Turkey’s border with Syria,” according a White House statement.

Before the conversation, a U.S. State Department official told daily Hürriyet that the İncirlik base was expected to open in early August to be used in the anti-ISIL fight.

He said they would not comment about drone operations, but added he could confirm the İncirlik base would be used by military aircraft of other coalition countries.

Hours before the White House statement, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç said in press conference in Ankara on July 22 that Turkey “had agreed on certain topics to support the [anti-ISIL] coalition’s efforts during a recent meeting with the U.S. special representative.”

“There is a consensus, conciliation has been reached upon these conversations but I cannot fully express its nature. A unanimity of thought and action has been reached about the issue of joint operations in the future*. A related cabinet motion is now open for a signature,” he said.

The U.S. official speaking to Hürriyet stressed that the agreement “only covers the İncirlik base” issue, albeit hinting at a softening in Ankara’s earlier conditions to open the base.

When asked whether a buffer zone or no-fly zone inside Syria was still on the table, Arınç only said *Ankara still wished to see them realized. “Turkey is doing its part in the coalition to support it. However, in order to achieve a result, it also wants the realization of a no-fly zone, security zone and other elements,” he said. Hmmmm.....Expect Obama's BFF Erdogan to blow up the coalition talks, go for new elections while entering Syria. Read the full story here.

Obama and BFF Erdogan agree to stop 'foreign fighters' crossing into Syria.

Obama and BFF Erdogan agree to stop 'foreign fighters' crossing into Syria. (JPost).

US President Barack Obama and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan agreed in a telephone call on Wednesday to work together to "stem the flow of foreign fighters and secure Turkey's border with Syria," the White House said in a statement.

It said the two leaders also discussed deepening their cooperation in the fight against Islamic State, which has grabbed swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory and declared a caliphate.

Thousands of foreign fighters have crossed through Turkey, a NATO member, to join Islamic State over the past few years.

The Turkish government has rejected accusations from the opposition that it has in the past tacitly supported Islamic State militants operating from Syria and had unwittingly opened the door to a suicide bombing that killed at least 32 people in a Turkish town near the Syrian border this week.

The White House said Obama had condemned Monday's bombing in the Turkish town of Suruç.

"He conveyed condolences on behalf of the American people to the families of the victims, and the two leaders affirmed that the United States and Turkey stand united in the fight against terrorism," the statement said.

The phenomenon of Israeli Arabs joining the ranks of ISIS in Syria and Iraq is growing and, according to estimates, numbers in the dozens.

The latest report came on Monday when it was revealed that three Israeli Arab youths have been seeking to enter Syria from Turkey in recent days in order to join the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, according to reports. Hmmmm......The numbers of TURKS joining ISIS and ISIS Members inside 'Islamist' Turkey is way higher than suspected, Don't talk about three Arab Israelis Period.

Smuggled Armored vehicles bound for Libya seized from roro ship in Greece.

Smuggled Armored vehicles bound for Libya seized from roro ship in Greece.(Splash24/7).

Athens: Greek customs have seized 16 armoured vehicles from a roro carrier stopped at the port of Keratsini, allegedly bound for Khalid port in Libya.

The contraband cargo consisted of eight armoured Typhoon GSS-300 military vehicles; five armoured civilian Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles, and three armoured vehicles including a BMW and Mercedes.

Carriage of these vehicles to Libya is a violation of paragraph 9 of UN Decision 1970/2011, which prohibits the direct or indirect supply, sale or transfer of military and paramilitary equipment to the country.

The Panama-flagged Tychy (8,044 dwt, built 1988; pictured) had arrived at Keratisini, near Piraeus, from the port of La Spezia in northern Italy. The vessel was due to make a stop at the port of Deringe, Turkey, before arriving in Libya.

This is not the first time the Tychy has been caught carrying arms illegally. The vessel was stopped in February this year for carrying another cargo of prohibited vehicles. Hmmm.......

Video - ISIS Saudi Female suicide bomber captured by hashdshaabi in Iraq.