Regional geopolitics

[HyeSocialist]

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Good video German vote on the first Holocaust

One can hope that this is a catalyst to get the reamining European countries to recognize the Genocide.

[Azad]

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Then comes the little idiot

"Azerbaijan calls Bundestag's resolution on Armenian genocide in Ottoman Empire biased

"We find the resolution on Armenian genocide adopted by the German parliament to be biased and partial," Gajiev said. "Falsifications of history or its utilization for political purposes are inadmissible."
Adoption of a one-sided resolution "on a historical issue as much faked as the Armenian genocide comes forth as a glaring instance of double standards at a time when the German parliament shows indifference towards Armenia's aggression against Azerbaijan," the statement said.

http://tass.ru/en/world/879816

[Azad]

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There is a funny one from an azeri

“This is not the first time. A similar attempt was attempted in the Israeli parliament. But that attempt, in which Azerbaijan’s diaspora also intervened, ended up in failure. We need to find out why it happened. We have to work together to prevent the Armenian provocation, and we will succeed in doing so,” he added.

http://en.apa.az/xeber_azerbaijan_to_support_turkey_over_german_244559.html

[Azad]

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what does the west think of you azeris?

"In Armenia and its breakaway sister-republic, Nagorno-Karabakh (NKR), which lies inside Azerbaijani territory, the April conflict is already being called the “four-day war” and cited as proof that the threat of genocide still persists."

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/nagorno-karabakh-armenia-azerbaijan-four-day-war/

[Vrej1915]

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https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/jihadist-rebels-russian-reconaissance/

[Vrej1915]

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36428518

Can Russia and Turkey heal rift?
By Selin Girit
BBC News, Istanbul

Since the downing of the Russian jet by Turkish forces in November, relations between Turkey and Russia have been in a pattern of controlled tension. The war of words has been interesting to watch.
On Tuesday, came another round. Turkey accused Russia of an attack on a hospital in Idlib - something Moscow denied. In retaliation, Moscow called on Ankara to withdraw troops from northern Iraq immediately.
Later in the day though, a departure from the months-long, tough rhetoric came surprisingly from Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mr Erdogan said he was concerned at how relations had been sacrificed over what he called "a pilot error", referring to the downing of the jet which Turkey claims had violated its air space.
He also said he wanted to improve ties with Russia but that he did not understand what kind of "first step" Moscow was expecting.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin was clear about that: Moscow expects a formal and public apology from Turkey and also compensation for the jet incident.
Not something that Ankara seems likely to do.
"Turkey wants to take a step, but does not want to give the impression that this would indeed be a step back," says diplomacy expert Semih Idiz.
"There is no international pressure on Turkey to apologise. I don't think it is going to happen."

The downing of the Russian jet changed Turkey's involvement in the Syrian conflict considerably.
As Russia maintained a de facto no-fly zone in northern Syria by the Turkish border, Turkey lost its ability to give air support to Syrian rebels or protect its borders from Islamic State (IS) militants' shelling.
"If Erdogan could rewind one foreign policy move, that would be the downing of the Russian plane. He regrets it so much," says Soner Cagaptay from US-based think tank Washington Institute.
"But given Mr Erdogan's personality, I think an apology is highly unlikely. It would be the first time Erdogan would have admitted to a foreign policy failure."
Many also think a public apology could be seen as demeaning by the nationalists whose support Mr Erdogan needs in order to be able to change the system in Turkey from parliamentary to presidential, giving him significantly greater executive powers.
"Neither Mr Erdogan nor the ruling party can take that risk and pay that political price. No apology can come before the whole debate on regime change is over," says academic Ahmet Kasim Han.
Proxy war in prospect?
Although the tension between the two countries could be unsustainable in the long run, no one actually thinks that this could evolve into an all-out war. However, many expect a proxy escalation.
On 13 May, a Turkish Cobra helicopter was shot down by the Kurdish militia group PKK over south-eastern Turkey, killing two pilots. A Russian-made man-portable air defence system (Manpads) was used in the attack.

On Monday, President Erdogan accused Russia of supplying weapons to the PKK. Moscow asked the Turkish government to provide evidence.
It is not clear whether Russia handed weaponry to the PKK or whether the PKK bought the missile on the black market in Syria or Iraq.
But because of the historical ties between the PKK and Moscow, the general assumption in Turkey is that the PKK is being used by Russia as a proxy in the recent escalation.
"Russia might provide weapons to the PKK, they are already giving weapons to the PYD (Kurdish Democratic Union Party), they have promised recognition to Rojava (Kurdish entity in northern Syria), Russians are escalating against Turkey through the use of proxy issues. I think that's going to be the long-term vision moving forward," says Soner Cagaptay.
This, however, presents many risks for Turkey. A Russian MP recently warned that Moscow would arm the PKK with Manpads if Washington and its allies allowed such weapons to reach Syrian opposition groups. Two weeks after this, the Turkish helicopter was shot down.
The PKK having the ability to use Manpads against Turkish forces poses a serious threat, says defence analyst Can Kasapoglu.
"We do not know how many Manpads the PKK currently has. That would be classified information of the Turkish intelligence. So we can't speculate on how big a threat this is."

[HyeSocialist]

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Kazakhstan: At Least 10 Killed in Unrest Blamed on Extremists

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/79081

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More progessive culture coming from our "brothers in arms." Is this the kind of states we really want to be cooperating with? No wonder they love Aliyev and Azerbaijan so much. In fact, distancing ourselves from repressive muslim regimes that are now slowly being dragged into internal conflcts with radical extremists at home can probably be a good thing for Armenia. Can you imagine Armenians being targeted by Kazakh radicals just because we have exercises with Kazakhstan and those Kazakhs don't even want to make a public statement on Azeri aggression on Artsakh?

Hopefully the lessons of the 4 day war in Artsakh are opening the eyes of Armenia's leadership and realizing that it is very possible that the things that are happening abroad can surely come home if they don't act.

[HyeSocialist]

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Iran finds new port partner in India

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/iran-india-modi-visit-chabar-investment.html

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Slowly but surely, things in the region are looking like they will be benefitting Armenia.

[Azad]

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This is good! Let's see where it will go.

"If a US court acknowledges the Armenian genocide, the Government must follow suit
There is no arcane historical legal argument but an embarrassing political case, in which three named Armenians – who are full US citizens – will assert their rights to land under the Incirlik Nato base in Turkey.

Incirlik is America’s forward air base in Turkey, take-off point for the US air battle against Isis. But in less than two months, a group of Armenians, all descendants of the 1915 genocide of one-and-a-half-million Christians massacred by Ottoman Turkey, will claim in a US court that the land on which America’s jets take off to bomb Syrian and Iraqi targets belongs to them, and must be returned to their families.

As an increasing number of European nations acknowledge the most appalling crime against humanity of the First World War as a genocide, which the US Government still refuses to accept for fear of upsetting Turkey, the ghosts of the dead, it seems, are returning to haunt even America’s latest Middle East war."

You can read the rest

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/armenian-genocide-us-court-incirlik-nato-base-legal-case-government-robert-fisk-a7069586.html

[londontsi]

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Istanbul-Armenian patriarch ‘grieved’ by Bundestag resolution

http://www.tert.am/en/news/2016/06/08/hz2/2043390

After the passage by the German Bundestag of the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide,
the Armenian patriarche of Istanbul expressed the “nation’s deep grieves” over the move, the paper has learned.

In a letter addressed to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Archbishop Aram Ateshiam blamed German legislators for “meddling into affairs not within their competences”.

“Such a wrong attitude by Germany is unacceptable,” he said, according to the paper.