Turkmen Diaspora Representatives in Europe send a letter to the Iraqi Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) demanding to be included in the election observers’ team in Europe

November 21, 2009 at 5:09 pm | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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السيد أياد الكناني المحترم

المسئول عن الانتخابات في الخارج

 لدى المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات

 

 

الموضوع : مراقبة الانتخابات خارج العراق/ انتخابات مجلس النواب العراقي 2010

 

نهديكم تحياتنا الخالصة و بعد

 

 نحن ممثلو تركمان العراق في أوربا نقدر عاليا جهودكم المبذولة من اجل تنظيم و مراقبة الانتخابات القادمة لانتخاب أعضاء مجلس النواب العراقي الجديد في 2010  كما نقدر حرصكم على إجراء هذه الانتخابات في أحسن الظروف  و في جو ديمقراطي سليم بعيدا عن بعض الأخطاء و التجاوزات المؤسفه  التي حدثت و رصدت في الانتخابات السابقة

 

 حرصا منا لإنجاح الانتخابات القادمه نود إعلامكم عن تصميمنا و تصميم جميع افراد جالياتنا( جاليات تركمان العراق في البلدان الاوربيه)   المشاركة الفعلية في هذه الانتخابات  من جهه  و عزمنا و استعدادنا على المشاركة في  مراقبة هذه الانتخابات و عمليات التصويت لها في البلدان الاوربيه حيث نقيم  تفاديا لوقوع  الاخطاء او التجاوزات اثناء التصويت

 

لذا نفاتحكم كممثلين للجاليات التركمانيه في البلدان الاوربيه كي نبلغكم عن رغبتنا و استعدادنا للمشاركه في مراقبة الانتخابات القادمه في اوربا آملين حصول موافقتكم  و إشراكنا في فرق المراقبه  لتلك الانتخابات

 

في انتظار ردكم  الى طلبنا هذا نرجو قبول تحياتنا الخالصه

 

د. حسن توفيق آيدنلي  : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في بلجيكا و رئيس لجنة الدفاع عن حقوق تركمان العراق لدى الاتحاد الاوربي

د. نورالدين شاهين     : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في فرنسا

السيده سندس عباس    : ممثلة الجاليه التركمانيه في المملكه المتحده

السيد سلمان موفق     : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في ايرلندا

السيد غانم عثمان      : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في المانيا

السيد عباس قصاب    : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في هولندا

السيد شكران قياجي    : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في الدانمارك

السيد يلماز توفيق      : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في السويد

السيد اورهان كتنه     : ممثل الجاليه التركمانيه في تركيا

L’Irak est encore loin d’une normalisation, selon Denis Bauchard

November 21, 2009 at 9:27 am | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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L’Irak est encore loin d’une normalisation, selon Denis Bauchard

Par Georges Malbrunot le 20 novembre 2009

 

Le Figaro s’est procuré le « papier » que Denis Bauchard, ancien diplomate et spécialiste du Moyen-Orient à l’Institut français des relations internationales, vient de rédiger à l’issue de son séjour à Bagdad, pour le compte, notamment, des autorités françaises. Il m’a paru intéressant de vous livrer les conclusions tirées par cet analyste, bon connaisseur de l’Irak.

Bagdad est méconnaissable avec ses multiples check points gardés conjointement par des militaires irakiens et des forces de protection fournies par les contractors et ses murs anti-déflagration qui enlaidissent encore une ville ingrate.

Chaque bâtiment officiel est une forteresse fortement gardée et protégée. Ainsi Bagdad a toutes les apparences d’une ville en état de guerre même si l’ennemi reste invisible.

Cependant derrière ce quadrillage pesant, la vie continue, le pays recommence à retrouver une certaine normalité, la réalité irakienne apparaît dans toute sa complexité.

Après plus de trente ans de régime baathiste, huit ans de guerre meurtrière ave l’Iran et treize ans de sanctions internationales particulièrement rudes, l’Irak reste encore un pays sinistré même si, l’optimisme aidant, il a touché le fond de la détresse et apparaît de nouveau sur une pente ascendante de réconciliation politique et de reconstruction économique.

1 – Une situation sécuritaire en voie d’amélioration.

Après l’enfer des années 2006 et 2007, la combinaison du “surge” (sursaut), une certaine lassitude chez les insurgents, et l’affirmation de l’autorité du premier ministre, Nouri al-Maliki, ont permis d’améliorer les conditions de sécurité. Selon les chiffres officiels, le nombre d’incidents, qui a atteint son niveau le plus élevé entre juin 2006 et septembre 2007, a été ramené en septembre 2009 au niveau mensuel le plus bas enregistré depuis l’intervention américaine en 2003.

Cependant les chiffres pour ce même mois – 125 morts civils et 198 hostile incidents – montrent que cette sécurité est relative et que le risque présenté par les IED – improvised explosive device – reste présent. Les deux attentats spectaculaires du 19 août et du 25 octobre derniers à Bagdad ont touché sciemment des bâtiments publics, symboles du pouvoir, et les personnes qui se trouvaient à proximité : le bilan dans chaque cas – plus de cent morts et près de six cents blessés- remet-il en cause les progrès constatés par ailleurs ?

Officiellement on veut croire que ces attentats meurtriers, dont les auteurs n’ont pas été identifiés, ne sont que les derniers soubresauts de mouvements terroristes sur la défensive, voire en voie d’éradication. Le “surge” en combinant des actions militaires avec des mesures à caractère politique visant notamment à la réconciliation entre les communautés chiites et sunnites a permis de réduire de façon spectaculaire le niveau des violences et a contribué à démanteler le réseau d’Al Qaïda dont la capacité de nuisance a fortement diminuée.

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Van Rompuy becomes first president of Europe

November 20, 2009 at 11:47 am | In Turkmens | 1 Comment
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New European Union president Herman Van Rompuy

 and his foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton
(Photo: Reuters)

EU – presidency

Van Rompuy becomes first president of Europe

Article published on the 2009-11-20 

Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy has been named as the first ever full-time president of the European Council. Former EU trade commissioner, Britain’s Catherine Ashton, was named as high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.

 The appointments, which were made during a meeting of all 27 EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday, have been given a warm welcome among the EU leadership and in Washington where US President Barack Obama said that it would make Europe an “even stronger partner” for the United States.

Swedish Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt, whose country holds the long-established rotating EU presidency, spoke of a unanimous choice who would seek consensus.

“The idea is to have a leader of the (EU) council… who actually gives room for everyone, who listens to everyone, who creates winners not losers,” he said.

“We have achieved that.”

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Zionist Control of Britain’s Government: 1940-2009

November 20, 2009 at 10:55 am | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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By William A. Cook

November 19, 2009

 

 

www.uruknet.info?p=60263

“After so many years of setting the tone, bribing UK politicians and controlling the BBC they (Zionists) are used to being untouchable.” (Gilad Atzmon, “Britain Must de-Zionist Itself Immediately,” Nov. 17, 2009, MWC News).

This week the British people listened to the Daily Mail’s Peter Oborne present, on Channel 4, his devastating account of the Jewish lobby’s control of their government. Now we know that virtually all the principal politicians in the UK of both parties, like their brothers across the lake in our House and Senate, take “contributions” from the Israeli lobby machine ensuring that the Anglo-American mid-east policies follow the dictates of the Israeli government. Gilad Atzmon responded to this report in his article “Britain must de-Zionise itself immediately,” noting that this control has been in place for so many years the lobby feels “untouchable.” 

Azer H. HASRET’s blogs

November 20, 2009 at 4:50 am | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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Azer H. HASRET

Please note that I have just added the links to Azer H. HASRET’s blogs

under ‘blogs I follow’

  http://www.yalquzaq.com/

Doğudan Batıya Türk Dünyasının Birliyi Uğrunda!

Turkmeneli section :

http://www.yalquzaq.com/?cat=20

and :

Yedi Devlet bir Millet Kültür ve Dayanışma Derneği

 http://www.yedidevletbirmillet.org.tr/

Analysis by Reidar Visser: Constitutional Disintegration

November 20, 2009 at 3:49 am | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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Constitutional Disintegration

Posted by Reidar Visser on November 19, 2009

 

Today’s heated scenes in the Iraqi parliament are symptomatic of a more general tendency towards constitutional chaos in Iraq in the wake of the adoption of the elections law on 8 November and the subsequent veto of it – or parts of it – by Tariq al-Hashemi yesterday. At one point, the Sadrist head of the legal committee triumphantly announced that the federal supreme court had effectively vetoed the veto for being unconstitutional; on closer inspection it turned out matters were not so clear cut and the parliamentary speaker, Ayad al-Samarrai has announced another early-Saturday session on 21 November for the legal committee (and, maybe, the whole assembly) to consider the veto, saying there was no contradiction between the Hashemi veto and the opinion of the court.

The core of the problem here is the strong but not very detailed powers assigned to the temporary tripartite presidency council in the 2005 constitution. The presidency council reviews all legislation submitted by parliament; unless all its members agree to a bill it must be returned to parliament within ten days of receipt. This procedure can be repeated once more, but may then be trumped by a three-fifths majority of the parliament. Beyond the timelines and the general consensus requirement, no other specific procedural details are outlined in the constitution.

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Turkmen representative Orhan Ketene on Al-Jazeera

November 19, 2009 at 12:00 pm | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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For those who missed it:

To watch the video please click on:

Turkmen representative Orhan Ketene on Al-Jazeera

 

Improved democracy?

http://turkmenfriendship.blogspot.com/2009/11/turkmen-representative-orhan-ketene-on.html

  

This week the Iraqi parliament passed a crucial election law after weeks of deadlock. In other countries, a new election law may be only an internal affair. In Iraq, it is different.

Without the new law, parliamentary elections scheduled for January could not take place and US troop withdrawal may have been postponed. Now, elections are to be held on January 12, 2010.

Just five days after the original date, but the law remains controversial. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk in Northern Iraq is at the heart of the debate. Kurds consider Kirkuk a Kurdish city and want it to be part of their self-ruled region in northern Iraq.

Arabs and Turkmen vehemently disagree. They want control to be with the central government in Baghdad and some accuse Kurds of deliberately changing demographics in their favour.

The new law benefits the Kurdish community, but analysts say all sides had to compromise. The US President hails the law as a milestone, but what does it mean for Iraqi politics? Is it a move towards more democracy or yet another proof of sectarianism?

Inside Iraq discusses with guests Orhan Ketene, a speaker of the Turkman Front, Mundher Adhami, an Analyst, King’s College, and Firyad Rawandouzi, a Kurdish MP.

The Hashemi Veto

November 18, 2009 at 8:42 pm | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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The Hashemi Veto

Posted by Reidar Visser on November 18, 2009

Iraq Gulf Analysis

Observers of political developments in Iraq are at odds to explain the background of today’s veto by the Iraqi presidency council, through Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi, of the recently-passed Iraqi election law.

On the face of it, the justification of the veto seems clear. It is related not to the controversial issue of Kirkuk but to the quota of seats reserved for the exiled voters. The law adopted on 8 November set aside 5 per cent of the seats in total for so-called “national” and “compensatory” seats. Since this quota will also cater for minority seats and because of the particular distribution mechanism adopted, it will in practice involve a minimum of “compensation” (in the sense of enhancing proportionality lost due to the discrepancies between a theoretical single constituency and the 18 constituencies that will be used across Iraq), and instead will serve as a nineteenth electoral district for out-of-country voting. And since the minority seats make up half the quota, the remainder of 8 seats leaves the exiled Iraqis – who are estimated at as many as 3 million according to some sources – with a poor level of representation compared to the domestic ratio of representation and the constitutional standard of 1 deputy per 100,000 Iraqis. Hashemi wants a quota of 15 per cent instead.

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Davutoğlu, Iraqi Shiite leader discuss cooperation

November 18, 2009 at 8:34 pm | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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Davutoğlu, Iraqi Shiite leader discuss cooperation

ISTANBUL – Daily News with wires
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

 

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Ammar Abdulaziz al-Hakim, leader of  Iraq’s Islamic Supreme Council, discussed the upcoming elections in Iraq and future cooperation regarding the Kurdish issue on Wednesday in Istanbul.

Davutoğlu signified that the elections were could be a “turning point” in the two countries’ relations.

During the meeting, Davutoğlu said Turkey wanted a peaceful and prosperous Iraq, reported Anatolia news agency.

Al- Hakim stressed the importance of preserving the rights of all Iraqis, including those of the Turkmen people in Kirkuk. He welcomed Turkey’s support of Iraq’s democratization process and cooperation on water policy.

In an interview with broadcaster CNNTürk, al-Hakim responded to a question about Turkey’s recent foreign policy moves: “We see Turkey as a bridge between East and West. Of course, we welcome Turkey’s improved relations with the East. But it is important that Turkey maintains its position with the West at the same time.”

© 2009 Hurriyet Daily News
URL: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=davutoglu-and-iraqi-shiite-leader-discuss-relations-2009-11-18

“Turkey following Atatürk’s foreign policy, not pursuing neo-Ottomanism”

November 18, 2009 at 3:51 pm | In Turkmens | Leave a Comment
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“Turkey following Atatürk’s foreign policy, not pursuing neo-Ottomanism”

 

Professor Ali Arslan, a lecturer at the department of history at İstanbul University who specializes in the history of the Turkish Republic, says it is wrong to regard Turkey’s current foreign policy, which is geared toward the Middle East, as neo-Ottomanism as its current direction signifies a return to the foreign policy followed during the time of the country’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. “The prime minister criticizes not the Israeli state, but the Israeli government,” he says, referring to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent remarks about Israel.

In an exclusive interview with Today’s Zaman, Professor Arslan discussed the new era of relations between Turkey and the Middle East. Underlining that the history of the Middle East during the past 200 years has to be studied in detail in order to correctly analyze the current relations between Turkey and the Middle East, Arslan asserts: “Currently, there is a foreign policy strategy which is very similar to the multifaceted foreign policy practices employed during the time of Atatürk. Atatürk contacted the countries in the region as the UK was leaving the region. Now, the US is pulling out of the region, and Turkey is contacting the countries in the region in the same manner.”Pointing out that after the end of the bipolar world, Turkey expended all of its energy on trying to enter the European Union, Arslan argues, “However, the EU has alienated Turkey, and now Turkey is taking advantage of the emerging opportunities.” Continue reading “Turkey following Atatürk’s foreign policy, not pursuing neo-Ottomanism”…
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