Headlines:
- ‘Self-rule’ Claim Lands Two Turkish Mayors in Jail
- Spain’s Patriots to stay in Turkey until NATO says otherwise
- Turkey’s ISIL Mandate includes ‘Military Action Abroad, Opening Bases to Foreign Troops’
‘Self-rule’ Claim Lands Two Turkish Mayors in Jail
Five people, including two mayors of two districts in southeastern Diyarbakir province have been jailed over alleged “autonomy” claims, judicial sources said on Sunday.
A local court in Diyarbakir charged five people, including Sur Mayor Seyid Narin and Silvan Mayor Yuksel Bodakci, with “disrupting the unity and territorial integrity of the state”. They were sent to jail pending further trials.
Two other people were released on conditional probations, the sources added.
The seven suspects were detained on Wednesday following an investigation launched by Diyarbakir’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.
Police are still on the lookout for four more suspects. [Source: Anadolu Agency]
What a major security weakness! Since the ‘Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) restarted street demonstrations, Turkish government’s authority has weakened in the eastern regions of Turkey. And now the PKK declared “Self-Rule” in the region and started to act like a state. The central government is trying to regain its authority by force.
Spain’s Patriots to stay in Turkey until NATO says otherwise
The Patriot air defense missiles provided by Spain will remain in Turkey unless NATO says otherwise, Spanish Defense Minister Pedro Morenes said Sunday.
Morenes’ statement comes after U.S. and Germany announced that they would end their contribution to NATO’s Patriot anti-missile systems in southern Turkey by the beginning of 2016.
“Spain will continue its [Patriot] mission in Turkey as long as NATO asks,” Morenes said, according to the La Razon, Spain’s daily newspaper in its Sunday edition.
Spain decided in September to send Patriot air defense missiles to Turkey as part of its NATO obligations to replace units from the Netherlands which were being withdrawn, and naval ships carrying the missiles arrived at the port of Iskenderun in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay on January 9.
Germany had deployed Patriot batteries in southern Kahramanmaras province since January 2013, as part of a NATO mission to counter possible threats from Syria. [Source: Anadolu Agency]
Turkey can never be a real independent state as long as it stays member of the NATO. It cannot even evacuate foreign army forces from its own land. Real independence comes from ideological roots. Muslim lands will soon reunite and rejoin their forces to save the Ummah and eject colonialist states from its heart by establishing the Khilafah Rashidah upon the method of the Prophethood.
Turkey’s ISIL Mandate includes ‘Military Action Abroad, Opening Bases to Foreign Troops
The mandate the Turkish government is seeking from the Parliament to authorize the army to send troops into Iraq and Syria to deal with growing threat of extremist jihadists does also include opening its bases to foreign troops, a senior government official has said, signalling about potential Turkish contribution to the international military campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Turkey is insisting to establish safe havens in Syria for the protection of Syrian refugees inside the country. Apart from a security zone, it does also ask coalition members led by the United States to establish no-fly zones over Syrian airspace.
The motion is based on Article 92 of Turkey’s Constitution that stipulates parliamentary authorization for sending troops to another country or to allow deployment of foreign troops on Turkish soils.
Arınc said the motion has two parts, its reasoning and demands from the Parliament, and underlined that it will be as comprehensive as possible so that the government will not need a fresh parliamentary mandate.
“We were planning to extend already existing motions on Iraq and Syria that will expiry in October. Their validity could be extended in a routine way but we have thought to work on a text merging these motions that would address all threats and risks Turkey is facing in its region,” Arınc stressed.
The motion is expected to be voted at the Parliament on Oct. 2 following a closed session due to sensitivity of the issue. [Source: Hurriyet Daily News]
Turkish government is serving to its puppeteer by mentioning its expectations as they were its own. A sincere Muslim ruler can never allow foreign troops to invade another Muslim land using its soil. This means breach of sovereignty.
وَلَنْ يَجْعَلَ اللّٰهُ لِلْكَافِر۪ينَ عَلَى الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ سَب۪يلاً۟
“And never will Allah grant to the disbelievers a way (to triumph) over the believers).”
(Nisa: 141)