FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan

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FIRE-EARTH Report 081602

Countries in Focus: Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan

• Report 081602 prepared by FIRE-EARTH Science and affiliated scientists.

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Welcome to DSEI: Bazaar for Purveyors of Mass Murder and Genocide

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– UK Report # 51 –

“World leading event” for global arms sales

The so-called Defense and Security Equipment International (DSEI) boasts to be “the world leading event” for global arms sales. “DSEI represents the entire supply chain on an unrivaled scale.”

DSEI 2017 is now underway (12-15 September 2017) at the Excel Center in East London, showcasing the latest equipment and systems across the military sectors.

Despots, dictatorships and human rights abusers from 56 countries have been invited, “these include a range of regimes with appalling human rights records: such as Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam,” CAAT reported.

“Other governments, such as Israel, will send delegations to promote arms via national pavilions, while others will be invited by the event organisers, Clarion Events.”

Background:

Britain now world’s 2nd biggest arms dealer –Report

UK has been selling more arms than Russia, China, or France on average over the last 10 years, second only to the United States, according to UK Trade and Investment, a government body that promotes British exports abroad.

“Since 2010 Britain has also sold arms to 39 of the 51 countries ranked ‘not free’ on the Freedom House ‘Freedom in the world’ report, and 22 of the 30 countries on the UK Government’s own human rights watch list,” a report said.

UK govt issued £10bn [US$13.2bn] in arms licenses between 2010-2015 to regimes designated “unfree” by Freedom House, including China, Oman, Turkmenistan and UAE, according to a joint analysis conducted by the Independent and Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT).

Meanwhile £7.9bn worth of arms were sold to countries on the “human rights priority countries” list, which is maintained by the Foreign Office and includes countries judged by the FCO to have “the worst, or greatest number of, human rights violations.”

Two-thirds of UK weapons exports have gone to Middle Eastern countries since 2010, the report added.

[UK Report #51 is prepared by an affiliated team of political scientists.]

• UK Reports Nos. 01 – 51 are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 Related Links:

• UK approved £283m of arms sales to Saudis after airstrike on Yemen funeral

Strong Earthquake Strikes Kazakhstan

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M6.3 quake occurs 107km SSE of Dostyq, Kazakhstan

The event was followed by at least 5 aftershocks measuring 5.2, 5.3, 4.5 and 4.5mb respectively, as of this report.

EQD

Magnitude: 6.3mww
Location: 44.323°N 82.837°E  [- 107km SSE of Dostyq, Kazakhstan]
Depth: 25.9 km
Time: 23:27:53 UTC, 2017-08-08

Other Significant EQs:

Magnitude: 5.3mww
Location: 36.955°N, 27.561°E [14km SE of Bodrum, Turkey]
Depth: 10.0 km
Time: 2017-08-08 07:42:22 (UTC)

Magnitude: 5.2mb
Location: 52.616°N, 172.600°E [47km WSW of Attu Station, Alaska]
Depth: 34.9 km
Time: 2017-08-08 @ 21:46:50 (UTC)

[USGS]

Tectonics 101: Deadly Earthquake Strikes Erdogan’s Fascist Turkey

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M6.7 Earthquake Strikes 10km SSE of Bodrum, Turkey

The event was followed by at least seven aftershocks measuring between 4.0 and 4.7mb.

Early Casualty Report:

Up to a dozen people were killed in the quake and hundreds more injured in in Turkey’s Bodrum, and on the Greek island of Kos, according to early reports.

EQ Details [USGS]

Magnitude: 6.7 mww
Location: 36.949°N, 27.458°E; about 10km SSE of Bodrum, Turkey
Depth: 10.0 km
Time: 2017-07-20 22:31:12 (UTC)

Distances [EMSC]

• 166 km S of İzmir, Turkey [pop: 2,501,000]
• 90 km W of Muğla, Turkey [pop: 48,200]
• 90 km NW of Ródos, Greece [pop: 56,200]
• 12 km S of Bodrum, Turkey [pop: 39,400]

FIRE-EARTH Ref: 000104 – UPDATE 052701

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FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 22

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Turkey celebrates anniversary of false-flag coup

Erdogan marked anniversary of the murderous plot [dubbed the “failed coup”] that solidified his hold on power.

[Prepared by an affiliated team of political scientists.]

• Reports Turkey 01 – 22 are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

Background:

• At least 260 people were killed and 2,200 others wounded.
• Up to 190,000 state employees were purged up to the eve of the plot anniversary on Friday.
• Yesterday, some 7,400 state employees were fired on Friday alone as the government continued its purge for alleged links to “terrorist groups.”
• Erdogan’s fascist regime has also carried out at least 50,000 arrests.
• Last week, hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Istanbul concluding a 450km “justice” march against the government.

 

M6.3 Earthquake Strikes near Lesbos, Greece

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Strong Earthquake Rattles Plomárion, Greece 

Magnitude: 6.3 Mw  [Magnitude and depth subject to revision EMSC]
Region: SOUTH OF THE ISLAND OF LESBOS/ NEAR COAST OF WESTERN TURKEY
Location 38.85 N, 26.31 E
Depth: 9km [As of Latest Revision]
Time: 2017-06-12 at 12:28:37.8 UTC
Distances:

• 87 km NW of İzmir, Turkey [pop: 2,501,000]
• 36 km SW of Mytilíni, Greece [pop: 28,400]
• 15 km S of Plomárion, Greece [pop: 3,400]

Largest aftershock: 4.9 at 38.88N, 26.28E  [depth of 7km] at  12:31:39.1
FIRE-EARTH References: KMQ2 [061001]

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 13

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“Sinjar on brink of major conflict between PKK, Turkey” —Observers

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 13 available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

Background:

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party liberated Sinjar from ISIL terrorists, but now they face an  existential threat from the largest terrorist organization in the region –the Turkish military.

FIRE-EARTH Report: Ottoman Empire 2.0?

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FIRE-EARTH Report (Turkey 14): How Much Worse Could it Really Get, Before…

Background:

Erdogan government has again sacked about 4,000 more public officials in its latest purge related to July 2016 failed coup.

Additionally, more than 9,000 police officers were suspended and a further 1,000 arrested last Wednesday on suspicion of having links to the cleric Fethullah Gulen.

More than 160,000 employees both in the public and private sectors have now been sacked and up to 60,000 others arrested over the past 10 months.

From Armenian Genocide to Kurdish Democide

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FIRE-EARTH Report: From Armenian Genocide to Kurdish Democide (Turkey 13)

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 13 available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

Background:

• Once again, Turkey has targeted Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria killing about 100 fighters, in a blow against Kurdish forces battling ISIL terrorists in the region.
• Three Kurdish groups are currently fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorists: The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters operating in Turkey, the Rojava Defence Units (YPG) fighters operating in northern Syria and the Peshmerga fighters that are in charge of security in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Anniversary of the Armenian Holocaust Commemorated

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Estimated 1.5 million Armenians exterminated by Turks

Armenians commemorated the 102nd anniversary of the Armenian genocide across Europe and the Americas. Thousands of demonstrators marched to Turkish embassies in Buenos Aires Los Angeles and Paris on April 24.

An estimated 1.5 million Armenians were exterminated within the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, the Republic of Turkey, between 1915 and 1923.

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 12

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Turkey: Back to the Dark Past

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 12 available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 11

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Status Downgraded from ‘Watch’ to ‘Alert’

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 11 available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 

 

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 10

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What Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Benito Mussolini, Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe Have in Common, and…

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 10 are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 09

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Turkey Conducting another Round of Democide

UN investigators report some 2,000 people were killed by Turkish military in the country’s Kurdish southeast between July 2015 and December 2016. Turkish forces are accused of killings, serious human rights violations, disappearances and instances of torture and ill-treatment of detainees including rape.

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 09 are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS

 

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 08

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Turkey’s Hidden ‘Treasures’

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 08 are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 07

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Turkey Purges 150,000 Civil Servants and Counting

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• Reports Turkey 01 – 07 are available from FIRE-EARTH PULSARS.

 

FIRE-EARTH Report: Turkey 06

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Turkey Playing Both Sides of the Fence

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Turkey Slides into Fascism

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Pope Francis Visits Armenian Genocide Memorial

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The Armenian Genocide: The first genocide of the 20th century

Pope Francis paid tribute on Saturday to the 1.5 million Armenians massacred in 1915 genocide.

“Here I pray, with pain in my heart, so that never again will there be tragedies like this, so that humanity does not forget and knows how to overcome evil with good,” he wrote in the guest book at the Genocide Memorial and Museum in Yerevan on Saturday.

“May God protect the memory of the Armenian people! Memory cannot be stifled or forgotten! Memory is a source of peace and future!”

On Friday, he described the slaughter of ethnic Armenians by Ottoman Turks as an act of “genocide.”

“During a Mass marking the 100th anniversary of the deaths in April 2015, he said the events were “the first genocide of the 20th century,” echoing a phrase first used by Pope John Paul II in a 2001 joint declaration ahead of his own trip to Armenia,” said a report.

http://www.genocide-museum.am/eng/photos_of_armenian_genocide.php#

 

NOTHING SHORT OF GENOCIDE: 10,000 Migrant Kids Missing in EU

Fate of the migrant kids who don’t drown at sea…

At least 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared in Europe over  the past 24 months, said the EU’s police intelligence unit (Europol).

“We estimate that at least 26,000 unaccompanied children entered Europe last year – children who have risked everything to flee war, persecution and extreme poverty alone. They come from Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea, Somalia and Iraq, among other places, seeking sanctuary,” said Save the Children’s CEO, earlier this month.

On Friday, IOM said an estimated that 55,528 migrants and refugees had crossed the Mediterranean to enter Europe during the first 28 days of 2016 – a rate of nearly 2,000 per day. The daily average is nearly equivalent to the total numbers for the month of January as recently as two years ago.

During the same period IOM has recorded some 244 deaths at sea [global total of 361 fatalities,] as well as at least a dozen more deaths of migrants and refugees who died either after reaching Europe or traveling to a launch point in Turkey. By comparison, total deaths on Mediterranean Sea routes were 12 in 2014 and 82 last year.

Just hours after IOM released its latest statement, 39 more migrants and refugees including 10 children drowned on Saturday trying to cross the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.

In May 2015, Italian authorities warned that about 5,000 children had disappeared from asylum reception centers since the previous summer.

In Sweden, about 1,000 unaccompanied refugee children and teens had gone missing by October last year, within a month of arriving in the southern town of Trelleborg, officials have admitted.

In 2015, a total of 1,047,844 refugees and migrants arrived in Europe [Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Malta, as well as Cyprus] including 1,011,712 by sea, with at least 5,394 fatalities recorded globally, said IOM’s Missing Migrants Project.

Turkish Offensive on Kurdish Areas Threatens 200,000 Lives

Democracy cannot exist without freedom of expression

Onslaught on Kurdish areas in Turkey putting tens of thousands of lives at risk —Amnesty

“The Turkish government’s onslaught on Kurdish towns and neighborhoods, which includes round-the-clock curfews and cuts to services, is putting the lives of up to 200,000 people at risk and amounts to collective punishment,” says Amnesty International.

“Cuts to water and electricity supplies combined with the dangers of accessing food and medical care while under fire are having a devastating effect on residents, and the situation is likely to get worse, fast, if this isn’t addressed,” said Amnesty International’s Europe and Central Asia Program Director.“In some areas, crippling curfews that don’t allow people to leave their houses at all have been in place for more than a month, effectively laying siege to entire neighborhoods. It is imperative that the Turkish authorities ensure that affected residents are able to access food and essential services.”

Amnesty cites numerous reports of Turkish security forces preventing ambulances from entering areas under curfew. In one incident, body of a man killed during clashes in Silopi was left to decompose at the family’s home for 12 days before authorities allowed it to be collected.

Meanwhile the Turkish dictator has vowed to punish treasonous’ academics for defending human rights.

Turkish president vows ‘treasonous’ academics will pay the price

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stepped up his harsh rhetoric against academics who called for an end to military operations in Turkey’s southeast, warning that they would pay the price for “falling into a pit of treachery,” said a report.

“I’m saying frankly: This mindset which gives a self-styled fatwa to the terror organization’s attacks on public servants, which simply says ‘it would be better if it didn’t do so’ in response to the killing of civilians, disgusts me,” Erdoğan said.

Prosecutors have launched a major investigation into more than 1,200 academics who signed a petition denouncing military operations in the southeast, with at least 18 being detained so far. The EU and the United States have both denounced the probes in unusually strong statements.

The Turkish dictator, speaking at his presidential palace, said the academics’ “masks have fallen off,” showing their “real and ugly faces.”

“They spit out hatred of our nation’s values and history on every occasion. The petition has made this clearer.”

“Do you think you can disrupt the unity of this nation? Do you think you can continue to have a comfortable life with a salary from the state, without paying a price?” Erdoğan said.

“In a state of law like Turkey, so-called academics who target the unity of our nation have no right to commit crimes. They don’t have immunity for this.”

All those detained in the probe into the petition last week have since been released but they still face investigation and eventual trial.

Academics support colleagues under probe in Turkey

Hundreds of Turkish academics have expressed solidarity with their colleagues suspected of terrorism crimes after signing a petition to call for an end to ongoing violence in southeastern Turkey in a statement sent to the Hürriyet Daily News.

“Democracy cannot exist without freedom of expression,” said the statement signed by 610 academics from various universities including some in the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria and Turkey.

“We, the undersigned academics, believe that freedom of expression is the core element of academic life… we think that the reaction of the government and the Higher Education Council [YÖK] toward the petition entitled ‘We shall not be a party to this crime’ signed by over 1,000 academics is wrong and disturbing,” the statement said.

The statement came amid a criminal complaint against a group of people, including 15 academics out of a total of 1,228 who signed the petition to call for peace, as well as overt death threats by ultranationalist mafia boss Sedat Peker that directly targeted the academics. The scholars also demanded state protection as they said “our lives are in danger” in a criminal complaint filed with the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.

“We will let your blood flow in streams and take a shower in your blood,” Peker, a well-known convicted criminal, said in a message posted on his personal website on Jan. 13. The message titled as “The So-Called Intellectuals, The Bells Will Toll for You First” was posted just a day after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called more than 1,000 Turkish and international academics as “poor excuses for intellectuals.”

The statement from the 610 also said public debate and criticism were the basic tenets of democracy, whereas silencing and persecuting dissent were the hallmarks of authoritarianism.

“The attempt to punish the academics who express their opinions regarding the burning problems which are currently affecting the country constitutes a blow to academic freedom. Social progress is bound to be impeded by such an attack,” it added.

At least 40,000 people have been killed in the Kurdish conflict since 1984, Turkish govt says.