TURKEY + EU = Penapisan ? 5 KALI Erdogan CUBA untuk mendapatkan Eropah utk menutup mulut pengkritiknya . . .

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. © Adem Altan

JamaliahYusofYacob - Turki Presiden Recep Tayyip Erdogan sudah terkenal dengan mengikuti pembangkang wartawan, artis dan ahli politik di rumah. Baru-baru ini beliau telah berpindah untuk menghukum mereka di luar sempadannya, sering dengan persetujuan daripada sekutu Eropah.

Turkey + EU = Censorship? 5 times Erdogan tried to get Europe to silence his critics

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is already notorious for pursuing opposition journalists, artists and politicians at home. Recently he has moved to punish them outside his borders, often with acquiescence from European allies.

Merkel membuat gaji satira untuk jenaka kebinatangan (Merkel makes satirist pay for bestiality jokes) 

Jan Boehmermann, host of 'Neo Magazin Royale' © Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters

Sebagaimana TV Jerman satira Jan Bohmermann membacakan puisi mengaitkan Erdogan dalam perbuatan seks dengan kambing dan kecenderungan untuk pornografi kanak-kanak bulan lalu, dia tahu apa yang dia lakukan - menguji kesabaran Turki, yang sudah mengadu tentang minggu lagu menyindir awal dan toleransi kerajaan sendiri.

As German TV satirist Jan Bohmermann read out a poem implicating Erdogan in sex acts with goats and a proclivity for child pornography last month, he knew exactly what he was doing – testing the patience of Turkey, which had already complained about a satirical song weeks earlier, and the tolerance of his own government.

Mio Ilickovic ‎@ilickovic1

Dengan puisi menghina beliau mengenai Presiden Turki Erdogan, Jan Böhmermann telah mencetuskan hubungan sulit negara (With his insulting poem about Turkish President Erdogan, Jan Böhmermann has triggered an affair of state).

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Tidak mengejutkan, Turki telah marah. Tetapi mungkin kejutan yang lebih besar adalah apabila Canselor Angela Merkel bersetuju dengan Ankara bahawa puisi itu "sengaja provokatif," dan biarkan Boehmermann pendakwaan muka bawah undang-undang yang jarang digunakan yang menghukum mereka yang menghina orang-orang kenamaan asing.

Unsurprisingly, Turkey was incensed. But perhaps a bigger shock was when Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed with Ankara that the poem was “deliberately provocative,” and let Bohmermann face prosecution under a rarely-used law that punishes those who insult foreign dignitaries.

Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel (dariKiri) dan Presiden Turki Tayyip Erdogan  (German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan) © Tolga Bozoglu/Reuters

Ini melepaskan ribut kritikan bertujuan untuk kedua-dua Merkel dan Erdogan, dikuatkan oleh kenyamanan mereka, berikutan perjanjian pulangan pelarian baru-baru ini. Minggu lalu, Merkel backpedaled, mempertahankan kebebasan bersuara dan berkata pandangan beliau adalah satu "kesilapan" - tanpa menterbalikkan tindakan beliau.

This unleashed a storm of criticism aimed at both Merkel and Erdogan, amplified by their coziness, following the recent refugee return deal. Last week, Merkel backpedaled, defending free speech and saying her views were a “mistake” - without reversing her actions.

Baca lebih lanjut: 'Memberi tumpuan kepada video kucing': Komik Jerman yang disasarkan dalam percuma berturut-turut bersuara dengan Erdogan menggantung rancangan TV READ MORE: 'Focus on cat videos’: German comic targeted in free speech row with Erdogan suspends TV show

Ini, Boehmermann kini di sabatikal, bersiap sedia untuk membela diri di mahkamah, dan beratus-ratus beribu-ribu orang mendaftar untuk petisyen untuk membebaskannya.

Thus, Bohmermann is now on a sabbatical, preparing to defend himself in court, and hundreds of thousands are signing up to a petition to acquit him.

Gambar penunjuk perasaan juga satu penghinaan kepada Turki (Photo of protester also an insult to Turkey)

Urusan Boehmermann telah dikuasakan lingkaran yang lebih lucah sindiran bertujuan Erdogan, dengan pelawak terkenal Belanda Hans Teeuwen menggambarkan sebuah perhubungan seksual yang tidak berjaya dengan Presiden Turki apabila dia adalah seorang kanak-kanak lelaki di sewa di sebuah rumah mandi Istanbul. Ahli Parlimen Belanda mengambil sisi pelawak itu, berkata mereka akan memansuhkan undang-undang yang sama dengan yang tidak perlu lagi Boehmermann ditapis di Jerman. Majalah konservatif Spectator UK, yang beroperasi di sebuah negara yang tidak mempunyai undang-undang anti-menyindir, telah juga memulakan satu pertandingan untuk puisi yang terbaik menghina pemimpin Turki.

Tetapi Ankara tidak melangkah kembali. Pada hari Isnin, Turki menuntut penghapusan gambar - yang menunjukkan penunjuk perasaan pembangkang memegang banner menyalahkan Erdogan atas kematian seorang remaja - dari pameran fotografi di Geneva. Sekali lagi, jika diambil ke bawah ia akan berada di bawah undang-undang tempatan melindungi maruah tokoh masyarakat asing.

The Bohmermann affair has powered a spiral of ever more lewd satire aimed at Erdogan, with renowned Dutch comedian Hans Teeuwen picturing an unsuccessful sexual liaison with the Turkish President when he was a rent boy in an Istanbul bathhouse. Dutch MPs took the side of the comedian, saying they would abolish a law similar to the one that got Bohmermann censured in Germany. UK conservative magazine the Spectator, operating in a country that has no anti-satirical laws, has also started a competition for the best poem insulting the Turkish leader.

But Ankara is not stepping back. On Monday, Turkey demanded the removal of a photo - showing an opposition protester holding a banner blaming Erdogan for the death of a teenager - from a photography exhibition in Geneva. Once again, if taken down it will be under local legislation protecting the dignity of foreign public figures.

April 25, 2016 - pelawat melihat gambar oleh wartawan foto Swiss Demir Sonmez di ‘Place des Nations’ di Geneva Berkin Elvan, yang cedera parah semasa demonstrasi besar-besaran terhadap Perdana Menteri Recep Tayyip Erdogan (April 25, 2016 – visitors view a picture by Swiss photojournalist Demir Sonmez at the Place des Nations in Geneva of Berkin Elvan, who was fatally injured during mass demonstrations against then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan) © Fabricce Coffrini/AFP

Don’t let them sing about the genocide

Andrea Molino ‎@Andrea__Molino

http://dw.com/p/1HDct?tw  Radialsystem V Berlin: Dresden Symphony dijalankan oleh Andrea Molino mengimbas kembali pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia  (Radialsystem V Berlin: Dresden Symphony conducted by Andrea Molino recalls Armenian genocide) 6:18 PM - 28 Nov 2015

Selain daripada penghinaan ditujukan kepada Erdogan, titik sakit antarabangsa ke-2 adalah liputan, atau menyebut Pembunuhan Bangsa Armenia dipanggil tahun 1915, di mana Yerevan berkata seramai 1.5 juta orang mati  akibat tindakan Empayar Uthmaniyyah.

Turki sekeras-kerasnya menentang penggunaan istilah, dan idea bahawa Armenia disasarkan tidak seimbang, dan pada hujung minggu cerita yang muncul Turki menuntut bahawa EU menarik balik € 200,000 ($ 224,500) dalam pembiayaan untuk persembahan orkestra di Dresden, Jerman, pada April 30, yang merujuk kepada peristiwa-peristiwa seperti pembunuhan beramai-ramai.

Other than insults directed at Erdogan, the second international sore point is coverage, or even mention of the so-called Armenian Genocide of 1915, in which Yerevan says as many as 1.5 million people died due to the actions of the Ottoman Empire.

Turkey vehemently opposes the use of the term, and the idea that Armenians were targeted disproportionately, and over the weekend a story emerged of Turkey demanding that the EU withdraw €200,000 ($224,500) in funding for an orchestra performance in Dresden, Germany, on April 30, which referred to the events as genocide.

Aktivis memegang potret mangsa semasa demonstrasi senyap untuk memperingati pembunuhan beramai-Armenia oleh Ottoman Turki di Istanbul, Turki April 24, 2016 (Activists hold portraits of victims during a silent demonstration to commemorate the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in Istanbul, Turkey April 24, 2016) © Osman Orsal/Reuters

"Ia merupakan satu pelanggaran terhadap kebebasan bersuara," kata Markus Rindt, pengarah orkestra Dresdner Sinfoniker.

Untuk kekaguman Rindt ini, EU kowtowed tekanan Turki dan dibuat penyingkiran pembunuhan beramai-ramai perkataan syarat untuk mengekalkan geran.

"Kami semua ini sangat dipersoalkan," kata Rindt.

Walaupun pergi awam cerita, program prestasi sebelumnya, dan bahan-bahan promosi, telah "ditarik balik buat sementara waktu," menurut EU, manakala "penerangan projek baru akan diterbitkan semula pada hari-hari akan datang."

Sweden ketawa keluar  permintaan menarik dokumentari

Pembunuhan beramai-ramai Assyria, di mana lebih 250,000 orang Asyur mungkin telah disembelih oleh Uthmaniyyah, juga pada tahun 1915, adalah kurang terkenal, tetapi topik hangat dalam Sweden, yang menempatkan minoriti besar Assyria.

"It's an infringement on freedom of expression," said Markus Rindt, director of the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra.

To Rindt’s astonishment, the EU kowtowed to Turkish pressure and made the removal of the word genocide a condition for maintaining the grant.

"We find all of this very questionable," said Rindt.

Despite the story going public, the previous performance program, and its promotional materials, have been “temporarily withdrawn,” according to the EU, while "a new project description will be republished in the coming days.”

Sweden laughs off demand to pull documentary

The Assyrian genocide, in which over 250,000 Assyrians may have been slaughtered by Ottomans, also in 1915, is less well-known, but a hot topic in Sweden, which accommodates a sizeable Assyrian minority.

Baca lebih lanjut: Kedutaan Turki mahu saluran Sweden untuk menarik balik filem pada pembunuhan beramai-ramai Assyria READ MORE: Turkish embassy wants Swedish channel to withdraw film on Assyrian genocide

Lebih awal daripada siaran dokumentari mengenai acara itu hujung bulan ini, pengeluar dari saluran TV4 itu membuka surat dari Kedutaan Turki mendesak mereka untuk menggugurkan penghantaran kerana "hanya tribunal antarabangsa yang berwibawa boleh menentukan sama ada suatu peristiwa tertentu adalah pembunuhan beramai-ramai" dan filem mereka, yang tidak pernah dilihat oleh penulis, "akan gagal untuk berkhidmat kepada prinsip objektiviti penyiaran."

"Kami tidak boleh menerima ini. Kami akan membantah sebarang usaha untuk mengenakan tekanan yang mengancam kebebasan bersuara, "kata satu kenyataan daripada pengarah program stesen, Viveka Hansson, yang menerbitkan surat itu di laman web saluran itu, sebelum penyiaran filem dalam slot asalnya.

Ahead of the broadcast of a documentary on the event later this month, producers from the TV4 channel opened a letter from the Turkish embassy urging them to drop the transmission because “only a competent international tribunal can determine whether a particular event is genocide” and their film, which had not been seen by the author, “will fail to serve the principle of objectivity of broadcasting.”

“We can never accept this. We will protest against any attempt to exert pressure that threatens freedom of expression,” said a statement from the station's program director, Viveka Hansson, who published the letter on the channel’s website, before broadcasting the film in its original slot.

Organisasi Turki memberitahu untuk mengintip di luar negara (Turkish organizations told to spy abroad)

Dalam apa yang kelihatan tahap kualitatif baru gangguan, minggu lalu konsulat Turki di Rotterdam melalui e-mel organisasi Turki dengan permintaan itu mereka melaporkan "menghina" komen mengenai "Presiden kita, bangsa Turki atau Turki secara umum." Dalam giliran jahat, huruf merujuk kepada "segala-galanya yang dikongsi di Twitter, Facebook dan juga dalam e-mel peribadi."

Belanda tidak laissez-faire. ". Saya terkejut Ia tidak jelas apa yang kerajaan Turki bertujuan untuk mencapai dengan tindakan ini," Perdana Menteri Mark Rutte memberitahu wartawan, sambil menambah: "Duta kami di Ankara akan meminta penjelasan."

In what appears a qualitatively new level of interference, last week the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam emailed Turkish organizations with the request they report “derogatory” comments about “our President, the Turkish nation or Turkey in general.” In a sinister turn, the letter refers to "everything that's being shared on Twitter, Facebook and even in private emails."

The Dutch were not laissez-faire. "I am surprised. It's not clear what the Turkish government aims to achieve with this action," Prime Minister Mark Rutte told journalists, adding: "Our ambassador in Ankara will ask for an explanation."

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte. © Olivia Harris/Reuters

Turki mendakwa niat e-mel itu "Disalahtafsirkan kerana pilihan kata-kata malang," dan bahawa negara ini semata-mata "mengumpul inventori" tindak balas asing untuk kepimpinan dan imejnya.

Turkey claimed that the intent of the email was “misconstrued due to an unfortunate choice of words,” and that the country was merely “collecting an inventory” of foreign reactions to its leadership and image.

Baca lebih lanjut: kartun Belanda akhbar itu menggambarkan Erdogan sebagai beruk menghancurkan kebebasan bersuara READ MORE: Dutch daily’s cartoon depicts Erdogan as ape crushing free speech

Tetapi dengan minoriti Turki yang besar di Belanda, sesetengah daripada mereka boleh didakwa di bawah undang-undang Turki jika mereka kembali ke tanah air, pengkritik dan akhbar-akhbar menulis tentang "lengan panjang Erdogan," dan menyiarkan kartun satira untuk perlawanan mereka, membawa cerita bulatan penuh.

But with a large Turkish minority in the Netherlands, some of whom could be prosecuted under Turkish laws if they ever return to their homeland, critics and newspapers wrote about “the long arm of Erdogan,” and published satirical cartoons to match, bringing the story full circle.

Chuck Pfarrer ‎@ChuckPfarrer

Memilih Perjuangan: Belanda mencetak kertas kartun Pres Erdogan sebagai beruk menghancurkan kebebasan bersuara  (PICKING A FIGHT: Dutch paper prints cartoon of Pres Erdogan as an ape crushing free speech) https://goo.gl/L9d97E 

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BANYAK lagi but di atas tanah, Obama menghantar 250 lebih tentera Amerika Syarikat ke SYRIA . . .

FILE PHOTO © Lucas Jackson/Reuters

JamaliahYusofYacob - Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama mengesahkan rancangan untuk meningkat secara mendadak kehadiran tentera Amerika di Syria dengan menambah sebanyak 250 kakitangan, menjadikan jumlah keseluruhan 300. Beliau berkata, tentera akan membantu mengusir kumpulan pengganas Negara Islam (IS).

Langkah itu yang pertama kali dilaporkan oleh media, sekali lagi bercanggah Obama 2013 janji tidak meletakkan apa-apa "but Amerika di atas tanah di Syria."

"Sebagaimana saya telah meluluskan sokongan tambahan untuk tentera Iraq terhadap ISIL (Negara Islam, sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL - RT), saya telah memutuskan untuk meningkatkan sokongan kepada pasukan tempatan memerangi ISIL, Amerika Syarikat di Syria," kata Obama.

"Sebilangan kecil operasi khas tentera Amerika Syarikat sudah di atas tanah air Syria," katanya. "Kepakaran mereka telah kritikal kerana kuasa-kuasa tempatan telah memandu ISIL daripada bidang utama. Jadi memandangkan kejayaan, saya telah meluluskan penggunaan sehingga 250 kakitangan tambahan Amerika Syarikat di Syria, termasuk kuasa-kuasa khas, untuk mengekalkan momentum ini. "

Ia tidak jelas bagaimana ramai orang-orang 250 tentera akan ditambah untuk operasi khas, sokongan perubatan atau kecerdasan. Menurut Obama, mereka akan terlibat dalam operasi khas serta dalam latihan dan membantu pihak pembangkang Syria untuk melawan IS.

More boots on the ground: Obama sends 250 more US troops to Syria . . .

US President Barack Obama confirmed plans to dramatically increase the American troop presence in Syria by deploying an additional 250 personnel, bringing the total to 300. He said the troops would help drive out the Islamic State terrorist group.

The move, which was first reported by the media, will once again contradict Obama’s 2013 promise of not putting any “American boots on the ground in Syria.”

“Just as I have approved additional support for Iraqi forces against ISIL (Islamic State, previously ISIS/ISIL - RT), I've decided to increase US support for local forces fighting ISIL in Syria,” Obama said.

“A small number of US special operations forces are already on the ground in Syria,” he said. “Their expertise has been critical as local forces have been driving ISIL out of key areas. So given the success, I have approved the deployment of up to 250 additional US personnel in Syria, including special forces, to keep up this momentum.”

It was not immediately clear how many of those 250 troops would be added to special operations, medical or intelligence support. According to Obama, they will be involved in special operations as well as in training and assisting Syrian opposition forces to fight IS.

Baca lebih lanjut: US menghantar 200 lebih tentera, helikopter Apache ke Iraq untuk melawan ISIS (Read more): US to send 200 more troops, Apache helicopters to Iraq to fight ISIS

Bercakap di Hannover, Germany, Obama berkata anggota NATO boleh dan perlu melakukan lebih banyak untuk memperjuangkan Negara Islam (IS).

"Di Syria dan Iraq kita memerlukan lebih banyak negara-negara yang menyumbang kepada kempen mereka. Kita perlu lebih banyak negara menyumbang tenaga pengajar untuk membantu membina pasukan tempatan di Iraq. Kita perlu lebih banyak negara untuk menyumbang bantuan ekonomi kepada Iraq sehingga dapat menstabilkan kawasan bebas dan memecahkan kitaran keganasan supaya ISIL tidak boleh kembali, "katanya.

Obama melawat Jerman untuk membincangkan pelbagai isu dasar luar, termasuk Syria, Ukraine, Libya dan Trans-Atlantic Perdagangan dan Pelaburan Perkongsian (TTIP) tawaran kontroversi.

Beliau mesyuarat pegawai-pegawai Eropah atas, termasuk Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel, Perdana Menteri Britain, David Cameron, Presiden Perancis Francois Hollande dan Perdana Menteri Itali Matteo Renzi.

Kali pertama Obama ingkar janji 2013 tidak lagi "but Amerika di atas tanah di Syria" ialah apabila beliau menghantar 50 tentera Amerika Syarikat operasi khas untuk Syria pada tahun lepas, mendakwa langkah itu sebagai langkah "counter keganasan" dan bukan satu langkah lebih dekat kepada pencerobohan tanah.

Speaking in Hannover, Germany, Obama said NATO members can and should do more to fight Islamic State.

"In Syria and Iraq we need more nations contributing to their campaign. We need more nations contributing trainers to help build up local forces in Iraq. We need more nations to contribute economic assistance to Iraq so it can stabilise liberated areas and break the cycle of violent extremism so that ISIL cannot come back,"he said.

Obama is visiting Germany to discuss various foreign policy issues, including Syria, Ukraine, Libya and the controversial Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal.

He is meeting top European officials, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

The first time Obama broke his 2013 promise of no “American boots on the ground in Syria” was when he sent 50 US special operations forces to Syria last year, claiming the move as a “counterterrorism” measure and not a step closer to a ground invasion.

Baca lebih lanjut: Obama menganggap bergerak tentera Amerika Syarikat jauh ke Syria, Iraq – laporan READ MORE: Obama considers moving US forces deeper into Syria, Iraq – reports

Obama memenangi jawatan presiden pada kali pertama pada tahun 2008 oleh berikrar untuk membawa keamanan ke Timur Tengah. Walau bagaimanapun, pada tahun-tahun kebelakangan ini, keputusan telah dibuat untuk terus menambah tentera Amerika Syarikat di rantau ini untuk membantu mengawal pelbagai konflik.

Keputusan Obama untuk meningkatkan bilangan tentera Amerika di atas tanah di Syria membawa isu mengenai kegagalan sebelum kereta api Amerika Syarikat dan melengkapkan program yang diuruskan dengan pejuang pembangkang tidak boleh dipercayai.

Pentagon berputus asa pada bahagian latihan projek pada bulan Oktober, selepas pegawai kanan pentadbiran Obama mengakui bahawa Amerika Syarikat telah hanya dilatih segelintir pejuang, walaupun program ini bajet $ 500 juta.

Obama won the presidency first time around in 2008 by pledging to bring peace to the Middle East. However, in recent years, decisions were made to keep adding US troops in the region to help control numerous conflicts.

Obama’s decision to boost the number of American troops on the ground in Syria brings up issues concerning the previous failures of the US train and equip program that dealt with unreliable opposition fighters.

The Pentagon gave up on the training part of the project in October, after senior Obama administration officials admitted that the US had only trained a handful of fighters, despite the program’s $500 million budget.

RT✔‎@RT_com

Angkatan Khas Amerika Syarikat digunakan sebagai 'perisai manusia' untuk menyelamatkan aset keganasan di #Syria (Op-Edge) (US Special Forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to salvage terror assets in #Syria (Op-Edge) http://on.rt.com/6v6s 

2:26 AM - 1 Nov 2015

Lebih-lebih lagi, ia telah mendedahkan pada bulan September bahawa satu kumpulan pelatih telah menyerahkan 1/4 daripada senjata AS Amerika Syarikat yang dibekalkan mereka, peluru, dan kenderaan dalam pertukaran untuk laluan selamat melalui wilayah yang dipegang oleh kumpulan pemberontak lain yang bersekutu dengan Al-Qaeda.

Rangsangan ini kepada kuasa tanah Amerika juga menimbulkan kebimbangan undang-undang untuk Obama. Pengembangan peranan Amerika Syarikat menekankan bahawa Amerika adalah dalam perang terhadap IS, yang di bawah Perlembagaan memerlukan kebenaran kongres, yang Obama tidak pernah menerima.

Selain lebih banyak tentera di Syria, Pentagon mengumumkan minggu lalu bahawa 217 anggota tentera tambahan dan helikopter Apache akan dihantar ke Iraq, sebahagian besarnya dalam kapasiti, tentang bagaimana untuk melawan Negara Islam (IS). Tentera tambahan akan membawa Amerika Syarikat tahap tentera di Iraq kepada 4087 orang.

Pakatan diketuai Amerika Syarikat telah menjalankan serangan udara terhadap IS di Iraq dan Syria sejak pertengahan 2014. Walau bagaimanapun, penglibatan Amerika Syarikat di Syria bermula tanpa kelulusan kerajaan Syria Presiden Bashar Assad.

Moreover, it was revealed in September that one group of trainees had surrendered one quarter of their US-supplied weapons, ammunition, and vehicles in exchange for safe passage through territory held by another rebel group affiliated with Al-Qaeda.

This boost to American ground force also raises legal concerns for Obama. An expansion of the US role highlights that America is in war against IS, which under the Constitution requires congressional authorization, which Obama has never received.

In addition to more troops in Syria, the Pentagon announced last week that 217 additional military personnel and Apache helicopters will be sent to Iraq, largely in an advisory capacity, on how to fight Islamic State. The additional troops will bring US troop levels in Iraq to 4,087.

The US-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes against IS in Iraq and Syria since mid-2014. However, the US involvement in Syria began without the approval of the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad.

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Jet F16 Norway tersilap tambak menara kawalan dengan pegawai-pegawai di DALAMNYA . . .

Jet pejuang F-16 Tentera Udara Norway (Norway's Air Force F-16 fighters) © Ints Kalnins/Reuters

JamaliahYusofYacob - Tentera Udara Norway telah ditinggalkan berasa janggal selepas jet F-16 pada latihan tersilap melepaskan tembakan ke atas sebuah menara kawalan dengan 3 pegawai yang berada di dalam pada masa serangan olok-olok  itu.

Siasatan telah dimulakan ke dalam kesalahan kubur, yang berlangsung pada Tarva, di luar pantai barat Norway, AFP telah diberitahu oleh jurucakap tentera Kapten Brynjar Stordal. Menghairankan, tiada siapa yang cedera dalam kejadian itu.

Pada 12-13 April, 2 buah jet  F-16 telah melakukan serangan olok-olok di stesen musuh di pulau itu tidak berpenghuni, apabila salah seorang daripada mereka tersilap melepaskan tembakan ke atas menara kawalan dengan meriam M61 Vulcan, mampu membuat daripada logam keju Swiss dan konkrit pada 100 pusingan sesaat.

Norwegian F16 jet mistakenly shoots up control tower with officers inside . . .

The Norwegian Air Force has been left feeling awkward after one of its F-16 jets on a drill mistakenly opened fire on a control tower with three officers who were inside at the time of the mock attack.

An investigation has been started into the grave error, which took place on Tarva, off Norway’s west coast, AFP was told by military spokesman Captain Brynjar Stordal. Astonishingly, no one was injured in the incident.

On April 12-13, two F-16s were performing a mock attack on an enemy station on the uninhabited island, when one of them mistakenly opened fire on the control tower with its M61 Vulcan cannon, capable of making Swiss cheese out of metal and concrete at 100 rounds per second.

BACA LAGI: F16s dan 400 tentera: Kerajaan Denmark mahu mengembangkan misi ketenteraan di Iraq & Syria READ MORE: F16s and 400 troops: Danish govt wants to expand its military mission in Iraq & Syria

Menurut VG kertas Norway, tiga pegawai berada di dalam struktur pada masa itu. Mereka berkata segala-galanya berlaku dengan pantas terdapat hampir tidak masa untuk memahami apa yang berlaku. pengurus komunikasi Tentera Udara Stian Roen berkata ia adalah panggilan yang sangat rapat, sambil menambah bahawa kedua-dua anak-anak kapal menara kawalan dan juruterbang sedang menjalani ujian.

Luar biasa sekali, menara kawalan yang sama pada Tarva ditembak pada 2009, juga dengan tidak sengaja. Ketika itu sekurang-kurangnya satu pusingan menembusi bangunan.

According to Norwegian paper VG, three officers were inside the structure at the time. They said everything happened so fast there was barely time to understand what was going on. Air Force communications manager Stian Roen said it was a very close call, adding that both the control tower crew and pilot are currently undergoing tests.

Remarkably, the very same control tower on Tarva was shot up in 2009, also by mistake. Back then at least one round penetrated the building.

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MENGHUJANI ‘Humvees’! Kenderaan tentera menjunam dalam latihan Amerika Syarikat ‘AirDrop’ GAGAL . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Ketika itu hujan ‘Humvees’ minggu lalu apabila satu latihan Tentera Darat Amerika Syarikat di pangkalan tentera Hohenfels di Jerman yang tidak kena. 3 buah kenderaan tentera terpisah daripada sistem payung terjun dan terhempas ganas ke tanah.

Raining Humvees! Military vehicles plummet 

IN failed US airdrop drill . . .

It was raining Humvees last week when a US Army training exercise at Hohenfels military base in Germany went wrong. Three military vehicles detached from their parachute systems and crashed violently to the ground.

800 jihadis di Yaman terbunuh, bandar utama ditawan - Gabungan ARAB

Sebuah jet pejuang UAE angkatan tentera berlepas dari pangkalan tentera udara sebelum serbuan terhadap pemberontak Syiah Houthi di Yaman (A fighter jet of the UAE armed forces taking off from an air force base before raids against Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen) © HO/AFP

JamaliahYusofYacob - Tentera Yaman bersekutu dengan tuntutan gabungan itu yang dipimpin Arab Saudi telah membunuh lebih 800 pejuang Al-Qaeda dalam operasi ketenteraan bersama terhadap kumpulan pengganas itu di Yaman. Mereka juga melaporkan mengambil sebuah bandar pantai tenggara besar Mukalla.

Serangan Yaman, disokong oleh serangan udara Arab Saudi dan UAE, adalah sebahagian daripada kempen yang lebih luas sasaran jihadis, yang dieksploitasi perang 13 bulan antara pemberontak Houthi dan tentera yang setia kepada bekas Presiden Yaman Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi.

800 jihadists in Yemen killed, key city captured - Arab Coalition

Yemeni troops allied with the Saudi-led coalition claim to have killed more than 800 Al-Qaeda fighters in a joint military operation against the terror group in Yemen. They also report taking a large southeastern coastal city of Mukalla.

The Yemeni offensive, supported by Saudi and UAE airstrike, is part of a wider campaign targeting jihadists, who exploited the 13-month war between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to ousted Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.

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Pada mulanya, Hadi berpaling ke Arab Saudi untuk membantu dalam merampas kembali kuasa di Yaman, tetapi baru-baru gabungan itu mengalihkan perhatian kepada ancaman jihadis yang semakin meningkat, yang berasal dari Al-Qaeda di Semenanjung Arab (AQAP) dan Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL).

"Operasi ini menyebabkan ... dalam kematian lebih daripada 800 ahli-ahli Al-Qaeda dan beberapa pemimpin mereka, sementara yang lain melarikan diri," berkata penguasaan Arab Coalition dalam satu kenyataan yang dipetik oleh Arab SPA agensi berita.

Angka kematian tidak dapat segera disahkan secara bebas. Tiada laporan korban awam telah diberikan oleh Arab Saudi.

Ia datang di tengah-tengah rundingan damai PBB yang diusahakan di Kuwait dan gencatan senjata yang ditubuhkan pada awal April. Kuasa-kuasa AQIP tidak berparti untuk gencatan senjata.

Mukalla, yang mempunyai anggaran penduduk 200,000, dan terminal minyak Mina al-Dhaba dalam Shehr ke timur telah ditangkap dalam jam pertama operasi. Tentera Yaman dilaporkan memasuki kota tanpa bersaing  Ahad selepas penduduk tempatan telah meminta ahli AQIP berundur supaya ia tidak akan dimusnahkan oleh tentera.

"Kami memasuki pusat bandar [Al Mukalla] dan disambut oleh sebarang tentangan daripada militan Al-Qaeda yang menarik diri ke arah barat padang pasir yang luas di Hadramawt dan wilayah Shabwa," kata seorang pegawai tentera, seperti yang dipetik oleh AFP.

Awal semalam, pengikut setia Hadi dilaporkan merampas lapangan terbang Riyan dan ibu pejabat briged tentera di pinggir Mukalla ini.

Kuasa-kuasa yang disokong Saudi juga telah memacu militan dari Aden, bandar pelabuhan yang diisytiharkan oleh Hadi sebagai ibu kota sementara Yaman selepas Houthis menguasai Sanaa pada September 2014.

Minggu lalu, tentera kerajaan diusir AQIP dari Huta, ibu kota wilayah Lahj.

Initially, Hadi turned to Saudi Arabia for help in seizing back power in Yemen, but recently the coalition turned its attention to the rising jihadist threat, which comes from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

"The operation resulted... in the deaths of more than 800 Al-Qaeda members and some of their leaders, while some others fled," said the Arab Coalition command in a statement cited by the Saudi news agency SPA.

The death toll could not be immediately verified independently. No report of civilian casualties was given by the Saudis.

It comes amid UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait and a ceasefire established earlier in April. The AQIP forces are not party to the truce.

Mukalla, which has an estimated population of 200,000, and the Mina al-Dhaba oil terminal in Shehr further east were captured in the first hours of the operation. The Yemeni Army reportedly entered the city unopposed Sunday after the local residents had asked AQIP members to retreat so it would not be destroyed by the army.

"We entered the city center [of Al Mukalla] and were met by no resistance from Al-Qaeda militants who withdrew west towards the vast desert in Hadramawt and Shabwa provinces,” said an army officer, as cited by AFP.

Earlier on Sunday, Hadi loyalists reportedly seized Riyan Airport and an army brigade headquarters on Mukalla's outskirts.

Saudi-backed forces have also driven militants from Aden, the port city declared by Hadi as Yemen's temporary capital after the Houthis took control of Sanaa in September 2014.

Last week, government forces expelled AQIP from Huta, the provincial capital of Lahj.

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BERIBU-ribu perhimpunan di Hannover terhadap perdagangan TTIP berurusan sehari sebelum lawatan OBAMA . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Beribu-ribu penunjuk perasaan telah keluar ke jalan-jalan di Hannover untuk mengatakan 'Tidak' kepada perjanjian perdagangan TTIP Amerika Syarikat-EU kontroversi. Banyak di Jerman bimbang ia akan mengurangkan perlindungan pengguna dan melemahkan perlindungan pekerja.

Walaupun Perdagangan dan Pelaburan Perkongsian Transatlantic (TTIP) di antara Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah dijangka dapat mewujudkan zon perdagangan bebas terbesar di DUNIA, ramai orang Eropah bimbang bahawa perjanjian itu akan meningkatkan kepentingan korporat di atas kepentingan negara. Lawan TTIP mengatakan bahawa lebih murah barangan dan perkhidmatan hanya akan menjejaskan EU dan membantu Amerika Syarikat.

Thousands rally in Hannover against TTIP trade deal a day before Obama’s visit . . .

Thousands of protesters have come out onto the streets of Hannover to say 'No' to the controversial TTIP US-EU trade deal. Many in Germany fear it will reduce consumer protection and undermine workers’ protection.

While the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and Europe is set to create the world's largest free trade zone, many Europeans worry that the agreement would elevate corporate interest above national interest. TTIP opponents say that cheaper goods and services would only hurt the EU and help the US.

Anastasia Churkina ‎@NastiaChurkina

Sebagai Obama berkata semua negara perlu melepaskan sesuatu untuk TTIP, Ribuan  berarak di Jerman mengatakan TIDAK  (As Obama says all countries have to give up something for TTIP, 1000s marching in Germany say NO)

"Rakyat kata perjanjian itu akan menjejaskan kedaulatan Kesatuan Eropah, dan akan mewujudkan lebih banyak rahsia, dengan salah satu daripada perkara besar adalah bahawa perjanjian itu dibalut dengan tudung besar menyimpan rahsia bahawa orang tidak berpuas hati dengannya," RT Anastasia Churkina melaporkan dari Hannover.

John Hilary, pengarah eksekutif Perang di Mahu, amal anti-kemiskinan, memberitahu RT bahawa bahagian-bahagian besar daripada pendirian orang ramai untuk rugi jika TTIP diluluskan.

"Statistik rasmi mengatakan bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 1 juta orang akan kehilangan pekerjaan mereka sebagai akibat langsung dari TTIP. Ini adalah di Kesatuan Eropah, di mana 680,000 pekerjaan akan pergi, dan di Amerika Syarikat."

“People say the deal is going to compromise the European Union sovereignty, and would create much more secrecy, with one of the biggest concerns being that the agreement is wrapped in a big veil of secrecy that people are not happy with,” RT's Anastasia Churkina reported from Hannover.

John Hilary, the executive director of War on Want, an anti-poverty charity, told RT that large sections of the general public stand to lose out if TTIP is passed.

“The official statistics say that at least 1 million people will lose their jobs as a direct result of TTIP. This is in the European Union, where 680,000 jobs will go, and in the USA.”

 

Hilary juga memberatkan tentang bagaimana TTIP telah "ditolak ke bawah leher rakyat" oleh EU yang tidak dipilih. Beliau juga menyebut bahawa jika undang-undang itu diluluskan, ia akan memberi syarikat-syarikat Amerika membimbangkan kuasa rentas sempadan.

"Terdapat juga akan dibawa ke mahkamah di mana syarikat-syarikat Amerika Syarikat akan mendapat kuasa ini untuk kali pertama untuk menyaman kerajaan kita di Eropah jika pada bila-bila masa terdapat undang-undang baru atau peraturan diperkenalkan, yang mengancam keuntungan mereka. Ini adalah satu ancaman luar biasa kepada kedaulatan undang-undang dan demokrasi dan peluang kami untuk membina masa depan yang lebih baik, "katanya.

Amerika Syarikat adalah rakan dagang terbesar di Jerman. Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel telah bersedia untuk membincangkan perjanjian TTIP dengan Obama apabila beliau melawat pameran perdagangan di Hannover pada hari Ahad dan Isnin.

Hilary was also damning about how TTIP has been “pushed down people’s throats” by an unelected EU. He also mentioned that if the legislation is passed, it would give American companies alarming cross-border powers.

“There will also be courts where US companies will get this power for the first time to sue our governments in Europe if at any time there is a new law or regulation introduced, which threatens their profits. This is an extraordinary threat to the rule of law and democracy and our chance to build a better future,” he said.

The US is Germany's biggest trading partner. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to discuss the TTIP deal with Obama when he visits a trade show in Hannover on Sunday and Monday.

Castor Nix Da ‎@castornixda

YA KITA - berhentikannya (YES WE CAN – STOP) #TTIP mit @greenpeace_de -#TTIPDEMO #Hannover #TTIP & #CETA STOPPEN

Kementerian Perdagangan dan Pelaburan Perkongsian Transatlantic adalah salah satu cara terbaik untuk menggalakkan pertumbuhan dan mewujudkan peluang pekerjaan, "Presiden Amerika Syarikat menegaskan dalam satu temu bual dengan Bild.

Mengakhiri perjanjian yang akan menjadi "menang-menang," Angela Merkel diumumkan pada podcast mingguan beliau, sambil menambah bahawa "ia adalah baik untuk kita seperti yang kita akan dapat menilai pesaing kami."

Dalam senario kes terbaik, TTIP boleh meliputi lebih 40 % peratus daripada KDNK global dan menyumbang saham besar daripada perdagangan DUNIA dan pelaburan langsung asing. Duta Washington ke Jerman, Anthony L. Gardner, berkata dalam satu temu bual eksklusif dengan EurActiv pada tahun 2014 bahawa "kita perlu perjanjian ini untuk membantu memperkukuhkan lagi pakatan transatlantik, untuk menyediakan bersamaan ekonomi kepada NATO dan untuk menetapkan peraturan perdagangan DUNIA sebelum orang lain melakukannya untuk kita."

Sokongan rakyat terhadap perjanjian perdagangan transatlantik telah pula menjadi lemah. Menurut kaji selidik yang dijalankan oleh peninjau pendapat YouGov bagi pihak Yayasan Bertelsmann, hanya 17 % peratus rakyat Jerman fikir TTIP adalah satu perkara yang baik, turun daripada 55 % peratus 2 tahun lalu. Di Amerika Syarikat, hanya 18 % peratus daripada mereka yang kini menyokong perjanjian itu, berbanding 53 % peratus pada 2014.

Hampir separuh daripada responden Amerika Syarikat mengadu tentang kekurangan maklumat, berkata mereka tidak tahu cukup tentang perjanjian untuk menyuarakan pendapat.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is one of the best ways to promote growth and create jobs," the US president stressed in an interview with Bild.

Wrapping up a deal would be a "win-win situation," Angela Merkel announced in her weekly podcast, adding that "it is good for us as we will be able to appraise our competitors."

In the best-case scenario, TTIP could cover over 40 percent of global GDP and account for large shares of world trade and foreign direct investment. Washington’s ambassador to Germany, Anthony L. Gardner, said in an exclusive interview with EurActiv in 2014 that “we need this deal to help solidify further the transatlantic alliance, to provide an economic equivalent to NATO and to set the rules of world trade before others do it for us.” 

Public support for the transatlantic trade deal has meanwhile been weak. According to a recent survey conducted by pollsters YouGov on behalf of the Bertelsmann Foundation, only 17 percent of Germans think the TTIP is a good thing, down from 55 percent two years ago. In the United States, only 18 percent of people now support the deal, compared to 53 percent in 2014.

Nearly half of US respondents complained about a lack of information, saying they did not know enough about the agreement to voice an opinion.

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