Μήνυμα από το Ιμραλί Ανοιχτός στην πρωτοβουλία Ερντογάν για το Κουρδικό εμφανίζεται ο Οτζαλάν | ||
Δεν είναι πρώτη φορά που ο Αμπ.Οτζαλάν καταθέτει ανάλογες προτάσεις για την επίλυση του Κουρδικού | ||
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Από το νησί Ιμραλί όπου κρατείται σε απομόνωση, ο κ. Οτζαλάν φέρεται να διαμήνυσε μέσω των δικηγόρων του ότι το άνοιγμα της κυβέρνησης Ερντογάν στο Κουρδικό αποτελεί την έναρξη μίας «νέας περιόδου». Φέρεται μάλιστα να χαρακτηρίζει τη νέα αυτή περίοδο που εισέρχεται η Τουρκία τόσο σημαντική όσο και η ανακήρυξη της Δημοκρατίας από τον Κεμάλ τη δεκαετία του 1920. Σύμφωνα πάντα με τουρκικές πηγές, ο Αμπντουλάχ Οτζαλάν δήλωσε μέσω των δικηγόρων του ότι θα «οικοδομηθεί μία δημοκρατική κοινωνία» και πως, έστω και με καθυστέρηση, το καθεστώς που εγκαθίδρυσε τότε ο Κεμάλ τη δεκαετία του 1920 θα αποκτήσει τώρα δημοκρατικά χαρακτηριστικά. Ο κ. Οτζαλάν υπενθύμισε ότι Τούρκος υπουργός Εσωτερικών έκανε λόγο για το «μοντέλο λύσης της Τουρκίας» –αποκλείοντας έτσι λύσεις που υιοθέτησαν άλλες χώρες σε ανάλογα εθνοτικά προβλήματα, όπως π.χ. η Ισπανία. «Δεν γνωρίζω πως σκέφτεται να το πράξει αυτό και ποιο θα είναι το περιεχόμενο (της λύσης). Είναι σημαντικό ότι πρόκειται για το μοντέλο της Τουρκίας. Δεν είναι εύκολο. Εάν είναι ειλικρινείς μπορεί να επιτύχει» φέρεται να δήλωσε. Σε άλλο σημείο του μηνύματος του ο κ. Οτζαλάν εμφανίζεται να έχει αλλάξει γνώμη όσον αφορά την ίδρυση ανεξάρτητου κουρδικού κράτους. Τόνισε πως ο ίδιος δεν κάνει πλέον λόγο για ομοσπονδία, ανάλογη με εκείνη που απολαμβάνουν οι Κούρδοι του βορείου Ιράκ, αλλά για ενιαίο κράτος που θα σέβεται τα δημοκρατικά δικαιώματα του κουρδικού έθνους και θα επιτρέπει την αυτο-οργάνωση του. Τέλος, αναφέρθηκε στην ίδρυση Βουλής και δυνάμεων τάξης από τους Κούρδους, ενώ δεν παρέλειψε να ζητήσει βελτίωση των συνθηκών κράτησεις του προκειμένου, όπως είπε, να ανοίξει ο δρόμος για τη λύση. Newsroom ΔΟΛ |
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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An UFO at the Glastonbury Festival [ 351 ]
(CNN) -August 17, 2009 -- Updated 1807 GMT (0207 HKT)-
By George Webster
An alien with a lemon-shaped head and a jazz-themed encounter with a UFO at the Glastonbury Festival are among hundreds of UFO encounters detailed in the latest batch of documents released Monday by the UK's Ministry of Defence.
A sketch of a UFO made by a witness following a sighting in 1993.
Fourteen files, containing over 4,000 pages of UFO sightings from 1981 to 1996, have now been placed on Britain's National Archives database and are publicly available online.
The sightings range from lights in the sky to close contact with aliens, and the files contain detailed analysis on some of the UK's most popular cases -- a number of which remain officially unexplained.
In one incident in 1995, two men in their 20s from Staffordshire, central England, told police they saw an alien with a lemon-shaped head descend from a hovering UFO and tell them "We want you; come with us."
In another sighting recorded by defense officials in 1994, two women at the Glastonbury music festival reported seeing a UFO floating above the jazz stage
However, 90 percent of cases have been accounted for. Multiple sightings of a brightly illuminated oval object in London during 1993 and 1994 were later explained as an airship advertising the launch of the Ford Mondeo car.
In 1993, more than 30 reports of illuminations over central England during a six-hour period led to senior defense staff being briefed, before it was established that the lights had been caused by a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere
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The documents reveal that in 1996 there were 608 sightings, a dramatic surge from the previous year's 117.
However, this may have less to do with exceptional levels of extra-terrestrial activity, than with the release of blockbuster film "Independence Day" and the popularity that year of sci-fi TV series "The X-Files."
David Clarke, a UFO expert and journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University who has studied the files, said: "Obviously, films and TV programs raise awareness of UFOs and it's fascinating to see how that appears to lead more people to report what they see."
Clarke's comments certainly correspond with the other periods of high-frequency sightings in Britain -- one of the other busiest years was in 1978, the same year in which Steven Spielberg's alien-themed "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" was released.
The files also shed new light on Britain's own 'Roswell', the Rendlesham Forest sightings of December 1980 in which American air force men saw a series of mysterious lights in the trees at the perimeter of an air base used by the U.S. Air Force.
The then government of Margaret Thatcher was quick to dismiss the incident, but a letter from a former chief of defense staff in 1985 warned that the affair could prove a 'banana skin' for the Ministry of Defence.
"The case has puzzling and disquieting features which have never been satisfactorily explained ... which continue to preoccupy informed sections of the public," said the letter.
Other documents reveal a UFO incident in Belgium between 1989 and 1990 when Belgian Air Force F-16 fighters were scrambled to intercept abnormal, brightly-lit, triangular flying objects reported by police and others.
In November 1993 General Wilfried de Brouwer, chief of operations in the Belgian Air Staff, confirmed that the fighters had locked-on to something with their radar but were unable to explain what it was.
The MoD affirmed that there had been no threat to the UK and that it has never detected a "structured craft flying in UK airspace that has remained unidentified."
This latest release of documents represents the fourth set of UFO files released since 2008 as part of a three-year project in conjunction with the National ArchivesMonday, August 17, 2009
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Siberia, explosion at largest power station [349]
Deadly Russia power plant blast
(BBC) Monday, 17 August 2009 16:02 UK,
At least 54 people are missing after an explosion at Russia's largest hydro-electric power station killed eight workers, officials have said.
An oil-filled transformer exploded at the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant in Siberia, bringing down the ceiling of the turbine hall, which then flooded.
A diver has pulled one worker from an area beneath the turbine hall, but it is unclear how many may be trapped.
Ten workers were injured, but there was no damage to the power station's dam.
At the moment we cannot determine whether these people were down there or managed to get out somewhere but we know that there were that many people on this shift Andrei Klyuvev Ministry of Emergency Situations |
However, the accident has created a large oil slick that is now floating down the Yenisei river, which flows north through Siberia to the Arctic.
Officials said towns downstream of the plant were not thought to be at risk.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu and Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko to fly to the scene and take personal control of the crisis.
RusHydro, the operator of the power station, said the damage would run into "billions of roubles" and would take several months to repair.
'Hydraulic impact'
In a statement, the Kremlin said the accident was due to a "hydraulic impact" at the plant on Monday morning, which had forced the shutdown of all 10 of its power units.
Andrei Klyuvev, an official at the emergency situations ministry, said rescue divers had pulled out one person from a flooded room underneath the turbine hall, but said many more could be trapped.
"At the moment we cannot determine whether these people were down there or managed to get out somewhere but we know that there were that many people on this shift," he told Ekho Moskvy radio.
Water was currently being pumped out of the turbine room, and there was "no danger of the accident developing further", a local official co-ordinating the rescue operation, Roman Strelnikov, told the Associated Press.
The natural resources ministry said it was concerned by the environmental impact of the accident, which had caused a 5km (3 mile) oil slick along the Yenisei river.
"According to preliminary data, transformer fluid has leaked from one of the hydroelectric station's damaged units," the ministry said.
Mr Shoigu said repairs would be difficult and take some time.
"We're probably talking about years rather than months to restore three of the 10 turbines," he told state television.
Major power supplier
Major aluminium plants nearby were forced to switch to alternative sources of electricity after the accident.
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It also prompted shares of the plant's owner, RusHydro, to drop by more than 13% on the London Stock Exchange, while trading was suspended in Moscow.
The Sayano-Shushenskaya power station is located in the Siberian region of Khakassia, some 3,000 km (1,875 miles) east of Moscow.
The dam above it is 245m (800ft) high and stretches 1km (0.6 miles) across the Yenisei river.
Opened in 1978, the station provides a quarter of RusHydro output and is a major supplier of power to at least two smelters owned by United Company RUSAL, the world's largest aluminium producer.
UC RUSAL said all its plants were operating as normal with alternative power supplieRussian Ingushetia, - Suicide bomber [ 348 ]
MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -17-08-09-
At least 19 people were killed in a suicide bombing Monday morning outside a police headquarters in Nazran in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, Russian officials said.
People stand near a crater caused by the blast in Nazran.
There were conflicting reports about the death toll. The Investigation Committee of the Russian Prosecutor's Office here told CNN that 19 people were killed and about 60 people, including 10 children, have sustained various injuries as a result of the suicide bombing.
But the duty officer at the Ingushetia branch of the Russian ministry for Emergency Situations had higher numbers.
"According to our information, 20 were killed and 118 were hurt, 65 of whom were hospitalized, others managed without doctor's assistance", he said.
Both sources however admitted those numbers might not be final because fire brigades and rescue workers are still cleaning up the debris and extinguishing pockets of fire at the exploded building.
"The fire virtually destroyed the building. There may still be people in the debris," an emergencies ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti.
"At about 9 a.m. local (1 a.m. ET) a suicide bomber driving a truck stuffed with explosives rammed into the gate of the police station," Kaloi Akhilgov, a spokesman for Ingushetia's president, told CNN.
"It was a powerful explosion. Windows and balconies were broken in several residential buildings around the police station, injuring many people."
Ingushetia's president called the attack an attempt by Islamist rebels to undermine stability in the republic.
"There is no doubt that militants did that to boost their significance. It was an attempt to undermine stability and to sow panic," said President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, who ordered tightened security around local government buildings and declared a three-day mourning period for blast victims.
In Moscow, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev to take steps to protect police in Ingushetia, the Kremlin press office reported. He also offered condolences to the families of the bombing victims.
Yevkurov is being treated at a rehabilitation center near Moscow following an assassination attempt in June. He suffered a severe brain concussion, fractured ribs and a ruptured liver.
An Islamist suicide bomber rammed into his motorcade in Ingushetia. His driver and bodyguard were killed.
Ingushetia is a small Russian republic bordering Chechnya in the North Caucasus, just north of Georgia.
An impoverished province of mostly Muslims, Ingushetiya has suffered for almost a decade from overflowing unrest in neighboring Chechnya.
It is battling a low-level insurgency with Islamist rebels who launch frequent attacks on Russian servicemen and law enforcement officials.
In response, Russia has launched a counterinsurgency campaign that has been criticized by human rights group for abuses such as arbitrary detentions and extra-judicial executions.