Turkish PM: No New Peace Talks With PKK
Binali Yildirim, the Prime Minister of Turkey, said that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) wasted an opportunity for a re-launch of the peace talks with Ankara by continuing their attacks against Turkey.
Obstruction of OSCE/SMM, May 2015 – indicators, charts, dependencies
Coding and construction of a weighted additive index in order to measure the degree of obstruction of OSCE/SMM’s freedom of movement and restricted access by parties in the Ukrainian conflict. Application with data of OSCE reports for the period of May 2015. Context (1), data (2), coding (3), index (4), graphics (5), experimental (6).
Charts of ceasefire violations as reported by OSCE, May 2015
Sum of all incidents relatively stable, increase in Donetsk, decrease around Mariupol.
Charts of Minsk 2 ceasefire violations
Feb 11, 2015 Leaders of Belarus, France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine met in Minsk for negotiations. The result were the ‘Minsk 2’ agreements, a road map for a ceasefire in the east of Ukraine and to lay ground for a political solution. OSCE was appointed to monitor the implementation of the agreements. For …
Graphics on ceasefire violations reported by OSCE
OSCE monitors and publishes nearly on a daily bases reports on the implementation of the Minsk 2 agreements. Or to what degree the ceasefire is violated. Graphics that are based on those data and about how they were made.
Debaltseve, captured while ceasefire
Debaltseve connects the railways between Donetsk-Luhansk and to the east. Controlling Debaltseve would allow Russian backed militias faster transportation (troops, equipment, coal), therefore it is the key for territorial and economic consolidation of DNR/LNR.