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The week that opens will mainly be marked by the G20 summit, Tuesday and Wednesday in Bali. Vladimir Putin, who will be represented by his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, will be absent from this summit, thus marking a little more his diplomatic isolation. From this Monday, Joe Biden will also meet Xi Jinping in Indonesia. According to the White House, the American president, who would like China to distance himself from Moscow, intends in particular to talk about Russia with his Chinese counterpart. But not only… Many other subjects, such as Taiwan, are indeed fueling tensions between Beijing and Washington.
The attack, which killed at least six people on Sunday in Istanbul, is not claimed but for Ankara, the culprit is none other than the PKK. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu accused the Kurdistan Workers’ Party overnight of Sunday to Monday of being behind the explosion in the shopping street of Istiklal. He also announced the arrest of 22 suspects, including one who allegedly planted the bomb.
Ankara believes “that the order for the attack was given from Kobané”. A city that has remained famous for the battle which, in 2015, enabled Kurdish forces to repel the Islamic State group, Kobané is controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) whose People’s Protection Units (YPG), allied to the PKK, are a major component.
The deputies will look from this Monday at 4 p.m. on Gérald Darmanin’s proposals in terms of security. All this week, the National Assembly will indeed tackle the bill of orientation and programming of the Ministry of the Interior (Lopmi) and its thousand amendments.
The text provides for an additional 15 billion euros over five years and the majority is counting on the support of the right. He has already passed without incident in October a first examination in the Senate dominated by the right. If almost all parliamentarians support an increase in resources for the police, their direction raises questions, even antagonisms with part of the left.