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Resources Roundup June 3, 2020
June 3, 2020 by Kari Tupper
The City of Seattle's Office of Economic Development (OED) is committed to keeping you updated about new developments in these quickly changing and challenging times. In this weekly blog, we'll provide you with news and information about new policies and resources available from the City of Seattle, King County, the State of Washington, the federal government, and our private and philanthropic partners.
City of Seattle News and Resources
Protest on 5th and James Street June 3 | Photo via @seattledot
Seattle's Commitment to Justice and Equity
The Office of Economic Development and the City of Seattle are committed to working for justice and equity and dismantling systemic racism and addressing police violence. At OED, we will continue to work toward building an inclusive economy for our City—where all people, especially communities historically excluded from the economic prosperity of our City and region, can thrive.
The escalating tensions in cities across our country are the result of the murder of George Floyd's by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, the unjust killing of countless other Black people, and years of institutionalized racism, police violence, and other racialized injustices that put Black and Brown communities in harm's way.
The outcry of this weekend has elevated the need for change, and Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best have addressed this traumatic reality and called for ongoing efforts to dismantle institutional and cultural racism — here in Seattle and throughout our county. You can read Mayor Durkan's statement here.
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best discusses recent events as Fire Chief Harold Scoggins listens | Seattle Channel on You Tube
Like many other cities across the country, Seattle has witnessed a public outcry for justice. Protests and demonstrations have occurred downtown, in the Chinatown-International District (CID), on Capitol Hill, and in other neighboring cities. They have been organized to mourn the loss of George Floyd and others who have died unjustly, and to call for ending police violence against people of color. The escalating tensions evident in these protests have illustrated our stark need for deep institutional and cultural changes.
Unfortunately, some individuals co-opted peaceful demonstrations to engage in chaotic and destructive behavior. This behaviors put the safety of protesters, law enforcement personnel, and other community members at risk. They have also added insult to injury for our small business community which was already struggling as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Collaborative Work to Restore our City
City staff, community members, and business owners worked together last weekend
Volunteers continue to join forces with City staff to clean up and restore our city. These efforts are evidence of the overwhelming good nature and spirit of community we have in Seattle. Many staff from OED and other City departments have been working since last weekend to respond to the emerging needs of local businesses. We collaborated with our business district partners and businesses that donated lumber and other supplies to help board up and protect small businesses in the Chinatown-International District, downtown, and Capitol Hill. To date, we have responded to more than 160 requests for help.
City staff work to secure businesses in the Chinatown-International District last weekend | Photo by Ross Aitken
We will continue these restorative initiatives. Now more than ever, we must join together to strengthen Seattle and lift up common goals of inclusiveness, justice, and prosperity for all.
If your business needs help or support during this challenging time, please reach out to the Office of Economic Development by emailing oed@Seattle.gov or calling (206) 684-8090.
Tips for Securing Your Business
OED's Only in Seattle (OIS) team coordinates with Seattle's neighborhood business districts to provide resources for community stakeholders, businesses and property owners, and local organizations. They are working actively to help businesses during this challenging time. Among other resources, they hosted a recent webinar focused on business safety and security. Find a recording from that webinar and related resources here.
The City also has provided several resources that can help you secure your business from vandalism and theft:
Seattle Police Department – Securing Your Business
Seattle Department of Construction & Inspection – Maintaining Vacant Business Properties Tips
Seattle Department of Neighborhoods – Historic Preservation Securing Buildings from Vandals and Theft
King County Applies for A Modified Phase One under Governor Inslee's Safe Start Washington Phased Approach to Reopening
Late last month, Governor Inslee announced updated Safe Start Washington plan for resuming recreational, social, and business activities. The updated plan establishes a modified Phase One, which allows certain businesses, construction and manufacturing, and outdoor recreation activities to resume under strict public health and safety guidance. You can find the full breakdown of modified Phase One guidance here, and the Governor's business, worker, and personal activity guidance here.
Mayor Durkan believes that Seattle and King County are ready to enter a modified Phase One approach to reopening additional businesses – you can find her full statement here. Even as we apply for a modified Phase One, we all know that we aren't out of the woods yet. This virus knows no boundaries and resurgence can happen quickly and exponentially if we don't all do our part. As we begin to reopen our economy, businesses, and cultural institutions, we cannot relax all restrictions simultaneously.
Under King County's submitted plan, hair salons would be able to reopen in a limited capacity
Today, King County submitted a plan to the state Department of Health that would allow for limited and modified openings for a wide range of businesses and personal activities. The county's application includes recommendations from King County local health officer Dr. Jeff Duchin that would:
Allow all outdoor recreation permitted in Phase 2 in Gov. Inslee's Safe Start plan
Expand opening indoor fitness studios for one-on-one activities
Allow restaurants to begin opening indoor seating at 25% of normal capacity
Allow hair stylists and other personal services at 25% capacity
Find more more information about the application here:
King County Safe Start Variance Application (PDF)
King County Application Letter (PDF)
We know that many of our business owners and residents have questions about what the King County application and the State's guidance mean for them. The Mayor's Office and the City's Office of Economic Development (OED) will continue to amplify information from the State as soon as we have it, and make sure materials are accessible and available in-language. In the meantime, you can visit the Washington state Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) website for additional reopening guidance. We appreciate our residents' patience, compassion, and collaboration as we navigate this unprecedented moment in real-time, together.
Upcoming webinar: Protecting the
health and safety of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
King County Public Health is partnering with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide information about preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace. Labor and Industries will discuss safety protocols that need to be put in place in worksites.
The CDC has been working with businesses that have had positive cases, and will provide case studies and share information about considerations for testing the workforce, contact tracing in the workplace, and criteria for ending isolation and quarantine of positive and exposed workers. Register for this webinar
Wearing and Procuring Face Coverings
Super Jock & Jill business owner Chet James and City of Seattle employee Jeanne Clark sport face coverings | Photo by Jeanne Clark
In accordance with a Public Health – Seattle & King County directive in effect since May 18, all workers and residents should wear cloth face coverings in all indoor public settings and outdoor public spaces where maintaining social distancing could be difficult, such as farmers markets. Please help minimize the spread of COVID-19 and keep everyone safe by adhering to these regulations.
The City of Seattle created the Seattle Protects online marketplace to help businesses, nonprofit organizations, and residents purchase face coverings from local manufacturers. Seattle Protects is a new economic development and public health effort by the City to encourage local organizations in search of face coverings to purchase from Seattle-region midsize manufacturers and businesses that have pivoted to creating face coverings and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Association of Washington Businesses also has created a hub where businesses can get access to PPE and other resources to assist with reopening.
If you'd like to make your own face covering, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided tips and information; find their DIY instructions here.
State of Washington News and Resources
Washington State Capitol Building | Photo by Benjamin Massello on Unsplash
Quarterly Tax Reports Needed for Unemployment Claims
An unprecedented number of Washingtonians are applying for unemployment and business reports are crucial to finding out if they can establish a claim. Please do everything you can to provide your report information to the State on time.
We know that COVID-19 has disrupted operations for many businesses, and the Washington State Employment Security Department has programs to help. They have also made emergency rules to offer employers more leniency for meeting Unemployment Insurance deadlines. If you can't file taxes on time because of COVID-19, you will need to request a penalty waiver in writing.
Small business resources and requirements workshops
The State of Washington is providing regular webinars with all the state agencies that interact with small businesses. Sign up on their website.
University of Washington Support for Business Communications
University of Washington campus | Photo by Howard Wu
The UW Communication Leadership is offering pro-bono communications consulting to small businesses and nonprofits. They're specifically looking to work with more businesses owned/operated by people who are black, indigenous, and/or people of color in Seattle's Central District, Southeast Seattle, and South King County.
Some examples of support they can provide include:
Communicating within your organization (internally) and with your audience (externally) from a distance
Pivoting communications strategies, messaging, and business practices to continue in the face of COVID-19
Creating videos and other multimedia assets while practicing social distancing
Hosting online events
Looking for daily COVID-19 statistics? Daily statistics are provided by the Washington Department of Health (DOH) or view statewide statistics on a map.
Federal News and Resources
Paycheck Protection Program Loans
The CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans for small businesses are still available. Many Seattle small businesses have been successful in applying , and nearly $150 billion remains available in PPP funds. The deadline to apply is June 30, 2020.
These loans help small businesses address financial challenges related to COVID-19 by providing salary replacement and funds for certain business operating expenses. If spent in accordance with guidelines, these loans can be fully forgiven.
All loan terms will be the same for everyone and are provided through financial institutions/ lenders. Find more information on this SBA webpage or in this Treasury Department Information Sheet for Borrowers.
The Office of Economic Development is here to help answer your questions and navigate the process of applying for PPP loans. OED continues to offer FREE assistance to small businesses and nonprofits with their PPP loan and loan forgiveness applications and has bilingual interpretation. Contact OED directly at 206-684-8090 or oed@seattle.gov to access this technical assistance.
Filed Under: Bottom Line, COVID-19, News Release, Small Business Services Tagged With: COVID-19, economic equity, face coverings, PPP, racial justice, Safe Start Washington, Seattle curfew, Seattle protests, secure business, unemployment

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Clinical and Genetic Profiles in Chinese Patients with Huntington's Disease: A Ten-year Multicenter Study in China.
Li, Hong-Lei; Li, Xiao-Yan; Dong, Yi; Zhang, Yan-Bin; Cheng, Hong-Rong; Gan, Shi-Rui; Liu, Zhi-Jun; Ni, Wang; Burgunder, Jean-Marc; Yang, X William; Wu, Zhi-Ying (2019). Clinical and Genetic Profiles in Chinese Patients with Huntington's Disease: A Ten-year Multicenter Study in China. Aging and disease, 10(5), pp. 1003-1011. Aging and Disease 10.14336/AD.2018.0911
Li, 2019, Clinical and Genetic Profiles in Chinese Patients.pdf - Published Version
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG triplet repeats expansion in exon 1 of the Huntingtin gene (HTT). In China, HD is considered to have a low prevalence. The goal of this study was to describe the clinical characteristic and genetic profiles of HD in a Chinese cohort. A total of 322 individuals with expanded CAG repeats were consecutively recruited from the neurologic clinics of three medical centers in Southeastern China between 2008 and 2018. Among them, 80 were pre-symptomatic mutation carriers and 242 were symptomatic patients. The mean age at onset (AAO), defined here as the age at motor symptom onset, of the 242 manifest HD individuals was 40.3 ± 11.9 years and the mean CAG repeat length was 46.1 ± 7.5 in the group of symptomatic patients. Initial symptoms were abnormal movements in 88.8% of the patients with psychiatric symptoms in 6.2%, cognitive impairment in 3.3% and others in 1.7%. The AAO of motor was negatively correlated with the CAG repeat length in an exponential regression analysis (R 2 = 0.74, P<0.001). Analysis of 46 parent-child pairs showed that the CAG repeat length was longer in the offspring group (45.8 ±7.6) than in the parent group (43.8 ±3.0) (p=0.005). Overall, this study provides clinical and genetic profiles in a cohort of Chinese patients with HD, which should contribute to a better understanding of this disorder.
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Burgunder, Jean-Marc
Aging and Disease
Chantal Kottler
10.14336/AD.2018.0911
Chinese population Huntington's disease genotype phenotype


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Hudson, Greenport, and the Haul Road
Hudsonians concerned about the impact on our waterfront of the proposed Colarusso haul road showed up in force this evening for the Greenport Planning Board workshop session, which preceded the regular meeting of the Planning Board. Typically, the workshop takes place in a conference room in Greenport Town Hall, but tonight, because of the number of people interested in witnessing the proceedings, the workshop was moved to the courtroom, where the regular meetings of the Planning Board take place. The room has a posted maximum capacity of sixty-six, and that limit was being strictly adhered to. Gossips was only allowed to enter the room after someone else left. Present at the meeting, but not visible in the picture below, were Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton, First Ward alderman Rick Rector, and Mitch Khosrova, counsel to the Hudson Planning Board.
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In the workshop session, Planning Board member Michael Bucholsky asked about the mining permit already in place. The question prompted Ray Jurkowski, the engineer retained by the Greenport Planning Board and the Hudson Planning Board, to voice what has been feared by many: "They are calling this a haul road, but this is an expansion or an extension of the mining permit."
During the regular meeting of the Planning Board, Pat Prendergast, the engineer for Colarusso, reported that the project was "still in front of DEC for permits to do work on the South Bay causeway." He explained that the DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) cannot issue permits until the SEQR process is completed. He said the Department of Transportation permitting process was "down to the final edits" and noted that no permits were needed from the Army Corps of Engineers or the NYS Department of State.
After Prendergast presented his summary, Jurkowski told him that he wanted to "concentrate on the narrative," the document prepared by Prendergast, on behalf of Colarusso, at Jurkowski's request. Jurkowski asked that the narrative be expanded to include an overview of the project and a timeline. "The narrative doesn't provide as much information as it could," said Jurkowski. Specifically, he wanted more detail on various aspects of the proposed project: hours of operation, number of trips, access to the haul road by the public. He acknowledged that the details were provided "in the appendices" but maintained, "It's not fair to make [the Planning Board and the public] put everything together." It was decided that Prendergast and Jurkowski would meet, with the chair of the Greenport Planning and the board's legal counsel, to discuss the shortcomings of the document, "to make sure all the items are addressed."
Ed Stiffler, chair of the Greenport Planning Board, described, for the benefit of the members of the public present, the process and procedure they would follow in making a SEQR determination. When the Greenport Planning Board has what they consider a complete application for the project from Colarusso, they will schedule a public hearing. The hearing will take place at Columbia-Greene Community College, to ensure that all who are interested can be present and comment. He indicated that each person wanting to comment would be permitted five minutes to speak. Those with more information than can be articulated in five minutes are urged to submit written comments. Stiffler said that written comments would be accepted for seven days after the public hearing and a full transcript of the hearing would be available as soon as possible after the hearing.
When Prendergast had packed up his charts and the Planning Board was ready to move on, Khosrova, legal counsel to the Hudson Planning Board, rose to tell the Greenport Planning Board, "I'm not certain we are on the same page." He was referring to a question Stiffler had addressed earlier to Prendergast about scope of the project. Stiffler asked Prendergast to confirm that the project in Hudson ended "at the beginning of the paved road"--that is, the southernmost end of Front Street. Prendergast confirmed that was the case. Khosrova maintained that the SEQR process "can look at anything that related to the operation," which would include the dock. The definition of the project, according to the Greenport Planning Board, the lead agency in the SEQR process, does not include the dock.
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unheimlich December 28, 2016 at 11:03 AM
In his December 22 letter to Greenport, Mr. Khosrova already presented the dock operations - and also questions about the Broad Street railroad crossing - as proper subjects of a State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR). We can glean from his question at the end that the Greenport Planning Board hasn't addressed his letter, but did they even read it?!
Where does South Front Street begin, anyway? I saw an earlier version of the site plan where "Front Street" wrapped down along the causeway itself, which is obviously to the advantage of the applicant. (Related: where's the actual City limit at the east causeway? The project engineer alleges that it lies farther west than where it can possibly be, which minimizes his footprint within the City.)
The City must define absolutely everything, or else allow the project sponsor and its engineer to define everything for us.
First among these "definitions" is the overall narrative, which in the project sponsor's hands is false and amounts to a kind of extortion against City residents. That's the simplistic either/or which has worked so well in the past: trucks on City streets versus giving the company everything it wants.
Going forward, we will take possession of the narrative.
Our subject is Environmental Justice, and the importance for Environmental Justice that before any consideration of an industrial expansion at the City's waterfront commences, that the Common Council finally draft a Resolution banning gravel trucks west of 3rd Street.
We can get to the next step next, but we can't get anywhere without a draft Resolution.
This should have been done years ago. And actually, if we look back into the Common Council's notes, we may find the start of something we can build upon.
Definitions (cont.)
The landowner is apparently clueless that any changes made to any part of its extended dock operations - which includes the causeway, the wharf, everything - requires a conditional use permit for the entire property.
Either from design or ignorance, however, they've repeatedly characterized their multiple actions as "maintenance," or continuing operations, an umbrella definition which has rationalized multiple modifications to the causeway, significant work on the wharf, the creation of a gigantic revetment into the river, and lately the shipping of new materials.
In ignorance of its own Zoning Code, the City accepted the landowner's erroneous characterizations (allegedly) as if maintenance itself doesn't also require a permit since the 2011 zoning amendments.
Another problem with definitions crops up in the Environmental Assessment Forms. That's plural - forms - because challenges to a string of EAFs called the applicant's definitions into question.
There were multiple revisions to the EAF since the first one submitted in April (the current iteration from August is still filled with demonstrably false claims!), but one narrative to which the engineer desperately clings was a direct result of that first EAF, a document so idiotic it would be superseded again and again by later EAFs.
In the project engineer's telling, there's no federal permitting required for the action. But that determination from the Department of the Army was based on the April EAF.
So rather than saying that the project engineer "noted that no permits were need from the Army Corps of Engineers or [consequently] the NYS Department of State," it is more accurate to say he alleged it, merely.
Had the City been allowed to speak last night, it would have reminded Greenport of the last communication Greenport received from the Army Corps of Engineers. It was in its letter of August 29th that the Corps first referenced a later iteration of the EAF than the one it received in April.
Consequently, the Corps was alerting Greenport, and the project sponsor who was copied, of the potential need for a federal permit after all: "[T]he proposed activities may require a Department of the Army permit" (8/29/16 letter from ACE in "Project Narrative").
So if the Greenport Planning Board doesn't even read its mail from the Federal government, which was also reproduced in the Project Narrative, what hope is there that they'll read a letter from a City of Hudson attorney?
It appears that the Greenport Planning Board is taking this matter less seriously than our own Planning Board, which can barely get a word in edgewise, let alone get its questions answered.
1Riparian December 28, 2016 at 8:23 PM
Riddle me this mapmaker, if the city is squatting on illegally filled land in north bay, who "owns" the road through south bay?
It's a private causeway sitting on formerly underwater lands which were legitimately granted by the legislature in 1836 and 1872.
Now riddle me this sea lawyer, why did the Proprietors and their children (including O. Wiswall) petition the State for lands beneath South Bay, but not do the same for North Bay?
For North Bay they drew up deeds - fake deeds - but when it came to the South Bay they were upstanding. Why?
legitimately granted by the legislature in 1836 and 1872...
Little known fact: assuming that the grant was for public use lands, once the rails are removed the public use ends and the property reverts back to the original owner, the people of NY.
On the shaded side of Warren, a grant app had to be approved to acquire land formerly under water.
Are there different rules for the sunny side?
unheimlich December 29, 2016 at 1:51 PM
That may be the crux, "assuming that the grant was for public use lands."
Was that a condition before 1836?
And if it was a condition by 1872, did it apply to already-established, but now abandoned uses?
Mapmaker please, precisely where on third would a perpendicular line intersect with the black bridge?
3rd Street and Black Bridge are parallel, so they only intersect in a non-Euclidian world. (I love that world.)
I see, a line departing from 3rd. (I beg Euclid's pardon.)
Don't you mean such a line which would run "in a course north fifty-seven degrees west" and end 180 feet from shore?
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1.at an angle of 90° to a (third street) given line, plane, or surface.
unheimlich December 31, 2016 at 9:08 AM
Ha! But a bearing of N 57º W, which is the direction specified in the 1785 grant, is surprisingly parallel to the Mt. Merino Road where it leaves Rte 9-G. So if you go 180' from shore in that area, you're back on dry land pretty quickly at Mt. Merino.
1Riparian December 31, 2016 at 11:20 AM
The RR didn't leave black bridge to be nice. Wherever they crossed roads, blocked docks or entrapped bays, they couldn't reduce access to zero. They left that obligation to City Hall.
1Riparian January 1, 2017 at 5:45 PM
Can we agree that third street is straight line, tangent to the mouth of south and north bays?
And if the rails traveled that straight line, Hudson would regain priceless miles of waterfront.
Jennifer December 28, 2016 at 10:27 PM
What a nightmare. Thank you 'unheimlich' for keeping track of a very complicated matter and shining the light the officials who are sitting on their duffs and turning blind eyes while the public likely gets screwed again and thanks to the concerned public who did show up and are on the case.
Thoughts for New Year's Eve
Revisiting the LWRP
Education in Hudson in the Mid-19th Century
On the Sixth Day of Christmas . . .
New Year, New Faces on the Planning Board
Some Hints About Life in Hudson in the 1850s
Where Does It End?
The Common Council on the Haul Road
Hudson in the New York Times
Long Ago on Promenade Hill
Another Gift on Christmas Eve
A Gift on Christmas Eve
N. C. Folger: An Afterword
How to Spend Christmas Eve
Report from the HPC
Last Week at 401 State Street
Senator Schumer in Hudson
$100,000 Here, $100,000 There . . .
A Clue About What Came Before
The News When It Happened
Promenade Hill in 1851
Preserving Community Character
A Reason to Go to the Bronx
How Many Trucks?
Cold Now, Snow Tomorrow
What Would You Have Done?
News from County Government
Sanford Gifford's Patron N. C. Folger: Part 4
A Sure Way to Get in the Christmas Spirit
Water, Hudson, and Colarruso: Some History
New Management for Bliss Towers
Tonight at City Hall
News from Friday's HPC Meeting
Support the Eleanor . . .
Three Hearings and No Quorum
What's Happening at 400 State Street?
Grant Money Coming to Hudson
A Recommended Holiday Day Trip
Another N. C. Folger Discovery
"For Better or Worse"
Public Hearings Happening This Week
A Footnote to the Folger Story
The History of Hudson Before It Was Hudson
Winter Walk Awards
A Sanford R. Gifford Discovery
Indoor Market Starts Tomorrow
Much Ado About House Numbers
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Trusted Solaris 8, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s new, high-security version of the Unix operating system, controls access according to user roles.
It has a Java management console like the one in SunSoft Solaris 8 but lacks the usual Unix superuser or root account, said Mark Thacker, Sun's technical strategist. Instead, it divides the root privileges among multiple users and tightly controls those privileges.
Trusted Solaris 8 is undergoing certification testing through the National Information Assurance Partnership's Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme [GCN, June 12, Page 32]. The Evaluation Assurance Level 4 rating Sun is seeking for Trusted Solaris 8 corresponds to the existing B1 rating under the Trust Technology Assessment Program, Thacker said.


Have you ever tried Coconut Bliss Dark Chocolate Bars? If so, then you'll know how delicious those dairy-free chocolate ice cream bars are!
Well, this recipe creates something very similar that you can make at home and enjoy tonight.
Place the coconut milk, cacao powder, raw honey, vanilla extract, coconut sugar (optional), and pinch of salt (preferably vanilla bean salt) into a blender (I used a magic bullet blender for a smaller batch).
This is the vanilla bean salt I used that I highly recommend – it's delicious and really tastes like both salt and vanilla!
Blend well. Try the mixture to see how it tastes – add more honey, cacao powder, vanilla extract, or coconut milk to suit your tastes.
Pour into ice pop molds. The recipe below makes two 2.5 oz bars. You can scale it to make more bars to keep in your freezer.
When ready to eat, rinse the ice pop molds under hot water for a few minutes and the chocolate bars will slide right now.
For your chili.sauce with coco oil. Do i store in fridge or room temp ? And how long will they be good/ last ?? Room temp and fridge storage.life ?
I haven't ever measured it well – but it does last for a while. I'm generally pretty conservative, so I would say perhaps 1-2 months in the fridge and 2 weeks at room temperature.
I'll try to do in my off!!!


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WHAT IS TURKEY UP TO IN LIBYA?
Bill Park
Bill Park is Visiting Research Fellow in the Defence Studies Department, King's College, London. He serves as a council member for the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), is an editorial board member for the journal Mediterranean Politics, sits on the international advisory panel for the journal Turkish Studies, and is an advisor to the Centre for Turkish Studies (CEFTUS). He was Visiting Scholar at TOBB-ET University in Ankara January-April 2016. Among his publications are his book 'Modern Turkey: People, State and Foreign Policy in a Globalized World', published by Routledge in 2012 and numerous journal articles and blogs. He is frequently consulted on Turkish politics by government departments, parliamentary committees and others, and has also been used by various media outlets as a Turkey expert.
In early January 2019 Libyan authorities seized a container carrying Turkish arms from a ship docking in the port of Misrata. This followed closely on the heals of the discovery just a few weeks earlier of a shipment of Turkish arms brought into the Libyan port of Khoms near the Algerian border, described as 'extremely disconcerting' by the local UN mission in light of the UN-imposed arms embargo on Libya, and as 'an act of war' by Libyan and Algerian officials. This prompted Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu to deny any involvement on the part of the Turkish state and to set up a joint Turkish-Libyan investigation into the shipments.
This was not the first denial by Ankara of any role in supplying arms to Libyan factions, because these were far from the first suspicious shipments to raise eyebrows. Indeed, a UN report issued in early 2015 listed Turkey as one of a number of countries supplying weapons to various factions in Libya.
In addition to a Yemeni discovery of a ship believed to be Libya bound and carrying Turkish weapons in November 2012, in January 2013 the Greek coastguard intercepted a Libya-bound ship carrying Turkish weapons. In September 2014 Libya intercepted another Libya-bound ship carrying Turkish arms. In November 2014 Greek authorities found 20000 AK47s on a Turkish ship heading towards Libya. In December 2014 Egyptian customs intercepted four containers of Libya-bound weapons from Turkey. In May 2015 a Turkish ship said to be on radio silence was shelled by Libyan forces off Tobruk. They believed it was heading towards the 'jihadi' held eastern port of Derna. In September 2015 Greek coastguards seized a Turkish freighter believed to be Libya-bound and carrying weapons.
More recently, in January 2018 Greek coastguards boarded an arms-carrying freighter sailing from Turkey's Mediterranean ports and which the ship's captain said was bound for Misrata.
From the outset, middle eastern states have split on who to back in the hopelessly factionalised and fluid Libyan conflict. What is abundantly clear is that Turkey is hostile to the somewhat independent figure of General Khalifa Haftar, head of the Libyan National Army, which controls eastern Libya and the country's major oilfields. This hostility is heartily reciprocated. Haftar is close to the internationally recognised 'government' in Tobruk, but more importantly is backed by Egypt, Jordan and most of the Gulf and other regional states, and courted by Moscow and some western governments. Haftar is committed to ridding Libya of Islamist forces, including Islamic State, al-Qaeda and more localised groups that were formerly affiliated to the now-defunct Libyan Dawn coalition that incorporated Muslim Brotherhood (MB) factions.
Broadly, Turkey, with Qatar, has favoured MB groups in Libya and elsewhere throughout the Middle East region, including in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, and Palestine. In the chaos that is Libya in particular, the lines between MB-affiliated groups and other jihadi groups – including Islamic State – oppositional tribes, local warlords and the like are distinctly blurred and have shifted over time. In any case, such is the stand-off between Ankara and Haftar, the most effective Libyan opponent of such forces, that the Turkish delegation huffily pulled out of a meeting in Palermo, Sicily in November 2018 aimed at bringing together Libya's more accommodating factions because it was excluded from a session between the other participants and Haftar.
Notwithstanding Turkish denials, and its insistence that it has distanced itself from factions such as the Salvation Front in the port city of Misrata, it is evident that most other regional actors have been sceptical of Turkey's narrative almost from the outset of the Libyan conflict. This scepticism seems well-placed.
During the early years of the conflict, the Turkish envoy to Libya was the only diplomatic figure to agree to meet with the Libyan Dawn leadership in Tripoli in October 2014 after it had ousted the government of Abdullah al-Thinni. Ankara failed to recognise al-Thinni's now Tobruk-based government and continued flights into the jihadi-held port of Misrata, causing Libya to withdraw its ambassador to Turkey and to declare a cessation of all dealings with Ankara.
Ankara was also believed to have links with Ansah al-Sharia, which was widely believed to have been behind the fatal attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, which also operated in Syria, and whose leader died in January 2015 in a Turkish hospital. Egypt restricted ground movement between Libya and Turkey and subjected all aircraft plying the route to checks. Haftar threatened to shoot down any Turkish planes entering Libyan air space without permission, and declared all Turks unwelcome.
More recently, in October 2017 the Libyan Attorney-General issued arrest warrants and travel bans against over 800 people for their terrorist links, most of whom were based in Turkey and Qatar, the only Gulf Arab country that had aligned itself with Turkey in the Libyan theatre. In June 2017 al-Thinni's internationally recognised government banned Turkish firms from operating in the country because of Ankara's 'interference' in Libya's domestic affairs, as a Libyan army spokesman simultaneously described Turkey, Qatar and Sudan as the 'triad of terrorism' in Libya.
Indeed, Sudanese aircraft – widely seen as responsible for delivering arms to Libyan rebels – and personnel were banned from entering Libya in late 2014, although the UN Panel of Experts on Libya reported in March 2016 that Sudanese planes still appeared to be delivering embargoes weapons to Libyan opposition groups, and that Sudan and Turkey, with Tunisia, were the main transit routes for fighters on their way to the Libyan theatre. Wikileaks documents revealed in 2016 the extensive financial and other links with Turkey that were enjoyed by Libyan MB and other jihadi groups.
Inevitably, any involvement in the alleged shipment of arms to rebels in Libya on the part of the Turkish government is denied and deniable. Such transactions always are. It is shadowy private Turkish companies that conduct the trade. Then again, Libya is not the only example of alleged Turkish involvement in supporting jihadi forces. Journalists are in prison in Turkey for investigating Turkish involvement in arms deliveries and other support for various jihadi groups in Syria, a number of independent analysts and NGOS have made similar allegations, and Brett McGurk, until recently head of the US-led anti-Islamic State coalition of 75 states, last month bemoaned Turkey's unwillingness to cooperate in the struggle against IS and its sponsorship of a range of jihadi groups in Syria.
Russia too does not see eye-to eye with Ankara on which groups operating in Idlib qualify as jihadi. Regional powers, including the Libyan government, are certain of Turkish complicity and presumably have their reasons. At minimum, Ankara seems to have done little to curtail such activities.
The interesting questions are why might Turkey have enabled such groups in Libya, and what might it hope to gain? Jihadi activity serves to slow the already weak prospect of stabilisation in Libya, and although it would be foolhardy to anticipate the outcome of Libya's turmoil or predict the likely victor(s), it does not seem likely that MB and other jihadi groups will prevail.
The main impact of Turkish engagement has been to alienate both the internationally-recognised Tobruk-based government of the country and its most formidable military leader, General Haftar, along with the majority of MENA states and other external actors that support them. These include Russia as well as major western players. Turkey's influence with such rebel groups, such as it is, might become useful should any peace process seek to incorporate them, but they and Ankara will be regarded with profound mistrust by other parties to any such negotiations.
Erdogan's initial distaste for UK and French-led intervention against Ghaddafi in 2011, when he asked 'what does NATO have to do with Libya?' and attacked 'those who only see oil, gold mines and underground treasures' was perhaps understandable, given the close relationship he had enjoyed with Ghaddafi, the 200 Turkish companies that operated there, the visa-free arrangements that had been introduced, and the lucrative trade between the two countries.
Once Ghaddafi's fall became unavoidable, Ankara's formal position appeared to soften. It adopted a non-combat role in NATO's Libyan operation and its ships helped enforce the UN arms embargo. But its stance remained ambiguous. As with so many of Turkey's recent ventures into the region's hot spots, one is obliged to assume that the drivers have been a combination of Turkish regional ambition, its pro-MB and generally Islamist ideology (itself perhaps partly explained by domestic identity appeals to sectors of the Turkish population), perhaps the pursuit of self-serving advantage by individuals and businesses close to the Turkish government, the combative temperament of Turkey's president, and sheer misjudgement.
However it is explained, Turkey's approach to the Libyan crisis has surely worsened its already damaged reputation, undermined its wider influence in the region, and set back its economic prospects in any more stable Libya that might eventually emerge. States do not always self-evidently behave in their own best interests, an observation that Turkey in particular seems determined to prove. B
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