Filmmaker Atom Egoyan was named a Companion of the Order of Canada on Friday for his contribution to Canadian culture, globalnews.ca ghas reported.
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Filmmaker Atom Egoyan was named a Companion of the Order of Canada on Friday for his contribution to Canadian culture, globalnews.ca ghas reported.
A group of Iraqi youth representing the movement “Sports against violence” held a sprint marathon from Baghdad toward the eastern part of Mosul.
Upon reaching Mosul, the team performed some exercises in the midst of the ruins of destroyed houses. The head of the team and coordinator of the “Baghdad Marathon for Peace” Ahmed Alaa spoke to Sputnik about this event.
“There were 7 girls and 9 boys who took part in the race. We left from Baghdad to bring a message of peace to the liberated Mosul. Citizens of Mosul want to live in peace, so our team decided to build bridges to restore those relations, which were destroyed by the Daesh terrorists,” Alaa said.
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He further said that the young Iraqis believe that restoration of peaceful life in the liberated areas is not possible without spreading of non-violence and a culture of peace. It is up to the citizens whether to accept it or not after the military liberates towns and cities.
The race started in Baghdad. However, the distance from Baghdad to Erbil was covered on a military helicopter which helped the team save their energy.
“The hardest stage of the race was from Erbil to Mosul because the road was very bad over there due to the potholes which were created following the hostilities,” Alaa said.
Daesh terrorists from western Mosul tried to sabotage the event by bombing the runners but were prevented by the Iraqi army.
Residents of Mosul, both adults and children, responded enthusiastically to this movement. Some children joined the group and ran with them side by side.
German Left Party (Die Linke), Left Party Youth Organization and ‘No’ Platform of Europe have organised a demonstration in the German city of Oberhausen where Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım held a meeting today afternoon.
Demonstrators who gathered at the Oberhausen Central Train Station Haupteingang at 11:00 called for a ‘No’ organisation in European cities for the upcoming referendum against the genocidal policies of the Turkey’s ruling AKP government.
Speakers pointed out that Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and the AKP intended to cause a polarization of the migrants, and protested the Turkish state’s political genocide and policies of elimination and annihilation.
Demonstrators later staged a march to the area of Yıldırım’s rally where they united with the demonstration of German Greens (Grüne), chanting “Together against fascism” and “No to fascism, no to dictatorship in Turkey”.
MARINE Le Pen delivered a rousing speech last night promising that as French President she will not take instructions from Angela Merkel nor beg for her approval.
Marine Le Pen continued her fight for the French Presidency, as she laid her policies to put her country’s sovereignty first and foremost.
In a rallying cry to a crowd in Clairvaux-Les-Lacs, Ms Le Pen said she will not bow down to Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker.
She said that for too long nationals leaders had to ask for permission from the German Chancellor before announcing any action.
The Front National leader told a cheering crowd last night: “What will be the first thing these presidential candidates will do?
“They will go and see Mrs Merkel and ask: ‘Mrs Merkel is it right to do this? Is it right to do that?'”
She added: “Merkel and Juncker are the perpetuators of this dominance.
“You will see that. They will all make the same trip to Brussels to ask for instructions and permission.
“But I won’t. I will not ask for instructions from Mrs Merkel! Not from Mr Juncker! Nor from Mr Draghi! I will not submit.”
Ms Le Pen, who has continued to rise in the presidential polls, is all but guaranteed to enter the second-round of the election.
Ms Le Pen currently holds around 27 per cent of support among voters.
However, a concerted effort across the traditional parties could thwart her bid to become yet another eurosceptic leader on the continent.
In a survey this week from French thinktank CEVIPOF, the Front National leader came out on top as the candidate “who really wants to change things”.
Her polling has also been boosted following a surge of violence across France.
The alleged rape of a young black man at the hands of the police in the Paris suburbs has provoked a spate of violent protests.
Ms Le Pen has criticised the Government’s response to the violence on the streets.
She has called on officials to ban all anti-police riots.
The bombing took place in the garden of a housing complex for judges and prosecutors in the market town of Viranşehir, about 50 kilometers north of the Syrian border, on Friday night.
The official Anadolu Agency quoted Viranşehir Governor Gungor Azim Tuna as saying that the huge explosion killed a three-year-old child of a court clerk and injured at least 17 others. He further said that the car used in the bombing was reportedly parked near the housing complex by an approximately 20-year-old person.
“The terrorist attack was carried out by detonating the bomb-laden car via remote control. The housing complex was severely damaged,” Tuna said, adding that the wounded were not in critical condition and had been taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
An 2.8 magnitude n earthquake shook Armenia’s north-eastern region Gegharkunik on Saturday morning.
The Emergency Ministry’s Seismic Protection Center recorded the jolts at 10:15 Yerevan time (GMT 6:15).
The earthquake was centered 27km east off the town Sevan at the depth of 10 km.
The founding editor-in-chief of the Istanbul-based Armenian newspaper HyeTert has died in Turkey, the Turkish-language publication Luys reports.
A prominent Turkish-Armenian intellectual, Murat Berberoglu was best known for his articles on the Armenian Genocide, Armenian history and culture, and the big heritage left behind by the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. He also initiated a range of project which were later published in Turkish.
YEREVAN. – Following an agreement between the defense ministries of Armenia and Russia, and upon instruction by the President of Armenia, another consignment of humanitarian aid, which is intended for the residents who have suffered from the Syrian conflict, on Friday was sent to Syria, on behalf of Armenia.
The objective of this assistance is to enhance the resilience of the people and Armenian community of Syria.
This consignment of humanitarian aid—which comprises about 20 tons of food, food items, clothing, and sleeping bags—was sent to Syria from Erebuni Airport in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan, and on board a Russian Air Force plane.
“To the brotherly people of Syria, with warm wishes for peace from Armenia,” is written on this humanitarian cargo.
Tuesday, March 7 • 7:30PM
“The Curious Case of Armenian Genocide Perpetrator Ahmed Faik Bey”
University Business Center, Room 191, A. Peters Auditorium, Fresno State.
Free admission and free parking in Lots P6 or P5.
Parking code is required for free parking. With the support of the Leon S. Peters Foundation.
Dr. Ümit Kurt, a Research Fellow at Harvard University will present talk on “The Curious Case of Armenian Genocide Perpetrator Ahmed Faik Bey” on Tuesday, March 7 at 7:30pm in the University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium, Room 191, on the Fresno State campus.
The lecture is part of the Armenian Studies Program Spring 2017 Lecture Series, with the support of the Leon S. Peters Foundation.
Within the publications on the history of Armenian genocide, studies on the perpetrators received and continue to receive special attention. Seen from a wider perspective, it is rather important to make scholarly investigations and public debate regarding the executors of the Armenian Genocide. Even when the agents of Genocide were not explicitly mentioned, the consequences of their deeds remained all too visible to ignore them. Yet historians, that is to say those who defined it as their job to find out ‘what really happened,’ over an extended period of time left it to others to deal with the issue of perpetration.
This talk focuses on one major perpetrator, Ahmed Faik Erne (1879-1967), his background, deeds, activities and leading involvement in the 1915 Armenian deportation and genocide as well as his life story in the post-genocide period in modern Turkey.
Dr. Ümit Kurt completed his PhD. in the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program in the History Department of Clark University in 2016. His dissertation was entitled “Destruction of Aintab Armenians and Emergence of the New Wealthy Class: Plunder of Armenian Wealth in Aintab (1890s–1920s).” He is currently a research fellow at Harvard University.