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Turkey Urged to Normalize Ties With Israel Before 1915 the centennial of the Armenian Genocide,

October 25, 2013 By administrator

ANKARA—The leader of the Association of Turkish Jews in Israel has urged Turkey to normalize ties with Israel before 1915, the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, or risk the Jewish lobby to “stay neutral” on that issue.

turkishjewSpeaking to Today’s Zaman, Zali De Toledo said : “As 2015 is approaching, Turkey should take into account its interests and should normalize relations with Israel by appointing an ambassador to Israel as soon as possible. If both countries miss the opportunity to mend the ties, the Israeli lobby will likely stay neutral when 2015 comes.”

De Toledo told Today’s Zaman that she had done her utmost to pressure the Israeli lobby in the US to refrain from labeling mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottomans in 1915 as genocide, adding: “I was the strongest supporter of the Turkish position. And now I am really disappointed to see Turkish-Israeli relations at this point.”

De Toledo was speaking of strains in Israel-Turkey relations after the Mavi Marmara incident in 2010. In late March, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered an apology to Israel, but that has not translated into immediate thaw in relations.

De Toledo served as Israeli cultural attaché to Turkey for 10 years, from 1993 to 2003. Israeli President Shimon Peres offered her the position in a bid to improve relations between the two countries.

Referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s harsh stance toward Israel over the Gaza issue, De Toledo says: “It’s a one-man show in Turkey. Why is Erdoğan asking for the lifting of the blockade on Gaza? Why is he interfering? This is an issue between Israelis and Gazans, after all!”

Israeli apology has nothing to do with isolation in region
Israel did not apologize to Turkey for the Mavi Marmara incident because it felt isolated in the Middle East, according to Reuven Azar, head of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bureau for Middle East Research, reported Today’s Zaman.

“It is not an issue of feeling alone in the region or not. It is more than that. Israel considers Turkey a major player in the region and wants to have an alliance with it just like in the past years. Israelis have sympathy toward Turkey and want to restore relations,” Azar told a group of Turkish journalists at the Israeli Foreign Ministry earlier this week.

“Israel is not alone. When it comes to the balance of power in the region, our position is better than the past in terms of security and economy,” Azar said.

The Israeli prime minister said that Israel apologized to Turkey because of the volatile situation in Syria.

Azar went on to say that Israel and Turkey have common interests when it comes to Syria. “The common goal is to maintain stability in the country,” he said.

Addressing the strained relations between the two countries, Azar said that Ankara and Tel Aviv can solve the problems that concern each side, adding that the two countries should come to an understanding and move on.

“However, we don’t really know what is going to be the future of the Turkish approach toward Israel. Turkey’s relations with Hamas are seriously disturbing. This situation brings a question to mind — to what extent can we put our eggs in the Turkish basket?” Azar said.

Relations between Turkey and Hamas, which rules Gaza, have been improving since Turkey’s ties with Israel collapsed over the Mavi Marmara incident.

“We have to ask whether Mavi Marmara is the only issue on the table. Where is Turkey heading in terms of political orientation? We look to Turkey-Hamas relations with great concern. We know that Turkey supports the Middle East peace process, but on the other hand it talks with Hamas,” Azar said.

In early October, Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal paid a surprise visit to Ankara, where he met with Erdoğan for talks on Palestinian reconciliation and developments in the Middle East.

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Armenian Life Returns to Diyarbakir — الحياة الأرمنية تعود فجأة إلى مدينة ديار بكر

October 24, 2013 By administrator

By: Vicken Cheterian Translated from Al-Hayat (Pan Arab). see bellow Arabic Version

Surp-Giragos-Armenian-Church1It was on a hot Sunday in the summer when I visited St. Giragos Church, located within the historic walls of the city of Diyarbakir. A small crowd gathered inside the building, which had recently been renovated. That morning, I not only got the chance to meet new people, but was also acquainted with new ways of self-identifying.

I met Ramzi Demir, a construction-equipment vendor and Kurdish Muslim who is well aware of his Armenian roots. I also met Chetin Yilmaz, an ethnic Turk from the city of Gallipoli. Yilmaz was sent to the southeast of the country to teach Turkish “to help Kurds be good Turkish citizens. However, they opted for the Christian religion instead,” as he put it.

A group of young people visiting the church included Nisreen and Habon, who decided to come after they discovered their Armenian origins. I also met Armin Demerjian, the deacon of the Church of St. Giragos. He was once called Abdur Rahim Zorusselan, before he returned to his original religion. Armin welcomed me with a joyful grin and told me in Armenian, “Welcome, my little brother!”

Demerjian is in his mid 50s. He was born in the town of Liga, north of Diyarbakir, from where his ancestors hail. His family was exterminated during the massacres of 1915, but a five-year-old child named Hocep survived, saved by influential Turkish tribal leader in the region, Haji Zubair.

When Hocep grew up, his name was changed to Abdullah. He converted to Islam and married the daughter of Haji Zubair. He became a famous baker in the town of Liga. Everyone saw him as a good Armenian man.

I walked with Armin around the church. The building, which was meticulously built seven centuries ago, has been renovated, adding a touch of beauty to the impoverished neighborhood. We went to a hall where the walls were decorated with photographs of the Armenian way of life in Diyarbakir before the great massacre. There hung a photo of two Armenian schools, one for boys and one for girls, and a photo of the newspaper Independent Tigris with pictures of craftsmen, coppersmiths, jewelry makers, weavers and a brass band. There was also an old postcard in French portraying the Armenian neighborhood and the high church bell towers. The black-and-white photographs created a sad memorial, not only because they brought back memories of the past, but because they remind us that an entire way of life has been wiped away.

There was once a large Armenian community in Diyarbakir. Most of its members were craftsmen and traders. In 1915, when the Committee of Union and Progress, the powerful party that pushed the Ottoman Empire to fight in the First World War, decided to get rid of the Armenians living in the empire. Approximately 120,000 Armenians in the province were sent outside the city walls and massacred. The survivors, mostly women and orphans, went to camps in the Syrian desert. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Armenians living in villages and towns in the province moved to Diyarbakir to form a new, small community. More left the villages after the war broke out in the southeast of the country between the Kurdistan Workers Party and the Turkish army. Today, a descendant of the survivors is forming a new Armenian community in this historic city.

When I started to take pictures, Armin grabbed an Armenian-language instruction book and held it to his chest in front of the camera.

Armin’s son, Hassan Zor Aslan, recently finished his university education and wants to become a teacher. He is fluent in English and Turkish, and his mother tongue is Kurdish. When coffee was served, Hassan did not take a cup. It was Ramadan, and Hassan was fasting. While his father was forced to rediscover his Armenian past and deep Christian roots, Hassan, 21, found his path through Islam.

“We are Muslims, but we know that we are Armenians,” he told me. In 2006, when the students of Diyarbakir revolted against the Turkish police and the army there, Hassan was sent to his uncle’s house in the town of Bursa in western Turkey to continue his education away from the trouble.

Hassan continued, “I faced an identity crisis there. There, I decided to be a Muslim.” It was there that he also decided to become a professor. When asked how he sees his father, who returned to the Armenian Apostolic Church, he said, “I am happy to see my father getting back in touch with his Armenian identity. However, I am afraid not only of the state but also of militant groups.”

Gafur Torqay is the one who pushed for the renovation of the church. His story is no different from those of the others. His father is called Ba Ohanian, and he hails from the mountainous area of Sason, northeast of Diyarbakir. During the genocide, everyone there was killed, and only three children survived: a girl and two boys. The girl became a refugee in Syria and emigrated from there to Armenia, while the boys remained in Turkey and converted to Islam.

He proudly stated, “Thanks to the two boys, the number of our family members reached 500. These boys spoke Kurdish at home, but when they were sent to school they were prohibited from speaking the Kurdish and Armenian languages and forced to communicate in Turkish.” Gafur criticized Turkish naturalization policies, saying, “After being forced to become a Kurd, we were taught how to become Turks.”

Furthermore, with the emergence of the Kurdish national identity in the past decade, Armenian descendants who had changed their religion claimed their right to the Armenian identity regardless of religious affiliation.

Gafur recalls the first time he visited St. Giragos Church in the 1980s. Back then, there were 30 families living in the vicinity of the Armenian church in the Sur District of Diyarbakir, known as the Infidels District. This is also the title of a novel written by Mgrdich Margossian, who wrote about the life of the Armenian community.

In this city, Gafur met his wife and his family. He believes that the renovation of the church — which was destroyed after the departure of the last Armenian family — is the most important step yet. The church has been renovated thanks to the efforts of a small group of people who exerted tremendous efforts to collect the necessary funds. The municipality of Diyarbakir, controlled by the Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party, paid a third of the renovation costs. The church was reopened in October 2011, with thousands of Armenians coming from all over the world to participate in the event.

Today, the Diyarbakir municipality has begun organizing classes to teach the Armenian language. In 2012, 35 students were registered in language classes and in the following year this number rose to 65. Gafur pointed out that 80% of the students are Muslim Armenians, while there is a Christian or Kurdish Armenian minority.

Gafur recalled how his neighbors found out he was of Armenian descent and how they thought that he and his family had converted to another religion. Families with Armenian roots try to arrange marriages among themselves, he added, stressing, “We are the third generation after the genocide. The second generation knew nothing about Armenian heritage. They were afraid. If we do not act to revive the Armenian identity here, we will lose it.” He hopes that the young people of Armenian descent rediscover their original identity and Armenian culture without questioning their Islamic religious identity.

From there, Gafur took me to St. Sarkis Church. At the entrance, we could see that a Kurdish family had taken residence in the few rooms that remained undestroyed. The architectural style is reminiscent of St. Giragos with its beautiful domes, though wrecked. Projects are in the works for the renovation of this church, too.

At the altar, Gafur pointed to a hole and angrily said, “They are trying to find gold. I was here two weeks ago; this hole was not there.” Similar holes can be found in Armenian churches across eastern Turkey as residents still search for old Armenian gold after 98 years.

Then we headed to the Armenian cemetery. Years ago, the famous musician Aram Dikran wanted to be buried there after his death, but the Turkish state did not allow it. Today, two stones are placed as a sign for the chosen cemetery of Aram Dikran.

مدينة ديار بكر
فيكين شيتيريان
الجمعة ١١ أكتوبر ٢٠١٣

كان يوم أحد صيفي حار حين زرتُ كنيسة القديس كيراكوس الواقعة داخل الأسوار التاريخية لمدينة ديار بكر. تجمّع حشد صغير داخل هذا الصرح الذي تمّ تأهيله مؤخراً. وفي ذلك الصباح، لم يتسنّ لي لقاء أشخاص جدد فحسب بل هويات جديدة أيضاً. تعرّفتُ إلى رمزي دمير، وهو بائع معدات بناء يحمل هوية كردية ورجل مسلم مدرك جيّداً لجذوره الأرمنية. كما أنني التقيتُ بشيتين يلماز، وهو رجل تركي إثني من مدينة غاليبولي تمّ إرساله إلى جنوب شرق البلاد بوصفه أستاذاً يدرّس اللغة التركية «بهدف 131010031344792مساعدة الأكراد على أن يكونوا مواطنين أتراكاً صالحين إلا أنّهم اعتنقوا الدين المسيحي بدلاً من ذلك»، على حدّ تعبيره، كما كانت مجموعة من الشبان تزور الكنيسة،ومن بينهم نسرين وهبون، اللذين قرّرا المجيء لزيارة الكنيسة بعد اكتشاف أصولهما الأرمنية. كما تعرّفتُ إلى أرمين دمرجيان وهو شمّاس كنيسة القديس كيراكوس كان يدعى عبد الرحيم زوراسلان قبل أن يعود إلى اعتناق دينه الأصلي. استقبلني أرمين بابتسامة عريضة ومرحة وقال لي باللغة الأرمنية «أهلاً بك يا أخي الصغير!»

أرمين دمرجيان هو في منتصف العقد الخامس من العمر، وُلد في بلدة ليجا الواقعة شمال ديار بكر، من حيث يتحدّر أجداده. تمّت إبادة عائلة أجداده خلال مجازر عام 1915 فيما نجا ولد واحد كان في الخامسة من عمره يدعى هوسيب بعد أن أنقذه زعيم قبلي تركي صاحب نفوذ في المنطقة، حجي زبير. حين كبر هوسيب تمّ تغيير اسمه إلى عبد الله واعتنق الإسلام وتزوّج من ابنة حجي زبير. وأصبح عبد الله خبازاً مشهوراً في بلدة ليجا، وكان الجميع يعتبره رجلاً مسلماً جيّداً وأرمنياً أيضاً.

جلتُ برفقة أرمين في أرجاء الكنيسة، تمّ تأهيل المبنى الذي شُيّد منذ سبعة قرون بتأنٍّ كبير، ما ساهم في إضفاء لمسة جمال على الحي الفقير. توجّهنا إلى قاعة تمّ فيها عرض صور عن طريقة عيش الأرمن في ديار بكر قبل حصول المجزرة الكبرى. فتمّ عرض صورة لمدرستين أرمنيتين للبنين والبنات وصورة لصحيفة «إندبندنت تيغريس» وصور لحرفيين مثل نحاسين وصانعي مجوهرات ونساجين وفرقة نحاسية. كما تحمل بطاقة تذكارية قديمة باللغة الفرنسية صورة الحي الأرمني مع أبراج مرتفعة لأجراس الكنيسة. تضفي الصور باللونين الأسود والأبيض جوّاً من الحزن ليس بسبب تذكّر الوقت الضائع بل بسبب محو طريقة عيش بكاملها.

كان ثمة جالية أرمنية كبيرة في ديار بكر. وكان معظم أعضائها حرفيين وتجاراً. عام 1915، حين قرّرت جمعية الاتحاد والترقي، الحزب الذي كان موجوداً في السلطة والذي دفع الدولة العثمانية إلى خوض الحرب العالمية الأولى، التخلّص من الأرمن الذين كانوا يعيشون في الإمبراطورية، تمّ جمع 120 ألف أرمني في المحافظة وتمّ إرسالهم خارج أسوار المدينة وتصفيتهم. أما الناجون الذين كان معظمهم من النساء واليتامى، فرحلوا إلى مخيمات في الصحراء السورية. وفي عشرينات القرن الماضي وثلاثيناته، انتقل الأرمن الذين كانوا يعيشون في القرى والبلدات في المحافظة إلى ديار بكر من أجل تشكيل جالية جديدة وصغيرة. كما أنهم رحلوا عن القرية بعد أن اندلعت الحرب جنوب شرق البلد بين حزب العمّال الكردستاني والجيش التركي. واليوم، يشكّل أحفاد الناجين جالية أرمنية جديدة في هذه المدينة التاريخية.

حين رحتُ ألتقط صوراً، جلب أرمين كتاباً وضمّه إلى صدره. كان كتاباً لتعليم اللغة الأرمنية، فحمله ووقف أمام عدسة الكاميرا.

أنهى نجل أرمين حسن زور أسلان تعليمه الجامعي للتوّ وهو يرغب في أن يصبح معلماً، فهو يجيد اللغة الإنكليزية والتركية فيما لغته الأم هي اللغة الكردية. وحين تمّ تقديم القهوة، لم يأخذ حسن فنجاناً. كنّا في شهر رمضان وكان حسن صائماً. في حين تم إجبار والده على إعادة اكتشاف ماضيه الأرمني وجذوره المسيحية العميقة، وجد حسن (21 سنة) الطريق السليم من خلال الإسلام. وأخبرني حسن: «نحن مسلمون إلا أننا نعلم أننا أرمن». عام 2006، حين ثار طلاب ديار بكر ضد الشرطة التركية وضد الجيش الموجود فيها، تمّ إرسال حسن إلى منزل عمّه الكائن في قرية بورصة الواقعة غرب تركيا لمتابعة تحصيله العلمي بعيداً من المشاكل. وتابع حسن بالقول «دخلتُ في أزمة هوية هناك. قرّرتُ هناك أن أكون مؤمناً مسلماً». قرّر هناك أيضاً أن يصبح أستاذاً. كيف ينظر إلى والده الذي عاد إلى الكنيسة الرسولية الأرمنية؟ فرحتُ لرؤية والدي يعود إلى هويته الأرمنية إلا أنني كنتُ أخشى عليه ليس من الدولة فحسب بل من المجموعات المتشدّدة أيضاً.

كان غافور توركاي هو من دفع باتجاه تأهيل الكنيسة. لا تختلف قصته عن قصص سائر الأشخاص. سُمي والده بأوهانيان وهو من منطقة ساسون الجبلية شمال شرق ديار بكر. خلال الإبادة، تمّ قتل أعضاء القبيلة الكبيرة ونجا ثلاثة أولاد فقط، فتاة وصبيان. أصبحت الفتاة لاجئة في سورية وهاجرت من هناك إلى أرمينيا فيما بقي الصبيان في تركيا واعتنقا الدين الإسلامي.

وقال غافور بفخر «بفضل هذين الولدين، وصل عدد أفراد العائلة إلى 500 عضو». وهما يتكلمان اللغة الكردية في المنزل لكن حين أُرسلا إلى المدرسة مُنعا من تكلّم اللغة الكردية والأرمنية وأُجبرا على التواصل باللغة التركية. وانتقد غافور سياسات التجنيس التركية بالقول: «بعد أن أُجبرت على أن أصبح كردياً، كانوا يعلمونني كيف يجب أن أصبح تركياً».

طالما كان الدين واللغة دليلاً أساسياً على الهوية الأرمنية. على مدى قرون طويلة، تمّ ربط الأرمن بالكنيسة الرسولية الأرمنية، وعقب بدء موجة الاضطهاد ضد الأرمن في عهد السلطان عبد الحميد الثاني والتي تحوّلت إلى قتل جماعي في عهد حزب الشباب الأتراك في الحرب العالمية الأولى، اعتنق عدد كبير من الأرمن الإسلام كي يبقوا على قيد الحياة. وفي العقد الماضي، ومع بروز الهوية الوطنية الكردية، يطالب أحفاد الأشخاص الذين غيروا دينهم، بحقهم في الحصول على الهوية الأرمنية بصرف النظر عن انتمائهم الديني.

ويذكر غافور توركاي أول مرة زار فيها كنيسة القديس كيراكوس في ثمانينات القرن الماضي. حينها كان ثمة 30 عائلة أرمنية تعيش في محيط الكنيسة في حي سور في ديار بكر المعروف باسم «حي الملحدين». كما أنه عنوان لرواية ألّفها ميغرديش مرغوسيان، وصف فيها حياة الجالية الأرمنية. وفي هذه المدينة، التقى غافور بزوجته وعائلته. يعتبر غافور أنّ أهم خطوة تمّ القيام بها هي إعادة تأهيل الكنيسة التي ظلّت مدمّرة عقب رحيل آخر عائلة أرمنية. تمّ تأهيل الكنيسة بفضل مساعي مجموعة صغيرة من الأشخاص الذين بذلوا جهوداً جبارة من أجل جمع المال. ودفعت بلدية ديار بكر التي يسيطر عليها حزب السلام والديموقراطية الكردي ثلث تكاليف إعادة التأهيل. وتمّ إعادة افتتاحها في شهر تشرين الأوّل (أكتوبر) 2011، فيما وصل آلاف الأرمن من كافة أنحاء العالم للمشاركة بهذا الحدث.

اليوم، بدأت بلدية ديار بكر تنظيم صفوف لتعليم اللغة الأرمنية بفضل الدعم المالي. عام 2012، تسجّل 35 طالباً فيها وفي السنة التالية ارتفع عددهم إلى 65 طالباً. وأشار غافور إلى أنّ 80 في المئة من الطلاب هم أرمن مسلمون فيما أقلية منهم هم من الأرمن المسيحيين أو أكراد.

يذكر غافور توركاي كيف عرف جيرانه أنه من أصول أرمنية فيما اعتبروا أنه وعائلته اعتنقوا ديناً آخر. حاولت العائلات التي تملك جذوراً أرمنية تزويج أولادها بعضهم من بعض، وقال غافور بإلحاح: «نحن جيل ثالث بعد الإبادة. لم يكن الجيل الثاني يعرف أي شيء (عن الإرث الأرمني)، كانوا خائفين. في حال لم نتحرّك لإعادة إحياء الهوية الأرمنية هنا، سنخسرها». يأمل في أن يقوم الشباب من أصول أرمنية بإعادة اكتشاف هويتهم الأصلية والثقافة الأرمنية من دون التشكيك في هويتهم الدينية الإسلامية.

من هناك، اصطحبني غافور إلى كنيسة القديس سركيس. عند المدخل، كانت عائلة كردية تسكن الغرف القليلة التي بقيت. تذكِّرني طريقة الهندسة بكنيسة القديس كيراكوس مع قبب جميلة على رغم أنها مدمّرة، وثمة مشاريع لتأهيل هذه الكنيسة أيضاً. وعند المذبح ثمة حفرة. وأشار غافور بغضب: «إنهم يحاولون العثور على الذهب. كنت هنا منذ أسبوعين ولم تكن هذه الحفرة موجودة». وتمكن رؤية حفر مماثلة حول الكنائس الأرمنية في كل أنحاء شرق تركيا إذ لا يزال السكان يبحثون عن الذهب الأرمني القديم بعد 98 سنة.

بعدها توجهنا إلى المقبرة الأرمنية. منذ سنوات، حين توفي الموسيقي الشهير آرام ديكران، أراد أن يتمّ دفنه هنا، إلا أنّ الدولة التركية لم تعط الإذن بذلك. واليوم تمّ وضع حجرين في المقبرة كإشارة على مقبرة آرام ديكران.

 

 

 

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Community Protests Turkish Lies in LA

October 24, 2013 By administrator

babacanprotest-1024x768Protesters oppose hosting of Turkish Deputy Prime Minister at LA World Affairs Council Event

LOS ANGELES—On Monday, October 21, hundreds of Armenians gathered at the Intercontinental Hotel to protest a presentation by Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Ali Babacan. The protest was organized by the Armenian Youth Federation Western Region  and the Unified Young Armenians.

Hosted by the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, the event was a means for the government of Turkey to present its economic and foreign policy, including the US-Turkey business relations and the future of economic investment in the region. Community members marched along the busy Los Angeles street during the evening’s rush hour traffic, voicing their concern and frustration over the LAWAC’s hosting of the genocidal Turkish government, given its continued track record of human rights violations.

“The fact that a representative from the government of Turkey was given a platform in L.A., from which to spread false propaganda about all the ways in which Turkey is a shining example of democracy, and in order to win the hearts and dollars of potential investors, is a complete outrage,” said AYF Executive Director, Stepan Keshishian. “As American citizens who value freedom of speech and expression, ethnic and religious freedom, and the protection of basic human rights, we cannot allow economic interests to overpower our values and beliefs. The government of Turkey does not respect and uphold the values that we regard as inviolable and fundamental to American society, and the democratic world must awaken to the policy of intolerance that guides their foreign and economic interests,” Keshishian added.

While the protest was in full force, the dinner-presentation commenced in the Grand Ballroom, where LAWAC President, Terry McCarthy, opened the evening with a tasteless joke about there being hundreds of people outside who apparently thought they would get to see Kobe Bryant (Bryant formerly held an advertising deal with Turkish airlines). McCarthy then introduced Ali Babacan, who addressed his dinner audience with a speech on Turkish foreign and economic policy.

Following the speech, the participants were granted a brief Question & Answer session with the Deputy Prime Minister. All questioners hinted at corruption and disregard for human rights within Turkey. Babacan was asked whether he feels that businesses investing in Turkey should worry about collateral damage on their public image as a result of Turkey’s human rights abuses, including its crackdown on peaceful protesters at Gezi Park—which is built on the grounds of a confiscated Armenian cemetery—having the highest number of jailed journalists in the world, its support for genocidal regimes, such as Sudan, its imprisonment of Kurdish children, its illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus, and its continued active denial of the Armenian genocide. Babacan responded that he did not know how to answer because there were too many issues brought up. He then touched upon the Gezi Park protests, stating that ‘Turkish police overreacted in their reaction to the peaceful protestors, but they did what was needed to be done.’ On the topic of the Armenian Genocide he stated that there needs to be a historical commission established in order to examine whether or not the death of 1.5 million people, the displacement of countless others, and the appropriation of vast amounts of businesses, properties, and wealth could possibly constitute a genocide.

In closing, Terry McCarthy stated, “we have speakers from all spectrums of contentious issues and as a non-partisan organization, we don’t endorse the viewpoints of the speakers we host.” However, the AYF and UYA are outraged by the LAWAC’s blatant disregard for the interests of the community; implying that the Armenian Genocide is a viewpoint is akin to hosting a denier of the Jewish Holocaust. “The Turkish officials and their paid mouthpieces must clearly understand that until the Government of Turkey accepts its responsibility for the Armenian Genocide and makes appropriate moral, financial and territorial restitution, a progressive and enlightened Los Angeles can not welcome them” stated Aroutin Hartounian, President of the UYA. We, as Diaspora and as American’s, stand in firm opposition to entertaining and developing relations with representatives of a government that, since its inception, has systematically disregarded and violated these basic liberties.

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1915 SOYKIRIMI VE HALKLARIN TRAJEDİSİ (English)1915 GENOCIDE AND THE PEOPLE’S TRAGEDY

October 23, 2013 By administrator

Turkish Version

Zeynep_Tozduman-125By: ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN, Izmir Turkey.

Türkiye’nin resmi tarih öğretisi ve eğitim sistemi son derece tahripkar, gerçek dışı bilgiler ve nefret politikaları üzerine kurulmuştur. Düşmanlık; ”hainlik ” mertebesinde hem fiziki hem psikolojik ceza baskısı altında tutulmuştur.Zorla göç ettirmeler (Tehcir), katliam ya da kırımlar olmasaydı bu gün çok uluslu, çok dinli, çok kültürlü bir yapı kendini hala koruyor olacaktı. Son dönemlerde 3.kuşak soykırım maduru torunların açıklamalarında, tanık olduğumuz realite, bu ülkede 1915’de ne kadar zulüm ve vahşet yapıldığının acı bir göstergesidir.

1842-1844’de Botan Miri Bedirhan’nın Nasturi/Süryani zulmünden sonra, 1894- 96 Hamidiye katliamları sonucu iki yüz bin ve 1909 Klikya katliamlarımlarında 20.000 Ermeni katledildi ( 27 Mart 1909 Adana/ Klikya katliamı cihad çağrısıyla yapıldı. Yaklaşık 20 bin insan öldü. Cemal paşa bölgeye gidip sıkıyönetim ilan edip, 50’ye yakın Ermeni’yi idam ettirmiştir ) iki benzer ama 1915’e göre daha küçük katliam zinciridir.

Balkan savaşından sonra ittihat ve Terakki yönetimi, Türk esaslı bir ulus devlet inşasına girişmiştir. Arap- Kürt- Laz- Çerkez ve Balkan- Kafkas göçmeni müslüman halkları ” islam kardeşliği ” altında müttefik yapıp, Hıristiyan halkların tasfiyesine girmiştir. Rum’ların göç ettirilmesi için resmi bir karar alınmamasına rağmen Ege’de yürütülen ”etnik temizlik ” operasyonunun amacı öncelikle bu halkı göç ettirmekti. Sonuç, İzmir civarında 200 bin Rum Yunanistan’a göç etmiştir.

Birinci Dünya Savaşı sırasında Jön Türk egemenliğindeki Osmanlı İmparatorluğu yetkilileri öncelikli olarak azınlık olan Ermeni halkınının çok büyük bir bölümünü, Suryani- Pontus Rum ve Ezidi’leri de yok ederek, dünya tarihinin en büyük soykırımlarından birini gerçekleştirmiştir. Bu ülkenin en kadim halklarını salt gayri Müslim olduğu için, imha ve tehcir etme startı, 24 Nisan’da İstanbul’dan verilmiştir. İstanbul’da 220 Ermeni aydının gözaltına alınmasıyla başlayan süreç, gayri Müslim halklar için geri dönüşü mümkün olmayan bir felakete dönüştü.

Bu toprakları Devrimci düşünceyle ilk buluşturan Ermeni halkı, 1894- 1896 ve 1909 Klikya katliamlarının engellenemeyişiyle; salt Ermeni devrimci hareketi yenilgiye uğramadı, Türkiye devrimci hareketinin de bu gün olması gereken yerde olamayışının da nedenidir. Günümüzde özellikle işçi partisi, TKP ve Halkın Kurtuluş Partisi gibi kendilerini Türk solu olarak niteleyen partilerin programlarına baktığımızda İTC’nin düşüncesinden daha ileri gitmemişlerdir.Bu coğrafyada sosyalist hareket Mustafa Suphi’den çok önce başlamış ve oldukça ilerleme kaydetmişti .Taşnak ve Hınçak gibi Ermeni sosyalist gruplar, Sultan Hamit’in zulmüne karşı şiddet ve militanlık yollarıyla mücadele etmeyi önerdikleri gibi, yaptıkları eylemliliklere bakıldığında anarşist olarak da nitelenebilir.

Ermenilere yönelik soykırımdan sonra, metropollerde yaşayan Ermeni aydınları, bu konuyu dünya kamuoyuna duyurmaya çalıştı. Süryanilerin ise eli kalem tutan kesimleri ortadan kaldırıldığı, Ermeniler ve Rum’lar gibi devlet olamadıkları için Süryanilere yönelik sürdürülen ‘Seyfo” ne yazık ki yeterince duyurulamadı. Merkezi İsveç’te bulunan Seyfo center ve değerli başkanı Sabri Atman ve dostlarının çalışması sonucunda son 30 yıldır yavaş yavaş Süryani soykırımı(Seyfo) duyulmaktadır. Ezidi katliamı ise halen büyük kitelelerce bilinmemektedir.
28 Haziran 1914’de 1. dünya savaşı patlak verdiğinde Jön Türk hükümeti Savaşa girme kararının hemen akabinde Ermenileri ” iç düşman ” ilan eden politikaları yürürlüğe koydu. Osmanlı hükümeti 6 Eylül 1914’te Seferberlikle birlikte Ermenileri ”Amele Taburu ” denilen bölüklerde çalıştırdılar. 15- 60 yaş arası herkesi ilk kez silah altına aldılar. 1915 soykırımının zihinsel ve ideolojik arka planı olarak Sarıkamış Bozgunu 1914 Aralık ayında yaşanmıştır. Zorunlu göç ettirme ( Tehcir Kanunu )= Bir halkın tümüyle anavatanından sürülüp çıkarılması, tarihsel bir haksızlık olduğu gibi ” etnik arındırma ” harekatıdır. Tehcir yasası ise Soykırımın yasal dayanağı ve onu perdelemeye yarayan bir hukuksal belgedir.

Techire tabi tutulan sürgünlerin Halep’e sürülmesi ve imha edilmesinde, Soykırım mimarlarından Talat-Cemal- Enver üçlüsünden özellikle Talat; sürgünlerin işgücünün sömürülmesine de karşıydı. Çünkü, O köle tüccarı değil, Ermeni ulusunun mezar kazıcısı olmak istiyordu.
Sürgün, tehcir kararının akabinde, Ocak 1916’ya kadar 33 ” Emval-i Metruke Komisyonu” kuruldu. Alacaklı olduğunu idda edenlerin kendilerini ya da vekilleri aracılığı ile 2 ay içinde komisyonlara başvurması, bulunduğu mahallede bir ikametgah göstermek şartıyla mümkündü. Bu, ekonominin Türkleştirilmesi (millileştirilmesi) demekti.

Talat Paşa, Amerikan hayat sigortası şirketinden, Ermeni müşterilerinin bir listesini isteyip, ( Ermenilerin çoğunluğu öldüğü için biriken paralarını alacak mirasçıları da yoktu. Bunlar devlete intikal ediyor ve tasarruf hakkı hükümetin oluyordu) sigorta paralarına da göz dikmiştir. Emval-i metruke komisyonları’nın defterleri bu gün de ortada yoktur ya araştırmacılardan kaçırılan evraklar arasındadır ya da imha edilmiş olmalıdır.
Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, anılarında Talat Paşa’nın yurt dışına kaçmadan önce ” 1 bavul evrağı yaktığını” yazmıştır. Soykırım, salt bir evrak sahtekarlığı da değildir. Toplumsal ve politik bir olaydır.

Osmanlı döneminde 1890 yılında yapılan nüfus sayımında, Ermeni nüfusunu 2.880.000 olarak belirlemiştir.Sivas- Mamuret-ül Aziz- Erzurum- Bitlis -Diyarbekir- Van’da toplam nüfusun % 18’i dir.
Bu rakam birebir gerçeği yansıtmamaktadır. Şöyle ki, Hırıstiyan unsurların bazılarının Balkan savaşı ve 1915 öncesi yaşanan katliamlar yüzünden vaftiz kayıtlarının bulunmaması, erkek çocuklarının askere gitmemek için vaftiz kaydı yaptırmaması , bazı Kilise ve manastırların yakılıp, yıkılıp, v.b nedenlerden ötürü net bir rakam vermek mümkün değildir. Bu olasılıkları da gözönüne aldığımızda Osmanlının yaptığı Nüfus sayımından daha yüksek rakamlar olduğu pekala anlaşılır.

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ilk nüfus sayımını 1927’de yaptı. O tarihte ülkede 123.602 Ermeni kalmıştı. Bu sayım İstanbul ve İzmir’deki batı metropollerindeki sayıdır. 1915 ile Batı Ermenistan, Ermenisizleştirilmiş,Turabdin bölgesi Süryanisizleştirilmiş, Ezidi halkı yokedilip kalanlar tamamen asimile edilmiştir. ( Bir Ezidi sosyolog Azat Barış’ın araştırmasına göre bölgede 73 orjin Ezidi kalmıştır.)

Mavi Kitap’a göre kaba bir rakamla 600.000 Ermeni’nin sürgünden kurtulduğunu, 600.000’inin hemen ya da sürgün süresince öldürüldüğünü 600.000’inin ise sürgün yerlerinde hayatlarını yitirdiğini söylemektedir. Soykırımın en az 1.200.000 insanın hayatına mal olduğunu hiç kimse redetmemektedir. 1.200.000 ya da 1.500.000 ölü; burada söz konusu olan, bütün bir halkın/halkların yok edilmesidir.

1914 yılında 250 bin, savaş sırasında 550 bin Rum; Ege, Marmara ve Karadeniz bölgelerinden sürgün edilmiş, kıyıma uğramış ve malları gasp edilmiştir. Yine bu dönemde yaklaşık 250.000- 400.000 Süryani halkı salt hıristiyan olduğu için Ermeni halkıyla aynı kaderi paylaşmıştır. Keza 350.000’e yakın Pontus Rum’un katliamını da bu hesaba dahil edersek kaba bir rakamla 2 milyona yakın insan etnik temizliğe uğramıştır.

1.Dünya savaşı başladığı zaman osmanlı ordusundaki bütün önemli mevkilerde Alman subaylar bulunuyordu. Albay Bronsart Von Schellendorf ” Erkan-ı Harbiye-i umumiye reisi ” iken Enver paşa ile birlikte fiilen orduyu yönetmiştir. Sarıkamış bozgunundan sonra ordunun idaresi neredeyse tümüyle Alman genarallerine bırakıldı. Türk savaş endüstrisi de, Almanlar tarafından geliştirildiği için Alman genarallerine paşa ünvanı verilmişti.

Almanya pancermanist yaklaşımlar ( Almanları, rahatsız eden halklara karşı halkları hayvan sürüleri gibi Avrupa’nın bir ucundan ötekine zorla sürmesi, Alman fetih planlarının bir parçasıdır) yüzünden Türkiye’yi, ya ekonomik olarak ya da sömürge olarak sömürme planları, bu büyük felakete göz yummuştur. XIX. yüzyılda dünya üç emperyalist devlet tarafından paylaşılmıştı. Suriye ve Mezopotamya’dan geçen demiryolları; yakındoğu’da üç güçlü emperyaliste karşı, var olma savaşıdır. Bir yandan sömürge imparatorluklarıyla İngiltere ve Fransa, diğer yandan da iki kıtaya yayılmış olan Rusya tarafından kuşatılmıştı. Bir yandan da yeni ekonomi devinin ABD ve Japonya’nın yükselişine karşılık Almanya’nın bu pastadan pay almak istemesi, bu toprakların en kadim halklarını Jön Türkler tarafından insanlık suçu işlerken göz yumulmasına neden olmuştur.

Soykırıma gözlerini yuman bütün Avrupa devletleri, kendi çıkarları uğruna Ermenilerin sırtından kazanılmış savaş ganimetlerini paylaşan müttefiklerin tavrı da Alman imparatorluğunun tavrından daha asil değildir. Bu gün hala İngiltere kasasında bulunan 5 milyon para, Ermeni soykırımdan elde edilen gelirdir.

Emperyal güçlerin çıkarları uğruna bu soykırıma sessiz kalması, görmemezlikten gelmesi elbette Türkiye’yi aklamaz. Bir insanlık suçunu düşünmek, uygulanır hale getirmek bile başlı başına büyük bir genocid’tir.

XIX. yüzyılın başlarında Ermeni- Süryani- Pontus Rumların, toplu imhasında bütün sorumluluk Jön Türk hükümetine aittir. Jön Türk öncülüğünde yapılan, doğuda bu günün korucu Kürtleri diyebileceğimiz Kürtlerinde katliamlarda baş rol alarak, Pancermanist, Pantürkist, Panislamist,Panslavizst politikaları yüzünden bu ülkenin kadim halklarını vahşice ölüme yolcu etmiştir.

İşgal edilen ülkelerde ve soykırımlarda, öncelikle kadınlar tecavüze uğrar. Bir ulusun ” Etnik tecavüze uğraması ile kadınların aşağılanması, işgal ve egemenliğin erkekçe ifadesidir. Bu aynı zamanda hem ulusun hemde inançların aşağılanmasıdır. Din değiştirerek hayatta kalma olgusu Osmanlı’nın islam kılıcının sallandığı altı yüzyıl boyunca, bütün gayri müslim uluslar için ciddi bir seçenek olmuştur.

Bazı Sol- Sosyalist hareketlerde Kemalist hareketi, antiemperyalist bir hareket olarak, masum gibi göstermeleri ise gerçeği yansıtmamaktadır. Aslında bizlere yıllarca hem resmi ideoloji olarak hem Sol hareketlerde ”Kurtuluş savaşı ” olarak sunulan şeyin özünde Osmanlı imparatorluğu’nu kurtarma ve Kemalizmi aklama savaşıdır; Kemalizm, Yunan ( Rum, Pontus), Ermeni, Asuri/Süryani gibi hıristiyan unsurlara karşı yürütülen bir ” etnik temizlik hareketi”dir. Örnek verecek olursak, Mustafa Kemal ve yoldaşları, Cumhuriyeti kurar kurmaz, İTC’nin yarım kalan politikalarını devletde devamlılık esastır anlayışıyla, Rumlara yönelik takibatları 1919’da başlatmıştır. 1920’nin başlarında Kilikya/ Maraş’ta ve Hacin’de 9 bin Rum katletmiştir. 1915’te Talat Paşa’nın uyguladığı yöntemle büyük benzerlik içinde olan Mustafa Kemal ve yoldaşları, 1922’de Rumları sürgün ettirdi. Nasturi isyanı bahanesiyle de Hakkari’de yaklaşık 20.000 Nasturi’yi katlettirmiştir. Böylelikle 1924’e kadar Türkiye hızla hırıstiyansızlaştırılmış, sıra asimile edilecek halklara öncelikli olarak Kürt halkına gelmişti.
(Doğu ordu komutanı olan Kazım Karabekir görev yaptığı dönemlerde; Ermeni ve Nasturilere karşı savaşmıştır). 1934’de Trakya olaylarında yine aynı yöntemle Yahudi halkı ( 15.000 Yahudi ) tehcir edildi.

Kemalizm; 1915’in ardından Kürt, Arap, Çerkez, Laz gibi müslüman halkların da Türkleştilme hareketidir. Kemalistler ”Kurtuluş Savaşı ” adını verdikleri 1919-1922 döneminde, emperyalist devletlerle savaşmadı. Fransızlar’a karşı savaşıldı dediler, Ermeni milislerine karşı savaşıldı, İngilizlerle ise çatışma söz konusu bile olmadı. Tek savaş Ege’ye çıkartma yapan Yunan ordusuyla yapıldı. Yunanlılarla yapılan savaşda ” anti- emperyalist” bir savaş değildi. Bu toprakların yerleşik uluslarına yapılan bir yoketme savaşıdır. ”Amasya Tamimi” Kemalist hareketin ilk yazılı belgesidir. Yeni Türkiye Cumhuriyetinin kurucuları arasında ve günümüze değin devlet kadrolarında yer alanların bir çoğu soykırıma bulaşmış savaş suçlusu, Malta Sürgünleri yada İTC üyeleridir. Soykırıma katılan kadroların bir çoğu milli mücadeleye ilk katılanlar arasında yer almıştır.

Enver Paşa 1918’de yutdışına kaçarken, Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa’ya son vekalet eden Hüsamettin Ertürk’e teşkilatı fesh etmesini ister. Ancak örgüt fiili varlığını ” müdafaa-i milliye grubu ” adıyla yeniden organize edip, kadrolarını, gizli silah ve cephanelerini kemalist harekete intikal ettirerek büyük destek sağlamıştır. Bu nedenle çalışmaları 1921’de B.M.M. tarafından onaylanmıştır.

Soykırımı inkar edenlere sormak gerek; 1914 kayıtlarına göre, osmanlı imparatorluğu sınırları içinde salt Ermeni cemaatine ait 2538 kilise, 451 manastır ve 2000 okul vardı. Bu kiliselerin cemaatlerine, bu okulların öğrencilerine, onların hak ve halklarına ne oldu? ”% 99′ u müslüman ve ezici çoğunluğu ” Türk ”olan bir Türkiye nasıl oluştu?
Bir halkın demokrafik yapısı ve coğrafi sınırlarıyla oynayabilirsiniz, ama o halkın ulus olma gerçekliğini asla değiştiremezsiniz.

İngilizlerin baskısı sonucu 8 Mart 1919 Divan-ı Harb örfi muhakematı ile Soykırımcılar yargılanmaya başladı. Malta’da yargılanan üst düzey sanık bürokrat sayısı 118’dir. Bu yargılamalar Dadrian’a göre ; Ermeni halkına işlenen suçların dökümanlaştırmak açısından başarılı ” ancak ” savaş suçluların cezalandırılması bakımından başarısızdır. Eylül- Ekim- Kasım 1921’de Esir İngiliz subaylarla değiş-tokuş sonucu Malta sürgünlerinin tamamı serbest bırakılmış mübadele dışı tutulan ve uluslararası bir mahkemede yargılanmak üzere ayrılan 16 ittihatçı da kaçmıştı.

Mezopotamyanın en kadim halkı olan Süryaniler; katliamlar, baskılar, sindirme ve tek tipleştirme politikaları yüzünden bu gün ülke genelinde 18000, anayurdu Mezopotamya’da sayıları ne yazık ki üç bin kalmıştır. Ermeni nüfusu 50-60.000 civarı, Rum nüfusu ise 3-4000 civarındadır.

1915’in hesabı bu ülkede ve uluslararası diplomasi de sorulmadığı için kendinden sonra gelen tüm soykırımlara örnek olmuştur. Bu ülkede 1915 soykırımı yargılanmadığından ötürü de günümüze değin asimilasyon, imha-inkar-yoketme gibi kültürel ve sosyal-psikolojik soykırımlar devam etmiştir. Kısacası 1915 şekil değiştirsede, sürüyor…
1925’de kürt liderlerine, 1937-1938’de Dersim halkına son 30 yıldır Kürt halkına, yapılan katliamlar ve kirli savaş da, aynı anlayışın yansımasıdır. Bu topraklarda başka soykırımlar yaşanmaması için ya karanlık/kirli geçmişimizle yüzleşeceğiz ya da yüzsüzleşeceğiz.

Son söz olarak, bu ülkenin yöneticilerinden önce, öncü güç olarak Türkiye’li devrimcilerin ve tüm sosyalist yapilarin vede özgürlükçü yapilarin 1915′ İçin Ermeni-Süryani-Rum- Ezidi- Yahudi halklarina karşı özür borcu vardir. Ve sol-sosyalist- devrimci örgütler 1915 ‘ soykirimindan günümüze değin bu ülkede yaşatilan tüm katliamlari, parti programlarina almalı ve gereğini yapmalıdır.

ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN

Kaynakça: Wolfgang Gust; Alman belgeleri, 1915-1916 Ermeni soykırımı (Belge yayıncılık),
Vahakn N.Dadrian; Ermeni soykırımı tarihi- Balkanlardan Anadolu ve Kafkasya’da etnik çatışma ( Belge yayıncılık )
Tessa Hofmann; Takibat, Techir ve imha Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda 1912- 1922 Yıllarında Anadolu Hıristiyanlarına Yönelik Yaptırımlar ( Belge yayıncılık )
Dobkin; İzmir 1922 Bir kentin yıkımı, çeviri:Atilla Tuygan ( Belge yayıncılık)
Arnold Toynbee, James Bryce; Mavi Kitap 1915 Ermeni sorunu ( Pençere yayıncılık ) , Recep Maraşlı, Ermeni Ulusal Demokratik Hareketi ve 1915 Soykırımı ( Peri yayınları tarih dizisi )

English Version Google translated

1915 GENOCIDE AND THE PEOPLE’S TRAGEDY

Turkey’s official history teaching and training system is extremely destructive , untrue information and policies founded on hatred . Hostility ; ” disloyal ” tutulmuştur.Zorla under the pressure of the order of emigration both physical and psychological punishment ( deportation ) , the massacre or were not massacred these days of multinational , multi-religious , multi-cultural structure itself would still remain . Maduru 3rd generation descendants of genocide in recent years , explanations of reality that we have seen , been done in this country suffered in 1915, is an indicator of how much cruelty and brutality .

1842- 1844 Botan Bedirhan Miri Nestorian / Assyrian oppression , then 1894-96 katliamlarımlarında Hamidian massacres of 20,000 Armenians from Cilicia in 1909 were killed and two hundred thousand ( March 27, 1909 in Adana / Cilicia was a call to jihad massacre . Approximately 20 thousand people died. Cemal pasha went to the area to declare martial law , the death of Armenians maintained close to 50 ), the two are similar, but smaller than 1915 slaughter chain.

Management of the Union and Progress after the Balkan War , Turkey embarked on the construction of a nation-state based . Laz, Circassian and Kurdish – Arab – Muslim peoples of the Balkan -Caucasian immigrants of Islamic brotherhood ” make ” under the allied Christian peoples into liquidation . Although no formal decisions were taken emigration of Rum ” ethnic cleansing ” operation carried out in the Aegean that is primarily intended for people to immigrate . Consequently , around Izmir 200 thousand Greeks emigrated to Greece .

Officials of the Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War, primarily minority -dominated society of which the vast majority of Armenians , Pontic Greek and Syriac – Ezidi’leri by destroying the history of the world has realized one of the biggest genocides . This is only a non-Muslim country is the most ancient peoples , the start of the destruction and relocation , given on April 24 in Istanbul . The detention of 220 Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul, the process started , not being able to return to the non-Muslim peoples turned into a disaster .

It brings together the territory of the first Armenian people thought the Revolutionary , 1894 – 1896 and 1909 engellenemeyişiyle Cilician massacres ; undergo only defeat the Armenian revolutionary movement , the revolutionary movement in Turkey olamayışının also cause the place to be these days . Nowadays, especially the working party, the CAP and the People’s Liberation Party qualifies as the Turkish left parties themselves, such as the idea of ​​analyzing the program further gitmemişlerdir.Bu CUP Mustafa Suphi region began long before the socialist movement , and quite improvement. Dashnak and Armenian social groups , such as Hinchak Sultan Hamit proposed to fight against the persecution of ways , such as violence and militancy , they can be described as the activity of the anarchist look .

After the genocide against the Armenians , Armenian intellectuals living in metropolitan areas , the subject tried to inform the world public opinion . Parts of the hand holding the pen abolished the Assyrians , Armenians and Assyrians to lack of Rum for the state , such as the ongoing ‘ Seyfo ” duyurulamadı sadly enough . Sabri Atman Centre in Sweden , and friends Seyfo center and a valuable head slowly work the last 30 years as a result of the Assyrian Genocide ( Seyfo ) there . In the massacre are still very kitelelerce EZiD known.
June 28 , 1914 1 World War II broke out, the decision to enter the war immediately after the Young Turk government of the internal enemy ,” ,” proclaimed policies enacted Armenians . 6 September 1914, the Armenians of the Ottoman government mobilization ” called ” Workers Battalion troops, to work. 15 to 60 years old the first time anyone had been recruited . Defeat Sarikamish the mental and ideological background of the 1915 genocide took place in December 1914 . Forced displacement ( Relocation Act ) = homeland of a people driven completely removed , as well as a historical injustice ” ethnic cleansing ” campaign . Relocation of the genocide law is a legal document for the legal basis and conceal it .

Relocation shoots are subject to expulsion and destruction of Aleppo , the architects of the Holocaust , especially Talat Talat and Cemal – Smith trio ; exiles opposed to the exploitation of the labor force . Because he is not the slave merchant , wanted to be the gravedigger of the Armenian nation .
Shoot, followed by the relocation decision , until 33 January 1916 The Abandoned Properties Commission ” ” Emval – founded. Claiming to be creditors within 2 months of the commissions themselves or through their proxies to apply , in a residential neighborhood where it was possible to show the condition . It Turkify economy ( nationalization ) meant .

Talat Pasha , American life insurance company , you want a list of the Armenian customers , ( did not inheritors will get their money deposited for the majority of Armenians were killed . They are transferred to the state and the government was right to save money ), the insurance also plotting to take their money . Commissions behind by Emval – books these days , there is not , or between researchers or destruction of documents that should be missed .
Shaukat Sureyya Aydemir , Talat Pasha ‘s memoirs before fleeing abroad, visa papers burned ” ,” wrote one suitcase . Genocide , it is not a mere paperwork fraud . Social and political phenomenon.

Census conducted in 1890 during the Ottoman period , the Armenian population as 2,880,000 belirlemiştir.Sivas – Mamuret -ul – Aziz – Erzurum, Van, Bitlis and Diyarbakir is 18% of the total population .
This figure does not reflect the exact truth . Namely, in the pre- Christian elements of the massacre of some of the Balkan war, and in 1915 there are records of baptism , christening record yaptırmaması boys not to go recruit some churches and monasteries were burned , destroyed , etc., are not able to give a clear number of reasons . When we consider these possibilities, the Ottomans also well understood that the figures are higher than the census .

The Republic of Turkey was the first census in 1927 . At that time, the country had 123,602 Armenians . This count is the number in Istanbul and Izmir western metropoles . 1915 and Western Armenia , Ermenisizleştirilmiş , Süryanisizleştirilmiş in Tur Abdin , the residue is yokedilip EZiD people were assimilated . ( According to a survey in the area EZiD sociologist Harry Azat EZiD origin was 73 . )

According to Blue Book exile survived a rough figure, 600,000 Armenians , 600,000 per cent , or almost 600,000 were killed during the shoot per cent say that lost their lives in the places of exile . Genocide that claimed the lives of at least 1.2 million people redetmemektedir no one . 1200000 or 1500000 dead , is at stake here , an entire people / peoples is not .

In 1914, 250 thousand , 550 thousand Greeks during the war in the Aegean , Marmara and Black Sea regions have been banished , and the goods have suffered slaughter has been usurped . During this period, approximately 250,000 to 400,000 for the Armenian people of the Syrian people to be Christians only shared the same fate . Likewise 350,000 Pontic Greeks close to the massacre into account if it is a rough figure of 2 million people have undergone ethnic cleansing .

All the important positions in the 1st World War started when the Ottoman army were German officers . Bronsart Erkan -i Harbiye- Colonel Von Schellendorf ” while ” The General Enver Pasha with the de facto head of the army managed . Genarallerine the German army was almost completely after the debacle Sarikamish administration . Industry in the Turkish war , the Germans developed by the German genarallerine given the title of pasha .

Germany pancermanist approaches ( the Germans off against the peoples from one end to the other peoples of Europe, such as herds of animals forced to continue , is a part of the German plans for conquest ) of Turkey , or in economic or colonial exploitation plans , oversaw this major disaster . XIX. century world shared among the three imperial state . The railways in Syria and Mesopotamia , Near East, three powerful against the imperialists , to have a war. Colonial empires, Britain and France on the one hand , on the other hand was surrounded by Russia, which are spread over two continents . On the other hand corresponds to the rise of new economic giants, the U.S. and Japan , Germany wants to get a share of this pie , the most ancient peoples of this land overlooked by processing a crime against humanity caused by the Young Turks .

Genocide of all European states to close his eyes , for the sake of their own interests at the expense of Armenians have gotten the attitude of the Allies are sharing the spoils of war is more noble than the attitude of the German Empire . 5 million in the UK money is still safe these days , the revenue from the Armenian genocide .

Genocide, remain silent for the sake of the interests of the imperial powers , of course, Turkey vindicates a blind eye to arrive . To think of a crime against humanity , is in itself a great genocid’tir make .

XIX. century, the Armenian – Syrian – Greeks of Pontus , the Young Turk government of responsibility for the destruction of collective rights reserved. Conducted under the leadership of the Young Turks in the east, taking the lead role in the massacres of Kurds of the day, we can say the Kurds guards , Pancermanist , pan-Turkic , Panislamic , the ancient peoples of this country because of the policies Panslavizst passenger death was brutal .

And genocide in occupied countries , primarily women raped . ” Ethnic rape of a nation with the humiliation of women , manly expression of the occupation and domination . This is also the nation’s humiliation both faiths . A case of the survival of changing the sword islam religion shakes for six centuries of the Ottoman Empire , has been a serious option for all non-Muslim nations .

Some of the Kemalist movement in the left – socialist movements , anti-imperialist movement, the innocent, as if to reflect the reality show . In fact, for years to come to us as well as the official ideology of the left movement and the core of what is presented as the Ottoman Empire ” ,” War of Independence laundering war recovery and Kemalism , Kemalism , Greek (Greek , Pontus ) , Armenian , Assyrian / Syriac Christians as the one carried out against the elements ” ethnic cleansing ” is movement . As an example , Mustafa Kemal and his companions , as soon as you set up the Republic , the state of the continuity is essential to an understanding of the policies of the CUP unfinished , in 1919, initiated proceedings against the Greeks . Cilicia in the early 1920 / Hadjn Maras and massacred nine thousand Greeks . In 1915, which is very similar to the method applied by Talat Pasha, Mustafa Kemal and his comrades in exile in 1922, the Greek quarter. Under the pretext of the rebellion in the city of Hakkari Nestorians Nasturi’yi katlettirmiştir approximately 20,000 . Thus, Turkey is rapidly hırıstiyansızlaştırılmış until 1924 , the Kurdish people as well as priority populations had to be assimilated .
(Eastern army commander, his periods Karabekir Kazim , fought against the Armenians and Nestorians ) . In 1934, the Jewish people with the same method in cases of Thrace ( 15,000 Jews ) were deported .

Kemalism , 1915, after the Kurds, Arabs , Circassians, Laz Muslim peoples , such as the movement of the Türkleştilme . During the War of Independence 1919-1922 ” ,” they called Kemalists , did not fight the imperialist states . Fought against the French , they said, was fought against the Armenian militia , the British have not even mentioned the conflict . Greek army was the only war the Aegean stickers . ” Anti-imperialist ” savaşda the Greeks was not a war . A resident of this land to destroy the nations of war. The first written document of Amasya Circular ” ” Kemalist movement . The new state of the Republic of Turkey to this day one of the founders , and many of those in positions of genocide, war crimes infected , Malta shoots or members of the CUP . Many of the participants in the national struggle of the first cadres participating in the genocide took place.

Enver Pasha fled yutdışına 1918 , Husain Erturk, the Special Organization, the Organization last proxy you want to terminate . However, the actual existence of the organization the Nation ” group ” as re- organizing and self-defense , cadres, secret weapons and ammunition provided great support to the Kemalist movement ettirerek foreclosed . For this reason, studies B.M.M. 1921 approved.

You need to ask those who deny the genocide , in 1914 , according to the Armenian community in the Ottoman Empire for only 2,538 churches, monasteries , and in 2000 the school had 451 . Congregations of these churches , the schools, the students , the people of their rights and what happened? ” 99% ” Turkey ” s an overwhelming majority of Muslims and how was Turkey ?
Structure of the population and geographical boundaries of a democra play , but it will never change the reality of the people to the nation .

March 8, 1919 , under pressure from the British Divan-ı Harb customary genocide committers, with the prosecution began the trial . 118 Number of senior bureaucrats accused tried in Malta . These trials Dadrian , according to the Armenian people in terms of documenting the crimes committed in the successful prosecution of the war ,” but ” failed. From September to November 1921 the British officers exchanged prisoners were released as a result of exchange held off all of the Malta exiles and left to stand trial in an international court on the 16th Unionist escaped.

Which is the most ancient people of Mesopotamia Assyrians; massacres , oppression, intimidation and homogenization 18,000 across the country these days because of the policies , the number of Mesopotamia, the homeland of three thousand remained , unfortunately . The Armenian population of around 50 to 60,000 , while the Greek population of around 3-4000 .

Question on account for 1915 in this country, and international diplomacy has been following it all the genocides of the sample . Due to the 1915 genocide in this country until today yargılanmadığından assimilation , destruction of cultural and social -psychological as – genocide denial and destruction continued. In short, if you change the shape in 1915 , continues …
Kurdish leaders in 1925 , 1937 in 1938, the last 30 years the people of Dersim, the Kurdish people , the massacres and the dirty war , the reflection of the same understanding . In order to prevent another genocide in this land or dark / dirty or yüzsüzleşeceğiz confrontation with our past .

As a last word , before the managers of this country , and all the socialist revolutionaries from Turkey as the leading force structures libertarian structures vede 1915 EZiD for the Armenian – Syrian – Greek – Jewish apologetic against the people there . And left – socialist – revolutionary organizations 1915 genocide, kept alive until today all the murders in this country , and the need for the party should take PROGRAMS .

Zeynep TOZDUMAN

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ISTANBUL: Fugitive suspect in Hrant Dink murder case captured

October 23, 2013 By administrator

ISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency

n_56718_4Erhan Tuncel (C), the suspected instigator of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was captured in a police operation Oct 23. DHA photo

Erhan Tuncel, the suspected instigator of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, has been captured in Istanbul’s Kumburgaz district in a villa where he was hiding out, after having spent 38 days on the run.

Tuncel was captured in a police operation on the same day as an interview was published in daily Star on Oct. 23 in which he said he would surrender in 15 days.

“I will surrender when I complete my defense,” he said in the interview. “I will reveal the names I am in contact with. The gendarmerie forces have a big role in the Dink murder … I am not running away, I am preparing a detailed defense with my application to the European Court of Human Rights and planning to complete it within 15 days, I will surrender right after completing this.”

Tuncel also said there was another organization within the state “higher than Ergenekon [an allegedly shadowy organization accused of planning to overthrow the Turkish government], that is being prevented from shedding light on this murder. I am a little piece of all these.”

He particularly pointed to the Black Sea province of Trabzon’s police department and gendarmerie.

The trial into the murder of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink had restarted in Istanbul on Sept. 17 this year following an overturning from the Supreme Court of Appeals after six years of legal procedures. The court had issued an arrest warrant for Tuncel.

Tuncel was an informant in the Black Sea province of Trabzon ahead of the murder of Dink, the editor-in-chief of Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos who was shot dead in broad daylight in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.

Earlier in the case on Jan. 17, 2012, the Istanbul 14th High Criminal Court had ruled to exonerate the 19 suspects from “being members of a terrorist organization.”

Arrested suspect Yasin Hayal had received aggravated life imprisonment for instigating the murder and police informant and suspect in the murder Erhan Tuncel was sentenced to one year and three months in prison.

Ogün Samast, who pulled the trigger, was a minor at the time and was sentenced to nearly 23 years in prison. Due to the fact that Tuncel had already served time in connection to a 10 year and six month sentence issued for an explosion at a McDonalds restaurant, he was released.

Tuncel is seen as a key in linking the murder to the state institutions as members of the Police Department in the Black Sea province of Trabzon, the suspects’ hometown, have been accused of failing to relay intelligence provided by Tuncel to the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command in a report prepared by Turkey’s State Supervisory Council (DDK).

The triggerman, Ogün Samast, 17-years-old at the time of the murder, and Yasin Hayal, who was charged of being the instigator of the assassination, were convicted of the murder. However, a high criminal court dismissed charges related to an “armed terrorist organization.” The Supreme Court of Appeals verdict defined the acts of all suspects in the case under “an organization formed to commit crime” according to Turkish Penal Code Article 220.

October/23/2013

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Los Angeles: Ali Babacan Lies at World Affairs Council

October 23, 2013 By administrator

1393593_10151717559943201_144461051_n1Some 200 demonstrators protested Ali Babacan’s appearance at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council

BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN

On Monday, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan addressed the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, where he lied throughout his presentation about Turkey’s economic progress, regional role as a so-called power player and made never-before-heard allegations regarding the Armenia-Turkey protocols process all in an attempt to paint a favorable picture of his country to the more than 150 in attendance.

In response to a question from the audience posed by Armenian National Committee of American Advisory Board member Levon Kirakossian, Babacan characterized the Armenia-Turkey Protocols process as one that from the onset was a three-pronged approach that involved the resolution of the Karabakh conflict. The actual document of the Protocols and all statements made during that time indicated that the normalization of relations between Turkey and Armenia would have no preconditions.

He explained to the audience that secret talks between Armenia and Turkey began in 2007 and were mediated by Switzerland, expressing that the two countries expressly agreed to the establishment of a commission that would “review the events of 1915.”

Babacan explained that in the absence of an agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which would have resulted in a regional normalization agreement, the process had stalled.

Asbarez contacted the Armenian Foreign Ministry regarding the revelations made by Babacan. The Foreign Ministry referred Asbarez to an op-ed piece published in October 2010 in the Wall Street Journal and authored by Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian, in which he said “Turkey has backtracked from the agreements. Not only has it refrained from ratifying the protocols, but Ankara has returned to the language of preconditions that it had used before the beginning of the process.”

RecapBabacan-300x223In the piece, Nalbandian also said that while Turkey claims “they have no preconditions… they simply demand that we fulfill this or that before they can proceed with the ratification. Does this mean they have no preconditions?”

Babacan went on to say that there were tragic events that took place in 1915 during World War I, but the government of Turkey does not possess any proof to deem those events Genocide.

The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region wrote to the Turkish Consulate General asking to meet with Babacan while he was in Los Angeles. At press time, the ANCA-WR had not received a response.

Similarly, the ANCA-WR wrote to the leadership of the LAWAC urging the organization to cancel the event, arguing that “the Council would certainly not invite any of the following officials nor their representatives to speak: Jean Kambanda of Rwanda, Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, Pol Pot of Cambodia, or Heinrich Himmler of Nazi Germany; Mr. Babacan is a representative of such a genocidal regime.”

The LAWAC President Terry McCarthy told USC Annenberg’s Neon Tommy via telephone: “We have speakers from all spectrums of contentious issues and as a non-partisan organization, we don’t endorse the viewpoints of the speakers we host.”

Babacan’s remarks were tailored to appease what he thought was an unsuspecting audience. However, the extent of questions from the audience indicated that they were more aware of current trends in Turkish politics.

Questions ranging from the revelation of an Israeli spy ring in Iran, as retaliation for the Mavi Marmara incident to the ill-treatment and oppression of opposition forces, especially during the Gezi Park demonstrations were all treated with one response. Babacan told the audience that they should not rely on information they read in papers and they should be aware that in all instances “illegal organizations” were at the center of those issues.

Throughout his remarks, Babacan emphasized the continued inroads Turkey has made in advancing democratic principles, attributing the country’s economic growth to Turkey adherence to those norms and ignoring continued international criticism of its treatment of journalists, minorities and dissidents.

While commenting that the Los Angeles World Affairs Council is a forum for open discussion, its president Terry McCarthy praised Turkey’s so-called economic growth and highlighted the decision to hire Kobe Bryant to be the face of Turkish Airlines.

In what was he later said was a joke—in poor taste and in an affront to the Armenian-American community—Mc Carthy told the audience that the group of demonstrators outside the hotel “probably thought Kobe would be in attendance.”

Some 200 community members gathered outside of the InterContinental Hotel in Century City, where the event was taking place, to demonstrate Turkey’s lies.

The protest was organized by the Armenian Youth Federation, which decried the LAWAC for hosting a “representative of the government responsible for the 1st genocide of the 20th century and the continued occupation of Western Armenia and over one third of Cyprus.”

“This fact that a representative from the government of Turkey is being given a platform in L.A., from which to spread false propaganda about all the amazing ways in which Turkey is a shining example of democracy in order to win the hearts and dollars of potential investors should be an outrage for us all–not just for Armenians, but all American citizens and all people who believe in democratic values,” the Executive Director of the Armenian Youth Federation Western Region, Stepan Keshishian told Neon Tommy in an interview.

“The economic environment in Turkey is founded on an unethical, immoral, and savage history, which the government actively fights to deny. Turkish foreign and economic policy today is based on these same lies,” he added.

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Turkey: Dink murder suspect says police should be called to account

October 23, 2013 By administrator

October 23, 2013 – 18:22 AMT

171686 One of the main suspects in the assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist, Agos weekly editor-in-chief Hrant Dink in 2007, Erhan Tuncel, whose whereabouts are unknown at the moment, said he has no intention to escape.

Tuncel reportedly said he is going to produce new facts regarding the Dink murder and surrender to the authorities.

“This murder showed that there is an organization higher than Ergenekon, functioning in the country and it prevents exposure of the crime,” he told Star, a Turkish newspaper. “I am a small participle in this system. But if my arrest was ordered, the others must be detained too. The gendarmerie of Tranzon should be called to account, as its role in the murder is great. All knew that Dink is going to be killed but took no action to prevent it.”

Ergenekon is the name given to an alleged clandestine, secularist ultra-nationalist organization in Turkey with ties to members of the country’s military and security forces. Ergenekon is by some believed to be part of the “deep state”. Alleged members have been indicted on charges of plotting to foment unrest, among other things by assassinating intellectuals, politicians, judges, military staff, and religious leaders, with the ultimate goal of toppling the incumbent government.

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National Center for Armenian Remembrance Inaugurated in France

October 22, 2013 By administrator

The building of the National Center for Armenian Remembrance, in Décines, France

Armenian-Memory-in-France-620x300DÉCINES, France—On Sunday, October 20, French Minister of Culture Aurelie Filipetti inaugurated the National Center for Armenian Remembrance (Centre National de la Mémoire Arménienne) in the French city of Décines, journalist Jean Eckian reports.

For this occasion the Minister declared, “Never forget what happened in 1915. The facts are established, and the Armenian Genocide was recognized by law in the Republic.”

“The propaganda of its deniers can not be accepted,” Filipetti continued. “Therefore, with the commitment of President François Hollande, the government is considering legal means to ensure the observance of these principles established by our Constitution and our international and European obligations”, she said, referring to recently renewed efforts to make the denial of the Armenian Genocide illegal in France.

The center, housed in an ultra-modern building of 900 square meters, has a library, an archival chamber of 100 sq. meters and a conference room.

The Center’s collection is comprised of about 12,000 books and 110,000 documents, “part of which is processed, standardized and digitized.” The works cover the history, memory, language, culture, and art of the Armenian community of France and Europe.

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First Genocide Monument in Canada Inaugurated

October 22, 2013 By administrator

Members of the community gathered for the unveiling ceremony of the memorial

Laval1LAVAL, Quebec (Horizon Weekly)—The Canadian-Armenian community gathered on Sunday for the unveiling ceremony of an Armenian Genocide monument here, the third largest city in Quebec and the first Armenian Genocide monument in Canada.

With this unveiling, the Canadian-Armenian community renewed its dedication and commitment to our national demands and to the Armenian Cause.

Leaders of all Armenian denominations gathered at the monument, called “Crucifixion, Resurrection, Rebirth,” and performed the religious blessing ceremony, while community leaders, among them the chairman of the Joing Monument Committee, Sako Yacoubian, committee member, Hovig Tufenkndjian and chairman of Canada’s Genocide Centennial Committee, Mher Karakashian all expressed the Canadian-Armenian community’s commitment to justice.

The monument’s creator, sculptor Arto Tchakmakdjian, said the meaning of the monument is hope.

Also speaking at the event was Armenia’s Ambassador to Canada Armen Yeganian who called on the international community to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Local, regional and federal officials, past and present, were in attendance at the event and spoke about the need for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and condemned the government of Turkey for its continued denial of the crime.

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The Voice of Russia: The number of Wahhabis in Azerbaijan grows every day by Turkey’s help

October 22, 2013 By administrator

The number of Wahhabis in Azerbaijan is growing every day, and the sponsors from the Arabic countries, particularly from Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have the most active Wahhabis in Azerbaijan with help of Turkeypart in the process of spreading Wahhabism in Azerbaijan, states the article published on the website of “The Voice of Russia” radio station.

The article reads that the followers of radical religious teachings have recently taken roots in Azerbaijan and have become a headache for the law enforcement. Radical Islamist movements are often funded from abroad.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey have the most active part in the process of spreading Wahhabism in Azerbaijan. They carry out propaganda among the poor under the guise of charitable activities. For example, they offer the local youth free education in their countries. After getting there religious education, the Azerbaijani graduates return home with “non-traditional” views.

Such a network of agents, influence, plus unlimited financial contributions promote spreading radical Islamic movements in Azerbaijan, said the senior scientific associate at the Arabic and Islamic Research Center of the Oriental Studies Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences Boris Dolgov.

“Radical Islamists are supported by both Turkey, and, in some respect, by Western powers, which have their own strategic interests. This kind of support affects the enforcement of radical Islam in the region, including Azerbaijan. Here, the ideas of radical Islamism and Wahhabism spread under the motto of establishing an Islamic state, which will supposedly solve all the problems of social, economic and political nature,” he said.

“The Voice of Russia” notes that recently various foreign media regularly report about the death of citizens of Azerbaijan, who fight on the side of the Syrian rebels. According to some estimates, more than 300 people from Azerbaijan are fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Reinforcement of radical Islamic groups in Azerbaijan threatens the stability both in the Caucasus and in Central Asia, stated Alexander Krylov, the leading researcher at the World Economy and International Relations Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

“Radical Islam is not just a religion; it plays the role of the political ideology that seeks to change the society in general and to establish a worldwide caliphate. Azerbaijan could become a part of a worldwide caliphate too, so the danger here is obvious; it is the destabilization of the situation according to the Libyan or Syrian script,” he said.

According to various estimates, the number of followers of radical Islamic movements in Azerbaijan reaches up to 20,000 people. Conspiring skillfully , they operate under the auspices of various charities and religious movements. They can come out of the shadows and become a real threat at any moment, “The Voice of Russia” writes.

Recall that the relationship between international terrorist groups and Azerbaijan originated in the early 1990s. That time, the Azerbaijani army, having failed in the aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), retreated with losses. Trying to save the situation, the Azerbaijani leadership, headed by Heydar Aliyev attracted to the war against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh international terrorists and members of radical groups from Afghanistan (groupings of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar), Turkey (“Grey Wolves”, etc.), Chechnya (groupings Basayev and Raduyev etc.) and some other regions.

Despite the involvement in of thousands of foreign mercenaries and terrorists in the Azerbaijani army during the war, the Azerbaijani aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic failed, and the Baku authorities were forced to sign an armistice with the NKR and Armenia. However, international terrorists found ties in Azerbaijan, and used them in the future. Recruitment was conducted among Azerbaijanis, who then were sent to Afghanistan and the North Caucasus, where participated in the battles against the forces of the international coalition and Russian organizations.

In recent years, the citizens of Azerbaijan are actively involved in terrorist and extremist activities in Russia, Afghanistan and Syria. In Azerbaijan the citizens are brought to criminal liability for participating in “illegal armed groups” in Afghanistan, sentenced to minor terms of imprisonment.

Source: Panorama.am

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