(Belga) The coordination of several Armenian organizations in France on Saturday condemned the announced participation of Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to the “republican march” organized in Paris on Sunday after the deadly attack against Charlie Hebdo.
“Participation in this event of representatives of a State which holds the record number of journalists in prison is a disgrace and an insult to the spirit of Charlie Hebdo,” said the National Office of Coordination Council of Armenian Organizations of France , in a statement. “All the more so with Turkey to the jihadist movement (Al Qaeda and Daech) which exported terror in Paris is now an open secret,” also accuses the organization. Organizations defending human rights regularly denounce arrests of journalists in Turkey. Turkish police launched during December 1st punch operation against supporters of the Islamist imam Fehtullah Gullen, a former ally of power, especially to the Zaman newspaper, one of the major Turkish dailies. Thirty people, mostly journalists, were arrested. The European Union has denounced these operations, saying they violated “European values” that Turkey, which aspires to join the EU, is supposed to follow. (Belga)
With 97 imprisoned journalists, Turkey was designated “biggest prison for journalists ahead of Iran, Eritrea and China,” the Committee to Protect Journalists for (CPJ). According to Le Monde Diplomatique, “the power (Turkish) does not hesitate to use the entire arsenal of repression: arrests, seizure of equipment and hard drives …. Journalists are then locked in medieval conditions. “And the Prime Minister Davutoglu dare come to Paris defend freedom of the press!
On the other hand, the Turkish government has decided to support the jihadists from Syria, even those who spread terror in northern Iraq practicing a true ethnic cleansing in August, including summary executions and mass systematically kidnapping against minorities, including Christians, Shia Turkmen, Yazidis …. They raise the same racist and obscurantist ideology that those who committed the crime against Charlie or against Jewish shop Porte de Vincennes.
MRAP also condemns the presence of Avigdor Lieberman, founder and leader of the far-right party “Israel Beiteinu.” Customary racist remarks of unprecedented violence and incitement to racial hatred, Avigdor Lieberman called “bombing the Gaza Strip as the United States did with the Japanese.” In addition, it displays ultra-nationalistic and fascist, advocated the expulsion of Israeli Arab citizens, and openly rejects international law and the principle of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
No, gentlemen Davutoglu and Lieberman, Netanyahu, Naftali Bennet who “has no problem killing Arabs,” Sergei Lavrov, Petro Poroshenko (and others), your place is not in the Marche citizen of Paris but before international courts. This participation guaranteed by the French government, is an insult to Charlie journalists who have always fought all fascism whether nationalist or religious. We do not defend freedom with the enemies of freedom! “Sometimes laughter is choking but it’s our only weapon,” said Cabu today our laughter chokes face this diversion of citizen momentum.
Stéphane © armenews.com