Anniversaire the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Armenian town of Julfa Nor, on the outskirts of Isfahan, was particularly marked by a three-day conference held in the community center Ararat, which traditionally hosts major events punctuating the cultural and community life of the Armenian community. The conference opened on October 21 in the presence of the governor and deputy governor of Isfahan, the head of religious affairs
Armenia The city of Echmiadzin celebrated its 2699th anniversary
Serzh Sargsyan was present at Echmiadzin (Armavir region) for ceremonies marking the 2699th anniversary of the founding of the city. Armenian President was surrounded General and MP Manvel Krikorian, General Seyran Saroyan, the prefect of the region of Armavir Ashot Ghahramanian and Etchmiadzin Mayor Karen Krikorian. “For months, the feast of the founding of our city takes a particular addictive nature. This is our most important holiday of the year. We try every year to mark the celebration with the inauguration of a place or a building, “said Mayor Karen Echmiadzin Krikorian in his speech. The Archbishop of the Diocese of Sion Armavir, meanwhile, had “if Yerevan is the capital of Armenia (…) Etchmiadzin is the spiritual center of all Armenians.” Many foreign guests from the United States, France and Russia were present at the ceremonies of the 2699th anniversary of Echmiadzin. This annual festival, held this year on 3 days (from October 6 to 8) began in 2009.
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Turkish police crack down on protesters on Gezi anniversary
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Police used tear gas and water cannon on Saturday to push back crowds of protesters who defied a warning by Turkey’s prime minister and gathered in 
İstanbul and Ankara on the anniversary of last year’s nationwide anti-government demonstrations.
Riot police fired tear gas on hundreds of protesters on a main pedestrian street leading to İstanbul’s main square, Taksim, following a stand-off with police. Clashes also erupted in the capital Ankara, where police used water cannons against a group of stone-throwing protesters.
Doğan new agency video footage showed police, some in plain clothes, detaining several people in the two cities.
Abdülbaki Boğa, of the Human Rights Association, told The Associated Press at least 83 people were detained and 14 people were injured in İstanbul alone.
Large numbers of police blocked access to Taksim, and news reports earlier said authorities planned to deploy some 25,000 police officers and up to 50 anti-riot water cannon vehicles around the city to thwart the demonstrations.
Large numbers of police blocked access to Taksim, and news reports earlier said authorities planned to deploy some 25,000 police officers and up to 50 anti-riot water cannon vehicles around the city to thwart the demonstrations. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned activists to keep away from the square, saying authorities were under strict orders to prevent protests.
“I am calling on my people: don’t fall for this trap. This is not an innocent environmental action,” Erdoğan said.
In late May and June last year, hundreds of thousands of Turks took to the streets denouncing Erdoğan’s increasingly autocratic leadership and demanding more democratic freedoms. The protests were sparked by opposition to government plans to uproot trees at Taksim Square’s Gezi Park and build a shopping center.
Fanned by outrage over the often brutal reaction by police, the demonstrations soon spread to other cities and developed into Turkey’s biggest protests in decades. Thousands were wounded and at least 12 people have died in anti-government protests in the past year.
Despite the ban, hundreds of people tried to reach Taksim.
In a speech in İstanbul earlier, Erdoğan said: “If you go there, our security forces are under strict orders, they will do whatever is necessary from A to Z. You won’t be able to go to Gezi like the last time. You have to obey the laws. If you don’t, the state will do whatever is necessary.”
Ahead of the protests, CNN correspondent Ivan Watson said he was detained briefly during a live broadcast. He said that police had kneed him and that an officer later apologized.
Turkey’s association of journalists condemned his detention and called the police action “shameful.”
A report this week by the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights said that more than 5,600 demonstrators were being prosecuted for involvement in the protests while no one responsible for the violence against protesters had been sentenced.
The Turkish authorities “are actively engaging in a witch hunt against those who participated in the protests or spoke out,” said the federation’s president, Karim Lahidji.
100th anniversary of the genocide of Thracian Hellenism (Greek genocide by Turks)
Hellenic League of America commemorates the 100th anniversary of the genocide of Thracian Hellenism.
The statement said: “A hundred years ago, our ancestors had to endure the first holocaust of the 20th century with the Armenians and Assyrians in the Ottoman territory. Otto Liman von orchestrated by Sanders and the jihadists of the Ottoman Empire, the Greek genocide saw the extermination of the Thracians, Bithynia, Ionians, Cappadocian and Pontic Greeks.
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On 6 April 1914, called the “Black Day” commemorates the deportations and massacres that began in Thrace and later spread to Asia Minor and Pontus.
Today, the Union Panthrakikos of America “Orpheus” commemorates not only the genocide of Thracian Hellenism but also the beginning of the Greek Genocide by the Ottomans as a whole. We honor the victims of all these regions, more than 1.4 million men, women and children who were brutally murdered by the hands Young Turks.
In this Remembrance Day, we honor all those who were massacred Redesto Adrianople and through Thrace. We invite organizations around the world to unite and begin a concerted effort to force the Greek government to 
fully recognize April 6 with the same respect as May 19 “.