2 Karabakh soldiers killed by Azerbaijan

November 13, 2015 By administrator

STEPANAKERT. – Two military servicemen of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army were killed as a result of shootings by Azerbaijan.

Press service of NKR Ministry of Defense has released a statement, in which it is said the adversary continues violating the ceasefire.

As a result, Armenian soldiers Vahe Vanoyan (born in 1995) and Mikayel Torosyan (born in 1996) sustained fatal gunshot wounds from the shots fired by Azerbaijan, on Thursday at around 9pm.

They were fatally wounded at the military base of the protection area of an NKR Defense Army unit, which is stationed in a southerly direction.

An investigation is underway to find out the details of this incident.

Turkey’s Kurdish singer killed on stage in Istanbul

October 25, 2015 By administrator

ISTANBUL,— Selim Serhed, thirty-three-year-old Kurdish singer from Turkey, was stabbed to death at a night club in Istanbul.

According to a statement from Avcilar Police Department, Abdulselam Atamaca known as Serhed was killed during a fight Friday night at club in Istanbul.

Turkish police also reported the arrest of the killer.

Came from the Twitter account of Onur Akay, one of deceased singer’s friends

“Our young friend and singer Selim Serhed was killed in a knife attack. Even worse, he was killed because he was singing Kurdish songs on stage,” Akay tweeted.

Turkish police refused Akay’s claim which also was published by a number of media outlets.

“The incident occurred because of girl issue. Other claims about the subject do not represent the truth of the matter,” Turkish police stated.

Serhed was father of three children. He was best known for his “Brina Baris – Pain of Peace” song.

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Two Turkish police killed in Kurdish attack: officials

September 28, 2015 By administrator

© AFP/File | Turkish police stand near a building where two police officers were found shot dead at their home on July 22, 2015 in the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar

ISTANBUL (AFP) –
Two Turkish police were killed in the southern town of Adana Monday in an attack by Kurdish rebels, a press report said, quoting local officials.

Assailants riding on a motorcycle opened fire on a police car outside a hospital and then fled, the Dogan press agency said.

One died instantly and the second died after emergency surgery, it said, quoting the local governor, Mustafa Buyuk.

“Early indications are that it was an attack by the terrorist organisation,” Buyuk said, in a reference to the rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The Turkish government launched a major campaign against the PKK in late July, aimed at forcing it out of strongholds in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.

The group has hit back hard, killing dozens of police and soldiers in almost daily bomb and shooting attacks.

Nearly 150 soldiers and police have been killed in attacks since July blamed on the PKK compared with more than 1,300 rebels, according to pro-government media. The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) says dozens of civilians have been killed in police and military operations.

The escalation comes ahead of snap elections on November 1.

The violence has shattered a two-year-ceasefire which had stoked hopes of an end to the PKK’s three-decade insurgency, in which more than 40,000 people have died.

Turkey: Kurdistan Workers Party PKK says 31 Turkish soldiers killed in attack

September 7, 2015 By administrator

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) says its militants have killed 31 Turkish soldiers in an attack and ensuing clashes in southeast Turkey.

According to the PKK-affiliated ANF news agency, a total of 31 soldiers, including a lieutenant colonel, were killed in the militants’ attacks in the Daglica district of the southeastern Turkish province of Hakkari on Sunday.

At least six other soldiers were also injured in the offensive, said the agency, adding that the death toll is likely to go higher.

Following the deadly incident, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called an emergency meeting overnight to address the worsening security conditions in the country.

But the Turkish army said on Monday that it lost 16 soldiers in the PKK attacks a day earlier. “Sixteen of our comrades in arms were martyred” in Sunday’s clashes, read a statement from the army.

Meanwhile, the Turkish Hürriyet Daily reported that 150 PKK militants took part in Hakkari’s deadly operation in which 400 kilograms of explosives were used, adding that 19 Turkish soldiers were killed in the fatal incident.

Earlier in the day, the Turkish army said that it has launched retaliatory attacks against the PKK positions.

At least 13 PKK positions were targeted by two Turkish F-4 and two F-16 warplanes during a “heavy air campaign” in the southeast of the country, the army said.

The PKK has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish region inside Turkey since the 1980s. The conflict has left tens of thousands of people dead.

There has been renewed conflict between the PKK and Turkish security forces since July. Turkey has been launching airstrikes against purported Daesh targets in Syria as well as PKK positions in Iraq after a Daesh bomb attack left 32 people dead in the southeastern Turkish town of Suruc on July 20.

Turkey Two soldiers killed in southeast amid violence outbreak

August 4, 2015 By administrator

ISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency

Two Turkish soldiers have been killed in an ambush by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Şırnak, with the Turkish Air Forces (THK) launching airstrikes in the region, amid an outbreak of violent attacks on security forces in the country.

PKK militants fired shots with long-barreled weapons at security forces on patrol around 8:00 a.m. on Aug. 4, killing two soldiers and injuring a village guard after detonating an explosive placed on the road linking Şırnak and its village of Balveren, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) said in a written statement.

Gendarmerie specialist Sgt. Mehmet Acar and gendarmerie Pvt. Abdulkadir Pektaş were killed in the attack, while two security forces, gendarmerie Pvt. Kadir Akpınar and village guard Hasan Akyol are injured. Fighter
jets took off from airbase in Malatya and conducted airstrikes in mountainous area of Dağlıca district of Hakkari soon after the attack on soldiers.

Turkey has been immersed in violence against security forces, with scores of deaths and injuries across the country.

A police officer was injured in explosion of a bomb planted by PKK militants, aside a road in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin late Aug. 3.

The militants detonated the remote-controlled bomb while the police officer drove by in a guarded vehicle.

The officer was taken to the Nusaybin Public Hospital and reported to be in good condition.

Another group of militants from the PKK set ablaze a truck and a long-vehicle transporter on a road connecting Mardin’s Nusaybin and Midyat disticts after stopping the vehicles and forcing their drivers to get off around 8:30 p.m. on Aug 3.

The Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Firefighting Department teams arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire and a comprehensive operation was launched to arrest the perpetrators at large.

PKK militants also fired rockets at the Kulp District Police Department in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, with no casualties reported. Clashes erupted in central Kula after local security forces responded to the attack with fire.

Members of the PKK on Aug. 3 carried out a landmine attack on guarded military vehicles that escorted trucks carrying cement to a hydropower plant construction in the Kigı district of the eastern province of Bingöl, with no casualties reported, the Bingöl Governor’s Office said in a written statement.

One of the guarded vehicles was damaged as the landmine was detonated by militants while the vehicles were passing by Kigı’s Cevizliçeşme area.

Another group of PKK militants around 8:30 p.m. on Aug 3 fired rockets at the Silvan dam, still being constructed under the control as well as protection of military personnel, in the Silvan district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

One of the rockets was reported to have hit the dining hall in the attack.

The militants also fired shots at the dam with long-barreled weapons after the rocket fire, to which the soldiers in charge of the security of the dam’s construction responded with fire. The shootout lasted around ten minutes.

Meanwhile, local gendarmerie forces deactivated explosives planted near the Turkey-Iran gas pipeline in the Eleşkirt district in the eastern province of Ağrı on Aug. 3.

The Ağrı Governor’s Office said in a written statement that the Eleşkirt District Gendarmerie Command forces along with bomb experts deactivated explosives on a five-kilogram-weight that was placed to cut off the pipeline’s gas flow.

Source: hurriyetdailynews.com

Syria: ISIS kills 400, mostly women & children, in Palmyra – Syrian state TV

May 24, 2015 By administrator

Islamic State militants have killed at least 400 people in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, mostly women and children, Syrian state television said Sunday, citing residents.

According to Reuters, opposition activists on social media claimed that hundreds of bodies were in the streets of the city.

“The terrorists have killed more than 400 people.. and mutilated their bodies, under the pretext that they cooperated with the government and did not follow orders,” a Palmyra resident told Syria’s state news agency.

State employees were among hundreds killed in the massacre. Among them was the head of of nursing department at the hospital and all her family.

Videos posted by Islamic State supporters showed the militants entering governmental buildings in search of Syrian soldiers. They were also seen pulling down pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his father, Hafez Assad, Reuters reported.

At least 300 troops were killed in battles before the city was captured, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“A bigger number of troops have disappeared and it is not clear where they are,” Rami Abdulrahman, from the monitoring group, told Reuters.

Islamic State militants entered Syria’s historic city of Palmyra, a UNESCO landmark, earlier this week after gaining full control over the city. The UN human rights office said Thursday that one-third of Palmyra’s population of 200,000 have fled the city, although there have also been reports of government forces preventing civilians from leaving until they had abandoned the town themselves.

UNESCO describes Palmyra as a city of “outstanding universal value,” an “oasis in the Syrian desert” northeast of Damascus.

Two Karabakh soldiers killed in Azeri attack

July 31, 2014 By administrator

PanARMENIAN.Net – The Azerbaijani armed forces attempted Thursday, July 31, to attack the defense positions of a Nagorno Karabakh military unit located in the northern direction of the contact line, killing two soldiers of the NKR army.

The attack was rebuffed, with the rivals suffering heavy losses. Investigation is under way, the army’s press office reported.

One Armenian killed, two injured in Istanbul

June 16, 2014 By administrator

One Armenian citizen was killed and another two injured in a brawl in Istanbul’s Fatih district in the evening of June 14.

Hambardzum Harutyunyan, 36, died of a stab wound at the scene. His son Garnik Hambardzumyan, 11, and friend Martin, 30, were rushed to hospital after being stabbed, TRT Haber reports.

Martin told Istanbul police that three unknown men attacked them. The assailants fled immediately after the attack. A criminal case was opened. An investigation is underway.

Armenian killed in ultranationalist attack in Ukraine (video)

April 15, 2014 By administrator

PanARMENIAN.Net – Ethnic Armenian Ruben Avanesyan, killed in a standoff between Ukraine’s pro-Russian activists and ultranationalists, was commemorated at rally in Donetsk.

Avanesyan died of a gunshot wound he received during an attack in the town of Slavyansk.

The rally speaker Miroslav Rudnenko called to honor the Avanesyan, survived by two young children, with a minute of silence.

At a rally, Rudenko recounted details of the attack. According to him, pro-Russian activists’ cars were chased by 2 vehicles when delivering aid to fellow activists in Slavyansk. At one point, the third vehicle blocked the way of the unarmed activists, who were then shelled by the Right Sector ultranationalists.
Some activists managed to escape in of the cars. Ruben died in the attack, another activist is comatose in a hospital, and the third received a light injury, Rudenko said.

As noted in conclusion, the attack wasn’t left unpunished.

Earlier, Batkivshchyna All-Ukrainian Union MP Lesya Orobets reported the death of 10 pro-Russian activists as “positive news” on her Facebook page.

Meanwhile, the Donetsk Oblast internal affairs ministry’s main department denied the report of 10 deaths in Slavyansk shooting, Rosbalt said.