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Technological summer camp in Hankavan, Armenia

July 13, 2016 By administrator

Tech campTechnological summer camp is underway from July 11 to 25 for 600 schoolchildren from ages 9 to 13. The summer camp is organized by World Vision Armenia, Ucom and the Union of Information Technology Enterprises (UITE).

Children from disadvantaged families of beneficiary communities of World Vision Armenia, as well as pupils of “Armat” engineering laboratories are attending the summer camp.

According to the UITE, the children exchange their engineering skills, master new knowledge and encourage each other.

In particular, the children are learning to program a line following robot. Besides, through teamwork they create 3D printers for Artsakh schools.

The participants also learn national dances in the tech camp.

 

Source Panorama.am

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenia, Camp, summer, technological

Turkey: ISIL child training camp discovered in Istanbul: Report

October 19, 2015 By administrator

isan.thumbA total of 24 of around 50 suspects of Tajik and Uzbek origin, who were detained for having links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul on Oct. 18, have been revealed to be children being trained in basement apartments in Istanbul’s Pendik and Başakşehir districts, the Hurriyet Daily News reports, citing daily Vatan.

The suspects were reported to have trained children in basement apartments in Pendik and Başakşehir, using the apartments as militant training camps, according to physical and technical surveillance collected by Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers before raiding 18 separate homes in Pendik and Başakşehir’s Kayaşehir neighborhood.

The suspects, mostly Uzbeks, who were detained in the Oct. 18 raids were reported to have lectured children on the basics of ISIL as well as how to live in an Islamic state.

In August, the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement, an al-Qaeda offshoot based near the Afghan border, announced allegiance to ISIL.

Uzbek intelligence sources reported that more than 5,000 paid Uzbek militants were fighting in Syria alongside ISIL.

Turkey has stepped up anti-terror police operations against ISIL militants in the country, as the Oct. 10 twin blasts in the Turkish capital sent shockwaves through the country, with at least 102 civilians dead and hundreds of others injured.

Thirteen ISIL-linked suspects have reportedly been detained so far within the investigation launched into the Ankara bombing.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Camp, ISIL, training, Turkey

Syria Update: Russian Air Force destroys 29 ISIS camps in Syria in 24 hours

October 10, 2015 By administrator

A Su-34 fullback bomber performs air strikes in the provinces of Raqqah and Aleppo © Russian Defense Ministry / RIA Novosti

A Su-34 fullback bomber performs air strikes in the provinces of Raqqah and Aleppo © Russian Defense Ministry / RIA Novosti

Russian warplanes in Syria have bombed 29 terrorist field camps and other facilities of the militant group Islamic State in the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

“Our aviation group over the past day has destroyed two militant command centers, 29 field camps, 23 fortified facilities and several troop positions with military hardware,” ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Saturday.

The Russian Air Force conducted 64 sorties and hit a total of 55 targets, he said.

He added that the Russian effort has “considerably degraded” the strength of the terrorist forces in Syria.

“During the initial phase of the operation, our warplanes have destroyed the biggest and most important supply hubs of ISIL,” Konashenkov said, calling Islamic State by its former name. This resulted in the “mobility and offensive capability” of the jihadists being reduced, he said.

The general said signal intelligence reports indicate that the militants are suffering from a shortage of fuel and ammunition after the Russian bombings. “Some of them are demoralized and are actively leaving the battle zone, moving in eastern and northeastern directions,” he said.

Konashenkov said that the increasing number of combat missions conducted by Russia in Syria is explained by the large number of potential targets identified and confirmed as viable by space and aerial reconnaissance.

Russia started its bombing campaign in Syria last week with a goal to provide air support to the government troops fighting against various terrorist groups, primarily Islamic State. This allowed Damascus to go on the offensive in Hama province on Friday.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Camp, destroys, ISIS, Russian Air Force

Russian Air Force decimating terrorist command centers, bunkers, camps, workshops – Defense Ministry

October 3, 2015 By administrator

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SU-34 © Maxim Blinov / RIA Novosti

RT Surgical airstrikes by Russian fighter jets have knocked out a number of Islamic State installations in Syria, including the battle headquarters of a jihadist group near Raqqa, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

“Over the past 24 hours, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-24M fighter jets have performed 20 sorties and hit nine Islamic State installations,” Igor Konashenkov, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, reported.

Konashenkov added that yesterday evening Russian aircraft went on six sorties, inflicting strikes on three terrorist installations.

“A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for explosives and munitions,” the spokesman said.

Commenting on the video filmed by a Russian UAV monitoring the assault near Raqqa, Konashenkov noted, “a powerful explosion inside the bunker indicates it was also used for storing a large quantity of munitions.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: 400 Saudi militants fight in Syria: Report, bunkers, Camp, Russian Air Force, Syria, terrorist

Armenia Camp for refugees created on the outskirts of Yerevan

September 6, 2015 By administrator

Syrian-refugees-Camp-ArmeniaYEREVAN. – A notional camp for refugees has been installed on the territory of Armenia’s Nubarashen military range within the framework of tactical military drills “Shant 2015”.

According to the scenario of the exercises, the camp is supposed for refugees from other country who have come to Armenia because of the threat to life and health in their country.

The Armenian legislation envisages providing temporal shelter to the refugees who crossed the border because of threat to their life in their country, migrations service representative Petros Aghababyan told reporters.

The camp has its own group of investigators, filtration point, tents for recreation, dining, medical center.

UNHCR Officer-in-Charge in Armenia, Ms. Kate Pochapsky commended Armenian government’s initiative to include deployment of refugees as an element of military exercises. She stressed that further cooperation with the government will continue.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenia, Camp, refuggees, Syrian

Istanbul They fight against the destruction of Camp Armen

May 23, 2015 By administrator

arton112203-480x297Photo: Zafer (Victory in Turkish) is a Turk. He fights with the Armenians to save the orphanage Armen Camp. “Yes, I am a young Turkish and I participate in this event because I do not want to be crushed under the shame”

Armen Camp, the former orphanage foundation of the Armenian Protestant Church Gedik Pacha – on the outskirts of Tuzla in the far east of Istanbul – is in danger of destruction. It was built in 1963, in part through the efforts of orphans. The orphanage building, abandoned since the 1980s after being usurped by the Turkish state was under the yoke excavators since May 6, destroying part of the building until the intervention of Garabet ( Garo) Paylan, a parliamentary candidate for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (HDP) of Armenian origin, and a former resident of the orphanage Garabet Orunöz.

The two men were able to convince the foreman, explaining that Hrant Dink and Raquel, who lived here, had their memories, as well as other people, including a deputy. Hrant Dink had become, himself one of the counselors.

In the wake of the coup of 1980, the founder and director of the orphanage, the ecclesiastical Hrant Güzelyan, was accused of raising the Armenians, which led to his being tortured.

Listed on several occasions, the plot is now up to M.Fatih Ulusoy. The latter has agreed to halt the demolition for now, and is open to negotiations for a solution that would not lose the monetary value of its investment.

camp-armen-then-480x270-480x270Since then, Armen Camp is busy day and night by Armenian militants and Turkish Nor Zartonk who lived there. A banner was displayed with the inscription “Armenians, welcome to Camp Armen”. Another says “The Camp Armen should return to Armenians”.

Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA) wrote to the President, Prime Minister and the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey USA asking for their response and support.

In the letters, Zaven Khanjian, Executive Director / CEO of the AMAA, requested that Turkish leaders are seriously considering intervention and immediate resolution to avoid further demolition of the historically significant Camp and for the return of the property its rightful owners, the Armenian Evangelical Church of Gedik Pasha in Istanbul.

Yesterday, 22 May, an important manifestation of protest and against Holocaust denial was held in Pera (Beyoglu). The journalist of Armenian origin Raffi Hermon Araks notes that it has participated in this event because as the young Zafer he “did not want to be crushed under the shame.”

Saturday, May 23, 2015,
Jean Eckian © armenews.com

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Armen, Camp, İstanbul

Istanbul: Armenian Gezi: the occupation of the Camp Armen orphanage

May 17, 2015 By administrator

By ZEYNEP KARATAŞ,

Camp Armen orphanage

Camp Armen orphanage

For the past fortnight, activists have occupied the former Gedikpaşa Armenian Protestant Church Foundation’s orphanage — in the Tuzla suburb at the far eastern reaches of İstanbul — in an effort to save the symbolic building from destruction.

The building has been abandoned since the 1980s after being usurped by the Turkish state, but for the past two weeks, busloads of visitors have been making their way to the remote location to save it — and the parcel of land it sits on — from the likelihood that it will be transformed into luxury villas.

Bulldozers arrived at the scene on May 6 and successfully demolished one part of the desolate building, but the diggers were halted after the particularly persuasive efforts of two men: Garabet (Garo) Paylan, a parliamentary candidate for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) of Armenian descent, and former resident of the orphanage Garabet Orunöz.

Paylan discussed the events of May 6 during the “100 Years of Policies of Denial and Apology” conference held at Boğaziçi University on Tuesday. “The man with the bulldozer said: ‘Brother, why are you getting in the way of us doing our job? We have the permit to do so, so please step aside and let us knock it down.’ But we explained to him that this is an Armenian church foundation’s orphanage and that it was seized from them,” said Paylan. “Hrant Dink, Rakel Dink and [HDP parliamentarian] Erol Daya lived here, and this [place contains] their memories. We explained to him it is the right of orphans to have this building.” And so, Paylan explained, the construction worker was convinced and said he had no right to demolish the home of orphans. The orphanage, also known as Camp Armen, was opened in 1963, built in part through the efforts of the orphans who lived there.

One of the reasons the orphanage holds such symbolic importance is due to the fact that assassinated journalist Hrant Dink spent his summers there as a youth, and was later a counselor at the camp. Dink was the founding editor-in-chief of Agos, a Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper. He was one of the leading figures in the trials attempting to the retrieve the ownership of the parcel of land the orphanage sits on and was generally a dynamic and influential leader for the Turkish Armenian population. Dink was murdered outside the Agos newspaper’s headquarters on Jan. 19, 2007.

Armenians are a minority in Turkey, and lost a significant portion of their population on the soil of the former Ottoman Empire because of the massacres against the demographic that took place during World War I. While Armenians made up a little over 5 percent of the total population of the Ottoman Empire, Armenians living in Turkey today make up a small minority group ranging from an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 citizens out of the country’s population of 75 million. Although Turkey faces calls from international communities to recognize the events of 1915 as genocide, the Turkish state has a strict policy of opposing such a notion.

Usurpation of minority groups’ property

During Tuesday’s “100 Years of Policies of Denial and Apology” conference, Yetvart Danzikyan, the current editor-in-chief of the Agos weekly newspaper, explained his interpretation of the oppression Armenians have faced on Anatolian soil and how this extends to the issue of the orphanage.

“The transfer of possession of properties was the third leg of the genocide, and this continued throughout the history of the [Turkish] republic [founded in 1923]. Therefore, this issue does not just remain in 1915, even what we see happening now at the camp in Tuzla is a continuation of this process,” said Danzikyan.

He explained the measures that were taken to disincline Armenians who had survived the massacres and deportations of 1915 from returning to their property after the founding of the republic.

In 1936, in the Law of Foundations, a property declaration was passed which eradicated the right of non-Muslim foundations to acquire property and paved the way for the state to confiscate their fixed assets, according to the study published by the Hrant Dink Foundation entitled, “2012 Declaration: the Seized Properties of Armenian Foundations in İstanbul.”

Almost 40 years later, in 1974, the Supreme Court of Appeals passed another discriminatory declaration. It decreed that all properties acquired by minority religious foundations had no legal validity and were to be returned to their former owners. In the aftermath of the 1980 coup d’etat, the orphanage’s founder and supervisor, clergyman Hrant Güzelyan, was accused of raising militant Armenians and became the victim of torture. After a series of legal battles, the foundation was, by 1986, forced off of the parcel of land. The orphanage was then returned to the family it was bought from and has since been sold several times. After a string of sales, the current owner is the parcel’s ninth owner, Fatih Ulusoy.

Although a decree was passed in Parliament, in 2011, to return to minorities any properties confiscated by the government, it doesn’t help the people watching over Camp Armen night and day since the property is not in the government’s possession, but in private hands. Ulusoy has agreed to halt the demolition for now, and is open to negotiations for a solution that would enable him not to lose the monetary value of his investment.

The winds of Gezi

211575Today’s Zaman visited the camp last Saturday and was greeted with a large banner that read in Armenian script, “Armenians, welcome to Camp Armen” signed by Nor Zartonk, a civil society group representing Turkey’s Armenian community. The group has been occupying the grounds night and day since the day the bulldozers arrived and have hosted forums and workshops, held concerts, screened films and even staged a theatrical production.

Crowds flooded to the scene in shuttle buses arranged by the organization to attend the full schedule of events taking place at the camp. In the morning, Ani Balıkçı, the mother of Sevag Balıkçı, gave a beginner’s level Armenian language class. Turkish-Armenian Sevag Balıkçı was 25 years old when he was shot dead, in what official reports from military commanders claim was an accident, while performing his mandatory military service in 2011. The young man’s family and human rights activists believe the killing was deliberate. Balıkçı’s murder occurred on April 24, 2011, and it was later revealed that the man responsible for his death was an ultranationalist.

Later on Saturday, Rakel Dink, the widow of Hrant, addressed the public. While her speech was melancholy, she ended it with a folk song about swallows building their nests — just as some of the orphans at Camp Armen had built their own.

Like Rakel Dink and Ani Balıkçı, many Armenian attendees that day had stories of their personal, ancestral pain related to the massacres of 1915. The small, isolated Armenian community in İstanbul has struggled to give voice to these stories for many years. Hrant Dink undeniably empowered his community in making the Armenian identity visible once more, until his assassination, which perpetuated even more attention toward the ongoing struggle of Armenians in the country. And though there is much to mourn, the camp has empowered the Armenian community once again.

Throughout last Saturday, halay dancing (festive Anatolian folk dancing) took place around a fig tree in the garden and the environment was imbued with a general air of merriment. Many commented on how pleasant it was to leave the chaos of İstanbul and find peace at the camp. A certain familiar air was present, the air of Gezi, many said, in reference to the occupation of Gezi Park in 2013, which led to nationwide demonstrations that eventually saved the park from destruction. For now, the fate of the parcel remains uncertain, but one thing that is sure is that the Armenian community will not leave it orphaned.

Source: TodayZaman

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armen, Armenian gravestones found during construction works in Istanbul Taksim Square, Camp, İstanbul, orphanges

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