Video: Armenian press sing Mkhitaryan chant

March 9, 2017 By administrator

Report by Mark Froggatt

MUTV’s Stewart Gardner interviewed Robert Gasparyan from Vivaro News before the press pack amusingly sang the ever-popular Mkhitaryan chant. Watch the video above, or read the transcript below…

Firstly, after travelling so far, how much do you hope to see Henrikh in action?
“We heard about the injury and hoped to see him here. We didn’t know if Mourinho would pick him up for this Europa League game against FC Rostov, but we came here and finally on Tuesday we knew Mkhitaryan would be on board. We heard Mourinho say in his press conference that he doesn’t know whether it is possible for Mkhitaryan to play because the conditions are awful. Maybe he will keep Mkhitaryan for the second half and let him play for 20 to 25 minutes, because there is a very important game against Chelsea that is more important than the first leg against Rostov.”

Can you give us an idea of how much interest there is in Mkhitaryan back in Armenia?
“The transfer of Mkhitaryan from Dortmund to Manchester United was like a boom for Armenia! Everybody expected he would move to Juventus or Arsenal, but he decided on Manchester United so Mkhitaryan has made a step up in his career. It was amazing for us to know and hear about an Armenian player who plays in England, the best league in the world, at Manchester United. There was a hard situation for Mkhitaryan after the Manchester derby when he was not playing for two months, but we hoped that one day he would start playing and show he is world-class.”

How difficult was it getting to Rostov?
“By plane it is much easier for us, but we came by car here and drove 1,300 kilometres across Armenia, into Georgia and then Russia. We went through many passport controls, it was awful, but we got here finally and now we hope that Mkhitaryan will play. We hope to see his best play and, here, there are many Armenian people. Forty per cent of citizens here are Armenians so it is very interesting for the people of Rostov. There are Armenian flags, people screaming Mkhitaryan, singing the famous Sting song [Englishman in New York]. There is a very big interest in Mkhitaryan.”

Finally, as somebody who knows Russian football, what do you expect from the game?
“The draw will be a really good result for Manchester United, because we know about the field. I hope that MU will win, but on 9 March when the fields of Russia are not in a good condition then maybe the draw will not be a bad result. The next game will be in Manchester and, there, I think United will win.”

Source: http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Features/Features/2017/Mar/Armenian-journalists-sing-Henrikh-Mkhitaryan-chant-before-Rostov-tie.aspx

Video: Turkish Military Song Chant: “We will kill all Kurds as we killed Armenian”

January 24, 2016 By administrator

arton121316-480x335 In this video filmed by soldiers of the Turkish army in the occupied town of Silopi Kurdish in Turkey, this group of soldiers called JOH and POH, are the Turkish death squads that killed hundreds of civilians while operating in Kurdish cities under curfew. A rough translation of what they sing is “Everything, every time, everywhere always the Turks on land and in the sky That we Turks -… We will never allow the Kurds to survive Silopi We will fight until at the end ….. we swear every place will remain a Turkish land. the ISIS (Islamic State) did is nothing compared to what we will do, we will kill all Kurds as we have slaughtered all the Armenians. Amen. “

https://youtu.be/clNcrPU6isI

Sunday, January 24, 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

100 Thousand Kurds chant for Turkish Hizbullah in Charlie Hebdo protest in southeast Turkey

January 25, 2015 By administrator

DİYARBAKIR

Around 100,000 Kurds have protested the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Diyarbakır, a Kurdish-majority city in Turkey’s southeast, cheering for Turkish Hizbullah.

The Lovers of the Prophet Platform organized the two-hour long Jan. 24 protest at the central İstasyon Square with the participation of thousands of demonstrators coming from nearby towns, Doğan News Agency reported.

Most speeches, banners and slogans, either in Turkish, Kurdish or Arabic, targeted Charlie Hebdo for publishing Prophet Muhammad cartoons. In reference to the “Je Suis…” slogan, some banners read “I am Hizbullah in Kurdistan,” “I am Hamas in Palestine,” “I am Malcolm X in America” and “I am Imam Shamil in Chechnya.”

“As long as you are the enemies of Allah, we will be your enemies,” the Free Cause Party (Hüda Par) chair Molla Osman Teyfur said in his speech, vowing to “cut the tongue that talked against the Prophet.”

Hüda Par shares the same supporters base with Turkey’s Hizbullah, whose members are mostly Kurdish Islamists. The group was allegedly created by the state in the 1990s to fight the Kurdish movement. Both organizations have been engaging in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) since the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) last year. Over 40 people were killed in 35 provinces on Oct. 6-7 during the worst unrest in the recent past, with most of those killed dying either at the hands of Hizbullah supporters, allegedly backed by the security forces or the police.