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Armenians mark day of remembering the dead
The Monday following Easter is marked as a day of remembering the dead on the Armenian Apostolic Church’s calendar.
This year’s Easter holidays coincided on both the Apostolic, and the Catholic and Orthodox churches’ calendars.
The Armenian Government has replaced the April 17 business day with Saturday, May 16.
“Today, on February 27, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry finally published the names of the dead occurred in the no-man’s land as result of the Azerbaijani attack at Artsakh military posts on February 25, at the same time rushing to blame the Armenian side for obstructing the recovery of the dead allegedly through putting forward new demands,” Defense Ministry of the Artsakh Republic reports, reacting to Azerbaijani allegations.
The Ministry reminds that according to the reached arrangement between the sides on February 25 under mediation of the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chaiman-in-Office, the recovery of the dead from the no-man’s land was planned to take place on Sunday facilitated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). However, the recovery of the bodies of the Azerbaijani servicemen didn’t take place due Azerbaijani side, since it violated the initial arrangement obtained during the negotiations.
A gunman gestures near the body of an apparently wounded man at a photo gallery in Ankara on Monday. An Associated Press photographer said a gunman has fired shots at the Russian ambassador to Turkey. (Burhan Ozbilici/Associated Press)
The Turkish police officer who killed Russian Ambassador Andrew Karlov has been identified as Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş of the Ankara Riot police.
Altıntaş, 22, was a graduate of Izmir Police School. He was not on duty when he made the attack at an art gallery on Monday, according to two Turkish Security sources who spoke to Reuters. He had previously been investigated for an attempted coup by the terrorist organization Haberturk. Russia’s foreign ministry confirmed that the ambassador, Andrew Karlov, had died in the attack. Altıntaş was shot and killed after assassinating Karlov.
Source: sputniknews.com
Andrey Karlov, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey was seriously wounded in a gun attack in the Turkish capital on Monday and was taken to hospital.
Video Turkish Terrorist shouted “God is great! Those who pledged allegiance to Muhammad for jihad. God is great!” #Turkey #Russia #Syria pic.twitter.com/FwmmPkdY0s
— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) December 19, 2016
An Associated Press photographer said a gunman fired shots Karlov at a photo exhibition in the capital city, where the ambassador was making an address.
The ambassador was several minutes into a speech at the embassy-sponsored exhibition in the capital, Ankara, when a man wearing a suit and tie shouted “Allahu Akbar” and fired at least eight shots, according the photographer.
The attacker also said some words in Russian and smashed several of the photos hung for the exhibition.
Hurriyet newspaper said Turkish special forces had surrounded the building. NTV said three other people were wounded.
Russia and Turkey have been involved in conflict in Syria across the border from where over two million Syrian refugees have settled.
Turkey has been a staunch opponent of President Bashar al-Assad while Russia has deployed troops and its air force in support of the Syrian leader.
It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack. ISIS militants have been active in Turkey and carried out several bomb attacks on Turkish targets.
Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro, seen in this 2012 photo, has died. Castro held tremendous sway in his country for decades, particularly during the Cuban missile crisis, when the U.S. and the Soviets inched closer to catastrophe. (Roberto Chile/AP)
After years of false rumours about his death, Fidel Castro, the ailing former leader of Cuba, has died at the age of 90.
Cuban President Raul Castro announced the death of his brother on Cuban state media.
Castro was one of the most divisive figures of modern history. To some, he was a revolutionary icon defending a socialist ideal against the encroachment of capitalism and imperialism. To others, he was a totalitarian dictator who ran a repressive government that quashed individual rights and carried out political executions.
Castro’s system of one-man and one-party rule kept him in power for 49 years, the longest of any head of government in the world. For most of that time, he was a thorn in the side of the U.S., which carried out several failed assassination attempts against him, as well as the infamous botched Bay of Pigs invasion.
The U.S. also put in place tough economic and travel sanctions against Cuba, barring U.S. citizens from travelling to or doing business with the country. The sanctions have remained in place for decades, but in December 2014 U.S. President Barack Obama announced his government is taking steps to restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Castro was born on Aug. 13, 1926, in what was then Oriente province in the eastern part of the island of Cuba.
The son of a sugar cane farmer, Castro attended Roman Catholic schools and established an early reputation as a gifted athlete.
He studied law at the University of Havana, where he became actively engaged in politics. At the age of 21, he joined a group of Cubans and exiles from the Dominican Republic intent on overthrowing the Dominican dictator Gen. Ralael Leonidas Trujillo Molina.
After completing his degree and becoming a lawyer, Castro joined the Cuban People’s Party, a reformist movement.
Castro was only 27 when on July 26, 1953, he launched an attack on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago de Cuba, then under the control of Gen. Fulgencio Batista, who had seized power in Cuba in a military coup a year earlier. The attack failed, with Castro and most of his fighters captured or killed, but the date went on to become Cuba’s most important holiday.
Castro was arrested and eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison but was pardoned after only two years. He went into exile in Mexico, where he assembled a group of revolutionaries dubbed the 26th of July Movement. A year later, in 1956, with the help of future rebel icon Ernesto (Che) Guevara and other opponents of the Batista regime, Castro returned to Cuba.
In January 1959, with a mere 800 guerrilla fighters, Castro and his troops managed to defeat Batista’s professional army of 30,000 soldiers, forcing Batista to flee Havana under the cover of night.
Former Greek President Costis Stephanopoulos has died at the age of 90. Stephanopoulos served as president between 1995 and 2005 and won praise for his modesty during his time in office.
Greece’s Athens News Agency reported former Greek President Costis Stephanopoulos died late Sunday evening after a bout with pneumonia. He was 90 years old.
Stephanopoulos was hospitalized Thursday and his condition declined rapidly, according to a statement released by his doctors at Henry Dunant hospital in Athens Saturday. He soon suffered multiple organ failure and did not respond to treatment.
Current Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed his condolences, saying Stephanopoulos was “a moral man with a lofty vision.”
Stephanopoulos, widely known by his first name, served two terms as president as allowed by the Greek constitution. Though the position is mostly ceremonial, he won popularity for his modesty during his time in office. Stephanopoulos worked well with politicians from all sides of the political spectrum, especially moderate socialist Costas Simitis, despite Stephanopoulos’ conservatism. Simitis was prime minister from 1996 to 2004.
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What the Ottomans did during the 1915 genocide (and what Turkey is today) is much like what the Islamic state.
While in most places of the world, one is shocked by the atrocities committed by the Islamic state against non-Muslim communities in Syria and Iraq, a non-Muslim community in Turkey, the Armenians suffered for decades – essentially abandoned by the world.
This was done by the Ottomans during the 1915 genocide (and what Turkey is today) is very similar to e that makes the Islamic state. Draw parallels between past and present is very useful for understanding the continuity, universality and horror of the jihadist Islamic genocide.
Although 101 years have passed since the 1915 genocide befell Armenian Christians, committed by the Ottoman Empire, the few houses, churches and even cemeteries remaining victims are still being targeted by both state authorities and local authorities in Turkey. For the most part, the public is also complicit, keeping silent about these injustices.
Today, Armenians, their ancient homeland within Turkey’s borders were virtually extinct. But in Turkey, even the dead Armenians are not allowed to rest in peace.
“Dozens of graves were dug and bones were dug up,” says Aziz Dagci, the head of the Association of Armenian minorities, who filed a criminal complaint in the city of Mush, made for destruction of tombs, some were dug in the 1800s.
“They must they cease to excavate our graves. Only found there our dead, “he said. “And they should also stop destroying our monastery.”
Most of the world’s media are silent on the abuse of human rights which Armenians and other Christians suffer in Turkey. Their only point of attachment is apparently the Islamic state. It is regrettable to see that the Armenians and other Christians suffer in Turkey, a NATO member country.
In 2013, for example, 500 Armenian historical houses in the Kale district of Muş were demolished as part of the governmental “urban renewal” (see a video house demolition).
“This total destruction of a culture …,” wrote researcher Varak Ketsemanian, “is a constant policy of the Turkish government; he uses it as an instrument of propaganda against against Armenian claims that affirm their presence in these lands before 1915. Although this policy has no massacres or deportation, it is the continuation of the same policy adopted in 1915 “.
Again, in 2013, a restaurant was built on the Armenian cemetery in the town of Tekirdag in Thrace to the east.
“During the construction, the bones in the cemetery were scattered everywhere and some were thrown into the garbage. The gravestones, stolen from the cemetery in the city, were used as tiles above grave looks and stones were found elsewhere on the site infrastructure works, “reports the newspaper Taraf.
Taraf also reported that in the town of Sivas Central Anatolia, “the Armenian cemetery in the city was plundered during the construction of a road and human bones scattered on the sides of the road. It is not known what happened to the tombstones. “
Mush was a lively Armenian community before 1915. The statistics montren qu’avat genocide, 140,555 Armenians lived in 339 villages of Mush. There were 228 churches, 94 monasteries, 53 sacred places and 135 schools with 5669 students. The city is also the subject of many songs and Armenian folk tales, the love song “Golo”, performed by Armenian singer Hasmik Harutyunyan.
According to the Ottoman census of 1917, however, 99 percent of Armenians in the region were declared “missing”. Obviously, the term ‘disappeared’ in the Ottoman Turkish dictionary means “killed” or “deported” – and by the most brutal methods imaginable.
“Some of the children were burned alive, others were poisoned or drowned, died of hunger or disease,” according to the Museum-Institute of the Armenian Genocide.
“I’m sure,” said Henry Morgenthau, the US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, “that the entire history of the human race contains no episode so horrible.” The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem presqu’insignifiantes compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915. (*)
Most Armenians were eradicated of Mush, as in the rest of Turkey. “[Officially], there are now 3000 Armenians in Mush, but here are said to be more,” said the director of the Center for Studies of the Armenian Question Western, Haykazun Alvrtsyan in 2014, which added “they are at least 2.5 million ‘Muslim Armenians’, half hiding.”
Given the unlimited intolerance against any reminiscence of Armenians in Turkey, the ‘hidden Armenians’ seem to have justified reasons not to disclose their ethnic or religious affiliation.
In a country where even the bones in the Armenian cemeteries are not respected, being Armenian is a difficult test to survive each day.
Uzay Bulut is a Turkish journalist formerly based in Ankara today in Washington DC.
(*) The Armenian Genocide: the essential reference guide by Alan Whitehorrn ABC-CLIO 2015 Editions
Translation Gilbert Béguian
http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamist-turkey-even-dead-armenians-cant-lie-peacefully#_edn1
BEIRUT (AFP Nearly 100 civilians have been killed in a two-month offensive by Turkey and allied rebels in northern Syria, a monitoring group said on Monday.
No comment could be immediately obtained from Turkish officials, but in the past Ankara has disputed accusations of civilian deaths in its campaign.
The “Euphrates Shield” operation was launched in northern Syria on August 24 to fight both the Islamic State jihadist group and a Kurdish militia that Ankara considers a “terrorist” group.
Since then, Turkish air strikes and shelling as part of the assault have killed 96 civilians, including 22 children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Britain-based monitor said rebels involved in the assault were leading the fight on the ground with Turkey lending heavy firepower — mostly air strikes and artillery fired from Turkish soil.
“Ninety-two of the civilians, mostly Kurds, were killed in areas controlled by the Islamic State group,” said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.
Five Armenians died on Friday as a result of intense shelling in the Armenian-populated Villi district of Aleppo. The casualties include Arman and Mireille Hindoyan (brother and sister), Dzila Jabagchourian, Hasmig Giragosian-Perechiglian and Pierre Hariro.
According to Syria-based Armenian Kandzasar newspaper, eleven other Armenians are wounded. They are: Karnig Garabedian, Dzovig Kabikian, Pety Lakhoyan-Hindoyan, Movses Hindoyan, Nazar Zarminian, George Hariro, Hagop Hariro, Arshak Perechiklian, Ara Aramian and Harout Avakian.
As reported earlier, terrorists have been shelling the densely Armenian-populated Nor Kiugh (New Village, in Armenian) and Villi districts of Aleppo, since early Friday morning.
At least 100 children have been killed in airstrikes and combat in Aleppo in August, a monitor reports. On Saturday the older brother of 5-year-old Omran, whose image shocked the world last week, became one of them.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that 448 people have been killed in attacks by the regime and rebel groups in Aleppo since the beginning of August. Government and allied Russian warplanes have attempted to put down a push launched by rebels on July 31 to break a regime siege of districts under their control.
According to the Observatory, a Britain-based operation with opposition sympathies, about two-thirds of the deaths were the results of airstrikes and shelling by regime and Russian forces on rebel-controlled districts. The Observatory, which relies on a network of correspondents within Syria, reported that 163 noncombatants, including 49 children, were killed by shells launched into government-controlled areas.
More than 290,000 people have died as a result of Syria’s multifront war, which started as a series of peaceful protests against the government in March 2011.
On Saturday, the Observatory also reported that 10-year-old Ali Daqneesh had died from injuries sustained in an airstrike on Wednesday. An image that circulated last week of Ali’s 5-year-old brother, Omran, temporarily cast new international attention on the conflict and the siege in Aleppo.
“He was martyred while in hospital as a result of the same bombardment that their house was subjected to,” said Besher Hawi, the spokesman for the local council of Aleppo.