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Turkey Erdogan military dismissed 150 generals 4,630 officers over links to Gulen movement

November 22, 2017 By administrator

Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli spoke about the officers and generals who had been dismissed from the army after an attempted coup in the country last year.

According to the website of the Turkish newspaper BirGun, speaking at the parliament, Canikli stated that 8,570 employees:  150 generals and 4,630 officers were dismissed from the army.

Earlier, Turkish authorities blame Fethullah Gulen and his supporters for a coup attempt.

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The Bulgarian journalist who revealed the links between Azerbaijan and ISIS Daesh by supplying weapons … dismissed!

August 26, 2017 By administrator

The Bulgarian journalist, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, who revealed in an article published on July 2 in the Bulgarian newspaper “Trud Daily” (Labor) that the flights of Azerbaijani companies supplied arms to the soldiers of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been fired! According to the journalist, the security services of Bulgaria interrogated her on 24 August about his revelations about the supply of arms from Azerbaijan to Daech and Al Nusra by flights from the Azerbaijani company Silk Way. After the interrogation, she was removed from the newspaper “Trud Daily” by her editorial staff. D. Gaytandzhieva said he wanted to continue his investigation into this particularly sensitive issue. His writing did not give him time.

According to an extensive investigative report published by the Bulgarian Trud newspaper, during the last three years, at least 350 diplomatic flights on board Silk Way Airlines—an Azerbaijani state-run company—have transported weapons for war conflicts across the world.

Reported by Dilyana Gaytandzhieva who received a trove of documents from an anonymous Twitter account—Annonymous Bulgaria—the article says that Silk Way Airlines has carried tens of tons of heavy weapons and ammunition headed to terrorists under the cover of diplomatic flights.

The leaked files include correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Bulgaria with attached documents for weapons deals and diplomatic clearance for overflight and/or landing in Bulgaria and many other European countries, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, to name a few.

According to the documents, Silk Way Airlines offered diplomatic flights to private companies and arms manufacturers from the US, Balkans, and Israel, as well as to the militaries of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and the military forces of Germany and Denmark in Afghanistan and of Sweden in Iraq.

Diplomatic flights are exempt of checks, air bills, and taxes, meaning that Silk Way airplanes freely transported hundreds of tons of weapons to different locations around the world without regulation. They made technical landings with stays varying from a few hours to up to a day in intermediary locations without any logical reasons such as needing to refuel the planes.

According to the documents, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry has sent instructions to its embassies in Bulgaria and many other European countries to request diplomatic clearance for Silk Way Airlines flights.

“Some of the weapons that Azerbaijan carried on diplomatic flights were used by its military in Nagorno-Karabakh against Armenia. In 2016, Azerbaijan accused Armenia of using white phosphorus. Armenia denied the allegations and in turn accused Azerbaijan of fabrication, as the only piece of evidence was based on a single unexploded grenade found by Azerbaijan’s soldiers. According to the documents from the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Sofia, white phosphorus munitions were carried on a diplomatic flight via Baku the previous year,” the report reads.

U.S. sends $1 billion worth of weapons
“Among the main customers of the “diplomatic flights for weapons” service provided by Silk Way Airlines are American companies, which supply weapons to the US army and US Special Operations Command. The common element in these cases is that they all supply non-US standard weapons; hence, the weapons are not used by the US forces,” said the report.

“According to the register of federal contracts, over the last 3 years American companies were awarded $1 billion contracts in total under a special US government program for non-US standard weapon supplies. All of them used Silk Way Airlines for the transport of weapons. In some cases when Silk Way was short of aircraft due to a busy schedule, Azerbaijan Air Force aircraft transported the military cargo, although the weapons never reached Azerbaijan,” reported Gaytandzhieva.

Click to read Gaytandzhieva’s entire article.

Artsakh Presidential Spokesman Responds
After the publication of the Truda report, Artsakh Presidential spokesperson David Babayan told Public Radio of Armenia that the “Azerbaijan established ties with terrorism at the time it gained independence.”

“This is a well-known fact to everyone, especially the special services of the countries, which immediately deal with the Islamic State and the threat of terrorism,” Babayan told Public Radio of Armenia.
“Chechen militants were getting treated in Azerbaijan during the first and second Chechen wars. It was also providing medical services to Mujahideen during the Afghan war and the Grey Wolves Turkish extremist group, as well as other groupings, which were fighting against Artsakh during the first Artsakh war and the four-day war in April,” said Babayan.

He stressed however that merely reporting the facts was not enough and concrete actions should be taken based on the revelations.

“The international community has a lot to do here. The international community should take measures,” he told Public Radio of Armenia, adding that “we often see adverse developments instead.” “They entrust Baku to host first European Games, the Formula 1, a number of forums and conferences instead of taking anti-terrorist measures against the country.”

“These developments are the logical outcome of the world’s silence in response to Aliyev’s statement on the intention to down civilian planes flying between Stepanakert and Yerevan,” said Babayan, adding that “an evil grows into an epidemics if not uprooted at the beginning. Azerbaijan is one of the countries spreading the epidemics, one of the cradles of international terrorism.”

 

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, dismissed, ISIS, Journalist

Erdogan Turkey: dismissed another 227 judges, prosecutors adding that to date 3,886

February 21, 2017 By administrator

The Turkish government has dismissed 227 more judges and prosecutors over alleged links to an outlawed movement, as Ankara continues with its crackdown following last July’s failed putsch against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Mehmet Yilmaz, the deputy chairman of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), made the announcement on Monday, adding that to date 3,886 judges and prosecutors have been relieved of their duty since the mid-July coup attempt.

Turkish officials say over 240 people were killed and more than 2,100 others injured in the failed coup, which was swiftly put down as tens of thousands of people flooded streets across Turkey to support the government.

Yilmaz further said that 200 judges and prosecutors, who were previously sacked from office, would be returned to their jobs, adding that there were a large number of others who remain under investigation.

Ankara has since accused Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Turkish cleric and opposition figure, of orchestrating and masterminding the coup. He is also accused of being behind a long-running campaign to topple the government via infiltrating country’s institutions, particularly the army, police and the judiciary. Turkey has also outlawed the Gulen movement, his large organization, in the country and has branded it as “Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).”

Ankara has so far arrested over 35,000 people and sacked more than 100,000 others, including military personnel, judges, and teachers, over suspected links to Gulen, as part of the post-coup crackdown. Many rights groups have denounced Ankara’s heavy clampdown.

Gulen has censured the coup attempt and strongly denied any involvement in the violence. Turkey remains in a state of emergency since the coup.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: dismissed, JUDGES, proscuters, Turkey

Turkey: “Academia is outside of the academy now” 4481 academics dismissed

January 22, 2017 By administrator

Gözde Kazaz,

Prof. Dr. Nilgün Toker Kılınç, who signed the “Academics for Peace” declaration and is dismissed with the recent emergency decree, thinks that dismissal is an “act of vengeance” rather than punishment.

With 3 emergency decrees issued on January 6, 2853 public servants have been dismissed, including many academics. 42 of the 631 dismissed academics had signed the “Academics for Peace” declaration.

With the last wave of purge, total number of dismissed academics has risen to 4481. 125 academics for peace have been dismissed.

Signing the “Academic for Peace” declaration, Prof. Dr. Nilgün Toker Kılıç, chair of Ege University Philosophy Department, is one of the academics who were dismissed with the recent decree.

Toker says that the locks of their offices were changed and they cannot even go to school. We talked to her about what happened in Izmir and academic production “inside and outside.”

Was a legal or administrative investigation launched against you, after you signed the declaration?

No, I didn’t have a legal or administrative investigation against me. I guess they have to wait for a permission from Ministry of Justice for initiating a legal process, but I am not sure. As for the administrative investigation, the rector launched an investigation right away. However, this investigation hasn’t been concluded by the investigating committee, which stated that there is no need for a disciplinary punishment. After that, the newly-assigned rector formed another committee. Given that the process of dismissal is started, I assume that they completed the investigation. These are just guesses, because the university hasn’t notified us about an investigation. We can say that they don’t consider us as an “interested party” anymore.

Do you think that you are dismissed because you signed the peace declaration?

Yes, this is definitely the case. They portray all dissident people in the country as if they are part of the attempted coup and they aim to create vagueness concerning the dismissals. However, we and the ones who demanded these dismissals know that this is a punishment for our demand for peace. In fact, this is not punishment, this is an act of vengeance.

9 academics have been dismissed from Ege University with this decree. Some others were dismissed before. In the processes of peace declaration and emergency decrees, how was the atmosphere for you and your colleagues?

Conditions of state of emergency was implemented in Ege University long before. The administration started to solve the problems anti-democratically in contrast with the traditions and customs of the university and a system of banning has been operating for 2 years. In this process, social sciences, especially philosophy, was at the center of attention. As our friends from other universities were dismissed, we were waiting for our turn in a heavy uncertainty. However, I should note that this didn’t prevent us from performing our academic activities. We continued to hold conferences and congresses, though we were generally afraid that they might cancel them. We continued to teach our classes like always. In short, they kept putting barriers, but we were trying to do our job.

However, something happened that didn’t happen anywhere else. We have yet to go to the university for packing our staff and say goodbye. They changed our locks or locked our doors with padlocks. We are not allowed to enter our offices. Police searched through our offices this morning. They might allow us to pack our stuff now. However, I am afraid that they might try to prevent us from entering the university after that.

In your opinion, how will these dismissals affect the academic production?

Academia is outside of the academy now and I am sure that there will be a more qualified production outside compared to inside. If you ask what will happen to education and production in universities, I am sorry for the academics and students in the universities. From now on, it won’t be easy to carry out academic activities in the universities, because the prerequisite of the academic production is an academic liberty based on freedom of thought and expression. Academic production is not possible in a place where freedom is abolished altogether.

Speaking for myself, now I have much more time and I can focus on completing my unfinished projects, writing and translating, because I am engaged with a theoretical activity. However, “theoria” becomes deeper in dialog and those classes that they took away from me are the sphere of dialog. We need this dialog and we will find ways for talking and discussing. It might seem like I have lost the students, my chance to contribute to their desire for change and to be alive thanks to their dynamism, but I am sure that we will find other ways for forming this “contact” again.

In an interview in 2013, you said, “Academy is collapsing on me with the country,” after the process leading to arrest of Büşra Ersanlı. How do you feel now?

Academy has collapsed on me. However, I should admit that I was feeling ashamed because I was staying, as my friends were dismissed. Now, I am free of that feeling. Now, I feel like I am with the academics who are left outside. I am proud of it, because it is harder to stay in the universities for the ones who have the capacity of free judgment and opinion.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Academia, dismissed, Turkey

Two deputy ministers dismissed in Armenia

January 11, 2017 By administrator

Upon the decision of Prime Minister Karen Karapetyan two deputy ministers of Energy Infrastructure and Natural Resources have been dismissed from their posts.

According to the information published in the official website of the government Deputy Ministers Areg Galstyan and Iosif Isayan were dismissed under the documents signed today by PM Karapetyan.

To note Minister of Energy Infrastructure and Natural Resources has four deputies. Iosif Isayan has assumed the post since 1999 and Areg Galstyan_ since 2000.

 

Source Panorama.am

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Turkey: 87 intelligence personnel dismissed amid failed coup plot

September 27, 2016 By administrator

The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has dismissed 87 personnel for suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), Turkey‘s state-run Anadolu Agency reports citing an intelligence agency source.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, said a probe pending against 100 out of 141 MIT personnel had been concluded so far.

Out of 87 MIT personnel dismissed, 52 will face criminal complaints, the source said.

The decision was made under a statutory decree issued in July during the current three-month state of emergency in Turkey.

The dismissed MIT personnel will not be allowed to work in any other state organization.

Turkish government blames FETO for the deadly July 15 coup attempt. At least 241 people were martyred in the coup attempt, which the government has said was organized by followers of Fetullah Gulen, the head of FETO.

Gulen is accused of leading a long-running campaign to overthrow the Turkish government through the infiltration of state institutions, particularly the military, police and judiciary, forming what is commonly known as the parallel state.

Related links:

Ria.ru: Около 90 сотрудников турецкой разведки уволили за связи с Гюленом
Anadolu Agency. Turkey’s intelligence agency MIT dismisses 87 personnel

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894 Turkish journalists dismissed since January 2016: Report

May 15, 2016 By administrator

trj.thumbA total 894 journalists have been dismissed from work since the beginning of 2016, according to a fresh report by Press For Freedom, a project funded by Britain’s Bilateral Program, which produces monthly, quarterly and yearly reports on the state of media freedoms in Turkey, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The report, whose findings were announced at a press conference on May 14, displayed a gloomy picture of the deteriorating state of press freedoms in Turkey.

Two newspapers and a news agency have been “silenced” with the appointment of a trustee panel due to “strong evidence” of links to the Gülen movement, followers of U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, an ally-turned-foe of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the report said.

At least 160 journalists were laid off in Turkey in April, increasing the number of discharged journalists to a total 894 over the first quarter of 2016, the report said.

The research also noted some 104,904 websites were blocked while access has been denied to the website of the Dicle News Agency (DİHA) 37 times since the general elections on June 7, 2015. Thirteen of the agency’s journalists are also current under arrest.

Violence targeting members of the press also rose over the same period, as a total 200 attacks were reported against journalists, including 21 against media institutions. A fourth Syrian journalist, Zahir al-Sherqat, was killed in April by suspected militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), prompting the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) to call on the Turkish government to take serious measures against ISIL violence on Turkish soil.

Meanwhile, a total of 33 reporters were detained between January and April 2016, 13 investigations were launched against journalists while 12 journalists were brought before court. Over the same period, 12 journalists faced charges over “insulting the president.”

In the report, Press For Freedom highlighted the situation of daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and Ankara bureau chief Erdem Gül, as an Istanbul court sentenced the journalists to five years in prison for “leaking state secrets” on May 6, hours after Dündar escaped unharmed from an armed attack in front of Istanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse.

“Journalists chase news. Treating journalists and newspaper managers, who search for, write and publish news, as ‘terrorists’ or ‘spies’ displays the state of freedoms in the country in question,” the report said, also criticizing a lack of safety for reporters in Turkey’s southeastern provinces where operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been continuing for months.

Speaking during the event, Turkish Journalists Association (TGC) chair Nazmi Bilgin stressed the importance of press freedoms to enable a modern, democratic society.

“Freedom is a must for freedom and freedom a must for the press,” he said, adding citizens’ involvement in politics and the operability of the right to information is only possible via a free media.

Meanwhile, Yusuf Kanlı, the coordinator of the project who is also a columnist for the Hürriyet Daily News, said it was not possible to speak of a democracy where opposition voices are being silenced, censorship is common and press freedoms are under pressure.

Turkey has been classified as a “not free” country by U.S.-based think tank Freedom House’s press freedom reports since 2014, when its status deteriorated from “partly free” due to the treatment of journalists during the widespread Gezi Park protests and the backlash against their coverage of corruption probes in 2013.

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HERBALIFE Dismissed for wearing a forget-logo hundred years of genocide

August 29, 2015 By administrator

arton115497-420x280The Armenian newspaper “Jamanag” informs that the representative of the American company specializing in the sale of nutritional products “Herbalife” in Armenia Aramais Alaverdian was dismissed by the management of his company in his office because he held a forget-me with the inscription “I remember and I demand.” The forget-me is the logo of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the genocide of Armenians in 1915 performed per the Ottoman Empire. The Republic of Turkey was born in 1923 being the direct heir of the Ottoman Empire. Aramais Alaverdian also addressed his jacket logo medal of forget-me-pin. His company found that its Director in Armenia was in politics … A. Alaverdian logically arraigned society “Herbalife” for unfair dismissal. Herbalife which offers facial care products and body care also had better morality and image in Armenia marked by genocide …

Krikor Amirzayan

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, dismissed, Genocide, HERBALIFE

Yerevan: Policeman who hit elderly man dismissed

August 23, 2015 By administrator

policeman-dismissedThe powers of a police patrol employee who hit yesterday an elderly demonstrator in Republic Square of Yerevan have been terminated, Panorama.am learned from the press service of the Armenian police. An internal investigation is being conducted into the incident.

‘Stand Up, Armenia’ initiative staged a rally in Republic Square of the city yesterday. Prior to the start of the rally, three organizers of the initiative were detained. The rally participants attempted to block a street, demanding the release of their friends.  One of the policemen hit an elderly man as police tried to prevent demonstrators from blocking the street.

Human Rights Defender of Armenia Karen Andreasyan today made a statement strongly condemning the incident.  “We expect law enforcement bodies to promptly reveal and impartially investigate all details of the incident and bring the policeman to account,” the statement said. Besides, on his own initiative the HRD started proceedings in connection with the events in downtown Yerevan on August 21.

Source: Panorama.a

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King Salman dismisses Prince Bandar from National Security Council

January 31, 2015 By administrator

116463f4-acc1-41ab-997f-c116c5e223bbSaudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has dismissed Prince Bandar bin Sultan from the National Security Council.

King Salman on Thursday issued a number of royal decrees that removed or changed a number of top Saudi officials. Report Presstv

The new king, who succeeded the late King Abdullah last week, also removed Intelligence Chief Prince Khaled bin Bandar from his post and appointed him as his advisor.

He also sacked two of the late king’s sons from big jobs.

King Salman replaced Riyadh Governor Turki bin Abdullah with Faisal bin Bandar, and reinstated Khaled al-Faisal as Mecca governor less than two years after he was replaced by Mishaal bin Abdullah.

The new king, however, kept in place Abdullah’s other son Miteb as the Minister of the National Guard.

King Salman also reshuffled a number of posts in the cabinet, while keeping unchanged the oil, foreign, finance, defense, interior, labor, transport and economy, and planning ministers.

The 79-year-old king also eliminated a dozen councils and specialized committees while creating two main bodies for security and economy affairs.

The former king died on January 23 at the age of 90 after weeks of being hospitalized with a lung infection. He had suffered frequent periods of ill health in recent years.

The new monarch, who has suffered at least one stroke that has left him with limited movement on his left arm and is believed to be suffering from Alzheimer’s, is taking over at a time when King Abdullah’s demise is expected to fuel a power struggle within the ruling family.

His succeeding to the throne also coincides with the kingdom’s grappling with dissent in the east and the region’s attempting to deal with the repercussions of the terrorism funded and the extremism exported by Riyadh.

Riyadh has also turned into a butt of criticism for sending shockwaves throughout the international economy by allegedly fixing oil prices.

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