Diyarbakir: Kışanak: every moment losses to account those who killed Hrant Dink

January 21, 2015 By administrator

Diyarbakir Diyarbakir Armenians of Turkey Peace Assembly Secretariat, 20 January Kayapınar Cultural Center Conference Hall “Hrant Dink Memorial Panel” was held.

Panel Mayor of Diyarbakir, as well as HDPE Gültan Kışanak Co-Deputy Chairman Meral Danis jacks, Diyarbakır Bar Association Chairman Tahir Envoy joined with the citizens.

Gültan Kışanak, human values in Dink’s party, fraternity, said the land of how to get rich but one of these infertile lands they remember how much effort they exerted.

They could not get the Hrant Dink murder those aspirations. They are of Armenian people living in this land, the voice of Hrant which to attempt to be a pale silence, they believe that they will turn a page,” said Kışanak, Dink, of the land in the Armenian people forever will also live as a symbol of brotherhood of peoples, he said.

“Turkey Unsolved Murders cemetery”

Dink’s murder by about recently that new developments and Kışanak reminded that the arrests related to the case, “When Hrant slaughterers and accountability across society his back olds availability for this country is a great loss to humanity. Turkey turned into almost unsolved murders graveyard case. They örtündük above, the powers behind gizlendik, giving them the courage to pull the trigger, we will continue to protect them mentality came blackout “he said.

After the panel, lived 22 years after the US homeland to come to settle in Diyarbakir Armenian artist Udi Yervant Bostanci and Ilhan another Armenian artist Stefan, Kurdish, Turkish and Armenian sang songs. (AA)

‘119 Armenian villages were burned in Diyarbakır’

December 6, 2014 By administrator

MSF carried out in-house “Diyarbakir and Armenia” Speaking on behalf of the Assembly session titled Astğig Mountaineers Western Armenia Armenians, Armenian massacre in Diyarbakir said that 119 villages had been burned.

Diyarbakir – “for humanity, against capitalism and exploitation, freedom will win” Mesopotamian Social Forum, held under the slogan (MSF) scope carried out “in Diyarbakir and Armenians” session on behalf of Western Armenia, the Armenian Assembly of Astğig Mountaineers joined.

Batı Ermenistan Ermeniler Meclisi adına konuşan Astğig Dağlıyan, Ermeni katliamında Diyarbakır'da 119 köyün yakıldığ http://t.co/vjcgQ3V3DA

— Asdğig Dağlıyan ن (@Karintsi) December 7, 2014

The Mountaineers made a short speech about the history of the Armenians, Armenians is one of the ancient people of this land and lived on this land for thousands of years, he added. After a short historical presentation about the Armenians suffered by Armenians in the late Ottoman oppression and exile until the Mountaineers, 2nd said Abdulhamid period a systematic manner in the transition made the Armenian massacres, “after Hamidie created first as a system against the Armenians in 1894 Sason oppression and massacre took place, “he said.

‘Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed’

Diyarbakir, the Armenian population was too much, the 1894-1896 year include 119 villages had been burned and the Armenian Church of the Mountaineers said that began to be translated into a mosque, “in the period of slaughter was sacked thousands of homes and businesses collapsed. The number of women also missed were too many to count. Massacre periods Hamidiye at the beginning of the procession in Pirinççiza Arif wanted to get personally involved in the Armenian massacres, “he said.

Mountaineers later showed pictures of before and after the Armenian massacres. He continued in the form of question and answer session. DİHA

Source: yuksekovahaber.com

Turkey, Thousands march in Diyarbakır, Istanbul for Kobane

November 1, 2014 By administrator

DİYARBAKIR / ISTANBUL

Thousands of people march in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır and Istanbul in a peaceful support rally for Syrian city under ISIL fire

Protesters carried posters of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) at the Diyarbakır rally. DHA photo

Thousands of people marched Nov. 1 in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır and Istanbul in a peaceful support rally for Kobane, the Syrian city under jihadists’ attack for more than one month.

Dozens of people were killed last month October in a string of Kobane protests as 12 were murdered in the Oct. 6 and 7 street clashes in Diyarbakır only, making the Nov. 1 rally rather crucial.

The government has blamed political parties for irresponsibility for making a call for such street action.

Speaking at a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) event in the western province of Afyon today, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said the state backed the right to hold meetings but would take active measures against those who pick violence. “Do you remember any peaceful calls by the HDP [People’s Democratic Party] in the past two months,” Davutoğlu asked.

However, no violence emerged at demonstrations in Diyarbakır and Istanbul as the organizers also took measures in the southeastern province along with the police and military precautions.

Rather smaller rallies were held in some European cities.

The rallies came at a day when Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered Kobane from Turkey to join the battle against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

Diyarbakir, Kurdish protester killed in clashes with Turkey police

August 19, 2014 By administrator

A Kurdish protester has reportedly been killed and two others wounded during violent clashes with Turkish security forces in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir.

Turkish media reported on Tuesday that the clashes broke out at a cemetery near the town of Lice in Diyarbakir, where Kurdish protesters had gathered to prevent police from removing a statue of Mahsum Korkmaz, one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

Korkmoz was among the members who carried out the first PKK attacks against Turkish military posts three decades ago.

Reports say a 24-year-old man was injured by gunfire during the clashes and later succumbed to his wounds in a hospital.

On Monday, a court in Diyarbakir ruled that the statue must be demolished two days after it was erected in the province and sparked outrage in the country’s political circles.

The clashes took place a day after Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed PKK leader, welcomed the start of a political process to resolve differences between Ankara and the group and said the PKK’s decades-long war with the Turkish government is coming to an end.

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

In March 2013, Ocalan declared a historic ceasefire after months of negotiations with the Turkish government. In return, the PKK demanded amendments to the penal code and electoral laws as well as the right to education in the Kurdish language and a degree of regional autonomy.

source: presstv.com

Octogenarian bride of Diyarbakır’s tiny Armenian community passes away two months after marrying

June 24, 2014 By administrator

DİYARBAKIR

Beyzar and her partner Sarkis during the wedding held on April 27. DHa PHoto

Beyzar Alata, who had been revered as “Diyarbakır’s last Armenian” and who finally married her life partner Sarkis only two months ago at the age of 87, passed away June 23.

The marriage, which took place at the end of April in Diyarbakır’s newly restored Surp Giragos Church – with the attendance of Diyarbakır Mayor Gültan Kışanak and other prominent guests including renowned local oud master musician Yervant Bostancı – had drawn attention to the discrimination that Armenians faced over the years.

“I did not want to die unmarried,” said Beyzar after the marriage.

At the ceremony, Kışanak stressed the significance of the wedding ceremony and praised the couple’s “struggle” against the odds.

Beyzar’s funeral will also be held in Diyarbakır.

June/24/2014

Here is ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN wonderful words for the Bride

Of the 1915 genocide Diyarbakir (Dikragenert) the last living witness, a life in the homeland is completed BAYZ aunt (BAYZ Alata) lost their lives these days. Armenians in Diyarbakir last BAYZ aunt, now is farewell to the stars.

BAYZ 87-year-old aunt, is just one of the victims of the 1915 genocide. 0.1915-Pontic Greek and Assyrian genocide of the Armenian-to Ezidi lived a painful life was a passenger at the same time. Place of birth, the name of the fatherland did not even register. It was a breaking strain of the public faceless soldiers.

BAYZ future and identity is taken away from her aunt, companionship until his death so that his beloved wife of 84-year-old Sarkis (Sıtkı Eken) after 60 years of marriage ceremony but were ready. It is a shame this country. Turkey’s; Turkish and non-Sunni faith given to people and is a measure of the value kept alive in pain. Genocide we did was not enough (!) Names has been changed, language, religion has changed, churches, monasteries, chapels were occupied, humane life your right hand on your receipt in the country, in every case all potential criminals illustrated Have you still the main country to live in your resisted zoomed. Once again, Peace be upon those who resist to live in their homeland.

Hançepek aka Gavin’s neighborhoods are seeing a single woman or Armenian! Echoing the cry of my heart is now in Amed.

87-year life of the Syriac Church of Virgin Mary in the completion of the stone walls of this beautiful journey of people to death, strangled me with a nameless sadness. It’s a country in his person died. Amed fell … Shout, shout, shout I want to quiet ravine.

Ah! Lice noble and innocent girl. If you knew what killed your death …
Why did you travel you always die in your homeland?. Why you always relentlessly killed bloodsuckers? Yet in you, is why we did not know the deceased? There’s so many things to say … my heart is full of anger and rebellion resisting kept alive in the face of so much suffering. How to chop the human person? How conscience, wallets displaced.

This world does not stay in one guys! Anyone not take anything to the other side, this hatred, why this hatred?. Brother, sister, while friendly live this pain, why swim in the sea? However, since you do not, since it is the almond tree blossoms in the century, not the bird does not sing, the Euphrates and Tigris blood flowing blood for centuries.

Established in blood all the peoples outside the Republic of Turkey and the Sunni beliefs share the pain unfortunately still alive. I know it is BAYZ bacom, the last remaining all the pain they are hit once again. Each stroke, whereas our is that we do not. Flowers of all colors will stand in Mesopotamia will stop one day course. Enough, let’s continue to resist all together.

What kept me going is the ah?
Look! Ancestral lands are still being irrigated with blood. Diyarbakır / Lice are resisting in blood now. Do you know? Light lost since you go in this country. Unlit and we’re fever-free. Now it’s all over the map and burn injured children are hitting the sun.

Ah! And the light of the sun by the waters of the Aegean children could breastfeed once you get your pain. Susan was screaming in me speechless. We are a people yolculuy in Amed in your party. Amed and I are now yolculuy you to the stars. My heart with the flag of the people at the ceremony, giving the flag colors of roses goodbye to you now.

Goodbye is BAYZ bacom,
Goodbye to Diyarbakir’s smiling face,
Goodbye Light’s daughter,
Goodbye Uncle Sıtkı comrade,
Goodbye Diyarbakir (Dıkranagert) ‘s faced with sadness,
Diyarbakir lover Goodbye,
Goodbye witness of suffering,
Goodbye dear to the people of Amed,
Bye end of geography Armenians injured.
Goodbye …

Sur lives’ You’re a man of the church, the stone walls, will be orphaned without you now.
Was now either! Without us and desolate.
Ah! Whether the name of the treacherous death.

Know that in our eyes mist again to re-bloomed since. I will never, ever forget BAYZ Bacon.
At the beginning of the Armenian people and all the oppressed people in and get it right. Whether Lights comrade Baco BAYZAR.

ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN

Masked demonstrator takes down Turkish flag on Air Force base in Diyarbakır

June 9, 2014 By administrator

DİYARBAKIR

A masked demonstrator took down the Turkish flag inside of an Air Force base in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır during protests that erupted June 8, following the

funeral of a man killed during clashes in Lice. The demonstrator was photographed by Agence France-Presse photo reporter İlyas Akengin, as the demonstrator climbed the flagpole after jumping over the walls surrounding Diyarbakır’s 2nd Air Force Command.

“A masked person among the demonstrators, some of them children, jumped in from the main entrance of the base and climbed the flag pole in the vehicle control zone between two wire fences. A team [of soldiers] was sent to the area and fired two warning shots in the air, but the person took our flag from the pole,” the Turkish General Staff said in a statement.

HD Diyarbakir: “Turkish crimes against humanity can not be timed out”

May 13, 2014 By administrator

HD Diyarbakir Branch, a 20-year timeout to expire files that are missing and unsolved for a moment before opening the prosecution called to duty.

IHD Diyarbakir Branch, within 20 years this month, which will expire timeout losses and a moment before the opening of the unsolved files, files that timeout has to be avoided.

Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch, timeout in danger of the “missing” and “extrajudicial killings” on the file and attract attention to files re-opening to demand Diyarbakır Courthouse in front of the press release held.

Description of the HRA administrators, HRA Vice President Av. Serdar Çelebi, the Diyarbakır Bar Association, lost relatives, TTB, 78 the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV), perhydroisoquinoline and attended numerous NGO representatives and citizens.

“Impunity continues with policy timeout”

HRA statement on behalf makes IHD Diyarbakir Branch of the Legal Committee Av. Rahþan Bataray, “Density as in the 1990s, the losses suffered,” unsolved “to deaths in the files in a systematic manner applied impunity policy in 2014” timeout “application continued by noting that “Because of this incident is no official impunity, impunity is an indication of the strict implementation of the policy,” he said.

Bataray, to the public, reflected in some of the files in the indictment and file the details of state and government acting on behalf of persons and entities for crimes committed on significant findings and the information that it contains, however, to judge the length of the accused pending trial, trials on safety grounds outside the region with provinces transportation applications such as question mark has created said.

Forced lose, international legislation against humanity for crimes being counted against humanity and crimes in the statute of limitations would not commit with the provision of international legislation of the regulation underlines the Bataray, “we were in the month of May in 20 years which will fill and suspicious of the region, in terms of the time dark nightmare from becoming Bolu Mountain Commando Brigade Command officials a part that event-related demand and our concerns Prosecutor’s Office has been shared with. However, for a long time on this matter and demand our concerns forward spite of an effective investigation has not executed and on file 20 years to fill only a few days a period remained “in the description found

Bataray quoted by the Diyarbakır Prosecutor’s Office conducted an investigation and within a few days by the time the files are in danger of expiring as follows:

– Mustafa Bulut, Ekrem Bulut, Ramazan Bulut, Fahri Bulut and Ali Cloud May 13, 1994, from Bolu detained by soldiers from commando units were lost. Ekrem from five family members, Ramadan and Ali Bulut’s bones had been discovered in a mass grave.

– Catering Silk, Silk and Seyithan Ways Wealth taken into custody on 18 May 1994 and a further alınamamıştı news themselves.

– Mehmet Selim Orhan, Algeria and Hasan Orhan Orhan 24 May 1994, the Bolu brigade detained by soldiers died. Mehmet Selim and Hasan Orhan Bulut family’s bones were found in a mass grave with the same

“States get 17 thousand 500 unsolved open the file”

24 May 1994 on Bolu Commando Brigade soldiers lost by Mehmet Selim Orhan’s son, Adnan Orhon, “I was 12 when the state my father and my uncles by shooting the mass graves left. 20 years ago the crimes committed today, prosecutors hand timed uğratılıy is. States history and confronting should apologize to us. States 17 thousand 500 open archives concerning unsolved, “he said. (GK)

The Road from Diyarbakir: A Call to Deepen Kurdish Commitment to Genocide Justice

May 13, 2014 By administrator

By Khatchig Mouradian on May 13, 2014

BERLIN, Germany (A.W.)—On May 10, a conference on “The 1915 Genocide: Collective Responsibility and Roles; Kurdish, Armenian, Assyrian Relations” was held in Berlin. It brought together two generations of Kurdish intellectuals to discuss inter-communal relations before and after the genocide and the responsibilities of Kurds in the process and conciliation and making amends.

Armenian Weekly Editor Khatchig Mouradian delivered the following speech, in Turkish, calling on Kurdish opinion-makers and politicians to expand and deepen their role in bringing justice to the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

For the Turkish version of the speech, click here.

***

I pass through Diyarbakir on all my trips to Turkey.

In January 2013, I was scheduled to speak at a conference in Ankara dedicated to Hrant Dink, and once again I decided to first make a stop in Diyarbakir.

It was Jan. 17 when I landed in Diyarbakir. Some of you here will remember that day. Hundreds of thousands had gathered for the funeral of activist Sakine Cansiz and her comrades.

As I stood in the crowd listening to the speeches, my mind wandered from Dersim to Diyarbakir to Ankara…

Two days later, in Ankara, I delivered my first speech in Turkish.

I started like this:

How did Turkish come to me?

I did not learn it to add one more foreign language to my CV.

Turkish came to me the day I was born. I had not asked for it, yet I could not reject it, either.

It came to me in the voice of my grandmother.

For you, Turkish is the mother tongue. For me it’s my grandmother’s language.

My grandparents survived the genocide and ended up in Lebanon with practically nothing. They rebuilt their lives from scratch, and gave my parents the gift of life.

And when I was born, they gave me one of the few things they were, in fact, able to bring with them from Kilikia: the Turkish language.

For you, Turkish is the language of parental love.

For me, it is the burden of death and dispossession.

My Turkish has memories of death and dispossession from Adana, Kilis, Konya Eregli, and Hasanbeyli. The villages and towns of my grandparents.

And today, for the first time, I speak that language from a podium.

Today, for the first time, I return that gift of death and dispossession to the lands it came from…

At the end of the speech, I said:

But asking others to open their eyes and acknowledge the suffering of Armenians can never be enough.

What is necessary is justice.

So today, I return the language of death and dispossession to you.

And instead, in the name of my grandparents, Khachadour and Meline Mouradian, Ardashes and Aghavni Gharibian, I demand a language of justice.

Today, as we discuss “The 1915 Genocide: Collective Responsibility and Roles,” I once again think about the funeral and my speech. And my mind wanders from Dersim to Diyarbakir to Ankara. Because I believe the road to justice passes through Diyarbakir.

can hear the sound of justice, albeit faint, in the ringing of the Sourp Giragos Church bell, in the voices of Islamized Armenians learning the Armenian language, and—sometimes—in the statements of Kurdish leaders.

And that sound must be amplified, so that it reaches Van, Hakkari, Şırnak, Dersim, Batman, Bitlis, and Ağrı.

And eventually Ankara.

Let us not talk about brotherhood and peace. I am tired of the incessant use, misuse, and abuse of these words in Turkey.

Let us not talk about shared dolma, shared pain, an Anatolian diaspora, Turkish passports, lobbies, condolences, and other absurdities.

The road to conciliation passes through justice. There are no shortcuts.

Ankara keeps the border with Armenia shut, but Diyarbakir can open another border: The border with the diaspora.

And that border can only open with justice.

As we approach the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, let our minds, together, wander from Dersim, to Diyarbakir, to Ankara.

Many of you here know that Sakine Cansiz was from Dersim, and that her nom de guerre, Sara, was her Armenian grandmother’s name.

Hundreds of thousands gathered to pay their respect to Sakine Cansiz in January last year. But that respect has not been paid to Sakine’s grandmother, and the million and a half who perished during the genocide.

That respect has not been paid to my grandparents.

So let hundreds of thousands gather in Diyarbakir on April 24, 2015, to commemorate the genocide of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontic Greeks.

And to make the voice of justice stronger.

Diyarbakır court sentences Turkey’s youngest mayor to over four years in jail

May 7, 2014 By administrator

DİYARBAKIR – Doğan News Agency
The 25-year-old student became Turkey’s youngest ever mayor after winning the March 30 elections with fellow co-mayoral candidate Harun Erkuş with a record 91 percent of the votes. DHA Photo
Rezan Zuğurli, who was elected as co-mayor of Diyarbakır’s Lice district from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) a month ago, was sentenced to over four years in prison May 7 for participating in three rallies in 2010 and 2011.

The 25-year-old student became Turkey’s youngest ever mayor after winning the March 30 elections with fellow co-mayoral candidate Harun Erkuş with a record 91 percent of the votes.

The Diyarbakır 2nd High Criminal Court found Zuğurli guilty on charges of committing crimes “on behalf of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)” even while admitting that she was not a member of the group.

Prosecutors were demanding up to 35 years in prison, although the court ultimately sentenced her to four years and two months in jail.

A previous ruling sentencing Zuğurli to five years in prison on charges of “membership in a terrorist organization” was overturned by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals, prompting her release after 13 months of detention.

Zuğurli, who is currently studying at the Communications Faculty of Dicle University in Diyarbakır, had also worked in a women’s shelter in the southeastern province.

During her campaign, Zuğurli had told constituents that despite being new to formal politics, she had lived within politics due to the judicial imbroglio in which she was involved.

“Being a candidate was not something that I planned for but after giving it thought, I felt like I could achieve things,” she said, adding that her family supported her in her decision.

“Sometimes the biggest politics is telling about what you have seen and been through. I may be new in politics, but am not raw at all,” Zuğurli said.
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Turkey, The exhibition 99 April 24, 2014 presented to the press in Diyarbakir

April 24, 2014 By administrator

Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 10 am at the center of the Journalists’ Association of Diyarbakir, the French Armenian NGOs Yerkir Europe, ARAM Marseille and the Municipality of Diyarbakir Association, held a press conference to present the exhibition “99 Portraits of exile – 99 pictures of survivors of the Armenian Genocide.”

Present, the representative Yerkir Europe, Armen Ghazarian; Varoujan Artin, the ARAM Marseille and Muharrem Cebe, Director of Cultural Affairs of the Municipality of Diyarbakir association.

Armen Ghazarian, after recalling the various actions of the NGO Yerkir Europe, said: “The fact of organizing this exhibition on April 24, the day of commemoration of the Armenian Genocide in Diyarbakir is a double symbol because Armenians draw their roots on the land and it is one of the crime scene in 1915. ”

He added: “The message we want to wear is that beyond the memory and history, there is now an opportunity for us Armenians to revive Armenian identity where it draws its roots. Whether it is through culture, tourism or other. ”

Muharrem Cebe, Director of Cultural Affairs of the Municipality of Diyarbakir, said: “There’s 99 years, a great tragedy has been lived on these lands. The Kurds have suffered the same fate. Looting, genocide, massacres were experienced.

He added: “Among the victims there were also people from Diyarbakir. They were forced to leave their land. We are very pleased to see our compatriots back, even symbolically, to the land where their grandparents were born and lived. ”

Varoujan Artin, main host of the ARAM Association, explained the contents of the exhibition “Portraits of exile 99 – 99 pictures of survivors of the Armenian Genocide”: “This is photographic reproductions identity survivors of the Armenian Genocide accompanying between 1923 and 1926 certificates of baptism of the Armenian Patriarchate of southern France which ARAM has a large part of the archives. ”

He then said: “For the first time in its history ARAM exposes a portion of its records outside of France and especially in Turkey in Diyarbakir. It is a physical homecoming, symbolically fort, on the lands of Western Armenia. ”

Artin Varoujan concluded the press conference by saying: “I invite you to look at these faces will look familiar to you, as your face seem familiar to me today. ”