CCAF NEWS RELEASE No to Erdogan’s interference in the French elections

June 8, 2017 By administrator

erdogan interference french election The CCAF calls on French citizens and the Ministry of the Interior to be extremely vigilant with regard to the attempts of the Turkish state to invest the French political field, as President Erdogan had advocated in a meeting in Strasbourg On 4 October 2015. Some 60 candidates from the Equal Justice Party (EYP), an organization directly inspired by the AKP, like its counterpart Denk in the Netherlands, present themselves to the deputies during the elections of 11 and 18th of June.

In the charter of their party, the leaders of the EYP declare among other things wanting “a moratorium on the law on secularism”, “fight against the libertine positioning of the present society” or promote the entry of Turkey into Europe .

Moreover, in a video interview broadcast on social networks its president Sakin Colak engages in negationist comments, taking up the rhetoric of Ankara on an “alleged Armenian genocide”.

The undisguised objective of the EYP is to become a real political force in the country. In this perspective, it hopes to obtain more than 1% of the votes during these legislative elections on at least fifty constituencies in order to collect for about 5 years about 160.000 € of public subsidies within the framework of the law on the financing of the political parties, that is 800.000 €.

The CCAF denounces this attempted entrenchment of the AKP ideology, which carries a political Islamism contrary to secularism and a negationism that is in contradiction with the values of the Republic, Recalled several times the Parliament and the last three French presidents. It calls for the banning of this party whose speech and ideology represent a threat to the Republic and public order.

National Office of the CCAF (Coordinating Council of Armenian organizations in France)

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Bulgarian parliamentary candidates worried about Turkish interference

March 24, 2017 By administrator

The leaders of both Bulgarian political parties on the eve of Sunday’s parliamentary elections warned against any “interference” by Turkey in the election campaign with the country’s large Turkish-speaking minority.

“We are categorically opposed to the interference of a foreign country in our internal affairs,” said Kornelia Ninova, head of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (PSB) in an interview with AFP.

She denounced as “open interference” the voting instructions of senior Turkish officials to the Turkish minority in Bulgaria.

Sofia accuses Ankara of supporting the new Turkish minority party Dost (“friend” in Turkish). This minority has about 700,000 people, out of a total population of 7.4 million in Bulgaria, and some 60,000 Turkish citizens with Bulgarian citizenship vote in Turkey. “This interference is unacceptable,” echoed Boïko Borissov, former prime minister and head of the conservatives (Gerb) questioned by AFP. He nevertheless calls for “diplomacy” with Turkey, which borders on Bulgaria.

A new Turkish-speaking group in Bulgaria, Dost, supported by Ankara, aims to compete with the traditional party of the Bulgarian Turkish minority, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MDL) with the reserved attitude towards Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan . The MDL is the third formation of the outgoing parliament.

The Socialists and Conservatives are given the elbow-to-elbow before the Sunday elections and may find it difficult to find a majority. The legislative elections follow the resignation of Mr Borissov in mid-term in November after a failure of his presidential candidate against a candidate supported by the Socialists Roumen Radev.

Bulgaria is traditionally one of the most Russian-speaking countries in the European Union and the new head of state is calling for a rebalancing of relations between Sofia and Moscow, without calling into question the alignment of the country with the EU and NATO.

A victory of the Socialists would reinforce this rapprochement. The PSB leader reiterated to AFP his opposition to EU sanctions against Russia “which do not produce the desired political effect.” “Bulgaria and the EU must resume normal dialogue with Russia,” she added. She said she was ready to vote against the renewal of the EU sanctions imposed on Russia because of the Ukrainian conflict if her party came to power.

The European Union links the lifting of sanctions to compliance with the Minsk peace accords on Ukraine. “The sanctions will continue as long as the Minsk peace accords are not respected,” Mr. Borissov told AFP.

“As a member of the European family and loyal member of NATO, we will firmly abide by our commitments” in this regard, he added.

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Egypt Sisi to Ebadi: We support the unity of Iraq and we reject any interference

October 17, 2016 By administrator

egept-sisi Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Confirmed the general commander of the armed forces, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, on Monday, that the liberation of the city of Mosul operations from the control of the organization “Daesh” going well, inter-Sisi that his country supports Iraq’s unity and rejects any interference in its internal affairs.

Information Office of the Prime Minister said in a statement Alsumaria News received a copy of it, “the prime minister discussed with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi telephoned Sir edit Mosul operations and enhance bilateral cooperation between the two countries.”

The Abadi, according to the statement, that “the liberation of Mosul operations are going well and our heroine, which represents all components are making progress and will complete the march of victories,” pointing to “the development of plans to protect civilians from the people of Mosul, waiting to enter our forces them to rid them of Daesh gangs.”

He said al-Abadi, that “some people want to disrupt the process of liberalization of Mosul, but we are continuing the process of editing,” noting that “the presence of Turkish troops on Iraqi territory is unacceptable and condemnable.”

For his part, al-Sisi stressed “his country’s support for Iraq and its territorial integrity and reject any interference in its internal affairs,” pointing to “support for the Iraqi government’s efforts to preserve the lives of civilians in Mosul.”

He said al-Sisi, “We are with you in the fight against terrorism and extremism Iraq is for the Iraqis and we seek to enhance cooperation between the two countries in all fields.”

Arab League points finger at Turkey, Israel over ‘interference’

April 1, 2015 By administrator

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby, left, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri

Asked at a news conference to explain vague references to “foreign powers” being behind conflicts in different Arab nations, Elaraby said: “I will answer this question indirectly. There is meddling by some neighbors, Israel on one side, Turkey and Iranian interference in several countries.”

Speaking after Elaraby, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said leaders also agreed in principle to creating a joint Arab military force. He said a high-level panel will work under the supervision of Arab chiefs of staff to work out the structure and mechanism of the force.

Elaraby said the chiefs of staff would meet within a month and have three more months to decide on the structure, budget and mechanism of the force before they present their proposals to a meeting of the Arab League’s Joint Defense Council.

“It is an important resolution given all the unprecedented unrest and threats endured by the Arab world,” Elaraby said.

A summit resolution said the force would be deployed at the request of any Arab nation facing a national security threat and that it would also be used to combat terrorist groups.

“There is a political will to create this force and not to leave its creation without a firm time frame,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri told a news conference.

40,000 elite troops