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Exhibition by Istanbul born Armenian photographer opened in Yerevan

November 24, 2016 By administrator

armenian-pinterThe exhibition entitled “Armenians in Turkey” was opened on Thursday in Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall in Yerevan, featuring the photographs of Istanbul born Armenian Nuran Akkaya.

Nuran comes from Sebastia and is for the first tin Armenia. As confessed he understands the Armenian, yet unable to speak. “Dle Yaman” is his favorite song. If he had an opportunity would change his name to Hrant. “My given name at birth,” the photographer explained to the reporters.

“We – the Turkish Armenians – continue living a hidden life and remain unnoticed. I wished to raise the curtain in the 21st century. I tried to depict and showcase the Turkish Armenians through my photos, since there is a distance between these two peoples – the Armenians of Turkey and Armenia. I tried to build a bridge between them,” the artist said.

Nuran is not a professional photographer. He has worked for 6-7 year for the current project. “While taking some of the photos, people opened their hearts. A woman told me about kind of a map that illustrated the recollections of her family. The map depicts their house, the church, the village school. Only after hours of conversation, the woman decided to bring and show me the map,” the photographer said.

The exhibition showcases 50 photographs, another 100 are in a book. The Istanbul Armenians are in the focus of the exhibition, portraits of the people, representing different layers of the society, are the main characters. The photos have been taken at different times in Istanbul, Saint Cross Church at Akhtamar Peninsula in Van, Kars, Kesaria and elsewhere.

The exhibition is the first for the photographer and he thinks of presenting it in Turkey as well.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition was attended by Armenian Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan, who called the initiative one of the most important projects of the ministry.

“We are consistently working with the Istanbul Armenian community, invite dance and song groups, organize exhibitions, book presentations, mark the anniversaries of the newspapers. I am equally glad and sad for having such a wonderful cultural community in Istanbul since many national, cultural works are originated from there,” the minister noted.

She next reflected on the presented works saying Nuran has depicted “an interesting key which is the key to the future we are obliged to unlock it and step forward”.

 

Source Panorama.am

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Armenian, İstanbul, photographer

Istanbul: Cerrah blamed Hrant Dink: Why didn’t he ask for protection?

November 12, 2016 By administrator

hrand-dink-caseAnswering the questions of lawyers, Celalettin Cerrah blamed Hrant Dink: “Why didn’t he ask for protection?”

Dink family’s lawyer Hakan Bakırcıoğlu asked Cerrah whether he knew about the hearings in Şişli Courthouse, which made Dink a target. Bakırcıoğlu stated that the criminal complaint against Dink on charge of insulting Turkish nation was filed by Avni Usta, an official from Istanbul Security Directorate.

Cerrah said that he was very busy as he was the chief and stated that he heard the staff talking about the measures that were taken around the courthouse.

Lawyer Sebu Aslangil said that he was attacked in the courthouse, while Hrant Dink was with him.

Cerrah asked: “Haven’t you warned him? I know. They said that we should provide protection to Dink, but he didn’t accept it. Why?”

Yılmazer: the prime minister directed me

Ali Fuat Yılmazer also spoke in the hearing. He said that he wanted to inform Cerrah, but he didn’t listened to what he had to say. “Since he didn’t give me any direction, the prime minister directed me. Then we discovered the part that gendarmerie forces played in the murder. Now Engin Dinç says that they discovered it, but it was us. We just didn’t start a legal process. Engin Dinç started to talk about these issue after July 15, but we have been knowing it since the beginning.”

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: court case, dink, hrant, İstanbul

Reuters report: Germany cancels Istanbul concert “aghet” marking Armenian massacres

October 26, 2016 By administrator

aghetTurkey’s Government do not want Turkish people to see the truth 

The German Foreign Ministry has canceled a long-planned concert by the Dresden Sinfoniker orchestra in Istanbul on Nov. 13 that was to commemorate the 1915 massacre of Armenians after protests by Ankara, orchestra director Markus Rindt said on Wednesday.

The ministry notified the orchestra that the German consulate in Istanbul, where the performance called “aghet”, or “catastrophe” in Armenian, was to have taken place, would not be available on Nov. 13, Rindt said. The piece premiered in Berlin in November.

“It’s definitely been canceled. They said they wanted to reschedule at a better time, but when would that be? This has been planned for years,” Rindt told Reuters.

Turkey, angered by the German parliament’s decision to brand the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a genocide, had protested the use of European Union funding to support the performance, and earlier this month withdrew from the EU cultural arms program that was funding the project.

While Turkey accepts that many Armenians died in partisan fighting beginning in 1915, it denies that up to 1.5 million were killed and that this constituted an act of genocide, a term used by many Western historians and foreign parliaments.

The Dresden Sinfoniker performance includes musicians from Turkey, Armenia, Germany and members of the No Borders Orchestra, which is comprised of musicians from the former Yugoslavia. Additional performances are planned in Belgrade on Nov. 5 and in Yerevan, Armenia on Nov. 10.

Ties between Germany and Turkey remain strained over the Armenia resolution and Ankara’s frustration about what it sees as Germany’s half-hearted expressions of solidarity after the July 15 attempted military coup in Turkey.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; editing by Ralph Boulton)

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-turkey-concert-idUSKCN12Q1K9

 

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: AGHET, Armenian, Germany, İstanbul, Massacre, Turkey

US warns extremists ‘may attack, kidnap or blow up’ Americans in Istanbul

October 23, 2016 By administrator

us-waren-istanbul-terrorThe US consul-general in Turkey has called on US citizens in Istanbul to steer clear of crowded public places and locations popular with tourists due to an imminent threat of attacks on US and other foreign nationals by extremist groups.

The security memo was published on the official consulate page on Saturday. While elaborating on the nature of the possible attacks that Americans can fall prey to, it listed “armed attack, attempted kidnapping, bombing, or other violent acts,” adding that they could be “pre-planned” and come “with little or no warning.”

For the sake of their safety, the consulate urged US citizens to reconsider their traveling plans, especially, if they are going to visit “locations where the westerners are known to frequent or reside.” Of particular concern are the major cities located in southeastern Turkey, in the border region with Syria.

Americans have been also cautioned to shun political gatherings and rallies as well as to avoid visiting places that attract large crowds and staying vigilant while visiting tourist spots.

Meanwhile, one policeman was killed and 16 people, including six officers, were injured in a car bomb blast in the eastern Turkish city of Bingöl, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported Saturday.

A car bomb went off as an armored police vehicle passed. While no one has claimed responsibility, Turkish police said the armed wing of the banned Kurdistan’s Workers Party (PKK), which is considered a terrorist organization in Turkey, could be behind the assault. An operation to arrest the perpetrators is under way.

Turkey has been experiencing a wave of terrorist attacks attributed either to the PKK or to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). On October 9, 18 people, including 10 policemen, were killed and 27 people injured in a car bomb explosion in the southeast Turkish town of Semdinli, located in an area that sees occasional heavy fighting between the Turkish army and Kurdish militias.

The deadliest terrorist attack this year took place at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport in June, killing 43 people and injuring 239. It was blamed by the Turkish authorities on Islamic State.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: American, İstanbul, terrorist, US, warns

Istanbul Dink murder: Footage reveals further evidence in Dink probe against arrested gendarmerie officers

September 6, 2016 By administrator

footage hrand dinkFootage published by a Turkish broadcaster appears to show that six former gendarmerie intelligence officers who are currently being tried over links to the Fethullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) were complicit in the 2007 assassination of journalist Hrant Dink. In the images published by A Haber, they can be seen near the scene at the time of the murder of the Armenian-origin Turkish journalist in 2007.

In the footage, unearthed as part of a probe trying former gendarmerie officials suspected of having links to FETÖ and being involved in the July 15 coup attempt, investigators observed that six gendarmerie intelligence officers currently under arrest were present close to the scene when Dink’s murder took place on the afternoon of Jan. 19, 2007, strengthening the suspicion that they were in close contact with the assailant of the murder, Ogün Samast.
The prosecutor in the case has accused the Fetullahist Terror Organization (FETÖ) of staging the assassination.

In his demand for the arrest of the suspects, Dink probe prosecutor Gökalp Kökçü said it would be “far from a legal definition” to identify the acts of the suspects as mere membership or leadership in an armed terrorist organization in light of the failed July 15 coup attempt, which has been blamed on FETÖ. Kökçü claimed that the Dink murder was the “first bullet fired” on the road to the coup.

Dink, 52, was shot dead with two bullets to the head in broad daylight outside the offices of Agos in central Istanbul.

Samast, then a 17-year-old jobless high-school dropout, confessed to the murder and was sentenced to almost 23 years in jail in 2011.

But the case grew into a wider scandal after it emerged that security forces had been aware of a plot to kill Dink but failed to act.

Relatives and followers of the case have long claimed government officials, police, military personnel and members of Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) played a role in Dink’s murder by neglecting their duty to protect the journalist.

Turkey’s top court in July 2014 ruled that the investigation into the killing had been flawed, paving the way for the trial of the police officials.

In January 2016, Supreme Court of Appeals ruled to tie the main case into Dink’s murder and prosecution into the public officers’ negligence to prevent the killing of Dink. Indictments for 26 people are now included in the merged case.

Source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/footage-reveals-further-evidence-in-dink-probe-against-arrested-gendarmerie-officers-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=103618&NewsCatID=509

September/06/2016

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: footage, Hrant dink, İstanbul

Armenian, Greeks to march in Istanbul in memory of 1955 Christian martyrs

September 5, 2016 By administrator

greek armenianIstanbul’s Galatasaray Square will host on Tuesday evening a commemoration march dedicated to the Armenian and Greek Christians killed during the pogroms on September 6-7, 1955.
Members of the two minority communities will gather together under the slogan “We Still Remember”.
Historical review
On September 6 1955, the Turkish newspaper Istanbul Express published an article entitled “Our Ancestor’s House Hit by Explosive”.
The author spoke of a bomb attack against the Turkish consulate in Thessaloniki, in northern Greece—the house where Mustafa Kemal Atatürk had been born in 1881.
The report, which later proved untrue, pushed the Turks in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir launch active raids against the local Greeks. Ethnic Armenians and Jews also suffered losses.

A total of 11 people were reported dead. According to the Armenian community’s estimates, the casualties were underreported.
The pogroms, becoming later known as “Events of September 6–7”, left many houses, as well as stores and factories owned by Christians, ravaged.

Lots of local Armenians and Greeks later emigrated from Turkey, finding shelter in other countries abroad.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: 1955, Armenian, Greek, İstanbul, memory

Istanbul: Crime goes where Azerbaijan go Azeri businessman wounded, driver killed in armed clash.

August 18, 2016 By administrator

azeri-businessmanAn Azerbaijani businessman was wounded and his driver was killed in an armed clash that erupted early on Aug. 18 in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Two assailants opened fire on businessman Ravşan Aliyev and his driver at around 12:30 a.m. after they departed from a meeting at a hotel on Yıldız Street inside a luxury jeep. An armed clash later erupted when the duo responded to the assailants.

Aliyev and his driver were wounded in the clash as the assailants fled the scene on foot.

The two were transferred to hospital but Aliyev’s driver subsequently succumbed to his injuries.

In addition, one automatic weapon and two pistols were found at the scene.

Police conducted an operation to apprehend the fleeing assailants.

Meanwhile, Azerbaijani media named Aliyev as well-known mafia leader Rövşen Lenkeranski (Aliyev), according to Doğan News Agency.

According to a report by the yenicag.az website, the personal bodyguard of Lenkeranski reportedly said they were assaulted after a dinner and that his condition was critical.

The report added that Lenkeranski was among the suspects wanted by Italian Interpol, after which he changed his surname. He is also reported to have given an order to kill an Armenian-origin gangster named Ded Hasan. 

Aliyev also reportedly killed the judge who ordered the arrest of his father.

However, the Azerbaijani consulate in Istanbul announced that the death reports circulating in Azerbaijan did not reflect the truth and that they had not been informed of any casualties.

August/18/2016

Source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/azerbaijani-businessman-wounded-driver-killed-in-armed-clash-in-istanbul.aspx?pageID=238&nID=102987&NewsCatID=509

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: assassinated, Azerbaijan, businessman, İstanbul

Istanbul: Hrant’s Friends: This is the murder of all operating together

August 8, 2016 By administrator

Dink friendHrant Dink, the trial of public officials today for the murder of the Istanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court continues. Friends of Hrant, for justice was Çağlayan Courthouse preliminary bout before the hearing.

Hrant’s friends, made a press statement in front of the courthouse as well as prior to each hearing.

In a press statement read by Bülent Aydın Friends of Hrant Dink was killed at the scene of the murder it has been determined that the gendarmes who were reminded, “it says over the years, but the form did not prove it. Now some of them were caught. So after nine years of involvement in the killings continued their official duties “the statement said.

The statement noted Dink’s murder tried to collapse on top of the Fethullah Gülen community “some people are called fetö’c assassination accomplice; it’s clear. But the rulers of today are in coalition, “fetö’cü made” can not stand out from the open complicity, saying “the statement said.

Hrant’s Friends get all of the following statement:

“Our friend is murdered, including almost ten years.

Ten years, endeavoring to explain how Hrant was killed by a coalition of national reconciliation.

The organizers, which states that the gunman when recruited by officers trained in that, he directed, he pushed from behind, we marshalled that nurtured. This is evidence of the assassination of the organization and then dimmed, we are working ignore government officials involved in the prevention of the investigation.

Supposedly to investigate the assassination, the inspectors will reveal the killer network, prosecutors, judges, despite the absence of any kind of possibility in the hands of the state, they could remove more evidence and truth revealed to us until today.

“Remove failed” but of course, they have not.

Now suddenly they bring.

When striking the killer of Hrant around the arms, where the gendarmes appeared safely allowing the escape. She says that over the years, but the form did not prove it. Now some of them were caught.

So after nine years of involvement in the killings continued their official duties!

Yet suddenly set in motion the most controversial of the names before the assassination, it was adhered to Trabzon Provincial Gendarmerie Commander Colonel Ali Öz side. Ali Oz, who is interested in preventing the assassination notice of his subordinates.

Good work, you say, nine-odd years later, though, to find the location of justice slowly.

Is that what you think?

Located about anyone doubt one of the most intense period of the Trabzon Police Intelligence Department of the Police Intelligence Engin Dinç still at the beginning of all, he was sitting with enormous powers in the hands, how will it? Taking orders from Colonel Ali Öz, who we learn that paved the way for murder? Does that have agreed to it in today’s power?

We can see, the whole Hrant’s murder “parallel structure” or “feto” called trying to destroy the organization. This means that it will not fit the mold will not be challenged to the emergence of the truth. However, Hrant’s highest institutions of the state Supreme Court to be targeted were involved in the process of NSC. MIT, the court, “there is no information available about this murder,” he was able to send a text to be killed our friend, sometimes cut-throat sometimes an organization with the participation of all the rulers came together.

Some people are also called fetö’c assassination accomplice; it’s clear.

But the arrest of one of the possible offenders will be brought to justice makes us happy, of course. However, developments are watching life without neglecting our basic knowledge of the original work: operating in this murder all together. “

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Court, friends, Hrant dink, İstanbul

Istanbul the Crime capital of the world: Gay Syrian man mutilated, beheaded

August 4, 2016 By administrator

gay-man-murderedANKARA – Agence France-Presse,

The body of a gay Syrian refugee was found mutilated and beheaded two days after he disappeared in central Istanbul, a local rights group has said.
Muhammed Wisam Sankari went missing on July 23 after leaving his home in the Fatih district, Turkish gay rights group Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association (Kaos GL) reported on Aug. 3.
On July 25 his body was found mutilated and decapitated, the association said.

He arrived in Istanbul a year ago after fleeing Syria’s civil war but wanted to leave Turkey because he feared for his life.

He was threatened by male gangs carrying knives who said they wanted to rape him, friends told Kaos GL.
His body was so mutilated, he was only recognizable from his clothes, one of his friends who went to identify the body, said the rights organization.

“They cut Wisam violently. It was so violent, two knives had broken inside of him. They beheaded him. His upper body was beyond recognition, his internal organs were out. We recognized our friend from his trousers.”

The Syrian had also been kidnapped and raped five months before his death, one of his housemates told the rights organization.

“They took him by car to a forest where they beat and raped him,” the refugee’s housemate, Rayan, said.
He added that they previously had to leave a house because they were gay, Kaos GL said.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: gay, İstanbul, man, mutilated, Syrian

Turkish-Armenian jeweler: Explain to me Armenian laws and I will come here to teach craftsmen

August 4, 2016 By administrator

armenian jewelerYEREVAN. – Explain to me the laws of Armenia, and I will come here to teach craftsmen.

Armenian jeweler and silversmith from Istanbul, Stepan (Istepan) Belik, who is the owner of Antik Silver company, told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am.

The company produces and exports silver utensils to the USA, UK, Israel, Iran and other countries. In 2015, Balik took part in Yerevan Show jewelry exhibition, where he had an opportunity to compare the simplicity level of customs clearance in Armenia and Turkey.

“Lots of papers are required here. 3-4 days may be needed to handle everything. And the entrepreneur doesn’t have so much time. Whereas in Turkey, only several minutes are needed to complete the paper work with sending goods to America. Ten minutes at most, and the work with the papers is done. You send the goods today, and tomorrow at 11 a.m. they are already in the shop!

Let the working procedures be simpler here too so that people can come and work. For instance, I want to open business here and teach craftsmen. Not for my profit. Let them learn here and earn themselves, especially considering that I have seen the works of local craftsmen: some of them are very talented,” Balik said.

The Turkish government always strives to create the best conditions for exporters, he added.

“Turkey has an understanding that the country gets rich thanks to production and export. Thus, when they see a working man, they help him. You have to pay a tax? You won’t pay it for 2-3 years. You should pay for electricity? This is also cancelled. You are going abroad to take part in an exhibition and present your goods? The state returns you 70 percent of the expenses. But, of course, you should be honest before the state in all your papers,” the entrepreneur said.

It is desirable to see some facilitations if not exemptions in Armenia so that the foreign entrepreneurs (including those of Armenian descent) do not hesitate to open business here too, he added.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, İstanbul, jeweler

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