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MP urges Canada to help end rights abuses against Karabakh people

December 12, 2017 By administrator

Canadian lawmaker Tony Clement delivered remarks at the House of Commons on Monday, December 11, concerning International Human Rights Day with particular attention to violations he witnessed in his recent trip to Artsakh.

“While of course there are numerous examples of human rights abuses that need to be highlighted, I would like to emphasize the current human rights situation in the Republic of Artsakh or Nagorno Karabakh,” Clement said.

“I travelled to the region this summer with One Free World International and observed first-hand the conflict there, and the horrific human rights abuses inflicted upon people who ultimately only wish to live in peace.

According to the lawmaker, he met with mothers who have lost sons, servicemen, and other in the conflict.

“I was on the site of some scenes of unspeakable horrors.

“I have hope for a peaceful and prosperous Artsakh, where people can live side by side with their neighbors, including Azerbaijan.

“The Artsakh conflict is currently mediated through the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe,of which Canada is a full member.

“I urge the government to condemn human rights abuses in the region and work to deter further escalation of the conflict.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Canada, Karabakh, MP

Swedish MP about suing Erdogan: No lessons seems to have been learnt from the past

July 13, 2017 By administrator

YEREVAN. – The legal complaint filed by Swedish lawmakers against Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is based on the report from the high representative for human rights in the UN and their report for what happened 2015-2016, as well as internal human rights organizations in Turkey, Swedish MP Carl Schlyter said.

Swedish lawmakers are accusing Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crime. It is said that the suit relates to the conflict in Turkey’s Kurdish majority south-east.

“Our complaint is based on the reports regardless of the affected ethnic groups, however the most frequent reports during this time was targeting the Kurds,” he said in an e-mailed response to Armenian News-NEWS.am inquiry.

“Regarding the historic genocide targeting mainly Armenians, Turkey must abolish its current denial laws and to gain respect internationally admit the truth,” MP said.

Another imitator of the legal complaint, Riksdag member Annika Lillemets also said she supports Armenian Genocide recognition.

“Regarding your last question about the Armenian Genocide, I would like to refer to the decision by the Swedish Parliament 11 March 2010, acknowledging it as a genocide. We fully support that decision,” she said in an e-mailed letter.

Back in March 2010 majority of Swedish parliament voted in favor of resolution describing the mass killings of Armenians and other Christian minorities in modern Turkey by the end of World War I as genocide. Motion passed the vote after heated debates with 131 votes against 130.

“It needs to reconcile and reflect in order to be able to establish working relations with its neighbors and to make sure the thought of repeating it never returns. That is why we are worried today, no lessons seems to have been learnt from the past,” Mr. Schlyter added.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Erdogan, MP, suing, swedish

Chemical Agent Sarin Smuggled From Turkey To ISIS In Syria – Turkish MP VIDEO

April 8, 2017 By administrator

A Turkish MP has claimed that Islamic State terrorists in Syria received all the necessary materials to produce deadly sarin gas via Turkey.

The MP Eren Erdem says that the Syrian Government did not have sarin gas and insists there are grounds to believe a cover up has taken place.

Erdem, from the Republican People’s Party (CHP), made the claims in parliament, citing evidence from an abruptly-closed criminal case.

He argues that the West purposely blamed Syrian President Assad for the August 2013 sarin attacks, using it as part of the pretext to make US military intervention in Syria possible.

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) member, Erdem, brought up the issue for public discussion in parliament last week, citing evidence from an abruptly-closed criminal case. He accused Ankara of failing to investigate Turkish supply routes used to provide terrorists with toxic sarin gas ingredients.

“There is data in this indictment. Chemical weapon materials are being brought to Turkey and being put together in Syria in camps of ISIS which was known as Iraqi Al Qaeda during that time,” Erdem told RT.

Sarin gas is a military-grade chemical that was used in a notorious attack on Ghouta and several other neighborhoods near the Syrian capital of Damascus in 2013. The attacks were pinned on the Syrian leadership, who in turn agreed to get rid of all chemical weapons stockpiles under a UN-brokered deal amid an imminent threat of US intervention.

https://youtu.be/MoQPtub9eLs

Addressing parliamentarians on Thursday, Erdem showed a copy of the criminal case number 2013/120 that was opened by the General Prosecutor’s Office in the city of Adana in southern Turkey.

The investigation revealed that a number of Turkish citizens took part in negotiations with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) representatives on the supply of sarin gas. Pointing to evidence cited in the criminal case, he said that wiretapped phone conversations proved that an Al-Qaeda militant, Hayyam Kasap, acquired sarin.

“These are all detected. There are phone recordings of this shipment like ‘don’t worry about the border, we’ll take care of it’ and we also see the bureaucracy is being used,” continued Erdem.

Based on the gathered evidence Adana authorities conducted raids and arrested 13 suspects in the case. But a week later, inexplicably, the case was closed and all the suspects immediately crossed the Turkish-Syrian border, Erdem said.

“About the shipment, Republic prosecutor of Adana, Mehmet Arıkan, made an operation and the related people were detained. But as far as I understand he was not an influential person in bureaucracy. A week after, another public prosecutor was assigned, took over the indictment and all the detainees were released. And they left Turkey crossing the Syrian border,” he said.

“The phone recordings in the indictment showed all the details from how the shipment was going to be made to how it was prepared, from the content of the labs to the source of the materials. Which trucks were going to be used, all dates etc. From A to Z, everything was discussed and recorded. Despite all of this evidence, the suspects were released,” he said.

“And the shipment happened,” Erdem added. “Because no one stopped them. That’s why maybe the sarin gas used in Syria is a result of this.”

Speaking to RT, Erdem said that according to some evidence Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation was also involved, with some unconfirmed reports pointing in the direction of a government cover up, with Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag’s involvement.

Certain evidence suggests Bozdag wanted to know beforehand from the sarin gas producer when and if the Islamists will use the chemical weapon.

“When I read the indictment, I saw clearly that these people have relationships with The Machinery and Chemical Industry Institution of Turkey and they don’t have any worries about crossing the border. For example in Hayyam Kasap’s phone records, you hear him saying sarin gas many times, saying that the ateliers are ready for production, materials are waiting in trucks which were supposedly carrying club soda,” he told RT.

The parliamentarian said that now he feels like there is a witch hunt against him, after he confronted the justice minister. Bozdag, according to Erdem denied only the part that he wanted to get notified about the operations beforehand.

Furthermore, Erdem argues that the West purposely blamed the regime of Bashar Assad for the August 2013 attacks and used it as part of the pretext to make US military intervention in Syria possible. The MP said that evidence in Adana’s case, according to his judgment, proves that IS was responsible.

“For example the chemical attack in Ghouta. Remember. It was claimed that the regime forces were behind it. This attack was conducted just days before the sarin operation in Turkey. It’s a high probability that this attack was carried out with those basic materials shipped through Turkey. It is said the regime forces are responsible but the indictment says it’s ISIS. UN inspectors went to the site but they couldn’t find any evidence. But in this indictment,

we’ve found the evidence. We know who used the sarin gas, and our government knows it too,” he said.

At the same time, Erdem also accused the West and Europe in particular for providing “basic materials” to create such a powerful chemical weapon.

“All basic materials are purchased from Europe. Western institutions should question themselves about these relations. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in Syria. They know these people, they know who these people are working with, they know that these people are working for Al-Qaeda. I think is Westerns are hypocrats about the situation,” he concluded.

Source: http://yournewswire.com/chemical-agent-sarin-smuggled-from-turkey-to-isis-in-syria-turkish-mp/

Filed Under: News Tagged With: chimical, from, MP, Turkey, Turkish, weapon

Three French deputies will travel to Aleppo Friday for solidarity with Christmas Armenian

January 5, 2017 By administrator

Paris, January 5, 2017 (AFP) – Three French deputies will travel to Aleppo Friday, “on their own strictly personal initiative” and “in solidarity with the Christians of the East” on the occasion of the Armenian Christmas celebration, They announced in a statement on Thursday.

The deputies LR Thierry Mariani and Nicolas Dhuicq and Jean Lassalle, deputy Pyrénées-Atlantique, former member of the MoDem, will visit to “mark again their solidarity with the Christians of the East by celebrating Christmas with the Armenian Orthodox community “From Aleppo, north of Syria.

They will also meet during this trip “various political leaders” in Aleppo and Damascus, they say in this statement, without further details.

Thierry Mariani, elected from abroad, has already visited Syria several times despite the disapproval of the French authorities. With Nicolas Dhuicq and other French parliamentarians, they spent the Paschal weekend in Damascus last March, “in solidarity with the Christians of the East.” On that occasion, they met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

During their visit Friday, MEPs want “to see the reality of the situation of the city” and “to learn about the military and humanitarian situation” of the country, they specify.

Thursday, January 5, 2017,
Ara © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Armenian, christmas, French, MP, Syria

Raffi Hovhannisyan: Arrests of opposition MPs in Turkey resemble the #ArmenianGenocide of 1915

November 7, 2016 By administrator

Raffi Hovhannisyan: Arrests of opposition MPs in Turkey resemble the Armenian Genocide of 1915

Raffi Hovhannisyan: Arrests of opposition MPs in Turkey resemble the Armenian Genocide of 1915

On November 6, Heritage Party Chairman Raffi K. Hovannisian attended and addressed a special conference on Migration and Refugees organized by the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP).

The meeting, which brought together 40 political parties from more than 25 countries, was co-sponsored by the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party of Turkey.

Following inflammatory interventions by Azerbaijani and Turkish delegates, Raffi Hovannisian took the floor to present an Armenian perspective on historical and current developments in the region. He referred in particular to the unacceptability of the recent arrest of opposition MPs in Turkey and the crackdown on civil liberties which triggered flashbacks to 1915; the reality and legacy of the Armenian Genocide and Great National Dispossession of the Armenian and other peoples (Assyrians, Greeks, Kurds, Yezidis, and Alevis) as an unprecedented watershed in refugee creation; the Turkish official policy of denial and the untold story of thousands of righteous Turks who saved Armenian lives.

He underscored the tendency of states like Turkey and Azerbaijan to launch military activities in neighboring countries and then be compelled to manage refugee crises, seeking  international support for their solution; Armenia’s experience with Syrian-Armenian refugees; Azerbaijan’s failed war of aggression against the Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) Republic and the 500,000 Armenians who were displaced from Azerbaijan, Nakhichevan and other occupied Armenian lands; the imperative  to secure for all refugees and internally displaced persons a guaranteed  and equitable right of return to their places of origin, including the return of Armenians to and the establishment of communal life in Azerbaijan, Nakhichevan, and the western Armenian heartland in current-day eastern Turkey; and the need to be
self-critical in Turkey, Armenia, and all other countries and to take responsibility for developing just, democratic societies which are the only avenue to prevent non-conflict-driven emigration.

Upon completion of Hovannisian’s address, the vice chairman of the AK Party repeated Turkey’s denialist line and asked the reference to the word Genocide be deleted from the record.   Hovannisian condemned this approach as an unacceptable, characteristic attempt at official censorship.

Source: http://www.armradio.am/en/2016/11/07/raffi-hovhannisyan-arrests-of-opposition-mps-in-turkey-resemble-the-armenian-genocide-of-1915/

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Armenian, Arrest, Genocide, Kurd, MP, raffi, Turkey

Armenian MP of Turkey condemns custody of his party leaders, members

November 4, 2016 By administrator

garo-on-kurdish-arrestGaro Paylan, Istanbul-Armenian MP of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey, reacted to the custody of the co-chairs and several members of his party.

“The year we are living in is 1915, the day is April 24! We will not allow these fascists to burn our country, our youth again! Neither inside nor outside! We will never surrender!” Paylan tweeted.

HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ as well as nine other Kurdish members of the Turkish parliament were detained on Thursday night.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian-Turkish, Condemns, kurd arrest, MP

German MP: Europe and Russia must work with Armenia and Azerbaijan to reduce tension

October 30, 2016 By administrator

german-pm-karabakhYEREVAN. — Europe and Russia must work with Armenia and Azerbaijan to reduce the cases of escalation in Karabakh conflict area, German Bundestag member, chairman of the Armenian-German forum Albert Weiler told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He recalled that after the escalation in April Germany, as OSCE chairing country, held talks with the representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan, which led to easing tension. The politicians in Germany, and he personally, are trying to hold dialogue with both parties to find a joint solution, Mr. Weiler said, adding that it is not that easy.

Azerbaijani side  launched diversionary penetration attempts on October 20 in easterly and southerly directions of the line of contact between the Karabakh and Azerbaijani opposing forces. The Defense Army vanguard units, however, detected the Azerbaijani special forces’ advance in timely fashion, and drew them back to their original positions, and also caused them to suffer casualties.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: EU, german, Karabakh, MP, Russia

Azerbaijan MP proposes that Armenians be allowed to enter country

October 29, 2016 By administrator

azerbaijan-mpDuring plenary session of the Azerbaijani parliament, MP Zahid Oruc proposed that Armenians be allowed to enter Azerbaijan, reported Trend news agency of the country.

To note, however, this proposal refers solely to the Armenians that “have a neutral stance toward Azerbaijan.”

And as case in point, Oruc pointed to the attempt by Armenian refugee and provocateur Vahe Avetyan—who has left Armenia a long time ago—to visit Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.

Incidentally, Avetyan was not allowed to leave the Baku airport.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: allow, Armenian, Azerbaijan, entry, MP

Australia MP speaks about his Armenian heritage

September 8, 2016 By administrator

australian-armenian-mpNew Australian MP Tim Wilson acknowledged his Armenian heritage when he delivered his maiden speech in the House of Representatives.

Wilson rose to political fame in Australia as an outspoken believer of true liberalism and has advocated for maximum “freedoms” as a think tank director and as Human Rights Commissioner in the past, and he pledged to do the same in Federal Parliament, Armenian National Committee of Australia reported.

Wilson’s wide-ranging maiden speech touched on his upbringing and family tree, as these speeches often tend to do. He referred to the bloodied past of his mother’s father, who had to endure and survive the Armenian Genocide, which was a source of inspiration for Wilson.

He said: “My maternal Grandpa left behind the genocide of his people. I never met him. He died before I was born. But I still see him everyday when I look into the mirror and into his dark and recessed Armenian eyes.”

Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) Executive Administrator, Arin Markarian said: “We congratulate Mr. Wilson on his fantastic maiden speech as he enters public office. It is also encouraging to see Mr. Wilson seek inspiration from his family’s history, mentioning his grandfather who survived the Armenian Genocide.”

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: acknowledged, Armenian, Australian, Heritage, MP, Tim Wilson

Armenian MPs banned from visiting jailed Sasna Tsrer members

August 3, 2016 By administrator

mp-bannedEven parliamentarians are banned from visiting those arrested in the recent siege of the Yerevan police station, a Prosperous Armenia Party MP Vahe Enfiajyan said, according to Armenian media.

According to Enfiajyan’s Facebook post, “on arriving on August at the Nubarashen penitentiary to visit the Sasna Tsrer armed group members with my colleague Levon Khachatryan we were informed that the preliminary investigation body bans any meetings with arrestees; the latter are disallowed from making phone calls, meeting with their families and mass media.”

The MP further stated that legal measures will be undertaken to meet those arrested.

Earlier, opposition MP Nikol Pashinyan was disallowed from visiting the injured members of Sasna Tsrer armed group at the Hospital for Convicts.

As the MP stated in his Facebook post, “the heads of the Hospital for Convicts disregarded my right as an MP to see the members of Sasna Tsrer. This, in fact, means that an illegal political decision is being implemented to forbid me any communication with the detained or arrested members of Sasna Tsrer.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, banned, MP

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