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An EgyptAir flight carrying at least 59 passengers and 10 crew members went off the radar after departing from Paris and heading to Cairo, the airline said in a brief statement.
“An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight No. MS804, which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST), heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar,” the airline said on its Twitter.
هذا وقد قامت مصر للطيران من جانبها بإبلاغ جميع السلطات المختصة وجاري البحث عن طريق فرق البحث والإنقاذ.
— EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) May 19, 2016
François Hollande helps Azerbaijan to get armed, said participants of the pro-Armenian demonstration in Paris, which was also attended by Coordinator of Armenian Revival Pan-Armenian movement Shant Voskerchyan (Jean Ozkirisyan) also took part in it.
During the picket, one of the activists delivered a speech: “When our people (Armenians) needed support, specifically on the international level, François Hollande demanded to stop the interaction between the municipalities of France and Karababkh cities. And when he went to honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide (on 24 April 2015), he left for Baku several hours later to sell precision rockets, which allowed to kill Armenians in Karabakh. France armed Aliyev; Hollande is the accomplice of the Azerbaijani government.”
The demonstrators uploaded the video record of the speech on YouTube.
It is now 101 years that took place the Armenian genocide, still denied by Turkey. A year after moving centenary celebrations, the Armenian community was still waiting for you to gather outside the Komitas statue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, and then to walk to the Champs Elysees and the Annex to the Embassy of the Turkey. Despite the rain and cold.
There were nearly 5,000 people, including politicians (Bruno Le Roux, Francois Pupponi, Luke Carvounas Helene Luc, Arthur Khandjian, etc.), cult members and various personalities (Levon Sayan, the acupuncturist Elise Boghossian, the author Gaya Guérian, filmmaker Arto Pehlivanian, etc).
The memorial ceremony began with a wreath-laying of two co-chairs of the CCAF, Mourad Papazian and Ara Toranian, the mayor of the 8th arrondissement, Jeanne D’Hauteserre, Ambassador of Armenia in France, His Excellency Viguen Tchitetchian to the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of international relations, Patrick Klugman, and the Secretary of State for European Affairs, Harlem Désir. The whole front of the doors flags. The six personalities are then made on the platform for the start of speech.
The demonstration outside the Turkish Embassy in Paris to denounce the massacre of the Kurds has been violently dispersed by the French police, who used tear gas and batons.
The demonstrators moved towards the Kurdistan Democratic Centre (16 rue d’Enghien, Paris 10) where the mobilization will continue throughout the day.
Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDKF)
16, rue d’Enghien – 75010 Paris
Tel: 09.52.51.09.34
Paris, January 8, 2016 (AFP) – The Constitutional Council validated the law against contesting crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War, in a decision published Friday on its website.
Receives a priority issue of constitutionality (QPC) of revisionist Vincent Reynouard, who felt that the law entailed unjustified discrimination between the victims and an attack on freedom of expression and opinion, the Constitutional Council rejected these two complaints. Introduced by the Gayssot Act of 13 July 1990, Article 24 bis of the Press Act refers to crimes against humanity as defined by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and to the Holocaust.
The Constitutional Council considers firstly that “the negation of acts defined as crimes against humanity by a decision of a French or international jurisdiction recognized by France” as provided by Article 24a “differs from the negation of crimes against humanity acts defined by another court or the law. “
“On the other hand, the denial of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War, in part on national territory, has by itself a racist and antisemitic scope,” said the ruling. Thereby writing the law, “the legislator treated differently for the actions of a different nature” and “this difference in treatment is related to the object” of the Gayssot Act, “which aims to repress racist, anti-Semitic or xenophobic” .
In terms of freedom of expression, the Constitutional Council noted that the law was intended to “fight against certain particularly serious manifestations of anti-Semitism and racial hatred.” He emphasized that “only the negation, implicit or explicit, or the lower bound of these outrageous crimes is prohibited and that the impugned provisions have neither the purpose nor the effect of prohibiting the historical debate.”
The Gayssot Act is criticized by Holocaust deniers, but not only. Some wish that it be extended. Under current law, an apology for the slave trade and the denial of the Armenian Genocide are not sanctioned, but are recognized by France as crimes against humanity.
In the coming months are planned before the Paris court trials of Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson and former honorary president of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the latter for having reiterated his statements on the gas chambers , “detail” in his History of the Second World War.
Representatives of 195 countries on Saturday evening approved a landmark climate accord that, for the first time, commits nearly every country to lowering planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to help stave off the most drastic effects of climate change.
Delegates who had been negotiating intensely in this Paris suburb for two weeks were presented with the final draft of the document Saturday afternoon, after a tense morning when the text was promised but repeatedly delayed.
Organized by the Association of Holy Cross Armenian Catholic
THE CULTURAL CENTRE IN PARIS SAINT-Mesrob
Saturday, December 12 at 15:00
Jean-Pierre Kibarian
Presenting the book
VAN 1915
MAJOR EVENTS Vaspourakan
How a handful of men and women defended themselves bodies and souls facing barbarism.
TER-privileged witness Martirosyan, told-do tells how in 1300 Armenian fighters stood up to 12000 Turkish soldiers.
Originally written in Armenian, the book VAN 1915 is translated first into French and published in November 2015 by the company ANI bibliophile.
Projection maps and photographs of that time
10 bis rue Thouin – 75005 PARIS
Metro: Cardinal Lemoine or Monge
RER B: Luxembourg
Free admission – Cocktail
Jacques Cheminade
France should leave NATO if Turkey preserves its membership in the alliance after the downing of a Russian Su-24 aircraft.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — France should leave NATO if Turkey preserves its membership in the alliance after the downing of a Russian Su-24 aircraft, head of the French Solidarity and Progress party told Sputnik France on Friday.
“Either France should leave NATO at this stage, or to demand suspension or exclusion of Turkey [from the alliance members] as part of NATO,” Jacques Cheminade said.
On Tuesday, the Su-24 bomber crashed in Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the plane was downed by an air-to-air missile launched by a Turkish F-16 jet over Syrian territory, falling 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the Turkish border. Putin described the Turkish attack as a “stab in the back” carried out by “accomplices of terrorists.”
Following the incident, NATO expressed solidarity with Turkey and offered support for Ankara saying that the Alliance’s assessments of the incident were consistent with information provided by the country, which claimed that the Russian warplane had briefly violated Turkish airspace.
French authorities changed their point of view toward Syria’s role in the struggle against the Islamic State militant group, Jacques Cheminade said.
Earlier in the day, French Minister Laurent Fabius told RTL radio that troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, along with the Free Syrian Army and the Kurds, could be used to fight ISIL on the ground.
“A change in France’s position is evident. Even Fabius suggested that the Syrian army could participate in the struggle against the IS,” Jacques Cheminade said.
He added that French President Francois Hollande assumed that the Syrian army would join the coalition against the ISIL group, despite his negative attitude toward Assad’s government.
The Syrian army and some local militias are fighting ISIL in Syria on the ground.
Earlier in November, Hollande announced his plans to create a broad anti-terror coalition to fight ISIL jihadists.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151127/1030888909/nato-france-downing-turkey.html#ixzz3sjUwLDRE
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Charles Aznavour
Charles Aznavour, Brussels, Belgium
The men and women of the arts and letters of France have urged everyone to make noise in the places where terrorist acts had occurred on November 13, in Paris.
These men and women—including world-renowned French Armenian singer, songwriter, actor, public activist, and diplomat Charles Aznavour (born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian)—have called on musicians, actors, painters, and all Parisians to “show their strength” to the terrorists, France Info reported.
Even though the details of this forthcoming flash mob are still unknown, it is apparent that over one hundred artist will assemble outside the Bataclan Theatre and the café, where the terrorists had fired shots at—and killed numerous—people.
By EMRE USLU
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL) terrorist attack in France continues to have its repercussions.
But in Turkey, the subject has been dropped from the agenda. The pro-government media outlets have hastily taken it off the agenda. However, the terror attack in France has aspects that closely concern Turkey. For a long time, the West had accused Turkey of turning a blind eye to jihadists and allowing them to freely travel between Turkey and Syria, and perceived this as a security threat.
In this regard, the terrorist attacks by all jihadists including ISIL are related to Turkey. One question that will cast light on the investigations is: “Did the jihadists who conducted terrorist attacks around the world use Turkey as a transition country?”
The terrorist attack in France is related to Turkey in another important respect. A source of mine from the security forces claims there is a link between the terrorist attack in France and the swap deal Turkey had made with ISIL.
“Some of the assailants in France are from the 200 ISIL militants that ISIL swapped in return for 49 Turkish hostages,” my source says. My source has other hair-raising claims, but the current claim is scandalous enough. I note it for the record.
Let me elaborate on this matter for the uninitiated. As you may remember, Turkey had negotiated with ISIL and given some 200 ISIL militants to ISIL in exchange for 49 Turkish people who had been taken hostage by ISIL in Turkey’s Mosul consulate.
At that time the Taraf newspaper reported the event as follows: “In return for 49 consulate staff members, 180 ISIL militants were delivered to the organization. The militants, including some senior leaders, were taken to Van before they were taken to Syria in buses.”
After President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said, “Yes, a swap deal was made, so what?” the details of the swap deal made with ISIL for the release of 49 consulate staff members became clear. The 180 ISIL militants were delivered to the organization in return for the consulate staff. Some of these people were the organization members who had been detained. The organization members delivered to ISIL included some senior organization leaders.
The background to the release of 49 hostages is as follows: The process started with the US air strikes against ISIL. The US asked Turkey not to release the ISIL militants who had received medical treatment in Turkey. The US also cautioned Turkey about releasing ISIL members who had been apprehended in Turkey. ISIL, on the other hand, continued to pressurize the government to release the organization members who had been apprehended and received medical treatment in Turkey.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) developed the “swap” formula in response to pressure from the US and ISIL. That is, in return for the hostages, the release of the ISIL militants in Turkey was proposed. This is the formula behind the swap deal. This diplomatic formula reportedly helped Turkey get rid of the ISIL militants in the country and simultaneously ensure the release of the hostages. Turkey’s security units didn’t launch any operation during the release of the hostages.
The leading figures of the tribes that supported the US played a role in the swap deal. After the deal was made, ISIL brought the hostages to the Turkish-Syria border and informed the National Intelligence Organization (MİT). And the hostages were delivered to the security units and taken to Turkey.
Western media outlets covered the matter and maintained that ISIL members delivered to ISIL were citizens of Western countries. According to those reports, the militants delivered to ISIL included terrorists of Belgian, French, US and UK origins.
My source claims that the perpetrators of the attack in France included the terrorists Turkey delivered to ISIL.
When that swap came onto the agenda, I wrote: “Erdoğan confirmed the swap by saying, ‘Whatever we gave does not matter as we saved our citizens in the end.’ With the swap, they saved the hostages, but they borrowed trouble for Turkey. This matter will give Turkey a large headache.”
If what my source says is true, i.e., if the ISIL militants Turkey swapped for hostages are linked to the France attack, this is a scandal…