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Turkey mafia paid to smuggle Paris suspect into Syria: Sources

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c39ce6c4-aa12-4e5a-8e96-20cb2722add2A mafia gang in Turkey was paid “tens of thousands of dollars” by the ISIL terrorists to smuggle a female suspect in Paris terror attack into Syria, Turkish intelligence sources say. Report Presstv

On Saturday, British Daily Mirror cited Turkish intelligence sources as saying that the mafia gangsters had received the large sum of money from the ISIL terror group to transfer Hayat Boumeddiene to Syria after she fled France and arrived on Turkey’s soil.

Boumeddiene is suspected of being involved in a hostage-taking drama at a supermarket in Paris.

According to the British daily, the 26-year-old woman had met with two members of the mafia gang upon her arrival at the Sabiha Gokcen airport in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

The ISIL had tasked the Turkish gangsters with ensuring Boumeddiene’s safety and her accomplice as they sneaked into the ISIL-controlled area of Syria, the sources said.

Upon her arrival in Turkey, Boumeddiene, was instructed by the mafia members to head for Turkey’s southeastern border town of Sanliurfa, where she was met again by the smugglers.

“We know a certain amount from phone records. She was communicating with two smugglers in Istanbul,” a security source was quoted as saying, adding, “They organized for her travel to Sanliurfa. We believe she travelled by bus or car. She crossed the border on the day of the attacks in Paris.”

The female suspect later traveled on foot across the border into Syria from Tal Abyad, another Turkish border town.

Turkish security sources said earlier this month that Boumeddiene had fled France and entered the country on January 2 before the recent spate of violence in Paris, and she was now believed to be in Syria.

She is said to be the wife of Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who was killed after anti-terror units stormed the grocery shop in the eastern Porte de Vincennes area of the French capital. Officials say four hostages were also killed during the raid.

Coulibaly and Boumeddiene are also said to be responsible for the fatal shooting of a policewomen in southern Paris on January 8.

In a posthumous video, Coulibaly claimed he was acting on behalf of the ISIL Takfiri group.

Post-attack Charlie Hebdo cover uses prophet cartoon

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Charlie Hebdo coverThe French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will publish a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed along with the words “All is forgiven” Wednesday on the cover of its first issue since Islamist militants killed 12 people at its central Paris offices.

In a further show of defiance, the fearless magazine announced it would print three million copies – not the usual 60,000 – when it reappears on newsstands on Wednesday.

It will also be translated into six languages including English, Arabic and Turkish, editor-in-chief Gérard Biard told a Paris news conference Tuesday.

Daily newspaper Libération, which hosted Charlie Hebdo staff as they prepared the new issue, published the Charlie Hebdo cover online late Monday night. Further details about the magazine’s inside content have emerged since.

The cartoon on the front cover shows a bearded man in a white turban with a tear streaming down his cheek, and holding a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”). Overhead was the phrase: “Tout est Pardonné” (“All is Forgiven”).

Zineb El Rhazoui, a journalist with the newspaper, said the cover meant that the journalists had forgiven the extremists for the killings.

Renald Luzier, the cartoonist who drew the cover image and who is known by his pen name “Luz,” said it represents “just a little guy who’s crying.” Then he added, unapologetically, “Yes, it is Mohammed.”

Defence of secularism

Speaking at Tuesday’s press conference, where he repeatedly broke down in tears, he described weeping after he drew the picture.

“I had this idea in my head but it was not enough to make the cover,” he said.

“All I had was this idea of drawing Mohammed and ‘Je suis Charlie’…. I looked at him, and he was crying. Above him I wrote ‘all is forgiven’ and then I cried.”

The issue maintains the irreverent, often offensive attitude Charlie Hebdo is known for in France.

The first two pages feature drawings by the slain cartoonists. One shows a much-loved late French nun talking about oral sex. Another shows a Muslim, Christian and Jewish leader carving up the world.

The lead editorial lays out a vigorous defence of secularism, of the right to lampoon religions and religious leaders and hold them accountable – and ends with a critique of the pope.

“For the past week, Charlie, an atheist newspaper, has achieved more miracles than all the saints and prophets combined. The one we are most proud of is that you have in your hands the magazine that we always made,” it read.

It also heartily thanked the millions around the world who have supported it.

Only the French, Italian and Turkish versions will go into print, the other three – English, Spanish and Arabic – will be offered in electronic form, Biard said.

Muslim leaders appeal for calm

Charlie Hebdo’s past caricatures of the Muslim prophet appear to have prompted last week’s attacks, part of the worst terrorist rampage in France in decades.

Some witnesses reported that the attackers at the paper’s offices shouted “We have avenged the prophet.” Some Muslims believe all images of the prophet are blasphemous.

Earlier Monday, Charlie Hebdo lawyer Richard Malka told French radio that the new issue would “obviously” feature cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

The front cover has already drawn mixed reactions from Muslims in France and overseas.

Egypt’s state-sponsored Islamic authority, Dar al-Ifta, quickly denounced it as “an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims”.

The rector of Paris’s mosque, Dalil Boubakeur, however, urged France’s Muslims “to remain calm” over the cover “by avoiding emotional reactions… and respecting freedom of opinion”.

The head of a big mosque in central eastern Paris, Hammad Hammami, took a similar stand. “We don’t want to throw oil on the fire,” he said. “We consider these caricatures to be acceptable. They are not degrading for the prophet”.

A total of 17 people died in last week’s attacks. Brothers Chérif and Said Kouachi and their friend, Amédy Coulibaly, were killed Friday by police after the murderous spree at the Charlie Hebdo offices and a kosher supermarket in the southeast of the capital. The three all claimed ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East.

French police said Monday that as many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the attacks may still be at large.

France saw its biggest demonstrations in history Sunday as millions turned out to show unity and defend freedom of expression.

Source (FRANCE 24 with AP, AFP)

The Architect of Islamic state (ISIS) Davutoglu will be in Sunday demonstration in Paris

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A typical of Turkish rolling elites they know how to kiss and kill. It was Turkish government who set the standard of assassination of the journalist example HRANT DINK 2007, it is in Turkey hundreds of journalist are in Jail. emphasis gagrulenet

Davutoglu-NATO-ISISTurkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will participate in Sunday’s demonstration in Paris against terrorism, organized after the attack against Charlie Hebdo, told the Anatolia news agency. “Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will attend the Paris event to mark its solidarity with the French people,” said Anatolia. Davutoglu intends to display alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron. Davutoglu will be the most important leader of a predominantly Muslim country attended the event. His presence has been decided as relations between Turkey and the European Union have been strained in recent times, especially after accusations of erosion of civil liberties and the press since the arrival to the presidency in August former Prime Minister Christian-Conservative Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Istanbul, January 10, 2015 (AFP) –

 

Breaking News: Suspects Identified in Attack on French Newspaper

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The-French-deathClockwise from top left, the cartoonists Jean Cabut, known as Cabu; Bernard Verlhac, who used the name Tignous; Georges Wolinski; and Stéphane Charbonnier, known as Charb, who was also the editorial director of Charlie Hebdo. Stephane De Sakutin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Officials said late Wednesday that the suspects in an assault on a satirical newspaper in Paris had been identified as two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, 32 and 34, and Hamyd Mourad, 18. Report NYT
A manhunt for the suspects continues across Paris after the brazen and methodical slaughter at the paper, Charlie Hebdo, left 12 people dead, including the top editor, prominent cartoonists and police officers. It was among the deadliest attacks in postwar France.
The assault threatened to deepen the distrust of France’s large Muslim population, coming at a time when Islamic radicalism has become a central concern of security officials across Europe.

France: Terror Attack on Charlie Hebdo Newspaper in Paris Kills 12 (Video)

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paris-shooting-1PARIS — Masked gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire in the offices of a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday in Paris, the police said, killing 12 people and then escaping in a car.

President François Hollande said the attack on the weekly, Charlie Hebdo, was “without a doubt” an act of terrorism and raised the nationwide terror alert to its highest status. He said that several terrorist attacks had been thwarted in recent weeks.

The gunmen were still at large hours after the shooting. The French authorities added additional security at houses of worship, news media offices and transportation centers. Some schools were on lockdown and an extensive manhunt for the gunmen was being carried out across Paris.

A senior French prosecutor said the victims included two police officers, including one assigned to guard the newspaper’s offices and its top editor. The second officer was shot and killed as he lay on the ground, the police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tTnbEqsaNjY

Armenia Elected Vice President of UN Cultural Protection Bureau

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unesco-hqPARIS (ArmRadio)—The 9th meeting of the UNESCO Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was held in Paris on December 17-18, during which Armenia was elected Vice-President of the Bureau.

The Armenian delegation actively participated in the sitting, contributing to the developments and decisions envisaged by the agenda.

The Committee notably adopted a statement condemning the targeted destruction of cultural heritage in Syria and Iraq, including the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor that was destroyed by ISIS in late September.

The Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was established in 2006 as a body controlling the implementation of UN programs aimed at safeguarding world cultural properties and artifacts when they come under threat of destruction during war.

France Hosts Talks Between Armenia and Azerbaijan

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By SYLVIE CORBET

WireAP_5dd41a58299545f9b8128352c3d1924e_16x9_992The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia restarted a dialogue Monday during a three-way meeting in Paris with French president Francois Hollande, in an effort to ease tensions in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region of the southern Caucasus.

Armenian President Serge Sarkisian and Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev agreed Monday to exchange information on the persons who disappeared during the six-year separatist war that ended in 1994. The process will be conducted under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to a written statement released by the French presidency.

They also agreed to continue the dialogue at new meeting in September 2015 on the sidelines of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan but it and some surrounding territory have been under the control of Armenian soldiers and local Armenian forces since a 1994 cease-fire. Since then, there have been sporadic clashes, but last summer tensions rose sharply as 19 soldiers were killed in multiple confrontations.

Years of diplomatic efforts under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have made little visible progress in resolving the dispute.

Earlier Monday, Hollande met separately with each leader.

During a one-to-one meeting with Aliyev, the French president evoked the situation of the prominent human right activist Leila Yunus, who is jailed in Azerbaijan. Yunus was arrested with her husband and charged with spying for Armenia last July.

Aliyev “has made commitments” on that matter, said a top French official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak publicly on the matter. He didn’t give details because of the sensitiveness of the issue.

Paris: Hasan Cemal grand son of Djemal Pasha, to AGBU: the honor of Turkey

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DSCN4462-480x360-480x360How come to recognize the Armenian genocide when is the little son of Djemal Pasha, one of the three organizers with Talat Pasha and Enver Pasha Company extermination? How to make this gesture when ADDITION your grandfather was the victim of a commando vigilante Armenian? These are the birth pangs of this intellectual, both very intimate and very symbolic of the bad conscience of his own country, came to talk with Hasan Cemal Friday evening in Paris. The man who was on the platform of Alex Manoogian AGBU center had another life before move toward recognition of the Armenian genocide. He was columnist for Milliyet, well known journalist in Turkey. Considered one of the opinion leaders in the country, he in addition, the ear of the authorities. Social status who suffered the consequences of the publication of his book event in 1915: the Armenian genocide, which was released in 2012.

This book has sparked controversy and he came to explain the genesis echoes the personal questioning that begins to engage Turkey on this crime founder erected in real national taboo. Prohibits a state that has started to crack in the years 70-80, with the emergence of the Armenian cause in the international news, and that has been eroded by the work of early scholars and publishers Turkish historians on the issue in the 90s, but that was largely undermined by the action of Hrant Dink. Work, words, and the tragic assassination of Armenian journalist of the seat in front of Agos newspaper in Istanbul in January 2007 was the catalyst for free speech on the Armenian genocide, he explained.

Hasan Cemal, Samson Ozararat, Alexis Govciyan.

Hasan Cemal posed in front of a packed a very deep series of questions about taboos, scourges of nationalism, racism, Holocaust denial, but also the function of intellectuals in his country. How can we live in an environment that forces to hide its origin? If he asked, referring to the case of two of its illustrious confreres columnists, Mehmet Ali Birand and Ilhan Celik, which had to wait for death to learn that was the first Kurdish mother and second mother Armenian. Secret they had hidden throughout their lives. These are banned, generated by, which has so long imprisoned his own thought, Hasan Cemal has shelled before an audience Turkish-Armenian who drank in his words Turkish dominant ideology.

DSCN4500-480x360-480x360Referring to “the fear of history” to which Turkey is facing, he told the process that brought nationalism to theorize and put into practice the unity of its people, trying to merge in a share of the Turkishness differences among Sunni Muslims and by, secondly, the elimination of non-Muslims.
“Do you have any taboos? “Hasan Cemal launched in the room. “Mine is genocide. And it is also that of my country. “ And yet, “we can not escape history” he exclaimed denouncing nationalism as a disease. “We need to move the stones.” Even though the year was it painful. For Hasan, who has the most “moving stones” to lose his life is Hrant Dink, with whom he says he forged an imaginary dialogue, inside the genocide memorial in Yerevan on this day in the summer of 2008 where it was collected. A tribute to his friend close this fine speech writing, that simultaneously translated Kirkor Adjéranian and the content will be published in the Turkish press on 25 October.

The evening was followed by questions from the audience. Hasan Cemal to specify particular he has little family. Just two cousins ​​who have not criticized his book. He referred to the little son of Enver Pasha, who worked in Turkey for an American firm weapon and daughter of Talat Pasha, chemist, that chance led him to work for a time with his father, eldest son of Djemal Pasha, in a cement company. He has no contact with them. On the issue of reparations, Hasan Cemal said he was not an expert in the field and returned the book to the public, showing all the same knee-jerk reactions aroused by the mention of this problem in Turkey … However, he thinks that Turkey will eventually recognize the genocide. Citing the difficulties of France to confront the war in Algeria and even those from Germany (he said that 65% of Germans had expressed hostile gesture Willy Brand, who was kneeling at Auschwitz) he believes that Turkey is not the only country in the world to back the dark pages of its past, even though he fought this attitude. He also qualified as a crime against humanity that the Armenians were uprooted from their land which he thinks they keep nostalgia.
The meeting ended with the signing of the book Cemal. A book in Turkish awaits translation into French.

The intellectual was accompanied by Ozararat Samson, who runs with Kirkor Adjéranian SOS Armenia-Cote d’Azur, co-organizer of the meeting with AGBU ile-de-France.

Alexis Govciyan, President of AGBU Europe, who introduced and closed the meeting by announcing that it rightly was exceptional, said, aptly, the words of Raymond Aron: “Men are the history, but they do not know the story they do. “The flower of the Turkish elites seems all fine and well if his eyes open at the same time his heart on this terrifying episode that marked the birth of the Republic. Comments that led Antoine Bagdikian, president of the ANACRA (Armenian veterans and resistant) to proclaim from the ranks of the public he saw Hasan Cemal “the honor of Turkey.” A widely shared by the audience that evening feeling.

Photo Krikor Djirdjirian

Saturday, October 25, 2014,
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Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents to meet on October 27

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aliyev-sarkisianThe meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents will take place on Monday in Paris.

According to the French media, the meeting will be held in Elysee Palace. President Francois Hollande will hold separate meetings with Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev. Later the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan will have an opportunity to meet tête-à-tête.

As reported earlier, President Hollande offered to host a meeting during his visits to Yerevan and Baku in May.