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Thousands of Yemeni people condemn Israeli massacre of Palestinians in Gaza

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Thousands of Yemeni people have taken to the streets of the capital Sana’a to strongly condemn the Israeli massacre of unarmed Palestinian demonstrators along the Gaza border, vowing to remain united with the Palestinian people against the atrocities of the Tel Aviv regime.

Carrying banners and Palestinian flags, demonstrators convened at the Bab al-Yaman Square in the capital on Tuesday afternoon, chanting slogans against the occupying regime. They shouted “Death to Israel, Death to the US, and Long live the Palestine.”

They also said that the Palestinian cause, which must never be allowed to be obliterated, is present in the conscience of the Yemeni people despite the brutal aggression that Yemen has been subjected by a US-baked Saudi-led military coalition since 2015.

The massive demonstration came a day after the Israeli military killed at Least 60 Palestinian protesters, including eight children, and wounded some 2,500 others along the border of besieged Gaza Strip with the Israeli-occupied territories.

On Monday, the US relocated its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds, triggering mass protest of Palestinians along the Gaza border. The relocation Of US embassy, which has so far drawn international condemnations, was carried out five months after Trump recognized the holy city as the “capital” of Israel, promising to move the US diplomatic mission.

Source: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/05/15/561842/Yemen-protest-Palestine-Gaza-Israel

PACE continues expressing criticism against Turkey: Authorities terrorizing people

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pace-turkey-terrorisingBy Aida Hovhannisyan from Strasbourg

STRASBOURG. – The situation in Turkey after a failed coup attempt was discussed at PACE’s autumn plenary session on Thursday.

The EU deputies emphasized that Turkey cannot be a democratic country unless the country works on democracy. The delegates urged to adhere to the rule of law and democratic principles.

French delegate Jean-Claude Mignon was very glad that they, including Turkish colleagues, have gathered to discuss the situation in Turkey after the July 16 failed coup attempt. He said that as politicians, they should exclude repressions.

The speakers also expressed concern in relations to the fact that some hours later after coup attempt in Turkey detentions of citizens began because of suspicions of their commitment to the ideology of Gulen. The politicians were surprised to see how Turkish authorities determined who was responsible for the event during such a short period of time.

Michael Jensen said that it was unacceptable that media outlets were being closed, judges were arrested, innocent citizens were detained because of their opposition to the government. Some days ago Cavusoglu spoke about the death penalty, but this should not be allowed, he said.

Representative of the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party Hisyar Ozsoy gave more details on lack of democracy in Turkey. He noted that after July 16 Turkish authorities closed Kurdish TV companies, including children’s and music programs, and all this was made without any explanations. He emphasized that Turkish authorities were terrorizing people under the pretext of masterminding a coup attempt.

It should be added that a coup attempt occurred in Turkey on July 16, 2016, as a result of which 246 people were killed. After that over 40,000 citizens were detained, 20,000 were arrested and 79,000 were fired. Turkish authorities accuse Fethullah Gülen of organizing a coup attempt.

According to many experts, a coup attempt has been initiated by Turkish President Erdogan to unleash mass repression in the country.

Armenia: Accessibility Mapathon held in Yerevan

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accessibilityAn open-air mapathon was held in Yerevan today aimed at mapping the city accessible places for people with disability. The event was organized by Kolba Innovation laboratory and “Armenian Camp” NGO attended by beginners and experienced mappers, people with disability and parents with prams.

Varduhi Aramyan, representative of the “Armenian Camp” NGO told Panorama.am that during the mapathon the participants simply take a photo of any wheelchair-friendly place, tag the location and describe why the place is accessible. Thus, the participants help people in wheelchairs or using walking sticks, and even bikers or parents strolling with a pram, to learn about the accessible places without having to leave home.

“Accessible city initiative is aimed mainly at the accessibility of capital Yerevan, considering the ramps and wheelchair lifts under construction by the means of the city budget and all those costs which are used for improving the city accessibility. For that purpose a monitoring of the city ramps have been conducted to develop matcheli.am website as well as the mobile application Matcheli Vayrer to help the users to upload any relevant information and use it,” Aramyan added.

Marina Mkhitaryan, Head of Kolba Innovation Laboratory said: “We see few people with disability around us and in the streets, since they are simply unable to go to street, as some places have steps and stairs that hinder access to the buildings and public spaces or simply the entrance doors are too narrow”.

Kurd Suruç people gather at the border in solidarity with Kobanê people

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suric peoplePeople in Suruç district of Urfa have gathered at the border in solidarity with Kobanê people who continue a vigil against Turkish military occupation for the eight day.

URFA – ANF

People in Suruç district of Urfa have gathered at the border in solidarity with Kobanê people who continue a vigil against Turkish military occupation some 150 meters to Mürşitpınar Border Crossing for the eight day.

Demonstrators who chant “Kobanê people are not alone” are supported by a delegation made up of HDP deputies for Urfa and representatives of non-governmental organisations. The delegation intends to cross into Kobanê and make a statement to the press after talks with Turkish officials.

 

Pope thanks people of Armenia for welcoming him

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pope thans armeniaPope Francis thanked the President of Armenia and the Catholicos Karekin II, the Partriarch, the Catholic bishops and the people of Armenia for welcoming him as a pilgrim in fraternity and peace.

At a special Jubilee audience at St Peter’s Square in Rome, Pope reflected on his recent visit to Armenia, Vatican Radio reported.

“This past weekend I made a Pastoral Visit to Armenia, the first nation to embrace the Christian faith and a people which has remained faithful even in the midst of great trials,” the pontiff said.

Pope added that he would go to Georgia and Azerbaijan where he will “support every effort to encourage peace and reconciliation in a spirit of respect for all.”

“With gratitude for the welcome and fellowship showed me by the Armenian Apostolic Church, I ask the Virgin Mary to strengthen Christians everywhere to remain firm in the faith and to work for a society of ever greater justice and peace.”

France: 1ST RELEASE OF MOVEMENT CHARJOUM- The Armenian people is struggling

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Paris 125155-480x275Paris, 21 April 2016

Here is the call published by Charjoum-Movement, on the occasion of the commemorations of the Armenian Genocide of 2016.

Charjoum is a new movement made up of activists who want to promote a new approach to the Armenian cause, supporting the Armenian struggle for emancipation.

Charjoum movement means in Armenian, and his goal is to move the lines.

Charjoum is not an additional or a combination of more chapel. This movement wants to defend the interests of Armenians with freedom of thought and in a participatory form. It is also in favor of a cultural approach, political and social struggles of the Armenian people.

Charjoum is an independent movement of the political parties, but it will support initiatives and associations that fight for the rights of Armenians and peoples, for the conquest of freedoms, the affirmation of human dignity, for equality and justice.

Here is the website of the movement: http://www.charjoum.org/

We invite you to follow us on Twitter (@Charjoum) and Facebook (Charjoum movement):

https://twitter.com/charjoum

https://www.facebook.com/Charjoum-le-mouvement-167478733646233/? fref = ts

Charjoum – The Movement

contact@charjoum.org

The centennial year is officially over. During this time of commemoration, the structures of Armenian communities worldwide, various associations, churches and some public institutions have honored the victims of the 1915 genocide and their descendants. The Armenian and Armenians of Diaspora we are, and without claiming to be representative of all we nevertheless remain interrogative on the overall project of this tangle of commemorations.

For indeed, it is symbolically important to honor our dead. But these deaths, as the harm caused by the genocide against the Armenian people not only fall under the symbol or the past. For proof, the nationalism of the Turkish and Azerbaijani states have lost nothing of their death designs against our people.

Armenian associations have conducted considerable work that is not for us here underestimate or question. But in a more global thinking, we believe that the Armenian people can not build sustainable if it comes out of the celebration process of suffering and sorrow.

It appears essential to us to take a deep reflection on the future of our post genocide claims. This reflection should be open and democratic; it can not be confined to the circle of community structures in loss of representativeness. For us, Armenian and Armenians committed and concerned about the future of our people, it seems that the only memory can be a real project up to the challenges of the Armenian people. Our memory must move past in the present to take lessons and augur a different future.

That’s a different future that we are calling for, with all the required determination and hope when it comes to the future of a people, so weakened by the crimes but also the domination or indifference of the powerful. Think the future is our responsibility to all.

For our part, we envision a future of struggle for our people, who 101 years after the crime, stopped crying. This struggle is that of all the peoples, groups, individuals against principalities imposed on us, be they military, physical, or intellectual.

Fighting is first to assert his rights, claiming its freedom to determine its future and to present to the world as an upright people, who does not want to be chained by suffering or threats from neighboring states. Our rights are for all people and we naturally demand justice consecutively to genocide. This justice is not a mere acknowledgment of the past and must repair all the damage suffered by the Armenian people. But it would be fragmented and sterile if it only concerned our relationship with the Turkish state. Justice, we also demand within our people. Thus, we stand in solidarity with our sisters and of Armenia and Artsakh brothers who struggle daily to defend their land, but also to improve their living conditions, against the corruption of their leaders that stifle reconstruction a people who finally saw freedom, for equality between all citizens and citizens and the establishment of genuine democracy.

Finally, we call on all those and all those who are weary of inaction, all those and all those who wish to fight peacefully, to appear in street processions of 24 April 2016 and can bloom wherever the debate on new claims .

We have finished crying. Long live the Armenian people in struggle!  www.charjoum.org

Thursday, April 21, 2016,
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Turkey slaughtering people in anti-PKK campaign: HDP chief

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f398b39d-625b-4184-bbcf-e275c4593a4eThe leader of a Turkish opposition party has condemned the Turkish army operations against the  Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in the country’s southeast, saying Ankara is slaughtering citizens there.

“They (Turkish forces) committed a massacre in Cizre, and they don’t want to announce it,” Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the left-wing pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), told lawmakers from his party on Tuesday.

Over the past six weeks, the town of Cizre in the southeastern Sirnak Province has been under a curfew as part of the Turkish military operations against PKK militants.

People in the Turkish city of Istanbul held a demonstration on Monday to express their outrage at the Cizre curfew. Turkish riot police used water cannon to disperse the protesters.

As many as 100,000 of the 120,000 Cizre inhabitants have fled, according to Faysal Sariyildiz, the local MP from the HDP. A number of other citizens are still trapped in buildings in the restive town.

On Sunday, up to 60 wounded people, who had been sheltering in the basement of a building in Cizre, were killed during a military raid. Turkey claimed that high-profile PKK militants had holed up in the cellar.

Demirtas said some 70-90 people had taken refuge in the basement and a few other buildings in Cizre, which were coming under mortar fire.

“They are scattering the bodies on the streets, on ruined buildings,” he added.

Ankara’s anti-PKK campaign began in the wake of a deadly bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc last July. More than 30 people died in the attack, which the Turkish government blamed on Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

After the incident, the PKK militants, who accuse the Turkish government of supporting Daesh, engaged in a series of what they view as reprisal attacks against Turkish police and security forces.

Turkish occupied Kurdistan: Some 100,000 People Flee Homes Amid Clashes Between Ankara, PKK

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1032252947More than 100,000 people were displaced due to the Turkish forces’ operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), according to Turkey’s Interior Ministry.

ANKARA (Sputnik) — Some 100,000 people have been displaced due to armed clashes between Turkish security forces and militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the country’s majority-Kurdish southeastern regions, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said on Thursday.

Severe clashes between Ankara forces and PKK militants have been arising sporadically since a July terror attack in the city of Suruc, which killed over 30 people, most of them Kurds. As Kurds killed two Turkish policemen soon after the attack, Ankara launched a military campaign against PKK. The clashes intensified earlier this week in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir.

The Turkish forces’ operations are being carried out in the southeastern districts of Diyarbakir, Silopi, Silvan, Sur and Cizre, where the PKK has a strong presence.

The authorities also declared a police curfew in area most affected by the armed clashes, with a population of 1.3 million civilians.

Over 100,000 of them have been forced to flee their homes due to the ongoing violence and domestic hardships, according to an Interior Ministry report that was cited by the Hurriyet newspaper.

According to the ministry, the security forces have taken control of eight of the 13 high-risk areas where the PKK militants were trying to establish autonomous areas, not controlled by the central government.

The Kurds, Turkey’s largest ethnic minority, are striving to create their own independent state and gain independence from Turkey. The PKK was founded in the late 1970s to promote the self-determination for the Kurdish community. The PKK is designated as a terrorist group by Turkey.

The Kurdish struggle for independence gave rise to a conflict between Ankara and various Kurdish militant groups that has been ongoing since 1984.

WASHINGTON: American Armenians express solidarity with people of France

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paris attackWASHINGTON, D.C. – The Armenian Assembly of America (Assembly) Board of Trustees Co-Chairs Anthony Barsamian and Van Krikorian released the following statement in connection with the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

“The Armenian Assembly, along with the Armenia Tree Project and the Armenian National Institute, express our deepest sympathies to the people of France in the face of the senseless acts of terror. Armenian Americans condemn the barbaric acts that occurred in Paris and we stand in solidarity with France and all people of goodwill. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims.”

Simultaneous terrorist attacks occurred on the evening of November 13, in different parts of the French capital city.

According to official data, these attacks claimed over 130 lives, but the media report about over 150 casualties.

A state of emergency has been declared in France.