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Father Anton Totonjian accused of financing the plot of Vartanian

July 31, 2017 By administrator

A prosecutor said Friday that an Armenian Catholic priest had financed members of a militant group who wanted to seize power before being arrested in November 2015.

Father Anton Totonjian was arrested shortly after Armenian security forces attacked the group’s hiding place in Yerevan. They found large quantities of weapons and explosives there and arrested fifteen people led by Artur Vartanian.

Vartanian lived in Spain before returning to Armenia in April 2015 and set up his group called Hayots Vahan Gund. The National Security Service (SNS) says Vartanian and his associates have drawn up detailed plans to seize the presidential administration, government, parliament, Constitutional Court and state television buildings in Yerevan.

Totonjian, who headed a Catholic radio station in Gumri, was released in January 2016, but was later tried with Vartanian and another 18 men in December. “Everything is made,” said the 71-year-old priest to reporters at the beginning of the trial.

Speaking to a Yerevan district court, one of the prosecutors said that Totonjian and Vartanian had met several times in April and May 2015 to discuss the situation in Armenia. He said they agreed that the current leadership of Armenia should be overthrown by force.

“Having an experience of armed actions and military skills, Artur Vartanian has pledged to create, in order to seize power, a criminal association whose full funding would be provided by Anton Dikran Totonjian,” the prosecutor accused. He added that the priest had disbursed $ 60,000 to Vartanian in several installments.

Vartanian denies the charges against him. “Artur Vartanian not only rejects the acts attributed to him, but also considers that these accusations are fabricated,” his lawyer Levon Baghdasarian said on Friday.

Baghdasarian did not deny that Vartanian set up the group and acquired firearms and explosives. But he insisted that his client never intended to seize government buildings.

Monday 31 July 2017,
Claire © armenews.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenia, plot, vartanian

Iranian officials thwart large terror plot targeting Tehran – ministry

June 20, 2016 By administrator

iran 6-20Officials in Iran have broken up “the biggest terrorist plot” to target Tehran and other Iranian cities. Intelligence officials reportedly seized “huge” amounts of explosives and some bombs.

Iranian intelligence officials disrupted a number of bombing plots targeting the capital Tehran and other cities, the Intelligence Ministry reported on Monday.

“In a criminal plot of the anti-Islamic terrorist takfiri groups, a series of bombings had been planned in several places of the country for the coming days … the terrorists were arrested and some bombs and a huge amount of explosives were seized,” the ministry said in a statement on state news agency IRNA.

Several suspects have been arrested and are being interrogated over the plot.

Although the report didn’t identify those who had been detained, the statement called them “takfiris” which is a derogatory term in Arabic and Farsi referring to hardline Sunni Muslims who accuse other Muslims of being “nonbelievers.”

Iran, a Shiite Islamic Republic, has been aiding both the Syrian and Iraqi governments in their fight against the militant “Islamic State” group.

Another IRNA report referred to the suspects as “Wahhabi takfiris.” Wahhabism is an ultraconservative school of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, which currently has strained ties with Iran.

Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite cleric in January, prompting protests and attacks on Saudi diplomatic posts in Iran.

In May, Iran’s intelligence minister, Mahmoud Alavi, announced that officials dismantled 20 “terrorist groups” which planned to detonate bombs across the country.

rs/kms (AP, Reuters)

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Iran, plot, tehran

HDP Co-chair Demirtaş confirms allegation of ISIL plot against him

October 14, 2015 By administrator

Pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş offers his condolences over bomb blasts that killed 97 people at a peace rally in Ankara. (Photo: DHA)

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş offers his condolences over bomb blasts that killed 97 people at a peace rally in Ankara. (Photo: DHA)

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairman Selahattin Demirtaş has confirmed the allegations that a group of militants affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) recently infiltrated Turkey aiming to assassinate him.

“We received intelligence from reliable sources that there were plans to plot an assassination against me. We have tried to tighten security and of course share this information with the authorities. But it [the government] is busy protecting ISIL rather than us,” Demirtaş told the press on Wednesday.

According to several media outlets, HDP Deputy Chairman İdris Baluken submitted a petition to the Interior Ministry on Aug. 5 which claimed that a group of militants affiliated with ISIL infiltrated Turkey aiming to assassinate Demirtaş.

In the petition, the HDP stated: “According to reliable sources, a group of militants from ISIL entered Turkey in order to assassinate our co-chairman, Selahattin Demirtaş. Currently we do not have any further information regarding the identities of the militants. Thanking you in advance for your attention to this matter.”

The Interior Ministry has reportedly failed to respond to the HDP’s petition.

Reporter who foresaw Ankara bombings: ISIL will assassinate Demirtaş

Terrorist organization ISIL is plotting an assassination against HDP Co-chairman Demirtaş, according to Hikmet Durgun, a reporter for Russian news agency Sputnik who foresaw the twin bomb blasts that killed at least 97 people in Ankara on Saturday, in tweets he posted a few days before the attacks took place.

“ISIL is going to assassinate Selehattin Demirtaş in order to get revenge for Kobani. The militant assigned this duty was sent to Turkey,” Durgun tweeted on Wednesday.

What makes his tweet important is that Durgun reported on Sept. 29 that a total of 100 militants had infiltrated Turkey to carry out attacks in major provinces including Ankara and İstanbul and to give military training to ISIL members and sympathizers in Turkey.

The reporter also wrote that 100 militants had dispersed to the provinces of Adana, Adıyaman, Ankara, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kilis, Konya and Şanlıurfa after crossing Turkey’s border from Syria in groups. The militants were instructed to avoid unnecessary communication by phone. In addition to arms training, ISIL members and sympathizers in Turkey will also be taught to make bombs.

Durgun complained in a tweet he posted on Tuesday night that even though he reported the Ankara attack would take place, officials failed to take any security measures.

“I reported the infiltration of 100 ISIL militants into Turkey. But no security measure was taken. Terrifying! The ISIL threat still continues. I will continue to tweet about threats,” Durgun said.

A total of 97 people were officially pronounced dead on Sunday night, having lost their lives in the country’s deadliest terrorist attack in Ankara on Saturday. Over 500 people are among the injured, with dozens of them in critical condition. Initial indications suggest that ISIL is responsible for the twin bombings, two senior Turkish security sources told Reuters on Sunday.

The AK Party administration had long been criticized for allegedly turning a blind eye to the passage of foreign fighters, many coming from European countries, to war-torn Syria with intentions to join ISIL. Ignoring warnings from many experts that a lack of border security might one day spell trouble for Turkey, the AK Party government has long maintained its policy of neglecting the necessary measures of precaution at Turkey’s borders.

When a bomb attack shocked Turkey in the southeastern border town of Suruç on July 20, the AK Party shifted its stance regarding ISIL, which was held responsible for the attack that killed 34 civilians who were on their way to reconstruct a city that had been ravaged by the terrorist group.

Within a week of the Suruç bombing, Turkey agreed to grant the US expanded access to İncirlik Air Base, located in the southeastern province of Adana, close to Syria. By late August, Turkey had joined the air strikes being conducted on important ISIL targets in part of a US-led coalition, which Turkey had previously declined to participate in.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Demirtas, ISIL, plot

Turkey: Gov’t whistleblower says recent attacks in Suruç, Kilis were plots designed by Turkish officials

July 28, 2015 By administrator

A screenshot taken from whistleblower fuatavni’s Twitter account. (Photo: Today's Zaman)

A screenshot taken from whistleblower fuatavni’s Twitter account. (Photo: Today’s Zaman)

The suicide attack in the southeastern town of Suruç on July 20 and the shooting of a soldier in the southern province of Kilis on Thursday, both of which were supposedly carried out by militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), were in fact plots designed by Turkish officials, a government whistleblower has said. Report by ZAMAN

Fuat Avni, a Twitter figure who regularly reveals inside information on allegedly secret meetings of high-ranking government officials, claimed on his account on Sunday evening that a secret meeting was held by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the presidential palace on Thursday.

Avni claims National Intelligence Organization (MİT) head Hakan Fidan, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu and former Interior Minister Efkan Ala were present at the meeting.

The whistleblower said word had broken out a short while before the meeting began that a soldier had been killed in Kilis.

“What coincidence that those who said they’d send four people to Syria and fire eight rockets at Turkey to start a war were also at the meeting,” Fuat Avni said, referring to Fidan, adding, “Instead of eight rockets there were 10 ISIL militants.”

In March 2014, a conversation in which the voices of then-Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, Sinirlioğlu, Fidan and Deputy Chief of General Staff Gen. Yaşar Güler are heard discussing whether Turkey should conduct a military incursion into Syria was leaked online.

In the audio tape Fidan is allegedly heard saying: “If needed, I will dispatch four men to Syria. [Then] I will have them fire eight mortar shells at the Turkish side and create an excuse for war. We can also have them attack the tomb of Süleyman Şah as well.”

Fuat Avni claims Erdoğan and his advisors decided to conduct air strikes against ISIL targets without even informing acting Prime Minister Davutoğlu. According to Fuat Avni, the army is playing into Erdoğan’s plans without being aware.

“For ISIL to strike Turkey, when Yezid [Erdoğan] and his gang are their biggest supporters, is nonsensical. Both Suruç and Kilis were Yezid’s decision, not ISIL’s,” wrote Fuat Avni, who added Erdoğan is trying to provoke ISIL into reacting to the assaults.

The whistleblower refrains from directly using Erdoğan’s name. Instead he uses the reference “Yezid,” the Umayyad Caliph, who according to Islamic historical belief allowed his opponent, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed, to die of thirst in the battle of Kerbela. Due to his crime against the family of the Prophet, the name Yezid is commonly reviled in all sects of Islam and used to belittle and vilify the opponent.

Fuat Avni says Erdoğan aims to create an environment of chaos during which MİT agents within ISIL will provoke the group and a conflict will ensue between ISIL militants and Turkish law enforcement personnel.

He also claims Fidan has activated MİT agents within the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) to start uprisings like those that began in October 2014 in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast.

Violence erupted on Oct. 6 and 7 in Kurdish southeastern regions following reports that ISIL was close to capturing the town of Kobani, which was being defended by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a Syrian-based affiliate of the outlawed PKK.

Protesters, who were angry at the government for not intervening to save the town despite a heavy military presence at the border, took to the streets nationwide. More than 40 people died during the protests, mainly in the Southeast, while hundreds of people — including 140 members of the security forces — were injured.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: plot, Suruc, Turkey, whistleblower

Turkey: Unraveling the AKP’s ‘Mastermind’ conspiracy theory “Jewish plot for global domination”

March 22, 2015 By administrator

By Mustafa Akyol

screendshotOn March 16, A Haber, a Turkish “news channel” that acts more like a propaganda outlet for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his incumbent Justice and Development Party (AKP), broadcast a sensational “documentary.” Titled “The Mastermind,” the two-hour film was billed as an expose of the great international conspiracy targeting Erdogan’s “New Turkey.” It was also a sequel to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the early 20th century anti-Semitic hoax claiming to describe a Jewish plot for global domination.

Erdogan himself introduced the very term “mastermind,” or “ust akil,” to Turkish political language some five months ago, as I explained in Al-Monitor. No wonder the A Haber documentary (available here in full) begins with Erdogan telling his followers in a speech: “Don’t be misled. Don’t think that these operations are against my persona, our government, our party. Friends, these operations are rather directed against Turkey itself — its unity, its peace, its economy, its independence. And as I have said before, behind all these steps there is a mastermind. People ask me, ‘Who is this mastermind?’ Well, you have to figure that out. And actually, you know what it is.”

It is implied that the documentary is a response to Erdogan’s call, that it has “figured out” the identity of the mastermind, which many Erdogan supporters already know: It is “the Jews.” Theirs is the mind, the documentary tell us, that “rules the world, burns, destroys, starves, wages wars, organizes revolutions and coups, and establishes states within states.”

To explain why Jews do all these horrible things, the documentary goes back 3,500 years, right to the time of Moses. It describes the Exodus from Egypt, lists the Ten Commandments and mentions the Ark of the Covenant. Turkish academic Ramazan Kurtoglu then explains that Jews are very angry today because the Ark of the Covenant is lost. That is why, he argues, when the United States occupied Iraq in 2003, the real plan was to search for the old manuscripts that would help the Jews find the Ark. (It is hard to understand why “Jews” would dislike other people because their ark is missing; you just have to trust the documentary on that.)

The film then jumps to three “important figures,” or three great Jews, who supposedly left their mark on world history. The first is Maimonides, a “rabbi” who allegedly argued that “Jews are masters, other human beings are slaves.” The second is — guess who — Charles Darwin, who the documentary confidently describes as Jewish. (This is of course wildly inane and ignorant, for Darwin was born and raised a Christian.) Then comes Leo Strauss, the American political thinker whose ideas inspired the neoconservatives.

Then we hear from a series of Turkish “experts” who explain how “the children of Israel” want to dominate the world, subjugate other peoples and thus surround the world like a “giant octopus.” A “historian” asserts that Darwin proposed his theory only to depict non-Jews as “animals” — an idea that he believes is rooted in Judaism. At every stage, the film reminds us how the Judaic “mastermind” has oppressed humanity for thousands of years, making the world a stage for a perpetual war between good and evil.

After all these shocking revelations, the documentary arrives at the real subject: Turkey. We are told that the mastermind is particularly worried about Turkey and hates to see it as an “independent” power disrupting all its evil schemes. The Ottoman Empire collapsed due to the conspiracies of the mastermind, we are told, and the politics of Republican Turkey have been constantly manipulated. Every military coup or political assassination in Turkey was organized by the mastermind, who toppled great leaders such as Sultan Abdul Hamid II, Adnan Menderes and Turgut Ozal. But now the mastermind is more worried than ever before, because Turkey is finally breaking its chains under the glorious leadership of Erdogan.

All in all, the “documentary” is a piece of anti-Semitic bilge. Although it is not an official AKP production, there is no doubt that it is pro-AKP (and pro-Erdogan) propaganda. Among the “experts” who speak in the film are AKP grandees such as Yigit Bulut, top adviser to Erdogan, and Etyen Mahcupyan, top adviser to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. (To be fair, Mahcupyan, a Turkish Armenian, does not seem to endorse the rhetoric about Jewish conspiracies, but he does not oppose it either.)

What does this mean? Is the AKP clearly an anti-Semitic party now, threatening Turkey’s tiny Jewish community? Well, one could make counterarguments. Since the AKP came to power in 2002, Turkey’s non-Muslim communities, including Jews, have enjoyed some significant reforms. The AKP leadership also gathers the leaders of “minority communities” and delivers embracing messages, such as in the Jan. 2 meeting held by Davutoglu. Just last week, Erdogan made a “get well soon” call to Turkey’s chief rabbi. Moreover, the real target of the A Haber film seems to be the Jews’ Turkish “spies” rather than Jews themselves. The bulk of the film demonizes the Gezi Park protesters and the Gulen movement, which are seen as Erdogan’s “enemies within.”

Still, there is no doubt that this shameful film represents a new and dangerous low in AKP propaganda, which, in the past two years, dramatically turned into a factory of political hatred and paranoia. It certainly alarms Turkey’s Jewish community, and worries the millions of “Jewish spies,” i.e., Erdogan’s political opponents. Moreover, it only makes the already conspiracy-prone Turkish society more delusional, making Turkey a growingly irrational and irrelevant country in the world.

Mustafa Akyol
Columnist

Mustafa Akyol is a columnist for Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse, a columnist for the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News, and a monthly contributing opinion writer for The International New York Times. His articles have also appeared in Foreign

Source Al-monitor 

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Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: conspiracy, Jewish, mastermind, plot, Turkey

Turkey, Dink lawyer: Gendarmerie knew about plot 6 months before murder

January 16, 2015 By administrator

202384_newsdetailHakan Bakırcıoğlu, a lawyer representing the family of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, has claimed that the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command had known about the assassination plot against Dink six months before the murder took place.

The lawyer said the murder took place on Jan. 19, 2007, and the gendarmerie command was informed in July 2006 that the murder was going to take place. Dink, the editor-in-chief of the Agos newspaper, was assassinated in broad daylight outside his office.

Bakırcıoğlu also claimed that high-ranking gendarmerie commanders, such as Ali Öz and Metin Yıldız, had known that Yasin Hayal, one of the prime suspects in the ongoing Dink murder investigation, was planning to kill Dink.

Dink was shot and killed by an ultra-nationalist teenager. The hitman, Ogün Samast, and 18 others were brought to trial. Since then, the lawyers of the Dink family and the co-plaintiffs in the case have presented evidence indicating that Samast did not act alone.

In his interview with the Agos newspaper, the family’s lawyer also said that a report prepared at 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 20, 2007, at the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command included the exact features of the gun used by Samast. “However, Samast was captured at 11 p.m. [on Jan. 20, 2007] at the Samsun bus station and the murder weapon was seized at that time. This means that officials at the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command had known about the features of the gun even though the gun had not yet been seized,” he said.

The lawyer said the officials from the Trabzon Gendarmerie Command also knew that the suspects were determined to commit the murder. He said they arrived in İstanbul, inspected the road between Dink’s home and his office — the Agos newspaper building — and even drew sketches as to how they could go through with the assassination. He also said they were trying to obtain a gun to commit the murder.

Bakırcıoğlu asked about police chiefs allegedly linked with the Hizmet movement — which is inspired by the teachings of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen. The chiefs testified to prosecutors as part of the Dink murder probe. In response to a question on whether the Dink investigation will be turned into a case used to try the Hizmet-affiliated police officers, Bakırcıoğlu said the prosecutors must assess the powers and duties of all the related public officials in the case, as well as their possible role in the murder, in order to arrive at the truth.

 

Lawyer: MİT, ex-intel chief did not protect Dink

 

Emphasizing that Dink was living in İstanbul, Bakırcıoğlu said: “His home and the Agos newspaper were both in İstanbul. He was shot during the day on one of the most crowded streets of İstanbul. … According to the Regulations on Protection Services, both the National Intelligence Organization [MİT] and former İstanbul Police Department Intelligence Bureau Chief Ahmet İlhan Güler were directly responsible for taking measures to protect Dink, and it is pretty clear that these responsibilities were not met.”

He also said the Dink murder was an organized assassination and that there is collective responsibility that needs to be taken. “A possible indictment to be prepared should include this [concept of] collective responsibility. An indictment prepared against one particular group or only certain officials will be deficient and misleading,” Bakırcıoğlu said.

There has been a recent attempt by some pro-government circles to put the responsibility for the Dink murder on police officers that they have labeled as being linked to the Hizmet movement. The movement has been subjected to a large-scale smear campaign by the government under claims of it being a “parallel state.” The campaign has been directed at the movement since Dec. 17, 2013, when a major corruption scandal implicating high-ranking state officials, including former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and four former ministers, went public. The “parallel state” or “parallel structure” is a term used by Erdoğan to refer to the Hizmet movement, which he says was behind the corruption scandal.

Former Police Chief Ali Fuat Yılmazer and the former head of the National Police Department’s intelligence unit, Ramazan Akyürek, were among the police chiefs who testified to prosecutors as part of the Dink murder probe.

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