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Armenia Security chief says some groups plotting to ‘neutralize’ PM

June 18, 2018 By administrator

Chief of the National Security Service Artur Vanetsyan said on Monday, June 18 that the NSS has received information that “some groups” are trying “to neutralize us” (the leadership of the National Security Service – Ed.).

The reason, Vanetsyan said, is the Service’s activity and fresh corruption-related findings.

The National Security Service on Sunday, June 17 unveiled video footage of searches conducted in the private house and the summer house belonging to Grigoryan. Besides the large quantities of weapons and ammunition, the SNS has confiscated a vast amount of equipment and food belonging to the army, the assistance collected by school children, the Church and civilians for sending to the Nagorno Karabakh frontline in the days of the Four-Day War in April 2016 – which were used to feed Grigoryan’s animals – as well as vehicles donated to the army.

According to him, they have received similar information concerning “the neutralization” of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Vanetsyan, however, did not provide any details on who might be standing behind the reports or the possible plot.

The Security chief added, however, he doesn’t think anyone would initiate such an attempts against “such a highly respected Prime Minister.”

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Turkish ministers accuse Twitter of plotting against Erdoğan

March 30, 2016 By administrator

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(.hurriyetdailynews) Senior government officials have slammed Twitter, claiming it “censored” a hashtag created for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by removing #WeLoveErdogan from its top trending tweets.

“I’m asking Twitter officials: Who instructed you to remove the #WeLoveErdogan hashtag? Was it a country, a person, a terrorist organization, or someone else?” Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ told reporters on March 30.

“I’m just curious: Is using the message ‘We love Erdoğan’ against Twitter’s principles? Why would a message expressing people’s love bother Twitter?” he added.

“I am of the opinion that this is one part of a global operation conducted against our president,” Bozdağ also said.

Supporters of President Erdoğan have created a viral Twitter hashtag #WeLoveErdogan to rally around the Turkish leader as he makes a highly sensitive visit to the United States at a time when he faces growing criticism over freedom of expression.

“Our president Mr @RT_Erdogan was greeted with great enthusiasm by US citizens and our compatriots,” tweeted Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who is accompanying Erdoğan on his visit to Washington, adding the hashtag “#WeLoveErdogan.”

Other users posted pictures of Erdoğan kissing children or famous moments from his career and life, including scoring a goal with a canny chip in a televised 2014 exhibition football match.

Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Mehmet Babaoğlu posted a picture of Erdoğan’s 2009 walk-out from the World Economic Forum in Davos after a row with then Israeli President Shimon Peres.
“That’s why #WeLoveErdogan,” he said.

But the campaign hit immediate controversy with Erdogan supporters accusing Twitter of censorship by deliberately removing the hashtag from its top trending tweets.

Ankara mayor accuses Gülen group

In an extraordinary broadside of over 40 tweets posted on his Turkish and English accounts, Ankara Mayor Melih Gökçek said Twitter had deliberately taken it down.

“This hashtag #WeLoveErdogan got TT ranking worldwide … But then it was censored unbelievably,” said Gökçek, accusing supporters of Erdoğan’s friend-turned-foe, the U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, of being behind its removal.

However, other users expressed skepticism, suggesting that rather than censoring the hashtag Twitter may have removed it for being generated by fake accounts and automated bots, or simply as a normal outcome of its complex algorithm for determining top trends.

There was no immediate comment from the social network.

The Twitter campaign comes as Erdoğan visits the United States amid signs that U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to keep his distance from the Turkish leader.

Foreign criticism is also multiplying over the issue of freedom of expression and freedom of the media. In the latest row, Turkey summoned the German ambassador in Ankara to demand that Germany take down a satirical TV song lampooning Erdoğan.

Until last year, Erdoğan was seen as hostile to Twitter, boasting that he does not “tweet or schmeet” and overseeing blockages of social networks.

But in 2015 he sent his first tweet from his own account @RT_Erdogan and now regularly uses Twitter.

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Palestinian Authority accuses Hamas of plotting against it from Turkish headquarters

November 22, 2014 By administrator

By Paul Alster

hamaspic1Hamas supporters rally in the West Bank, where Palestinian Authority officials say the terror group is seeking to undermine it, with help from an operative in Turkey. (Reuters)

Israel and Egypt have Hamas pinned inside Gaza after destroying hundreds of tunnels leading out of the Palestinian enclave, but the terrorist group is coordinating its efforts in the West Bank with logistical help from a command center more than 500 miles away in Turkey, according to Palestinian Authority officials.

The PA and the Jewish State are mutually convenient bedfellows in their opposition to Hamas, which has conducted a campaign of terror against Israel and seeks to destabilize the West Bank.  While the PA officially remains Hamas’ so-called “governing partner” in the Palestinian territories, new accusations that Hamas’ efforts are guided by its Turkey-based commander Salah al-Aruri have exposed the growing and violent rift between the two groups.

Now, the PA has gone on record as accusing al-Aruri of planning multiple attacks that have been foiled recently by Israel, resulting in the arrest of dozens of Hamas operatives in the West Bank. Those arrests, likely coordinated with PA security services who themselves allegedly foiled a planned coup by Hamas in the West Bank this summer, may have included the cell which, it was revealed on Thursday, had been planning to assassinate Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman in August in an RPG missile attack.

“The officials added that several Hamas operatives connected to the recently uncovered network were also being held in PA detention facilities.” 

– Times of Israel

“The officials accused Turkey as well as Qatar — the current home of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal — of enabling Hamas to operate freely within their territories to carry out attacks against Israel and undermine the Palestinian Authority,” Friday’s Times of Israel revealed. “The officials added that several Hamas operatives connected to the recently uncovered network were also being held in PA detention facilities.”

Despite the recent serious escalation in lethal incidents in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and further afield in Israel, including this week’s brutal murder of four rabbis and a policeman at a synagogue in the capital, Israeli and Palestinian Authority security forces still have shared mutual interests in combating radical Islamist terrorists groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and others.

“There is regular cooperation between the Israeli and Palestinian police which is continuing despite the terrorist attacks that have taken place,” Mickey Rosenfeld, spokesman for the Israeli Police, told FoxNews.com.

It was Al-Aruri who on Aug. 20, speaking at the World Conference of Islamic Sages in Turkey, admitted that Hamas had instigated the “heroic action carried out by the al-Qassam Brigades [the military wing of Hamas], which captured three settlers in Hebron.” The three teenage boys were kidnapped and brutally murdered by Hamas operatives, an incident that triggered the spiral of violence – including the retaliatory murder of a Palestinian teenager by Jewish settlers – that led to the vicious 50-day war in Gaza this summer.

Hamas appears to have been given a free hand to operate out of Turkey and Qatar, both of whom are close U.S. allies, and neither of whom deem Hamas a terrorist organization. Regional critics say the Obama administration has allowed its efforts to broker peace in the Middle East to be consistently undermined by its own Turkish and Qatari allies, who provide safe haven for Hamas leaders and funding for terrorists bent on undermining a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.

Talking to the Al Monitor website in August, a Turkish diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, suggested that Turkey’s support for Hamas is basically because the regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan failed diplomatically some time ago to influence its neighbors in the region, so has decided to find other ways in which to wield power.

“Trying to be a major actor in the Middle East and having felt betrayed multiple times, the Erdogan administration decided we have to be Middle Eastern, which means non-state entities should be considered as serious actors, partners, enemies, and allies.” Al Monitor’s Turkish correspondent, Pinar Tremblay, added, “Turkey’s support for Hamas – along with Qatar – hampers Israel’s ability to isolate Hamas. The Turkish government has been rather frank and “proud” of its engagement with the organization, despite all [the] financial and political repercussions.”

The policy of siding with Hamas, experts suggest, may also be a way for both Turkey and Qatar to continue their campaign against Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has clamped down hard on the Muslim Brotherhood, parent organization of Hamas, declaring the Brotherhood an illegal organization and arresting countless of its members.

El-Sisi has taken firm action against Hamas in Gaza, closing the key Rafah crossing and establishing a buffer zone on Egypt’s northern Sinai border with Gaza in an attempt to stop infiltration into Egypt by Hamas terrorists – backed by Turkey and Qatar – and the trafficking of weapons, missiles, and Islamic extremists in both directions.

 

Paul Alster is an Israel-based journalist. Follow him on Twitter @paul_alster and visit his website: www.paulalster.com.

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