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Fidel Castro A revolutionary the CIA couldn’t kill: How survived ‘638 assassination attempts’ as Cuba’s leader,

November 26, 2016 by administrator

Wealthy farmer’s son whose politics were shaped at university

Look back at life of man who led Cuba for decades and was a key player in a crisis which almost led to nuclear war between the Soviet Union and America.

The Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90, it was confirmed today.

Castro led Cuba for decades and transformed the country into one-party socialist state.

He courted controversy throughout his reign, with the United States becoming increasingly alarmed in the early 1960s with his friendly relations with the Soviet Union.

Castro became a central figure in one of the defining moments of the Cold War by allowing the Soviets to place nuclear weapons on Cuba.

It sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 leading to fears of all-out nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the US.

The CIA reportedly attempted to assassinate Castro on an incredible 638 occasions.

Here, Mirror Online looks back at his life and how he survived numerous attempts on his life.

Wealthy farmer’s son whose politics were shaped at university

Castro was born in 1926, the son of a wealthy farmer.

His left-wing politics were developed during his time studying law at the University of Havana.

He then become a revolutionary, plotting rebellions against right-wing governments.

Along with his brother Raul Castro and Che Guevara, he formed the revolutionary group the 26th of July Movement.

evolutionary becomes young leader of Cuba

Castro became Cuba’s Prime Minister in 1959 after playing a key role in the Cuban Revolution to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

He then transformed the country into a one-party socialist state under Community Party rule.

This led to concern in the US, deeply suspicious of communism, not least when Castro started getting close to the Soviet Union.

Among the reforms Castro introduced in the country included expanding healthcare and education.

But he also suppressed criticism of the regime within Cuba and introduced state control of the Press.

How Castro almost caused nuclear war between US and Soviet Union

With the US increasingly concerned with Castro’s relationship with the Soviet Union, it attempted to remove him from power.

This included assassination attempts, economic blockades and counter revolution including the Bay of Pigs invasion.

This resulted in Castro forming an even closer relationship with the Soviets.

Revolutionary academic conference on the Armenian Genocide in Istanbul

March 19, 2015 by administrator

Researchers around the world will gather in Istanbul Bilgi University April 26, 2015 to participate in an international conference titled “The Armenian Genocide: Concepts and Comparative Perspectives” and co-sponsored by the University of Istanbul Bilgi, Foundation of Turkish History (Tarih Vakfı) and Chair of Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The conference will be part of the series of a week of activities commemorating the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in Istanbul organized by DurDe a Turkish organization of human rights, and Project 2015, a group based in the US to help Armenians organize visits Turkey for historical commemoration.

“This is a very important opportunity for researchers worldwide to address critical aspects of the facts and history of the Armenian genocide here in Istanbul, 100 years after it began,” said Bülent Bilmez President Bilgi the History Department and the Foundation of history in Turkey. “We hope that talking openly about the common history of Armenians and other peoples of Turkey, something that has not always been possible, help our society to come to terms with the past.”

Among the scholars participating in the conference include Norman Naimark, Jay Winter, Dirk Moses Müge Göçek, Cathie Carmichael, Keith Watenpaugh, Uğur Ümit Üngör and Mehmet Polatel. The rally will probe the concept of genocide in comparative perspective, exploring the forcible transfer of children, and consider how the genocide was mapped in historiography and immortalized in the collective and historical memory.

“For those who have suggested that historians examine the history of the Armenian genocide we say,” We come to Istanbul to do just that, with other historians in Turkey, “said Richard Hovannisian Sebouh Aslanian and co-chairs of the Chair in Modern Armenian History at the History Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. “A frank and open discussion on the historical record is our way of contributing to the knowledge and education on the Armenian genocide in Turkey.”
Thursday, March 19, 2015,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Turkey starting new Jihadist “Egyptian ‘Revolutionary Council’ in Istanbul”

August 9, 2014 by administrator

Representatives of the Egypt’s opposition groups including former ministers from the toppled Muslim Brotherhood administration have declared the establishment of “Egyptian Revolutionary Council” against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in Istanbul. report Turkish hurriyet daily news

“The revolutionary and national forces, a year after the situation was exposed, are capable of confronting the bloody terrorist coup which stole our revolution, killed and imprisoned our people, sold our country and spread destruction and fear through the land and kidnapped Dr. Mohammed Morsi”, the spokesperson of the council which consist of 60 people, Mohammed Sharif Kamil, said during a meeting held in Istanbul on August 8.

“We call on all patriots inside and outside egypt to gather around the revolution and its idals and to unify all efforts to confront the counter revolution and its military coup”, Kamil added.

Kamil said the council refused the involvement of the military establishment of a civil state.
“We therefore declare to the Egptian people the establishment of this council in support of the popular resistance affirming that we are not an alternative to the popular resistance inside Egypt which we fully support,” he added.

The group’s targets are uniting all revolutionary forces and youths who are opposed to the military regime, mobilizing international support for the January 2011 revolution, and fulfill the right of the Egyptian people to establish a civil and constitutional state, Kamil said.

Kamil also said they made a call on “all goverments and citizens throughout the world who uphold and defend the rights of people to support our cause of freedom, justice and human rights in Egypt.”

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