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New “gallery” of rock art discovered near Armenia mountain

October 27, 2017 By administrator

The small gorge, which is located between Ughtasar and Iskhanasar Mountains nearby Sisian town in the Syunik Province of Armenia, seems to be a picture gallery. There are two rows of stones there parallel to each other, and with prehistoric drawings on them.

The best-known place with such drawings here is the Ughtasar Mountain peak, which many tourists visit.

But our guides, Gagik Navasardyan, a local branch employee of the Agency for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture, and Hrach Hakobyan, a local resident, claim that there have been no visitors yet at where we are.

 

Navasardyan informed that rock pictograms, as a rule, date back to between 5th to 4th millennia BC and 3rd to 1st millennia BC.

“They give so much important information about human activity of those times,” he added. “These are works of art by the Stone Age man, and which depict the fight against the forces of nature.

“The rock pictograms can be classified as world historical heritage. This isn’t the treasure of only Syunik; this is one of the first phases in the development of all mankind.”

The Ughtasar archeological monument is full of rock pictograms. By and large, hunting scenes, man’s surrounding nature, and rituals are depicted on them. In addition, they represent the cosmic conceptions of the prehistoric man.

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Three Coordinated bombings rock Saudi Arabia

July 5, 2016 By administrator

saudi bombing(DW) Three coordinated suicide bombings have shaken Saudi Arabia, including one near Islam’s second holiest site. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attacks which came a day before the end of Ramadan.

Saudi and Turkish backing of Islamist rebel groups – and, in the case of Turkey, turning a blind eye until last year to a stream of weapons and fighters entering Syria from its territory – have opened both countries to accusations of following policies that have help fuel the rise of “IS” and other extremist groups.

Three separate suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia on Monday left at least four police dead and several people wounded, just a day before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

There was no claim of responsibility for the coordinated attacks, including one near the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina, Islam’s second-holiest site and the burial place of Muhammad.

Tens of thousands had gathered to pray at the mosque for evening prayers when security guards approached a suspicious man at a nearby parking lot.

“Security forces suspected a man who was heading towards Al-Masjid al-Nabawi (the Prophet’s Mosque) as he passed through a visitors’ parking lot,” the interior ministry said in a statement.

“As they tried to stop him, he blew himself up with an explosive belt causing his death, and the death of four security personnel,” said the statement. Five others were also injured.

Undeterred worshippers continued to pray, Saudi television showed, as a plume of black smoke rose near the mosque.

An attack on Islam

Al-Qaeda and the so-called “Islamic State” (IS) have regularly carried out attacks in the conservative Kingdom, which is considered heretical and corrupt by the global jihadist movements. IS has vowed to up the number of attacks during Ramadan, which officially ends on Wednesday with the start of the three day Eid al-Fitr (breaking the fast holiday).

Saudi journalist Khalid Al Maenna told DW News that groups like IS were trying to sow chaos and confusion in the Kingdom. He said an attack on one of Islam’s three most holy sites was an affront to all Muslims.

“To touch the Prophet’s mosque is very upsetting to any Muslim,” Al Maenna said, adding the attack showed the extremists were weak.

At the same time as the evening attack in Medina, in the east of the country a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in the Shiite-populated city of Qatif on the Gulf coast.

There were conflicting reports about causalities. The Saudi interior ministry said they were investigating the remains of three bodies, indicating there may have been more than one suicide bomber.

Mohammed al-Nimr, a resident of Qatif and brother of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, who was executed in January on charges of inciting anti-government protests, told the Associated Press that there were no casualties.

Al-Nimr’s execution caused a diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia’s regional rival Iran, whose foreign minister Javad Zarif condemned the attack in Medina.

The two evening mosque attacks were preceded by an early Monday morning suicide blast near a mosque and the US consulate in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Two security officers were wounded after they approached a suspicious looking man who blew himself up. The Saudi interior ministry said the bomber was a 35-year-old private driver from Pakistan who had been living in Jeddah for 12 years with his wife and her parents.

The German Embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh condemned all of the attacks.

Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been close regional partners, especially in Syria, where alongside Qatar and the United States they have backed Syria rebels groups in a bid to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Saudi and Turkish backing of Islamist rebel groups – and, in the case of Turkey, turning a blind eye until last year to a stream of weapons and fighters entering Syria from its territory – have opened both countries to accusations of following policies that have help fuel the rise of “IS” and other extremist groups.

Both countries deny the accusations and participate in the US-led coalitions against IS.

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Breaking News: Explosions Rock Main Airport in Istanbul

June 28, 2016 By administrator

Explosion IstanbulBy CEYLAN YEGINSU and SABRINA TAVERNISE,

ISTANBUL — Two explosions at Turkey’s largest airport left at least 10 people dead and injured as many as 20 people on Tuesday night, according to Turkish authorities and television reports.

The Turkish justice minister, Bekir Bozdag, said 10 people had been killed in a bombing attack on Ataturk airport. He said that one attacker fired an automatic weapon before blowing himself up.

Another Turkish government official said that the police fired shots at two suspected attackers at the entryway to the airport’s international terminal, in an effort to stop them before they reached the building’s security checkpoint. The two suspects then blew themselves up, the official said.

CNN Turk reported that one suicide bomber detonated explosives inside the terminal building and another outside in a parking lot.

NTV reported that airport workers were streaming out of the building, crying. A witness told CNN Turk that injured people were being taken away in taxis, Reuters reported.

Turkey has been rocked by a series of bombings in recent months. Officials have variously blamed Kurdish separatists or Islamic State militants for the attacks.

Ataturk airport has expanded in recent years and is now the third busiest in Europe, ranked by the annual number of passengers, after Heathrow in London and Charles de Gaulle in Paris.

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Turkey British rock band Radiohead slams Islamist attack on fans in Istanbul

June 18, 2016 By administrator

turkish holegonsBritish rock band Radiohead condemned an attack on customers at an Istanbul record store attending their album release party. Islamists said they were angry with the event coinciding with their holy month, Ramadan.

A group of about 20 men violently attacked customers and employees at the Velvet IndieGround music store in Istanbul’s Cihangir district, a liberal neighborhood in close proximity to Taksim Square and Gezi Park. They said they were angered by people drinking alcohol and listening to music during the Muslim holy month.

One of the attackers was heard as shouting “If you dare to drink here one more time we will come burn you.”

The Velvet IndieGround record shop was among hundreds of shops around the world marking the release of Radiohead’s first album in five years. The attackers managed to cause considerable damage, trashing the store while hurling insults at release party of the band’s new studio album “A Moon Shaped Pool”.

One person was seen bleeding with head injuries after being hit with a bottle.

Banning gay pride

The attack coincided with the announcement of a ban on Istanbul’s annual gay pride march, which was set to take place later in June. The city’s governor banned the event, citing security concerns. Islamists and far-right extremists had threatened the march, as it would also coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The gay pride march was broken up by police last year. Many have blamed a growing atmosphere of intolerance in general and homophobia in the country in particular.

Similar attacks like those on the Velvet IndieGround record store and altercations during gay pride events have taken part also at art galleries in the area in the past. Critics say that Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government under the leadership of the AK Party (Justice and Development Party) has been undermining the country’s secular tradition, culminating in the Gezi Park protests in the summer of 2013, which resulted in 22 deaths without leading to any change.

ss/jm (AFP, dpa)

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: band, british, İstanbul, Radiohead, rock, Turkey

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