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Armenian serviceman killed by Azerbaijanis was father of 5

September 3, 2015 By administrator

YEREVAN. – An Armenian serviceman killed in ceasefire violation by Azerbaijan was a father of five.

Hayk Tevoyan, 40, was a resident of Norashen village of Ararat Region and has been working as a contract soldier for five years, head of the village Artur Karapetyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“He was a very good, modest guy. He had five children, three of them underage and one is married. The socially vulnerable family received allowance,” he said.

An Armenian contract soldier was killed as a result of ceasefire violations by the Azerbaijani armed forces in the direction of Tavush Region.

Two Armenian servicemen wounded in Azeri shelling

September 2, 2015 By administrator

Two contract servicemen of the Armenian Armed Forces were wounded Tuesday, September 1, as Azerbaijani armed forces opened fire on Armenia’s north-eastern defense positions and villages, including Berd (Tavush province), a spokesperson for the Defense Ministry said, according to Tert.am.

“Those wounded are from Berd military posts; their condition is now stable,” Artsrun Hovhannisyan told a Tert.am correspondent.

One of the wounded servicemen had to undergo surgery.

According to the surgeon, Arman Mardanyan, the condition of the soldier, who was hospitalized with a penetrating abdominal trauma is stable but critical after the surgery that lasted two and a half hours.

The doctor added that the serviceman was transferred to Yerevan Central Hospital afterwards. Mardanyan said the other wounded soldier was taken to a patient ward after his wound was dressed.

Report: PanARMENIAN.Net

Տավուշում վիրավորված զինծառայողներից մեկին վիրահատել են. վիճակը ծայրահեղ ծանր է, բայց կայուն. Tert.am

Turkey: Female soldier tells mourning mother ‘rich people don’t become soldiers, don’t die’

August 30, 2015 By administrator

A non-commissioned female officer, accompanying the mother of a killed soldier during his funeral, took the attention of the media when she said that rich people would not become soldiers nor be martyred, while trying to soothe the mother’s pain.

In an attempt to comfort Cennet Özata, the mourning mother of 23-year-old Mustafa Kemal Özata, who succumbed to his injuries days after being wounded in clashes with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the female officer said the rich would not die in clashes as they would not become soldiers at the fallen soldier’s funeral, held in Turkey’s central province of Konya on Aug. 29.

“Aunty, don’t I know? Would the rich become soldiers? No. The rich would neither become a soldier nor a martyr,” said the female soldier, as Cennet Özata was explaining her hard economic situation while raising all seven of her children.

Specialized Sgt. Özata, who was injured in clashes in the southeastern province of Hakkari’s Yüksekova district on Aug. 14, succumbed to his injuries on Aug. 28, at the GATA military hospital in Ankara where he was being treated.

His mother said his son had to work in bazaars after graduating from high school and added that her husband was a driver.

The female soldier’s words came a week after the brother, also an officer, of a killed soldier had lashed out the country’s main political figures, during his younger brother’s funeral ceremony.

Lt. Col. Mehmet Alkan, the elder brother of slain army captain Ali Alkan, who was killed after PKK militants attacked a military outpost in the southeastern Şırnak province’s Beytüşşebap district late Aug. 21, directly targeted politicians during the funeral in the southern province of Osmaniye on Aug. 23, where more than 15,000 people, including several members of the parliament participated, while also questioning the reasons behind the latest outbreaks of violence.

“Why do those who have been saying ‘solution’ since yesterday now say war?” Alkan asked, in reference to the Kurdish peace process, which came to a halt late July after being conducted for more than two years, bringing an end to the 30-year-long clashes between the Turkish security forces and PKK militants.

“This son of our homeland was just 32 years old. He couldn’t get enough of his country or his beloved ones yet. Who is his murderer?” Alkan asked at the ceremony.

Following the outburst, which was caught on camera, sources told daily Hürriyet that the gendarmerie general command is set to start disciplinary proceedings in accordance with internal procedures.

Meanwhile, speaking to Hürriyet, Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk said the lieutenant colonel’s reaction was “understandable but wrong.”

Source: hurriyetdailynews

Turkey attack kills soldier in southeast Turkey

August 22, 2015 By administrator

A militant attack on an army post in southeast Turkey has left one Turkish soldier dead and four others injured, the Turkish military says.

The militant rocket and sniper attack took place late Friday in the Beytussebap district of Turkey’s Sirnak Province, an army statement said.

The Turkish army said the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was behind the attack.

Continued clashes

Clashes have been going on on a daily basis between the PKK and Turkish armed forces since July, when the military started its raids against PKK positions in southeast Turkey as well as in northern Iraq.

Turkey says its warplanes have conducted new air strikes against PKK targets, killing 29 militants on Thursday and Friday. Separately, at least 12 militants were killed as the military clashed with PKK members near the town of Uludere, close to Turkey’s border with Iraq on Friday, the military said.

Meanwhile, Turkish media reported that suspected PKK members threw two bombs outside the regional headquarters of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the city of Diyarbakir, damaging a police water cannon truck parked outside and injuring a policeman who was inside the building.

Officials, driver go missing

Also, ten Turkish customs officials and a driver were reported missing in the eastern Van region of Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported, adding that the missing people were possibly abducted by the PKK.

The PKK is concentrated in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country.

The PKK has been fighting the Turkish government for separation since 1984.

Turkey, PKK Mine explosion kills one soldier in Turkey’s east

August 13, 2015 By administrator

DHA photo

BİNGÖL – Doğan News Agency

One soldier was killed on Aug. 13 after stepping on a mine laid by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the eastern province of Bingöl.

Clashes erupted in Bingöl’s Genç district between security forces and PKK during which the soldier stepped on the mine. He was rushed to the Bingöl State Hospital but ultimately succumbed to his injuries.

The clashes between the security forces and the PKK are reportedly continuing in the area.

Armenian soldier killed in Azerbaijani sniper attack

August 12, 2015 By administrator

An Armenian soldier was killed in the country’s eastern border zone in a sniper attack launched by Azerbaijan’s military, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defense says on Facebook.
“Unfortunately, today we also suffered a loss. Private Karen P Hovhannisyan was killed by an Azerbaijani sniper. We have to state with a deep grief that nothing will go unanswered,” reads the post shared by Artsrun Hovhannisyan.

In a press release earlier today, the Ministry reported two border infiltration attempts by Azerbaijan’s armed forces.
“Armenia’s political-military leadership has repeatedly warned that the aspirations and statements to achieve a military solution to the conflict are a self-deception, with the subversive acts stemming from such a logic being fraught with unforeseeable consequences for Azerbaijan’s military,” read the statement.

Turkey Two soldiers killed in southeast amid violence outbreak

August 4, 2015 By administrator

ISTANBUL – Doğan News Agency

Two Turkish soldiers have been killed in an ambush by members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of Şırnak, with the Turkish Air Forces (THK) launching airstrikes in the region, amid an outbreak of violent attacks on security forces in the country.

PKK militants fired shots with long-barreled weapons at security forces on patrol around 8:00 a.m. on Aug. 4, killing two soldiers and injuring a village guard after detonating an explosive placed on the road linking Şırnak and its village of Balveren, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) said in a written statement.

Gendarmerie specialist Sgt. Mehmet Acar and gendarmerie Pvt. Abdulkadir Pektaş were killed in the attack, while two security forces, gendarmerie Pvt. Kadir Akpınar and village guard Hasan Akyol are injured. Fighter
jets took off from airbase in Malatya and conducted airstrikes in mountainous area of Dağlıca district of Hakkari soon after the attack on soldiers.

Turkey has been immersed in violence against security forces, with scores of deaths and injuries across the country.

A police officer was injured in explosion of a bomb planted by PKK militants, aside a road in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin late Aug. 3.

The militants detonated the remote-controlled bomb while the police officer drove by in a guarded vehicle.

The officer was taken to the Nusaybin Public Hospital and reported to be in good condition.

Another group of militants from the PKK set ablaze a truck and a long-vehicle transporter on a road connecting Mardin’s Nusaybin and Midyat disticts after stopping the vehicles and forcing their drivers to get off around 8:30 p.m. on Aug 3.

The Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Firefighting Department teams arrived at the scene to extinguish the fire and a comprehensive operation was launched to arrest the perpetrators at large.

PKK militants also fired rockets at the Kulp District Police Department in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, with no casualties reported. Clashes erupted in central Kula after local security forces responded to the attack with fire.

Members of the PKK on Aug. 3 carried out a landmine attack on guarded military vehicles that escorted trucks carrying cement to a hydropower plant construction in the Kigı district of the eastern province of Bingöl, with no casualties reported, the Bingöl Governor’s Office said in a written statement.

One of the guarded vehicles was damaged as the landmine was detonated by militants while the vehicles were passing by Kigı’s Cevizliçeşme area.

Another group of PKK militants around 8:30 p.m. on Aug 3 fired rockets at the Silvan dam, still being constructed under the control as well as protection of military personnel, in the Silvan district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

One of the rockets was reported to have hit the dining hall in the attack.

The militants also fired shots at the dam with long-barreled weapons after the rocket fire, to which the soldiers in charge of the security of the dam’s construction responded with fire. The shootout lasted around ten minutes.

Meanwhile, local gendarmerie forces deactivated explosives planted near the Turkey-Iran gas pipeline in the Eleşkirt district in the eastern province of Ağrı on Aug. 3.

The Ağrı Governor’s Office said in a written statement that the Eleşkirt District Gendarmerie Command forces along with bomb experts deactivated explosives on a five-kilogram-weight that was placed to cut off the pipeline’s gas flow.

Source: hurriyetdailynews.com

Azeris Kill Armenian Soldier at Nakhichevan Border

June 26, 2015 By administrator

Armenian border patrol units on the Nakhichevan border

YEREVAN—Azerbaijani forces launched attacks against Armenian border units stationed at the Nakhichevan border, killing one soldier, reported Armenian Defense Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan in Facebook post Friday.

At 6:30 p.m., according to Hovhannisyan’s post, Azerbaijani forces launched attack against the town of Gorhayk in the Syunik Region, using heavy artillery.

As a result of retaliation efforts by Armenian forces, the Azerbaijani side incurred heavy losses, said Honhannisyan on his Facebook post.

“Unfortunately, however, during the operation, Armenian Army soldier Aman Mayisi Yepremyan, born 1987, was killed,” announced Hovhannisyan, who expressed condolences to the soldier’s family on behalf of the Defense Ministry.

Hovhannisyan pointed out that the border with Nakhichevan has not seen active combat since last year, when two Armenian soldiers were killed, prompting an advance by Armenian forces that resulted in the fortification of the border.

The ministry spokesman said that while Armenian Armed Forces were doing everything to restore stability on the border, the Azerbaijani forces were advancing tensions.

Two Karabakh soldiers killed in Azerbaijan’s diversion attempt

March 1, 2015 By administrator

STEPANAKERT. – Two Karabakh soldiers were killed as a result of an act of sabotage by Azerbaijani armed forces.

The adversary made an infiltration attempt in the section controlled by one of the military units in north-eastern direction on Saturday afternoon.

The vanguard units of the Karabakh army noticed movement of the opponent and repelled them to the initial positions. The adversary suffered losses.

Artak Aghekyan (born in 1979) and Hayk Baroyan (1995) were killed.

The NKR Defense Army shares the pain and expresses support to the family and friends. An investigation has been launched to clarify the details of the incident.

Solidarity for the family of a Kurdish soldier Hujam Surchi, a Kurdish peshmerga beheaded by ISIS

February 5, 2015 By administrator

On 1 February, the journalist Saeed Yerevan, based in Washington, has launched crowdfunding site IndieGoGo, a campaign to help the family of Hujam Surchi, a Kurdish peshmerga décapitté by ISIS on 25 January.

The request is unusual for a journalist. But he said, “When the forces of darkness as the Islamic State threatens all of us, it makes us accountable to each other and call us to be grateful for those who protect us by their heroic actions. ” (article HERE)

The reason that pushed Saeed Yerevan to engage in this fundraising campaign, due to the situation of the family of Hujam Surchi. A family living below the poverty line, consisting of his wife and 10 children.

The journalist in his message ensures that every penny will go to the soldier’s family, in coordination with the Representation of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Washington DC. It also understand that the question of trust vis-à-vis itself, but relies on the public understanding since it is known – (see his blog here) . Besides, if you had to persuade, Aram Hamparian Suren, Executive Director of the ANCA Washington knows him and relayed the call itself Yerevan Saeed.

IndieGoGo visit HERE . The latter presents the collection of funds in dollars, which poses no problem. The amount will be debited from the bank in Euros.