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The Foundation “Tashir” of “Tashir” group owned by billionaire Russian Armenian Samvel Garabedian has 500,000 dollars available to families of the dead soldiers Armenians in Karabakh. Each of the families of missing soldiers in Karabakh will receive $ 2000 dollars. Ardak Djagharian President of the Foundation “Tashir” said that this sum of $ 500 000 made available by the “Tashir” group will be equitably distributed to the families of fallen soldiers at the front.
Krikor Amirzayan
ADANA – Doğan News Agency,
Two members of the nationalist Turkish Youth Union (TGB) were detained after trying to put a sack over a U.S. soldier’s head at the İncirlik Air Base in the southern province of Adana on April 16.
Footage of the incident shows TGB Adana Provincial Head Yalçın Semir Akarsu chasing the U.S. soldier and attempting to put a sack over his head.
“You put a sack over our soldiers head in 2003. You are responsible for that and for the terrorism in our country,” Akarsu can be heard saying in the footage, referring to a notorious 2003 incident when a group of U.S. soldiers staged an operation against Turkish soldiers based in Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, taking 11 Turkish soldiers hostage and putting sacks on their heads.
“Bombs are exploding every day. Every day we receive news of martyred soldiers. You are responsible for that. You cannot leave your base, but we can come to your prison and we are putting this sack over your head,” Akarsu added.
Akarsu and Cenk Kızılırmak, who recorded the incident on camera, have been detained after Turkish soldiers intervened at the scene.
Akarsu and Kızılırmak were taken to the police headquarters after medical checks.
They were at the İncirlik Air Base in order to participate in an event marking Turkey’s April 23 National Sovereignty and Children’s Day.
TGB General Secretary Sinan Sungur said they had been waiting to stage such an act for two years and the April 23 event gave them the “opportunity” to do so.
A similar incident took place on Nov. 12, 2014, when a group of TGB members attacked NATO soldiers stationed in Istanbul’s touristic Eminönü district, putting sacks over their heads and throwing dye over them.
Overall, 125 Armenians were wounded as a result of Azerbaijan’s aggression, the state of health of with five of them being grave, Harutyun Galstyan, Deputy Head of the Medical Department, Ministry of Defense of Armenia, told reporters on Friday.
All the wounded are recovering.
“They are under medical control,” Mr Galstyan said.
Two soldiers were killed and 46 were wounded, including civilians, on late April 11 in an Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bomb attack in the Hani district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.
PKK forces detonated a bomb-laden tanker in front of the Hani Gendarmerie Post. An armed clash later erupted between security forces and PKK forcess
Two soldiers were killed and 46 were wounded including the relatives of gendarmerie personnel in the lodgings.
The wounded were first taken to Hani State Hospital and later transferred to the Diyarbakır Military Hospital by helicopter and ambulance.
A significant portion of the military post collapsed due to the attack while other buildings nearby were also damaged as the search and rescue efforts in the buildings continued.
Meanwhile, the Hani Criminal Court of Peace ordered a broadcast ban until the completion of the investigation following the attack.
Nagorno Karabakh‘s State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons on Sunday, April 10 exchanged bodies of fallen soldiers with the Azerbaijani side near the settlement of Bash Karvend.
The exchange was organized in accordance with an agreement, previously reached between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan through the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Karabakh Foreign Ministry said, providing no other details.
The bodies of 18 servicemen of Karabakh Defense Army were transferred to the Karabakh side.
In the presence of a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Commission registered that all bodies transferred by the Azerbaijani side had signs of torture and mutilation.
“Those acts, being a flagrant manifestation of inhumanity, run counter to the laws and customs of war and are in grave violation of the international humanitarian law, in particular, the Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (1949), Geneva Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949) and the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I),” the Commission said in a statement.
“Karabakh will seek to ensure that Azerbaijan’s behavior is condemned in strongest terms by the international community and relevant agencies, and those responsible are brought to account.”
The parties to the Karabakh conflict agreed on a bilateral ceasefire along the contact line which came into force at midday, April 5.
Prior to that, on the night of April 1-2, Azerbaijani armed forces initiated overt offensive operations in the southern, southeastern and northeastern directions of the line of contact with Nagorno Karabakh.
As of April 5, the Azerbaijani side has lost 26 tanks and 4 infantry fighting vehicles, as well as 1 BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher, 1 engineering vehicle, 2 military helicopters and 14 unmanned aerial vehicles. The Azerbaijani side has admitted the loss of 31 fighters, 1 helicopter and 1 unmanned drone, whereas the Armenian side’s photo and video materials show dozens of killed Azerbaijani troops, 1 helicopter and 3 UAVs. Opposition media outlets, however, reported on the death of 93 Azerbaijani soldiers, stating that 33 more have been wounded. According to Karabakh authorities, 300 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed in clashes.
14 Karabakh tanks have been neutralized since April 2.
STEPANAKERT. – In accordance with the earlier achieved agreement, and by the mediation of the International Committee of the Red Cross of the Armenian and Azerbaijani sides and the field assistants of the Personal Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Chairman-in-Office, search for casualties was conducted Friday, at the zone of contact between the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces.
As a result, the Armenian side found the bodies of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) Defense Army military servicemen, Junior Sergeant Robert Abajyan (born in 1996), and Private Andranik Zohrabyan (born in 1996).
Press service of the NKR Ministry of Defense informed that violation of ceasefire agreements was not recorded during the search.
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YEREVAN. – The President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, on Monday paid a visit to the Ministry of Defense Central Clinical Military Hospital in capital city Yerevan.
At the medical center, Sargsyan met with the military servicemen who were wounded in the hostilities around the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact.
The President asked the physicians about the health condition of these soldiers, and expressed his support to these servicemen and wished them a speedy recovery.
The situation at the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone dramatically escalated in the early morning hours on April 2. From regular shootings and frequent sabotage-reconnaissance attempts, Azerbaijan switched to large-scale attacks all along the Karabakh-Azerbaijan Line of Contact, using a variety of weaponry as well as artillery, armored vehicles, and air force. Both sides have suffered casualties.
YEREVAN. – Azerbaijan uses retaliatory detachments that are punishing the servicemen who choose to back away from the fight, spokesperson for the Armenian Defense Ministry wrote on Facebook.
“According to confirmed sources, the combat efficiency of the Azeri troops has fallen so drastically that even hired mercenaries with vast terrorist experience are unable to help. At this moment, in these territories, Azerbaijan uses forces of punishment by death to those servicemen who choose to back away from the fight,” Artsrun Hovhannisyan wrote.
The situation in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone dramatically escalated on Saturday night. From regular shootings and frequent sabotage-reconnaissance attempts, Azerbaijan has now moved to large-scale attack all along the Line of Contact, using a variety of weaponry as well as artillery, armored vehicles, and air force. Both sides have suffered losses.
War is ugly, this is a given! Nevertheless, Hetq wishes to apologize to its readers for publishing the disturbing photos from the village of Talish in the northeastern Martakert District of Artsakh.
Today, Hetq photographer Hakob Poghosyan was in Talish that was temporarily overrun by Azerbaijani military units. The village is a few kilometers inside the Artsakh border with Azerbaijan. Only a few residents were in Talish when Azerbaijani soldiers entered.
They shot Valera Khalapyan and his wife Razmela to death in their home and then cut off their ears. Azerbaijani soldiers also executed Marousya Khalapyan, born 1924.
For the past two days, Azerbaijan has launched a major military offensive up and down the Line of Contact.
Photos: Hakob Poghosyan
Source: hetq.am
Clashes in the disputed Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh have killed 12 service personnel of Azerbaijan’s armed forces, Azerbaijani Defense Ministry spokesman Vagif Dargakhly told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
BAKU (Sputnik) — Tensions between neighboring Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-held area flared after both nations accused each other of starting the fighting in violation of the 1994 ceasefire.
Armenian artillery fire reportedly downed an Azeri Mi-24 helicopter and destroyed a tank. No comment on casualties was immediately available from Armenian officials.
Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous area in Azerbaijan that is populated by Armenians and currently controlled by the Armenian government. The conflict broke out in 1988 when the region sought to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, before proclaiming independence after the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. In September 2015, the conflict escalated, with the sides blaming each other for violating the truce.
The Armenian Defense Ministry published the photos of a downed Azerbaijani drone.
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