Turkey, new sponsor of international terrorism

March 29, 2014 By administrator

Turkey became a rear base for the rebels to the Syrian regime, where the radical Islamist fighters hold their attacks. All in the apparent indifference of the international community.

By Francis Lawrence and Leleykian Balanche

Recent events in Ukraine have provisionally released the attention of the international community on the current developments of the Syrian crisis, and in particular the fighting currently taking place at the Turkish border. It’s just if a dispatch from press reported that the Turkish army has killed a hunter who bombed Syrian rebels.

The growing involvement of Turkey in the conflict should however be an additional cause for concern. For if the economic objective of Ankara bring down the regime of Bashar Assad is possibly consistent with the wishes of the West, the methods used should generate the greatest concern. Turkey is indeed becoming a major regional “hubs” of international terrorism, far ahead of other states that have been dragging this reputation.

The latest example of Turkish practices that began March 21. In the morning, radical Islamists have penetrated Syrian territory from three bases in Turkey to tackle Township Kessab. To this end, the Islamist fighters identified as belonging to Jabhat Al-Nosra recently renamed Al-Qaeda in the Levant, are necessarily passed between the Turkish army barracks. The fighting is still ongoing but is reported from reliable sources that the Islamists wounded were repatriated to Turkey, where their care is provided. It is in this context that occurred the episode of the downed aircraft.

Kessab is not any village in Syria. It was indeed the last village of Ottoman Armenia: an administrative oddity Kessab was the only village linked to Syria when France shamefully abandoned the Sanjak of Alexandretta to Kemalist in 1938.

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Syrian army takes 2 villages near Lebanon

March 29, 2014 By administrator

Syrian government forces captured Saturday two villages near the border with Lebanon after clashes with opposition fighters, cutting a major supply route for weapons and fighters into Syria, state TV said, according to The Associated Press.

The report said the villages of Flita and Ras Maara fell into the hands of government forces early in the day. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed troops were inside the two villages and advancing, although it had no immediate word on whether they fell to government forces.

The Observatory said government forces are backed by members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, which openly started taking part in Syria’s war last year against opposition forces.

The villages were the latest targets of a government offensive in the rugged Qalamoun border region after troops captured the town of Yabroud earlier this month. Tens of thousands of Syrians fled into Lebanon since the Qalamoun offensive began in November.

Flita, which is about 5 miles (7 kilometers) from the border with Lebanon, had been a major crossing point for rebels coming from across the border into Syria to fight President Bashar Assad’s forces. Syria’s mostly Sunni rebels draw supply, recruits and support from Sunni communities in Lebanon.

Qalamoun holds strategic value for the government since it is crossed by the main north-south highway that links the capital to government strongholds along the Mediterranean coast.

The TV said the villages fell after government forces “wiped out the last remnants of armed terrorist groups and destroyed its weapons and tools they used in their crimes.” The Syrian government refers to rebels as “terrorists.”

An activist based near Damascus who goes by the name of Abu Yazan al-Shami who is in touch with colleagues near Yabroud confirmed that government forces have captured parts of the two villages but are still facing resistance from rebels inside.

“Fierce and difficult battles are taking place. It is a rugged area and both the regime and the rebels have gathered lots of fighters for this battle,” said al-Shami via Skype. He added that the main battle expected to follow Flita and Ras Maara will be the rebel-held town of Rankous in order for the government “to completely cut supplies from Lebanon into Qalamoun.”

22 Armenians were kidnapped from Kessab and taken to Turkey #savekessab

March 29, 2014 By administrator

Of those Armenians who remained in Kessab, 22 were kidnapped and taken to Turkey, deputy chairman of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (SDHP) Armenia office, Syrian Armenian Vazgen Mesropyan told Panorama.am.

“We have exact information that those people who did not leave their homes in Kessab were kidnapped, with 11 people being unaccounted for,” he said.

Mr Mesropyan noted that more than 40 Armenians did not leave Kessab.

The Armenian populated villages of Kessab in Syria were the target of three days of brutal cross-border attacks from Turkey. Some 670 Armenian families, the majority of the population of Kessab, were evacuated by the local Armenian community leadership to safer areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia.

US will continue support to those affected by violence in Syria, including Syrian Armenians

March 29, 2014 By administrator

The United States will continue its support to those affected by violence in Syria and throughout the region, including Syrian Armenians, State Department representative said during a briefing on Friday.

“We have long had concerns about the threat posed by violent extremists, and this latest threat to the Armenian community in Syria only underscores this further,” Marie Harf said.

She said Washington is following the situation for Armenians inside Syria for all minorities, including Christians, and knows that violent extremists such as ISIL have targeted them.

“We’re particularly concerned about these minority communities and want to make sure that their rights are protected,” she emphasized.

“We’ve seen reports, as I said – recent fighting, violence against the Syrian Armenian communities. We see the reports coming out of there. Obviously, we talk – we try to get as much information from the ground as possible, as we do in all places in Syria, but it’s hard to get. But clearly, there have been some very troubling trends lately” .

However, Marie Harf refused to comment on the reports saying Turkish Foreign Minister planned a provocative act inside Syria so Turkey has the excuse to invade Syria.

“I don’t have anything for you on alleged calls or conversations that are out there among Turkish officials,” she added.

YouTube ban: How Turkish officials conspired to stage Syria attack to provoke war #kessab (Video)

March 28, 2014 By administrator

RT Published time: March 28, 2014

“I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey.” This leaked conversation is coming back to haunt the highest echelons of the Turkish government as it plans a provocation in Syria, while scrambling to contain social media internally.

The leaked audiotapes that reveal Turkey’s highest ministers staging an anti-Assad military intervention in Syria, have already caused YouTube to be shut down in the country, as well as leading to fevered accusations of treachery and betrayal of Turkey’s political interests – “a declaration of war,” as Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu put it.

This is of course after intelligence chief Hakan Fidan suggested seizing the opportunity to secure Turkish intervention in the Syrian conflict – a war that has already claimed 140,000 lives, and counting. In the conversation, Davutoğlu is heard saying that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sees any attack as an “opportunity” to increase troop presence in Syria, where it has staunchly supported the anti-Assad rebels.

Below is a transcript of that conversation in full. The video can be found below.

Ahmet Davutoğlu:
“Prime Minister said that in current conjuncture, this attack (on Suleiman Shah Tomb) must be seen as an opportunity for us.”

Hakan Fidan:
“I’ll send 4 men from Syria, if that’s what it takes. I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey; we can also prepare an attack on Suleiman Shah Tomb if necessary.”

Hakan Fidan:

“I’ll send 4 men from Syria, if that’s what it takes. I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey

Feridun Sinirlioğlu:
“Our national security has become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.”

Yaşar Güler:
“It’s a direct cause of war. I mean, what’re going to do is a direct cause of war.”
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FIRST SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: I couldn’t entirely understand the other thing; what exactly does our foreign ministry supposed to do? No, I’m not talking about the thing. There are other things we’re supposed to do. If we decide on this, we are to notify the United Nations, the Istanbul Consulate of the Syrian regime, right?

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: But if we decide on an operation in there, it should create a shocking effect. I mean, if we are going to do so. I don’t know what we’re going to do, but regardless of what we decide, I don’t think it’d be appropriate to notify anyone beforehand.

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: But if we decide on an operation in there, it should create a shocking effect. I

mean, if we are going to do so. I don’t know what we’re going to do, but regardless of what we decide, I don’t think it’d be appropriate to notify anyone beforehand.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: OK, but we’re gonna have to prepare somehow. To avoid any shorts on regarding international law. I just realised when I was talking to the president (Abdullah Gül), if the Turkish tanks go in there, it means we’re in there in any case, right?

Yaşar Güler: It means we’re in, yes.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Yeah, but there’s a difference between going in with aircraft and going in with tanks…

SECOND SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Maybe we can tell the Syrian consulate general that, ISIL is currently working alongside the regime, and that place is Turkish land. We should definitely…

Ahmet Davutoğlu: But we have already said that, sent them several diplomatic notes.

Yaşar Güler: To Syria…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: That’s right.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Yes, we’ve sent them countless times. Therefore, I’d like to know what our Chief of Staff’s expects from our ministry.

Yaşar Güler: Maybe his intent was to say that, I don’t really know, he met with Mr. Fidan.

Hakan Fidan: Well, he did mention that part but we didn’t go into any further details.

Yaşar Güler: Maybe that was what he meant… A diplomatic note to Syria?

Hakan Fidan: Maybe the Foreign Ministry is assigned with coordination…

THIRD SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: I mean, I could coordinate the diplomacy but civil war, the military…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: That’s what I told back there. For one thing, the situation is different. An operation on ISIL has solid ground on international law. We’re going to portray this is Al-Qaeda, there’s no distress there if it’s a matter regarding Al-Qaeda. And if it comes to defending Suleiman Shah Tomb, that’s a matter of protecting our land.

Yaşar Güler: We don’t have any problems with that.

Hakan Fidan: Second after it happens, it’ll cause a great internal commotion (several bombing events is bound to happen within). The border is not under control…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu:I mean, yes, the bombings are of course going to happen. But I remember our talk from 3 years ago…

Yaşar Güler: Mr. Fidan should urgently receive back-up and we need to help him supply guns and ammo to rebels. We need to speak with the minister. Our Interior Minister, our Defense Minister. We need to talk about this and reach a resolution sir.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: How did we get special forces into action when there was a threat in Northern Iraq? We should have done so in there, too. We should have trained those men. We should have sent men. Anyway, we can’t do that, we can only do what diplomacy…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: I told you back then, for God’s sake, General, you know how we managed to get those tanks in, you were there.

Yaşar Güler: What, you mean our stuff?

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: Yes, how do you think we’ve managed to rally our tanks into Iraq? How? How did we manage to get special forces, the battalions in? I was involved in that. Let me be clear, there was no government decision on that, we have managed that just with a single order.

FOURTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Well, I agree with you. For one thing, we’re not even discussing that. But there are different things that Syria can do right now.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: General, the reason we’re saying no to this operation is because we know about the capacity of those men.

Yaşar Güler:

Look, sir, isn’t MKE (Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation) at minister’s bidding? Sir, I mean, Qatar is looking for ammo to buy in cash. Ready cash. So, why don’t they just get it done? It’s at Mr. Minister’s com

Ahmet Davutoğlu: But there’s the spot we can’t act integratedly, we can’t coordinate.

mand.

Yaşar Güler: Then, our Prime Minister can summon both Mr. Defence Minister and Mr. Minister at the same time. Then he can directly talk to them.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: We, Mr. Siniroğlu and I, have literally begged Mr. Prime Minster for a private meeting, we said that things were not looking so bright.

FIFTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Also, it doesn’t have to be a crowded meeting. Yourself, Mr. Defence Minister, Mr. Interior Minister and our Chief of Staff, the four of you are enough. There’s no need for a crowd. Because, sir, the main need there is guns and ammo. Not even guns, mainly ammo. We’ve just talked about this, sir. Let’s say we’re building an army down there, 1000 strong. If we get them into that war without previously storing a minimum of 6-months’ worth of ammo, these men will return to us after two months.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: They’re back already.

Yaşar Güler: They’ll return to us, sir.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: They’ve came back from… What was it? Çobanbey.

Yaşar Güler: Yes, indeed, sir. This matter can’t be just a burden on Mr. Fidan’s shoulders as it is now. It’s unacceptable. I mean, we can’t understand this. Why?

SIXTH SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: That evening we’d reached a resolution. And I thought that things were taking a turn for the good. Our…

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: We issued the MGK (National Security Council) resolution the day after. Then we talked with the general…

Ahmet Davutoğlu: And the other forces really do a good follow up on this weakness of ours. You say that you’re going to capture this place, and that men being there constitutes a risk factor. You pull them back. You capture the place. You reinforce it and send in your troops again.

Yaşar Güler: Exactly, sir. You’re absolutely right.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Right? That’s how I interpret it. But after the evacuation, this is not a military necessity. It’s a whole other thing.

SEVENTH SCREEN
Feridun Siniroğlu: There are some serious shifts in global and regional geopolitics. It now can spread to other places. You said it yourself today, and others agreed… We’re headed to a different game now. We should be able to see those. That ISIL and all that jazz, all those organisations are extremely open to manipulation. Having a region made up of organisations of similar nature will constitute a vital security risk for us. And when we first went into Northern Iraq, there was always the risk of PKK blowing up the place. If we thoroughly consider the risks and substantiate… As the general just said…

Yaşar Güler: Sir, when you were inside a moment ago, we were discussing just that. Openly. I mean, armed forces are a “tool” necessary for you in every turn.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Of course. I always tell the Prime Minister, in your absence, the same thing in academic jargon, you can’t stay in those lands without hard power. Without hard power, there can be no soft power.

EIGTH SCREEN
Yaşar Güler: Sir.

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: The national security has been politicised. I don’t remember anything like this in Turkish political history. It has become a matter of domestic policy. All talks we’ve done on defending our lands, our border security, our sovereign lands in there, they’ve all become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.

Yaşar Güler: Exactly.

Feridun Siniroğlu: That has never happened before. Unfortunately but…

Yaşar Güler: I mean, do even one of the opposition parties support you in such a high point of national security? Sir, is this a justifiable sense of national security?

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: I don’t even remember such a period.

NINTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: In what matter can we be unified, if not a matter of national security of such importance? None.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: The year 2012, we didn’t do it 2011. If only we’d took serious action back then, even in the summer of 2012.

Feridun Sinirlioğlu: They were at their lowest back in 2012.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Internally, they were just like Libya. Who comes in and goes from power is not of any importance to us. But some things…

Yaşar Güler: Sir, to avoid any confusion, our need in 2011 was guns and ammo. In 2012, 2013 and today also. We’re in the exact same point. We absolutely need to find this and secure that place.

Ahmet Davutoğlu: Guns and ammo are not a big need for that place. Because we couldn’t get the human factor in order…

Kassab falls to Syrian opposition gunmen #Kessab #savekessab

March 28, 2014 By administrator

Report by Abdallah Suleiman Ali

Original Article اقرا المقال الأصلي باللغة العربية

The Armenian town Kassab has a lot of archaeology and history, but it may soon drown in a flood of lead and rubble. The town has been emptied of its people and the gunmen have spread in the streets and churches. There has been fighting in and around the town, and there’s information that it will soon be a scene of a battle between the Syrian army and hard-line Islamic factions, if there is no urgent settlement by intermediaries that find in the history of the town and its symbolism enough reasons to spare it destruction.

The fighting has continued for the fifth day in a row in the hills and villages around Kassab in the northern Latakia countryside, particularly in the villages Samra, al-Nabain and Jabal al-Nisr. There have been no violent clashes in the town itself, which for the first time was stripped of its crosses. Jabhat al-Nusra members destroyed them when they entered town. This was confirmed by Abu Qatada al-Masri, who posted on his Twitter account pictures of al-Nusra members destroying crosses inside the churches.

The fighting in the area was hit and run, to the extent that control over some areas changed hands several times between the gunmen and the army over a period of hours. It is difficult to talk about the final outcome of these battles because they are subject to field developments that are changing by the hour. This may be what happened at Point 45 and Jabal al-Nisr, where the gunmen of radical factions imposed their control on Jabal al-Nisr just hours after the attack started last Friday [March 21].

The army regained that location on the same day, but pulled out on Sunday after the militants seized control of the surroundings. But the gunmen, in turn, couldn’t climb the mountain and take up post on its peak after what happened yesterday [March 26] at Point 45, which was vacated by the Syrian army in the wake of a suicide bombing by al-Nusra in preparation for a major offensive. That forced the army stationed at the observatory to withdraw toward the town of al-Qastal most likely.

The reason for this is that Point 45 is the highest point in the region and oversees Jabal al-Nisr, and therefore the gunmen could not establish themselves at the top of Jabal al-Nisr, despite their effective control of the area and its surroundings because they fear the artillery and tanks stationed on Point 45. The tanks and cannons there can easily strike the peak of Jabal al-Nisr, thus the gunmen took position on the top of Jabal al-Nisr only after the army evacuated its positions at Point 45.

A jihadist source told As-Safir that al-Nusra’s suicide bombing was carried out by a BMB transport loaded with bombs and driven by a suicide bomber named Abu al-Muthanna Fahd al-Qassem. The transport was launched from the Farnalq forests and was displaying the Syrian flag, not al-Nusra’s flag. That allowed it to reach the peak at Point 45 and enter the yard of the observatory, where the bomber blew himself up.

Perhaps those who saw the BMB transport thought it contained reinforcements sent by the army. The explosion killed one colonel, and the final number of dead and injured is still unknown. al-Nusra’s dead included Saudi nationals Saleh Bin Ali Bin Saleh al-Ghannam Abu Sahha, Muhammad al-Ghannam Abu Walid al-Qusaimi, Abu Maryam and Azzam al-Ihsai (the real names of the last two are not known). Al-Nusra’s wounded were Abu Mohammed al-Ameriki, who was transferred to an Antakya government hospital in Turkey. The blast also killed a number of Syrian gunmen led by Abu Hussein al-Ansari.

Yesterday, the Syrian army was able to recover Point 45 after artillery and aerial bombardment made it impossible for al-Nusra elements to stay there. Thus they withdrew a few hours after their arrival. But the Syrian army did not reoccupy Point 45, rather, the army left it empty and tightened control over its surroundings.

According to a field source that spoke with As-Safir, al-Nusra lost dozens of gunmen at Point 45, pointing out that the bombing on Point 45 was “pinpoint, heavy and of quality.”

Contrary to rumors, the source confirmed to As-Safir that the Syrian army evacuated the area of Nab al-Murr two days after it obtained control of it due to the depression (a slight valley), which exposes it to the hills around it. Therefore, it may be less costly to shell Nab al-Murr from afar than to set up a post there. Nab al-Murr is an important infiltration route to Jabal al-Nisr and Point 45. What may have encouraged the army to evacuate Nab al-Murr is its ability to shell Jabal al-Nisr and Point 45, noting that Nab al-Murr lies between these two mountains.

The Syrian army also gained control of Nabain, located at Kassab’s western entrance, after violent battles by army soldiers, who evacuated Jabal al-Nisr and joined their colleagues in Nabain. The field source told As-Safir that the army does in fact control this area despite media reports claiming otherwise. In fact, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that the Syrian army gained control of the area.

The armed factions that attacked Kassab — among them Jabhat al-Nusra, Ansar al-Sham and the Islamic Front — have tried to extend the clashes toward Qustul Maaf, but they failed and withdrew. Then they targeted Qustul Maaf with mortars from nearby villages like Kanisa, Atra and al-Sawda.

As for Kassab’s future in the coming days, it’s uncertain. There is the possibility that it could join the list of destroyed cities, though some consider this unlikely, not because of any settlement or mediation, but because the city sits on a low spot surrounded by hills, making it difficult for insurgents to fortify their positions. So, they chose to fortify their positions in the nearby hills. Few gunmen have stayed in Kassab itself, which is free of any Syrian army presence. Will Kassab be saved by the intercession of its history and location?

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Paris: Nor the Seround calls for Manifesting in Paris on March 31#sauvonsKessab #kessab

March 28, 2014 By administrator

Following the attack on the Armenian village of Kessab (Syria), for jihadis from Turkey, FRA Nor Seround new generation called for a demonstration on March 31 in front of the Turkish Embassy in Paris.

PROTEST CALL THE STRUGGLE AGAINST

The ethnic cleansing of Armenians Kessab sponsored by Ankara! FRA Nor Seround calling for demonstrations against the criminal policy of the Turkish state to denounce the operation completion of the Armenian genocide orchestrated by Erdogan.

The terrorist attack Kessab by jihadists sent by Turkey Friday 21 March, has forced nearly 670 families forced exile. FRA Nor Seround expresses its strong indignation and denounce the control of the Turkish state to continue its anti-Armenian policy planning removal and deportation of the Armenian population from their historical lands.

Engaging WE ALL

Against racism – against terrorism – against the genocidal policies

OF THE TURKISH STATE!

All in front of the Turkish Embassy in Paris

Monday, March 31 At 18:30

Place of Bolivia / Rue d’Ankara – Metro: Passy (line 6)

National Bureau FRA Nor Seround – France

France Situation Kessab – Press Office of the French Armenian Cause #Kessab

March 28, 2014 By administrator

The attacks were the object of the villagers Kessab in Syria Friday, March 21 last aroused deep emotion and very serious concerns in Armenia as well as among Armenian Diaspora communities. Recalling then so bloody horrors suffered by the Armenian people in the last century, this offensive dictated by Ankara and executed by jihadist forces against the village of the former Ottoman Empire, populated descendants of survivors Armenian Genocide is for the sole purpose of eliminating Armenian track that had endured so far. This is a real ethnic cleansing that runs back into the indifference of world powers that have the duty and responsibility to intervene to stop these atrocities and protect the inhabitants of this village who aspire to live in peace.

In this context disorder, many steps have already been completed by the Office of the French Armenian Cause, the Defence Committee of the Armenian Cause, and ARF ARF ARF Nor Seround who took action to raise awareness political circles of the urgency and the gravity of the situation. An appeal has been launched to parliamentarians asking them to enter the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Turkish authorities require the immediate cessation of armed operations against civilians Kessab and with representatives of the Syrian rebellion for immediate withdrawal of troops jihadists.

A protest to the call of the FRA Nor Seround be held this Monday, March 31 at 18:30 in front of the Turkish Embassy in Paris.

We rely on the massive presence of each of you to express our indignation and mobilization alongside our fellow Kessab. We will notify you of our next steps on this issue.

Paris, 27 March 2014

The French Bureau of the Armenian Cause

#savekessab A call to all Armenians worldwide Armenians Kessab

March 28, 2014 By administrator

Armenians Kessab after fleeing attacks by extremist militants in Turkey and refugees currently living in Latakia, launched an appeal to all Armenians worldwide. The full text of the letter is below.

“The March 21, 2014 our beautiful city was brutally attacked by extremists linked to al-Qaeda, with the blessing and logistical support of the Turkish government and its military.

“Before sunrise, we woke up to the horror of a rain of missiles and rockets falling on our city. Thousands of extremists have crossed borders to our city. Missiles were fired from Turkey to destroy the beautiful Kessab and to celebrate the approach of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Kessabtsis heroes defended the city with their simple hunting weapons until Syrian government forces are fighting in our city. If Kessabtsis have not been informed to leave their homes by these heroes, the world would have seen in silence yet another genocide would have understood by all the media lies another version.

“Kessab has always been home to thousands of Armenians for centuries. The first Kessab heartbreaking tragedy happened in April 1909, when a crowd of thousands of Turks attacked Kessab flying and burning houses. 161 Armenians were killed in this brutal attack. In 1915, during the Armenian Genocide, the Turkish troops entered Kessab and began to deport the Armenians killed nearly 5,000 Armenians Kessab. The Armenian genocide by the Turks in 1915 claimed the lives of a million and a half Armenians. More Armenians were killed in Syria if nothing had been done. Arabs in Syria have protected us, took care of us, helped us back on our feet and helped us survive through this horrible memories of death and destruction and we will be eternally grateful. Since we lived in peace and harmony with other religion, like a big family in a house called Syria.

“Today, we need help again, because, unfortunately, the Turkish government has dared to attack the Armenians once again ignoring the Armenian case. With this act Turkey refused, once again, to recognize the Armenian genocide carried out by the Turks and assist in the killing of more Armenians in Syria. We have nothing against the Turkish people. We lived as neighbors with them and you want to continue to live as neighbors with them. This is the Turkish government, which supports and facilitates the murder of Kessabtsis by terrorists that we criticize. We just want to find our city or what remains of it. We are heartbroken by the numerous videos and pictures that show how these extremists are destroying our beautiful city and burn heart. All Syrians know where these extremists come, death and destruction left behind them.

“Our houses we were taken centuries of heritage were destroyed.

“This is a call to all Armenians. This is a call to humanity. The world needs to hear the truth. Erdogan and his government are war criminals. We need your help. We need to take action. Our lives depend on the actions that you will do to ensure that we do not die. We were forced to leave our homes and our city with nothing but the clothes we wear. If we had taken even the bare necessities, we would certainly be dead. Most of us can not even escape it, because we do not have our passports or identification documents. Please call for the intervention of your governments, the UN, any other authority which you think could help us. All we want to do is live. If you ignore this, we will all die a horrible death at the hands of these terrorists massacred in cold blood like many other Armenians in Aleppo, Yacoubiyeh, Ghenemiyeh and around Syria.

“Those who you call rebels are extremists who came to Syria for jihad with many nationalities among them as Afghans, Chechens and Saudis. The Kessabtsis and throughout Syria have seen and have been attacked and killed by them. The media can not hide the truth forever. Those you call rebels target attacks against civilians and.

“We all live in peace and happy, there is only three years. This is not a revolution, this is war. And the Syrian army is now Kessab, fights to ensure that the Armenians will return home safely. ”

When Turkey’s FM caught red handed he implies espionage from within ministry over Syria leak

March 28, 2014 By administrator

ANKARA

Ahmet Davutoğlu went ballistic after the leak, saying that everyone potentially implicated would be investigated.

Hurriyet daily news The leak of a recording of top security officials discussing possible military action in Syria to the video-sharing website YouTube is a violation of confidentiality of the State of the Republic of Turkey, thus no one and no institution will be immune from being investigated over the incident, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said.

“Everything and everybody is being investigated in the most meticulous way,” Davutoğlu said in an interview aired live on NTV news channel on March 28.

In response to a question urging him to elaborate, the minister said “everything” included an internal probe at his ministry too, while underlining the incident constituted a case of cyber-attack against the confidentiality of the state.

“There were ordinary pawns used in this tapping. Fellow staff members have been assessing alternatives which may be related to this tapping technology,” Davutoğlu first of all said, when boldly asked to name the perpetrators of the tapping and was reminded of the fact he earlier said, “They have been using the ‘parallel structure’ inside [the state].”

Davutoğlu’s remarks, since he used the term “parallel structure,” signals that the ongoing hostility between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the movement of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen is likely to reach a new high with the latest leak.

The term “parallel state” or “parallel structure” is commonly used by critics to refer to the Gülen movement. Gülen has been in voluntary exile in the United States for over a decade. The alleged “parallel state” is accused by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of orchestrating a corruption scandal to unseat him. The related investigation went public in mid-December 2013 and triggered a huge counter-reaction from the AKP, particularly in the judiciary, as it aimed to contain the damage from the probe, which involved the sons of three former ministers and businesspeople known to be close to the government.

“It is a room where a jammer is used,” Davutoğlu said, referring to a device system used as a measure against being tapped.

“Whichever hands that used these pawns; there is no difference between launching an attack via violating the border or tapping confidential meetings of the state. This is an open attack. Any other violation committed in a different way may remain local, such as violation [of the border] by a plane. However, if such a cyber-attack is launched at a meeting where military and security options were discussed, then it is no different than a military attack.”

Upon such an interpretation, Davutoğlu was asked whether the response would be “militaristic.”

“I’m just saying in regards to the content. Otherwise, Turkey is a state governed by the rule of law and [the response] would be given within these rules. First, the pawns; and then whoever is behind these pawns, them,” Davutoğlu said.

Deputy PM dismisses MİT role

Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç has dismissed any possibility that the MİT could be involved with the leak. “Thinking that the MİT could have leaked it is inconceivable,” he said, describing the incident as “treason to the state.”

“This is an extremely complex situation. It would even be beyond [Turkish officials’] intelligence. If this is done by a [foreign service] without a spy inside, the technology used needs to be well-assessed,” Arınç said.

Meanwhile, a Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy accused one of the four officials attending the meeting of being a spy.

“The government constantly accuses [the Gülen] movement, calling them a parallel organization. But it is clear that there are other parallel organizations within the government. They are the ones who recorded the meeting,” Lütfü Türkkan told daily Hürriyet.

March/28/2014