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İYİ Party leader Akşener claims civilians receiving weapons training in camps in Turkey

January 3, 2018 By administrator

According to Akşener, they are being prepared for the election season and would be used to stir chaos if the results disappoint the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).

İYİ (Good) Party leader Meral Akşener has claimed civilians are receiving weapons training in camps in the Black Sea province of Tokat and the Central Anatolian province of Konya, daily Sözcü reported on Jan. 2.

“We have heard about these training camps in Tokat and Konya. They should be investigated and the results should be shared with us,” Akşener said in an interview.

Akşener said some people who have been seen “moving around with long-range guns lately” are told to be linked to these training camps.

Although she said these were still speculations, Akşener warned citizens and asked for precautions to be taken starting now, before the election season begins.

Akşener mentioned a single group’s name in the interview when talking about the training camps.

“One of them is a structure called ‘SADAT,’” Akşener said.

In mid-2016, a main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) lawmaker said the SADAT International Defense Consultancy, established in the early 2000s by soldiers dismissed from the military due to “reactionary activities,” is a company close to the AKP and offers “irregular warfare training” in various fields including “intelligence, psychological warfare, sabotage, raiding, ambushing, and assassination.”

The head of SADAT, retired brigadier Adnan Tanrıverdi, denies the opposition’s allegations that the company gives weapons training to civilians.

“What they want to do is to repel voters from the elections,” Akşener said.

“They are trying to scare voters by saying SADAT members or some other armed group will be on duty in the elections,” Akşener added.

“They are worried they won’t be able receive more than 50 percent of the votes in the presidential elections. That’s where the unease is coming from,” Akşener said, referring to the AKP.

But the people should not be discouraged from voting, Akşener warned.

“I tell them not to be scared. We need serenity, and we will establish it,” the İYİ Party leader said.

When asked about the possibility of snap elections, Akşener said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Erdoğan would not miss the chance.

“The Erdoğan I know will have the presidential elections before the local elections, and he will do it on July 15,” Akşener said.

“Erdoğan would not miss that date for the world,” she added.

“I anticipate the presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on July 15, 2018. It falls on a Sunday, that is the expectation,” Akşener had told journalists on Dec. 28.

Turkey is scheduled to hold three elections in 2019, and the change in the governance system, stipulated by the constitutional amendments approved in the April referendum, will fully be in effect after the presidential elections and parliamentary elections.

“Erdoğan will never hold local elections before the general elections. Because they receive fewer votes in local elections,” Akşener said.

Stressing that the İYİ Party will present its own candidate in the presidential elections, she said she wants to form an alliance with the liberal Democratic Party (DP) and the conservative Felicity Party (SP).

Source: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/iyi-party-leader-aksener-claims-civilians-receiving-weapons-training-in-camps-in-turkey-125102

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: civilians, receiving, training, Turkey, weapons

Boston-Area Teachers Receive Training on Armenian Genocide Education

August 20, 2016 By administrator

genocide-trainingWATERTOWN, Massachusetts—The Genocide Education Project (GenEd) provided a full-day workshop on teaching about the Armenian Genocide for Boston-area History and English teachers on June 10th.

Held at the Armenian Library and Museum of America, the training covered historical context as well as various approaches to teaching the subject, including the use of survivor testimony, photographs, documentary film, book reading assignments, and persuasive composition. Teachers also met a local 106-year old Armenian Genocide survivor and were given a tour of the museum and library, and provided a traditional Armenian luncheon.

“I have been teaching for over 25 years and I have been to a lot of conferences, and this was by far one of the best. The survivor presentation was incredible as were the other speakers and many resources,” said Joanna Honig, Watertown High School English teacher.

Co-hosted by Armenian Library and Museum of America, the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Watertown and Boston Public Schools, and Project Save, and with the participation of the USC Shoah Foundation, the free workshop also provided numerous instructional materials, including a variety of lesson plans and a classroom poster and guidance through the downloadable resources, an online interactive lesson, and classroom videos accessible through GenEd’s website.

Sara Cohan, USC Shoah Foundation Armenian Education & Outreach Specialist and GenEd Education Adviser, discussed the value of the Armenian case in genocide coursework.  Cohan also introduced teachers to interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors filmed by documentary filmmaker, J. Michael Hagopian, and now being preserved, cataloged and posted online by USC Shoah Foundation.

Dr. Dikran Kaligian, historian and GenEd Board member, provided the historical and political context, timeline, and methodology of the Armenian Genocide, as well as the U.S. humanitarian response, and the government of Turkey’s denial of event and its ramifications on education, international affairs, and US policy.

GenEd Board Member Roxanne Makasdjian presented the biography of Genocide survivor Asdghig Alemian and then conducted a live interview with Alemian.  After her father and the other men of the town were killed by Turkish authorities, Alemian, her mother, sister, and two brothers were forced onto the death march into Syria. After her two brothers died on the trek, her mother gave her five-year old Asdghig and her older sister to a Turkish policeman, who smuggled them in large bags of plums loaded onto a mule, to a Turkish home. There, the girls were treated as servants and abused, forced to denounce their Christian faith, and punished severely for speaking Armenian.

Asdghig was later sent to another Turkish home in Aleppo. Asdghig told the workshop teachers of the anguish she felt when separated from her sister. Her sister escaped and the two were rescued, spending several years at Aleppo’s Evangelical Armenian orphanage, before relocating to their uncle’s home in Massachusetts.  Asdghig married another Genocide survivor from Keghi and together they ran a grocery and raised a family.

“It was a great privilege for me to learn about Asdghig’s extraordinary life and introduce her to the educators, to allow us all the benefit of her life experience and inner strength,” said Makasdjian.

Ruth Thomasian, Executive Director of Project SAVE – the Armenian Photograph Archive, discussed how she collects and uses family photographs as a teaching tool and window into the life of Armenians in the past.

Marc Mamigonian, Director of Academic Affairs at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research focused on how novels and memoirs about the Armenian Genocide are valuable resources for English Language Arts and Humanities courses. Highlighting the books Forgotten Fire, Black Dog of Fate, Goodbye Antoura, and My Name is Aram, Mamigonian described their value both as good literature and as historical instruction.

The Genocide Education Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization that assists educators in teaching about human rights and genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, as the prototype for genocide in the modern era.

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, Genocide, Massachusetts, training

Armenia Defense Army air defense forces detect Azerbaijani training flights

July 13, 2016 By administrator

azerbaijan trainingOn July 13, at 08:26 Azerbaijan launched military training flights by planes and helicopters at the depth of 30 kilometers from the southwestern direction of the Line of Contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

As of 11:00 a.m., 12 planes and 41 helicopters were involved in the training flights, according to the press release by NKR Defense Army.

“NKR air defense forces control Azerbaijani training flights through radiolocation firing and observation points and detect their actions alertly, reads the statement.

 

Source Panorama.am

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh, training, training camp

Turkey: ISIL child training camp discovered in Istanbul: Report

October 19, 2015 By administrator

isan.thumbA total of 24 of around 50 suspects of Tajik and Uzbek origin, who were detained for having links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Istanbul on Oct. 18, have been revealed to be children being trained in basement apartments in Istanbul’s Pendik and Başakşehir districts, the Hurriyet Daily News reports, citing daily Vatan.

The suspects were reported to have trained children in basement apartments in Pendik and Başakşehir, using the apartments as militant training camps, according to physical and technical surveillance collected by Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit officers before raiding 18 separate homes in Pendik and Başakşehir’s Kayaşehir neighborhood.

The suspects, mostly Uzbeks, who were detained in the Oct. 18 raids were reported to have lectured children on the basics of ISIL as well as how to live in an Islamic state.

In August, the Uzbekistan Islamic Movement, an al-Qaeda offshoot based near the Afghan border, announced allegiance to ISIL.

Uzbek intelligence sources reported that more than 5,000 paid Uzbek militants were fighting in Syria alongside ISIL.

Turkey has stepped up anti-terror police operations against ISIL militants in the country, as the Oct. 10 twin blasts in the Turkish capital sent shockwaves through the country, with at least 102 civilians dead and hundreds of others injured.

Thirteen ISIL-linked suspects have reportedly been detained so far within the investigation launched into the Ankara bombing.

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Armenian military medics trained by US peers

August 28, 2015 By administrator

f55e05a6c3ec30_55e05a6c3ec6c.thumbOn August 28th, US Ambassador Richard M Mills, Jr. and Armenian Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan attended the graduation ceremony for 12 trainers of military medics of the Armenian Army who are the first graduates of an innovative medical training course taught by members of the US military.
For the past three months, six US Army personnel have led classes for the Armenian military medics, who will now serve as instructors for the Armenian military paramedic school. The course is a collaboration between the US Embassy’s Office of Defense Cooperation and the Armenian Ministry of Defense, designed to improve the medical treatment of Armenian military wounded, reports the US Embassy’s press service.

“You will save lives. Thanks to you, more of your brothers and sisters in arms will return home from places that others fear to tread, dangerous places where you agree to go in the name of peace,” Ambassador Mills told the graduates.

The US military’s training team of highly skilled and experienced US Army sergeants and an officer led the Armenian military medics through an extensive course of the latest techniques, based on the same curriculum used to teach American military medics. Thousands of pages of material were translated into Armenian, marking the first time the course has been offered in a language other than English. As a result of this successful partnership, other nations are requesting the US military conduct similar courses in their native languages.

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ARMENIAN ARMY In Armenia the number of military officers who received military training senior increases every year

July 31, 2015 By administrator

arton114611-480x316Thursday, July 30, Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan met at the Military Academy the new officers of the Armenian Army. S. Ohanyan welcomed and congratulated the new military cadres of the Armenian Army trained in Armenia, but also in military academies in Russia, China, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Germany and the United States. The Armenian Defense Minister said that the formation of these frames of Armenian Army would strengthen the military power of Armenia by giving its staff a discipline and a greater knowledge. Seyran Ohanian also welcomed the officers trained at the Military Academy in Armenia which provides training of the highest level. “Each year the number of our officers and military officers who have received high-level training is increasing,” says Ohanian.

Krikor Amirzayan

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Syria Militants Confess to Receiving Training in Turkey

July 7, 2015 By administrator

This photo released by Syria’s official news agency, SANA, on June, 6, 2015

This photo released by Syria’s official news agency, SANA, on June, 6, 2015

DAMASCUS (PressTV)—A number of foreign-backed Takfiri militants, who have been arrested by the Syrian army, have confessed that they were trained in Turkey by the United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The Takfiri militants, who were caught recently in the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo, confessed in interviews broadcast by Syrian state TV on Sunday that military personnel from the US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar had trained them on Turkish soil.

One of the terrorists, identified as Ahmad Mustafa Mastari, said that he, along with other members of a terrorist group, had been sent to Aleppo after receiving military training in Turkey for 30 days.

He added that the foreign personnel had trained them for 45 days in the Syrian city of Salqin before they were trained in Turkey.

“I was among the force that attacked Jam’yat al-Zahraa in Aleppo, we were about 250 persons, but the operation failed and we were arrested by the army” Mastari said.

Mohammad Aqel Akk said a group of terrorists, including himself, had been trained for 45 days in Salqin, adding that they were later sent to Turkey to complete their training.

He went on to say that besides receiving training, every trainee was given $200 USD in Turkey.

“We then returned to Aleppo and commenced a huge attack on army posts in Aleppo, but our operation was a failure and we got caught,” he added.

Qasem Abdullah, a terrorist who was caught by the Syrian army in Aleppo, said that he received five months of training in Turkey where he was receiving about $80 USD per month.

He added that he was among a group of 50 gunmen who took part in a failed attack in Aleppo.

“A number of us, including me, were injured in the attack and we decided to surrender to the army” he said.

Turkey is one of the main supporters of the Takfiri militancy against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with reports showing that Ankara actively trains and arms the militants operating in Syria, and facilitates the safe passage of would-be foreign terrorists into the country, which has been gripped by a devastating civil war since 2011.

Washington, along with its Western and Arab allies, has been among the major supporters of Takfiri extremists operating in Syria.

The US and Turkey signed a deal in February to train and arm militants in Syria.

On May 25, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said militants were being trained and equipped in the central Turkish city of Kirsehir under the joint Ankara-Washington program.

The mission, which officially started in June, will see more than 15,000 foreign-backed militants trained on Turkish soil in a three-year time period.  Over 120 US soldiers are reportedly in Turkey to train the militants.

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ANKARA, the epicenter for Middle-East atrocity will start training more Syria militants on May 9

May 3, 2015 By administrator

0a0b99a9-e7e6-4f89-9a84-342453e2bf33Turkey says it will start a program on May 9 to train and equip what it calls moderate militants fighting against the Syrian government.

A group of 300 militants will go through the first phase of the training program next Saturday, Turkish daily Yeni Şafak quoted the country’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu as saying on Saturday.

Çavuşoğlu added that a total of 2,000 militants will be trained by the end of the current year, claiming that the trained militants will fight both the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the ISIL Takfiri terrorists, who control parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq.

Ankara and Washington signed a deal to train and arm the militants following months-long talks on February 19. The program is aimed at training over 15,000 militants in three years. Over 120 US soldiers are reportedly in Turkey to train the militants.

Çavuşoğlu also noted that a secure zone inside Syria should be established for the militants.

Ankara will provide the militants with assistance such as “consultations,” the Turkish minister said, adding that no decision has been made on sending Turkish and American troops to Syria.

Turkey was one of the three countries that publicly expressed readiness to open its territory for the training of the militants.

“Saudi Arabia and Qatar have also announced that they will be hosting a train-and-equip program,” Çavuşoğlu said on February 20.

Turkey has time and again been accused of supporting the so-called Free Syrian Army and the ISIL in Syria.

Ankara has also come under fire for not doing enough to halt the advance of the ISIL as well as for its perceived reluctance to crack down on militants using its territory to travel into Syria, gripped by deadly unrest since March 2011.

The US and its regional allies — especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey — are supporting the militants operating inside the Arab country.

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Is Kirkuk next Kosovo? #Turkey is training Iraqi Sunni Turkmen just like what they did with KLA

April 14, 2015 By administrator

n_81040_1Turkish officers are participating in the training of 800 Sunni and Turkmen fighters in a camp located in al-Shikhan district 12 kilometers north of Mosul in northern Iraq.

The fighters receive military techniques including defusing explosive devices, a commander told Anadolu Agency on April 14.

http://globalsecuritystudies.com/NATO%20and%20the%20KLA%20TWO.pdf

The 1999 NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia had the dubious distinction of being the first time NATO aligned itself with a terrorist organization fighting an insurgency against a sovereign state. Defying the UN Security Council, the United States and its allies bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for 78 days, providing vital air support for the Kosovo Liberation Army. The result of this open for support for the KLA has helped to encourage ethnic Albanian separatists to use terrorism to start insurgencies in Serbia

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How more bizarre can it get? Turkey, U.S. will Train 15000 new terrorist called moderate Syrian rebels

February 17, 2015 By administrator

How much more you need to destroy Syria?

How much more you need to destroy Syria?

-Whose Army islamic state is ???

– How much more you need to destroy Syria??

Turkey and the United States have finalized the draft of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a program for training and equipping the moderate Syrian opposition, Hurriyet Daily News reported, citing a Turkish official.

In the coming days, officials from Turkey and the United States will sign the MoU, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday, Feb 17.

Bilgiç also said the training was likely to start in March.

A total of 15,000 Syrians will be trained in Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia over three years as part of the campaign against jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or IS) group and the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: islamic state, Syria, training, Turkey, US

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