Opposition to the idea of the monument of Turkish soldiers in Krakow “Sign this petition”

February 1, 2018 By administrator

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Dear President,

Press reports about the possibility of erecting a monument in Kraków commemorating the stay of soldiers of the Turkish army in the Polish territories annexed by Austria during the First World War, confirmed by the spokesman of the city president, deeply appalled the Polish Armenian community.

In view of this idea, we express our outrage and resolute opposition.

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It was during this war that the authorities of the Turkish Empire decided to exterminate the Christian population, Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks in Anatolia and Mesopotamia, their own citizens, the eternal inhabitants of these lands. One of the proofs of the Turkish crime are telegrams sent to Washington by the then US ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau. The key telegram reads:

Deportations and excesses against peaceful Armenians are mounting, and shocking eyewitness reports suggest that the campaign of racial extermination is taking place under the pretense of retaliation for insurgency. Protests and threats are futile and are likely to stimulate the Ottoman government for more drastic measures, because it is determined to deny responsibility.

Rafał Lemkin, Polish lawyer of Jewish origin, studying just after the war
The Jagiellonian University and the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv, then the founder of the definition of genocide adopted by the UN General Assembly, wrote about these terrible events:

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In Turkey, more than 1,200,000 people have been killed for no other reason than that they were Christians. […] The nation was killed and the guilty were released. […] The persecution of the Armenians, a strong Christian element living in the very heart of the Mohammedan religion, was inevitable because the fundamental principles of the Koran stood in total opposition to the teaching of Christ […]. There was no place in the Ottoman Empire for people of Christian faith. […] Crime has been
carried out systematically.

The empire army was entrusted with executing the decision of the authorities. Ruthlessly, Turkish soldiers killed men, raped women, rushed civilians in long marches of death across the desert, until almost all persecuted perished.

During the Holocaust, around 1916, the Armenian Archbishop of Lviv, Józef Teodorowicz, devised a rescue plan consisting in bringing several thousand Armenians from Turkey to Eastern Galicia and settling them among the Polish Armenians. The Austro-Hungarian authorities, allied with the genocidal Turkish regime, made it impossible to carry out the intention of our archbishop.

It is for these reasons that we appeal to the City Council of Krakow for blocking the plan to commemorate soldiers of the army, which is guilty of the crime of genocide of the Christian population in the name of militant Islam.

We remind you of the fundamental ethical duty that Rafał Lemkin wrote about:

You have to get the nations to understand that an attack on each of them is an attack on all of them.

May this indication find a response in the community of the city of Krakow and among all Poles, after all also murdered in the twentieth century by genocide.

On behalf of the Management Board and members of the OTK,
and a large group of sympathizers
after the President of the OTK
Krzysztof Stefanowicz

The city of #Krakow is planning to erect a monument honoring the Ottoman army during the first World War, perpetrator of the #ArmenianGenocide.
By signing this petition, we express our firm objection and indignation. https://t.co/bai4nxBlqP

— EAFJD (@eafjd) February 1, 2018

Kurdish fighters PKK bombing kills 2 Turkish soldiers in Batman province

August 13, 2017 By administrator

At least two Turkish soldiers have been killed in a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) bomb attack in the country’s southeastern province of Batman.

The Saturday blast took place as the PKK detonated a road bomb as a military convoy was passing through a rural area in the province’s Sason district.

The soldiers succumbed to their wounds after being moved to a local hospital.

Turkish security forces have launched a ground and air operation to hunt down the militants across the region.

A shaky ceasefire between the PKK and the Turkish government collapsed in July 2015. Attacks on Turkish security forces have soared ever since.

Over the past few months, Turkish ground and air forces have been carrying out operations against the PKK positions in the country’s southeastern border region as well as in northern Iraq and neighboring Syria.

Turkish Soldiers Terrorizing Syrian Refugees, Video Shows

July 30, 2017 By administrator

A video released on social media shows Turkish soldiers beating a group of young Syrian refugees who were caught trying to enter Turkey.

The Turkish soldiers are seen beating the refugees and asking them: “Why do you come to Turkey?” “What is in Turkey for you?” “Where are you going to go in Turkey? Are you going to go to İstanbul?” “Are you going to come Turkey again?” and “Why did you help refugees cross the border? Are you refugee smugglers?”

The undated video taken by a Turkish soldier who also beat young Syrians ends with a soldier saying: “We will indeed see you at the outpost,” a clear threat that they will treat them worse at a military outpost.

Young Syrians are seen collecting cigarette butts on the ground, a punishment usually reserved for Turkish soldiers, while being beaten by the soldiers.

@MuratzenciTR, who shared the video on Twitter, said: “When you watch this without sound, you would think that [Bashar Al] Assad’s soldiers are torturing the Syrians. It is a shock when you watch it with sound…”

The soldiers have been detained and an investigation launched into them due to “unacceptable behavior,” said the Turkish military in a written statement on Sunday afternoon, confirming the video.

According to the statement the young Syrians were detained as they were trying to enter Turkey illegally at 11:00 on July 28, and were afterwards deported. (turkishminute.com)

Kurdish liberation Army PKK neutralized one Turkish soldiers and wounded two

June 18, 2017 By administrator

Kurdish liberation Army PKK eastern Tunceli province on Sunday in clash with Turkish security forces one soldier killed and two wounded

according to a local security source.

Kurdish liberation Army PKK it has neutralized some 1,200 Turkish security personnel

Kurdish freedom fighter (PKK) attack in eastern Turkey, At least three soldiers were “neutralized” and five others injured

October 30, 2016 By administrator

pkk-killed-turkish-soldiers Turkey At least three soldiers were killed and five others injured in an Kurdish freedom fighter (PKK) attack in eastern Turkey,

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to media, said the PKK militants attacked security forces with mortar shells in the Çukurca district in the Hakkari province.
One soldier is in critical condition, said the source.

October/29/2016

Also on Oct. 30 One soldier killed in PKK attack in Turkey’s east, attack in the eastern province of Hakkari, Doğan News Agency has reported.

PKK opened fire on soldiers in the Çukurca district of Hakkari.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded in a car bomb attack

July 25, 2015 By administrator

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded in a car bomb attack on their convoy in the mainly Kurdish southeast of the country, the local governor’s office said Sunday.

The attack came after the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebel group threatened to no longer observe a truce, following Turkish air strikes on its positions in northern Iraq.

The car bomb went off as the soldiers were travelling on a road in the Lice district of the Diyarbakir province late Saturday, the statement from the Diyarbakir governor’s office said.

“Two of our personnel were killed in the heinous attack, four were wounded,” said the statement, adding that large-scale operations have been launched to find the perpetrators.

The PKK had on Saturday said that the conditions were no longer in place to observe a fragile ceasefire that has largely held since 2013, following the heaviest Turkish air strikes on its positions in northern Iraq since 2011.

The PKK has for decades waged a deadly insurgency in the southeast of Turkey for self-rule that has claimed tens of thousands of lives. A peace process that began in 2013 has so far failed to yield a final deal.

(AFP)

The participation of Turkish soldiers in attacks of Armenian positions Azeri is confirmed

April 6, 2015 By administrator

Turkey would be engaged militarily behind the Azeri attacks in Karabakh
In an interview with Armenian website “Hetq” Movses Hakobyan the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh confirms the presence of Turkish soldiers in the Azeri army, especially during the attacks of Armenian positions in the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

Asked activation Azeri attacks on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Movses Hakobyan said “this tension is not new in 2013 and 2014, the situation was similar to that” neither war nor peace “with incessant violations of the boundary by the enemy. The target of all these operations is the Armenian, as a nation. The enemy is trying to use every opportunity to try to disrupt our country.

This is the 100th anniversary events of the Armenian Genocide. Especially that Turkey supports Azerbaijan on this and that there is a number of commands Turkey to Azerbaijan so that it maintains the voltage to disrupt the protests of our people related to the centennial of the genocide. “” We have data that prove the involvement of Turks in the attacks of the Azerbaijani army. An army which certain groups were trained in Turkey. »

Krikor Amirzayan

PKK: 12 Turkish soldiers and policemen killed in response to attacks on civilian Kurds

August 22, 2014 By administrator

August 22, 2014

QANDIL,— The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) said in a statement on Thursday that its guerrilla forces had carried out a series of retaliatory actions on Wednesday evening in response to the attacks in Lice in southeastern Turkey where a civilian was killed by Turkish troops after the demolition of a statue of Mahsum Korkmaz, Agit, a leading commander of PKK, at the “Şehîd Amed u Hevîdar Şehitliği” (Martyrs’ Cemetery) on August 19. Report by ekurd.com

PKK said a total of 9 Turkish soldiers and policemen were killed in guerrilla actions in Karaz (Kocaköy) village of Diyarbakir in Turkish Kurdistan, and 3 soldiers were killed in Lice.

According to the statement, the first retaliatory action was carried out in Karaz village of Diyarbakir where guerrilla forces deployed in three separate positions targeted the police headquarters, military lodging and district governor’s residence on August 20 evening. PKK remarked that following the guerrilla action, in which 9 soldiers and policemen were killed, the Turkish military delivered the casualties to Diyabakir.

Another action PKK said- targeted the Angul military post’s security hill, leaving one soldier dead the same day.

The statement remarked that Kurdish guerrilla forces also carried out an attack withwww.Ekurd.net heavy weaponry on the Korxê military post in Lice district on August 20. Two Turkish soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in the guerrilla action.

PKK noted that guerrillas also carried out a warning action against the Turkish army which -it added- didn’t fulfill what is necessary for the resolution process- hitting the Amutka military post under construction in Aliboğazı area in Dersim the same day. The exact number of casualties couldn’t be made clear, PKK added.

Turkey is seeking to restart stalled peace talks with the PKK to end a conflict that has claimed an estimated 40,000 lives.

Erdogan, who was elected president this month, launched clandestine negotiations with jailed Kurdish PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in 2012.

In a statement from his cell on the prison island of Imrali, Ocalan said last Saturday that Turkey was on the verge of “historic developments” and that the conflict was “coming to an end”.

Last week, Ocalan met chief of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), Hakan Fidan, in his island prison. Sources said Ocalan received positive responses to his demands related to the “establishment of a monitoring board and negotiation delegations, as well as the improvement of working conditions,” sources said.

Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, with the aim of creating an independent Kurdish state, but now limited its demands to to establish an autonomous Kurdish region and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds.