Turks visit the last Armenian family of Derik on the occasion of the Holy Nativity

January 13, 2017 By administrator

In Derik is a town and a district of the province of Mardin in the south-east of Turkey, a group of inhabitants visited the only Armenian family in the region, on the occasion of the Nativity. According to the Turkish site Mardinlife, among the group of people who visited Derik’s only Armenian family, the writer Eyoub Gyuven said that the Armenians are among the peoples originating from the region and it is to congratulate the birth of Christ, the group visited with gifts to the last Armenian family that of Nayif Demirdji.

“The fact that Armenians have left this region is of great problem, but we remember them and bring them our congratulations on the occasion of the Holy Nativity” said Eyoub Gyuven. Recall that the Armenians did not leave the region of Mardin of their own free will. As on all the Ottoman Empire they were victims of the genocide between 1915 and 1923. Armenians who were massacred, died on the road of exile or who fled so as not to suffer the death programmed by the Turkish authorities.

Krikor Amirzayan

Romanian’s thought they liberated themselves from the Turks, not realizing electing Turkish Prime minister

December 21, 2016 By administrator

Muslim, Turkish Sevil Shhaideh set to be Romania’s first female prime minister.

Romania could be headed for its first female prime minister, an economist who is a member of Romania’s small Muslim and Turkish community.

Liviu Dragnea, chairman of Romania’s Social Democratic party, which won the parliamentary election, proposed Wednesday that Sevil Shhaideh take the post of prime minister. The announcement was a surprise because her name is not widely known in Romania.

Shhaideh, 52, is a member of the Social Democratic Party but did not run in the Dec. 1 elections. She was minister for regional development for six months in 2015, and is currently a senior official in the regional development ministry.

President Klaus Iohannis is consulting with political leaders before nominating a prime minister, who Parliament needs to approve. If approved by lawmakers, she would also become the country’s first Muslim prime minister.

Dragnea is banned from being premier because he has a conviction for election fraud.

Germany issues first verdict of case on threats against #ArmenianGenocide resolution

November 4, 2016 By administrator

genocide-first-verdict Germany issues first verdict on the cases of insulting the German MPs of Turkish origin for adoption the Armenian Genocide resolution by the Bundestag.

The administrative court of Berlin fined a Turk 600 euros for cursing the expert on foreign policy from the leftist party Sevim Daghdelen on the Facebook, reports Berliner Zeitung. Another defendant will pay 700 euros for calling the chairman of the Green Party, Cem Ozdemir “son of a bitch.

” Sevim Daghdelen appealed the court decision. “It’s good that the Internet is not in the legal field. I hope that the verdict will become a deterrent,” he said, adding that he reserves the right to take a legal action because of threats. Ozdemir, in his turn, assesses positively the fact that the insults and threats have become the subject of criminal investigations more often.

Switzerland A conference in the city of Caux meets Armenian Kurds and Turks

September 4, 2016 By administrator

armenian-kurd-turk-meeting In the city of Caux in Switzerland, participants of Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish discussed the Armenian Genocide, their common past, the present situation and the ways of reconciliation. As part of the conference “A fair governance for human security”, people from Armenia, Turkey, Lebanon, Spain and the Netherlands discussed the historical problems between the Armenian people, Turkish and Kurdish and solving ways of these problems today.

From July 12 to 18, participants of Armenian, Kurdish and Turkish gathered in the city of Caux, Switzerland, and discussed the Armenian Genocide, their common past, the current situation and paths to reconciliation. Every summer, “Initiative of Change” [Initiative for Change] is organizing a series of conferences with 8 sessions. Hundreds of people around the world share their experiences and discuss what should be done to create a better future. The common point of the participants is the fact that each of them has been affected by past or present conflicts. Together the participants discussed the common past that had affected their life spent far they were able to hear the stories of the “other” recounted live.

Speaking during the session ‘A fair governance for human security’, groups of Turkish-Armenian-Kurdish dialogue drew attention of participants from other countries. Armenians, Kurds and Turks from Armenia, Turkey, Lebanon, Spain and the Netherlands attended the sessions.

All Armenians in Lebanon are the grandchildren of survivors of the Genocide. The stories collected ancient family are themed so Kurdish Armenian cities become today. As part of this dialogue project, they told stories of their families relating to emigration and genocide. The grandchildren of the survivors, who were Mount Moussa, Zeitun and Urfa, who had started a new life in Lebanon – Nejteh, Christine and Nora – went to Mount Moussa where their ancestors had fought for their lives during 50 days.

“Where is my real home? “

Nejteh says he never thought it would be so much affected by this journey: “I knew Zeitoun that what I was told. We first went to Mersin, then Ardiyaman to attend a sunrise on Mount Nemrut. Zeitoun as we approached, we saw high mountains. Although I do not believe in this stuff, I felt that my earth started talking to me and welcome me. It’s a feeling that surprises you. Where is my real home? Is Bourj Hammoud or Armenia? Or the land of my ancestors? I did not go to Armenia, but I wonder if I feel the same way I felt in Zeitoun if I was in Armenia. Zeitoun is an inaccessible city, surrounded by mountains. I felt very moved when I thought my family lived here. There was a bridge. My parents fleeing the Genocide have they crossed this bridge? Have they drank the water from this fountain? What were the houses that belonged to them? It’s that kind of thoughts that came to me. This place is now called Suleymanh is not a very developed city.

villageges

Villagers are as welcoming as in other villages. They are hospitable. We have started a dialogue with villagers: I know a few words in Turkish. I told him I was from Lebanon and that I was Armenian. He said: “Welcome to the land of your ancestors.” So I took him in my arms and I cried like a little child. The village children took my hand and accompanied me to the fountain to wash my face. Ironically, I felt a little intimidated. All the villagers know that Armenians lived here. At one time. Some said: “They are just gone one day” and others said, “It is something happened and they left.” Others believe that the Germans and the English have driven a wedge between Armenians and Turks, and that’s why the Armenians are gone; strange explanation. How could they know the truth? They believe what they are told …

“I cried like a baby”

Taking the Turks in high esteem and confidence in the process of normalization between Armenians, Turks and Kurds despite a turbulent past,

Christine told us his trip to Mount Mousa: “My family is from the village of Bitlas in Mount Moussa region. She fled in the 1915 genocide before returning to the village. In 1939, the family had to flee again. My grandmother told me stories of our family. Ascent Mont Moussa, I felt a sense of belonging to this place. There was something special. We went to Vakifli the only Armenian village surviving today. There was a mass at the church. After all the suffering of the past, these people still live and pray here. I burst into tears when I entered the church; I cried like a child. Most villagers know that their house had once belonged to the Armenians. In the village of Yogunoluk we saw they had built a mosque where there was formerly a church. They converted the church into a mosque without demolishing it. I think they have to continue to use it as a holy place. I wondered if they had any Armenians here. When I asked, they said in the village lived a person named Hagop. I found it. He lives there with his wife’s son. He told me that his father fled to Egypt at the time of the Genocide and then had returned to Bitias. His father risked his life by returning there but he managed to survive. I hope that next year we will again visit the village, I want to see Hagop.

Danger of death

Christine does not like talking unpleasant experiences she had during a visit to Mount Moussa. Nora said she was really scared during the trip. She watched the Turkish and Kurdish participants as she spoke; it was obvious she was reluctant to tell him. As it was stressed, she began to talk about what happened to him. At some point of the journey, she found herself in a conversation with a person of the place in a hotel. Another Armenian Lebanese sought help from Christine to talk to this man. Christine began to translate. “They were all nationalists. I did not want to translate some things they said to me, because I feared that a fight broke out. Then they talked about history. As they were about to separate, Hagop [not that of Bitias] said “yes, home of my ancestors is here and we will ensure that they return some day.” I translated this sentence and the other was furious and threatened us with death. We returned to our rooms to avoid a scandal. A few minutes later, we heard gun shots. This man was back in the hotel with the intention of killing us. Even though I knew he would not do it, I was afraid. “

emigration stories

Artak comes from Spain. Artak’s ancestors were of Bitlis, Mush and Kars and they started a life in Spain. Having heard that his friends had told of their journey to Mount Moussa, he said he had never been to Mount Moussa before and that he did not feel ready for such a thing, “I think I could not stand it. “

During the conference, the focus was on the question of emigration. The stories of Kurdish and Turkish participants in the dialogue are also stories of emigration. Bedel is a Kurd from Midyat, farmhouse he lives in Holland. His family had to go to Midyat because of oppression and settle in Istanbul. They later emigrated to the Netherlands because of the political oppression they suffered in Istanbul. Tayfun comes also from the Netherlands, but his family is Ankara. He said his family has strong prejudices against the Kurdish and Armenian peoples. His main thesis regarding the Armenian Genocide, but he says he started with his own denial. When he wrote his thesis: “I started reading about the genocide. at some point, I felt that I could not deny. “ Tayfun has also noted that his family does not like his ideas. The conditions of the encounter between Tayfun Bedel and are interesting. These two people living outside Turkey today tried to tear down the wall between Kurds and Turks with the group of Kurdish-Turkish dialogue they created the Netherlands. Following this session, we realized that every people has different complaints he must overcome and that this is not as easy as you think. And the steps are still many before you arrive …

Caux Palace yesterday a hotel, conference center today

The conference I attended was held at the Caux Palace. Built in 1900-1902, it was the largest and most luxurious hotel in Switzerland at the time. Facing the Alps and Lake Geneva, the hotel went through a crisis due to the First World War. The hotel was closed at the beginning of World War II. He was re-opened by government decision in 1944 in order to keep the POWs fleeing Italy. In December, he hosted Jewish refugees from Hungary.

A group of people who believe that reconciliation in a Europe coins will be created through dialogue, looking for a place to organize conferences that bring together divided peoples. During this research, Caux Palace went on sale and they made the acquisition through the contribution of over 100 people. Subsequently, hundreds of volunteers took part in the renovation of the interior. Opened in 1946, the conference center maintains this tradition of volunteerism. The first Caux reconciliation event took place in 1946- 1950 between French and Germans. In recent years, it became a meeting place for African leaders and representatives of the former colonial countries. India, Japan, the USA, Lebanon, Cambodia, Somalia and South Africa were part of Caux. A delegation of Sud6tyrol visited the place. In recent years, countries like Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Israel have been in Caux search dialog countries; Armenia and Turkey are also parties in this research. In the conferences in Caux every year, hundreds of people share their story. In 2015, 1421 people attended lectures, 55% were women …

Vardouhi Balyan

July 26, 2016

weekly AGOS

Translation Gilbert Béguian

Sunday, September 4, 2016,
Stéphane © armenews.com

Germany: Far-right anti-Erdogan protest allowed to go ahead in Cologne on day of demonstrations

July 30, 2016 By administrator

turkish-protest-germany A court in Münster has given permission for a far-right protest against Turkish President Erdogan to take place on Sunday in Cologne. Erdogan supporters will also be taking to the streets of the western German city.

A spokesman for the Higher Administrative Court in Münster confirmed on Saturday that it had rejected an appeal by Cologne police to ban an anti-Erdogan demonstration called by the far-right political party Pro NRW for Sunday.

The court upheld an earlier decision by a Cologne court to allow the demonstration to go ahead, despite police fears that violent members of the HoGeSa (Hooligans Against Salafists) group could join in the protest.

The demonstration is to take place under the motto “No tributes to Erdogan in Germany: Stop the Islamist autocrat from the Bosporus” in response to a planned rally by up to 30,000 Erdogan supporters in the city on the same day.

No Erdogan live presentation

The Münster court, which is responsible for administrative disputes, also rejected an appeal by the organizers of the pro-Erdogan demonstration to be allowed to show the Turkish president live on a large screen during the event.

Police have voiced fears that such a presentation could cause participants to become over-excited.

Police in Cologne are planning to deploy 2,300 officers and have six water cannon on hand in case violence does break out at any of the demonstrations planned in the city on Sunday, which also include rallies by leftists and youth organizations affiliated with German parties.

Erdogan critics ‘targeted’

In comments carried in the Saturday edition of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” newspaper, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called on participants in the pro-Erdogan demonstration to display moderation.

Steinmeier said it was “not permissible” to bring domestic political tensions from Turkey to Germany or to intimidate people with different political views.

The leader of the Greens, Cem Özdemir, also criticized alleged attempts at intimidation ahead of the demonstration, telling newspapers of the Funke media group that critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan among Germany’s Turkish community were being targeted.

Özdemir said that demonstrations for or against Turkish leaders had to take place “on the basis of the [German] legal system.”

“An atmosphere of fear must not be created,” he said.

Turkey in turmoil

Sunday’s demonstrations come as Erdogan continues with purges of the army, judiciary, the education system and the media following a failed coup on July 15.

Critics of the president fear that he might be using the coup as an excuse to increase his already tight political grip on the country.

Some three million people of Turkish origin live in Germany, making it the world’s largest Turkish diaspora.

tj/jlw (AFP, dpa)

PKK says 442 Kurdish fighters, 2,982 Turkish police killed since last year

July 28, 2016 By administrator

QANDIL,— Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing, the HPG, has released casualty figures of the past year’s clashes between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish army according to which 442 guerrillas and 2,982 Turkish police and soldiers have been killed.

In a statement issued on Tuesday the HPG also said the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was “solely accountable” for the war and the destruction of Kurdish cities in the country.

“The AKP government was never committed to the peace process. It started a propaganda war before launching its indiscriminate offensive on July 24, 2015 which led to the total destruction of Kurdistan,” the statement reads and accuses the army of having used “the heaviest weapons with most destructive technology” against Kurdish cities.

According to the released data, the Turkish army has launched 356 land operations, 658 areal bombardments, 1649 heavy artillery shelling, 110 direct clashes since July last year.

The PKK guerrillas have during the same period carried out 1199 “actions”, destroying 386 military vehicles, 15 tanks, 4 Cobra helicopters and targeting 110 military checkpoints.

The numbers of the prisoners are accordingly 16 guerrillas and 13 soldiers and policemen.

The Turkish army has not commented on the figures although it has released different numbers in the past and put the death toll for the guerrillas considerably higher.

The balance sheet released by PKK of war in Turkish Kurdistan cities and towns for the period between 24 July 2015 and 23 July 2016.

The balance sheet for one year is as follows:

Members of state forces killed: 2218
Members of state forces injured: 690
Members of state forces taken prisoner: 2
Armored vehicles destroyed: 457
Armored vehicles damaged: 307
1 Sikorsky helicopter and 1 train were damaged
Drones downed: 65
PKK members martyred: 363
PKK members injured: 15
PKK members taken prisoner: 16
Civilians martyred: 298
Civilians injured: 27

PKK units also seized a large quantity of ammunition from Turkish state forces and destroyed several arms and vehicles belonging to Turkish forces.

Turkey has frequently bombed PKK bases inside Kurdistan region after clashes resumed between Ankara and Kurdish guerrillas in July 2015.

The PKK has some 5,000 guerrilla soldiers stationed mostly in the remote bordering areas of Iraq’s Kurdistan region.

Since July 2015, Turkey initiated a controversial military campaign against the PKK in the country’s southeastern Kurdish region after Ankara ended a two-year ceasefire agreement. Since the beginning of the campaign, Ankara has imposed several round-the-clock curfews, preventing civilians from fleeing regions where the military operations are being conducted.

Observers say the crackdown has taken a heavy toll on the Kurdish civilian population and accuse Turkey of using collective punishment against the minority.

Activists have accused the security forces of causing huge destruction to urban centres and killing Kurdish civilians.

Pro-Kurdish opposition political parties say about 1,000 civilians, mostly Kurds, have perished in the fighting, since the Turkish offensive against the PKK centred in towns and cities in Turkish Kurdistan.

The PKK took up arms in 1984 against the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to push for greater autonomy for the Kurdish minority who make up around 22.5 million of the country’s 78-million population. A large Turkey’s Kurdish community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.

The PKK statement came only a day after the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) co-leader Selahettin Demirtas announced that the party intended to initiate talks between the PKK and Ankara after they stalled last year prior to the elections.

Demirtas has said the HDP plans to send two delegations to PKK leadership in Qandil Mountain in the Iraqi Kurdistan and Imrali Island on the Mediterranean coast where the influential PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan is imprisoned and has been rejected to meet his HDP mediator since early last year.

Source: http://ekurd.net/kurdish-fighters-turkish-police-2016-07-28

Turkey: All terrorist were Turks 13 suspects indicted and imprisoned for Istanbul bombing

July 4, 2016 By administrator

turks terrorist Thirteen suspects, including ten Turks, were charged and jailed Sunday night in Istanbul for “membership of a terrorist organization”, in connection with the triple suicide bombing that killed 45 people on Tuesday in the airport of the Turkish megapolis, reported Dogan news agency.

The suspects are also accused of “undermining the unity of the state and the people” and “intentional homicide”, the agency said, without specifying the nationality of the foreigners.

As part of the investigation, police arrested 29 people “including foreigners,” said Sunday the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters.

“All will be revealed in time, we are conducting a broad investigation into the matter,” he added.

The governorate of Istanbul for his part said Sunday in a statement that 49 people were still treated, including 17 in intensive care. The Turkish authorities had reported on Thursday a record of foreigners among 19 killed, without giving a precise count.

The attack, the fourth and the deadliest in Turkey since the beginning of the year, has still not been claimed but Turkish officials have pointed to the Islamic State group (EI).

The authorities said that suicide bombers were a Russian, an Uzbek and Kyrgyz while the Anadolu agency, she has advanced the names of Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov, without specifying their nationality. The former Soviet republics of Central Asia are among the most important providers jihadists in Syria and Iraq.

Turkish media have identified a Chechen Akhmed Chataev named as the mastermind of the bombing of the airport. It would be the head of EI in Istanbul, the daily Hurriyet.

Moreover, a team of 80 members of the special police forces started from Sunday to patrol the airport in question, one of the busiest in Europe, and its terminals, according to media.

Istanbul Bombers Said To Be Turks From Russia, Uzbekistan, And Kyrgyzstan

June 30, 2016 By administrator

An armed Turkish policeman patrols behind a police line following the attack at Ataturk international airport in Istanbul on June 29.

By RFE/RL June 30, 2016

A Turkish official has said three suspected Islamic State (IS) suicide bombers who attacked Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport this week were from Russia, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.

Authorities also announced the detention of 13 more people, including three foreign nationals, in connection with the June 28 gun-and-bomb attack that killed at least 43 people and injured more than 200 more.

The attack on Europe’s third-busiest airport was the deadliest in a series of suicide bombings in Turkey this year, and the latest of more than a dozen major attacks in that country in the past 12 months.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Ankara has blamed the IS militant group.

Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, told journalists after the suspected perpetrators’ identities were leaked on June 30 that he had no information regarding the involvement of any Russian citizen in the attack.

“I do not have any information on that matter,” Karlov said.

Interfax quoted Russian law enforcement as disputing that one of those named had ever lived in Chechnya, as local media suggested.

A spokesman for Kyrgyzstan’s Interior Ministry, Ernis Osmonbaev, meanwhile told RFE/RL that the government was “investigating the reports.”

“At this point, we cannot say that our citizen was among [the attackers],” Osmonbaev said.

Uzbekistan’s security service could not immediately be reached for comment.

To varying degrees, all three of those post-Soviet states are said to be sources of IS recruits who have traveled to fight in the Middle East, where the group has declared a “caliphate” in swaths of conflict-torn Syria and Iraq.

INFOGRAPHIC: Foreign Fighters In Iraq & Syria — Where Do They Come From?

Russian officials say thousands of its citizens have fled to join the IS military effort in Syria — representing as much as around 10 percent of IS’s foreign fighting force. Russia has also battled a long-running Islamist-fueled insurgency in its North Caucasus region, including in Chechnya and Daghestan.

Kyrgyz authorities have reported thwarting a number of terrorist attacks in that predominantly Muslim country that they said were planned by IS members, and they have tried to crack down on alleged recruiters for the group.

Officials in Uzbekistan, which is also predominantly Muslim, have warned of IS recruiting efforts there not only for fighters but also targeting “specialists” including engineers and doctors. Authorities in Tashkent have estimated that many hundreds of Uzbek nationals have joined the fight alongside IS in Syria.

The Turkish official who was quoted by local and Western media as identifying the nationalities of the attackers on June 30 declined to be named because details of the investigation have not yet been released. He did not disclose any further details.

Links To North Caucasus

Investigators had been struggling to identify the bombers from their limited remains.

The pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said the Russian bomber was from Daghestan, which borders restive Chechnya in Russia’s long-beleaguered North Caucasus region.

Yeni Safak said the suspected organizer of the attack was a man of Chechen origin called Akhmed Chatayev. Chatayev is identified on a United Nations sanctions list as an IS leader responsible for training Russian-speaking militants, and he is wanted by Russian authorities.

Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper named one of the attackers as a Chechen, Osman Vadinov, and said he had come from Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS militants in Syria and Iraq.

But Interfax quoted Russian law enforcement as disputing anyone with that name had ever lived in Chechnya.

The Dogan news agency said the Russian attacker had entered Turkey one month ago and left his passport in a house the men had rented in the Istanbul neighborhood of Fatih.

The Karsi newspaper, quoting police sources, said the three suspected attackers were part of a seven-person cell who entered Turkey on May 25. The attackers raised the suspicion of airport security on the day of the attack because they showed up in winter jackets on a summer day, local media reported.

The Turkish government confirmed the attackers arrived at the airport by regular taxi. Hurriyet newspaper quoted sources as saying the taxi driver told the authorities the assailants spoke a foreign language.

Revelations of the suspects’ nationalities came shortly after Turkish police said they had detained three foreigners among 13 individuals being held in connection with the attack.

In separate large-scale police operations, nine suspects believed to be linked to IS were also detained in the coastal city of Izmir. It was not clear if those suspects had any links to the carnage at the airport.

NATO member Turkey shares long, porous borders with both Syria and Iraq. Ankara has blamed IS militants for several major bombings over the past year, including in the capital and against tourists in Istanbul.

Critics say Turkey woke up too late to the threat from IS militants, focusing instead on efforts to oust President Bashar al-Assad, arguing there could be no peace without his departure.

Ankara adjusted its military rules of engagement this month to allow NATO allies to carry out more patrol flights along its border with Syria.

With reporting by RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz, Russian, and Uzbek services, AP, Reuters, and Interfax

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Bundestag vote: Why many Turks in Germany are offended?

June 19, 2016 By administrator

why turks efended The decision of the Bundestag to recognize the Armenian genocide has infuriated Ankara – but also thousands of German-Turks. The psychologist Kazim Erdogan explained what was behind this observation to Spiegel.

Kazim Erdogan, born in 1953 in Gökçeharman in Turkey and came to Germany to study in 1974 before becoming a psychologist famous for its advisory groups for German-Turkish fathers in Berlin.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Erdogan, the Bundestag recognized the massacre of Armenians as genocide. Thereafter German politicians have been threatened, the Turkish government was furious, many German Turks are offended. Why exactly?

Kazim Erdogan: Turkish attending my groups are asking the question of why this subject has emerged after a hundred years and while some are really outraged, some indignation is also staged. Many fear that they could be considered traitors if they do not raise their voices now in the direction of the Turkish government. There is much fear behind. Hardly anyone in Germany dared to criticize Turkish President Erdogan. I just returned from a two-month stay in Turkey and I noticed how fear is great to express themselves politically. People there are afraid of their own neighbors. Many people suffocate face this fear. “

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why do young men living in Germany for a long time do not talk about genocide?

Erdogan: First, in the history books in Turkey no critical examination of the past takes place (…). There are only heroic tales. There is no word on the fact that war is automatically bad – there is no experience, no tradition in the treatment of guilt. (..).

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What do you – you oppose this anger?

Erdogan: I am trying to encourage critical thinking men. You should try to form their own opinions and not to accept the reality of what the Turkish government said.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: What influence has Erdogan on the Turkish population in Germany?

Erdogan: 70 percent are behind him. Many still consume almost only Turkish media. Thus that acts while the strategy perfectly Erdogan: No matter what he speaks, it is transferred to 90 live TV channels. (..)

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why many see Erdogan as their protector and not Chancellor Merkel?

Erdogan: It may be because they fail to realize here what they wanted. It is easy then to lock up and idealize his former home and the government there – or that of his parents.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Are you afraid you even if you speak?

Erdogan: My native village in Turkey there are houses of Armenians, who were expelled in 1915 and when I’m there, I feel very close to what has been done against them. And I know that silence does not lead to good results. We must be able to apologize and recognize that the war perpetrated inhuman suffering. We must also be clear: German MPs of Turkish origin are members of the German Bundestag. So this is an internal German affair, in which the Turkish government should not interfere. Moreover, fear is the worst counselor. We need to speak with each other in a respectful and moderate manner. I also great concern that the trench widening between the Turkish and German companies.

Quick translation NAM

Netherlands: A 100% party created by Turks Criticizing Erdogan is completely taboo refuse to recognize the Armenian Genocide

May 27, 2016 By administrator

turks party The German newspaper Die Welt reports that he is now the Netherlands a party for immigrants and persons of immigrant: Denk. This “movement”, as he calls himself, is more and more talk about him, not just in the media. Denk was founded late 2014 by two members of Turkish origin, Tunahan Kuzu and Selcuk Ozturk, who had left the Social Democratic group after a dispute over the government’s integration policy.

Tunahan Kuzu and Selcuk Ozturk had brought in June 2015 their support for the Belgian MP Mahinur Ozdemir expelled from the party CDH for denial of the Armenian genocide.

What looked like the beginning to a turf war two devout Muslims against critical Dutch social democracy vis-à-vis Turkey, took these days among young Dutch foreign dimension of a phenomenon fashion.

[…] What was considered a splinter group finally got there a week advertising nationally when Sylvana Simons, known presenter of television whose family is originally from the former colony of Suriname, announced his candidacy for national elections next year.

Öztürk and Kuzu oppose discrimination they provide growing from Dutch society, which is denied jobs or promotions people because of skin color or an Islamic name. [. ..]

For them, we absolutely can not qualify the massacres of Armenians by Turks during the First World War as genocide. Criticize Erdogan is completely taboo.

In one year, the party received membership of over 2000 members, and sociologists talk of an electoral potential of up to one million Dutch. At their first participation in elections next year, they hope […] at least five seats in The Hague.

Some social networks mocked the denial of Turkish leaders Denk.