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Turkish dictator Erdogan to Visit Occupied Cyprus

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Erdogan to Visit Occupied Cyprus

Turkish media are reporting that Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit northern Cyprus next week shortly after being inaugurated as president.

His visit on Monday to occupied Cyprus will see him oversee the opening of a new huge mosque north of Nicosia, according to the DHA news agency.

It follows late June’s electoral triumph which saw Erdogan returned as president and his AK Party form a parliamentary alliance with Turkish ultranationalists. Many international observers said the contest was not held in fair conditions, with the country’s media largely ignoring opposition parties and candidates.

In recent months there has been an ongoing war of words between Athens and Ankara regarding sovereignty in the Aegean Sea and the conflict over Cyprus.

Tom Catena and his wife visit Armenian Genocide Memorial

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YEREVAN. – Laureate of Aurora Prize 2017 Tom Catena and his wife Nasima visited Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on Monday.

While placing a wreath at the genocide monument, Catena’s wife burst into tears.

Nasima was deeply touched by the memorial, Tom Catena told reporters adding that when there is a lot of pain in you, you are trying to suppress it, but being here, you immediately remember your own history.

Tom Catena and his wife planted a tree on Memory Alley and visited the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

Katena told Armenian News- NEWS.am he was deeply impressed by a photo of an Armenian boy showing his hands with traces of nails. He was crucified, but survived.

Doctor Tom Catena arrived in Sudan as a Catholic missionary from Amsterdam, New York. He has since saved thousands of lives as the sole surgeon permanently based in Sudan’s war-ravaged Nuba Mountains where humanitarian aid is restricted. It is for this service that he received the Aurora Prize, granted by the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, created on behalf of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and in gratitude to their saviors.

 

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to visit Armenia for Francophonie summit

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Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau will visit Armenia to participate in the upcoming summit of the Francophonie, set to be held in Yerevan in October.

According to deputy Armenian foreign minister Shavarsh Kocharyan, the final list of those set to attend the summit is still unknown.

“We already known that the leaders of two key francophone countries will be here,” Kocharyan said.

He added that Trudeau and French president Emmanuel Macron have already accepted the invitation to participate.

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Bulgarian president planning state visit to Armenia

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Official press release by the office of President of Armenia

On February 11, President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev will arrive in Armenia on a State visit at the invitation of President Serzh Sargsyan.Within the framework of his visit, the President of the Republic of Bulgaria is due to meet with the leadership of the Republic of Armenia – the President, the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister. President Rumen Radev will also be hosted by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. After the meeting with His Holiness, the President of Bulgaria will call at the Mother Cathedral and the Treasury.

At the end of the Armenian-Bulgarian top-level talks in the residence of the President of Armenia, Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Rumen Radev will sum up the results of their meeting before the media.

#Erdogan said he is meeting with Pope @Pontifex as representative of 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide,

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Due to Erdogan’s visit, extraordinary security measures were taken in the city

3,500 law enforcement agencies and NBCR teams who are experts against nuclear, biological, chemical and radiological hazards also served.

While “green zone” was declared in the city, demonstrations were not allowed in the regions where Erdogan was in contact.

Police officials said that these measures taken to protect Erdogan and his delegation

President Erdogan criticized the Pope in his speech in Istanbul on March 26, 2017, before the April 16 referendum.

Erdogan gave the Pope a gift from Iznik

Erdogan gave the Pope the Italian and English prints of the Mesnevi and the miniature Iznik tribe who depicted the old Istanbul in 24 pieces. The Pope presented Erdogan with a statement expressing a medal of peace, anguish over the evil, “This medallion represents a world based on peace and fairness”.

#Erdogan suggests he is meeting with Pope @Pontifex as representative of 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide, recalls #Turkey‘s term presidency of OIC, says US is isolated on #Jerusalem issue.

“These are not honest. Now the members of the European Union came together in the Vatican. These developments evoke something; no, why did you come together in the Vatican, why did you come together in the presence of the Pope. Since when has the Pope been a member of the European Union? The Crusader alliance showed up at last. What did they tell us so far? ‘You are saying this to us, but there is not such a thing’. Yes, because you do not let Muslim Turkey. I have spoken to them, see you tomorrow. “

CCAF the French of Armenian origin expect firmness from President Macron against Erdogan visit

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The reception of President Erdogan on Friday, January 5th (Armenian Christmas Eve) is causing trouble among the Armenian community in France. The defenders of democracy, human rights and minorities fear that France will not show sufficient firmness in the face of the Turkish President who has taken good care, for several years, to multiply insults and provocations against of Europe and its leaders. Moreover, this visit to France comes in a climate fraught with threats against the representatives of the Armenian communities and Turkish opponents refugees in Europe, as reported on December 20 a statement from Garo Paylan deputy HDP.

The President of the Republic promised to address the issue of human rights during his meeting with his Turkish counterpart. The French of Armenian origin, in the grip of the Ankara maneuvers that made the export of the genocide denial of 1915 a priority of his foreign policy, expect no less. In particular, they ask Emmanuel Macron not to dodge the problem of the Armenian genocide which is at the root of the criminal and expansionist pursuits of successive Turkish regimes for a hundred years. A fascinating tradition which unfortunately finds today in Mr. Erdogan a worthy heir.

Thus, 5 years later, almost to the day, the assassination of three Kurdish activists in Paris, in which the justice had pointed out the involvement of the Turkish secret services, is preparing to roll out the red carpet in front of the head of this Genocidal state even before becoming a terrorist and a liberticide? Because we are not mistaken: the terrible repression of which the people of Turkey and the democrats of this country are paying the price today, is part of a long tradition of political persecution, which reached its peak with the genocide of the Armenians, but which has also resulted in successive massacres against the Christian, Greek, Assyrian-Chaldean, Kurdish, Alevi, Turkish Democrat minorities, not to mention the occupation of Cyprus, a member of the European Union. The big powers and Europe bear a heavy responsibility in this situation. The international complacency towards all these crimes nourishes indeed for one hundred years the arrogance of a power which does not cease to taunt the democracies, to trample on their values, while claiming themselves unduly of their camp. The liabilities are heavy for Turkey.

Violence and duplicity are at the heart of the actions of this state, including against France, as evidenced by the fact that, in addition to the murder of Kurdish activists in Paris, the arrests in the form of hostages taken against French journalists in 2016 and 2017. What’s more – should we call him back? – its ultra-nationalism, with its 20-year history of Islamism, poses a threat to its neighbors, in particular the Republic of Armenia, against which the Turkish state is blockading and continues to spread hatred. This situation also requires a response from the highest officials of the international political scene.

CCAF National Office (Coordinating Council of Armenian Organizations in France

Breaking News: Putin makes surprise visit to Syria Video

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Putin Visit Syria

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:05 P.M.) – Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise visit to Syria, Monday, after a busy weekend that dealt with several regional issues, including the ongoing problems between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Putin reportedly landed at the Hmaymim Military Airport near Jableh city this morning, making a rare appearance in Syria after more than six years of war.

According to local reports, the Russian President ordered his troops to begin withdrawing from Syria, as a large portion of their objective in Syria has been completed.

Many Russian troops will remain in the country as part of a peacekeeping force and to aid the Syrian military in their fight against terrorist groups inside the country.

Greeks Unnerved Over Erdogan’s Call to ‘Revise’ Turkish-Greek Border Treaty

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The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, the post-WWI document defining the borders of modern-day Turkey, including its western borders with neighboring Greece, has been called into question by the Turkish president.

Less than a day before setting off for his historic two-day visit to Greece, Erdogan told Greek journalists that the treaty is in need of an update.

“In fact, all agreements pacts in the world should be updated over time,” Erdogan said, speaking with Greece’s Skai TV and the Kathimerini newspaper. “Lausanne too, in the face of all these developments, is in need of an update. This update would be beneficial not only for Turkey but also for Greece,” he added.

Erdogan did not expand on what sorts of changes he had in mind, but called the distances between some of the islands in the Aegean Sea, over which Turkey and Greece have competing claims, “problematic.” He added that issues concerning territorial waters, airspace and the continental shelf could be “easily” resolved.

Group of Armenians visit their forebears’ cemetery in Turkey’s Zara town

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A group of Armenians visited the Armenian cemetery in Zara town of Sivas Province of Turkey, and paid tribute to their forebears.

The cemetery was on the brink of destruction when Armenian businessman Fethi Aras, whose roots are from Zara, initiated the restoration of the cemetery, according to Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul.

Subsequently, the Zara city hall assumed the care and preservation of this cemetery.

The mayor of Zara received the group that visited the Armenian cemetery of Zara.

US Congress members planning ‘unprecedented trip’ to Armenia

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A delegation of US Congress representatives is visiting Armenia this Sunday upon the initiative of Jackie Kanchelian Speier, a congresswoman of Armenian descent.

“Our parents would be really proud to see that we are visiting Armenia,” VOA News quotes the legislator as saying.

The delegation includes pro-Armenian Congress members, such as Frank Pallone (who delivered US humanitarian aid to Armenia after the 1988 earthquake), Anna Eshoo (also an ethnic Armenian), and David Valadao (whose initiative to allocate additional funds to Nagorno-Karabakh to assist in demining activities recently received a Congress approval). Tulsi Gabbad and Jim Sensebrener, elected respectively from Hawaii and Wisconsin, are also expected be among the guests.

The agenda of the biggest ever US delegation’s visit to Armenia (since the country’s independence) is going to be really very busy, Kanchelian Speier said, as anti-corruption and democracy development initiatives are going to be among the key priorities.

The congresswoman said the trip also has an emotional significance for her as an Armenian conducting her ever first visit to her historical fatherland.

She added that they intend to address also political issues to increase the US assistance to Armenia “which is under Russia’s aggressive influence”.

The US legislators are also planning to discuss with the Armenian authorities measures towards fostering the country’s energy independence.