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Armenian man: I was shocked and happy to get reply from Irish girl who sent me a gift

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Armenian-Irish-woman-300YEREVAN. – An accountant from Armenia, 27-year-old Arsen Khachatryan has fulfilled the dream of his childhood: he has found a girl who sent him a shoebox full of gifts as a part of the Operation Christmas Child appeal.

Talking to the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent, Arsen said 16 years ago he had also received a message by Claire Fahy asking him to send a photo. Eleven year old boy did not send his photo, but 16 years later Arsen, already a father, managed to find Claire on Facebook.

“After receiving and opening a small gray box and reading Claire’s note, I set a goal. One of my dreams was to send her a photo one day. I finally found her and sent the photo of my family,” Arsen said.

It was not that easy to find Claire as there were many accounts from Ireland with the same names. However, Arsen sent the same letter to all of them , expecting to get a reply.

“I have been waiting for the answer for a year. I sent a message last June, and the reply came on Tuesday. She was very happy, and it was really a surprise for her. I was in a state of shock, too. I could not work, I was so happy. I had an interesting feeling that I cannot describe,” he added.

Learning this story, Team Hope organization that organized exchange of gifts 16 years ago, contacted Arsen and Claire. The story has become the focus of the Irish media, too.

“Many Facebook users from Europe write me to say thank you for my move,” Arsen said.

Arsen and Claire may soon meet with the help of Team Hope organization.

Istanbul the crime capital of the world another visitor “Swedish woman shot dead in Istanbul”

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n_82909_1A Swedish woman has been shot dead in a random shooting by a gunman who had been denied entry into a bar in Istanbul.

Maggie Bogda, a Swedish hairdresser who was visiting Istanbul with her friends, was shot dead by a gunman who randomly shot her in the head after he was not allowed to enter a bar in Istanbul on May 24. Report hurriyetdailynews

The victim was smoking outside the bar when she was fatally shot in the head by the perpetrator.

Bogda went to the bar located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul on May 24 with her friends to spend the night.

She was outside the entrance of the bar smoking with a friend when the bar’s doormen stopped two men from entering. The two men then fired random shots in the air from their car as they passed the bar and one of the bullets hit the woman in the head.

The two men sped away after the shooting.

The police have identified who fired the lethal shot after collecting eyewitness testimonies and security camera recordings of the bar and are searching for the two men.

The World’s sexiest people are Armenian women

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21985Kim Kardashian is having a major effect on yet another “sexiest” list, as The Huffington Post reveals a new survey by MissTravel, a destination dating website, its customers say the world’s sexiest women are from Armenia and the world’s sexiest men are from Ireland. The travel site polled over 110,000 Americans to determine who they thought was sexiest.

The sexiest nationalities for women:

10. Lebanese
9. Bulgarian
8. Filipina
7. Brazilian
6. Australian
5. English
4. Colombian
3. American
2. Barbadian/Bajan
1. Armenian

The sexiest nationalities for men:

10. Spanish
9. Danish
8. Nigerian
7. Italian
6. Scottish
5. English
4. American
3. Pakistani
2. Australian
1. Irish

Armenian woman ready to run for Turkish Parliament

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Talin Ergüneş Gazer

Talin Ergüneş Gazer

Talin Ergüneş Gazer has applied to the Republican People’s Party of Turkey to get registered as a party candidate for Parliament.

If elected, she will be the first Armenian woman MP in the Turkish Parliament, Demokrat Haber reports.

Talin Ergüneş Gazer was born in Istanbul in 1977, graduated from the Mkhitaryan Armenian school and from the Tourism and Hotel Management Department at Anadolu University.

She is married with one child. She speaks Turkish, English, Spanish and Armenian.

Urgent Message from Zeynep Tozduman human right activist? “Kidnapped Syrian, Assyrian women”

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Zeynep Tozduman

Dear friends,   please go to  www.change.org (see bellow the English version)

TYtwHcIIuHmdcUr-800x450-noPadIRAK/HABUR’DAKİ SÜRYANİ SOYKIRIMINA VE KAÇIRILAN KADINLARIN BULUNMASI İÇİN BM KADIN ÖRGÜTÜNÜ VE DÜNYA KADIN ÖRGÜTLERİNİ GÖREVE ÇAĞIRIYORUZ !!!

”Birleşmiş Milletler (BM) barış ve güvenliğin korunması, sürdürülebilir kalkınmanın desteklenmesi ve insan haklarının güvence altına alınmasını içeren Türkiye dâhil 51 ülke tarafından dünya barışını, güvenliğini korumak ve uluslar arasında ekonomik, toplumsal ve kültürel bir iş birliği oluşturmak için kurulan uluslararası bir örgüttür. Silahsızlanma ve silah denetimi konusunda önerilerde bulunmak. Barış ve güvenliği etkileyecek görüşmeler yapmak, her konuda önerilerde bulunmak. Ülkeler arasındaki iyi ilişkileri bozucu sorunların, barışcıl yollarla çözümü için önerilerde bulunmak. Birleşmiş Milletler,

-Kadınlar ve kız çocuklarına karşı şiddeti sonlandırmak;
– Barış ve güvenlik sürecinin her alanına kadınların katılımını sağlamak en temel görevidir ”.

Dünya 8 Mart Dünya Emekçi Kadınlar gününe yaklaştığımız bu günlerde, Habur’da Süryani soykırımı yaşayan Süryani kadınlarının çığlıklarını görünür kılmak ve BM Kadın Örgütlerini ve uluslararası Kadın örgütlerini, biz aşağıda imzası bulunan kişi ve kurumlar olarak göreve çağırıyoruz.

23 Şubat 2014’de Irak / Habur’da İŞİD ( İsis ) terör örgütü; Asur/ Süryani/ Keldani ( Doğu Hristiyanları) halkına karşı, etno- dinsel- kültürel soykırım yapılmakta, yaklaşık 3000 insan yerinden, yurdundan edilerek 400 kadın, çoluk çocuk, yaşlı demeden İŞİD militanlarının elinde rehin olarak tutulmakta, bu halka ait binlerce yıllık tarihi eserleri dünyanın gözü önünde yıkılmaktadır. Hala kaçırılan Kadın ve çocuklardan bu güne değin bir haber alınamamıştır. 2014 Haziran ayında Şengal’de kaçırılan Ezidi kadınlarını Köle pazarlarında pazarlayan, fuhuş sektöründe kullanan İŞİD terör örgütü şimdi de Süryani kadınlarına aynı şeyi yaşatmadan BM Kadın Örgütlerini ve Dünya kadın örgütlerini imzaladıkları sözleşmeler doğrultusunda göreve çağırıyoruz.

Ayrıca, bu 8 Mart’ı tüm dünya kadın örgütleri olarak Soykırımlarda, katliamlarda hayatlarını kaybeden Süryani kadınlarına ve Özgecan şahsında Şiddete ve Tecavüze uğrayan tüm kadınlara ithaf edilmesini istiyoruz.

Bölgede İŞİD terörünü durdurmak, rehin alınan Süryani Kadınlarını sağ- salim teslim almak, kadın katliamlarını durdurmak ve bölgede kalıcı bir barışı sağlamak için BM Kadın örgütünü ve Dünya kadın örgütlerini göreve davet ediyoruz.

ENGLİSH VERSİON 

IRAQ / THE ASSYRİAN GENOCİDE İN HABUR AND MISSED FOR THE PRESENCE OF WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS AND WORLD WOMEN’S ORGANIZATIONS THE UN WOMEN WE CALL A DUTY !!! ”

The United Nations (UN), the preservation of peace and security, sustainable development, the promotion and protection of human rights safeguarding containing the world peace by 51 countries, including Turkey, to protect the security and among nations economically, is an international organization established to create a social culturall cooperation.

Advising on disarmament and arms control. Peace and discussions will affect the security, advising on everything. Good relations between the countries disruptive problems, make suggestions for the solution by peaceful means.

United Nations, to end the violence against -Women and girls; – Ensure the participation of women in all areas of peace and security is the most basic task process’. World these days we approach the March 8 International Working Women’s day, in habur appear screams of Syriac genocide living Syrian women make to the UN Women’s Organization and international women’s organizations, we urge you to act as individuals and institutions who have signed below.

February 23, 2014 in Iraq / Habur Isidor (Isis), a terrorist organization; Assyrian / Syriac / Chaldean (Eastern Christians) against the people, ethno-religious-cultural genocide carried out, about 3,000 people displaced, 400 women by the dorm, children, is being held as a hostage in the hands of elderly Isidor militants, thousands of years of historical monuments in the world of this ring are collapsed into consideration. Still abducted women and children could not be news until this day.

2014 The markets in missed Ezidi women slave market in Sengal in June, Isidor terrorist organization uses in prostitution without dictating the same thing is now the Syrian Women UN Women Organization and we urge you to work in agreement with the direction they signed the world women’s organizations. In addition, in this March 8 women’s organizations all over the world as genocide in the massacre in Syrian women who lost their lives and Ozgecan person we want to be dedicated to all women subjected to violence and rape. Isidor stop terrorism in the region,

Syrian women to receive right- taken hostage unharmed, to stop the massacre of women and to ensure a lasting peace in the UN women’s organizations and women’s organizations in the world are invited to task.

Turkey: Thousands of women in Turkey have protested at the murder of a young woman ‘resisted rape’

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murder of woman who 'resisted rape'

murder of woman who ‘resisted rape’

woman who allegedly resisted an attempt by a bus driver to rape her, the BBC reports.

“It is the result of the radical Islamic atmosphere created by the government. The men say that women should be conservative. They think if they are not conservative, they deserve this kind of violence,” she said.
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has its roots in political Islam and has been in power since 2002.

Police discovered the burnt body of Ozgecan Aslan, 20, in a riverbed in the city of Mersin, on Friday.
They have arrested three men in connection with her death – a minibus driver, his father and a friend.
The Turkish president and prime minister called Ms Aslan’s family to offer their condolences.

She reportedly fought him off with pepper spray, but was then stabbed to death. She was also hit on the head with an iron pipe.
The brutality of the murder caused an outcry across Turkey.

Thousands of women staged protests in several cities on Saturday, including Ankara, Istanbul, and Mersin – Ms Aslan’s hometown in southern Turkey.
In Istanbul, women activists held two separate protests to show their anger at the murder.
During the day, hundreds gathered behind a banner that read “Enough, we will stop the murder of women!”
In the evening, the crowd got bigger. Thousands of women of all ages and walks of life poured out to the streets.

A young woman, Bulay Dogan, said Ms Aslan’s murder scared her.
“I’m afraid, because the same thing could happen to me or my friends. But on the other hand, I’m furious too. How can they [the murder suspects] be so reckless to do something like this?” she asked.
Also on the protests was a gender studies academic who would only give her first name, Zeynep. She thought Ms Aslan’s murder was of a political nature too.

Women’s rights organizations say violence against women has risen sharply in the last decade.
Last year alone, almost 300 women were killed at the hands of men and more than 100 were raped, according to local reports.
Sevda Bayramoglu from Women for Peace Initiative demanded new legislation to protect women from violence.
“Men kill and rape and torture women. The state, the ‘men’s state’, is protecting them. We expect the parliament to stop this violence,” she said.
Ms Aslan’s murder may become a rallying cause for activists seeking to end violence against women in Turkey.

Istanbul Another Moldovan woman found raped multiple times

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n_75796_1A Moldovan woman, who has been found alive after going missing for more than two days in Istanbul, may have been raped multiple times, Turkish media has reported.

The 21-year-old woman disappeared in the central Taksim neighborhood at around noon on Dec. 7, while her mother, a Turkish citizen, was buying credit to use the metro. After the mother was unable to find her daughter in the streets, she notified the police.

The missing woman was picked up by police in nearby Beşiktaş late on Dec. 9, walking alone on the shoreline. She was reportedly unable to speak and was carrying no identification, so police took her to a homeless shelter in the Zeytinburnu district. She left the premises on Dec. 11 of her own accord, according to the shelter’s registration book.

Habertürk newspaper reported on Dec. 18 that the woman had been found 11 hours and 21 minutes after her reported exit from the shelter, unconscious in the garden of a mental institution in the Bakırköy district. Security guards at the institution said the woman’s lower body part was covered with blood, and she was immediately taken to hospital.

Her mother went to the hospital after medical personnel who recognized the woman’s photo in the newspaper got in contact.

According to the initial medical examination, the victim had been raped, possibly multiple times.
The mother said her daughter was able to tell her that she had been raped, and was uttering words such as “car” and “house” in her sleep.

A criminal investigation has been opened into the incident.

December/18/2014

Women are not equal to men, Turkish president declares

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The Associated Press
Published Monday, November 24, 2014 9:19AM EST

erdogan-womanANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off a new controversy on Monday, declaring that women are not equal to men and accusing feminists of not understanding the special status that Islam attributes to mothers.

Addressing a meeting in Istanbul on women and justice, Erdogan said men and women are created differently, that women cannot be expected to undertake the same work as men, and that mothers enjoy a high position that only they can reach.

“You cannot put women and men on an equal footing,” Erdogan said. “It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. Their constitution is different.”

Erdogan added: “Motherhood is the highest position … You cannot explain this to feminists. They don’t accept motherhood. They have no such concern.”

Lawyer and women’s rights activist Hulya Gulbahar said Erdogan’s comments were in violation of Turkey’s constitution, Turkish laws and international conventions on gender equality and didn’t help efforts to stem high incidences of violence against women in Turkey.

“Such comments by state officials which disregard equality between men and women play an important role in the rise of violence against women,” Gulbahar said. “Such comments aim to make women’s presence in public life — from politics to arts, from science to sports — debatable.”

Erdogan, a devout Muslim, often courts controversy with divisive public comments. He has previously angered women’s groups by stating that women should bear at least three children and by attempting to outlaw abortion and adultery.

He raised eyebrows this month by declaring that Muslims had discovered the Americas before Christopher Columbus.

287 Turkish women murdered in first 10 months of 2014

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Fevzi Kızılkoyun ANKARA

n_73596_1Some 287 women were murdered in the first 10 months of this year in Turkey, as additional clauses to the law on the protection of families are drafted.

Despite changes to laws, court rulings, restraining orders on guilty men, protection granted to exposed women, and the application of a panic button system, the number of murdered women has continued to rise in Turkey, surpassing previous years in the first 10 months of 2014 alone.

New clauses aimed at preventing violence against women are currently being drafted, to be added to the existing Law on the Protection of Family and the Prevention of Violence against Women. The most significant of the new additions is the introduction of a rehabilitation counseling option for men, alongside the existing legal punishments.

Men who resort to violence against their wives and do not have a place to go to after being banned from their homes with a court decision will be placed in shelters, where they will receive rehabilitation counseling, according to the new clauses. A report at the end of the rehabilitation process will decide whether or not the men are able to return to their homes.

Since the Law on the Protection of Family and the Prevention of Violence against Women was adopted in early 2012, almost 700 women have been killed in Turkey. Some 217 women were murdered in 2012, and 189 were murdered in 2013, and 287 have been murdered in just the first 10 months of 2013.

Syrian Kurdish woman Giving birth safely over the border, names Obama to say thanks for US airstrikes

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  • Sultan Muslim and her family escaped ISIS’s siege of Kobane and fled to the border 
  • After reaching the border town of Suruc, Muslim gave birth to her seventh child and named him Muhammed Obama Muslim
  • The family says they are grateful for coalition airstrikes and hope US assistance will allow them to return home safely

Syrian Kurdish woman Giving birth safely over the borderA pregnant Syrian Kurdish woman who fled ISIS and made it safely to Turkey named her newborn Obama out of gratitude for US-led airstrikes.

Sultan Muslim, her husband and their children were on the run for a month after fleeing the besieged border town of Kobane.

When they arrived at a refugee camp in Suruc, the family welcomed their newest addition and Muslim named him after the American president, because of the US’s air campaign against ISIS.

Newborn: Sultan Muslim, a mother of seven, named her four-day-old child Muhammed Obama Muslim to offer thanks for US assistance in fighting ISIS

‘I gave my son this name from my heart. I will never change this name,’ Muslim told Agence France-Presse, having given birth on Wednesday.

‘He dispatched planes, aid for us. Because of his help maybe we will get rid of this cruelty and get back to our homes,’ she added.

‘We named him Muhammed Obama Muslim,’ said Mahmut Beko, the boy’s father.

‘We want Obama to help us so that we can get back home. We are also human beings. We, the Kurds, attacked whom, fight against whom?’ he asked incredulously.

Brutal fighting between the Islamist extremist group ISIS and Syrian Kurdish militias known as the YPG has engulfed the border town of Kobane as ISIS militants attempt to rout YPG fighters.

A US-led coalition has attacked ISIS forces with airstrikes, which has weakened but not destroyed ISIS fighting power.

We were stranded at the border for days, without water or food,’ said Muslim. ‘We did not take any clothes to wear. We did not have any blankets. I was pregnant and had no chance of taking a bath.’

Many Kurds view American aid as crucial in keeping out the tide of ISIS extremists.

‘Like the Americans, the whole world should help the Kurds in Kobane. We have no true friends other than the Americans,’ said Turkish Kurd Selami Altay.

Along with many other Kurds in the region, Altay watched the fighting in Kobane from a hilltop overlooking Syria.

At the sight of new airstrikes, which have so far reportedly killed more than 500 ISIS fighters, the crowd erupted in cheers and chanted, ‘Obama, Obama.’