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Posted 21 July 2017 - 09:33 AM

Maybe Sevan Nishanyan is right, erDOGan's days are numbered!!!!!!

Agence France Presse

July 20, 2017 Thursday 4:27 PM GMT


Germany vows economic steps against Turkey as row escalates

Berlin, July 20 2017

Germany on Thursday vowed stinging measures hitting tourism and
investment in Turkey and a full "overhaul" of their troubled
relations, signalling its patience had snapped after Ankara's arrests
of human rights activists.

The government stepped up its travel advisory for the NATO ally as
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel warned it could no longer guarantee
its citizens' safety in the face of "arbitrary" mass arrests, a step
set to hit a sector crucial to Turkey's ailing economy.

A day after his ministry summoned Turkey's ambassador, Gabriel
interrupted his holiday and returned to Berlin to deliver his
unusually strong comments towards President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Relations between Turkey and Germany, home to three million ethnic
Turks, have been badly strained, particularly since the failed coup a
year ago against Erdogan.

Gabriel said Germany would review state guarantees for foreign
investment in Turkey and urge businesses not to put their money there,
and also reconsider its support for billions in EU financial flows
earmarked over coming years for the long-time aspirant to membership
of the bloc.

A Social Democrat, Gabriel made clear he was speaking for the
coalition government led by conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, and
her spokesman soon tweeted that the steps were indeed "necessary and
indispensable".

Gabriel recalled that Turkey, having long seen itself as "a member of
the European family", had levelled Nazi jibes at Germany, and accused
Erdogan of worsening a crisis that Berlin had repeatedly sought to
ease through dialogue.

He accused Erdogan of trying to muzzle "every critical voice" with
mass arrests in sweeping crackdowns over the past year.

Gabriel stressed that Germany still wanted to rebuild relations with
its long-time ally but that first Erdogan's government must "return to
European values".

Turkey's presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin accused Germany of
"great political irresponsibility" in stepping up its travel warning
and said: "We do not accept this."

He pointed to Germany's general election in September, saying: "It's
unacceptable to try and damage economic relations, try and arouse
doubts in the minds of German investors, for the sake of petty
electoral calculations."

The Turkish foreign ministry later said that bilateral relations could
not be based on "blackmail and threats".

- Activists held 'hostage' -

A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered six rights activists to remain in
custody for allegedly aiding a "terror" group -- among them Amnesty
International's Turkey director Idil Eser and Berlin-based activist
Peter Steudtner.

Turkey in February arrested, on similar charges, German-Turkish
journalist Deniz Yucel of Die Welt and is holding several other German
citizens.

Erdogan has demanded Germany extradite people he blames for conspiring
against him, mostly alleged followers of US-based Muslim cleric
Fethullah Gulen, whom he accuses of orchestrating the coup, a charge
Gulen denies.

Germany has granted asylum to some Turkish dissidents, journalists and
military officers who feared being swept up in the post-coup arrests.

German politicians and media have accused Erdogan of detaining German
citizens as "hostages" to trade for Turks in Germany, but Gabriel said
he "had heard of no official exchange offer".

News weekly Die Zeit said Ankara's blacklist also includes large
German companies such as Daimler and BASF, claims dismissed as
"absurd" by German security sources.

Gabriel, without referring to those claims, said that "you can't
advise someone to invest in a country where there is no legal
certainty and even completely innocent companies are linked to
terrorism".

- Escalating row -

German-Turkish relations have steadily deteriorated in recent years,
soured by a free speech dispute centred on a German TV comedian and a
German parliamentary vote on the sensitive historical question of the
mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman troops during World War I.

Erdogan has fumed over Germany's decision to deny him and other
Turkish politicians opportunities to campaign in Germany, home to the
largest Turkish community abroad due to its "guest worker" programme
of the 1950s and 1960s.

The NATO allies have also clashed over thwarted visits by German
lawmakers to troops stationed at Turkish bases.

The spat has cast clouds over Turkey's long-term push to join the
European Union, and threatened a 2016 deal between Ankara and the EU
that has stemmed the mass influx of migrants and refugees into the
block.

Top-selling Bild daily cheered that Gabriel "has shown Erdogan what
happens when you break the rules. Finally! That took far too long!
Hopefully he will get the message."

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Posted 21 July 2017 - 09:42 AM

The Armenian Mirror-Spectator

July 20 2017
 
 
Europeanization of Turkey or Turkification of Europe?
Editorial | July 20, 2017 12:28 pm

Editorialcartoon.jpg?zoom=1.210000026226By Edmond Y. Azadian

The tug of war between Ankara and Brussels continues. Turkey is a candidate for membership in the European Union. It persists in joining the EU, but refuses to abide by its rules and then blames Europe for blocking its entry into the family of Western nations.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outlined the current standoff in the following manner: “The stance of the European Union is clear to see … 54 years have passed and they are messing us about.” He then criticized Brussels’ failure to keep its promise on everything from a visa deal to aid for Syrian migrants.

For Europe, Turkey is the necessary evil to execute any plan concocted in the West to deal with the crises in the Middle East. But for Ankara, assuming that role comes with the entitlement of joining Europe, a dream which has kept Turkey languishing at the gates of Europe for a long time.

It is characteristic of Turks to conquer nations and usurp their wealth as they have done to the Armenians and the Byzantines. Since Fatih Sultan Muhammed conquered Constantinople in 1453, the eyes of the Ottoman rulers have been set on Europe. But the invasion of Soliman the Magnificent was stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1529, as the Frankish warrior Charles Martel had stopped the Muslim armed expansion to the North at the Battle of Tours in 732 AD.

However, the Turks kept the Balkan nations under their rule for more than four centuries leaving a legacy of death and destruction to this day.

Thus far, Europe has been saved from the menace of Turkification, but no one knows for how long. Turkish leaders do not mince their words. Their intentions are crystal clear. When President Erdogan orders every Turkish family to have at least five children in Europe “who eventually will decide the destiny of Europe,” then the handwriting is on the wall for everyone to see. He also blackmails European leaders by letting them know that if they don’t give in to his wishes, they will no longer walk safely in their streets. Yet, European leaders kowtow to Erdogan driven by a civilized code of conduct.

Turkey is polarized demographically. There is a segment of society that has given the world top notch, world-class literature, such as Orhan Pamuk, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature, and then there is another segment of society, jingoists and religious fanatics living in the backwaters. When the Islamic mobs vote for the likes of Erdogan to assume the powers of a dictator, the first casualties are those in the first segment, with many living in self-imposed exile abroad or languishing in Erdogan’s overfilled jails.

Of course, there is a third segment in between, namely the Kurds, who constitute fully one third of the population and who aspire to autonomy or independence.

But Erdogan is riding high in Turkey, projecting his arrogance towards Europe.

In the current state of affairs, Europeans see very clearly that once they open the floodgates in front of the Turks, the likelihood of European Turkification is more than Turkey’s Europeanization.

On July 15, President Erdogan and his AKP ruling party used the anniversary of the botched coup to flex their muscles. Erdogan needed to demonstrate his bravura to his domestic foes as well as his European challengers. Indeed, a few weeks ago, Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, leader of the Republican People’s party and Erdogan’s main opponent, has called the putsch a “controlled coup.”

Kiliçdaroglu had walked from Ankara to Istanbul to protest the president’s repressive rule. It was a walk longer than that of Mahatma Gandhi when he protested British rule over India.

Upon arriving in Istanbul, Kiliçdaroglu gave a scathing speech to a crowd of 1.5 million. To outdo this challenge, Erdogan rallied a crowd 5-million strong at the Istanbul Bridge, which henceforth has been renamed the July 15 Martyrs Bridge, to give his fiery speech.

He walked through the crowd, protected by a police force of 25,000. Then he flew to Ankara to continue the commemoration in the parliament, which had been bombed during the coup, at midnight, to a crowd of 170,000.

Erdogan was very defiant in his speech. He said, “We cannot defeat the queen, the king or the sheikhs without defeating the pawns, knights and castles. Firstly, we will rip the heads of these traitors.” Then he added that he would approve the death penalty “without hesitation” if the parliament voted to restore it.

This kind of rhetoric draws Turkey closer to Saudi jurisprudence rather than to Europe.

Erdogan is a man of his word. His tough talk does not offer empty threats; to date, he has detained 155,000 people; 50,000 have been jailed and 140,000 have been dismissed from their jobs, on suspicion of having participated in the coup. Those who have been dismissed include a third of the judiciary, a tenth of the police force, 7,800 military officers, more than 8,000 academics and 33,000 teachers. As well, 942 companies have been seized.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists calls Turkey the world’s biggest jailer of journalists, with 160 detained.

Under Erdogan’s emergency rule, the police do not need any proof to arrest journalists as “terrorists” or “terrorist sympathizers.”

A report by the Venice Commission of the EU found that the constitutional amendments were “a dangerous step backwards” and “degenerative of Turkey’s constitutional democratic tradition.”

Alarmed by those developments, the European parliament voted (477 out of 638 members) to suspend accession negotiations with Turkey, which was a resounding “no” to Erdogan’s dictatorship.

Erdogan has given the EU an ultimatum, that if that body does not continue the negotiation process, then Turkey will simply walk away. However, in a statement, the European Chief Jean-Claude Juncker announced that the EU remained committed to a dialogue with Turkey and asked Ankara to strengthen its democracy, adding at the end, “If Turkey were to introduce the death penalty, the Turkish government would finally slam the door to EU membership.”

Now, it remains to be seen who will blink first. If we remember Erdogan’s standoffs with Israeli leader Benyamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin, it will not be hard to guess his moves.

Turkey’s relations with its neighbors and faraway nations undoubtedly affect Armenia. The Russo-Turkish rapprochement will certainly make it more conduce for Moscow to trample Armenia’s interests. Similarly, Turkey’s admission into the EU will have negative fallout for Armenia. Many pundits and statesmen in Armenia believe that Turkey’s entry into the EU will enforce Ankara to behave with more civility with its neighbors. They also advocate that with Turkey’s admission into the EU, Europe’s borders will extend all the way to Armenia, therefore Ankara will no longer be able to blockade Armenia.

But precedents vigorously discourage such theories. It suffices to mention that Turkey and Greece are members of NATO and yet Ankara continuously bullies Athens, has occupied Cyprus and fellow NATO members cannot budge Turkey from its arrogant position. Therefore, joining the EU can hardly serve Armenia’s interests. Turkey will always force its way, it will try to eat its cake and have it, while Europe looks the other way.

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Posted 23 July 2017 - 08:17 AM

Fars News Agency, Iran
July 21, 2017 Friday



Germany Halts All Arms Shipment to Turkey



TEHRAN (FNA)- According to a report, Germany has frozen all arms shipment to Turkey after Ankara arrested several human rights activists, including a German national.

The Bild newspaper reported on Friday that Germany was "freezing all planned and ongoing arms deliveries to Turkey."

In the months after the July 2016 abortive coup in Turkey against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Germany had already blocked 11 separate arms shipments to Turkey, including handguns, ammunition, and weapons components.

The latest move came after a Turkish court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for six human rights activists for allegedly aiding a "terror" group, among them German citizen Peter Steudtner.

The arrests further strained the already tarnished relations between the two NATO allies.

Relations between Turkey and Germany, which is home to three million ethnic Turks, have been badly strained over what Europeans describe as Turkey's human rights violations.

Turkey and Germany have been locked in a number of diplomatic disputes, including Turkey's way of handling the aftermaths of a failed coup in July 2016, which has sparked massive criticism in Germany.

Ankara's refusal to grant access to German lawmakers came after Berlin blocked visits and speeches by senior Turkish officials to members of Turkish diaspora in Germany ahead of an April referendum in Turkey.

Turkey is also critical of Germany over the country's alleged support for suspected coup plotters and outlawed Kurdish militants.

Germany also begun the process of withdrawing its troops from the Incirlik Air Base in July 10, from where German troops have been carrying out reconnaissance missions as part of the US-led coalition's campaign in Syria and Iraq.

The German Defense Ministry said earlier that the process of transferring military aircraft and personnel from the Turkish airbase to a new location in Jordan will result in the suspension German participation within the US-led coalition for at least two or three months.

Germany's Defense Ministry Spokesman confirmed that German troops, an air refueling tanker, equipment and aircraft parts have left Incirlik for Jordan's Al-Asrak base.

Tornado reconnaissance jets stationed at Incirlik will be sent back to Germany as the Jordanian base is not yet fully ready to accommodate the aircraft. The Tornado's are due in Jordan by October.

Jordan's Al-Asrak base is also much smaller than Turkey's Incirlik and must first be modified to meet the needs of the German air grouping.

Berlin must also still sign several technical agreements with Amman regulating the stationing of German aircraft at the base.

The decision to relocate German troops from the Turkish base came as relations between the two countries took a new hit mid-May, when Ankara, for the second time, blocked a scheduled visit of German MPs with troops stationed at the base.

The German MP ban was motivated by Berlin's decision to grant asylum to a number of Turkish nationals accused by Ankara of participating in the failed July 2016 coup attempt in Turkey. Those in question reportedly hold diplomatic passports and were stationed in NATO facilities in Germany at the time of the attempted coup.

Ankara ordered a similar Incirlik German MP ban in 2016, following the Bundestag's (German parliament) decision to brand the Ottoman Empire's massacre of Armenians in the early 20th century as genocide.

http://en.farsnews.c...=13960430000733


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Posted 27 July 2017 - 08:55 AM

news.am, Armenia

July 25 2017
 
 
MEP: Turkish authorities must understand that they cannot blackmail EU
12:18, 25.07.2017
 
 
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YEREVAN. – Turkish authorities have to realize they cannot blackmail the European Union, deputy of the European Parliament Frank Engel said in an interview with the Armenian News-NEWS.am.

According to him, the German leadership is reconsidering the state guarantees provided to those making investments in Turkey and these investments will undoubtedly be reduced. At the same time, Engel continued, Germany issued an official warning for German citizens traveling to Turkey, clearly indicating that they could be subject to casual and arbitrary arrests. This, according to the deputy, is an unprecedented language, but Germany does right thing under the current circumstances.

Unless the Turkish authorities understand that they cannot blackmail the EU and other partners and allies, and that Turkey is turning into a dictatorship where the rule of law is abolished, the European countries will have to reconsider their relations with Ankara in general. 

The European Parliament has repeatedly called to freeze negotiations on Turkey's accession to the EU, Engel said, adding that he believes that EU should finally pass into suspension of it, as well as suspension of financing at a preliminary stage.

https://news.am/eng/news/402018.html



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Posted 28 July 2017 - 09:23 AM

Turks crossed that red line, few centuries ago when they put their dirty feet on sacred lands.

Panorama, Armenia

July 27 2017
 
 
Austrian chancellor: EU could never digest Turkey joining
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Austria's chancellor says the European Union could "never, ever" digest the economic impact of Turkey joining, underlining his country's hard line against membership, ABC News reports.

Austria has been among Ankara's most outspoken critics in the 28-nation EU and argued for freezing membership talks with Turkey.

Chancellor Christian Kern told Thursday's edition of German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that "it must be legitimate to say: 'You simply are not a membership candidate'." He added that Austria has advanced not only arguments about the state of Turkish democracy but also economic ones.

Kern said: "In purely economic terms, Europe could never, ever digest Turkey's accession. How is that supposed to work?"

He also said that "Turkey has crossed almost all red lines" on issues such as its treatment of journalists and lawmakers.

http://www.panorama....joining/1813094

 

 



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Posted 05 August 2017 - 07:51 AM

Asbarez
Aug 4 2017


Let Ankara Work for Us


BY GAREN YEGPARIAN

I was catching up on some reading when I ran a cross a news item from late March of this year. It seems one Mehmet Erdogan, an AKP member of Turkey’s parliament, claimed that if the 2015 coup had succeeded, Turkey would have been dismembered and four new countries created in its place: Armenia, Kurdistan, Constantinople/Bolis (as a city-state), and an Anatolian home for Turks. But, heck, he forgot Greece and Assyria! Maybe he plans on death marching Turkey’s few remaining Assyrians southward towards their ancient capital, Kalhu/Nimrud.

Absurd, conspiracy-mongering, delusional, fantastic, farcical, funny, improbable, ludicrous, ridiculous, zany as this assertion may seem, I have no doubt it got some traction in Turkey. But the point I want to make requires a quick, single-question test— what do the product of Mehmet’s fevered imagination and the following few points have in common?

Anti-Armenian hate graffiti on Armenian institutions in Bolis (and elsewhere).

Building a toilet atop an Armenian cemetery Van.

Claiming that the PKK is composed of many Armenians, not just Kurds.

Tearing down an Armenian-Turkish “friendship” monument in Gars/Kars.

Fearfully keeping the (illegal) “border” between the republics of Armenia and Turkey closed.

Supporting radical Islamists in taking over Armenian land, i.e. Kessab.

Maniacally denying the Armenian Genocide.

Using the word “Armenian” as an epithet.

Intervening with (local, not federal/national) legislatures, whenever Armenian issues are being considered, then publicizing these activities to Turks.

Have you figured it out yet?

These are all examples of GREAT work Ankara is doing for the Armenian Cause.

See, what they’re doing is preparing Turks’ minds for the inevitable. By creating “frames,” https://georgelakoff.com/tag/framing/ as described and explained by George Lakoff in his very readable book, “Don’t Think of an Elephant”.

What was the first thing that came to mind when you read the previous sentence? An elephant, right? That’s the frame. Every time Ankara says, “no Genocide occurred,” they’re using the frame “genocide” which is how people will view the whole matter. Same with occupied Western Armenia. The more Mehmet Erdoğan and others like him refer to an Armenian state on lands currently controlled by Ankara, the more “real” it becomes in people’s minds. Ditto for Kurdistan.

Let’s all express our gratitude to Turkey’s new “sultan” and his ilk, and encourage them to keep up the good work.

http://asbarez.com/1...ra-work-for-us/



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Posted 08 August 2017 - 09:37 AM

ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
August 4, 2017 Friday


Turkish deputy of Armenian origin criticized Turkish government's
decision to build public toilet in place of Armenian cemetery.

Yerevan August 4

Tatevik Shagunyan. The deputy of the Turkish parliament from the
Kurdish opposition People's Democratic Party Karo Palyan sharply
criticized the decision of the Turkish government to build a public
toilet in the place of the Armenian cemetery in Van. On the official
website of the People's Democratic Party he wrote: "The 100-year
robbery continues, even the graves of the Turks are not left alone."
He also recalled the permanent looting and destruction of the Armenian
cultural and historical heritage in Turkey. Note that the other day
the Turkish government decided to build a public toilet in the place
of the Armenian cemetery at Lake Van. According to Turkish media,
which refer to local residents, the remains of the buried in the
cemetery as a result of construction work were thrown on the
roadsides.



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Posted 09 August 2017 - 08:15 AM

Public Radio of Armenia
Aug 8 2017
 
 
Stones of Armenian church used in mosque construction
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The stones of Varagavank Church in Van are being used in a mosque building.

«The church is being regularly destroyed to use its stones to build a mosque, houses in neighboring villages and other constructions. The temple is on the verge of destruction», Ali Kalchek, the Head of the Van Monuments Protection Union, told the local mass media.

At the moment classes of the Koran for local children are conducted in the church.

The Armenian church of Varaganvank belongs to the 7-8th centuries. It was substantially damaged during the Armenian Genocide in 1915. The church was restored later thanks to the efforts of Turkish Armenians.



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Posted 09 August 2017 - 08:20 AM

Panorama, Armenia

Aug 8 2017
 
 
Turkey's Erdogan accuses Germany of 'abetting terrorists'

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Germany of "abetting terrorists" amid a widening spat between Ankara and Berlin, CNN reported.

Speaking at a conference in the Black Sea province of Rize, Erdogan said Turkey had given German Chancellor Angela Merkel "4,500 dossiers but have not received an answer on a single one of them."

"When there is a terrorist, they can tell us to give that person back. You won't send the ones you have to us, but can ask us for yours. So you have a judiciary, but we don't in Turkey?" he said, according to the source.

To remind, relations between Germany and Turkey have deteriorated in recent months after Merkel questioned Turkey's commitment to democracy and the rule of law, while Erdogan suggested Germany's Nazi past might not be entirely behind it.

Berlin has also so far refused to extradite soldiers and civilians Ankara accuses of being among the higher level coordinators of last year's attempted coup.

http://www.panorama....Erdogan/1817780



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Posted 15 August 2017 - 09:20 AM

Even the dead can't escape the inhumanity of Turks!

News.am, Armenia

Aug 14 2017
 
 
Garo Paylan visits Armenian cemetery of Turkey’s Van
11:30, 14.08.2017
 
 
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Garo Paylan, Istanbul Armenian MP of the opposition pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) of Turkey, visited Van Province to check the veracity of the reports that a toilet was built at the historical Dilkaya Tumulus and Armenian Cemetery in Dilkaya neighborhood of Edremit (Artamed) district.

The area was blocked by barbed wire, according to Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul. 

Paylan spoke with locals, whereupon he noted: “A human bone came out from everywhere I put my hand in. I no longer have any doubts that this area was an Armenian cemetery.”

“Everyone I spoke with said about churches, schools, “he added. “But unfortunately, this recollection has been destroyed. (…). I was saddened that we couldn’t preserve even the remnants of our forebears.”

Also, Agos informed that renowned Armenian painter Arshile Gorky (born Vostanik Manoug Adoian) was born and raised in Dilkaya neighborhood.

https://news.am/eng/news/404666.html

 

 



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Posted 15 August 2017 - 09:31 AM

ASBAREZ
Aug 14 2017
 
 
Paylan Says, ‘Human Bones Were Found’ at Van Cemetery where Toilets were Built
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Garo Paylan

ISTANBUL—Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament representing the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) visited the Armenian cemetery in Van, where local government authorities have built a public bathroom facility.

According to the Istanbul-based Agos Armenian newspaper, Paylan spoke to local residents and inspected the site, saying that wherever he touched, “human bones were found.”

“Wherever I touched, human bones were found. There is no doubt anymore that this territory used to be an Armenian cemetery,” he said.

“A Muslim chapel, a toilet and a café are built on the cemetery. It is sad that we were not able to protect the remains of our ancestors,” added Paylan who explained to Agos that the site was an Armenian neighborhood dating back to the Urartu period, 850 century BC.

The area in question is in the Erdemit district of the Van province, where late last month a public beach was opened.

Edremit is situated on the coast of the Lake Van, approximately 11 miles from the city of Van. The current name of Edremit originates from Armenian name of Artamet, which literally means “Near the Fields” in Armenian, as it lies near grape fields and apple trees the line the coast of Lake Van.

Artamet was founded as a small town at the shores of Lake Van in Tosp district of Vaspurakan province, in the middle of Historical Armenia. Throughout history, the city has had several names: Artemida, Zard, Artashessyan, Avan, Artavanyan, and Edremit. In the 10th century, Artamet was known as a feudal city with a population of 12,000. It was renowned for the best apples in Armenia.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Artamet boasted approximately 500 households, 435 of which were Armenian. After the first Hamidian Massacres of 1894–1896, the Turkish population grew and Turks soon outnumbered the Armenians.

Prior of the Armenian Genocide, Artamet had 10 Armenian churches and a Greek church. Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and other local Christians were almost entirely killed or driven out between 1915 and 1923. After the legal owners were massacred, thousands of their historical monuments were annihilated as well.

According to Agos, world-renowned Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky, was born in Erdemit. The newspaper added that a water fountain that was restored on Gorky’s property in 2015 by the Edremit municipality has been removed and water to the fountain was cut off.

 

http://asbarez.com/1...ets-were-built/



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Posted 20 August 2017 - 09:53 AM

PanArmenian, Armenia

Aug 19 2017  
 
 
Spanish police arrest Turkish writer who recognizes Armenian Genocide
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August 19, 2017 - 17:01 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish writer Dogan Akhanli who has been critical of Ankara's policies and has written extensively about the Armenian Genocide, was arrested on Saturday, August 19 morning in Granada after the Turkish government issued an Interpol international arrest warrant, El Periódico reports.

The Spanish police have yet to reveal the reason for the arrest.

After the 1980 coup d'etat, Akhanli went into hiding and was a political prisoner in a Turkish military jail between 1985 and 1987. He fled Turkey in 1991 and settled in Germany.

A German citizen, Akhanli is committed to memorializing the genocides of the twentieth century, including the Armenian Genocide, and to promoting cross-cultural dialogue with a view to reconciliation.

Akhanli wrote two novels on the mass killings of Armenians in 1915, ‘The Judges of the last Judgment’ and ‘The Last Dream of the Madonna’.

In August 2010, he returned to Turkey to visit his dying father, but was arrested at the airport and thrown into prison for four months. Thanks to a campaign in his defense, organized by civil rights activists and Turkish and German intellectuals, he managed to leave Turkey and return to Germany

http://www.panarmeni...ng/news/245724/



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Posted 20 August 2017 - 10:02 AM

Outlook India

Aug 20 2017
 
 
Germany protests Turkish-born writer's arrest in Spain The German section of the writers' associated PEN said charges against Akhanli centre on a crime committed while he wasn't in Turkey The group said it believes the arrest warrant against Akhanli to be politically motivated, citing his writings about the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey in 1915

Berlin, Aug 19 Germany's foreign minister is urging Spain not to extradite a German writer to Turkey after he was arrested on a Turkish warrant.

Sigmar Gabriel called his Spanish counterpart today over the arrest of Doghan Akhanli while on holiday in Spain.

Akhanli was born in Turkey but emigrated to Germany in 1991 after spending years in Turkish prison following the 1984 military coup in the country.

German news agency dpa reports that Akhanli only has German citizenship.

The German section of the writers' associated PEN said charges against Akhanli centre on a crime committed while he wasn't in Turkey. The group said it believes the arrest warrant against Akhanli to be politically motivated, citing his writings about the mass killing of Armenians in Turkey in 1915.

https://www.outlooki...n-spain/1127547



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Posted 21 August 2017 - 08:55 AM

dpa-AFX International
August 19, 2017 Saturday 10:58 PM GMT


Germany implores Spain not to send arrested author Akhanli to Turkey



By dpa correspondents Berlin (dpa) - Spain received an entreaty from
Germany late Saturday not to extradite a German author of Turkish
heritage to Turkey and to take part in extradition proceedings. German
Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel called his Spanish counterpart Alfonso
Dastis on Saturday evening to discuss the case, the Foreign Office in
Berlin. Gabriel also requested the quickest consular support possible
for Dogan Akhanli, who was arrested Saturday morning at the behest of
Turkey.

Akhanli was on vacation in Granada, Spain, at the time of the arrest,
his lawyer told dpa, though it is unclear what he was accused of.
Spanish police, who also said the detention request came from Turkey,
told local media that Akhanli would be handed over to authorities.
Akhanli's lawyer, Ilias Uyar, told a German newspaper that
international police organization Interpol had issued a red notice -
an arrest request - for the author. A red notice can come from a
member country or an international tribunal, but Interpol countries
are not obligated to take a flagged individual into custody. Akhanli
has written extensively about the Armenian genocide, and the arrest
was meant as the latest shot in the ongoing spat between Turkey and
Germany, according to Spiegel, citing security sources. The PEN
writer's association said the arrest was 'clearly politically
motivated,' and the head of the group's German branch, Sascha
Feuchert, called on Spain not to extradite Akhanli to Turkey. Akhanli,
a German citizen, has been living in Germany since he fled Turkey in
1991. Akhanli was cleared in absentia by a Turkish court in 2011 after
being wanted for robbery and homicide since 1989. His exoneration was
later overturned by a higher court, which claimed he had links to
terrorists.



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Posted 21 August 2017 - 08:58 AM

Middle East Online

Aug 20 2017
 
 
German-Turkish intellectual held at Ankara’s request

  Akhlani, German writer of Turkish origin who often writes about Turkey’s human rights violations, arrested in southern Spain for unknown charges.
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Erdogan is seeking to "extend his power beyond his country's borders"

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GRANADA - Dogan Akhanli, a German intellectual of Turkish origin who writes on Turkey's record on human rights, was arrested in Spain on Saturday at Ankara's request, the foreign ministry said in Berlin, adding that it opposed any extradition of the writer.

The arrest was initially announced by German Green MP Volker Beck, who described it as a politically-motivated move by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

A foreign ministry official later confirmed the arrest. The ministry has asked Madrid not to extradite Akhanli to Turkey, and that its embassy be allowed to provide consular assistance "as quickly as possible," the official said.

The Spanish interior ministry could not immediately be reached for comment.

Akhanli's local newspaper, the Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger in western Germany, said the Turkish-born writer was arrested in the southern Spanish town of Grenada on Saturday morning. The accusations against him were unknown.

Spanish police had a so-called red notice -- an alert circulated by Interpol that is roughly equivalent to an international arrest warrant.

Akhanli's website says he was born in northeastern Turkey in 1957, moved to Istanbul at the age of 12 and was held as a political prisoner from 1985 to 1987, when he was tortured.

He moved to Cologne in the 1990s, was stripped of his Turkish citizenship and became a German citizen in 2001, it says.

The arrest shows that Erdogan is seeking to "extend his power beyond his country's borders, to intimidate critics and to pursue them around the world," Beck charged.

Akhanli has written about the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was murdered in 2007, and about the killing of Armenians under the Ottoman Turkish empire.

Between half a million and 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1917 -- a bloodletting that Armenia and Western historians describe as genocide.

Turkey vehemently objects to the term. It argues that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose up and sided with invading Russian troops.

Akhanli was arrested in 2010 on his arrival in Istanbul airport for alleged implication in an armed robbery in 1989. He was released four months later and then declared innocent, before a court of appeal ordered new proceedings against him.

German Green MPs took up his cause, saying he had been a victim of political persecution.

Relations between Germany and Turkey have been at a nadir since a failed putsch against Erdogan in July 2016.

Turkish accusations include the charge that Germany has given refuge to wanted Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants and suspected coup plotters.

Turkish-German journalist Deniz Yucel, the Istanbul correspondent of newspaper Die Welt, has been held in jail in Turkey since February ahead of trial on terror charges.

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Posted 21 August 2017 - 09:01 AM

Deutsche Welle, Germany
Aug 20 2017
 
 
Spain releases Dogan Akhanli, German author detained on Turkish warrant

German-Turkish author Dogan Akhanli, who was detained in Spain after Turkey issued an Interpol arrest warrant, has been released. His detention added more strain to ties between Ankara and Berlin.

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German-Turkish author Dogan Akhanli has been released from a Spanish jail, his lawyer said Sunday following a court hearing.

"The fight was worth it. Dogan Akhanli is being released," Ilias Uyar said in a Facebook post.

Akhanli will be released from detention on the condition that he remain in Madrid, Uyar added.

The 60-year-old writer was detained Saturday morning at his hotel in the southern Spanish city of Granada.

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Ankara demands extradition of Turkish-German writer

Spanish authorities were acting on a Turkish Interpol arrest warrant for Akhanli with a so-called red notice.

Merkel: 'unacceptable that Erdogan does this'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Turkey's use of Interpol to detain Akhanli, saying it ammounted to an abuse of the international police agency.

"It is not right and I'm very glad that Spain has now released him," Merkel said. "We must not misuse international organizations like Interpol for such purposes," Merkel said on RTL television at a townhall election event with voters.

She noted that it was just one of many cases of Turkey pursuing and detaining German citizens.

"That's why we have massively changed our Turkish policy recently ... because it's quite unacceptable that Erdogan does this," Merkel said.

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel welcomed Akhanli's release, describing it as a win against the Turkish government's crackdown on critics.

"It would be horrible if Turkey could also have people jailed on the other end of Europe for raising their voice against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan," Gabriel said in a statement on Sunday.

 

Armenian genocide

It was unclear why Turkish authorities issued the arrest warrant, but Uyar suggested in a Facebook post on Saturday that Turkey targeted the Cologne-based writer for his advocacy for recognition of the Armenian genocide.

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Turkish integration in the era of Erdogan

The German parliament voted to recognize the massacre, deportation and starvation of up to 1.5 million Armenians during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire as "genocide" last summer.  As the successor state to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey denies that the "events of 1915" amounted to genocide and has lashed out at countries that have officially recognized the term. 

Turkey responded to the German genocide resolution by blocking parliamentarians from visiting German soldiers who were stationed at Incirlik base in southern Turkey as part of the international anti-"Islamic State" coalition. In response to repeated blocking of parliamentary visits, the German parliament in June voted to pull its troops from Incirlik and move them to a base in Jordan. 

Politcally motivated

German officials including Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, who is in Barcelona to pay his respects to the victims of this week's twin terror attacks, called the arrest warrant politically motivated.

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Erdogan: Support parties not hostile to Turkey

Gabriel also pressed his Spanish counterpart to free Akhanli and not to extradite him to Turkey, where the rule of law has deteriorated under Erdogan's authoritarian government. 

Akhanli has been living in Germany since fleeing Turkey in 1991 and has German citizenship. He has written extensively on Turkey's human rights record and the Armenian genocide.

He was also detained in August 2010 on manslaughter and robbery charges when he traveled to Istanbul, but was set free in December that year.

The relationship between Ankara and Berlin has become increasingly strained following last year's failed coup.

Under a state of emergency, authorities have fired or suspended some 150,000 people and detained over 50,000 people. Those detained include German human rights activist Peter Steudtner and German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel. 

Turkey accuses Germany of supporting coup plotters and terrorists, charges Berlin vehemently denies. 

rs, cw/rc (AP, AFP, epd, dpa, Reuters)

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Posted 23 August 2017 - 09:25 AM

Tert, Armenia
Aug 22 2017


Turkish-Armenian MP sues journalist over anti-Christian remark

15:05 • 22.08.17



Garo Paylan, a Turkish-Armenian lawmaker elected from the People’s
Democratic Party (HDP), has filed a complaint with the Republican
Prosecutors’ Office to demand liability measures against a journalist
who used an anti-Christian remark, T24.com.tr reports.


It comes after Hayrettin Karaman, a columnist for Yenisafak, published
an article using a Turkish proverb insulting non-Muslims.

He cited Quran rules dictating specific codes of behavior in the
relationship with other peoples.

Paylan reportedly accuses the Turkish columnist of breeding hatred, as
well as humiliating certain classes of the society.

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Posted 23 August 2017 - 09:27 AM

Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
August 21, 2017 Monday


Ethnic Armenian lawmaker of Turkey's parliament Garo Paylan gives
tough response to Ankara Mayor



YEREVAN, AUGUST 21, ARMENPRESS. Ethnic Armenian lawmaker of Turkey’s
parliament Garo Paylan gave tough response to Ankara Mayor Melih
Gökçek who called Germany's Green Party member Cem Ozdemirof Turkish
descent ‘Armenian’ aimed at insulting him since he had a great
contribution to the adoption of the Armenian Genocide recognition
resolution by the German parliament, reports Armenpress.

“Ozdemir’s name will remain in history as pride of Turkey, but yours
as a shame”, Paylan said on Twitter.



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Posted 01 September 2017 - 10:34 AM

Milliyet. Turkey
Aug 28 2017


Tomorrow May Be Too Late!

by Fuat Bol

[Groong note: the below is translated from Turkish]

Opportunities in general and historic opportunities in particular are
prizes; if their value is known, all will be good, but if their value
is not known, the ship will sail!

Once [former] US President [George H. W.] Bush had proposed [former
President Turgut] Ozal to jointly enter Iraq. The Americans would
enter from the south and we would enter from the north. Ozal had said
all right, but he had not been to convince the chief of staff, who
used to be "the bearer of the leadership role" at that time.

In fact, the chief of staff had resigned in order to avoid carrying
out the order in question. The chief of staff who had replaced him had
come to office on that condition and he had resisted. Eventually the
project had failed.

And instead of us the United States had cooperated with the Kurds and
it had entered Iraq with their support.

In return for what? In the short run, in return for the north of the
30th parallel and in the long run, in return for the Greater Kurdistan
which would be established by taking territory first from Syria and
later from Iran and Turkey!

Among the United States's plans there is also an Armenia project which
will be based in Van and which will include six provinces in its
region.


With the Iraq' war, the Syrian war, their disintegration, and even
with the PKK [Kurdistan Workers' Party]-PYD [Democratic Union Party]
and DA'ISH [Arabic acronym for ISIS] they are merely putting these
projects into practice.

Those who used to oppose Ozal then and even today argued and continue
to argue that [Iraq] was a quagmire, that we would not be able to get
out once we entered, and that we would drown there. Hello! We did not
intend to enter Iraq for winning territory. We intended to enter for
securing our borders and preventing separatist terrorist organizations
from settling there.

For example, today we have entered Syria with Operation Euphrates
Shield. Are we in Syria for the sake of territory? There is no doubt
that we do not have any designs in anyone's territory but we are
obliged to do this for the sake of the security of our borders.

Had we been able to secure our borders then, the calamity called the
PKK would hot have grown this much and it would not have hurt us so
much.

Currently the same thing is happening in the north of Syria. We have
undersigned great success with the first Operation Euphrates Shield,
but this is not enough. This is because by giving the PYD 1,000 trucks
full of arms and ammunition, the United States wants to root out the
Turks from there, to ensure that that strip reaches the Mediterranean
by means of Azez, and to allocate the entire northern Syria to the
Kurds.

Turkey should never allow this.

Turkey should not believe the United States's lies to the effect that
those weapons will only be used against DA'ISH and it should take the
required steps. The requirement in question is a second operation and
blocking the route from the north to the Mediterranean.

The bells for the independence in northern Iraq have already begun
tolling. Even though the United States says that now is not a good
time, it should be known that tomorrow is an unknown tomorrow!

Look, Israel has already announced that it will recognize Kurdistan,
which was placed before it just like a plum!

A British, Israeli, and American game is being played in the Middle
East and projects are being put into practice step by step.

Turkey should spoil this game before it becomes a part of it!



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Posted 03 September 2017 - 12:04 PM

PanArmenian, Armenia
Sept 2 2017
 
 
Erdogan talks of Rohingya killings, forgets about Armenian Genocide

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, September 1 accused Myanmar of "genocide" against the Rohingya Muslim minority, although Ankara itself continues to deny the Genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923.

"There is a genocide there," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul during the Islamic Eid al-Adha feast, which commemorates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, AFP reports.

"Those who close their eyes to this genocide perpetuated under the cover of democracy are its collaborators".

Around 400 people -- most of them Rohingya Muslims -- have died in violence searing through Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine state, the army chief's office said Friday.

Reports of massacres and the systematic torching of villages by security forces -- as well as by militants -- have further amplified tensions, raising fears that communal violence in Rakhine is spinning out of control.

To escape the violence, about 20,000 Rohingya have massed along the Bangladeshi frontier, barred from entering the South Asian country, while scores of desperate people have drowned attempting to cross the Naf, a border river, in makeshift boats.

The Ottoman Empire launched a campaign of mass extermination against ethnic Armenians living in their historic homeland. At least 1.5 million Armenians were killed or marched to death by the Young Turk government between 1915 and 1923.

Some three dozen countries, hundreds of local governing bodies and international organizations have so far recognized the Armenian Genocide. Turkey denies to this day.

Erdogan said he would bring up the issue at the next UN General Assembly in New York later this month, adding that he had already talked to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and other Muslim leaders.

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