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Armenia offered Türkiye 'hand of friendship' after deadly quakes, says Turkish foreign minister Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan's visit to Türkiye after deadly earthquakes 'meaningful,' says Cavusoglu

Diyar Guldogan |15.02.2023

ANKARA

Armenia extended Türkiye a "hand of friendship" after last week's twin earthquakes that have so far claimed the lives of nearly 35,420 in the country, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

"Armenia extended a hand of friendship in this difficult time, and demonstrated solidarity and cooperation," Cavusoglu said at a news conference with his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in the capital Ankara.

Cavusoglu said Mirzoyan's visit to Türkiye was "meaningful."

The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 tremors on Feb. 6 were centered in Kahramanmaras province and struck nine other provinces – Hatay, Gaziantep, Adiyaman, Malatya, Adana, Diyarbakir, Kilis, Osmaniye, and Sanliurfa. More than 13 million people in Türkiye have been affected by the devastating quakes.

Several countries in the region, including Syria and Lebanon, also felt the strong tremors that struck in the space of less than 10 hours.

Noting that Armenia sent a 28-person search and rescue team to Türkiye after the quakes, Cavusoglu said their efforts have continued in Adiyaman since Feb. 8.

"They sent 100 tons of humanitarian aid and said they would send additional aid," he added.

Stressing that Türkiye remembers the 1988 earthquake that shook Armenia, Cavusoglu said: "After that earthquake, Türkiye's aid was delivered to Armenia by passing through the Alican border gate. Humanitarian aid from Armenia came to our country through the same border gate. We need to continue this solidarity."

The Türkiye-Armenia border reopened for the first time in 30 years after the quakes in southern Türkiye to facilitate the passage of humanitarian aid to disaster victims.

On the ongoing process of diplomatic normalization between Armenia and Azerbaijan as well as Türkiye, Cavusoglu said progress would "contribute to the peace and prosperity of our region."

Lasting stability in the South Caucasus is also important for economic development, he added. "We also talked about the steps to be taken in the normalization process, one of them is the reconstruction of the Silk Road Bridge. The reconstruction of the Silk Road Bridge will be very meaningful and we will work together on this issue."

'Armenia willing to build peace'

Mirzoyan, for his part, expressed Armenia's willingness to build peace in the difficult times.

"I would like to reaffirm the preparation and will of the Republic of Armenia, especially for the complete normalization of relations with Türkiye, the establishment of diplomatic relations and the full opening of the border between Armenia and Türkiye," he added.

The minister said the international community should not remain indifferent in wake of humanitarian crises and must act together to overcome them.

He also noted that a second party of humanitarian aid had been dispatched through the border gate on Tuesday night and would "soon reach Adiyaman to those affected by the earthquake."

The Armenian top diplomat is expected to later visit Adiyaman province, where the search and rescue team from his country continues to work.

Despite Türkiye being one of the first countries to recognize Armenia's independence in 1991, the two countries have been divided on a range of issues, including Yerevan's occupation of Azerbaijani territories, the events of 1915 during the reign of the Ottoman Empire and the border closure between the two neighboring countries since 1993.

In 2021, Ankara and Yerevan mutually appointed special representatives to normalize ties.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/armenia-offered-turkiye-hand-of-friendship-after-deadly-quakes-says-turkish-foreign-minister/2820510

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Turkish citizens of Armenian origin in quake-hit village ask for aid to be delivered to needier regions 'We've got enough,' says local official in village of Vakifli, adding that they had calls 'from everywhere, from municipalities, from Turkish Red Crescent to help'

Tahir Turan Eroglu and Ibrahim Aktas |17.02.2023

 

HATAY, Türkiye

Heartened by the help they have gotten since last week’s powerful earthquakes, a group of Turkish citizens of Armenian origin in Hatay, southern Türkiye are now asking that aid be diverted to areas of greater need.

Although luckily no lives were lost as a result of the last week's quakes, the village of Vakifli in the Samandag district, population 130, saw some 30 residents fled the region for Istanbul out of fear following aftershocks.

Berc Kartun, the administrative head of Vakifli, told Anadolu that locals experienced great fear after the Feb. 6 quakes and shied away from entering their homes due to follow-up shocks.

Thanks to a passenger bus, organized by the Istanbul-based Armenian patriarchate, around 45 people – 30 locals and 15 others from nearby Iskenderun – left the area.

Saying that aid has poured into the village since the first day after the quakes, Kartun thanked all those who gave so generously. “Honestly, I didn't expect that much. Good job, we have many benefactors in Türkiye.”

Also praising officials for their efforts to help quake victims, he said: “They ask if we need anything more. So we’re very good, we don’t need anything (more).

“They called us from everywhere, from municipalities, from the Turkish Red Crescent to help,” he added. Kartun said they turned this aid down, saying: “Give (it) to those in need, we've got enough."

“There's no point in hoarding, it's better if it reaches those who need it. We have enough supplies for about a month right now,” he added.

Kartun said he hopes Türkiye’s southernmost Hatay, also known as the “city of civilizations,” where people from all nationalities live in brotherhood, will return to its former glory as soon as possible.

Explaining that locals stay in the closed area of a tea garden in the village, Kartun said: “We gathered all our friends there. They don't eat or drink at home. We set up our own kitchen here, we cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner ourselves with the supplies from the donations.”

Ohannes Keskin, another local, also expressed his gratitude to the village’s benefactors, calling the aid given to Vakifli “incredible.”

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkiye/turkish-citizens-of-armenian-origin-in-quake-hit-village-ask-for-aid-to-be-delivered-to-needier-regions/2823455?fbclid=IwAR09N5jgtn22sgH_vga-CSlXcum9lmX0fUPxSM9eD3_7SyvfL_5fEPKCvlI

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Armenia - March 18 2023

Armenian Genocide reference in European Parliament report upsets Turkey

19:05, 18.03.2023

Turkey has become upset by the mention of the Armenian Genocide in one sentence in a report of the European Parliament on Wednesday.

In particular, the press secretary of the Turkish foreign ministry, Tanju Bilgic, commented on this mention of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

"Those views are incompatible with historical facts and international legal norms. They are not valid for us," said the representative of the Turkish foreign ministry, despite the many testimonies of this terrible crime in the archives of numerous countries.
"It appears that the European Parliament, in its regular report on ‘EU-Armenia relations’ dated March 15, 2023, asserts groundless accusations regarding our country and the events of 1915," he continued.

"These views, which are incompatible with historical facts and international law, have no force for us. We call on the European Parliament to act in accordance with political morality and international law, rather than repeating such one-sided and groundless statements," said the statement of the Turkish foreign ministry.

The aforesaid European Parliament report, entitled "Three Eastern Partnership neighbours in the South Caucasus," talks about the relations of this international organization with Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.

"In a March 2022 resolution, Parliament ‘strongly condemned Azerbaijan’s continued policy of erasing and denying the Armenian cultural heritage in and around Nagorno-Karabakh’. Leading MEPs following the situation in Armenia have released a series of statements on the conflict, insisting on the need for a negotiated comprehensive settlement and raising concerns over issues such as border incidents and attacks, Armenian captives, landmines, inflammatory rhetoric, humanitarian access and the protection of cultural heritage. In 2015, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the centenary of the Armenian genocide," it is stated in one of the parts of this report, where a reference to the resolution on the Armenian Genocide is given.

https://news.am/eng/news/750409.html

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Legal Experts Ask International Court

To Probe Turkey’s Crimes Against Humanity

By Harut Sassounian

Publisher, The California Courier

www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com

 

Several newspapers announced earlier this month that a major complaint has been submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Turkey. A group of European legal experts compiled a massive file which included “witness testimonies giving details of torture, state sponsored kidnapping, and wrongful imprisonment” by the Turkish government of its 200,000 opponents.

Both the European Court of Human Rights and U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention had concluded that a large portion of the imprisonments and detentions by Turkey were a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. They are considered crimes against humanity. The new complaint was delivered to the ICC prosecutor Karim Khan on February 9, but made public on March 1, 2023.

The 4,000-page dossier was prepared by the Belgian law firm Van Steenbrugge Advocaten, Belgium-based NGO Turkey Tribunal, and the European judges association.

“Turkish officials have committed crimes against humanity against hundreds of thousands of opponents of the Erdogan regime,” the submission said. “These crimes amount to a ‘widespread and systematic attack against a civilian population’, meeting the threshold for the ICC to launch proceedings against high ranking officials of the Erdogan regime.”

Even though Turkey is not a signatory to the Rome Statute that had established the ICC, the Court has jurisdiction to pursue these crimes since the Turkish government has committed some of the crimes on the territory of 45 ICC member states: Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, France, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Jordan, Kenya, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mongolia, Netherlands, Niger, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Peru, Poland, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Senegal, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The Gambia, Tunisia, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela, and Zambia.

The complaint states that there were 17 cases of enforced disappearance in which victims were abducted from Kenya, Cambodia, Gabon, Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Mongolia and Switzerland and taken back to Turkey. These abductees were accused of being followers of Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim preacher. Pres. Erdogan supported Gulen for many years until their relationship soured. Thousands of Gulen’s followers, including 9,100 police officers, were subsequently fired from their jobs and arrested.

Osman Karaca was seized on October 14, 2019, in Cambodia where he was a school teacher. “After being held incommunicado for four days, Karaca was handed over to Turkish authorities who flew him back to Turkey on a small government jet. He was convicted of leading an armed terrorist group in the 2016 coup attempt, despite the fact he had left Turkey for Cambodia in 2002,” The Guardian reported.

Karaca is one of many Turks abducted from overseas and charged for being a ‘terrorist.’ The legal claim filed against Turkey at the ICC contained statements on the torture of 800 abductees, describing “in detail how torture has been inflicted on a large and consistent scale.”

“This should be investigated,” said Johan Vande Lanotte, a former Belgian deputy prime minister and human rights law professor, who helped set up the Turkish Tribunal. He is leading the effort to persuade the ICC to open an investigation. “The universal basic principles of international law are being violated…. Important members of the (Turkish) government cannot deny they are responsible, because they proclaimed their responsibility proudly.”

The Turkey Tribunal stated that it documented “59 cases of extraterritorial and domestic Enforced Disappearance, relating to 109 persons. While the Turkish state has always denied involvement in domestic disappearances, authorities have consistently boasted about illegal abductions made overseas. Most recently, in July 2021, President Erdogan gave a press conference next to an image of a Turkish teacher proclaiming that he had been abducted from a foreign country. In an arrogant demonstration of impunity, the published image of the abducted person showed clear signs of torture, and he later underwent surgery to treat his broken arm.”

The Turkey Tribunal added: “Concerning the Imprisonments in Violation of Fundamental Rules of International Law, official Turkish statistics show that investigations into alleged membership of a ‘terrorist organization’ were launched against 2,217,000 persons in the period 2015-2021; 560,000 persons were put on trial and 374,000 persons were convicted, 270,000 of whom were found to be members of a terrorist organization.”

Furthermore, according to the Turkey Tribunal, “Official Turkish statistics show that 129,410 public servants have been dismissed and 19,962 teachers had their teaching licenses cancelled, since 2016. In total, 234,419 passports were withdrawn in relation to arbitrary investigations against the alleged members of the Gülen movement. Of these, 155,000 relate to persons against whom no judicial action was launched, such as, for instance, the spouses of the persons against whom an investigation or persecution was launched.”

Former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Vande Lanotte concluded: “We had the United Nations Working Group on Forced Disappearances look into this, the UN Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights, and even judges in Turkey itself, and nothing has been done, so this is the last possibility for justice.”

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CIVILNET.AM

27 Mar, 2023 08:03

Renowned Turkish political scientist and activist Cengiz Aktar sat down with CivilNet’s Eric Hacopian to talk about Turkey’s upcoming general election, the country’s continued de-Westernization, its “wagging the dog” relations with Azerbaijan, and the prospects for normalization with Armenia. He also discusses if a Turkish Willy Brandt could ever emerge to honor the victims of the Armenian Genocide.

https://www.civilnet.am/en/news/695802/will-turkey-survive-if-the-opposition-wins-the-election-a-conversation-with-cengiz-aktar/

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April 1 2023

Anti-Armenian Hate Flyers Discovered in Glendale; Investigation Underway

Officials in Glendale have condemned anti-Armenian Flyers found posted on light poles near St. Mary’s Armenian Apostolic Church and in other areas of the city.

Glendale Mayor Ardy Kassakhian and other officials held a news conference Friday at Glendale City Hall to discuss the discovery of the flyers, which contained language denying the Armenian Genocide and minimizing the suffering of the Armenian people.

“As mayor of Glendale, I’m very disturbed and upset that speech inciting violence against Armenians has visited our city by way of individuals vandalizing our city with hate-filled flyers,” Kassakhian said in a statement. “Our police are taking this issue seriously and will be investigating this as a hate crime. I speak for our residents and our council when I say that Glendale is not a place for hate speech against Armenians or any other group.”

The Armenian National Committee of America Glendale Chapter also denounced the flyers.

“We are extremely concerned by the dissemination of these appalling anti-Armenian flyers in Glendale calling for the continuation of the Armenian Genocide,” ANCA Glendale Chapter Chair Lucy Petrosian said in a statement.

“We are currently working with the Glendale Police Department to ensure this act of hate is investigated, and the perpetrators are brought to justice. This is yet another tragic reminder of how the incitement and institutionalization of anti-Armenian hate by the Azerbaijani government has threatened Armenian lives not only in Artsakh and Armenia, but across the diaspora,” Petrosian said.

“As we approach the 108th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, these hate flyers are a stark reminder that we must remain vigilant against the forces of discrimination, hatred and genocide denial,” Petrosian said. “Promoting the continuation of such atrocities is not only morally repugnant — it also constitutes a direct threat to our community’s safety and well-being.”

The flyers, which were distributed in the heart of the Armenian-American community of Glendale, promoted the “completion of the Armenian Genocide,” according to ANCA.

The incident comes months after similar flyers calling on Turkey and Azerbaijan to “wipe Armenia off the map” were distributed in Beverly Hills prior to a demonstration by the Armenian Youth Federation in protest of Azerbaijan’s blockade of Artsakh, which has deprived the region’s 120,000 Armenians of access to food, fuel, medicine and other vital supplies for more than 100 days, ANCA said.

“The Glendale Police Department and I stand with the entire Glendale community against all incidents of hate,” Glendale police Chief Manuel Cid said in a statement. “We will use all the resources available to us to fully investigate any criminal acts associated with this incident while we work in collaboration with our community leaders moving forward.”

https://mynewsla.com/crime/2023/04/01/anti-armenian-hate-flyers-discovered-in-glendale-investigation-underway-3/

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Elections must be in the air! Same lame lies (Our archives are open, you do the same). Unfortunately for Armenians living in Turkey the alternate is even worse!

April 6 2023

Ankara Hopes Turkish, Armenian Peoples Can Mend Ties - Defense Minister

Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published April 06, 2023 | 04:20 PM

MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th April, 2023) Ankara hopes that the Turkish and the Armenian peoples can establish relations of friendship and cooperation, Turkish Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar said on Thursday.

Armenia and Turkey, lacking diplomatic relations since 1993, launched the process of normalizing relations in 2022. The root cause of their estrangement has been Turkey's opposition to the process of international recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

"Turkey continues to believe that the Turkish and the Armenian peoples, which have lived together in tolerance and peace for centuries, can establish relations of friendship and cooperation," Akar said, as quoted by Turkish newspaper Aydinlik.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "has said at every opportunity and every platform" that Ankara is open to an objective inquiry into the events of 1915 by historians, Akar added.

"We repeat our call on this issue. Armenia, like Turkey, should open its archives to historians of international acclaim, come to terms with their findings and not worry about it. However, so far we have received no response to our call," he said.

The 1915 Armenian Genocide has been recognized by 34 countries to date, including Russia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the United States, as well as by the European Parliament and the World Council of Churches. According to estimates, 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s.

Turkey has repeatedly denied the accusations of genocide, claiming that the killings were part of hostilities during World War 1.

https://www.urdupoint.com/en/world/ankara-hopes-turkish-armenian-peoples-can-me-1672227.html

 

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Turkey - April 8 2023

Turkish prosecutor drops case over assassination plot against HDP MP Paylan

Turkish prosecutor has issued a decision of non-prosecution in the investigation regarding an alleged 2016 assassination plot against Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) Armenian MP Garo Paylan. The prosecutor disregarded the notorious mafia leader Allatin Çakıcı’s lawyer Sinan İnce’s threatening message to Paylan about their assassination plan to kill him in the parliament.

Saturday April 08 2023 05:31 pm

A Turkish prosecutor issued a decision of non-prosecution in the investigation regarding an alleged assassination plot against Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) Armenian lawmaker Garo Paylan.

The suspect, notorious mafia leader Allatin Çakıcı’s lawyer Sinan İnce, confessed their assassination plan against Paylan on social media in 2022. The message read "Mustafa Levent Göktaş! In 2016, you were going to have a gun smuggled into the Parliament to shoot Garo Paylan. You were going to show the instigator as Alaattin Çakıcı and the perpetrator as Nationalist Movement Party (MHP). You made me do the plan, a parliamentary advisor made you stop. Who did you collaborate with afterward? Who punched Republican People’s Party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and why?”

After the post, an investigation was launched against İnce and retired colonel Levent Göktaş who was a suspect in the assassination of academic Necip Hablemitoğlu.

Referring to Paylan, İnce also said on social media on Aug. 18, 2022, that “We didn't want to make you a hero. Otherwise, we would have knocked you down while you were walking in the Parliament. Do not make yourself a victim by saying 'I survived by chance.’”

Nonetheless, the prosecutor issued a decision of non-prosecution without even taking the suspects’ statement, Gökçer Tahincioğlu from the online news platform T24 reported on April 7.

This picture shows İnce (L) and Göktaş ®.

In the decision, the prosecutor stated that there was no police record of Göktaş and İnce being “members of illegal organizations” and the Parliament officials did not find any CCTV footage of İnce entering the building with a gun.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/dsps-decision-to-support-erdogan-causes-crack-within-party-news-62171

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Turkey Bought Poison Gas from Nazi Germany

To Kill Kurdish Alevis & Armenians in 1938

By Harut Sassounian

Publisher, The California Courier

www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com

 

Prof. Taner Akcam of UCLA wrote a revealing article in Turkish, in Istanbul’s Armenian Agos newspaper on March 31, 2023, regarding the Turkish government’s brutal massacre of tens of thousands of minorities in Dersim, an Eastern province of Turkey, in 1938. The article was titled: “[President] Mustafa Kemal and [Prime Minister] Ismet Inonu ordered the use of poison gas during the Dersim massacre.”

While this is not the first time this information has been revealed, Prof. Akcam uncovered additional Turkish documents that confirm the details of this horrible massacre ordered by Ataturk and Inonu. The two Turkish leaders issued a secret decree in 1937 for the purchase of 20 tons of poisonous mustard gas and 24 twin-engine airplanes from Germany to exterminate through aerial spraying and bombing of Kurdish Alevis and Armenians who were living in hiding in the mountainous caves of Dersim. The thousands of Armenian inhabitants of Dersim were survivors of the Armenian Genocide who had fled and converted to Alevism to save their lives.

Many articles and books have been published in recent years, documenting Hitler’s admiration of Ataturk. The cooperation between the Turkish government and Nazi Germany is another indication of the criminal partnership of these two states. Even today, the Turkish military continues to use poisonous gas purchased from Germany in recent years, in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, to exterminate Kurds in Turkey and allegedly in Northern Iraq and Syria.

One of the ironic twists of the Dersim massacre is the participation of Sabiha Gokcen, an Armenian girl orphaned during the Genocide of 1915 and subsequently adopted by Ataturk as his daughter. She became the first female pilot in Turkey and participated in the bombing of Dersim, renamed Tunceli. It is not known if she was aware that she was taking part in killing her fellow Armenians who were survivors of the Genocide, just like her. One of the two Istanbul airports is named after her, as a ‘War Hero.’

A Turkish court ruled in March 2011 that the Turkish government’s massacre in Dersim could not be considered genocide according to the law because they were not directed systematically against an ethnic group. However, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while Prime Minister in 2011, issued an apology for the 1938 Dersim massacre. Erdogan’s apology was viewed with suspicion as an opportunistic move to win the votes of the large Kurdish population in Turkey from the government’s main opposition political party, CHP, which is a continuation of Ataturk’s Republican Party. Erdogan described the Dersim massacre “as the most tragic event in our recent history.” He added that, while some sought to justify the killings as a legitimate response to events on the ground, it was in reality “an operation which was planned step by step…. It is a disaster that should now be questioned with courage. The party that should confront this incident is not the ruling Justice and Development Party. It is the CHP, which is behind this bloody disaster, who should face up to this incident.” These comments were pointedly directed at opposition leader Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, who in fact is from Tunceli, and Erdogan’s main opponent in the May 2023 presidential election. One wonders if Erdogan would have also apologized for the Armenian Genocide if there were millions of Armenian voters living in Turkey now.

In one of the footnotes of his article, Akcam referenced a document of the German Parliament where several members asked the German government in 2019 for the details of the Turkish purchase of poisonous gas and airplanes from Nazi Germany. German chemical weapons experts were also brought to Turkey in 1938 to train the military in the use of the poisonous gas. In its reply, the German government acknowledged “the suffering of the [Dersim] victims and their descendants” and added: “the federal [German] government is ready if the events of that time are processed by Turkey to examine German participation.”

While these mass killings cannot be justified under any circumstance, the Turkish government was trying in the 1930’s to suppress domestic opposition and impose its rule in the Dersim region. During a speech in parliament on Nov. 1, 1936, Ataturk described Dersim as “Turkey’s most important interior problem.” Pursuing a policy of Turkification of ethnic and religious minorities, the Turkish government adopted in 1936 the “Law on the Administration of the Tunceli Province” which aimed to resettle the local population to other parts of Turkey. Over 50,000 Turkish soldiers were dispatched to Dersim. They captured and hanged the ringleaders of the local rebellion and indiscriminately bombed and killed thousands of its inhabitants. Even though the Turkish government admitted that 13,806 inhabitants of Dersim were killed, some put the casualties much higher at 70,000 or more. Many of the survivors were moved to other parts of the country and Kurdish girls were given to Turkish families for adoption.

Regrettably, Turkey is still in denial about its past mass crimes. The Dersim massacre is just one example of the exterminations of various minorities beginning in the Ottoman Empire and continuing in the Republic of Turkey era.

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Kurdish Press - April 22 2023

 

Istanbul governor bans Armenian Genocide commemoration event on April 24

“The Governor's Office has clearly shown that it is against the dynamics of democratization by banning our commemoration event,” said the April 24 Commemoration Platform, calling on the Governor's Office to abandon this decision.

The Istanbul Governor's Office has banned the commemoration event of the Armenian Genocide planned to take place in the Kadıköy district.

The April 24 Commemoration Platform stated that the reason for the ban was that it was “deemed inappropriate to hold the event.”

Last year's commemoration was also banned by the governor, and in the two previous years, the event was held online due to the pandemic.

The genocide is remembered every year on April 24, which marks the arrest of more than 200 intellectuals in Istanbul in 1915, widely considered as the start of the genocide.

The April 24 Commemoration Platform, which has organized remembrance events since 2010, criticized the governor's ban, stating that the commemoration events have always been held without any issues despite being targeted by various powers since 2010, according to Bianet.

"There is no reasonable reason for our commemoration event to be banned this year, as it was last year. In a climate where racist meetings and demonstrations are freely organized, where those who continue to demonize the descendants of the Armenians and Assyrians who were killed in 1915 and continue to alienate minority communities with racist hate speech are walking around freely, the ban on this event, which we respectfully and calmly remember those we lost in 1915, is unacceptable.

Confronting 1915 is a necessary step to build democracy, equality, and peaceful coexistence on solid foundations today. Without this confrontation, no democratic move can be permanent, and no social relationship can be egalitarian.

The Governor's Office has clearly shown that it is against the dynamics of democratization by banning our commemoration event. We call on the Governor's Office to abandon this decision."

https://anfenglish.com/news/istanbul-governor-bans-armenian-genocide-commemoration-event-on-april-24-66776

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Turkey - April 24 2023

Turkish FM calls US President Biden 'charlatan' over Armenian genocide remark Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has called U.S. President Joe Biden "charlatan" over his April 24 statement marking the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Çavuşoğlu deemed Biden's remark as an "attempt by political charlatans to distort history."

Monday April 24 2023 09:29 pm

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on April 24 called U.S. President Joe Biden “charlatan” over the latter’s statement on the Armenian genocide.

“Yet another attempt by political charlatans to distort history! Politically-driven statements cannot change the facts. Those intentionally insisting on their mistakes are destined to be remembered as hypocrites. No one shall dare to lecture us on our history,” Çavuşoğlu said in a tweet without explicitly mentioning Biden’s name.

State-run Anadolu Agency reported the minister’s remarks as “Çavuşoğlu responded to Biden's statement regarding the 1915 Events.”

In a statement marking the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Biden said “On April 24, 1915, Ottoman authorities arrested Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople—the start of a systematic campaign of violence against the Armenian community. In the years that followed, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths—a tragedy that forever affected generations of Armenian families.”

Biden was also the first U.S. president describing the 1915 events as “genocide.”

Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces in World War One, but denies the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute genocide. Turkey rather says the clashes were reciprocal.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkish-fm-calls-us-president-biden-charlatan-over-armenian-genocide-remark-news-62271

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Turkey - April 25 2023

Ankara Governor’s Office bans panel on Armenian genocide

Ankara Governor’s Office on April 24 banned a panel organized by the Ankara provincial assembly of the Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) on the 108th anniversary of the Armenian genocide under the title "Don’t Forget, Face: 1915." Far-right Victory Party leader Ümit Özdağ previously incited hatred against the participants, according to online news outlet Bianet.

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The Ankara Governor's Office on April 24 banned a panel titled "Don't Forget, Face: 1915," organized by the Ankara provincial assembly of the Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) to commemorate the 108th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Previously, far-right Victory Party leader Ümit Özdağ previously targeted the panelist; researcher and writer Kadir Akın, activist Kayuş Çalıkman Gavrilof and Green Left Party MP candidate Emirali Türkmenin, according to online news outlet Bianet.

In its statement on the issue, the governor's office used the word "so-called" when referring to the Armenian genocide. The event was deemed “inappropriate” as a threat to “peace and security, personal inviolability, safety, and public welfare.”

The Human Rights Association (İHD) Commission Against Racism and Discrimination's annual statement on the Armenian genocide, held in Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square since 2005, was also banned. This year, the İHD had planned to hold the statement on the street where their building is located in Beyoğlu. However, the police prevented the rights defenders from holding the statement in the new location, forcing them to conduct it inside the association's building.

Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces in World War One, but denies the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute genocide.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/court-acquits-izmir-bar-associations-ex-management-in-case-concerning-diyanets-anti-lgbti-sermon-news-62270

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If Erdogan Dies, It Will be Too Soon to Celebrate: Earlier today, during a televised interview, a sudden medical emergency incapacitated Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan’s office dismissed the incident as the result of a stomach bug, but rumors swirl inside Turkey that the president has had a heart attack and that his condition worsened while in the hospital.

 

Turkey is an authoritarian police state without free media and so it is impossible at this point to know the truth. Every democrat wakes up each morning knowing when his or her administration will end. Every dictator wakes up having to worry that today could be his last. Erdogan has long been in the latter camp.

 

Make no mistake: His reign will end, by death, exile, imprisonment, or execution. The notion that a man who disdains democracy would voluntarily step down or allow election monitors to confirm him to be a loser is farfetched, a fantasy of diplomats and think tankers.

If Erdogan does die or if he uses his health crisis to pass his candidacy to a relative or pawn, neither the United States nor Europe should celebrate. After 20 years of Erdoganism, there is no easy return to the status quo ante.

During this period, Erdogan has taken over the banking sector and the state audit boards. He was able to indoctrinate (or at least try to brainwash) more than 30 million schoolchildren. While he may not have succeeded to create the “religious generation” he promised—the association of religion with corruption in the minds of many Turks was a natural brake on such efforts—he did fan the flames of both conspiratorialism and extreme nationalism.

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they're going to hold him in the freezer until he's son-in-law is ready . much like alievs. his father was in USA in some freezer for God knows haw long till his bedovlat san became a president..

[Yervant1]

No matter who comes next, always been worst than the previous one. Turkey pretends to be a democracy!

[MosJan]

No matter who comes next, always been worst than the previous one. Turkey pretends to be a democracy!

Turkey pretends to be a democracy! , Azeri aliev pretends to be humane, USA & Europe pretends to care,, pashinyan pretends to be winning.. just like must of us pretend to be Armenian Christians..

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Turkey unexpectedly closes its airspace for the Armenian airline

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YEREVAN, APRIL 29, ARMENPRESS. The aviation authorities of Turkey, without prior notification, canceled the permission previously granted to the Flyone Armenia airline to operate flights to Europe through the Turkish airspace, Aram Ananyan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Flyone Armenia airline, told ARMENPRESS.

"For reasons incomprehensible to us and without any visible grounds, the Turkish aviation authorities canceled the permission previously granted to the Flyone Armenia airline to operate flights to Europe through the Turkish airspace. Turkish aviation authorities implemented the cancellation without prior notification, putting our airline and our passengers in an uncomfortable situation.

Flyone Armenia company is working with the passengers of the canceled flights and will inform about the upcoming developments. We kindly ask for the understanding of our passengers for the inconvenience caused by reasons beyond our control," Ananyan said.

 

 

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[Yervant1]

If you want normalization, why did you close your air space to Armenian airlines? Just because of a statue?

Turkey - May 5 2023

Türkiye wants ‘full normalization’ of ties with Armenia: Parliament speaker

Turkish parliament speaker meets Armenian counterpart on sidelines of Parliamentary Assembly of Black Sea Economic Cooperation meeting

The Turkish parliament speaker on Thursday met with his Armenian counterpart and said that Ankara wants “full normalization” of ties with Yerevan.

Mustafa Sentop and Alen Simonyan held a closed-door meeting on the sidelines of the 61st General Assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC).

"We will continue to support the PABSEC work in the strongest way from now on," Sentop told Simonyan.

Noting that Türkiye desires the establishment of good neighborly relations in its region, Sentop said: "Our aim in our normalization process with Armenia is essentially to realize this desire."

He added it is necessary to avoid steps that will harm the normalization process.

About the inauguration of the "Nemesis Monument" in the Armenian capital Yerevan, Sentop said it is an "unacceptable development that openly glorifies terrorism and makes terrorists heroic."

The monument honors perpetrators of assassinations against Ottoman and Azerbaijani officials in the early 1920s.

"The opening of this monument has created a serious disturbance in Türkiye. I think that we look at this issue as a very sensitive issue, that we will not accept the glorification of terrorism in any way and that such events will negatively affect good neighborly relations," he added.

Sentop said that the signing of a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan as soon as possible is of great importance for comprehensive normalization in the region, adding: "Such a development will start a new period of opportunity and cooperation for our region, and Armenia will also benefit from it like all the countries in the region."

For his part, Simonyan said that Armenia approaches relations with Türkiye in a "constructive" way and added the opening of the monument was not related to state policy and that no deputies from the government attended the opening ceremony.

"No deputies representing the government were present at that ceremony. Those deputies are the ones representing the opposition and they criticize us for taking a step in this (normalization) process. We anticipate that there will be many obstacles and difficulties on this path, but we have to go through them so that we can reach a conclusion," he added.

Simonyan also said that they want peace with Azerbaijan and want to sign a peace agreement with Baku.

Meanwhile, Sentop separately met with his Montenegrin counterpart Danijela Djurovic, Morocco’s Rachid Talbi Alami, and Serbian parliament speaker Vladimir Orlic on the sidelines of the meeting.

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkiye-wants-full-normalization-of-ties-with-armenia-parliament-speaker-3664023

 

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lets see..