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Armenians killed 73.727 Azerbaijanis

Archives documents: Armenians killed 73.727 Azerbaijanis in Nakhchivan in 1919-1921

[ 31 Mar 2008 12:30 ]

Baku. Vugar Masimoglu-APA. Armenians killed 523.955 Turks in Turkey in 1910-1922. These numbers have been reflected in official documents of Turkish Cabinet of Ministers State Archives General Department, APA reports.

Official documents about killing 523.955 Turks in various places of Anadolu are kept in Turkish State Archives. These documents prove that Armenians have committed Genocide against Turks, not Turkey. These documents reflect how many Turks have been killed in concrete villages and cities. Armenians killed many Turks in Kars, Ardahan, Van, Igdir and Nakhchivan. Armenians killed 4.000 Azerbaijanis in 1919, 64.408 in 1920, 5.307 more people in the same year, 12 people in 1921.

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Gahraman Agayev: “Bodies found in mass graveyard in Guba belong to the Azerbaijanis killed by Armenians in the first ten-day of May, 1918”

[ 31 Mar 2008 17:52 ]

Baku. Laura Jabrayilli-APA. “Mass graveyard in Guba was found out accidentally on April 1, 2007. We carried out archeological excavations in the 500 sq m area from July 13 till December 28 last year.

The study found out that the graveyard in the north of Guba and right bank of the Gudyalchay river was left out as a result of the genocide committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis on May 1-10 in 1918,” head of the scientific expedition making research in the mass graveyard in Guba Gahraman Agayev told APA. He said Armenians had atrociously killed Azerbaijanis.
“There are no signs of bullets on the bones. It shows that they were killed atrociously and beheaded”, he said.
Gahraman Agayev underlined that the graveyard was left out after the genocide committed by Armenians and said archeologists, historians, ethnographers and criminalists should carry out joint research in the territory.
161 skulls have been taken out of the mass graveyard in Guba up to now. According to the historical reports, Armenians killed about 3000 people in Guba in 1918.

Prosecutor General: “Issue should be raised before the UN for the recognition of actions committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis in 1918 as genocide”

[ 31 Mar 2008 15:52 ]

Baku. Haji Zeynalov-APA. “Issue should be raised before the UN for the recognition of the actions committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis in 1918 as genocide,” Azerbaijan’s Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov told Azerbaijani televisions, APA reports.

The Prosecutor General said Armenians continued to pursue genocide policy against Azerbaijanis and underlined that ethnic cleansing policy had not stopped either.
Zakir Garalov noted that the slaughters committed by Armenians in March 1918 had not been assessed and it was not discussed in the international organizations. The Prosecutor General regarded this as the next indicator of the existence of double standards and noted the necessity of raising the issue not only before the UN, but also before other international organizations for the recognition of the slaughters committed by Armenians against Azerbaijanis as genocide.
“Not only the state, but also all public organizations and every citizen should express their position on these issues,” he said.

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March 31- Day of Genocide against Azerbaijanis commemorated in Israel

[ 31 Mar 2008 13:08 ]

Baku. Lachin Sultanova-APA. An open door devoted to the Day of Genocide against Azerbaijanis was held in Azerbaijan-Israel International Association Cultural Center, Press Service of the Association told APA.
The event participants from every part of Israel familiarized themselves with photo exhibition and literature on March 31- Day of Genocide against Azerbaijanis. Yegana Salman, Chief of Committee for Protection of Azerbaijan’s Historical and Cultural Heritage made a statement on the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis by Armenians. The event participants decided to send a letter of condolence to President Ilham Aliyev on March 31- the Day of Genocide against Azerbaijanis. The letter covers that terror, genocide committed against Azerbaijanis by Armenians in various places of Azerbaijan and Baku on March 30-31 in 1918 will be commemorated by Azerbaijanis every time.
“Azerbaijanis residing in various countries of the world want to see Azerbaijan as a developed and stable country”, the letter reads.

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Igdir Belediye Baskani Aras: Azerbaycan, 200 yildir Ermeniler’in katliamina maruz kaliyor

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Igdir Belediye Baskani Nurettin Aras, “Azerbaycan tam 200 yildir Ermenilerin etnik arindirma, toprak kaybi, goc ve toplu katliamlarina maruz kalmaktadir” seklinde konustu.

Aras, 31 Mart Azerbaycanlilar Soykirim Gunu nedeniyle yayimladigi mesajda, Ermenilerin yaptiklari katliamlarin tum dunyaya duyurulmasi gerektigini ifade etti. Aras, sunlari kaydetti:

“Azerbaycan tam 200 yildir Ermenilerin etnik arindirma, toprak kaybi, goc ve toplu katliamlarina maruz kalmaktadir. Bugun Ermenistan topraklarinin daha 100-150 yil oncesine kadar Azerbaycan topraklari oldugu herkes tarafindan bilinmektedir. Dunya kamuoyu, Ermeni soykirimi iddialarinin asilsiz ve yalan oldugunu bilmeli, konu ile ilgili gercekleri bir an once ogrenmelidir. Yakin zamanda Ermenistan’in saldirisiyla Yukari Karabag ve cevresindeki 7 bolgenin isgal edildigini, Hocali gibi bolge kentlerinde halka karsi benzeri gorulmemis vahset ve katliamlarin uygulandigini, dunyaya duyurmak zorundayiz.”

June 27, 2009
Turkey to ‘never give up’ EU bid

Turkey has urged France and Germany to back its bid to join the EU, rejecting calls for a special partnership rather than full membership.

“We will never give up,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters in Brussels.

Turkey’s EU accession talks are going at a glacial pace and risk suspension if Ankara fails to open its ports and airports to Cyprus this year.

France and Germany want to give Turkey a “privileged partnership” with the EU.

But Mr Erdogan insisted “our goal is full membership”.

He also said it was “populist and wrong” to use Turkey’s bid as an election issue.

Some right-wing parties opposed to Turkey’s bid made gains in the recent European Parliament elections.

Slow progress

The BBC’s Oana Lungescu says both opposition inside the EU and insufficient democratic reforms in Turkey are hampering its bid.

Next week will see a small step forward, when Turkey is due to start talks on taxation, one of the 35 areas where it is negotiating EU entry terms.

Turkish diplomats argue that their country is of strategic importance to Europe and that its eventual accession would send a positive signal to the whole Muslim world.

So far, Turkey has opened talks on 10 out of the 35 “negotiation chapters” in the accession process, which started in October 2005.

But eight chapters have been frozen because of Ankara’s refusal to open up its ports and airports to traffic from Cyprus, an EU member.

Turkey says it will not do this until the EU takes steps to end the Turkish Cypriot community’s economic isolation.

BBC

June 27, 2009
ORDER OF MAKARIOS GIVEN TO ECJ HEAD JUDGE

turkish forums note: Makarios is a gradute of Heybeliada Ruhban Okulu, Same as many greek-pontos terrorist groups lieders as in the ISTIKLAL Savasi (War Of Independence) . These terrorist groups fight against Mustafa kemal’s ARMY and killed innocent civilians to increase their local population index in that region.. same as the works of terrorist armenian groups.

It has been revealed that the President of the Court of Justice of the European Communities (ECJ), Greek Vassilios Skouris, was awarded the Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III on 2 November 2006 for ‘His sincere and strong feelings for the people of Cyprus (Greek Cypriots)’.

It is the same Greek ECJ President Vassilios Skouris who signed the verdict of the ECJ dated 28 April 2009 regarding the Orams Case – the case that is so closely related to the Property Issue in Cyprus and that has a potential to cause a negative influence on the economic and political life in North Cyprus. The Grand Collar of the Order of Makarios III is an honor given by South Cyprus and is the lowest of the six levels in the Order. Further information shared by Ajans Kibris is that Skouris visited Greek Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias and other high executives in the South during his visit in February 2009 just 3 months before the Orams verdict was announced.

Honor just after Orams case

Skouris was awarded the Order by then Greek Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos at the Greek Cypriot Presidential Palace a year after the Orams were taken to court in the South in 2005. The case was sent to the ECJ at the end of 2007 by the English High Court supported by the Greek Cypriot side with the approval of the Turkish side.

Papadopoulos thanked

During the ceremony held to award the honor to Skouris, the then Greek Cypriot President Papadopoulos was noted to have “Thanked Skouris for his support to Cyprus” Skouris thanked Papadopoulos for the honor and said that receiving the Order was an honor both for him personally and the Court of Justice of the European Communities. Vassilios Skouris has been the President of the ECJ since 7 October 2003 and he was re-elected for another term through 9 October 2006-6 October 2009.

Verdict not judicial but political

One of the Turkish Cypriot Senior Executive Officers commented on the issue and said that the honor conferred on Vassilios Skouris proved that ECJ’s verdict was not judicial but was political. The Executive Officer emphasized that Turkish Cypriot should raise their voices against this verdict and he said: “If the public take to the streets, the verdict won’t be effective.” ‘Orams verdict Reaction Platform’ was founded in the TRNC as a reaction against the Orams verdict and members of the platform protested the verdict in front of Northern Cyprus representative offices of Britain and the EU.

June 27, 2009
Oskanian in NY: Armenian Side Has Lost the Battle
NEW YORK (A.W.)— Armenia’s former Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian spoke on Thursday, June 18 at Fordham University Law School on the ongoing developments in Armenia’s talks with the Turkish government.

After a brief introduction by Fordham University professor Anny Kaladjian and organizing committee chair Antranig Kassbarian, Oskanian gave his analysis of the possible directions and pitfalls of the administration’s current approach to negotiations.

He talked about the power play politics that the Turkish government uses towards Armenia, noting how his administration’s policy did not allow official talks with Turkey as it would be used by Turkey to force Armenia’s consent on national issues.

Referring to Turkey-Armenia relations during his tenure as Foreign Minister, he said the Armenian side insisted that negotiations remain secret, because there was the concern that “Turkey was more interested in the process and not the outcome,” and hence it would try to use the fact that negotiations are being held to advance its own agenda of derailing genocide recognition.

Talking about the announcement of the roadmap between Turkey and Armenia on the eve of April 24, Oskanian said that “the Armenian side has lost the battle.” He noted, “They [Turkey] have the Armenian side’s agreement in their pocket, and now Turkey can decide when and how to open border. We haven’t received anything in return.”

Oskanian said that for Armenia, national issues must remain a priority and the government’s greatest challenge is standing strong against immense pressures from other countries to do what is best for them, not necessarily what would be in Armenia’s best interest.

After a brief but concise presentation, Oskanian opened the floor to questions from the audience and responded to inquiries ranging from his ideas on the post election protests, Armenia’s approach on the Karabagh issue, as well as genocide reparations and his thoughts on the roadmap.

The event was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and co-sponsored by the Armenian Catholic Exarcate, the Armenian Club of Fordham University, AMAA, ANCA, ASA, AYF, knights and Daughters of Vartan, and the Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

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June 24, 2009
Israel’s New Ambassador to the U.S.

Calls Armenian Killings “Genocide”

By Harut Sassounian

Israel’s new Ambassador to the United States, Michael B. Oren, is a firm believer in the veracity of the Armenian Genocide, despite his government’s denialist position on this issue.

Prior to his ambassadorial appointment, Oren repeatedly confirmed the facts of the Armenian Genocide in his writings. In the May 10, 2007 issue of the New York Review of Books, he wrote a highly positive review of Taner Akcam’s book: “A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility.” The review was titled: “The Mass Murder They Still Deny.”

In his most recent book, “Power, Faith and Fantasy,” Oren made dozens of references to Armenia and Armenians, including lengthy heart-wrenching descriptions of the mass killings before and during the Armenian Genocide. Here are some of the most striking quotations from his book:

“The buildup of Ottoman oppression and Armenian anger erupted finally in the spring of 1894, when Turkish troops set out to crush a local rebellion, but then went on to raze entire villages and slaughter all of their inhabitants…. Some 200,000 Armenians died — 20 percent of the population — and a million homes were ransacked. ‘Armenian holocaust,’ cried a New York Times headline in September 1895, employing the word that would later become synonymous with genocide.”

Oren then went on to establish that more than a century ago, similar to today’s acrimonious political tug-of-war over the genocide recognition issue, the Armenian atrocities seriously affected U.S.-Turkish relations. He wrote: “Maintaining amicability with Turkey would prove complicated, however, because ties between the United States and the Porte [Sultan] had long been frayed. The perennial source of friction was the oppression of Armenian Christians. Though a band of modernizing Young Turks, many of them graduates of Roberts College, had achieved power in Istanbul in 1908 and promised equal rights for all of the empire’s citizens, barely a year passed before the slaughter of Armenians resumed. Some thirty thousand of them were butchered by Turkish troops in south-central Anatolia.”

In a section titled, “The most horrible crime in human history,” Oren wrote: “The first reports, from December 1914, told of anti-Christian pogroms in Bitlis, in eastern Turkey, and the hanging of hundreds of Armenians in the streets of Erzerum. Armenian men between the ages of twenty and sixty were being conscripted into forced-labor battalions, building roads, and hauling supplies for the Turkish army. The following month, after their defeat by Russian forces in the Caucasus, Turkish troops salved their humiliation by pillaging Armenian towns and executing their Armenian laborers. In the early spring, Turkish soldiers laid siege to the Armenian city of Van in eastern Anatolia and began the first of innumerable mass deportations. The slaughter then raged westward to Istanbul, where, on April 24, security forces arrested and hanged some 250 Armenian leaders and torched Armenian neighborhoods. Interior Minister Talaat Pasha informed the Armenian Patriarch that ‘there was no room for Christians in Turkey’ and advised him and his parishioners ‘to clear out of the country.’”

Oren then exposed Turkey’s attempts to falsify history by pointing out that: “Most contemporary observers agree that the massacres were scarcely connected to the war, but rather represented a systematically planned and executed program to eliminate an entire people. Indeed, foreshadowing the Nazi genocide of the Jews twenty-five years later, Turkish soldiers herded entire Armenian villages into freezing rivers, incinerated them in burning churches, or simply marched them into the deserts and abandoned them to die of thirst…. By the end of summer, an estimated 800,000 Armenians had been killed and countless others forcibly converted to Islam.”

After citing numerous eyewitness accounts of the mass killings, Oren concluded: “In all, as many as 1.5 million Armenians were killed in a genocide that the Turkish government would never acknowledge, much less regret.”

While it is true that Michael Oren published this book before his assignment as Ambassador to Washington, his compelling position on the Armenian Genocide would hopefully make him refrain from following the footsteps of his predecessors who shamefully lobbied against the congressional resolution on this issue.

The appointment of a staunch supporter of the truth of the Armenian Genocide as Israel’s Ambassador to Washington comes on the heels of a serious rift between Turkey and Israel following the Gaza war earlier this year. On that occasion, there were major manifestations of anti-Semitic statements and acts throughout Turkey, including anti-Israeli remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Rejeb Erdogan. His insulting words to Israel’s President Shimon Peres in Davos, Switzerland, antagonized Israelis and Jews worldwide. Even though Israel downplayed Erdogan’s offensive words, they did a lasting damage to Israeli-Turkish relations.

The combination of an Israeli government that is less sympathetic of Turkey and the presence of Israel’s Ambassador in Washington who is a firm believer in the facts of the Armenian Genocide may facilitate the passage of the pending congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide.

June 23, 2009
Health Reasons Force Erdogan to Cancel Athens Visit

Health Reasons Force Erdogan to Cancel Athens Visit

Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 6 Issue: 119

June 22, 2009

By: Saban Kardas

On June 20 Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan cancelled a planned trip to Athens. Although his health condition was offered as the reason for the last-minute cancellation, it did not prevent speculation that Erdogan sought to use the pretext of his health concern to protest about recent Greek diplomatic initiatives against Turkey.

Erdogan was scheduled to visit Athens to attend the opening the new Acropolis Museum. Prior to the opening ceremony, Erdogan was expected to meet Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, and both were to address bilateral issues including the conditions of minorities, as well as recent developments regarding the Cyprus dispute (Cihan Haber Ajansi, June 19). On the morning of June 20, Erdogan attended some meetings in the Aegean town of Izmir. He was expected to fly to Athens later that afternoon and return to Turkey that night. It was later announced that Erdogan had telephoned Karamanlis and informed him of his cancellation. He told Karamanlis that he would like to visit Athens at the earliest opportunity. A statement from Erdogan’s office explained that due to sunstroke, which Erdogan experienced during his visit to Edirne on June 19, his doctors had recommended rest. On June 21 he also cancelled the rest of his program in Izmir and his trips inside Turkey, and returned to Istanbul to rest over the weekend (ANKA, June 20).

Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc told reporters on June 21 that Erdogan was in good condition, and would resume his functions the following day. Arinc added that Erdogan had experienced temporary hypertension related to weariness, but this was not a serious problem. After resting in Istanbul, Erdogan was expected in Ankara on June 23, to attend an AKP party meeting and also have a working lunch with E.U. ambassadors (Anadolu Ajansi, June 21).

However, the official statement did not satisfy some diplomatic observers who believe that political motives were behind Erdogan’s last-minute decision. They suggested two issues which might have influenced Erdogan’s decision: Karamanlis’ public complaints about the Turkish Air Force allegedly violating Greek airspace in the Aegean Sea and the E.U. Presidency’s latest conclusions which referred to Turkey as a country of origin and transit in illegal immigration, at Greece’s urging (Radikal, Hurriyet Daily News, June 21). The Greek media also speculated that Erdogan might have cancelled his trip to express his displeasure over these developments. They argued that Erdogan might have wanted to avoid confronting Karamanlis on the Aegean and illegal immigrants’ issues (Anadolu Ajansi, June 20).

An interrelated set of disputed claims by Ankara and Athens in the Aegean Sea has proved a major long-standing bilateral source of tension between the two countries. Due to the ongoing controversy over the delimitation of national airspace, Flight Information Regions (FIR) and military over-flight rights, Turkish and Greek fighters engage each other in tactical military provocations (so-called “dog-fights”), which frequently heighten tensions between the two countries. Greece considers the flights of Turkish jets in the disputed zones as violations of its national airspace or transgressions of the FIR. During his contacts in Brussels in the context of the E.U. Summit, Karamanlis reiterated Athens’s complaints concerning Turkish jets’ “violations of Greek airspace,” and added that he “discussed this issue with Obama and would raise it during [his] meeting with Erdogan” (www.cnnturk.com, June 19).

The Greek attempt to use the E.U. as leverage to pressure Turkey on a different issue also reportedly angered Ankara. Last week, the European Council discussed the challenge of illegal immigrants, and ways to improve cooperation with countries of origin and transit. The presidency conclusions issued at the end of the summit announced that, as part of its external policies, the E.U. will seek to sign readmission agreements with major countries of origin and transit. By the time such agreements are concluded, the E.U. will require the implementation of existing bilateral agreements (www.eu2009.cz, June 19). Greece reportedly threatened to veto the presidency conclusions, if the European Council did not specify Turkey, along with Libya, as a key country of origin and transit. Although Turkey was not mentioned in the draft document, following last-minute changes, the final communiqué made reference to it (www.abhaber.com, June 19).

Athens claims that a great majority of illegal immigrants arriving in Greece transit Turkey and it expects Ankara to be more cooperative in the readmission of those immigrants. Ankara claims that since the final destination of those immigrants are E.U. countries, Turkey cannot be expected to bear the heavy financial burden of readmitting them, which would cost over 1.2 million Euros and demands fairer burden-sharing (Hurriyet, June 20).

The declared justification for Erdogan’s cancellation of his trip is perhaps true; yet, the very fact that it resulted in such speculation indicates the level of tension between the two countries. Athens has long blocked the progress of Turkish-E.U. relations, and the two neighbors even came to the brink of war over the Aegean issues in the 1990’s. In the post-1999 period, when the Turkish-E.U. talks were revitalized following the Helsinki Summit, bilateral relations entered a new phase. The resulting normalization of the relationship produced concrete results; in addition to launching diplomatic talks to discuss a resolution to the bilateral issues, Athens removed its objections to Ankara’s entry into the European Union. During the rapid wave of domestic reforms following the AKP’s accession to power in 2002, which resulted in the launch of membership talks in 2005, Erdogan developed a close working relationship with his Greek counterpart and visited Athens twice in 2004. However, parallel to the stalling of Turkey’s E.U. accession process since 2005, Turkish-Greek relations also experienced a downturn, which largely resulted from Turkey’s inability to resolve its differences with Greek Cypriots. If he is serious about his claim to revive Turkey’s E.U. bid, Erdogan must talk to his Greek counterpart and reach a consensus on bilateral and E.U. related issues. In this context, he might soon visit Athens.

https://jamestown.org/program/health-reasons-force-erdogan-to-cancel-athens-visit/

June 23, 2009