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  • Senator Robert Menendez Faces a New Federal Investigation

    Senator Robert Menendez Faces a New Federal Investigation

    The inquiry comes five years after the Justice Department dropped its corruption case against Mr. Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat.
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    Five years after standing trial on corruption charges, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey is again being scrutinized by federal authorities, an adviser said Wednesday.

    “Senator Menendez is aware of an investigation,” said Michael Soliman, a New Jersey political consultant who managed two of Mr. Menendez’s Senate campaigns. “However, he does not know the scope of the investigation.”

    Mr. Soliman said Mr. Menendez, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, would cooperate “should any official inquiries be made.”

    Source: NYTimes

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  • Congratulations letter to prime minister

    Congratulations letter to prime minister

    Her Excellency Elizabeth Tuss

    Prime Minister, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    Your Excellency,

    I whole  heartedly congratulate you on the election as the Prime Minister. As a person who has followed your campaign, I completely believe that you will fulfill your promises and be very successful. From Türkiye, I offer you my deepest respects.

    Sincerely,

    Orhan Tan

    Major General (Rtd)
    Member of Turkish Forum Advisory Board

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  • British Media Failed to Cover Terror Attack on Embassy in London

    British Media Failed to Cover Terror Attack on Embassy in London

    By Azer Hasret

    On August 4, 2022, a group of radical Shia Islamists had attacked the Embassy of Azerbaijan in London. The action happened early afternoon at a worktime. What was strange British police was present and they did not prevent attackers from this wrongdoing.

    According to media reports radicals approached Embassy’s building, entered, took away some of the belongings and damaged them.

    Then a dozen of members of the group went on the balcony of the Embassy, hoisted so-called flag of Huseyn. Some of them wrote something in Arabic language on the walls and windows of the Embassy which is located at the 2nd floor of the building.

    Afterwards one of the assailants approached the flag of Azerbaijan, took it away and dropped on the street.

    The national flag of Azerbaijan, pictures of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his father, former President Heydar Aliyev were walked through by the radicals on the street.

    And these actions were perpetrated before the eyes of London policemen who were very tolerant towards these wrongdoings.

    After some 2 hours of the action policemen arrested several perpetrators. Everything was filmed and aired live.

    Wasn’t this strange?

    That was.

    In the center of the city like London a group of radicals attack an embassy, damage belongings and policemen present do not take action to prevent this vandalism…

    That was strange appearance in the most known and most secure city of the world…

    So as this action happened one could think that the UK media would cover this kind of attack in the city. But what happened to the most “independent” and “free” UK media?

    According to the reports most mainstream media of the UK preferred to keep silence regarding this terror attack on the Embassy of Azerbaijan…

    Being a citizen of the new democracy – Azerbaijan we were really shocked not due to action of vandalism taken against the Embassy, but due to the silence of the UK mainstream media.

    Wasn’t that really news worth case? Imagine, a group of radicals claimed to be Shia Islamists attack an embassy, damage its property, and this happens in more than two hours period in front of the UK police. And this story is not news worth for the UK media.

    But we remember even one man whatever does in London and across the world the UK media covers it. Usually, they like to show while someone claiming to be Muslim takes any radical action. The UK media covers this kind of cases bringing to readers/viewers/listeners as a case of “radical Islam”.

    Now what happened? A group, attacking Azerbaijani Embassy claimed to be Shia Islamists and they are known as radical group. They claim to be “Mahdi Servants Union” and stated an attack as response to the Azerbaijani Government “repressions” against Shia Muslims.

    Just to remind, Azerbaijan is a secular new democracy, and no religion is suppressed here. But some people misusing Islamic religion for dirty purposes by the order of the Islamic Republic of Iran are trying to destabilize Azerbaijan. So, the Government of Azerbaijan takes preventive measures in order to assure stability and security. In this case radical religious groups claim to be oppressed and the likewise groups as “Mahdi Servants Union” use this opportunity to showcase against Azerbaijan.

    And in this case the UK mainstream media keeps silence, turns blind eye and thus shows its bias towards the nations and countries.

    That was the UK media which used to cover even the garbage dumps in Azerbaijan during the 1st European Games staged in Baku in 2015. They were paying very high “attention” on Azerbaijan using any small opportunity.

    But what happened now? Why the UK media failed to follow the principles of impartiality and media ethics and prevented itself from covering a brutal attack on the Embassy?

    Was that due to the Embassy being the Azerbaijani one? What would happen if the radical “Muslims” would attack any other country’s embassy like for example the Embassy of Armenia or etc.?

    We believe, that the UK media would cover this attack as “terror attack of Muslim group on Christian country’s embassy”.

    Then they say that the UK and even all Western media are free and independent…

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjNnNaigNB4

  • Azerbaijan, Armenia eye preparations for future peace treaty

    Azerbaijan, Armenia eye preparations for future peace treaty

    Azerbaijan, Armenia eye preparations for future peace treaty

    By Vafa Ismayilova

    Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan have discussed work on preparations for a future peace treaty between the two countries.

    Bayramov made the remarks on his official Twitter account on April 11.

    “Had a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister of Armenia Ararat Mirzoyan. We had an exchange on the work on the preparation of future peace treaty, the convening of the Joint Border Commission, as well as humanitarian issues,” Bayramov tweeted.

    The direct phone conversation between Azerbaijani and Armenian ministers, the first in about 30 years, is a follow-up to the agreements reached at the level of both states’ leaders in Brussels on April 6.

    Meanwhile, EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia Toivo Klaar expressed support to direct contact and engagement between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

    “Important development following last week’s Brussels meeting. EU is supportive of direct contacts and engagement,” he tweeted in response to Bayramov’s publication about the telephone conversation with his Armenian colleague.

    Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and European Council President Charles Michel met in a trilateral format in Brussels on April 6.

    The meeting was held for a continuation of the discussions on the situation in the South Caucasus region and the development of EU relations with both countries.

    The leaders took stock of developments since their last meeting in Brussels in December 2021 and their videoconference, together with French President Emmanuel Macron, in February 2022. They reviewed progress on the implementation of undertaken commitments. The leaders discussed the recently reported tensions and reiterated the necessity of adhering fully to the provisions of the 9/10 November 2020 trilateral statement.

    Both Aliyev and Pashinyan expressed a willingness to work quickly toward a peace agreement between their countries. To that end, it was decided to instruct foreign ministers to begin work on drafting a future peace treaty that would address all of the issues.

    At the same time, it was also agreed to convene a Joint Border Commission by the end of April. The Joint Border Commission’s mandate will be to: delimit the bilateral border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and ensure a stable security situation along and in the vicinity of the borderline.

    Follow us on Twitter @AzerNewsAz /TURKİSHFORUM – ABDULLAH TÜRER YENER

  • Pakistani Candidates for 2022 Republican Primaries

    Pakistani Candidates for 2022 Republican Primaries

    Dear TurkishPAC Members and Friends,

    I received the attached  Primary election recommendations from our friend Mr. M. J Khan.  M. J. Khan who gave ATA Houston and TurkishPAC significant support when he was a Houston City Council Member ten years ago.  

    There are three Pakistani Americans running for important political positions  in US Congress and Texas House and Courts this year. American Pakistani community provides  the Turkish American Community continuing political support. Please consider voting for the Pakistani American Politicians in this years primaries if you will be voting in the Republican primaries.

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    Sincerely

    Demir Karsan PhD. PE
    President TurkishPAC
    613 Rancho Bauer
    Houston Texas 77079-6821
    Email:dikarsan@sbcglobal.net
    Home:281-497 2786
    Mobile:281 386 7301

    In the end, we must learn to live as brothers, or we shall all perish as fools.
    M. L. King

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  • Foreign NGOs in Kyrgyzstan seek monopoly for perinatal health services in Kyrgyzstan amidst the election campaign

    Foreign NGOs in Kyrgyzstan seek monopoly for perinatal health services in Kyrgyzstan amidst the election campaign

    Kyrgyzstan
    Photo credit: SUN

    Kyrgyzstan still remains the country with the highest maternal mortality rate. According to WHO, there were 79 deaths per 100 000 live births in 2015. 

    Since then, international organizations based in the country, have been trying to improve this situation. And some of them have even reached positive outcomes. For example, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Bishkek that has been operating in the country since the 1990s, has implemented a number of social projects, including the training of doctors and nurses, employment promotion and other. Yet, the death rate among new-born babies is still at dangerously high level.

    To improve the situation, in 2019 a delegation of Kyrgyz doctors visited Russia’s Yekaterinburg, where the world-famous enterprise specializing in production and exporting perinatal equipment and innovative incubators is located. The visited has resulted in the launch of a new project named The Regional Obstetric Monitoring.  The system that provides an A-Z support from the first contact with a doctor to controlling the birth process and first months of a newly-born, has proved to be more efficient than the previous projects, designed by European countries.

    However, the next visit to Yekaterinburg aimed at learning and implementing new levels of the system was blocked. The cancellation of the visit was supported by GIZ that referred to efficiency of the German health projects and higher wages for doctors that passed the training.

    Ironically it may seem, the German initiative came just amidst the parliamentary elections campaign that is currently going on in Bishkek. Some experts believe it was done on purpose, to prevent current President Zhaparov’s activity to promote Russian technologies among its supporters that would by no doubts increased the number of his female electorate.