Quotations - Armenian Genocide!

Arnold Toynbee (British historian, 1915) “All these atrocities have been committed toward Armenians even though they have not done anything to invite them”. 

Anatole France (French author, 1916) “Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die”. 

Fritdjof Nansen (Norwegian public figure, 1915) “The massacres that started in 1915 have nothing to compare with the history of mankind. The massacres by Abdul Hamid are minor in comparison to what today's Turks have done”. 

Jacques de Morgan (French scientist, 1917) “The deportations of Western Armenians are nothing but concealed race extermination. There is no language rich enough to describe the horrors of it”. 

Valeri Brusov (Russian poet, 1917) “Turks continued their previous policy. They would not stop commit massive and most awful massacres that even Leng Timur would not dare do”. 

Fayer el Husein (Arab publicist, 1917) “Who can describe the feelings that an eyewitness experiences when he thinks of this heroic and unfortunate nation. Its courage and spirit surprise the world. A nation that yesterday was one of the most energetic and progressive nations of the Ottoman Empire is becoming a memory”. 

Joseph Markwart (German scientist) “Even after proclamation of the Constitution, the main slogan of the Turkish policy has been ‘Without Armenians there will be no Armenian problem”(1916). 

Henry Morgenthau Sr. (U.S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Ambassador, Morgenthau's Story, 1919) When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. . . . I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915. 

James Bryce (British Viscount October 6, 1915, speech) The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April. House of Lords, Hansard (5th series), Vol. XIX, 6 October 1915. Cols? I am sorry to say that such information has reached me from many quarters goes to show that the figure of 800,000 which the noble earl thought incredible as a possible total for those who have been

destroyed since May last is, unfortunately, quite a possilbe number. That is because the proceedings taken have been so absolutely premeditated and systematic. 

Count Wolff-Metternich (German Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire July 10, 1916, cable to the German Chancellor) In its attempt to carry out its purpose to resolve the Armenian question by the destruction of the Armenian race, the Turkish government has refused to be deterred neither by our representations, nor by those of the American Embassy, nor by the delegate of the Pope, nor by the threats of the Allied Powers, nor in deference to the public opinion of the West representing one-half of the world. 

Theodore Roosevelt (US President, May 11, 1918, letter to Cleveland Hoadley Dodge) ...the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense. 

Herbert Hoover (US President, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, 1952) The association of Mount Ararat and Noah, the staunch Christians who were massacred periodically by the Mohammedan Turks, and the Sunday School collections over fifty years for alleviating their miseries—all cumulate to impress the name Armenia on the front of the American mind. 

Jimmy Carter (US President, May 16, 1978, White House ceremony) It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials. 

Ronald Reagan (US President, April 22, 1981, proclamation) Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it, ...the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten. 

George Bush Sr. (US President, April 20, 1990, speech in Orlando, Florida) [We join] Armenians around the world [as we remember] the terrible massacres suffered in 1915–1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts. 

John Evans (US ambassador to Armenia said to American Armenians on February 19, 2005) "Today I shall call this Armenian genocide". "I think that we, the US government, owe you, our fellow citizens, a more straightforward and honest discussion of this problem. I can tell you as a person who has studied this problem - I have no doubts about what happened." "I think that it is inappropriate for us, the Americans, to play with words in this case". "I believe that we must call a spade a spade."

Turkey Goes Against US in Campaign Against ISIS

ANKARA—Turkey will refuse to allow a US-led coalition to attack jihadists in neighboring Iraq and Syria from its air bases, nor will it take part in combat operations against militants, a government official told Agence France-Presse Thursday.

“Turkey will not be involved in any armed operation but will entirely concentrate on humanitarian operations,” the official said on condition of anonymity.

The decision echoes the country’s refusal to allow the US to station 60,000 troops in Turkey in 2003 to invade Iraq from the north, which triggered a crisis between the two allies.

Ankara then also refused Washington permission to use its air bases to attack Saddam Hussein’s regime.

Turkey has come under fire by some critics for encouraging the formation of ISIS because of its support of Islamist opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and its deliberately loose control of its borders.

But Ankara vehemently denies its strategy has backfired.

US Secretary of State John Kerry was to hold talks in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to drum up support from 10 key Arab nations and Turkey, after President Barack Obama announced Washington’s new strategy against ISIS jihadists, which will include air strikes in Syria.

After a lightning advance, ISIS militants now control swathes of Iraq and much of northern Syria along the Turkish border.

Turkey now sees itself a victim of ISIS with Islamist militants holding 49 Turks hostage, including diplomats and children, abducted from the Turkish consulate in Mosul in Iraq on June 11.

Ankara is therefore reluctant to take a stronger role in the coalition against ISIS militants in apparent fear of aggravating the hostage situation.

“Our hands and arms are tied because of the hostages,” the official told AFP.

Turkey can open Incirlik Air Base in the south for logistical and humanitarian operations in any US-led operation, according to the official who stressed that the base would not be used for lethal air strikes.

“Turkey will not take part in any combat mission, nor supply weapons,” he said.

Turkey is the only Muslim country in a coalition of 10 countries who agreed to fight ISIS at the NATO summit in Newport.

Kerry is due to stop over in Turkey on Friday according to the official, although the US embassy in Ankara declined to confirm the visit that comes as part of a regional tour.

http://asbarez.com/126858/turkey-goes-against-us-in-campaign-against-isis/

10 Percent of ISIS Fighters Reportedly Turkish

ANKARA—The extremist Islamist group Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), a splinter group of al-Qaeda which Turkey has supported against the Bashar al-Assad regime during the Syrian civil war, has ironically turned into a threat for Turkey, and now commands a significant percentage of fighters who are Turks, according to the German daily Die Welt, as reported in the Turkish press.

Die Welt reported on Tuesday that it is “completely ironic” that ISIS has become a threat to Turkey now, reminding that Turkey has been accused of directly or indirectly supporting ISIS for some time against the al-Assad regime.

It is estimated that ISIS has about 10,000-15,000 militants in the region. Die Welt claims that 10 percent of them are Turks.

The story written by Die Welt’s Balkan correspondent in Budapest, Boris Kálnoky, reported that most of the non-Arabs in the IS are either Turkish citizens or citizens of European countries who are of Turkish descent.

According to the story, based on information gathered from European intelligence units, since the beginning of the civil strife in Syria about 1,200 militants from Europe crossed into Syria via Turkey to join ISIS, and after fighting there these militants returned to Europe via Turkey. Die Welt suggested that this will inevitably have a negative effect on Turkey’s relations with the European Union.

Die Welt reported that Ankara has information that there are more than 1,000 Turkish citizens who have joined ISIS, an estimated 10 percent of the total number of ISIS militants.

According to the newspaper, European citizens of Turkish origin from Germany, France, Belgium and Austria are also joining ISIS.

Die Welt also suggested that there are some “sleeper cells” in Turkey biding their time to launch attacks inside the country, and the militants in these cells have been trained by ISIS, based on previous reports in the Turkish press.

The report also mentioned the Mosul hostage crisis in which 49 Turkish citizens, including Turkish Consul General Öztürk Yılmaz, other diplomatic staff, special forces members and dependents were taken hostage by ISIS on June 11 of this year.

“Ankara has solved the problem by imposing a gag order on the reporting of the hostage situation. Whoever reports a story about the situation will have to go to court. Therefore, in Turkey there is no such thing as a hostage problem,” reported Die Welt.

http://asbarez.com/125678/10-percent-of-isis-fighters-reportedly-turkish/

In Istanbul mosques Azerbaijani jihadists are trained for war in Syria

Terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has occupied almost all the mosques in Istanbul where citizens of Azerbaijan are being trained for a future war in Syria. As Azerbaijani news portal Haqqin.az reports, this was announced by one of the leaders of Jafari religious movement Hasan Kanaalti.

He mentioned that ISIL has taken control of a number of mosques in the regions of Fatih, Ataşehir, Esenyurt and Bağcılar. Young people from Azerbaijan undergo training in these mosques after which they are sent to war in Syria, reports the source. 
“The authorities do nothing and we are going to ensure the security of our community ourselves. We have called for meetings with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, however we haven’t received any response from him for more than 10 days,” said Kanaalti.
According to him a couple of days ago there was an attack on Muhammadi mosque where the members of Jafari community were holding gatherings; the attack was probably carried out by the members of ISIL.

“We were told that we would not be allowed to pray Azan. One of the regions in which ISIL is based is Fatih. There the Salafis distribute booklets and fuel anti-Shia aggression. They have created an extended network of their missions in Ataşehir where prior to being sent to Syria young jihadists from Azerbaijan are hosted for a couple of days. The government cannot but know about this”, - he said.

As reported by Iranian news agency IRNA, the restraints on political and religious activities in Azerbaijan are one of the main reasons why ISIL considers this country a fertile soil for the recruitment of jihadists. On the world map published by ISIL Azerbaijan has to be a part of the caliphate proclaimed by this organization.

The citizens of Azerbaijan are fighting among various terrorist groupings in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the data of Azerbaijani information agency Vesti.az, the total number of the Azerbaijani terrorists in these countries is 300. Meanwhile, according to the information provided by the Azerbaijani mass media only in Syria about 200 Azerbaijani terrorists died within the last three years. Mass media has also many times informed about the liquidation of the commanders among the Azerbaijani terrorists.

http://www.panorama.am/en/politics/2014/07/28/azerbaijan-syria-turkey/

Group of ‘‘ISIL / ISIS’’ has called on Azerbaijani people to join their struggle

“Azerbaijan and Turkey will soon become Islamic states,” stated the grouping of “Islamic state in Iraq and Levant”(ISIS), the “Ghavghaz.ir” reports.

The ISIS terroristic group members have turned to Azerbaijani and Turkish population in the social networks and have called on joining them. Azerbaijan and Turkey are painted black in the maps disseminated by the ISIS.

Recently, a member of IRI Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mehdi Davatgar has turned to the military activities that have occurred between ISIS armed grouping and the Troops of Iraq and has noted in particular, “ISIS will not get satisfied with Iraq and Syria only. It is aimed at expanding in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Kuwait.”

Yesterday, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi had declared “jihad” for the sake of Iraq’s integrity.

http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2014/06/24/azerbaijan-turkey/

12 AZERI ISIS FIGHTERS KILLED IN SYRIA LAST WEEK

12 foreign fighters from Azerbaijan were killed in Syria last week, according to Azeri media reports. The men were fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and as-Sham (ISIS).

One of those killed, Rufat Ashurli, was from the city of Sumqayit. At least nine men from Sumqayit have been reported killed in Syria, according to local authorities in the city.

The local authorities reported that, “Rufat Ashurli, a graduate of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy had a younger brother who was killed in Syria a few months ago, Nijat Ashurli, born in 1985, known by the nickname Abu Yahya al-Azeri. There are five brothers, two were killed in Syria. We spoke with the other brothers, they have not fallen under the influence of the Khawarij like Nijat and Rufat, and assure (us) that under no circumstances will they go to Syria to fight.”

There are confusing reports about one of the other men reportedly killed last week, Zahid Nasirov, known as “Rabbani”, whom the Azeri police say died in Syria 9 months ago and had no higher education but spoke Arabic.

Vesti.az reports that another ISIS fighter named Jeykhun Suleiman was killed last week in Raqqa.

According to the report Suleiman was the husband of 14-year old Najaf Kerimov, who was killed on January 10 in Syria. Vesti.az writes that, in the summer of 2013 Najaf’s father traveled to fight in Syria , together with his wife and children (16 years Irada, 14 -year-old Najaf, 10 -year-old Sarah and 5 -year-old Fatima).

According to Azeri police, another man from Sumqayit, named Agil, currently fights with Jabhat al-Nusra.

Another man Nijat Ashurli, who was killed in September, was commander of one of the divisions of the group Jaish al-Muhajireen wal Ansar.

Аt the time, JMA was led by Umar Shishani and had a sizable Azeri jamaat. This post on FiSyria is an address by Abu Yahya al-Azeri. It is likely that the jamaat moved over to ISIS with Umar Shishani.

http://www.chechensinsyria.com/?p=21484

'ANAL JIHAD'

EGYPTIAN CLERIC: MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AUTHORIZES 'ANAL JIHAD' FOR LONELY TERRORISTS

An Egyptian cleric formerly known as the "preacher of the revolution" during the revolt against President Hosni Mubarak warned Egyptian television viewers this week that Muslim Brotherhood sheiks have issued a fatwa permitting "anal jihad" for terrorists far from their wives, which is exactly what it sounds like.

(http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/11/Egyptian-Cleric-Muslim-Brotherhood-Sheiks-Issued-Fatwa-Permitting-Anal-Jihad)

Production Deal Made for ‘East of Byzantium’

Visual Effects Veteran Roger Kupelian (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean Saga), Emmy Nominated Producer William Martens, and multiple international award winning producer Seda Melkoni of Journey Pictures, have teamed up to produce epic documentary-narrative miniseries “East of Byzantium: War Gods & Warrior Saints.”

Inspired by the graphic novel created by Roger Kupelian, forensic and historical research will guide the telling of the epic true story of the tug-of-war between religion and politics, and the first domino of the first world religion falling in the Caucuses, between the Roman and Persian Empires, the Birth of Christianity in the region, and the Armenian Kingdom that became the first to adopt the new faith as its official religion.

Privately financed, production has begun in Armenia as of June 7 with production offices stationed at Tumo where students have been given a learning opportunity with the production by filming time lapse scenes, assisting on production sets as well as participating as background actors. The production portion filmed in Armenia has been managed by Armen Kupelian of Fugitive Studios, a resident of Armenia.

Upon completion the mini-series will be presented to the worldwide networks by early fall 2014. Serj Tankian (Grammy winning lead singer of System of a Down) will compose the score.

Mullah held after raping 10-year-old girl

KUNDUZ: A 10-year old girl was hospitalised with severe bleeding after a prayer leader sexually assaulted her in northern Kunduz province, a doctor alleged on Friday.

Dr. Qadoos Miakhel, the director of Shahid Azizullah Hospital in Kunduz City, said the family brought the rape victim to hospital in critical condition.

Quoting the girl’s wailing mother, the doctor said she had sexually been assaulted by the imam of the village mosque. Her mother said the prayer leader had been teaching girl Islamic studies over the past four months.

"Yesterday, my daughter returned home bleeding and crying that the mullah has assaulted her," she added. The woman urged the government to arrest the prayer leader and award him exemplary punishment.

In a choked voice, the rape victim also sobbed out her harrowing tale. “When my lessons finished, the imam pounced at me. I did cry but there was no one to rescue me."

Nadira Gaya, the director of Kunduz women's affairs department, confirmed the incident and asked the government to detain and prosecute the mullah forthwith.

Meanwhile, Crime Branch Chief Col. Waisuddin said the perpetrator had been detained and was being investigated.

Four days ago, the ears and nose of a prayer leader were chopped off after he allegedly raped a 10-year-old girl in neighbouring Baghlan province. (PAN)

( http://www.afghanistantimes.af/news_details.php?id=6882 )

Turkish woman awaits trial after beheading her alleged rapist

From Talia Kayali, CNN

September 6, 2012 -- Updated 1321 GMT (2121 HKT)

(CNN) -- A woman in Turkey is awaiting trial after beheading a man who she says raped her repeatedly for months and is the father of her unborn child. Her lawyer says the woman killed the man to protect her honor.

Nevin Yildirim, a 26-year-old mother of two, lives in a small village in southwestern Turkey. She said the man, Nurettin Gider, began the attacks a few days after her husband left in January for a seasonal job in another town, according to a source close to the case.

Yildirim said Gider threatened her with a gun and said he would kill her children, ages 2 and 6, if she made any noise, according to the source. That was the first of repeated rapes over the next eight months, the source said.

At one point, Yildirim said, Gider sneaked into her house while she was asleep and took pictures of her, the source said. One of the pictures shows her pregnant body. Gider threatened to publish the

pictures if she didn't obey him, the source said.

In small villages like hers, honor is held above all else, and women carry the burden of honor for their families. Pictures like those would have been devastating for Yildirim and her family and could have posed a danger.

On August 28, at least five months pregnant by a man who she said continued to rape her, Yildirim said she decided she had had enough. Gider was climbing up the back wall of her house. "I knew he was going to rape me again," she said at her preliminary hearing August 30.

She said she grabbed her father-in-law's rifle that was hanging on the wall and she shot him. He tried to draw his gun and she fired again.

"I chased him," she said. "He fell on the ground. He started cussing. I shot his sexual organ this time. He

became quiet. I knew he was dead. I then cut his head off."

Witnesses described Yildirim walking into the village square, carrying the man's head by his hair, blood dripping on the ground.

"Don't talk behind my back, don't play with my honor," Yildirim said to the men sitting in the coffee house on the square. "Here is the head of the man who played with my honor."

She threw Gider's head to the ground, the witnesses said. Video from Turkish broadcaster DHA, which arrived on the scene before the authorities, showed Gider's head on the ground.

Witnesses called authorities and Yildirim was arrested.

Gider was 35 and the father of two children, 15 and 9. He was married to an aunt of Yildirim's husband.

Yildirim told her legal representative she regrets what happened, the source said.

"I thought of reporting him to military police and to the district attorney, but this was going to mark me as a scorned woman," Yildirim said, according to the source. "Since I was going to get a bad reputation I decided to clean my honor and acted on killing him. I thought of suicide a lot but couldn't do it."

Yildirim said she was worried people would judge her children because of what happened, the source said.

"Now no one can call my children bastards," she said, according to the source. "I cleaned my honor.

Everyone will call them the children of the woman who cleaned her honor."

The source said Yildirim went to a health clinic a while ago seeking an abortion, but health workers told her she was 14 weeks pregnant and abortion was not an option.

In Turkey, abortion is allowed during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, after which it is permitted only to save the life or health of the mother or in cases of fetal impairment, Human Rights Watch said.

At her hearing, Yildirim said she doesn't want to keep the baby and that she is ready to die, the source said. The public prosecutor's office has ordered a medical examination to decide whether Yildirim may have an abortion and to assess her mental stability, the source said.

Yildirim's father, Zekeriya Yildiz, told DHA his daughter did not report the alleged abuse to anyone in the family.

"If she would have told us, we would have taken other precautions," he said.

Yildirim is in the local jail while she awaits trial.

In a report last year, Human Rights Watch decried gaps in Turkish law that it said leave women and girls unprotected from domestic abuse. Some 42% of women older than 15 in Turkey and 47% of rural women have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of a husband or partner at some point in their lives, the group said.

"She has lived through a terrible trauma. She must be charged with self-defense," said Gursel Oztunali Kayir, a sociologist at Akdeniz University and a member of Antalya Women Support Organization.

( http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/05/world/europe/turkey-rape-beheading/ )

Two Imams Rape Their Own Sister

In the 11 years of the AKP’s time in power, violence against women has multiplied and today, even the most vile cases of rape are beginning to be seen as ‘ordinary events.’

Turkey has been shocked by the arrest of two imams in a village near Kars in eastern Turkey accused of systematically raping their own sister, forcing her to have an abortion after being made pregnant by one of her older brothers.

In the village of Yakutiye, 21 year old HB informed the police that she had been raped by her older brother MB the previous Friday, further claiming that her other older brother AB had systematically raped her while she lived together with him. The girl, who had lost her mother seven years ago and her father last year, asserted that she had at one point been left pregnant by one of her older brothers, both of whom are imams in the Directorate of Religious Affairs, and had to get an abortion. 

After being arrested, the older brother of the 21 year old AB admitted to his crime, and stated that he had raped his sister due to pressure created by his position, while her other older brother MB added that he had given money to his younger sister as a part of the relationship he imposed. 

Both imams are currently under arrest as prosecutors get to the bottom of this horrific crime.( http://aydinlikdaily.com/Two-Imams-Rape-Their-Own-Sister-1356 )