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GUESTS FROM TURKEY VISIT TSITSERNAKABERD MEMORIAL COMPLEX
18:10 03/08/2015 Â" SOCIETY
A delegation of honorary guests, who arrived from Turkey for
participation in the opening of the 6th pan-Armenian Summer Games in
Yerevan, have visited today, on August 3 the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial
Complex and the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute (AGMI). They were
accompanied by President of the Pan-Armenian Games World Committee
Ishkhan Zakaryan and members the Executive Committee. The delegation
was composed of Van Mayor Bekir Kaya, Van Co-mayor Hatice Coban,
Bitlis Mayor Huseyin Olan, Mutk Mayor Ozcan Birlik, Norashen Mayor
Emin Ozkan, Diyarbakir's Sur district Mayor Fatma Sik Barut and
other high-ranking guests, the press service of the World Committee
of Pan-Armenian Games said.
In the newly-opened hall of the AGMI, the guests saw exclusive exhibits
and photos. Then the delegates laid flowers at the Eternal Flame and
bowed their heads in memory of the Armenian Genocide victims.
At the conclusion of the visit the honorary guests thanked the event
organizers and the Museum staff.
The Bad Blood Between Russia and Turkey Is Spreading to Armenia and Azerbaijan
By John Dyer
December 3, 2015 | 2:02 pm
Escalating tensions between Russia and Turkey have spread to the Caucuses, a volatile region where both powers have long contested each other's influence.
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Taner Akcam, an expert in the Armenian genocide at Clark University in Massachusetts, said it's common for Turkey's antagonists to bring up the issue. Individually, the proposed Russian law was no big deal, he said. As part of a larger context, however, he was concerned about it.
"It won't have any effect. Everyone in Turkey understands it's a political issue, and people will laugh at it," Akcam told VICE News. "The Armenia- Nagorno-Karabakh-Azeri issue is more serious. I don't think the genocide recognition is a serious problem for Turkish-Russian relations. Turks will say 'So what?' But if things develop into a proxy war in the Caucuses, this is something very serious and something very scary."
This an article on VICENEWS,what a shame what do you expect from a $$journalist$$ that writes Caucasus wrong.
THREE ARMENIAN CHURCHES IN SYRIA DESTROYED BY ISIS
13:40, 14 Dec 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
The Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) has released the list of
Christian churches and monasteries in Syria that have been destroyed
by ISIS and other Muslim groups.
Attacks on Christians in Syria began almost immediately after the
Syrian civil war began. The attacks have targeted villages, churches
monasteries and the clergy, and have been perpetrated by Al-Qaeda,
the Al-Nusra Front, ISIS and other Muslim groups.
On February 23 ISIS attacked the 35 Assyrian villages on the Khabur
river in Hasaka, Syria, capturing 253 Assyrians. In the subsequent
months it destroyed 11 churches and villages, rendering some villages
uninhabitable.
According to the agency, three Armenian Curches have also been
destroyed by terrorists. The St. Rita Tilel Armenian Church in Aleppo
was bombed by ISIS on April 28. The Armenian Genocide Memorial Church
in Der Zor was destroyed by ISIS in September, 2014. The Armenian
Catholic Church of the Martyrs was torched by ISIS and its cross atop
its clock tower removed.
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