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  • Re: Armenia and the information war

    Azerbaijan’s great experience in distorting historical matters well-known
    03.11.2009 16:52 GMT+04:00
    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A Turkish popular proverb reads that a man going to the hell seeks for a friend. Azerbaijan found this friend long ago – it’s Turkey, the core of their relations being not the implementation of the principle of “one nation, two states” or impartial and stable friendship, but their hatred towards Armenians, in particular, their pathologic attempts to undermine the international image of Nagorno Karabakh, NKR MFA Information Department Head Marcel Petrosyan notes in his statement.

    “From this viewpoint, the October 20 article by a certain Nazyl Hyldrjak published in SABAH Turkish newspaper isn’t accidental at all. According to the article, it appears that from the 11th century up to the 1800s Karabakh was under the Turkish authority. Though the same article emphasizes quite needlessly that “Tayip Erdogan has bright memory”, however, the Turkish newspaper’s memory is questionable. Otherwise, they would remember that between the 11th century and the 1920s of the 20th century their predecessors were repeatedly defeated in Karabakh and its approaches, and saving their lives, they cut and ran without glancing back.

    The fact that Azerbaijan has a great experience in distorting and falsifying historical matters and events is well-known. So, to console fraternal Azerbaijan, the Turkish SABAH, excelling its younger brother, demonstrates a bright example of disseminating fabrications, misinforming and misleading its multi-thousand readers. Probably, the newspaper’s editorial staff is well aware of its readers’ being ignorant of the historical events related to the region. So, they can be inspired with any nonsense, such as the misinformation that Karabakh was once part of the Ottoman Empire, and when it passed to Russia, 95% of its population made the Turks.

    SABAH newspaper’s hyperbolic imagination has no limits. Outbidding the Azerbaijani mass media in this issue as well, the newspaper blames Russia for allegedly expelling the Turkish population from Karabakh in the past centuries, instead populating this territory with Armenians. Fortunately, this newspaper doesn’t know from what planet the Armenians have arrived in this region. If it knew, it would surely write about this too. With a small dash of the pen, the newspaper trebles the number of Azerbaijanis displaced as a result of the Karabakh war, bringing it to 1,5 million. Moreover, it turns out that the ancient manuscripts kept in the Shushi Museum were stolen by Armenians. The newspaper considers it needles to note what alphabet the nomadic tribes (now Azerbaijanis), which had no script of their own, used while creating those manuscripts in the ancient period and what they represent.

    The newspaper also keeps silence about the Azerbaijanis’ atrocities towards the peaceful Armenian population of Sumgait, Baku, Kirovabad, Maragha, and tens of other settlements. Instead, the newspaper considered it to be its sacred duty to touch upon the events in Khojalu, surely, exaggerating sufficiently the number of killed and wounded and representing Armenians as monsters. Naturally, we shouldn’t expect true information about the Karabakh events from SABAH newspaper. Certainly, it will not state that Armenians provided the civilian population of Khojalu with a special corridor for safely leaving the scene of the military actions and that the tragic events took place not in the territory of Khojalu, but at the approaches to Aghdam - a territory controlled by the Azerbaijani armed forces, specifically, by the hordes of the Azerbaijani National Front. How could the Armenians guess that for the change of the leadership, the National Front adventurers could open fire on their own compatriots and kill the unarmed and helpless people? Maybe, the “hotheads” of the Azerbaijani National Front had no alternative for coming to power - they would, first, ascribe the incident to Armenians, then, which is most important, will blame the authorities for their criminal indifference about ensuring the security of the Azerbaijani civilian population. Generally, the Azerbaijanis filled the Internet with false propaganda of the so-called “Khojalu Genocide”, its main organizer being the State Heydar Aliyev Foundation, which, in particular, for exaggerating the situation, used outright forgery and presented the photos of disfigured corps in Kosovo as those of the Khojalu tragedy victims.

    SABAH newspaper seems to be infected with senile marasmus from the Azerbaijani media, since they have similar symptoms. Otherwise, it would have slightly cited Ayaz Mutalibov - the ex-president of Azerbaijan and another hater of Armenians. However, the Azerbaijani National Front leaders should be given credit for their calculations with extremely high precision. The SABAH deliberately keeps deathly silence about all this and instead, as if by chance, writes: “Maybe, the Turkish Public Television should start showing a TV serial about the occupation of Nagorno Karabakh and the pogroms in Khojalu?”

    Surely, coming forth with a suggestion is not a sin. A sin is distortion of the truth. I don't think that SABAH newspaper can ever remit its sins. But, it's worth striving for this, at least, for self-cleaning. And maybe, the Turkish Public Television should start its TV serials with the events of 1915? Will SABAH newspaper ever have the courage to come forth with such a suggestion?
    As for Turkey's position on Karabakh, the NKR takes it, to say the least, with cool indifference,” the statement concludes.

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    • Re: Armenia and the information war

      azeris live in there own world

      Leaders of Azerbaijan Communist Party (ACP) met with the Armenian communists within the framework of 34th congress of the Communist Party Union (USSR CP) in Moscow, ACP Chairman Rauf Gurbanov told APA. He said they had held discussions over the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. “There are no discords between us and Armenian communists over the Nagorno Karabakh. They acknowledged that these lands belong to Azerbaijan. They are always saying that.” Gurbanov said communist parties of other countries also recognized the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. They didn't admit the independent communist party in Nagorno Karabakh to membership of the Communist Party Union.

      The Azerbaijani communists met with the communists of other countries within the congress and joined the elections of leadership of the Communist Party Union.

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      Armenian communist denies Azerbaijani disinformation on Karabakh

      Chairman of the Communist Party of Armenia Ruben Tovmasyan denied disinformation spread by Azerbaijani media outlets that ‘Armenian communists agree Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is Azerbaijani territory’.

      When asked by correspondent of Panorama on-line paper whether Armenian Communist Party’s members singly met with Azerbaijani delegation during the Communist Congress in Moscow and moreover discussed settlement of Karabakh conflict, chairman of the Communist Party of Armenia Ruben Tovmasyan said no.

      Ruben Tovmasyan confirmed the participation of Armenian delegation in the 34th Communist Parties Congress held in Moscow on October 24. “It is not true, regarding to the ‘meeting with Azerbaijani delegation’. We sat in the same room, corridor, said “hello” – that’s all. Neither meeting or discussion or view’s sharing happened,” assumed Ruben Tovmasyan.

      Meanwhile, in an interview with Azerbaijani media, chairman of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan Rauf Gurbanov said: “We have no disagreement with Armenian communists that Nagorno-Karabakh Republic belongs to Azerbaijan. They openly acknowledge it and this is not the first time they declared it since they do it always.”

      This statement made by neighboring communist highly angered Armenia’s communist number one. Ruben Tovmasyan said that this would be “apogee of Azerbaijani lie” if Gurbanov had really voiced it.

      “I wouldn’t like to hear such Armenian-communist-party-related statements. If Gurbanov can show off to their local communists – it’s his private business. But I haven’t discussed any item with Gurbanov so let him never practice mistaking wishes for reality,” he said.

      “We always held on to sovereignty of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and up to now set out that Karabakh has gained independence, has its own Parliament and perfectly copes with statecraft,” added Ruben Tovmasyan.

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      • Re: Armenia and the information war

        Azerbaijani citizens convicted of terrorism
        20:04 / 11/05/2009


        The members of the extremist grouping responsible for the August 2008 explosion in “Abu-Bekr” Mosque in Baku are sentenced to 5.5 up to 15-years’ imprisonment. The verdict was declared November 5 in Azerbaijani Court of Grave Crimes.

        All the convicts are found guilty. According to ITAR-TASS, two people were killed and 19 injured as a result of the terrorist attack. There were 23 citizens of Azerbaijan, two- of Turkey and one RF citizen among the convicts. The accused were members of the extremist religious grouping “Forest Brothers.”

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        • Re: Armenia and the information war

          Originally posted by ninetoyadome View Post
          Azerbaijani citizens convicted of terrorism
          20:04 / 11/05/2009


          The members of the extremist grouping responsible for the August 2008 explosion in “Abu-Bekr” Mosque in Baku are sentenced to 5.5 up to 15-years’ imprisonment. The verdict was declared November 5 in Azerbaijani Court of Grave Crimes.

          All the convicts are found guilty. According to ITAR-TASS, two people were killed and 19 injured as a result of the terrorist attack. There were 23 citizens of Azerbaijan, two- of Turkey and one RF citizen among the convicts. The accused were members of the extremist religious grouping “Forest Brothers.”
          I think they have a very twisted sense of humour.

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          • Re: Armenia and the information war

            Polish students decide against shooting a film in Karabakh
            Sat 07 November 2009 | 04:55 GMT Text size:


            Gates to Shusha
            Two students at the Polish film school in Lodz have decided against making a film about Shusha in the occupied Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

            They rethought their plans after talking to representatives of the Azerbaijani embassy in Poland. Diplomats told them that a visit to Shusha would be against international legal norms, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry press service reported. The Azeri diplomats also briefed the students on the history of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh, which has led to the occupation of a swathe of Azerbaijani territory by Armenia.

            Film student Mateusz Wajda said he was grateful for the comprehensive information from the Azeri embassy and that he and his colleage Pawel Zelmiski had changed their minds about visiting Shusha.

            The embassy also sent a letter to the rector of the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz about the issue.

            APA

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            • Re: Armenia and the information war

              Originally posted by ninetoyadome View Post
              Polish students decide against shooting a film in Karabakh
              Sat 07 November 2009 | 04:55 GMT Text size:


              Gates to Shusha
              Two students at the Polish film school in Lodz have decided against making a film about Shusha in the occupied Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

              They rethought their plans after talking to representatives of the Azerbaijani embassy in Poland. Diplomats told them that a visit to Shusha would be against international legal norms, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry press service reported. The Azeri diplomats also briefed the students on the history of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Karabakh, which has led to the occupation of a swathe of Azerbaijani territory by Armenia.

              Film student Mateusz Wajda said he was grateful for the comprehensive information from the Azeri embassy and that he and his colleage Pawel Zelmiski had changed their minds about visiting Shusha.

              The embassy also sent a letter to the rector of the Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Lodz about the issue.

              APA
              I would frame the letter, stick the letter on the wall and show my friends that I am banned from a country only a step away from being on par with North Korea for human rights.

              But if they complain to my university or such I would just send the letter to the Green Party and Human Rights Commission here, and the issue would be dropped in no time.

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              • Re: Armenia and the information war

                Originally posted by hipeter924 View Post
                I would frame the letter, stick the letter on the wall and show my friends that I am banned from a country only a step away from being on par with North Korea for human rights.

                But if they complain to my university or such I would just send the letter to the Green Party and Human Rights Commission here, and the issue would be dropped in no time.
                well azerbaijans human rights is alot worse than North Koreas. atleast we hear some people complain about north korea from north korea. azeris claim they live in utopia

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                • Re: Armenia and the information war

                  Cyber Sitzkrieg: Armenian experts say still no letup in information “trench war”


                  Armenian experts in the information sphere view the current “information war” as a continual process, with no hope or prospect of signing a peace deal one day. They say, however, in many aspects today it reminds of a situational rather than full-blown war.

                  Speaking about the state of the Armenian websites that in August came under cyber attacks from Azeri and Turkish hackers, Helix Consulting company head Aram Mkhitaryan says: “Corresponding action have taken then to prevent such attacks. One should be ready all the time. I place great importance on the skill of specialists working in the information sector.”

                  According to the expert, the next wave of hacker attacks is expected in December, which is connected with the holiday season. Experience shows, he says, that attacks are mainly launched on Fridays as in this case specialists get down to work to redress the situation with a two-day delay.

                  Specialists of the sphere say the Armenian side has had some serious success on the “Azerbaijani front” of the information war, especially in the recent period.

                  Armenian PR Association deputy chairman Arman Saghatelyan says that there is a concept on information security approved by the president of the republic, which is also a serious factor in this success.

                  “In the information war with Azerbaijan the Armenian side currently manages to defend its own positions and has made obvious progress. We cannot, however, say the same about the ‘Armenian-Turkish front’,” says Saghatelyan.

                  Experts say their policies on information security are not conditioned by whether there is an attack or not. They say they should be on the standby anyway.

                  “It is yet early to speak about large-scale activities, but, nevertheless, there is a danger. Now attempts of ‘skirmishes’ are being made in the field of the information standoff, that is on the level of ‘fire exchange from the trenches’,” he says.

                  According to experts, at this moment they cannot speak about serious, large-scale ‘combat operations’ in the information field. There is some movement forward and back, and sometimes there is an ‘exchange of fire’ from those positions.

                  “If it were in an active phase, there would have been a planned, large-scale information propaganda war,” says Saghatelyan.

                  Nevertheless, Saghatelyan thinks that Armenia must respond to information war challenges, since the country has obvious interests and dangers in the information sphere.

                  Saghatelyan also measures progress in the sphere by the increase in the number of websites (five or six times).

                  He also says that there is a certain similarity between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the internet development sphere. While Turkey stands out due to its large information field that receives huge financial resources.

                  “However, the main advantage in information conflicts is that ‘rich or poor’, ‘small or big’ doesn’t matter here,” says Saghatelyan.

                  Azerbaboon: 9.000 Google hits and counting!

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                  • Re: Armenia and the information war

                    This is funny

                    Armenians violate ceasefire in several directions
                    Tue 10 November 2009 | 07:28 GMT Text size:


                    Armenians violate ceasefire on 9-10 November.

                    The news service for the Defense Ministry told that Armenian armed forces fired at the Azerbaijani positions from 17.50 to 18.00 from their posts near Alibeyli village of Tovuz, near Vosesgeh village of Berd, Armenia. They also fired at Azerbaijani troops near Gizilhajili village of Gazakh from their posts near Berkaber village of Ijevan from 18.10 to 18.15.

                    Moreover, from 17.30 to 17.45 the enemy fired at the Azerbaijani positions from their posts on the occupied nameless heights of Gazakh, from 22.20 to 22.45 and from 1.30 to 1.50 of November 10 from positions near Ashaghy Abdulrakhmanly and Ashaghy Seidahmedli villages of Fizuli.

                    In all cases the enemy was silenced by response fire, no casualties are reported.



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                    Monitoring of NKR and Azerbaijani armed forces contact line conducted without incidents
                    10.11.2009 13:19 GMT+04:00
                    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On November 10, in compliance with the previously achieved agreement with the NKR authorities, the OSCE mission conducted а regular monitoring of the line of contact of Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijani armed forces near Horadiz settlement.

                    From the positions of the NKR Defense Army the monitoring group was headed by Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office (CiO), Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. The monitoring group involved Field Assistants of the Personal Representative of the OSCE CiO Peter Kee (Great Britain), Irzhi Aberle (the Czech Republic) and Zhaslan Nurtazin (Kazakhstan).

                    No violation of cease-fire regime was registered. The monitoring mission from the Karabakhi side was accompanied by representatives of the NKR Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs, NKR MFA Press-Service reported.




                    who to believe? I think the azeris just have that article set on auto so everyday it posts its.

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                    • Re: Armenia and the information war

                      What if…


                      Our counterparts in the Azerbaijani 1news.az website, and the member of the Azerbaijani Parliament Aidiyn Mirzazade, who had an article entitled “If Armenia had not seized Azerbaijan’s territories…” put on the website, have “persuaded” us into giving some thought to history in the Subjunctive. It is not a thing to be done, but the idea of presenting the situation in the region “but for the Karabakh conflict” appears to be quite a thrilling one.

                      Well, if ifs and ans…

                      Although the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict was “an integral part” of the disintegration processes in the post-Soviet area, and the exacerbation, no doubt, played into the hands of both internal and external forces seeking to cause a collapse of the USSR, decades of history actually lay at the root of the confrontation.

                      Permanent violations of the native Armenians’ rights in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region were getting graver, taking various forms. Although Armenians formed the region’s authorities, official Baku’s “threatening hand” had always been over their heads. After the 1953 “thaw”, and after Heydar Aliyev, who has been declared “national leader”, came to power, Azerbaijan launched a consistent policy of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh region with ethnic Azerbaijanis, which was stepping up tension in the region. In one of his interviews with Azerbaijani mass media (at a meeting with editors-in-chief of local newspapers) Heydar Aliyev was clearly speaking of the measures to increase the share of Azerbaijanis in the Nagorno-Karabakh population by opening enterprises that had nothing in common with the region’s economic set-up and supplying labor force from the other regions of Azerbaijan.

                      The Armenian authorities, without informing — or with the tacit consent of — the USSR Government, had to protect the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. Particularly, in early 1970, on the initiative of Karen Demirchyan, the then leader of Soviet Armenia, the written-off equipment of the Yerevan TV center was delivered to Stepanakert. That was the only opportunity for the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to watch programs of the Armenian television. The Armenian population was encouraged to send their children to Armenian schools, while Shushi was turned into “a bulwark” of increasing Azeri population in the region – Heydar Aliyev proved unable to “shoulder the burden” of settling Stepanakert with Azerbaijanis. The causes of the full-scale confrontation of 1988 can be listed without end… As an exception to the rule, let us think about history in the Subjunctive.

                      What would have happened if the USSR had promptly responded to the developments, and the Nagorno-Karabakh people’s legal right to self-determination had evoked an adequate response in Azerbaijan?

                      - No Armenian pogroms in Sumgait on February 27-28 would have taken place. For the first time in the Soviet Union’s history the madding crowd was killing people because of their nationality;

                      - Armenian public would not have responded by flooding the streets and demanding the protection of Armenians in the neighboring republic;

                      - The relations between the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities in Nagorno-Karabakh would not have worsened;

                      - The uncontrollable confrontation between the two nations would not have caused an explosive situation in Armenia and Azerbaijan;

                      - Larger-scale Armenian pogroms in Baku on January 13-19, 1990, would not have taken place;

                      - Hundreds of thousands of Armenians would not have left their homes to become refugees;

                      - Armenian volunteers would not have responded to Azerbaijan’s open military aggression;

                      - In response to fierce shelling of the borderline settlements of Armenia, as well as towns and villages of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian troops would not have established control over the seven regions neighboring on Nagorno-Karabakh;

                      - Heydar Aliyev and his successor Ilham would not have to tell Azerbaijanis tales about Armenians’ being “inhuman monsters”, taking advantage of the anti-Armenian propaganda to support the personality cult of “Heydar-baba” and his son Ilham, which has been carried to the point of sheer idiocy;

                      - In its “struggle” against the Armenian people’s ancient history, the Azerbaijanis would not have developed an inferiority complex in their search of “national identity…”

                      This list could be continued, but our sincere desire is that the Azerbaijani authorities finally find a fair solution to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

                      Azerbaboon: 9.000 Google hits and counting!

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