, Turkey
May 5 2013

Armenian author says gunmen attack church in Ýstanbul

Garo Paylan, an Armenian intellectual, wrote in his Twitter feed on
Sunday that gunmen attacked the church but no one was injured. He said
the fear prevailed among the church attendants.

World Bulletin / News Desk

Unidentified assailants have fired on people celebrating Easter in an
Armenian church in Ýstanbul’s Kumkapý neighborhood.
Garo Paylan, an Armenian intellectual, wrote in his Twitter feed on
Sunday that gunmen attacked the church but no one was injured. He said
the fear prevailed among the church attendants.

In his second tweet, he said an ultra-nationalist group also burned
the Armenian weekly newspaper Agos in border province of Iðdýr on
Saturday.

Recently, the ultra-right group International Association to Fight
Unfounded Armenian Allegations (ASÝM-DER) was active in the social
media, targeting Armenian agencies, schools, churches, foundations and
individuals in Turkey as part of an anti-Armenian hate campaign.