Author: Badalian Vardan

Etats-Unis
Le Comité National Arménien d’Amérique inquiet par la nomination de Chuck Hagel

Le Comité National Arménien d’Amérique a affirmé qu’il était « troublé
» par la tentative de Barack Obama de nommer le Républicain Chuck
Hagel comme prochain Secrétaire à la Défense, a rapporté
commentarymagazine.com. « Nous restons préoccupés par la position de
Chuck Hagel concernant le génocide arménien », a déclaré le directeur
du Comité, Aram Hamparian.

Alors qu’il était sénateur, Chuck Hagel s’est opposé à la
reconnaissance officielle par le gouvernement américain du génocide
des Arméniens. « Ce qui s’est passé en 1915 est arrivé en 1915. En
tant que sénateur, je pense que la meilleure façon de traiter ce
problème est de laisser la question ouverte aux historiens et de
laisser aux autres de décider ce qui s’est passé et pourquoi », avait
déclaré l’ancien sénateur Hagel à un groupe de journalistes arméniens
en 2005. « Cette région doit aller de l’avant », a ajouté Hagel. «
Nous devons trouver une solution durable, favoriser la paix entre la
Turquie et l’Arménie et les autres pays de cette région. Je ne suis
pas sûr que c’est en faisant un retour en arrière, un retour dans le
passé que le processus de paix avance. »

Aram Hamparian s’est opposé à cet argument. Selon lui, la
reconnaissance officielle américaine du génocide ne serait pas un
obstacle à la paix entre la Turquie et l’Arménie. « Le processus de
paix entre la Turquie et l’Arménie ne peut être construit sur la
négation de génocide. Les États-Unis et la communauté internationale
doivent donner l’exemple en condamnant le génocide des Arméniens – et
en se prononçant contre tous les génocides », a déclaré Aram
Hamparian.

jeudi 3 janvier 2013,
Laetitia ©armenews.com

US secret talks with Iran over Afghanistan

31 December 2012, Monday

ABDULLAH BOZKURT
[email protected]

While I was in New Delhi over the weekend to participate in a regional
conference on Afghanistan, organized by the Delhi Policy Group, I had
a chance to talk to Pakistani diplomat Ashraf Jehangir Qazi on the
sidelines of meetings.
Qazi, who served as the special representative of the UN
secretary-general in Iraq between 2004 and 2007, told me his
recollections from his days in Baghdad. He recounted how he urged
James Baker, a former secretary of state who co-chaired the Iraq Study
Group (ISG), which was authorized by the US Congress to assess the
situation in Iraq in 2006, over a breakfast in Baghdad that the US
needed to talk directly to Iran to stabilize Iraq.

That advice later turned out to be one of the key recommendations on a
79-item to-do list in terms of policy change the 10-person ISG panel
made to the George W. Bush administration on how to tackle the grim
situation in Iraq. The White House initially balked at the idea of
talking to the Iranians, but later gave a green light to striking a
deal with Tehran. It led to major concessions to Tehran, while Iran
limited its support to the insurgency until after the US troops
departed from the country by the end of 2011. What Qazi did not
predict at the time is that Americans would go overboard in their
concessions to Tehran interests, eventually turning a major Arab
country into an Iranian proxy state at the expense of Turkey, Pakistan
and other Sunni monarchies in the Gulf.

Now it feels like déjà vu all over again at a critical juncture in
Afghanistan as the drawdown of the US-led NATO forces will be
finalized by the end of 2014. My Afghan and Pakistani sources tell me
that secret talks have been going on between the Americans and the
Iranians on the future of Afghanistan already, and that there have
been messages exchanged between the two governments using
intermediaries. Some who have intimate knowledge of the details on
several encounters between US and Iranian envoys described the nature
of the talks as very serious. That should not come as a surprise
because Iran has publicly announced that it is ready to sit down and
talk to the Americans on Afghanistan, although it denied having any
intention to widen the scope of talks beyond the Afghan issue, echoing
similar sentiment from the US side.

What Iran wants from the US first and foremost is the recognition of
Tehran’s regional role. It demands acknowledgment of Iran’s right to
be involved in the affairs of others that the mullah regime sees as
perfectly fit for their grand ideology in a triangle area from Central
Asia through the Horn of Africa all the way to the North Africa and
Middle East (MENA) region. For that, Iranian’s top clerics, including
the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, are willing to make a
bargain with what they label as the `Great Satan,’ America. The
anti-US and anti-Israel rhetoric we often hear from Iranian political
and religious leaders conveniently serves the realpolitik of Persian
interests of the establishment in Tehran.

The game is simple: The Iranian regime, using revolutionary ideologies
to advance national interests, funds all kinds of operations and
factions to potentially destabilize a country from within, mostly
using grassroots movements. Then others feel compelled to sit down and
negotiate with Iran to quell these activities, hoping that Iran,
acting as a rational state, would restrict provocative actions. That
is how the Iranian regime did it in Iraq before, forcing Washington to
make a secret agreement. This has benefitted Iran immensely. Now Iraqi
Shiite leader Nouri al-Maliki, who sits in the laps of the mullahs
back in Tehran, is calling the shots in Baghdad. Iranians are very
happy with this new setup, while Turkey and Sunni monarchies in the
Gulf, which are supposedly allies of the US, are left as simple
bystanders watching a major Arab country slipping towards the Iranian
axis.

It appears the US has picked up on signals from Tehran and moved
swiftly to capitalize on that before the 2014 deadline. I was at the
Herat conference in October as part of Track II discussions on
Afghanistan, sponsored by the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies
and the Delhi Policy Group, when Hossein Sheikh ul-Islam, the senior
advisor to the Iranian parliament, the Majlis, and the director of its
International Affairs Department, announced that Iran is ready to talk
with the US. That prompted considerable interest from Washington, with
a team from the National Security Agency (NSA) coming to Afghanistan
to follow on that lead. Even though the White House denied story run
by The New York Times on Oct. 20 that said the US and Iran had agreed
in principle for the first time to one-on-one negotiations, those who
have intimate knowledge of the secret talks say that was not
unexpected as the news broke just two weeks before the presidential
elections.

For example, I was told that it took six weeks for Washington to clear
US Consul General Jillian Burns of the US Consulate in Herat to
participate in this panel discussion in Herat, attended by Sheikh
ul-Islam. The US, which opened the Herat consulate in June 2012, uses
this mission, located less than 50 miles from the Iranian border, to
monitor Iranian activities in Herat and its surrounding area. It makes
perfectly sense for the Americans to also put this consulate into use
by linking up with the Iranians away from the watchful eyes of the
world.

It is kind of ironic that Sheikh ul-Islam, a former deputy prime
minister and a former Iranian ambassador to Syria, has emerged as a
point man to deliver messages to the American side considering how he
was one of the militants who held Americans captive during the 1979-81
hostage crisis. As the Foreign Ministry’s director for Arab affairs in
the 1980s, it was claimed that he coordinated the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards participation in Hezbollah operations. I had a
spat with him on Saturday in New Delhi in a panel discussion for
Afghan national TV during which he blamed terrorism, drug problems and
the refugee crisis on Afghans. He also accused the Afghan government
of allowing US troops to remain beyond the 2014 deadline and of
allowing Afghan territory to be used against his country, including
sending drones into Iranian airspace.

In response to his across-the-board criticism, I said Afghanistan’s
immediate and extended neighbors should also focus on positive
accomplishments the Afghan people had achieved despite the terrible
ordeals and suffering in the last three decades. I also underlined
that Iran needed to respect the sovereignty of the Afghan nation and
that it has no business meddling in its neighbor’s affairs, citing
excuses the Afghan nation has little or no control over. On a side
note, I said it was also cynical for him to complain about US drones
while his government hands over Iranian drones to Hezbollah in Lebanon
to probe Israeli airspace in clear violation of international law.

For the moment, India seems to be very happy to see Iran very closely
involved in Afghan affairs. I suppose the Indian government wants the
Iranians to deal with the Afghan folder rather than the Pakistanis,
with whom they have had decades-long problems and deep concerns. It
was evident how Indian government representatives turned the second
session of the meeting in New Delhi on Saturday into a
Pakistani-bashing session to which I had to react strongly. In
hindsight, maybe the Pakistani delegation’s decision to protest the
session by not participating was the right one. The realignment of
India with Iran at the expense of Pakistan will have further
ramifications in the region, forcing Turkey and the Gulf monarchies to
re-evaluate their position vis-à-vis India. We need Pakistani
engagement to resolve issues in Afghanistan and beyond.

If the secret talks between Iran and the US, obviously encouraged by
India, lead to a repetition of the Iraqi scenario and fail to address
the concerns of third parties, this will lead to fundamentally
questioning American motives in the region, paving the way for Turkey
and others to seriously reassess their ties with the West, and
primarily with the US.

Nutcracker will return to Armenia’s opera stage

NEWS.AM
January 01, 2013 | 11:00

YEREVAN.- Armenia’s opera theater will stage TheNutcracker in 2013.
Talking to Armenian News-NEWS.am, director of State Academic Opera and
Ballet Theater of Armenia Kamo Hovhannisyan said restoration of the
ballet is in theater’s plans.

In addition, they plan staging of Eugene Onegin, La Boheme and West
Side Story Suite. Kamo Hovhannisyan said they had launched
negotiations with the U.S. Embassy to get the license for the ballet.

`If the Americans give permission, we would be happy to have the
ballet on our stage,’ he said speaking about West Side Story Suite.

In addition, in the near future we can expect the return of Norma.
Hovhannisyan admitted the theater has certain financial problems but
expressed hope they would find a sponsor in 2013.

Responding to a question about the tours, the theater director said
because of global crisis, even the leading theaters of the world have
to cut the number of tours.

`We have received invitation from Lebanon to bring Spartacus and
Gayane,’ Kamo Hovhannisyan concluded.

Snake bite is healthy, let it bite – Dashnaktsutyun MP

NEWS.AM
January 01, 2013 | 12:40

In an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am the secretary of the
parliamentary faction of Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)
Dashnaktsutyun Aghvan Vardanyan said he will be celebrating the New
Year at home, in Armenia. He prepared for the New Year with pleasure,
bought toys for the Christmas tree, the Christmas tree was decorated
by his grandson, and he was having fun. His wife and son have done the
most part of the purchases. New Year expenses in Vartanyan family are
around AMD 300-400 thousand ($900).

Vardanyans haven’t ordered for a Santa or a Snow Maiden.

`I am Santa Claus, and there are several Snow Maidens at home. I will
not speak about my wishes – Santa Claus knows what he must bring,’ the
MP said.

He tries to avoid the visits with brandy and candies and the closest
family members visit them at home.

`I grew up in Nakhijevan, a village lost in the mountains, and then
the New Year and all human relations were simpler,’ Aghvan Vardanyan
said.

Responding to the question whether he is satisfied with the Snake, the
symbol of the New Year, Vartanyan answered positively.

`I am pleased with everyone,’ he added and the expectations of the
coming year he summarized in one sentence, `Snake’s bite is healthy –
let it bite.’

ARMENIE
Le gouvernement arménien propose des bourses aux étudiants originaires de Syrie

Plus de 100 Syriens d’origine arménienne étudiant dans différentes
universités en Arménie ont reçu des bourses d’études du gouvernement
arménien le vendredi 28 décembre à Erevan lors d’une cérémonie
présidée par le premier ministre Tigrane Sarkissian, qui a inscrit ce
geste au nombre des mesures prises par son gouvernement pour venir en
aide aux milliers d’Arméniens de Syrie qui ont trouvé refuge en
Arménie depuis le déclenchement de la guerre civile dans leur pays, il
y a bientôt deux ans. Le montant total des bourses allouées par le
gouvernement arménien s’élève à 40 millions de drams (environ 100 000
$), et devrait couvrir la presque totalité des frais universitaires
des étudiants qui en sont bénéficiaires pour l’année en cours.
T.Sarkissian a remis personnellement aux étudiants leurs certificats
de boursiers lors d’une cérémonie dans ses bureaux de la capitale
arménienne. `Nous resterons à vos côtés et vous pourrez compter sur
l’aide de l’Etat’, a déclaré le premier ministre arménien, en
précisant que cette cérémonie est « l’une des illustrations de cette
aide’. Parmi les bénéficiaires de cette bourse, figurent aussi des
étudiants qui avaient commencé leur cursus universitaire en Arménie
avant que n’éclate la guerre civile en Syrie. D’autres ne se trouvent
en Arménie que depuis quelques mois. Selon T.Sarkissian, quelque 7000
Syriens d’origine arménienne se trouvent actuellement en Arménie. `La
plupart d’entre eux comptent retourner en Syrie plus tard, car ils ont
la conviction que la paix sera restaurée dans un proche avenir dans
leur pays’, a déclaré le premier ministre arménien, qui ne semble pas
partager cet optimisme. `Les événements ont suivi un autre cours et
beaucoup d’autres envisagent désormais leur avenir en Arménie, où ils
veulent trouver un emploi afin d’assurer une bonne éducation à leurs
enfants’, a poursuivi T. Sarkissian, en précisant que son gouvernement
prendra de `nombreuses autres mesures’ afin d’aider ces Arméniens de
Syrie à s’installer en Arménie pour de bon. `Nous déployons tous nos
efforts pour aider les Arméniens de Syrie à trouver du travail en
Arménie ou, s’ils le souhaitent, à déménager leur entreprise en
Arménie, mais nous leur proposons aussi des stages de formation si
cela est nécessaire », a indiqué le chef du gouvernement arménien’. La
plupart des quelque 80 000 membres de la communauté arménienne de
Syrie sont des commerçants, des artisans, ou dirigeants des petites ou
moyennes entreprises. Certains d’entre eux se sont vus proposer de
poursuivre leurs activités de commerce en Arménie. Mais cette
perspective ne semble guère enthousiasmer les chefs d’entreprises
arméniens de Syrie, méfiants quant au climat des affaires en Arménie.
Quelques jours avant, le président Serge Sarkissian avait rencontré un
groupe de ces chefs d’entreprise syriens afin de les rassurer, et
s’était engagé à leur garantir les conditions favorables pour faire
des affaires en Arménie. Il a aussi donné des instructions en ce sens
aux différents services gouvernementaux concernés à Erevan. T.
Sarkissian avait annoncé le 27 décembre que le gouvernement arménien
était disposé à exonérer de certaines taxes les Arméniens de Syrie qui
seraient désireux d’ouvrir un commerce en Arménie ou d’y transférer
leur activité. Le département du gouvernement en charge des petites
entreprises avait de même exprimé sa disposition à la fin du mois de
novembre à accorder des crédits à taux préférentiels aux Arméniens de
Syrie. Il avait ainsi fait savoir qu’ils pourraient emprunter jusqu’à
5 millions de drams (12 350$) à un taux d’intérêt de 5 %, soit bien
en-deça des taux pratiqués sur le marché local.

mardi 1er janvier 2013,
Gari ©armenews.com

Sergey Movsesyan: Says He’s a `Forgotten Man” Despite Being Awarded
`Order of the Combat Cross’
Hayk Ghazaryan

13:49, December 26, 2012

Sergey Movsesyan fought in the Artsakh War and was awarded the Order
of the Combat Cross, Second Degree, for his years of service.

Sergey now says he is a forgotten man.

`Many top officials know me, but today? Those high ranking officials
would follow how we fought from positions several kilometres back. I
am not an Alexander Matrosov, but I fought pretty well.’ (Matrosov was
a famous Soviet infantry soldier during WW II)

Today, Sergey receives 98,000 AMD ($242) monthly from the government
for his combat award and disability pension. The monthly rent for his
apartment is 75,000.

He and his wife Karineh have four children in school. Two study at
university in Yerevan. Their annual tuition amounts to 1.5 million
AMD.

`My oldest daughter works at ArtsakhBank in Yerevan and goes to
college. She helps out the best she can,’ Karineh says, adding that
Sergey’s brother in Moscow also assists financially.

Sergey and his family have been renting an apartment for the past seven years.

`My uncle kicked us out of our paternal house after he bribed the
courts,’ Sergey says.

The Artsakh war vet says he wants a place of his own so that he can
spend the 98,000 on the children.

He was discharged from the army for beating a non-commissioned
officer. Sergey claims the man was stealing from the army.

Sergey says he was only absent from the war for eight months, after
being severely wounded.

He shows me a pair of binoculars that were a gift from Avo (Monte
Melkonian) while he was recuperating in a Yerevan hospital.

Sergey speaks with respect about Avo and says it was reciprocal.

`Avo trusted me. When I was sent to Martouni with orders, Avo felt at
ease during those days.’

Sergey confesses that he was lucky to get through the war alive. `It’s
pure luck that keeps us all alive in war, even the kids hiding in
basements.’

The decorated vet tells me the names of war buddies that didn’t make
it out alive. There are many names. His wife’s two brothers died on
the battlefield and so did his cousin, Davit Mikayelyan, one of the
Artzvashen 12.

`When I’m in Yerevan I visit the graves of Doushman Vardan, Avo, and
all the others I was fortunate enough to have met during the war,’
Sergey tells me.

Sergey is a musician by profession but wound up a tank commander
during the war. Sergey says he participated in battles that liberated
some thirty villages. His first took place in 1991 at the Stepanakert
village of Krkzhan.

He confesses that he gets miffed when his name is not announced at
various military events when tank columns go parading by and says that
oftentimes the names of people having no connection to actual battles
are remembered.

`I have nothing against certain high officials, they too contributed
something to this country, but I am opposed to celebrating them for
something they were not involved in.’

He believes that history is often misrepresented. `Years ago, the
newspaper Martik (Combatant) wrote such a flowery article about this
famous woman that…Now, when I recount the reality, people don’t know
whether to believe me or them. On this point my friend jokingly says
that maybe Andranik Pasha will also turn out to be a traitor.’

`If I enjoyed some backing, I would call some of these officials and
ask them awkward questions.

Like where were you on such and such a day and at such an hour, what
direction did you attack from, so that you received a medal? Now, I
can’t ask such questions because we are the weakest guys around.
Before, we were the strongest.’

After being discharged, Sergey tried his hand in commerce and later
went into the furniture business; his father’s trade. Neither panned
out.

Sergey says he can work as a driver or in low-level management. The
problem, he adds, is that employers only hire their acquaintances or
relatives.

`All I want is my own roof over me and my family. I have no need of a
jeep or other such thing.’

ARMENIE
Le président arménien s’attend à une croissance du PIB de 7 pour cent
cette année

Dans une interview avec Rossiya 24 chaîne de télévision russe le
président arménien Serge Sarkissian a déclaré qu’il s’attend à ce que
la croissance du PIB soit de plus de 7%, le taux d’inflation d’environ
3% et le déficit budgétaire d’environ 2,5%.

Il a aussi dit que le pays a amélioré son climat des affaires et a
gagné 18 places dans le classement annuel de Doing Business de la
Banque mondiale.

« L’Arménie est le premier pays parmi les pays de la CEI et la
cinquième en Europe orientale et en Asie centrale en termes de
réalisation des affaires` a déclaré le président.

Serge Sarkissian a souligné que l’Arménie a été bloqué pendant plus de
20 ans par ses voisins l’Azerbaïdjan et la Turquie.

« Le blocus de la Turquie est illégal, et nous vivons et devons
progresser dans des conditions extrêmement difficiles. Nous n’avons
pas de liaisons ferroviaires directes avec la Russie et les pays de la
CEI, ce qui signifie que nos exportateurs sont dans une situation
désavantageuse. Mais c’est le destin, nous sommes habitués dans ces
conditions difficiles à développer tous les secteurs compétitifs de
l’économie », a déclaré Serge Sarkissian.

lundi 31 décembre 2012,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

ARMENIE
63 300 personnes au chômage en Arménie en octobre

Le nombre de personnes officiellement enregistrés au chômage est de
63300 personnes en octobre selon le Service National de la Statistique
d’Arménie.

En octobre, le nombre des chômeurs s’est réduit de 0,3 % par rapport à
septembre et de 10,3 % par rapport à 2011.

lundi 31 décembre 2012,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

New Radar in S. Russia to Go on Combat Duty Early in 2013

© RIA Novosti. Valeriy Melnikov
21:31 28/12/2012

MOSCOW, December 28 (RIA Novosti) – A new-generation Voronezh-DM class
anti-missile radar will enter combat duty near the town of Armavir in
Russia’s southern Krasnodar region in the beginning of 2013, Russian
President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
`The radar will monitor the Russian airspace in the southern strategic
vector,’ Putin said at a Kremlin meeting with newly-appointed and
promoted high-ranking military officials.
The Armavir radar will replace the Gabala radar station, which Russia
had leased from Azerbaijan for 10 years.
The lease, signed in 2002, expired on December 24, and Russia’s
Foreign Ministry confirmed that the Russian army will not renew it.
The anti-missile radar near Armavir is one of the four new-generation
Voronezh-class radars that have been built in Russia in recent years.
Two Voronezh-M radars have been deployed in Lekhtusi near St.
Petersburg and near the town of Usolye-Sibirskoe in Siberia’s Irkutsk
Region.
Another Voronezh-DM class radar stationed in the westernmost exclave
of Kaliningrad was put on combat duty in November last year in what
then-President Dmitry Medvedev said was part of Russia’s response to
U.S. and NATO European missile defense shield plans.
Voronezh-DM class radars have a range of 6,000 kilometers. They can be
more quickly deployed to a new site and require a smaller crew to
operate it compared to previous generation stations.
Two sections of the Armavir radar that have been working in a testing
mode have allowed monitoring the area from France and Spain in the
west, to Algeria in the southwest, Sudan in the south, and Iran,
Afghanistan and parts of India and Pakistan in the southeast,
according to the Russian military.
The Defense Ministry has recently announced that Russia will start
building two new radars in east Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk Territory and in
the south Siberian Altai Republic in 2013 as part of its missile
defense network.

Ergenekon’s recent tactics

27 December 2012, Thursday

ETYEN MAHÇUPYAN
e.mahcupyan@todayszaman

Neo-nationalists (ulusalcılar), who have made it their mission to wage
a political war against the government, continue to parrot that the
criminal case against Ergenekon — a clandestine organization nested
within the state trying to overthrow or manipulate the democratically
elected government ` is based on false or fabricated evidence.
But each new evidential document provides information that proves the
prosecutor’s claims against the defendants. Under the scope of the
trial concerning an anti-government Internet campaign spearheaded by
the military, a judge who was given the task of examining the hard
disks sent from the General Staff as evidence prepared a preliminary
report last week.

Apparently, the military continued to search for ways to overthrow the
government even after 2007, but they also made certain tactical
changes to their strategy. These changes are justified as follows: For
the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) to be overthrown, it
must lose its global backing. For this to happen, the cooperation
between the AKP and the global capital must be disrupted or the global
capital must lose its power so as not to maintain overall economic
stability. On the other hand, the conditions for overthrowing the AKP
through violence or other methods are not ripe. Such an attempt should
seek cooperation with central powers or the central powers may disrupt
the country’s economic structure overnight. Therefore, the best
strategy is to wait for the disruption of the AK Party’s accord with
the central powers and the weakening of global capital in Turkey.

It appears that the military has institutionalized its coup tradition
by extending it to cover a longer time period, and it has returned to
more patient and `subtle’ methods in the post-2007 era. A perusal of
Judge Hüsnü Çalmuk’s observations in the report reveals that the
military’s coup tactics for the new era follow three main lines.

The first tactical line suggests that the military should retreat to
the shadows and remain in disguise contrary to its previous strategy
of coming to the fore. In this context, the members of the TSK are
advised to avoid making references to the military being above parties
and politics and to stress that the military is defending the
interests not of institutions, but of the state, and to refrain from
any disrespect for the president and to ensure that they do not give
the impression of conflict with the ruling party or of intervening in
politics.

The second tactical line is about what should be done about political
parties. As the AKP is not a homogeneous party but binds together
people from diverse ideological attachments, the members of the TSK
are encouraged to develop `direct or indirect’ relations with the AKP
members who are close to the military and to manipulate or support
them using `proper means.’ Naturally, they adopt a bolder approach to
the opposition parties: The new strategic plan aims to ensure that the
military’s views are advocated by the opposition parties, and to this
end, to plant the people who are close to the military into the
decision making mechanisms of the main opposition Republican People’s
Party (CHP) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

The third tactical line is directly about how to manipulate the
general public. The purpose is to ward off negative comments or
assessments about the military and to produce false information so as
to make the secular public more resistant to the government. One of
the evidential documents covered by the report depicts in detail how
to conduct gray and black propaganda. According to this document, the
most effective method is to establish a news agency which will reach
both the national and international public. It is stressed that
running this news agency on the Internet would be more economical and
have advantages in terms of risk analysis. Reading these sentences in
the light of the previously seized evidence and information, one
cannot help thinking that OdaTV, against which there is an ongoing
trial, fits perfectly to this definition.

As for what such a news agency that operates through the web can do,
the document gives such examples, such as arranging media appearances
for certain people who are `deprived of any reactionaryism,’ making
them write books and making academics conduct prejudiced surveys to
lend support to the manipulated viewpoints. Oddly enough, all of these
recommendations seem to have been implemented in a number of cases in
the post-2007 era. The option of having a book penned does not belong
to `formerly pious people’ alone, but can include anyone who serves
this purpose and as such, one can understand how `researchers’ have
mushroomed and how the marketplace has been flooded with ideologically
motivated books.

By the way, we should not forget that the most important element in
the abovementioned analysis is the `central powers.’ The documents
openly refers to these central powers as the US and EU. This means
that pro-Ergenekon’s black propaganda targets primarily the US and EU.
The situation is no different today. The same propaganda is in place.