ZHOGHOVURD: YEREVAN TV TO BE RENAMED THIRD ARMENIAN TV CHANNEL
11:03 20/08/2014 ” DAILY PRESS
Orinats Yerkir Party leader Arthur Baghdasaryan has moved Yerevan TV
to the head office of the party.
Sources told Zhoghovurd newspaper that Orinats Yerkir does everything
to help the TV company become fully established in the media field.
Rumors persist that the party plans to rename the TV company Third
Armenian TV Channel. The newspaper failed to verify the news.
Source: Panorama.am
A DISTORTED MEDIA MIRROR
Mirror Spactator
Editorial 8-23
By Edmond Y. Azadian
When Armenian attained independence, many Diasporan-Armenian
organizations and experienced journalists moved to Yerevan to
“liberate” the bland Soviet-style news media and restore its
original mission. The newspapers, radio and TV broadcasting
improved dramatically, in terms of formatting design, news gathering,
reporting and above all, commenting freely. This much was a patriotic
contribution, which Diaspora Armenians brought to Armenia.
But in a parallel rush, major powers introduced their own outlets, of
course, to serve their own political interests. While the newspapers
owned and operated by Armenian organizations have encountered funding
challenges — consequently suffering in quality — foreign-funded
news outlets flourish and are run professionally.
George Orwell’s Big Brother is omnipresent globally, tending its
business and has not spared Armenia.
Open Society Foundation, Radio Liberty and other agencies operate
freely in Armenia and common sense will dictate that they don’t care
about the well being of the Armenian people nor the problems facing
Armenia. They have recruited professional journalists, writers and
commentators to toot their own horn.
For example, the Open Society Forum could feign to promote democracy
in Europe and in Third World countries but in the end, it serves a
greater political design.
The Open Society Forum is the brainchild of billionaire George Soros,
who escaped tyranny in Hungary and made a fortune in the US. During
the Bush-Cheney Administration, he demonstrably confronted the US
administration in its foreign policy objectives. But in the meantime,
his organization trained some youth and sent them to Ukraine and
Georgia — and certainly to other parts of the world — to organize
the Orange Revolution and the Rose Revolution, a feat that the US
military power could not have achieved so easily.
Mr. Soros is entitled to use his money to spread his ideas around
the world but he is not entitled to play with the destiny of the
Armenian people who have suffered so much from major power rivalries,
in their history.
The writers and commentators of these agencies may be sitting in
Yerevan and Karabagh, but the brain may be on the remote control in
Prague or in Washington.
The controlled news media does not operate in isolation — and no
matter what lofty ideal it claims to pursue — it is part and parcel
of the overall strategy of a major power.
We can easily make the connection with all the well-oiled religious
sects, which penetrate like rodents in the fabric of the society in
Armenia to decimate and to disorient the population. One treacherous
act is to brainwash the youth to refuse to bear arms under the guise
of conscientious objection, when Armenia is at war with its neighbors
— not of its own choosing.
To cite a salient example, trading Armenia’s security against NATO’s
objectives in the Caucasus we may refer to an article in lragir.am,
an outlet funded by Open Society Forum. The article is entitled
“Serious Geopolitical Prospect for Javakhk,” under the byline of
Hakob Badalyan, a prominent political commentator.
Javakhk is an Armenian-populated region of Georgia. Historically
it has changed hands between Georgia and Armenia. Currently more
than half of the region is populated by Armenians; in cities like
Akhatsikhe and Ninotsminda, Armenians account for 94.3 percent and 95.8
percent, respectively. The region was deliberately mismanaged and left
economically depressed by Tbilisi authorities to force Armenians out
of the area, fearful that Armenians would one day ask for autonomy
or independence.
Until 2007, the city of Akhalkalak was home to a Russian military base,
which provided jobs and security for Armenians in the region.
Moscow precipitously moved out the base, before even its deadline in
the treaty, leaving the Armenians to the mercy of the hostile Georgian
government. Tbilisi’s harassment and Russia’s reckless move satisfied,
to a certain measure, the Georgian goal of the government, as many
destitute Armenians migrated to Russia for jobs and for security.
Russia went to war with Georgia to give independence to South Ossetia
and Abkhazia while the destinies of Javakhk and Ajaria were left in
the hands of the Tbilisi government. President Saakashvili jailed
human rights activist Vahakn Chakhalian and implemented policies to
force the people out or to assimilate them under the guise of teaching
them the Georgian language.
Despite a punishing war with Russia and despite a regime change,
the new government in Tbilisi is looking for NATO presence on its
territory, if not outright membership.
Armenians have enjoyed the “benefits” of having a NATO member in the
Turkish border and now this writer is hailing a NATO move into the
heartland of Armenians in Javakhk, as he writes: “NATO may empower
itself with new tools of cooperation with non-member countries like
Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. And it may mean that the North Atlantic
Alliance will receive a possibility or prospect for being present
in Georgia, though the latter is not a member. In this respect,
Georgian military base in Akhalkalak has strategic importance because
it is close to the Russian base in Armenia, is located in a place
where Russian provocation against Georgia are probable, close to
the conflict area of Artsakh which is one of the potential places of
destabilization of the region.”
First NATO’s interference on the Southern Russian underbelly is the
most flagrant provocation, and also, the writer should know better
that even Washington blamed Saakashvili for the provocation, which
triggered the 2008 war.
In a shortsighted conclusion, the writer jubilantly welcomes NATO’s
extension in the region as a “stabilizing factor,” exactly at the
moment when the defense ministers of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey
had been meeting in Nakhichevan to plan war games and tighten the
noose around Armenia at NATO’s behest.
The conclusion is more ludicrous than the article itself as it states,
“It would be interesting to observe the reactions of Russia, Javakhk
and Armenia to the Georgian military base, who will torpedo the process
full of prospects for regional balance for the sake of security of
Armenia, Artsakh and Javakhk and what the force will be.”
This concept fits in and complements the recent proposal by Ambassador
James Warlick to introduce US Peacekeeping forces in Karabagh.
Adding insult to injury, the Open Society Forum has a hypocritical
disclaimed at the bottom of the article, which reads, “The opinions
and analyses expressed in these sections are those of the authors
and are not approved by OSF-Armenia or its Board.”
When Open Society Forum cuts the payroll check of the writer, at
least it is disingenuous to make such claims.
Hagop Badalian is a better-qualified writer. He deserves a more
dignified job than peddling NATO wares in Armenia through a distorted
media mirror.
Enter Stage Right
Aug 17 2014
Genocide! The silence is deafening
By Alan Caruba
web posted August 18, 2014
In the last century and now this one, I have lived long enough to have
been alive when the Nazis killed six million European Jews and another
five million other “enemies of the state” that included unionists,
homosexuals, Seventh Day Adventists, and any others that ran afoul of
that hateful and hate-filled regime.
There were genocides in the last and this century. The killing of
Kurds by Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi dictator who used poison gas–a
weapon of mass destruction–against them is largely forgotten by
everyone but the Kurds.
In the 1990s there was a genocide in Rwanda by the Tutsi tribe against
the Hutu people. Hundreds of thousands were killed, most by machete.
Reportedly rape, mutilation, and the deliberate spread of disease were
also used against them. The final body count was estimated by some at
well over a million.
In the Middle East, the Islamic Ottoman Empire whose final years were
directed from what is now modern-day Turkey was responsible for the
Armenian Genocide that began in 1915. The Armenians were a Christian
minority and what is occurring in the land claimed by the new Islamic
State (IS) reflects the same barbarity that afflicted and killed
between 600,000 and 1.8 million Armenians.
In Europe following the fall of the Soviet Union and the former
Yugoslavia, thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Serbs were “ethnically
cleansed” between 1990 and 1995. Some twenty thousand were killed.
And now the fanatical Islamic State that stretches from areas of
northern Syria through much of northern Iraq, just outside of Baghdad,
is waging a systematic and utterly barbaric genocide of the area’s
Christians. They are killing Muslims too.
And what is the world doing? Virtually nothing.
To his eternal shame, the President of the most militarily powerful
nation on Earth has done little than drop some “humanitarian” aid to
thousands of Yadizis, an ancient, little known group driven from their
homes in northern Iraq where they have lived for hundreds of years.
Thousands of Christians were driven from Mosul. In Nigeria, Boko
Haram, an Islamist terrorist group, is slaughtering thousands.
Some “targeted” bombing was credited with driving off IS forces, but
for how long? The Islamic State is now the most militarily powerful
force in the Middle East and one of the most wealthy, It threatens the
Kurds who have finally begun to receive weapons from the U.S.
What President Obama should be doing is orchestrating a military
coalition just as George H.W. Bush did to drive Saddam Hussein out of
Kuwait, but the fact is that Europe is fearful of participating
because it is now home to a large population of Muslims. And it has
economic problems comparable to our own.
In the Middle East, Iraq has just managed to force the former Prime
Minister out of office and must now try to get all the threatened
Sunnis and Shiite together to fight for its own existence. Much of the
U.S. weaponry given two divisions of Iraqi military was abandoned to
the IS when they fled from battle.
Meanwhile, one never hears a word about the Saudis getting involved
militarily as it has been their preference to let us fight their
enemies such as the former Saddam Hussein. The border between Iraq and
Saudi Arabia is a long one. They have a real interest is helping
destroy the Islamic State and so far its threat has managed to bring
together the Saudis, the Egyptians, and the Israelis, as unusual a
threesome has one might ever imagine.
One might hardly expect the Iranians to get involved though they have
been helping Syria’s Bashar Assad with the provisions of weapons. So
have the Russians. The fate of the region’s Christians is not likely a
priority or concern of the fanatical Shiite Iranians.
There is, in fact, only one nation where Christians and Muslims are
safe to practice their religions. It is called ISRAEL.
I can’t help thinking this would be a good time for the Pope to call
for a new crusade.
The problem, however, is that the Christian and Yazidi genocide is
continuing and will continue unless some action can be put together to
destroy the Islamic State. It is an Islamic crime against Christians
and to some extent against Muslims whom they deem insufficiently
devout.
Ultimately, however, it is a crime against humanity. And humanity is
doing as little in response to it than occurred in the Holocaust and
other genocides.
Alan Caruba writes a daily post at
An author, business and science
writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center. (c) Alan
Caruba, 2014
$50k-in-promised-humanitarian-aid-to-iraq.html
Yezidi Community Rep: Armenian Government Hasn’t Transferred the $50K in
Promised Humanitarian Aid to Iraq
Marine Martirosyan
In an interview with Hetq, Mameh Amiryan, president of the Minjar Yezidi
National Coalition of Armenia, said that as far as he knows no Yezidi from
Iraq has sought refuge in Armenia and that he hasn’t heard from the
Armenian government as to whether it would assist those seeking to resettle
in the country.
As to whether the Armenian government has transferred the US$ 50,000 it
recently promised in humanitarian aid to the Yezidi community in Iraq,
Amiryan said that the money hasn’t been sent.
`They haven’t transferred the $50,000 as promised. One week has passed and
we haven’t seen anything being done,’ Amiryan told Hetq.
The Yezidi representative said that his organization or other individuals
were supposed to facilitate the transfer.
`To the extent possible, we found a way to get the funds there. We went to
the United Nations office e in Yerevan and were told that there was a
program by which the government could allocate the $50,000 to the United
Nations affiliate in Armenia who would in turn forward the funds to the
U.N. affiliate in Iraq. We approached the Armenian government with this
proposal. They said they would study the matter and find a route. We
haven’t heard anything since.
TOP BRITISH BAKU 2015 ORGANISER: NOT MY JOB TO CRITICISE AZERBAIJAN HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
International Business Times UK
Aug 15 2014
By Shane Croucher
It is not the role of organisers of the Baku 2015 European Games
to speak out against human rights abuses in Azerbaijan under the
authoritarian rule of President Ilham Aliyev, according to a top
British sports official responsible for managing the event.
Simon Clegg is chief operating officer of Baku 2015, a role he was
given after years of experience in sport management, which includes
playing a major part in bringing the Olympics to London in 2012 while
he was chief executive of the British Olympics Association (BOA).
Human rights organisations repeatedly attack Azerbaijan and the
Aliyev government for its abuses, such as the arrest and detention
of critical political activists, beatings in prison, and allegations
of financial corruption that go right to the top. They are calling
on Baku 2015 organisers to speak out.
When asked by IBTimes UK what he thought of the recent crackdown on
human rights in oil-rich Azerbaijan ahead of the Baku 2015 games,
some events at which will serve as qualifiers for the Rio 2016 Olympic
Games, Clegg would not comment.
“I understand that it’s difficult to separate sport and politics, but
in this regard I am incredibly focused on what I have to deliver,”
Clegg said, adding that he only has 30 months to arrange the event
rather than the seven years usually afforded to organisers.
“That’s where I need to be focused, my efforts and attentions, to
ensure that I deliver the best possible games for the best athletes
in Europe and for Azerbaijan. In terms of political issues, those
need to be directed towards politicians.”
Aliyev’s Vision
Critics of Aliyev, who took over from his father as president and has
won two controversial elections, the last of which in 2008 he got 87%
of the votes cast, say he is using the games to bolster his image
and legitimise his administration in the eyes of the international
community.
A leaked US diplomatic cable, revealed by Wikileaks, showed American
officials comparing him to a mafia boss. There have been allegations,
denied by Aliyev, that money has made its way from the state oil
company to an account owned by him.
“One should never forget that President Aliyev, although he continues
to be, he was the president of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of
Azerbaijan before he became president of the country,” said Clegg, who
also spent years in the British Army and is a former chief executive
of Ipswich Town FC.
“He’s been to a number of Olympic Games as president of his NOC, so
he clearly understands the power of sport and what that can deliver
for a young nation.
“Azerbaijan’s only 22 years old. It had decades of Soviet rule before
that, and the president’s vision in terms of what can be delivered
for his country through sport is why I’m here and I absolutely buy
into that. I’m very happy to be here.”
Authoritarian Nature
Amnesty International has received an increasing number of reports
of arrests, detention and harassment of human rights activists, the
political opposition and government critics in Azerbaijan ahead of
the Baku 2015 event. Other organisations such as Index on Censorship
are documenting similar concerns.
Levan Asatiani, a campaigner for Amnesty International, told IBTimes
UK that he has heard reports of young political activists having drugs
planted on them by police, being arrested and handed sentences of up
to ten years in prison after having confessions beaten out of them.
Others were locked up over critical statuses on Facebook.
The NGO said it thinks there are 24 prisoners of conscience in
Azerbaijan. One of the most recent detainees is Leyla Yunus,
Azerbaijan’s best known human rights advocate.
She and others have been accused of financial impropriety as well
as spying for the Armenian government, with which Azerbaijan
has had armed clashes over the disputed Azeri border territory
of Nagorno-Karabakh. Amnesty International said the charges are
“trumped up”.
“The human rights situation has never been close to decent in
Azerbaijan, but the recent weeks have shown the very authoritarian
nature of the government,” Asatiani said.
“Right now the regime in Azerbaijan is trying to create an environment
where it would cleanse all of its critics and would leave Azerbaijan
a place where nobody would criticise the government and its repressive
actions.”
Armenia
Some of Aliyev’s critics are saying he is using high diplomatic
tensions with Armenia, which he called a “state of war” on Twitter,
as a cover to target and lock up political activists, hence the spying
charges laid on Yunus and others.
Baku 2015’s Clegg would not be drawn on whether he thought the
escalating Armenia situation posed any threat to the event going ahead.
“There has been a political dimension to every games that I have
been at previously. Political issues need to be directed towards
politicians,” Clegg, who has worked with Aliyev in the past and knows
the president, said.
“I am very clear on the responsibilities that I have been charged
with. That is what I am focused on delivering and that’s what I’m
going to answer questions about.
“I’m not going to be dragged in to wider political issues that
actually, if they are to be asked, are to be asked of politicians
not of people being responsible for delivering a sporting event.”
Clegg added that it was the right of others to raise whatever concerns
they like off the back of the games, but reiterated that his focus
was solely on preparations for the event.
Credibility
But Amnesty International’s Asatiani said it was the responsibility
of organisers, such as the European Olympics Committee (EOC), to
use their position to raise human rights with the Azeri government
through formal and informal channels.
“If the European Games are held in the same repressive environment
in Azerbaijan as it is now, it will definitely damage the credibility
of these games,” he said.
Many Western governments already turn a blind eye Azerbaijan’s
authoritarian government because the country is rich with resources,
such as oil and gas. It is also a relatively stable political ally
for the West on the borders of the Middle East.
HAUT KARABAGH
Deux élus Basques condamnent l’agression de l’Azerbaïdjan contre le
Haut Karabagh
L’agression du Haut Karabagh par l’Azerbaïdjan ainsi que les tirs
contre la population civile arménienne et la voiture du Comité de la
Croix Rouge Internationale doivent être condamnés par la communauté
internationale. Déclarations effectuée à l’agence Armenpress par le
sénateur Basque du Sénat espagnol Aiartza Azurtza et le membre Basque
du Congrès Jon Innaritu.
Lors de leurs déclarations, les deux Espagnols affirment que les
dernières opérations de l’Azerbaïdjan violaient le droit international
et allaient contre le maintien du cessez-le-feu mis en place par le
Groupe de Minsk de l’OSCE.
> ont affirmé les deux élus Basques dans une déclaration
commune.
Krikor Amirzayan
samedi 16 août 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan (c)armenews.com
A Healthcare Hub Where Fire Once Rained
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The newly-opened Stepanakert hospital
Stepanakert was decimated by the time heroic Armenians liberated
Shushi and stopped the inhumane bombardment by GRAD missiles of the
city. Since then, through an Armenia Fund healthcare initiative that
has built a state-of-the-art hospital and polyclinic, the city has
become a healthcare hub.
It would have been nice to have a hospital then, in 1991. The shelling
from Shushi had started in November and wouldn’t stop until May of
1992. Only when Armenian forces liberated the historic Armenian town
from Azerbaijanis who were using it as a staging ground for their
attacks on the civilian population of Stepanakert.
Thousands of civilians were under fire in one of the most brutal
attacks on a civilian population, reminiscent of the firebombing of
Dresden. It was due to the unfettered killings of World War II,
Dresden included, that the Geneva Conventions sought to address in
1949. Although these rules of engagement didn’t exist during the
Second World War, they did in the 1990s when Azerbaijan was purposely
targeting civilians.
According to Helsinki Watch (now Human Rights Watch), “The bombs
Azerbaijani forces use are primarily 500-kilogram (half-ton) bombs and
cluster bombs. Cluster bombs explode into hundreds of small balls and
are intended to hurt people, as opposed to structures.”
The attacks on Stepanakert were so severe, that Helsinki Watch issued
a report where it said that it “condemns in the strongest terms the
indiscriminate bombings and continued shelling of civilians in and
around Nagorno Karabakh, acts which violate the rules of internal
armed conflict set out in the 1949 Geneva Conventions.” In fact,
Stepanakert did have a hospital – from the 1930s. It was in such poor
shape that it’s a wonder the building survived the heavy damage it
sustained during the Artsakh War. The same might be said about the
people, damaged but standing tall.
Without a functioning hospital, there was no adequate medical center
with the needed technology to serve the population of Stepanakert and
environs. To address this serious and immediate concern, Armenia Fund
was tasked with building a new hospital. The humanitarian organization
was empowered by its worldwide support base and an extremely generous
donation of $22 million by Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Board of
Trustees member Samvel Karapetyan from Russia.
This project was the final piece of a ten-year healthcare development
initiative that sought to bring the level of medical attention in
Artsakh to internationally acceptable standards; the first phase was
the construction of a polyclinic.
In just over three years, Armenia Fund built a brand new hospital
according to its scrupulous standards. The facility, located in the
center of Stepanakert, is outfitted with the modern medical equipment
needed to provide patients with the quality of healthcare they
deserve. In addition to 120 hospital beds, there is a surgery
department, as well as an emergency room and urgent care unit.
Remembering the past and using it to prepare for the future, the
hospital also has a bomb-resistant underground wing that would be able
to continue to provide medical care in the event of renewed attacks by
Azerbaijan. Finally, the polyclinic, built before the hospital, is now
physically attached to it to provide ease of access for patients.
Although located in Artsakh’s capital, the breadth of services offered
by the medical center make it the first stop for patients with an
array of health issues. In addition to having available high quality
healthcare, the hospital provides its services to residents free of
charge.
The old hospital, now disused, is scheduled to be demolished in fall
of 2014. Although its demolition ushers in a new era of healthcare in
Armenia – Artsakh included – it won’t necessarily be a happy occasion.
It was, after all, the same hospital that not only kept standing
during the bombardment of Stepanakert and throughout the war, it
lasted long enough to allow the new building to be built. So, for the
doctors, nurses, and staff who worked there, its end will be
bittersweet.
By 1992, Armenian heroes liberated Shushi and stopped the
Azerbaijani-induced horror raining from the town upon Stepanakert. The
intrepid residents of the city emerged from their underground shelters
to continue their lives, learning during the war to live with little
food, care, or comfort. It is the resolute belief by their brethren,
Armenians throughout the world, that Artsakh’s residents should not
have to relive the troubles of those days. It is upon this belief that
Armenia Fund built the Stepanakert Hospital – for today and for
posterity.
AZERBAIJAN VIOLATES CEASEFIRE WITH KARABAKH 65 TIMES
11:29 15.08.2014
The adversary violated the ceasefire, on the Line of Contact between
the Karabakh-Azerbaijani opposing forces, around 65 times from Thursday
to early Friday morning.
During this time, more than 650 shots were fired in the direction of
Armenian positions, and by way of different-caliber rifle weaponry,
the NKR Defense Army reported.
LEGENDARY BESIKTAS CHAIRMAN SuLEYMAN SEBA PASSES AWAY AT 88
11:16 â~@¢ 14.08.14
Suleyman Seba, the honorary chairman of BeÃ…~_iktaÃ…~_ football club
and a legendary name of Turkish football, died late Aug. 13 at an
Istanbul hospital. He was 88, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.
Seba, who started his career in BeÃ…~_iktaÃ…~_ as a player in the early
1940s, spent his entire professional career at the Istanbul club.
In 1984, he was elected the club’s chairman and led to club for 16
years. Under Seba, BelÃ…~_iktaÃ…~_ won five league titles (three in a
row between 1990-1993), and for Turkish Cup trophies.
Seba was known to be a “football gentleman,” whose dedication for his
club and efforts to promote friendship in the game were appreciated
by not only the BeÃ…~_iktaÃ…~_ community, but also supporters of the
rival clubs.
President Abdullah Gul, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıcdaroglu, as
well as Galatasaray and Fenerbahce chairmen praised Seba in their
condolence messages.
A funeral ceremony will be held for Seba at BeÃ…~_iktaÃ…~_’s Vodafone
Arena at 11:00 a.m. on Aug. 15.
Armenian News – Tert.am
ERDOGAN SACRE PRESIDENT EN TURQUIE
JOURNAL LE PARISIEN
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN a atteint son objectif. A 60 ans, le leader
islamo-conservateur, Premier ministre depuis 2003, a ete elu hier,
dès le 1er tour, president de la Republique turque avec 52%des
suffrages exprimes. Erdogan, qui domine sans partage la scène politique
nationale, abordait il est vrai en grand favori cette presidentielle
qui se deroulait pour la première fois au suffrage universel direct.
Son sacre devrait lui permettre de renforcer son emprise sur le
regime turc, deja largement passe sous son contrôle ces dernières
annees. Car Erdogan veut . Les militaires ont ete renvoyes dans leurs casernes a coups
de purges et de procès. Toute opposition a ete brutalement matee. Ni
les manifestations qui ont envahi la place Taksim d’Istanbul l’an
dernier, ni les affaires de corruption revelees en decembre, qui
ont eclabousse directement Recep Tayyip Erdogan et son entourage,
ni la fronde d’une fraction de la mouvance islamiste ne l’ont fait
trebucher. Ses derniers succès electoraux, notamment le 30 mars aux
elections municipales, l’ont meme conforte.
Radicalisation
Mais les penchants autoritaires du nouveau chef de l’Etat inquiètent.
Erdogan n’a pas son pareil pour haranguer les foules et electriser son
electorat conservateur et nationaliste a coups de theories du complot.
Il n’hesite pas a verser dans le populisme et a attiser les tensions
au sein de la societe turque, en faisant vibrer la corde patriotique
ou religieuse. Ces dernières semaines, il s’est insurge contre les
massacres commis a Gaza et a compare a plusieurs reprises l’Etat
d’Israël avec les nazis. >, a-t-il lance. A quelques jours du scrutin, il a profere
des propos antiarmeniens au cours d’une interview televisee. Et
quelques jours plus tôt, c’est le numero deux du gouvernement, Bulent
Arinc, qui avait provoque un tolle en estimant que >, pour >.
Des propos qui traduisent le modèle de societe islamiste que tente
d’imposer le pouvoir. >, repète
Erdogan aux Turques. Les valeurs musulmanes se sont insinuees dans le
système educatif et dans la vie quotidienne : remise en question du
droit a l’avortement, restrictions sur la vente d’alcool, ouverture de
plages > a Antalya. Une grande partie de la population
reste pourtant attachee a la laïcite, heritee de Kemal Ataturk,
le fondateur de la Turquie moderne.
jeudi 14 août 2014, Stephane (c)armenews.com