Author: Kajoyan Gevork

LES PROCES POUR ” TERRORISME ” EN TURQUIE

Publie le : 22-10-2013

Info Collectif VAN – Le Collectif VAN vous invite
a lire cette information publiee sur le site des Amities kurdes de
Bretagne le 21 octobre 2013.

lundi 21 octobre 2013 par Amities kurdes de Bretagne

Plusieurs procès pour delits d’opinion se deroulent en meme temps
dans differentes villes de Turquie, notamment a Istanbul, Diyarbakir,
mais aussi a Izmir, Van, Mardin, Sirnak, Batman, pour ne citer que
ces quelques tribunaux.

Ils ont tous un point commun, celui de vouloir eradiquer l’Union
des Communautes du Kurdistan (KCK), accusee de vouloir remplacer les
institutions officielles et de favoriser une insurrection. En prônant
le “confederalisme democratique” le KCK propose en quelque sorte
une demarche politique qu’on peut qualifier de revolutionnaire, car
elle s’appuie, a la base, sur des assemblees de quartier et de ville
dans les quelles se trouvent des representants de la societe civile
(militants associatifs et syndicaux, journalistes, avocats…) et des
elus politiques. Elles ont ete impulsees par le parti kurde, le DTP
(remplace a sa dissolution par le BDP) durant les municipales de 2009,
et lui ont permis de remporter une large victoire. C’est pourquoi,
au lendemain des elections, le 14 avril 2009, tous les dirigeants
des dites assemblees ont ete interpelles : ce fut la première
vague d’arrestation. Aujourd’hui, ce sont des milliers, elus et
cadres politiques, militants associatifs, avocats, journalistes,
syndicalistes, pour la plupart toujours maintenus en detention,
qui sont juges, au cours de procès interminables.

Pour autant la repression de s’arrete pas la : le Conseil d’Etat vient
de destituer de ses fonctions le maire BDP de Igdir, après qu’il ait
ete condamne dans le cadre des procès KCK. Il s’agit du 22e maire
kurde destitue depuis les elections municipales de 2009. Ils sont
17 sous les verrous. Plus de cent Kurdes ont en outre ete arretes au
cours du mois de septembre 2013.

15e Cour d’Assise d’Istanbul : procès KCK des journalistes – prochaine
audience : 28/10/2013

Ce procès ne concerne pas la totalite des journalistes et editeurs
poursuivis. Seuls 46 journalistes et editeurs sont concernes, dont 22
sont toujours en detention. Au terme de cette 6e audience qui a eu lieu
devant la 15e Cour d’Assise d’Istanbul deux journalistes seulement,
Irfan Bilgic et Fatma Kocak, ont ete remis en liberte. La prochaine
audience est reportee au 28/10/2013.

Le rapport de juillet-août-septembre 2013 de BIA Media Monitoring
revèle que 48 journalistes ont ete agresses et 11 places en detention
lors de la resistance de Gezi en Turquie. À la date d’octobre 2013, 66
journalistes et 27 editeurs sont toujours en prison. 28 journalistes,
auteurs et representants des medias ont ete condamnes a des peines
d’emprisonnement allant jusqu’a la perpetuite. Entre juillet et
septembre 2013, le Conseil superieur de la radio et de la television
a remis 79 448 avertissements, 448 amendes aux chaînes de television,
75 avertissements et 48 amendes aux radios. Au moins 10 journalistes
et 1 universitaire ont ete forces a la demission en raison de leurs
opinions sur la resistance de Gezi. 11 journalistes et 6 universitaires
ont ete licencies.

Le Collectif VAN (Vigilance armenienne contre le Negationnisme)
est consterne d’apprendre, a l’issue de l’audience du procès, que le
jeune editeur Deniz Zarakolu, fils de Ragip Zarakolu, fondateur des
Editions Belge, et les collaborateurs de la maison d’edition, Ayse
Berktay, traductrice et A. Dursun Yildiz, restent sous les verrous :

la justice turque persiste et signe dans la repression envers les
intellectuels de Turquie. Elle s’enferre chaque jour davantage dans
un procès ubuesque. Sur les dizaines de prevenus qui ont defile dans
le box des accuses depuis le debut du mois, seuls quatre etudiants
ont ete remis en liberte hier. Ils ont perdu deux ans de leur vie
derrière les barreaux.

6e Cour d’Assise de Diyarbakir : procès KCK – prochaine audience :
28/10/2013

L’audience concernant 175 prevenus, elus et cadres politiques, dont
97 sont toujours en detention, a eu lieu le 11/10/2013 devant la 6e
Cour d’Assise : c’etait la 16e session et la 59e audience. Le tribunal
a refuse toute demande de remise en liberte. L’affaire est reportee
au 13/01/2013.

Il faut savoir que plusieurs procureurs ont lance des enquetes visant
27 responsables politiques kurdes). En 2012, 24 des 29 deputes kurdes
ont ete soumis a 75 enquetes.

Procès des avocats d’Ocalan – prochaine audience : 19 decembre 2013

Ce procès s’est ouvert a Istanbul le 16 juillet dernier, il concerne
46 avocats, dont 36 detenus, un journaliste et trois employes du
bureau. La prochaine audience est fixee au 19 decembre 2013.

Procès des avocats des avocats – prochaines audiences : 24, 25 et 26
decembre 2013

Ces avocats ont ete interpelles dans la nuit du 18 janvier 2013 : Ils
sont tous membres de Cagdas Hukukcular Dernegi – CHD, ” Association
des avocats progressistes ” qui fournit une assistance juridique aux
victimes de violations des droits humains. Les prochaines audiences
se tiendront les 24, 25 et 26 decembre 2013.

Andre Metayer

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OSCE MG Co-Chairs’ response will worsen situation around Karabakh conflict

18:05 18/10/2013 » POLITICS

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group once again put equals sign
between the sides, trying not to violate the `balance,’ but this will
not only fail to solve the problem, but will aggravate it, military
expert Samvel Petrosyan told Panorama.am when commenting on the latest
statement issued by the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs and Personal
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office regarding the halt of
the OSCE Mission’s monitoring of the contact line.

`If Azerbaijan had given consent to introduction of mechanisms for
investigation of border incidents, we could perhaps avoid such an
incident, or at least we could conduct an international investigation.
However, for clear reasons, Azerbaijan does not accept that proposal
and resorts to provocations in such cases,’ Petrosyan said.

Source: Panorama.am

Russia to Deploy Combat Helicopters at Armenian Base

MiG-29

© RIA Novosti. Vladimir Astapkovitch
21:04 18/10/2013

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YEREVAN, October 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will strengthen its air
contingent at the Erebuni air base in Armenia with a helicopter
squadron in the next few months, the base commander said Friday.

Russia’s 3624th Air Base at the Erebuni airport in Yerevan currently
hosts at least 16 MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter jets operating under the
framework of air defense agreements concluded between the members of
the Commonwealth of Independent States.

`A decision has been made to form a helicopter squadron in addition to
the fighter squadron at the Erebuni base by the end of this year or in
the beginning of the next year,’ Col. Alexander Petrov said.

Petrov did not specify the type of helicopters to be deployed at the base.

Petrov said Moscow and Yerevan have agreed that Russian pilots will be
able to practice bombing runs and missile launches with live
ammunition at the nearby Marshal Bagramyan training grounds belonging
to the Armenian Defense Ministry.

The Erebuni air base is part of Russia’s 102nd military base located
in Gyumri, near Armenia’s border with Turkey.

The 102nd base has been deployed in Gyumri since 1995 under a
bilateral treaty that was extended in 2010 from 25 to 49 years,
ensuring a Russian military presence in Armenia through 2044.

Artur Bagdasaryan, head of Armenia’s National Security Council said in
June that Russian military bases in Armenia will be modernized and
upgraded over the next few years.

Yerevan listed among cheapest cities for internet startup launch: research

October 18, 2013 – 19:16 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Yerevan was listed among the cheapest cities for an
internet startup company launch, with Moscow named as the most
expensive, hopesandfears.com said.

Pyortr Tatishev, curator at Digital October technology
entrepreneurship center held a research to assess the annual cost of a
team of two programmers and a designer in a rented office. A number of
entrepreneurs in Russian and CIS cities were polled, with the
following results: the Moscow office and team expenditures total $165
000, St. Petersburg – $120 000, Nizhny Novgorod – $112 500,
Novosibirsk – $73 500, Tomsk – $51 938, Taganrog – $56 250, Krasnodar-
$61 875, Perm – $86 250, Vladivostok – $75 000, Minsk (Belarus) –
$60,000, Tbilisi (Georgia) – $38 400 and Yerevan (Armenia) – $52 800.

A similar study covering a number of cities from London to Mumbai was
held by Staff.com HR source. The study showed that Philippines will
provide the most cost-saving in launching a startup, with a year of
work in Manila paying 6,5 times less than in Zurich, Sydney or New
York.

Vestnik Kavkaza: Azerbaijan and the United States a major diplomatic row erupted

17:42 18/10/2013 » REGION

A serious diplomatic scandal arises between Baku and Washington.
Criticism of the presidential elections in Azerbaijan by U.S.
Department of State and the fact that Barack Obama hasn’t
congratulated Ilham Aliyev on his third presidential term yet worsened
already less than perfect Azerbaijani-American relations, Orhan
Sattarov, the head of the head of the European bureau of Vestnik
Kavkaza writes.

The author notes that the head of the presidential administration
Ramiz Mehtiyev who usually prefers not to communicate with the mass
media has met journalists from leading Azerbaijani periodicals. At the
meeting the top official who is thought to be one of key figures in
the country expressed his disappointment and indignation on the
estimation of the presidential elections in the country by the
observing mission of OSCE/ODIHR and U.S. Department of State.

Criticizing the Americans for double standards and insincerity in
partnership with Azerbaijan, Mehtiyev doubted the adequateness of the
report by OSCE/ODIHR – the organization which works watching at the
U.S. According to Mehtiyev, Azerbaijan had doubts about inviting
observers from the ODIHR, but made the step on the recommendation of
the U.S.

`However, the most interesting thing in the interview was inside
information from Mekhtiyev that American officials `recommended’ the
Azerbaijani government to falsify results of voting for the opposition
candidate Jamil Hasanly, as if he got 25% of votes,’ the author
writes.

As the article notes, the U.S. Department of State quickly responded
to the interview by the head of the presidential administration and
stated that his statements on `recommended’ results of the elections
were a lie. `The diplomatic fight could come to an end without serious
consequences for bilateral relations. However, tension seems to reach
the highest level. The Azerbaijani side didn’t ignore the disproof of
the Americans and decided to state certain names,’ the author writes
and notes that the authorities focused on the American ambassador in
Azerbaijan, Richard Morningstar.

`The figures mentioned by Ramiz Mekhtiyev were voiced by the U.S.
ambassador at meetings with the government of Azerbaijan,’ Elnur
Aslanov, the head of the political analysis and information support of
the presidential administration of Azerbaijan, confirmed in an
interview to 1news.az.

Author reminds that a few days ahead of the incident, there was
another unpleasant moment which involved Morningstar. According to the
press service of the Defense Minister of Azerbaijan, the American
ambassador stated at the meeting with the minister that `the elections
have passed, and the winner is Ilham Aliyev’ and actually he shut down
all political speculations on recognition or non-recognition of the
Azerbaijani elections by the U.S.

`However, the U.S. embassy decided to make a statement that the words
by the ambassador were misinterpreted. This time the Azerbaijani side
also resisted America and stated that it had an audio record of the
talk and the press service of the ministry didn’t misinterpret the
message,’ the material says.

According to the author, the current anti-American rhetoric can be
compared with the sharp reaction by Baku on active American lobbying
of the Armenian-Turkish peacemaking in 2008 without consideration of
the Nagorno-Karabakh topic.

`It is notable that in the context of worsened relations between Baku
and Washington the mass media is again discussing the topic of whether
Azerbaijan should take the European and Western course or the Eurasian
course, i.e. a radical turn toward Russia,’ the author says and notes
that Vladimir Putin’s summer visit to Azerbaijan, Azerbaijani’s energy
policy which prefers to prevent development of the project of Nabucco
to avoid competition with the Russian pipeline of South Stream,
deliberation of the question on association with the EU – all these
factors give an opportunity for Baku to turn north.

Source: Panorama.am

Conscript `Inflicts Himself with Fatal Gunshot Wound’: Defense Ministry

10.18.2013 18:02 epress.am

Military conscript Ruben Davtyan at around 1:30 pm on Oct. 18
`inflicted himself with a fatal gunshot wound’ from the weapon he was
carrying, reports the RA Ministry of Defense, stressing that this is
preliminary information.

Davtyan died on the way to hospital. A criminal case on charges of RA
Criminal Code Article 110 Section 1 (`causing someone to commit
suicde’) has been launched.

Le Parisien, France
Vendredi 18 Octobre 2013

La ville commémore les résistants du groupe Manouchian

HAUTS-DE-SEINE; Montrouge Seconde Guerre mondiale

C’était il y a 70 ans. Le 18 octobre 1943, la rue qui accueille
l’actuel restaurant Jean Bart fut le thétre d’une des nombreux actes
du groupe Manouchian, du nom de son leader, un résistant d’origine
arménienne, contre l’armée allemande. A l’époque, Montrouge
accueillait un centre de commandement des nazis et un centre de dépôt
de la SNCF, régulièrement viser par la résistance de Montrouge.

Pour ne jamais oublier ces hommes, le Front de Gauche poursuit ses
commémorations et organise ce soir, à 18 heures, au Jean-Bart, une
conférence, en présence d’Arsène Tchakarian, le dernier survivant du
groupe Manoukian. Au programme : Débat, récits historiques, documents
d’époque et présentation du dernier livre d’Arsène Tchakarian.

Aujourd’hui à partir de 18 heures, au Jean-Bart, 134, avenue de la
République 92120 Montrouge.

Haykakan Zhamanak: Yerevan Municipality owes 3 months wages to bus drivers

11:35 19/10/2013 » DAILY PRESS

Yerevan Municipality owes 3 months wages to drivers of several bus
routes, Haykakan Zhamanak reports. According to head of Municipality’s
Transport Department Henrik Navasardyan, the problem will be solved in
the coming days. The reason of wage delays is that the passenger flows
have decreased in the recent months, which caused financial problems.

Source: Panorama.am

Moscow enlists volunteer militia to clear city of illegal migrants

Every Friday, authorities plan to raid apartment buildings and workplaces

Maxim Tucker

Friday 18 October 2013

Moscow police will enlist the help of a volunteer militia to sweep the
streets for illegal migrants, police chief Anatoly Yakunin said today,
following the worst race riots in the city in years.

The riots were sparked when a man of Azerbaijani appearance stabbed to
death ethnic Russian Yegor Shcherbakov in the Biryulyovo district of
Moscow last Thursday as he was out walking with his girlfriend.

Russian authorities plan to hold operation ‘Signal’ every Friday,
raiding apartment buildings and workplaces known to be frequented by
immigrants across the city, particularly those from Azerbaijan and the
Caucasus region.

The enormous nature of the task will require “the entire apparatus of
the Central Office of Main Control, the office of Internal Control of
Administrative Districts, private security companies and voluntary
civil guards” Mr Yakunin said.

Azerbaijani nationalist group the “Karabakh Liberation Organisation’
have threatened retaliation against ethnic Russians living in
Azerbaijan.

According to Azerbaijani news portal “Haqqin.az”, the group wrote to
the Russian Embassy in Baku stating that “If attacks on Azerbaijanis”
in Russia do not end, then “adequate measures” will be taken against
Russians living in Azerbaijan.

Their statement followed the release of footage which appears to show
handcuffed Azerbaijani citizen Orkhan Zeynalov being assaulted by
police officers before being transferred to pre-trial detention face
down in a police helicopter with a bag over his head.

Police appear to punch, kick and strike a bruised and bloody Mr
Zeynalov with police batons in full view of the camera crew, who are
allowed to accompany the suspect as he travels under an officer’s feet
lying in the bottom of a police van, then in a police helicopter with
a bag over his head.

Mr Zeynalov was arrested on Tuesday, accused of Yegor Shcherbakov’s
murder. In the video police appear to try to force Mr Zeynalov into
confessing to the camera as he lies in the grass. At a Moscow court
hearing on Thursday he told a judge police had arrested the wrong man.
Police later justified their actions by saying he had resisted arrest.

Yegor Shcherbakov’s murder caused mass protests against non-Slavic
immigrants in Biryulyovo district, which quickly turned violent.
Participants broke into a local vegetable warehouse where many
immigrants work, trashing produce and brawling with police on the
streets outside.

Protesters blame immigrants for crime in the area and believe they
undercut the pay of Russian employees by working illegally.

Moscow based Azerbaijani film-maker and one time Presidential hopeful
Rustam Ibragimbekov said immigrants were in a “difficult situation”.

“They [Russian authorities] carry this [immigration policy] out in
such a way that those coming to the country looking for work are
placed in a difficult situation. They have no opportunities, they live
in bad conditions and as a result crimes like this occur”.

Rioting continued last Sunday, with angry protesters attempting to set
fire to a shopping mall and smashing windows. Some 380 people were
detained in relation to the disturbances as police battled to restore
order in the district.

Russian authorities seem eager to placate nationalist groups,
arresting over a thousand illegal immigrants in night-time raids on
Monday evening, and taking the unusual step of allowing national TV to
film and broadcast ill-treatment of Orkhan Zeynalov.

However, ethnic tensions continue to build in Biryulyovo, with Reuters
reporting Wednesday that police had found the body of an ethnic Uzbek
there, apparently killed in a race-related attack.

Moscow authorities have consequently banned a nationalist rally
planned for October 19 on the other side of Moscow, telling organisers
that under the circumstances police would not be able to guarantee the
safety of participants. The rally’s organizer, Dmitry Dyomushkin, is
the former head of the ‘Slavic Union’ far-right group, banned in 2010
as an extremist organization.

The Azerbaijani government has yet to comment on Mr. Zeynalov’s arrest
and treatment.

France 3
20 oct 2013

Un centre national de la mémoire arménienne à Décines

Ce CNMA, lieu pédagogique ouvert à tous, a été inauguré ce dimanche
dans le Rhône, en présence de la ministre de la Culture Aurélie
Filippetti. La communauté arménienne est marquée dans sa culture par
le génocide de 1915-1917, à l’origine d’une diaspora de plus de 7
millions de personnes.

Environ 12.000 ouvrages et 110.000 documents composent la base
documentaire du CNMA, dont une partie est traitée et numérisée. Ils
concernent l’histoire, les mémoires, la langue, la culture, les arts
et les migrations arméniennes ainsi que la vie des communautés en
France et en Europe.

Une équipe d’universitaires, qui pourront accompagner des étudiants
pour des travaux et des thèses, doit être progressivement constituée.
Onze conférences-débats ou événements culturels devraient être
proposées dans l’année au centre, qui accueillera également des
groupes scolaires.

Dimanche, deux expositions en visite libre ont ouvert les festivités:
“Se reconstruire en exil. L’arrivée des réfugiés arméniens en France”
et “Le livre arménien de la renaissance à la Lumière: une culture en
Diaspora”.

Pour sa construction, débutée en 2010, le CNMA a bénéficié pour moitié
d’un financement public-privé et pour l’autre de dons. Il fonctionne
avec trois salariés et une trentaine de bénévoles, selon la directrice
Katia Boudoyan.

La reconnaissance du génocide

Lors de l’inauguration la ministre de la Culture Aurélie Filippetti a
déclaré : “N’oublions jamais ce qui s’est produit en 1915. Rappelons
aux enfants d’Arménie, de la France et du monde où mène cet oubli par
l’homme de son humanité, dont le siècle passé nous a donné tant de
sinistres exemples”.

“Le travail historique doit se poursuivre (…) Mais les faits sont
établis, et le génocide arménien a été reconnu par une loi de la
République”, a poursuivi la ministre pour qui “la propagande de sa
négation ne peut être admise”.

“C’est pourquoi, conformément à l’engagement du Chef de l’Etat, le
gouvernement examine les moyens juridiques permettant d’assurer cette
vigilance dans le respect des principes fixés par notre Constitution
et de nos obligations internationales et européennes”, a-t-elle
ajouté.