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MAN INJURED IN SCUFFLE AT TURKISH ACADEMIC FAIR IN BEIRUT
The Daily Star
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Feb-24/164479-man-injured-in-scuffle-at-turkish-academic-fair-in-beirut.ashx#axzz1nKFDsGuy
Feb 24 2012
Lebanon
BEIRUT: A group of Armenian Lebanese stormed a Turkish academic fair
at a hotel in Downtown Beirut late Thursday, injuring a man in the
subsequent scuffle, security sources said.
The incident took place at Monroe Hotel late last night when three
men entered the venue and disrupted the proceedings of an academic
fair for Turkish universities, the sources said Friday.
The group began by distributing fliers on human rights but the affair
soon escalated into an altercation between them and the organizers,
leading to the injury of citizen Mazen al-Nabulsi.
The group also vandalized a number of items at the fair.
Security forces intervened and apprehended several people.
A statement by the Tashnag Party Friday said the Turkish organizers
had initiated physical contact.
"A number of Armenian youths and students handed out fliers
denouncing the organizers at the Turkish universities academic fair
at Monroe Hotel, which aims to recruit Lebanese students to Turkish
universities. The Turks present could not suppress their feelings
of being provoked and attacked the Armenian youths and students,
which led to intervention by others," the statement said.
"Calm returned soon afterward," it added.
The Daily Star
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2012/Feb-24/164479-man-injured-in-scuffle-at-turkish-academic-fair-in-beirut.ashx#axzz1nKFDsGuy
Feb 24 2012
Lebanon
BEIRUT: A group of Armenian Lebanese stormed a Turkish academic fair
at a hotel in Downtown Beirut late Thursday, injuring a man in the
subsequent scuffle, security sources said.
The incident took place at Monroe Hotel late last night when three
men entered the venue and disrupted the proceedings of an academic
fair for Turkish universities, the sources said Friday.
The group began by distributing fliers on human rights but the affair
soon escalated into an altercation between them and the organizers,
leading to the injury of citizen Mazen al-Nabulsi.
The group also vandalized a number of items at the fair.
Security forces intervened and apprehended several people.
A statement by the Tashnag Party Friday said the Turkish organizers
had initiated physical contact.
"A number of Armenian youths and students handed out fliers
denouncing the organizers at the Turkish universities academic fair
at Monroe Hotel, which aims to recruit Lebanese students to Turkish
universities. The Turks present could not suppress their feelings
of being provoked and attacked the Armenian youths and students,
which led to intervention by others," the statement said.
"Calm returned soon afterward," it added.