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ATTACKS LAUNCHED AGAINST ARMENIANS IN TURKEY ARE PLANNED: TURK COLUMNIST
12:38, 29 January, 2013
YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, ARMENPRESS: If several things as I mentioned in a
country like Turkey happens in a matter of weeks, we should have every
reason to believe that they are organized and somehow connected to
each other. Columnist Orhan Kemal Cengiz came forth with a statement,
Armenpress reports citing Today's Zaman.
Columnist rejects Armenian women attacked in the Samatya neighborhood
of Istanbul recently were due to robbery. All of whom were over 80 and
living alone. Even if the intent of the attackers was robbery, this
does not change the fact that there is an obvious racial hatred behind
these assaults. If their only purpose was to steal a few items from
these old ladies they could easily incapacitate the women without the
brutality. But instead they brutally beat and stabbed these women. An
Armenian intellectual, who does not want to reveal his identity, told
me that he barely managed to escape unscathed from a planned attack
by two youngsters who were sent by an ultranationalist who was angry
with some of the words that this Armenian intellectual had made on TV.
Some circles are frantically trying to create an atmosphere of
terror for non-Muslims in Turkey. When there was a comparable level
of activities against non-Muslims in 2006 and 2007, they ended up
in disaster with a string of murders of Christians: Father Andrea
Santoro in Trabzon, Hrant Dink in Istanbul and three Christians in
Malatya were killed.
Since the beginning of the Ergenekon investigation in 2007, we have
not witnessed such kinds of attacks against non-Muslims. Some cells
seemed to have been reactivated to give Christians a hard time once
again. I really hope that officials will grasp the severity and
gravity of the situation soon and act quickly in order to bring the
attackers and the people behind them to justice. This situation is
quite serious and alarming.
12:38, 29 January, 2013
YEREVAN, JANUARY 29, ARMENPRESS: If several things as I mentioned in a
country like Turkey happens in a matter of weeks, we should have every
reason to believe that they are organized and somehow connected to
each other. Columnist Orhan Kemal Cengiz came forth with a statement,
Armenpress reports citing Today's Zaman.
Columnist rejects Armenian women attacked in the Samatya neighborhood
of Istanbul recently were due to robbery. All of whom were over 80 and
living alone. Even if the intent of the attackers was robbery, this
does not change the fact that there is an obvious racial hatred behind
these assaults. If their only purpose was to steal a few items from
these old ladies they could easily incapacitate the women without the
brutality. But instead they brutally beat and stabbed these women. An
Armenian intellectual, who does not want to reveal his identity, told
me that he barely managed to escape unscathed from a planned attack
by two youngsters who were sent by an ultranationalist who was angry
with some of the words that this Armenian intellectual had made on TV.
Some circles are frantically trying to create an atmosphere of
terror for non-Muslims in Turkey. When there was a comparable level
of activities against non-Muslims in 2006 and 2007, they ended up
in disaster with a string of murders of Christians: Father Andrea
Santoro in Trabzon, Hrant Dink in Istanbul and three Christians in
Malatya were killed.
Since the beginning of the Ergenekon investigation in 2007, we have
not witnessed such kinds of attacks against non-Muslims. Some cells
seemed to have been reactivated to give Christians a hard time once
again. I really hope that officials will grasp the severity and
gravity of the situation soon and act quickly in order to bring the
attackers and the people behind them to justice. This situation is
quite serious and alarming.