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ARMENIAN-ARABIC LEGAL COUNCIL CONDEMNS ATTACK ON KESSAB REGION
14:05, 24 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 24, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian-Arabic legal council
condemned the terrorist attack on Kessab region. Armenpress reports
citing SANA agency that the statement says that the armed terrorist
groups are supported directly by the Government of Erdogan.
"The genocide and exile which the Ottoman people carried out in the
past, continues to be realized now by their new generation led by
Erdogan," the statement says.
The Council welcomed the Syrian army and the heroic steps of the
Armed Forces in the statement.
According to the Armenian Weekly, the armed incursion began on Friday,
March 21, 2014 with rebels associated with Al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front,
Sham al-Islam and Ansar al-Sham crossing the Turkish border and
attacking the Armenian civilian population of Kesab. The attackers
immediately seized two guard posts overlooking Kesab, including a
strategic hill known as Observatory 45 and later took over the border
crossing point with Turkey. Snipers targeted the civilian population
and launched mortar attacks on the town and the surrounding villages.
According to eyewitness accounts, the attackers crossed the Turkish
border with Syria openly passing through Turkish military barracks.
According to Turkish media reports, the attackers carried their
injured back to Turkey for treatment in the town of Yayladagi.
Some 670 Armenian families, the majority of the population of Kesab,
were evacuated by the local Armenian community leadership to safer
areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia. Ten to fifteen families with
relations too elderly to move were either unable to leave or chose to
stay in their homes. On Saturday, March 22, Syrian troops launched a
counteroffensive in an attempt to regain the border crossing point,
eye-witnesses and state media reported. However, on Sunday, March
23, the extremist groups once again entered the town of Kesab, took
the remaining Armenian families hostage, desecrated the town's three
Armenian churches, pillaging local residences and occupying the town
and surrounding villages. Located in the northwestern corner of Syria,
near the border with Turkey, Kesab had, until very recently evaded
major battles in the Syrian conflict. The local Armenian population
had increased in recently years with the city serving as safe-haven for
those fleeing from the war-torn cities of Yacubiye, Rakka and Aleppo.
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14:05, 24 March, 2014
YEREVAN, MARCH 24, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian-Arabic legal council
condemned the terrorist attack on Kessab region. Armenpress reports
citing SANA agency that the statement says that the armed terrorist
groups are supported directly by the Government of Erdogan.
"The genocide and exile which the Ottoman people carried out in the
past, continues to be realized now by their new generation led by
Erdogan," the statement says.
The Council welcomed the Syrian army and the heroic steps of the
Armed Forces in the statement.
According to the Armenian Weekly, the armed incursion began on Friday,
March 21, 2014 with rebels associated with Al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front,
Sham al-Islam and Ansar al-Sham crossing the Turkish border and
attacking the Armenian civilian population of Kesab. The attackers
immediately seized two guard posts overlooking Kesab, including a
strategic hill known as Observatory 45 and later took over the border
crossing point with Turkey. Snipers targeted the civilian population
and launched mortar attacks on the town and the surrounding villages.
According to eyewitness accounts, the attackers crossed the Turkish
border with Syria openly passing through Turkish military barracks.
According to Turkish media reports, the attackers carried their
injured back to Turkey for treatment in the town of Yayladagi.
Some 670 Armenian families, the majority of the population of Kesab,
were evacuated by the local Armenian community leadership to safer
areas in neighboring Basit and Latakia. Ten to fifteen families with
relations too elderly to move were either unable to leave or chose to
stay in their homes. On Saturday, March 22, Syrian troops launched a
counteroffensive in an attempt to regain the border crossing point,
eye-witnesses and state media reported. However, on Sunday, March
23, the extremist groups once again entered the town of Kesab, took
the remaining Armenian families hostage, desecrated the town's three
Armenian churches, pillaging local residences and occupying the town
and surrounding villages. Located in the northwestern corner of Syria,
near the border with Turkey, Kesab had, until very recently evaded
major battles in the Syrian conflict. The local Armenian population
had increased in recently years with the city serving as safe-haven for
those fleeing from the war-torn cities of Yacubiye, Rakka and Aleppo.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/755088/armenian-arabic-legal-council-condemns-attack-on-kessab-region.html