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ARMENIANS ACCUSE TURKEY OF AIDING AL-QAEDA REBELS IN ATTACK ON SYRIAN CHRISTIAN VILLAGE
Algemeiner
March 27 2014
JNS.org - Armenian leaders have accused Turkey of aiding
al-Qaeda-affiliated rebel groups during their attack on a largely
Armenian Christian village in northern Syria.
"Turkey's facilitation of al-Qaeda affiliated foreign fighters and
their attacks on innocent civilians in Syria undermines ongoing US and
international efforts to bring peace to a country ravaged by violence
for far too long," Ken Hachikian, chairman of the Armenian National
Committee of America, wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama.
Last weekend, rebel forces from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took control of the small Armenian
Christian village in northern Syria during fighting with the Syrian
army, forcing most of the residents to flee.
According to the Armenian daily newspaper Panorama, Armenian President
Sezh Sargsyan drew parallels between the current situation for
Kessab's Armenian Christians and the Armenian genocide in the early
20th century under the Ottoman Turks.
"The third deportation of Kessab Armenians today is a serious challenge
to ethnic minority rights protection mechanisms of the 21st century,"
Sargsyan said at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague. "I
think everyone should realize that these parallels should sober all
the sides."
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/03/27/armenians-accuse-turkey-of-aiding-al-qaeda-rebels-in-attack-on-syrian-christian-village/
Algemeiner
March 27 2014
JNS.org - Armenian leaders have accused Turkey of aiding
al-Qaeda-affiliated rebel groups during their attack on a largely
Armenian Christian village in northern Syria.
"Turkey's facilitation of al-Qaeda affiliated foreign fighters and
their attacks on innocent civilians in Syria undermines ongoing US and
international efforts to bring peace to a country ravaged by violence
for far too long," Ken Hachikian, chairman of the Armenian National
Committee of America, wrote in a letter to President Barack Obama.
Last weekend, rebel forces from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front and
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took control of the small Armenian
Christian village in northern Syria during fighting with the Syrian
army, forcing most of the residents to flee.
According to the Armenian daily newspaper Panorama, Armenian President
Sezh Sargsyan drew parallels between the current situation for
Kessab's Armenian Christians and the Armenian genocide in the early
20th century under the Ottoman Turks.
"The third deportation of Kessab Armenians today is a serious challenge
to ethnic minority rights protection mechanisms of the 21st century,"
Sargsyan said at the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague. "I
think everyone should realize that these parallels should sober all
the sides."
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/03/27/armenians-accuse-turkey-of-aiding-al-qaeda-rebels-in-attack-on-syrian-christian-village/