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  • Armenians Accuse Turkey Of Aiding Al-Qaeda Rebels In Attack On Syria

    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/

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