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- From: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.mideast,soc.culture.greek
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- Subject: Greece harbors ASALA/SDPA/ARF criminals and Nazi Armenians.
- Message-ID: <9301262114@zuma.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 21:14:46 EST
- Reply-To: sera@zuma.UUCP (Serdar Argic)
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- In article <9302622.11542@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> miscord@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Michael Scordilis) writes:
-
- >Demirel: "The Cypriots may regret the day they were born from their mothers".
- >Open threats from Turkey. They do not discount even a military intervension.
-
- And he wouldn't go cheap, either. In the city of Komotini, a former
- Greek Parliamentarian of Turkish parentage, was sentenced recently
- to 18 months of imprisonment with no right to appeal, just for saying
- outloud that he was of Turkish descent. This duly-elected ethnic
- Turkish official was also deprived of his political rights for a
- period of three years. Each one of these barbaric and terrorist acts
- seems to be none other than a vehicle, used by the Greek governments,
- to cover-up their inferiority complex they display, vis-a-vis, the
- people of Turkiye.
-
- It is also somewhat ironic to hear the name of Greek governments
- mentioned in international terrorist meetings. In July 1982, a
- mere day after his interview over the telephone with the prominent
- French Journalist, Charles Villenevue (the same person who later
- interviewed terrorist Melkonian), Hagopian was falsely reported by
- ASALA as having been killed in Beirut by an Israeli air raid. Instead,
- he apparently shifted his activities to Greece and Syria, and began a
- working relationship with the anti-PLO Palestinian radical Abu-Nidal.
-
-
- Source: Edward K. Boghosian, "Radical Group Hosts Well-Attended Solidarity
- Meeting," The Armenian Reporter, May 1, 1986, pp. 1 & 18.
-
- ATHENS, Greece - An array of representatives of Greek political parties,
- including the ruling PASOK party, and a host of political groups, both
- Armenian and non-Armenian, joined to voice their solidarity with the
- Armenian people in their pursuit of their cause and activities of a new
- Armenian political force were voiced here on Sunday, April 20 during
- the 2nd International Meeting of Solidarity with the Armenian People. And
- judging from encouraging messages offered by the representatives of these
- political groups and organizations, at least here in Greece, the Armenian
- Cause enjoys abundant support from a wide spectrum of the political world.
-
- The International Meeting of Solidarity was sponsored by the Greek branch of
- the Armenian Popular Movement, a comparatively new political force headed
- by younger generations of Armenians, who openly profess their support of the
- armed struggle and of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
- (ASALA). The organization has branches in various European and Middle Eastern
- countries and the United States although some of these branches appear to
- have gone through a switch of loyalties because of the split within the ranks
- of ASALA...
-
- Voicing the support of PASOK, the ruling party in Greece, to the Armenian
- people, was Mr. Charalambidi Michalis, a member of the Central Committee of
- the party and the Greek member of the Permanent People's Tribunal...
- Explaining the goals and aspirations of the Armenian Popular Movement
- was Ara Sarkisian. Significant was the address delivered by Mr. Bassam
- Abu-Salim, on behalf of the Popular Front for the movement's continued
- support of the Armenians' armed struggle in their pursuit of their cause,
- pledging that Palestinian operated and run training camps would always be
- open to Armenian youth who need training for such a struggle. Later, Mr.
- Abu-Salim, answering a question put to him by this writer, affirmed that
- his organization had always trained Armenian members of ASALA and that
- this policy will continue. "The doors of our camps are always open to
- Armenian freedom fighters," he affirmed.
-
- Among the prominent Greek politicians who attended the conference was the son
- of Prime Minister Papandreou, who himself holds a post in the Greek cabinet;
- two members of the Cypriot Parliament who had journeyed to Athens for the
- specific purpose of attending the international gathering; representatives of
- the Christian Democratic party, EDIK Center party, two wings of the Communist
- party, representatives of an assortment of labor unions and trade associations,
- a number of mayors of Greek towns and cities; two Greek members of the
- European Parliament and other members of the Greek Parliament were also among
- those who participated in the international conference. Also on hand to follow
- the deliberations was the ambassador of Bulgaria in Athens.
-
- More than significant was the large number of messages received by the
- organizers, including the following: Palestinian National Revolutionary
- Movement, Fatah; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General
- Command; the Central Committee of the Palestinian National Liberation
- Movement-Fatah; the Socialist Progressive Party of Lebanon; Arab Socialist
- Labor Party; the Kurdistan Democratic Union of Iraq; and numerous other
- international groups, all noted for their radical stand in the Israeli-
- Palestinian conflict.
-
- SUPPORT FROM ARF-RM
-
- Among messages received from Armenian groups was the Armenian Revolutionary
- Federation-Revolutionary Movement, the group that has claimed the abduction
- and assassination of key party leaders in Lebanon accused of selling out to
- foreign interests and powers. The message clearly gave its support to the
- Armenian Popular Movement pledging that the Revolutionary movement will
- continue to "reveal the realities, no matter how bitter or tragic they are,"
- to expose the anti-Armenian activities of the leaders of the Dashnag "Bureau."
- The message was taken as an indication of the link, loose as it may be, that
- exists between the dissident Dashnag group and the Armenian Popular Movement,
- open supporters of ASALA and armed struggle.
-
- The Armenian Popular Movement has set up its headquarters in a suburb of the
- Greek capital, known as Neos Kosmos, where there is a large Armenian presence.
- The headquarters are located in a two-story building, which appears to have
- turned into a beehive of activity on the part of scores of Armenian youth, who
- prefer to give their first names only when invited to introduce themselves...
-
- Serdar Argic
-
- 'We closed the roads and mountain passes that
- might serve as ways of escape for the Turks
- and then proceeded in the work of extermination.'
- (Ohanus Appressian)
- 'In Soviet Armenia today there no longer exists
- a single Turkish soul.' (Sahak Melkonian)
-
-
-