Dijon: Turkish Gray Wolves calling for violence against ArmeniansOctober 30, 2020 - 13:28 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Members of the Turkish ultra-nationalist movement Gray Wolves took to the streets in the French city of Dijon on Friday, October 30 night, calling for violence against the Armenians, the Armenian National Committee of France reports. The group were waving Turkish and Ottoman flags and making the Gray Wolves sign with their fingers. "France is not Turkey. Fear should not win over the rule of law. We are counting on a strong response from the Minister of the Interior," ANC France said.
Hate speech against Armenians has surged amid the ongoing hostilities in Karabakh, with Turks and Azerbaijanis declaring what they call "a hunt of Armenians" and threatening them. For example, a group of Turks in France attacked Armenians rallying to protest Azerbaijan's aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh, and hit two of the rally-goers with hammers on October 28. Azerbaijan, with help from Turkey and Syrian and Libyan mercenaries deployed by Ankara, started a war against Karabakh (Artsakh) in the morning of September 27. The Armenian side has reported deaths and injuries both among the civilian population and the military. Foreign and local journalists too have been injured in Azeri shelling of towns and villages. Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |