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ARMENIANS "GREET" ALIYEV IN ATHENS

Athens (Azad Or) - Azeri President Ilham Aliyev and his delegation were met with angry Armenian protesters when they arrived at the Greek Chamber of Commerce for a meeting of Azeri and Greek business leaders, in the presence of Greek President Carolos Papoulias and Prime Minister Karamanlis.
The Armenian community of Greece heeded the call from the ARF Dashnaktsoutiun Youth Organization and, gathered at the venue an hour before the scheduled meeting by the Azeri president.

With Armenian tri-colours and the Karabakh flags waving, a large banner that read “Aliyev, Stop the Aggression. Nagorno-Karabakh is Already Independent,” the crowd chanted “Karabakh is Armenian” catching the Aliyev off guard as he exited his vehicle.

The Armenian community of Greece - especially the youth - had gathered to raise their voices against the visit of the Azeri president to Greece.
Aliyev's Azeri security team was very aggressive toward the protesters and pushed the Azad Or editor and Armenian photographers back and stopped them, as representatives of the press, from entering the building. The Greek police also held back protesters, who refused to move from their positions.
Soon thereafter, President Papoulias arrived and was greeted by cheers from the protesters, who stayed put until the conclusion of the conference and Aliyev's quick exit from the venue, where the protesters continued their protest slogans.
During the meeting, Aliyev reiterated his anti-Armenian rhetoric, saying that “Armenia has invaded and is occupying Azeri year=20year=2009&month=02 You can view the demonstration and the way the Armenians of Greece
greeted the President of Azerbaijan >TURKISH COLONEL TO STAND TRIAL ON HRANT DINK MURDERPanARMENIAN.Net 18.02.2009 - A Turkish court ordered a colonel and five soldiers, to stand trial in connection with the murder of Hrant Dink, editor of Agos Turkish-Armenian weekly, who was assassinated by a gunman outside his office on January 19, 2007.
Colonel Ali Oz was indicted last year for failing to provide protection to Dink, who had received death threats before he was murdered.
A lower court dismissed the case against Oz, but last week a court in the city of Trabzon, said Oz should stand trial.
Two low-ranking soldiers are already on trial accused of neglect of duty in the Hrant Dink murder, Reuters reports.

TERROR ACTS PLOTTED BY TURKISH GENERAL STAFF AGAINST ARMENIAN APOLOGY CAMPAIGN INITIATORS

PanARMENIAN.Net 18.02.2009 - The Turkish General Staff plotted terror acts against initiators of the Armenian apology campaign, Bolis-based Normarmara newspaper reports.
"If I hadn't been arrested on January 7, Armenian activists in Turkey would have been assaulted," said Ibrahim Shahin, former deputy chief of the Turkish special forces.
According to him, the grouping should have included 150-300 Turkish soldiers charged with the task to carry out ethnic cleansings throughout the country.
The black list included the initiators of the Armenian apology campaign, 850 members of pro-Kurdish party, as well as Assyrians and Jews residing in Turkey.

HATRED FOR ARMENIANS PROPAGATED IN TURKISH SCHOOLS
On a parallel note Bolis Patriarchate of the Armenian Apostolic Church summoned a conference to discuss the recent decision of the Turkish Ministry of Education decreed to screen Sari Galin documentary on 'murders of Turks by Armenians' for Turkish schoolchildren.
The documentary is a Turkish view on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. With lots of violence shots, it aims to propagate hatred for Armenians.
43 representatives of the Armenian community of Bolis have already sent a note to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, Normarmara reports
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