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Syrians, Armenians, Cubans Can’t Buy Turkish Estate, Sabah Says
By Ercan Ersoy - Jul 27, 2012 9:41 AM GMT+0100 

Citizens from Syria, Armenia, North Korea, Nigeria, Cuba and Yemen 
won’t be allowed to buy property in Turkey even after the government 
eased restrictions on foreigners’ property ownership, Sabah said. 

The government will allow citizens of 129 nations to buy property 
unconditionally while those from 52 others will have limited access to the 
real estate market, the Istanbul-based newspaper reported, citing a draft 
cabinet decree pending the government’s approval. Easing the restrictions 
may bring in $300 billion of foreign capital in 10 years, the newspaper
said. 

The government in May abolished a so-called reciprocity rule that barred 
Turkish property purchases by citizens of countries where Turks can’t buy 
real estate. The cabinet decree will enforce that law, Sabah said. 

Citizens from China, Denmark, East Timor, Fiji and Israel will be able to 
buy one residential property and a Jordanian citizen two residential
properties 
or one commercial, Sabah said.  Citizens of countries bordering the Black
Sea 
including Russia and Ukraine may buy property in Turkey except on that 
coastline, the newspaper said. 


THERE ARE ONLY FEW PARALLELS BETWEEN NORTHERN IRELAND 
AND NAGORNO-KARABAKH - UK AMBASSADOR TO AZERBAIJAN
news.am
July 27, 2012 | 15:10

BAKU. - Great Britain supports the OSCE Minsk Group's activities
toward a peaceful settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, United
Kingdom Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Peter Bateman, told 1news.az News
Agency of Azerbaijan.

He noted that Great Britain is not a major player in the settlement
process of the Karabakh conflict, and that the OSCE Minsk
Group-specifically its three Co-Chairing countries (France, US,
Russia)-deals with this matter.

"We, together with our European partners, stand ready to jointly do
everything possible to help them in the peaceful settlement," he said.

The Ambassador added that the problems in Northern Ireland came about
from circumstances which were somewhat different than the problems
in Nagorno-Karabakh.

"I believe there are only few parallels between the Northern Ireland
peace process and Nagorno-Karabakh. There are some lessons which
learned from our own experience and which, at the end of the day,
could be linked with any conflict. First and foremost, this is the
process of reconciliation between the formerly-conflicting layers of
the population," the UK Ambassador to Azerbaijan said.


GREAT BRITAIN SUPPORTS NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT 
PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT WITHIN MINSK GROUP FORMAT
ARMENPRESS
27 July, 2012
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: Great Britain is assisting the peaceful
regulation of Nagorno Karabakh issue within the framework of OSCE Minsk
Group operations. British Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to Azerbaijan Peter Bateman came forth with the statement, Armenpress
reports citing Azerbaijani mass media.

" Jointly with our European partners we are ready to step up efforts
for the peaceful settlement of the issue based on the principles
of self-determination, territorial integrity and non-use of force"
Bateman noted.

To the question how the diplomat refers to Nagorno Karabakh current
stage and whether Great Britain is for Euro Union role activation in
the process, Beteman was quoted as saying, " Great Britain is not a
key player in conflict settlement: it is OSCE Minsk Group headed by
Co-Chairing states to deal with the issue.

Referring to the application of Northern Ireland conflict sample
in the case of Nagorno Karabakh, Bateman stated Northern Ireland
conflict's emerging preconditions differ from that of NK conflict.

However, the Ambassador underscored, there are common traits 
betweenthese two processes, which if necessary will be utilized in 
Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement.


The People of Karabagh Must Not Be Denied The Right of 
Self-Determination
Thursday, 26 July 2012 00:00 
Odette Bazil, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
(Co-Founder and Executive Secretary
British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary Group)

Complaints have been presented by the Azeri Government to the 
British Government for allowing an Address to be delivered by the 
Speaker of the Karabagh Parliament, the Rt Hon Ashot Ghulyan MP, 
on the occasion of the 20th AGM of the British-Armenian All-Party 
Parliamentary Group (BAAPPG) on Monday 11th June 2012, in 
Committee Room One of the House of Lords, British Parliament.

The invitation to the Speaker had been issued by the BAAPPG, 
together with an application for the Speaker’s Visa to the British 
Embassy in Yerevan Armenia and the event had been organised 
to include it in its 20th AGM, as part of the celebrations to mark the 
Twentieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Group.

It was the two questions asked by Lord Lea who - although not being 
a Member of the Armenian Group, but allowed to attend the meeting, 
representing the British-Turkish All-Party Parliamentary Group – that 
created the unexpected opportunity for both the Karabagh Speaker 
and the Armenian Ambassador Mrs Karineh Kazinian to express 
their opinions and expose the facts about the conflict in Karabagh.

It is dubious and illogical that the British Government has – according 
to the Azeri Paper - rejected and refuted the recognition of Karabagh’s 
independence and existence when in 2009 the Rt Hon Baroness Symons, 
Speaker of the House of Lords and representing the British Government, 
herself was attempting to create the British-Karabagh All-Party 
Parliamentary Group, confirming and recognising by her actions, the very 
existence and independence of Karabagh, as no Parliamentary Group can 
be created without it’s object and subject being in existence and being 
independent.

It would be so just and commendable if the British Government, which 
has lately declared and adopted the democratic right and process of “voting 
for self- determination” by the British inhabitants of the Falkland Islands,
would extend the same courtesy and right of “voting for self-determination” 
also to the people of Karabagh, who find themselves in exactly the same 
situation as our valiant and courageous British compatriots in the Falkland 
Islands.

Twenty years ago when the BAAPPG was founded, it was done with the 
hope and conviction that the British Government and its Parliamentarians 
in both Houses of the Palace of Westminster, would apply democracy, 
fairness, justice and righteousness to all of their dealings with their
Guest 
Countries, and even with Groups who are representing countries which,
although 
maybe are not rich in natural resources, but are rich in millennia-old
culture 
and the strategic and geographic location of which – if endangered and 
threatened - can affect every country of the South Caucasus Region, the 
International Community at large, and can even jeopardize the safe 
delivery of those natural resources to their destinations.

According to the Speaker of Karabagh, the Rt Hon Ashot Ghulyan MP, 
“The people of Karabagh are asking for and deserve the right of voting for 
self-determination and the right of Independence, of living in Freedom, 
Peace and harmony with all the peoples on this earth, especially with their 
immediate neighbours with whom they share long borders and seventy 
years of good neighbourly relations while at peace with each other”.

It is also a subject of deep sorrow and worries, that during the past year, 
and all the more so visible during the last three months, the Azeri
government 
is attacking at random and sporadically the Karabagh borders (even
infiltrating 
deep into Armenian villages), killing at random and retreating, taking their
dead soldiers with them and producing it to the International Community as 
an act of aggression from the Karabagh side. The Karabagh Speaker reiterated
that Karabagh has no wish for the resumption of hostilities, is not seeking 
military solutions and believes that this complex situation can be solved 
ONLY by means of discussions, negotiations, compromises and Peace.


3,248 SYRIAN NATIONALS APPLY FOR REP. OF ARMENIA CITIZENSHIP 
IN JANUARY-JUNE, 2012
news.am
July 28, 2012 | 10:56

YEREVAN. - A total of 3,248 citizens of Syria have applied for Rep. of
Armenia citizenship in the first six months of the current year.

Furthermore, 2,957 of them have applied to Armenia's MFA and 291,
to the Police Passport and Visa Department.

And 99 percent of these applicants are Syrian Armenians, Pastinfo
News Agency informs.

To note, a decision was reached, during Thursday's Cabinet meeting,
whereby the procedure for issuing entrance visas to Syrian Armenians
was facilitated. Now, these Armenians can be issued visas to Armenia
not solely by the country's diplomatic representations in Syria, but,
also, at Armenia's border.

Separately, the Asylum Affairs Division of the Ministry of Territorial
Administration's State Migration Service (SMS) informed that, ever
since the beginning of the year until Thursday, 37 members of 18
Syrian-Armenian families have applied for a refugee status in Armenia,
and all applications were approved.

According to the same source, some Syrian Armenians prefer to live
with their friends and relatives in Armenia, and the SMS has approved
all applications for housing.


RESIDENTS OF ARMENIAN-INHABITED DISTRICT IN BEIRUT ASSAULTED
PanARMENIAN.Net 
July 27, 2012 - 14:15 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armed assailants attacked several residents in
mostly Armenian-inhabited Bourj Hammoud neighborhood in Beirut,
Lebanon, and vandalized their cars on Thursday, July 26 evening,
Now Lebanon reported.

The victims were heading back from a visit to the Armenian cemetery
when attacked.

Security forces arrived at the scene and raided the suspects' homes
in an effort to arrest the culprits.


ARMENIANS NOT USED TO BUY MEAT FROM REFRIGERATOR
news.am
July 27, 2012 | 15:34

YEREVAN. - Sale of meat, which is not preserved in a refrigerator,
is a violation of food safety norms, head of the State Service for
Food Safety at the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture Babken Pipoyan
told the journalists on Friday.

However, he added that control on the meat market and fines led to
no outcome. According to the sellers, consumers prefer fresh meat,
which was not preserved in a fridge. If the pavilions selling meat
with violations are not improved, consequences may turn out to be even
dangerous. They will lead to selling meat in yards and streets. As
a matter of fact, after fines and control, meat pavilions continue
violations. Pipoyan advised consumers not to buy meat from such
sellers who stand by the meat with a cigarette (and often unshaved).



MTV Documentary on Armenia 
in Arabic, Armenian and English.


great documentary! Watch it to the end, even if the language alternates.

Կեցցէ՛ մեր սիրելի և մէկ հատիկ Հայաստանը 

http://mtv.com.lb/Political_Specials/Armenia