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. | July 31, 1980- Athens, Greece
Armenian gunmen attack Turkish Embassy Administrative Attaché, Galip Ozmen, and his family as they wait in their automobile at a traffic light. Mr. Ozmen and his fourteen-year-old daughter, Neslihan Ozmen, are killed in the rain of automatic fire. His wife, Sevil |
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. | The left-wing organization Gush Shalom is launching a campaign against organizations soliciting donations in the United States, particularly those receiving US federal tax exemptions for settlements and illegal outposts, The Jerusalem Post has learned. |
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. | The Justice Ministry criticizes the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors, or HSYK, for exceeding its limits while the board criticizes the ministry for protecting Ergenekon prosecutors.
The appointment crisis between judicial members of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors, or HSYK, and the Justice Ministry over the |
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. | Nigerian troops were today on a door to door hunt for Islamist militants after government forces stormed the base of a self-styled Taliban leader and killed more than 100 rebels in an attempt to crush an uprising that has racked the country.
A local rights group accused security forces of killing unarmed captives alleged to be members of the radical Boko Haram sect. A bystander |
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. | Baton-wielding Iranian police have clashed with mourners holding memorials for those killed in post-election violence, reports say.
State TV said police used teargas to disperse crowds from the grave of Neda Agha Soltan, whose death became a symbol of post-election unrest |
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. | The people try to learn the disease symptoms and how to prevent it. APA presented the A/H1N1 infection symptoms and preventive measures for protection from it.
H1N1 is a new |
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. | Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands have been forced to flee their homes in northern Nigeria amid continued fighting between government forces and fighters seeking Islamic law across the country.
Troops on Wednesday continued to hunt members of the Boko Haram group across five states, three days after the group launched a series of co-ordinated |
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. | China accuses Kadeer of being the plotter behind the violent incidents in which 200 people were killed in the capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, in July.
President of World Uyghur Congress Rebiya Kadeer rejects all claims made by the Chinese government. |
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. | The unexpected and sudden renewal of the Turkmen-Azerbaijani dispute over three hydrocarbon fields in the middle of the Caspian Sea is the latest setback to the European Union’s Nabucco gas-pipeline project.
An argument over ownership of the Caspian fields had soured Turkmen-Azerbaijani relations for more than a decade. But over the last two years |
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. | President Barack Obama put forward his top economic officials on Monday to try to reassure China that the U.S. will not let huge budget deficits or runaway inflation jeopardize the value of Chinese investments here.
Among the officials meeting with Chinese representatives Monday, the first day of two-day talks, were Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers and Peter Orszag |
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. | The senior US envoy to the Middle East has said that Washington is determined to see a “comprehensive” peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
Speaking after a meeting with Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, on Monday, George Mitchell said he would encourage Arab nations |
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. | July 27, 1983- Lisbon, Portugal
Five Armenian gunmen – “The Lisbon Five” – storm the Turkish Embassy in Lisbon, killing a Portuguese law enforcement officer and wounding another. A Turkish security officer kills one gunman -Vatche Daghlian. Unable to take the Embassy chancery building, the four remaining gunmen – Setrak Ajemian, Ara Kuhrjulian, Sarkis Abrahamian and Simon Yahniyan – occupy the Embassy residence building, where they take the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), Yurtsev Mihcioglu, and his family hostage. As the four remaining gunmen plant explosives in the residence building, the wife of the DCM, Cahide Mihcioglu, accidentally detonates one of the |
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. | No reason was given for the sacking of Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie.
Meanwhile, the culture minister quit, saying the government was weakened. The president is due to announce |
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. | With growing violence across large parts of the country and Afghan and international forces seemingly unable to ensure security, there are fears that few voters will turn out for the August election.
But the US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has said he is sure that voting will go ahead in the country’s most dangerous areas, although “complex challenges” remain. |
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. | Within this framework, a future perspective for the Eastern Turkistan issue can be developed under three headings: 1- How the Uygurs define their own state of belonging, 2- China’s approach to Muslim Uygurs, 3- The approach of the international balance of powers towards the Eastern Turkistan issue.
1- Their Uygur identity and their position as a minority under the Chinese administration are directly related to their cultural and historical position regardless |
