Posted on 01/30/2018 8:22:58 AM PST by Texas Fossil
Afrin, Syria after the Turkish attack
Rosher Konis, an Armenian man whose family has lived in the Syrian region of Afrin since his ancestors escaped the Genocide, was reportedly killed last week after the Turkey launched an attack in its continuing campaign against Syria.
According to the Hawar News Agency, Konis’ mother, Shamsa, 57 was injured and his sister, Hanifa, was badly injured forcing the amputation of her leg.
The agency quoted Hartyon Kivork, a relative of the family, as saying: “Their ancestors fled the oppression of the Turkish authorities nearly 100 years ago in the result of the massacres committed by the Turks against the Armenians so that they headed towards Afrin to live in peace among their Kurdish brothers and all other peoples and sects living in the area.”
Kivork added, “But the Turkish occupation army has resumed its massacres which do not differentiate between people and stones to commit new massacres against all peoples in Afrin to leave our Armenian family as a victim of the Turkish crimes again while we used to live in harmony in our homes to be attacked again by the Turkish state.”
Turkey launched an air and ground campaign into Afrin, a Kurdish-controlled enclave in northwestern Syria on January 20.
The Syrian government and a the U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights organization said on Sunday that Turkish shelling of the Afrin region has damaged the 3,000-year-old Ain Dara temple.
Ain Dara is an iron age temple with remains of large carved basalt blocks and wall reliefs. Pictures circulating online, which Reuters could not independently verify, showed an apparent shell crater in the site.
Press TV published this photo taken on Jan. 27 from an unidentified social media account showing the ruins of the Ain Dara Temple following a Turkish shelling in Afrin (Photo: Press TV)
The remains of the Ain Dara temple before the destruction (Photo: Odilia)
Rosher Konis, an Armenian man who's ancestors escaped the Genocide was killed this weekend. His family lived peacefully in Afrin region of Syria ever since the Genocide after WWI.
And Turkey continues denying intentional civilian deaths in the current assault on Efrin Syia. The are making tank assaults on small towns and leveling the towns with no concern for any living being.
Never Never Forget.
Unrelated, but I have to know: the town is “Afrin.”
Any relation to the nose spray? Like was it invented there?
So the Turks are now no different from the Taliban. Eradicating priceless historical artifacts. Trump needs to expose this evil act and also call on Erdogan to apologize for the 1922 Armenian Genocide.
Turkey has never and will never admit to the Genocide. As they called it, the “Great Evil”.
But Turkey must be totally exposed for the reality of what they really are.
My friends in Syria spell it Efrin, not Afrin.
It is an issue of transliteration. And contributes somewhat to my misspellings. smile.
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