“It’s one thing when groups are wanted, when a visible enemy exists, it’s another thing when under the mask of refugees people who have a very different task can enter any country,” Sargsyan said.
He then crashed his hire Hyundai into the railings in front of Parliament before bursting through the gate to the Palace of Westminster with two large knives where he fatally stabbed unarmed Pc Keith Palmer, 48.
From the beginning of the week abundance of Iranian tourists was observed in the capital. Novruz Bayram—New Year of Iranians has brought them to Armenia, which starts from the fourth week of March and lasts for 13 days. In the period of those two weeks Armenia welcomes 20-25 thousand Iranians.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that as long as Germany and Netherlands call him dictator, he will continue calling them Nazis, Erdogan said in an interview with CNN Turk and Kanal D.
“It is no wonder that there is so much aggression in the air when diplomacy is seen to have achieved so little. A vacuum has been created which will be filled either by negotiations or by threats and potential military action. Another problem is that the other two Minsk Group co-chairs, France and the United States, have been seen to be too passive recently and that therefore the impression is created that Russia—and in particular foreign minister Sergei Lavrov—is the sole negotiator.”
The Metropolitan Police said there had been no prior intelligence about Masood’s intention to carry out an attack. But he was known to the police and his previous convictions included causing grievous bodily harm, possession of offensive weapons and public order offences.
Across Europe’s Turkish communities, where the film is being shown this week, audiences may well be dabbing their eyes and declaring: “That’s our boy!” President Erdogan’s spin doctors certainly hope so. There are four million registered voters outside Turkey and the referendum on April 16 — over boosting the president’s powers to near-Putin levels — is looking as if it could be a near-run thing.
“It may sound strange, but this has psychological reasons. The EU actively prepared for signing the association agreements with four EaP countries in Vilnius, it was touched upon for months, however, on the threshold of Vilnius there was a surprise in case of two countries, which was a blow to the EU, a bigger one was Ukrainian war, after which the EU basically doesn’t intend to give great importance to signing of the agreement.”
During the spy games of WWII, the result of the war was hanging by a thread. Gevorg Vartanian, a young Armenian who joined the Soviet intelligence circle through his father, proved to be a valuable asset, even when he was 16 years old. Vartanian’s father posed as a rich Persian merchant in Tehran for 23 years, having moved there in 1930 when his son was six years old. He worked as an informant and an intelligence officer for the Soviets.
The European Commission has summoned Turkey’s EU ambassador, Selim Yenel, to get an explanation over President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments on safety of Europeans, its spokeswoman said Thursday.
