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New provocation of Armenians to stir up discord between Azerbaijanis and Jews

10 February 2009 16:00 (UTC +04:00)

Armenian posted an article â€œWhat happens in Sumgayitâ€ on azertopnews.3dn.ru website. The article writes that the Jews living there underwent attacks.
â€œAccording to unchecked reports, some incidents occurred in some districts of Sumgayit on the night of February 8-9. The houses of Jewish families were attacked. According to initial reports, about 12 people were injured and hospitalized. It is supposedly connected with the recent developments in Gaza. Negative attitude towards the Jews living in Azerbaijan arose in 2006 â€“ after the Jewish community in Azerbaijan supported Israelâ€™s operations in Lebanon. Imam of Juma mosque Ilgar Ibrahimoglu made a sereve speech and even threatened the Jews: â€œI promise Ikhilov that we will demonstrate our solidarity with Lebanese and Palestiniansâ€.

AzerTopNews learned that head of Sumgayit executive power Vagif Aliyev held an urgent meeting of the law-enforcement bodies in the morning on February 9 and demanded to find all the perpetrators of the incidents.

APA carried out investigations and found out that the article was groundless and aimed to stir up a discord between the Azerbaijanis and Jews. The Armenians chose Sumgayit again. It is clear why they chose this variant again on the eve of the attacks organized by them in Sumgayit in 1988. Failing to reach their goals 21 years ago the enemies again showed Sumgayit as a â€œsavage cityâ€ using Jews. It is not accidental that Armenian websites spreading false news of AzerTopNews mention â€œArmenian slaughtersâ€ in Sumgayit in 1988 and show false statistics. But it is obvious that the false news article has ended in a fiasco. Statements of official bodies of Azerbaijan and Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan proved this once more.
Deputy Chief of the Sumgayit City Police Office Agakishi Allahverdiyev told APA that no Jewish family in Sumgayit suffered from the pressure on it. He denied the information and said it had a sabotage character. â€œEven lowest pressure on any Jewish family in Sumgayit is out of questionâ€.

Adviser to the Sumgayit City Executive Authority Teymour Veliyev told APA that the Jewish people living in the city had no problems. â€œIt is calm in the city. Reports about the attacks against Jews in Sumgayit are completely groundlessâ€.

Chief of the press service of Interior Ministry Sadig Gozalov also denied reports about the attacks against Jewish people in Sumgayit. He said there were no attacks and pressure on Jewish people not only in Sumgayit, but throughout the country. â€œNo one faces with pressure for his religious faith in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijanis and Jews are living in friendly condition for many centuries. Our country is an example for its tolerance in the world. It seems our enemies concern about this fact and they think that they can damage relations between Azerbaijani and Jewish people with their false information. The history confirms for many times that such attempts are vain and relations between Azerbaijani and Jewish people living in Azerbaijan are always in a high levelâ€.

Israeli embassy in Azerbaijan told APA that it didnâ€™t receive any information about pressure on the Jews in Sumgayit.

Source of those reports was at the web-site azertopnews.3dn.ru, which spreads mostly Azerbaijani news. However the essence and content of the news show that the administrators of the site hate Azerbaijan. Despite that they use a word of â€œazerâ€ in the title, after short visit it becomes clear that Armenian special services administrate the web-site. It also became clear when the Armenian press published an article â€œWhat happens in Sumgayit?â€ quoting the azertopnews.3dn.ru. The Armenian special services created a web-site on behalf of Azerbaijan and now they are placing there the articles against Azerbaijan and then are trying to spread the information quoting that site. Other interesting thing is that they placed their hyperlinks using the names of Azerbaijani leading news agencies and portals as their partners. The separatist â€œKabalâ€ and â€œTalisshskoe agentstvoâ€ were also noted as the azertopnews.3dn.ru partners. It means that the web-site uses the news of its â€œpartnersâ€ at its own wish.

Of course, APA can not be a partner of the Armenian special servicesâ€™ site together with the separatist agencies. We intended to get contact phone or address of that site to express our protest, but couldnâ€™t find it. It was expected, because the false web-site can not have contacts.