On Mar. 21, the terrorists of Al-Nusra attacked Syria’s Armenian-populated town of Kessab bordering the Turkish state of Hatay. Addressing the attack, columnist for Turkey’s oppositionist Taraf newspaper Jengiz Aktar stresses the fact that rumor has it that the mentioned terrorist group having penetrated into Syria is backed by the Turkish government. The official Ankara rushed to issue a statement denying the news about Turkey’s support to the Jihads.

“On Mar. 23, the Turkish air forces destroyed a Syrian air force plane fighting against the rebels of Al-Nusra in the aerial space of Kessab,” Aktar mentions, adding that the Turkish authorities caused uproar, stating that there was a violation on the aerial border and that’s why they attacked the Syrian plane.

This put the lives of the Armenians of Kessab at risk, and they might lose their properties. The columnist recalls that the Armenians who survived the genocide and took shelter in Kessab barely managed to leave Kessab when Turkey annexed Kessab in 1939, but left most of their belongings to the Turks, reports Ermenihaber.

“And now,” the Turk columnist writes, “the Armenians of Kessab are leaving the city and taking shelter in Latakia. All Armenians view the catastrophe of the Armenians of Kessab and the destruction of the Syrian plane as the continuation of 1915.”

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