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INTERNATIONAL
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Putin orders
sanctions against Turkey
He renewed a call for a meet-
ing with Putin on the sidelines of
a climate conference in Paris
next week, saying it would be an
opportunity to overcome ten-
sions.
Syrian territory in violation of in-
ternational law. He has also re-
fused to take telephone calls from
Erdogan. Putin’s foreign affairs
adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Friday
that the Kremlin had received
Erdogan’s request for a meeting,
but wouldn’t say whether such a
meeting is possible.
Asked why Putin hasn’t
picked up the phone to respond
to Erdogan’s two phone calls, he
said that “we have seen that the
Turkish side hasn’t been ready to
offer an elementary apology
over the plane incident.”
After the incident, Russia de-
ployed long-range S-400 air de-
fense missile systems to a Rus-
sian air base in Syria just 30
miles south of the border with
Turkey to help protect Russian
warplanes, and the Russian mil-
itary warned it would shoot
down any aerial target that
would pose a potential threat to
its planes.
tion packages that would in-
clude a stay in Turkey.
Prime Minister Dmitry Med-
vedev earlier in the week had or-
dered his cabinet to develop a
list of goods to be sanctioned.
Putin’s decree also calls for
ending visa-free travel between
Russia and Turkey and orders
the tightening of control over
Turkish air carriers in Russia
“for security reasons.” The de-
cree was issued “to protect Rus-
sian citizens from crimes,” a
Kremlin statement said.
Erdogan’s expression of re-
gret Saturday was the first since
Tuesday’s incident in which
Turkish F-16 jets shot down the
Russian jet on grounds that it
had violated Turkey’s airspace
despite repeated warnings to
change course. It was the first
time in half a century that a
NATO member shot down a
Russian plane and drew a harsh
response from Moscow.
By Suzan Fraser
and Jim Heintz
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey — Rus-
sian President Vladimir Putin
on Saturday called for sanctions
against Turkey, following the
downing this week by Turkey of
a Russian warplane.
The decree published on the
Kremlin’s website Saturday
came hours after Turkish Presi-
dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan had
voiced regret over the incident,
saying his country was “truly
saddened” by the event and
wished it hadn’t occurred.
It includes a ban on some
goods and forbids extensions of
labor contracts for Turks work-
ing in Russia as of Jan. L It
doesn’t specify what goods are to
be banned or give other details,
but it also calls for ending char-
tered flights from Russia to Tur-
key and for Russian tourism
companies to stop selling vaca-
i
Erdogan’s friendly overture
however, came after he again
vigorously defended Turkey’s ac-
tion and criticized Russia for its
operations in Syria.
“If we allow our sovereign
rights to be violated ... then the
territory would no longer be our
territory,” Erdogan said.
Turkish Prime Minister Ah-
met Davutoglu also said he
hoped a meeting between Erdo-
gan and Putin would take place
in Paris.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to
the media Thursday in Moscow.
“We are truly saddened by
this incident,” Erdogan said. ‘We
wish it hadn’t happened as such,
but unfortunately such a thing
has happened. I hope that some-
thing like this doesn’t occur
again.”
Addressing supporters in the
western city of Balikesir, Erdo-
gan said neither country should
allow the incident to escalate
and take a destructive form that
would lead to “saddening conse-
quences.”
“In such situations it is im-
portant to keep the channels of
communication open,” he said.
Putin has denounced the
Turkish action as a “treacherous
stab in the back,” and has insisted
that the plane was downed over
Pope to visit Central African
Republic’s divided capital
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Gospel Meeting
But how can we have dialogue when
there is always gunfire?”
BANGUI, Central African
Georgette Dossio
Republic
mourns a son whose body she
can never bury. Sitting on the
dirt under a tent of scrap wood
and tarp, she is comforted by her
neighbors at the airport dis-
placed-persons camp where she
has lived for nearly two years.
A day earlier, she received the
horrific call: Her 35-year-old son
Sincere had come across a group
of Muslim rebel fighters on the
outskirts of the camp that is
home to thousands of Christians.
All are invited to a four-day series of sermons
preached by Lindell Mitchell (of Livingston, Texas).
It is hoped to be an encouraging event for Christians
living in a very discouraging world, and will be held
at the building of the Sherman Drive church of Christ
(2321 E. Sherman Dr., Denton, TX 76209) on Decem-
ber 6-9. Meeting times for December 6 are 9:00 a.m
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— Oumar Ben Oumar
Oumar had of staying.
Oumar and his wife, Cham-
cya, live with their two small
children in a small concrete
home with a metal roof that they
built on the grounds of PK5’s
Central Mosque, which the pope
intends to visit.
‘We will welcome him as an
elder if he comes,” Oumar said.
“But how can we have dialogue
when there is always gunfire?
We hear gunshots morning,
noon and night. It’s only God
that protects us.”
Oumar and his young family
no longer dream of one day re-
turning to their neighborhood of
Miskine, where not a single
Muslim remains. A friend
showed them cellphone video of
their old home in ruins. The
shop where Oumar used to sell
soap, salt and other items is also
looted and destroyed.
The bloodshed dates back to
early 2013, when a coalition of
mostly Muslim rebel groups
from Central African Republic’s
anarchic north overthrew the
Christian president. Their pow-
er grab was more about greed
than ideology, yet their reign saw
hatred rise as the rebels carried
out brutal attacks on civilians.
After the rebels’ leader stepped
aside in early 2014, a wave of re-
taliatory violence by anti-Balaka
fighters forced most of the cap-
ital’s Muslims to flee
ago, leaving thousands dead,
and violence erupted again in
September, just when it seemed
the nation was stabilizing amid
the presence of a U.N. peace-
keeping force. At least 100 have
died in the latest bloodletting in
and around PK5, according to
Human Rights Watch.
All told, the unrest has left
nearly half a million Central Af-
ricans displaced within their
country; almost another half-
million have left for neighboring
Cameroon, Chad and Congo,
U.N. figures show. The capital’s
Muslim population has dropped
from about 122,000 to just
15,000 or so, according to Hu-
man Rights Watch.
The pope intends to travel to
the heart of PK5 to meet with
members of the besieged Muslim
community. Inside the enclave,
there is guarded hope the pope
can open the hearts of the city’s
most hardened fighters. Catholic
and Protestant clergy say the an-
ti-Balaka cannot truly be Chris-
tians if they are raping, looting
and slaughtering civilians.
Oumar Ben Oumar, a 29-
year-old Muslim, lost his youn-
ger brother Ahmed three weeks
ago when he was shot to death in
their PK5 neighborhood while
walking down the street. Most of
Oumar’s family and his in-laws
had already fled the country.
With his brother died any hope
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“They bound his hands be-
hind his back, shot him in the
head and then cut him apart
piece by piece,” she says, her eyes
filling with tears.
No one has found his re-
mains. His mother can only
clutch an old photo of him as she
wails in grief, thinking of her
four fatherless grandchildren.
On the other side of the sec-
tarian divide, in another part of
Bangui, 15,000 Muslims are es-
sentially blockaded in a neigh-
borhood called PK5, unable to
leave without fear of death at the
hands of Christian militia fighters
known as anti-Balaka who have
the section encircled and enforce
its boundaries with grenades.
This is the maelstrom of
Christian-vs.-Muslim violence in-
to which Pope Francis will step
when he lands in Central African
Republic on Sunday with a mes-
sage of peace and reconciliation.
The capital of this long-cha-
otic country of 4.8 million ex-
ploded in fury nearly two years
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