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Turkish hackers avenge France's ‘genocide bill’
The websites of the French Senate and a National Assembly lawmaker who introduced a bill that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 Turkish ‘genocide’ of Armenians, have been attacked by Turkish hackers.
By Tony Todd (text)
Turkish hackers have launched revenge attacks against the French government after the country’s lower house of parliament approved a bill that would outlaw the denial of the 1915 massacre of Armenians in Turkey as a crime of genocide.
The website of the Senate, France’s upper house of parliament which will have to approve the bill before it can become law, was down for two days over the Christmas weekend.
On the evening of December 24, the site showed a black screen signed by Iskorpit, an infamous Turkish hacker who claims to have hijacked some half a million websites during his "career."
A source at the Senate said the site came under a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, in which thousands of hijacked computers bombard a website with demands for information, swamping it and effectively shutting it down.
On the same day the website of Valérie Boyer, parliamentarian from the ruling UMP party in the lower National Assembly and primary sponsor of the “genocide bill”, was hijacked, this time showing a black screen with a Turkish flag.
Messages in Turkish and English called the National Assembly’s approval of the genocide bill “pathetic and pitiful” and accused France of committing a genocide in Algeria.
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The message was signed by a group calling itself “GrayHatz”, which according to French news site Nouvelobs.com includes members of “Akincilar”, the group that launched the attacks on satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo after it published an edition “guest-edited by the Prophet Mohammed” titled “Charia Hebdo” last November.
Charlie Hebdo’s offices were also firebombed on the day the controversial issue went to press, although one purported member of Akincilar calling himself “Ekber” told Sunday newspaper Journal du Dimanche that the cyber group had nothing to do with the firebombing.
Immediately after the dual Christmas Eve attacks, Akincilar announced its intention to “hack the websites of every single French lawmaker”, nouvelobs.com reported, quoting one of its members saying the group would publish a list of all its attacks made in France with their GrayHatz “friends”.
On Tuesday, blogger Guillaume Perrier , writing in the left-leaning French daily Le Monde, accused the Turkish government of failing to investigate Akincilar for its criminal activities.
“These hackers are acting with impunity in Turkey,” said the blogger. “Not one of them was questioned after attacking Charlie Hebdo’s site, or for their many attacks on other sites.”
“If these people had targeted [Turkish Prime Minister] Recep Erdogan’s site, they would already have been locked up and would be facing terrorism charges.”
Meanwhile, Valerie Boyer's site remained down on Tuesday as she told reporters that she was filing a criminal complaint for harassment. On Monday, she told BFM radio that she had also received “threats of death, of rape, of destruction of property and of physical assault” and that her parents and children had also been threatened.
As for the Senate's website, it was quickly restored and went back on line.
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Thank You France. Thanks for
Thank You France. Thanks for that millons people have been killed in Tunisia and You could not even recognise it. Thank You You teached the world how 'Democracy shoud be' with play lie games...
is it occured?
if any of you have an evidance to prove genocide(even about attempting) then show it to the world. Turkey has already declared that all civil and military archives are available for all researchs, historicans... why dont you prove it?
Pity in france
No freedom of speech in france. has trampled on the values of france
They can only hack websites.
They can only hack websites. They have no means to argue about their denial. They have no scientific arguments to support their denial. I hope European Union will recognize this genocide officially so that it will be a joint effort.
Who are inhabiting those places now - Turks ? Answer is a lol
Turks are not inhabiting those places left by armenians- so what u all are talking about (without any real info) is made up by western prejudice about Turks - none of u even dont bother to check who are living in those places NOW -
We are offspring of Genicided Race...Do we need a law how many
We are the offspring of genocided race
Do we need a Law
To tell us how many of our grandparents were slayed (slain)...?
We are alive still breathing everyday genocided stories
Let Turks open their courts
We will arrive there with the help of United Nations
Not to be killed like our grandparents
Like Hrant Dink
As we have children to raise
Let them call all who left their lands
Their homes their carpets, their golds, their bookshelves ...
We will arrive ...Paying our travel tickets from our sweat
To show the universe what they did to our innocent dedicated populates
Who build their Palaces...Minarets ...
Let every one know
We are still alive ...ready to confess
They are reaching to block our books our journals
Threatening even Muslim Arabs not to write about them ...s...
They want to gag all the mouths telling you are slanderers
Is there any genes like them
Which century are we living ...!
This is the Internet Century ...
Nothing can be slayed by their scimitars ...
God bless who create the internets
To know about million Hidden Armenian
To know about Himsins who lost their religion their place
Who are still can't speak who are they ...
Like the Lawyer Fathiya Cetin and many others
The count is endless ...
If the courts opened ...they will fill all the courts
There will be no place for them to live
Because they were never minorities but majorities
with honesty with artful genes...
SP
Written instantly ... Let them trace me...
Fighting back is helping who in the end?
No one should judge modern Turks trough the perspective of their past as we should not pardon Greeks for their economic failure due to their glorious past. The massacre happened and it is a truism already. How we handle this past is part of how we build our future. And this should start now, today. Concerning the Maghreb ... once again colonial powers or Ottoman empire... who really did more damage? I think both. One century later international experts are still banging their heads how to tackle the poverty mixed up with political immaturity and extremism. We call it the Arabian Spring... Wake up Mehmet strategy in 1453 was a success but now... perhaps it's history and this is what it should stay, if not Sargon the Akkadian, Darius the Elamit and other middle east heroes of antiquity will boost our democratic globalization politics with their "wise secular strategy".
Turkish Hackers
I am not familiar enough with this issue to comment on the law. However, I am familiar enough with cultural relativism to recognize it in the first post.
AND if this LAW is unjust,
AND if this LAW is unjust, and you do not believe this genocide occured, why the urgency to hack into the systems so it does not pass through. After all it is what you believe that counts right???
Actually, this is not a bad
Actually, this is not a bad law. The Armenian Genocide did occur, and it is about time it is accepted. Denial does not make what the Turks did disappear.