Gibrahayer e-magazine - 3 February, 2011 - A fresh wave of Internet attacks with the code name "1923 Turkish Group", on Armenian websites – predominantly in the United States - has reportedly hacked more than 6,000 websites promoting Genocide recognition, according to Dogan Turkish News Agency. After breaking in, Turkish Cyber-pirates have left the following message on the pages of the websites: "Don't believe Armenians lies! America, you have perpetrated the worst Genocide!" "1923 Turkish Group" threatened they would strike again, stating "We'll continue our attacks against all those countries that will dare to use hostile and insulting statements against Turkey.” Gibrahayer e-magazine Chief Editor Simon Aynedjian, said that during the last wave of attacks, multiple hostile attempts on www.gibrahayer.com server were detected, but the source was not verified. Referring to the latest anti-Armenian cyber attacks, Aynedjian first called on similar Armenian groups not to drag themselves into similar retaliatory practices and continued. “The Internet is the tool and the weapon of the free world. Only countries with a shady history and totalitarian regimes are afraid of the Internet, social networks, Facebook, Blogs and Youtube, because they are afraid of how the truth will shake the foundations of their states and how transparency will reveal the emptiness of their political arguments. While the free flow of information is the very foundation of democracy and freedom of expression, governments like Turkey - which are still weak to face the wrong-doings of their past, and people who are too scared to face reality - will continue resorting to every method available for gagging the truth." Aynedjian concluded by saying “Hacking and cyber-piracy is the latest attempt of information burial. This latest effort will not pass either, and together with the victory of freedom of information, the victory of truth will also prevail with the final act of the Armenian Genocide, that of its recognition by the Turkish state.”

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