The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's statement, calling it provocative and a distortion of historical facts. Speaking on the anniversary of the 1915 events, Mamdani linked the killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire to modern-day events, accusing Azerbaijan and Turkey of attacking Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 and "expelling" more than 100,000 people in 2023.
The “Union of Chechens of France” appealed to the country’s authorities with a request to promptly investigate the murder of Chechen refugee Islam Taikhaev. He was beaten in the city of Cahors and died two days later from his injuries.
The president of the Union of Chechens of France, Ramzan Magomadov, said that on July 5, Taikhaev tried to calm a group of young people who were noisy, and was beaten for this. He died in the hospital. Magomadov added that in April of this year, 18-year-old Chechen Askhab Mazhidov died in similar circumstances in the city of Miramas.
“Often the victims of drug dealers and other criminal elements are Chechens who, due to their mentality, cannot turn a blind eye to what is happening in their areas,” shared the head of the Union of Chechens of France.