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Contact: Hagop Panossian
Tel: (818) 586-9660
E-mail: hpanossian@hotmail.com
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ARPA Institute presents the Lecture/Seminar:
"The Genocide, Implemented in the Sanjak and the
Souternmost Parts of Celicia by the Turks,"
by Dr. Hagop Cholakian, on Friday, March 7th,
2008 at 7:30 PM at the
Merdinian School auditorium.

The Address is 13330 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA
91403. Directions: on the 101 FWY exit on Woodman,
go north and turn right on Riverside Dr.

Abstract: The far southeastern regions of the Armenian
Highlands extend from Antioch to `Jehser Shoughour’,
encompassing the Mussa Dagh, Kessab, Beylan, Latakia,
and the valley of `Rouj’, currently in Syria. All
Armenian inhabitants of these regions received the
order for deportation from the Ottoman Government and
were driven by force to the Syrian deserts and other
inhospitable places. The majority of the Mussa Dagh
population puts up a resistance by setting base on the
mountain top and fighting the enemy for over fourty
days, thus earning the international reputation
through the famous novel of Frantz Werfel, `The Fourty
Days of Mussa Dagh’. A small part of the people of
Mussa Dagh decide to join the deportations, as do the
rest of the Armenian population in all the other towns
and villages in the region, resulting in their tragic
extermination. The only two towns of Kneh and
Yacoubieh were not deported. In 1919-1920, those who,
somehow, survived returned to their lands, however,
quite a few of the villages and towns never recovered
and lost their whole population.

Hagop Cholakian: was born in 1947 in the town of
Kaladouran in Kessab. He has attended the local
schools and then continued his secondary education in
the Armenian Evangelical School in Anjar, Lebanon. He
has earned his Ph.D. in Philology (Panasiroutyoun)
>From the Yerevan State University. He has served as a
teacher in Anjar, Beirut, and since 1976 in the Karen
Yeppeh School in Aleppo, he also teaches Armenology in
the Hamazkayin `Jemaran’, in Aleppo. He has written
Armenian language textbooks for secondary students and
has numerous publications, such as the `Dialect of
Kessab’, `The Kessab Folklore’, and historical books,
such as `Kessab’, `The Armenians of the Rouj Valley’,
etc.

For Information Please call Dr. Hagop Panossian at
(818)586-9660 or e-mail at hpanossian@hotmail.com