Author: Babajanian Karo

PM Tigran Sargsyan receives Microsoft General Manager Veronika Prikrylova

17:14 28/04/2012 » Economy

Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received Veronika Prikrylova, Microsoft
General Manager for Market Development in Central and Eastern Europe,
government’s press office reported.

The PM and Microsoft’s top official discussed issues related to
bilateral cooperation. Also, they dwelt on development of e-government
and protection of mental property rights.

Mrs. Prikrylova thanked the Armenian PM for his support of Microsoft
programs in Armenia and expressed readiness to share Microsoft’s
e-government experience.

Source: Panorama.am

UCLA Dream Fund Allocates $900,000 to Prelacy Schools

asbarez
Friday, April 27th, 2012

The UCLA Dream Fund
LA CRESCENTA – Western Prelate Archbishop Moushegh Mardirossian, the
Prelacy Executive Council, and Board of Regents announced that the
Dream Fund at UCLA has made a very generous allocation of $900,000 to
Prelacy Schools.

The contributions were made to the following schools:

Rose & Alex Pilibos Armenian School
Holy Martyrs Ferrahian High School & Holy Martyrs Marie Cabayan Elementary
Armenian Mesrobian School
Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School
Ari Guiragos Minassian Armenian School
Krouzian-Zekarian-Vasbouragan Armenian School
St. Mary’s Richard Tufenkian Armenian Pre-School
Levon & Hasmig Tavlian Armenian Pre-School
On this joyous occasion, the Prelate, Executive Council, and the Board
of Regents of Prelacy Schools express their profound gratitude to the
Dream Fund for their generosity. `Our heartfelt thanks to the Dream
Fund for this much needed assistance. In this global economic crisis,
more than ever our schools are in need of financial aid to continue
their mission of providing the highest quality of education to
generations of Armenian students. This allocation will certainly
contribute greatly to the realization of that mission, and for that we
are ever-thankful’, stated the Prelate.

The Dream Fund at UCLA is a donor-advised fund, established in 2011
through the generosity of The Lincy Foundation. The Dream Fund focuses
on education, health, youth, and the community.

Anadolu Agency, Turkey
April 25 2012

April 24 Demonstration Outside Turkish Embassy In Washington

Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:48

Turks and Armenians held demonstrations on opposite sides outside
Turkish embassy in Washington on occasion of April 24 the day
Armenians commemorate the anniversary of the 1915 incidents.

Turks from Washington and New York as well as Azerbaijani people
gathered outside the embassy, carrying flags of Turkey, Azerbaijan and
the United States as well as banners marking massacre by Armenians
against Turks.

Armenians also carried banners against Turkey and called U.S.
President Barack Obama to recognize 1915 incidents as a “genocide”
during their protest.

Later Turks and Armenians dispersed peacefully.

Turkish Ambassador to Washington Namik Tan invited Turks and Azeri
people to the embassy.

In address to the crowd, Tan said, “we are proud of our history.”

Turkish nation did not want any problem with any country, he said,
adding that they did not have any problem with Armenian people,
either.

20minutes.fr, France
24 avril 2012

LYON РLe g̩nocide arm̩nien comm̩mor̩

Mis à jour le 25.04.12 à 03h02

Pancartes et roses rouges à la main, ils ont défilé en hommage aux 1,
5¯millions de victimes de 1915 et contre le négationnisme. Mardi, des
centaines de personnes se sont rassemblées au pied du mémorial de la
place Antonin-Poncet (2e) pour assister, en présence de plusieurs
personnalités, à la commémoration du 97e anniversaire du génocide
arménien. Une cérémonie qui revêtait cette année une importance
particulière pour la communauté venue réclamer la pénalisation de la
négation du génocide arménien. La proposition de loi en ce sens,
adoptée par l’Assemblée nationale puis le Sénat, «¯a été annulée en
appel en février par le conseil d’état au nom de la liberté
d’expression¯», rappelle le conseil de coordination des organisations
arméniennes de France, soucieux de voir la loi aboutir «¯pour la
mémoire et la dignité des victimes ».E. f.

Neuquén Al Instante , Argentina
24 abril 2012

Osvaldo Bayer disertará sobre el Genocidio Armenio en la UNCo

Durante esta tarde (24/04/2012) en la Universidad Nacional del Comahue
(UNCo), el reconocido investigador e historiador Oslvaldo Bayer,
disertará sobre el Genocidio Armenio.

La actividad se desarrollará a partir de las 19 en el Aula Magna
`Salvador Allende’. Al término de su exposición, Bayer presentará el
unipersonal `Hrant Dink, el alegato de la paloma’, obra que cuenta con
la investigación histórica y producción de Eduardo Kozanlian, actuada
y dirigida por Daniel Ritto.

El evento es organizado por la Cátedra Libre de Estudios Armenios
Hrant Dink de la Facultad de Humanidades en el marco de los 97 años
del Genocidio Armenio. El evento se transmitirá vía streaming a través
del sitio www.ustream/channel/aulamagnauncoma

Neuquén Al Instante

Periodico Noticias Paceñas, España
26 abril 2012

EL GENOCIDIO ARMENIO… DANDO VOZ A LOS QUE NO PUDIERON TENERLA

[Armenian Genocide: Giving voice to those who could not have any voice]

(Por el Lic. Prof. Carlos Victor Zalazar Suarez) El martes 24 de abril
se conmemoró un nuevo aniversario del GENOCIDIO ARMENIO en manos del
IMPERIO OTOMANO ISLAMICO TURCO.

El Genocidio Armenio es el primer ensayo del nazismo y antecedente de
lo que se ha dado en llamar `la Solución Final’. El permiso que
encontraron gobiernos para ejercer su poder y eliminar a un pueblo en
oposición a sus intereses. Nos interesa preservar la historia y la
memoria, la historia oral en particular permite dar voz a quienes no
la han tenido. Los armenios fueron un pueblo perseguido, torturado,
asesinado. Estar presentes en memoria y palabra en estos actos es
también dar una respuesta al negacionismo histórico.

Como un engranaje perfectamente calculado, el Genocidio implicaba que
la masacre jamás fuera reconocida oficialmente ni mucho menos
castigada: de ahí, que en la actualidad aún se siga negando desde
distintos sectores esta masacre de armenios como tantos otros
genocidios.

Nadie usa el término Holocausto para describir el genocidio armenio.
En armenio genocidio se describe con el término de Medz Eghern y no
sólo por que docenas de países y organizaciones internacionales lo han
reconocido. Cuando Raphael Lemkin sugirió el término genocidio por
primera vez, se estaba refiriendo al ejemplo del Medz Eghern armenio.

El GENOCIDIO/ HOLACAUSTO se sigue dando infelizmente en tantos pueblos
también hoy dia como se dió antaño con los ucranianos en manos de los
Bolcheviques y los judios en manos del regimen nazi por citar algunos
ejemplos.

Hoy la República Islámica de Írán niega el GENOCIDIO / HOLOCAUSTO
JUDIO y promueve la desaparición del Estado Judio de Israel con la
misma saña y rabia que prometieron los turcos exterminar a los
armenios en 1915. .

Clarín.com, Argentina
25 abril 2012

Con actos y una marcha se recordó el genocidio armenio

Por Diego Geddes

25/04/12

La comunidad armenia en la Argentina conmemoró ayer el 97° aniversario
del inicio del genocidio que sufrieron a manos del Imperio Otomano,
durante el gobierno de los Jóvenes Turcos. Ayer hubo varias
actividades referidas al `Día de Acción y Tolerancia entre los
Pueblos’, entre ellas una misa para recordar a las víctimas (si bien
no hay consenso sobre la cifra final, según diversos cálculos son
alrededor de 1,5 millones de personas) y una marcha hacia la
residencia del embajador turco.

La fecha del comienzo del genocidio se ubica el 24 de abril de 1915,
el mismo día en que las autoridades otomanas detuvieron a unos 800
intelectuales armenios que eran líderes de su comunidad en Estambul.
Se estima que en 1914 había unos dos millones de armenios viviendo en
el Imperio Otomano, en especial al este de Anatolia, que fueron
asesinados u obligados al exilio. Hasta el día de hoy, Turquía sigue
negando que la muerte de alrededor de un millón y medio de armenios
haya sido consecuencia de un plan de exterminio masivo implementado
por el Imperio Otomano. Fue el escritor turco Orham Pamuk, ganador del
premio Nobel de Literatura, uno de los pocos que se atrevió a
reconocer el genocidio. Pero fue juzgado por `insultar y debilitar la
identidad turca’ y debió exiliarse.

Eduardo Kozanlián, secretario del Consejo Nacional Armenio, dijo ayer
a Clarín que `sería importantísimo el reconocimiento de la
responsabilidad del Estado Turco, y el resarcimiento que el pueblo
armenio debe recibir, por territorios que fueron usurpados. El delito
fue genocidio y la toma de las tierras, usurpación’.

La causa armenia tuvo el año pasado un fuerte reconocimiento por parte
del estado argentino. El juez federal Norberto Oyarbide afirmó en un
fallo declarativo que el Estado de Turquía cometió `delito de
genocidio en perjuicio del pueblo armenio’, entre 1915 y 1923. Además
de Argentina, otros 21 países, entre ellos Francia, Italia, Chile,
Canadá, Venezuela y Suecia, han llegado a una posición similar.

Anoche, la organización Jóvenes Armenios de Buenos Aires marchó desde
la Facultad de Derecho hasta la residencia del embajador turco en
Argentina. Más temprano hubo una misa en la Catedral San Gregorio en
recuerdo de las víctimas.

TRAILBLAZING ARMENIAN JOURNALIST PASSES AWAY
By Richard Horgan

mediabistro.com

April 27 2012

The very active expatriate journalism community in Glendale is mourning
the loss this week of Armen Dilanyan, who died unexpectedly on Tuesday
at age 56.

Before coming to the U.S. in 2006 and establishing a daily political
talk show on SoCal~Rs Horizon Armenian Television, Dilanyan built up a
solid reputation working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).

Per an obituary on azatutyun.am, he was one of the first correspondents
for the service in Armenia~Rs capital city of Yerevan and helped
launch a local bureau after the territory gained independence in 1992:

Armen Koloyan, a longtime member of RFE/RL~Rs Prague team, had worked
with Dilanyan since the early 1990s. ~SWe colleagues called Armen
Dilanyan ~QDilo~R because there were several Armens in our office
and we had to tell them apart,~T he said.

~SOur Dilo would start the day with countless cigarettes and coffee
and witty jokes,~T recalled Koloyan. ~SHe would then get down to
business: daily news, commentary, serious and frank reports on the
big world and political, economic and social developments in one of
its small parts, Armenia.~T

In recent years, Dilanyan also could be seen on the Armenian-Russian
Television Network (ARTN). RIP.

ZARAKOLU TO RECEIVE AAP FREEDOM TO PUBLISH AWARD

Publishers Weekly

April 27 2012

Ragip Zarakolu, a voice for free expression in Turkey, has been
chosen as the 2012 recipient of the Jeri Laber International Freedom
to Publish Award. Given by the Association of American Publishers’
International Freedom to Publish Committee (IFTPC), the award will
be presented May 1 at the PEN Gala at the Museum of Natural History
in New York.

Zarakolu founded the Belge Publishing House in 1977 with his late wife
Ayse Nur and has defied Turkish censorship laws by translating and
publishing editions of works by Armenian, Greek, Kurdish and other
writers, often dealing with such forbidden subjects as the Armenian
genocide and the repression of Turkey’s Kurdish minority. Among Belge’s
titles is the Turkish edition of Black Dog of Fate: An American
Son Uncovers His Armenian Past by American poet and academic Peter
Balakian, who will present the award on May 1.

Upon learning about the AAP honor, Zarakolu said: “Thank you for the
very important prize and for your support for freedom to publish. I am
pleased to accept this prize not only for myself but on the behalf of
all the publishers, writers and journalists who remain in prison in
Turkey. Although I have been released, I remain under the threat of
re-arrest as the anti-democratic laws and unfair trials continue. The
day I and 14 others were released, 14 more people were arrested. I was
arrested with no reason given and after five months, I was released
with no reason given. I am not a political activist. For nearly 40
years, I have been a publisher and a supporter of human rights.”

SHEN YUN PROMOTES CULTURAL HARMONY, SAYS RYDE MAYOR

The Epoch Times

April 27 2012

SYDNEY-The Mayor of Ryde in Sydney’s north-west said Shen Yun carried
a message of respect between different cultures.

Artin Etmekdjian was speaking at Capitol Theatre on Friday night,
after this year’s first Sydney performance by Shen Yun Performing
Arts New York Company.

“It was very emotional and very touching to see and learn more about
a different culture to my own,” Mr. Etmekdjian said. “The message
it was sending was we are all free to have our opinion, to enjoy our
own views, to have our own culture.”

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Mr. Etmekdjian, who is Armenian, has campaigned for recognition of
the Armenian Genocide of the early 1900s. So to him, he said, it was
important for different cultures to value and appreciate each other.

Shen Yun aims to revive 5,000 years of Chinese culture through dance
and music, depicting the cultures of various Chinese dynasties through
classical Chinese dance, and also the dances of various ethnic groups
in China.

But it also depicts some modern themes, such as the Chinese regime’s
brutal ongoing campaign since 1999 against Falun Dafa, a popular
Chinese spiritual practice.

Mr. Etmekdjian said he was moved by these themes while watching
the show.

“It shows that the troubles that has been experienced in appreciating
cultures still exists in today’s society,” Mr. Etmekdjian said. “We
should not harm any human beings because of their beliefs or their
cultures.”

Reporting by De Ming and Ethen Yang.

Shen Yun Performing Arts, based in New York, tours the world on a
mission to revive traditional Chinese culture. Shen Yun Performing
Arts New York Company will be in Sydney, Australia, through May 6.