Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

Serzh Sargsyan awards Viktor Yanukovych with St. Mesrop Mashtots Order

July 2, 2011 – 16:56 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych hosted an
official dinner in honour of his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan
currently on a visit to Ukraine.

During the event, President Sargsyan thanked Yanukovych for a warm
welcome, also expressing satisfaction with the results of his visit.

As he noted, Yanukovych’s contribution to liquidation of the
consequences of 1988 earthquake is remembered with gratitude in
Armenia. In this connection, Armenian President awarded Yanukovych
with a St. Mesrop Mashtots Order.

Yanukovych, in turn, granted President Sargsyan with a supreme award
of Ukrainian government, the Order of Yaroslav the Wise.

On July 2, Armenian President met with the representatives of Armenian
community of Ukraine, also visiting a number of cultural events.

From: Baghdasarian

225,000 people killed in U.S.-launched wars

July 2, 2011 – 17:58 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – The study published by Brown University this week
focused on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and counter-terrorism
campaigns in Pakistan and Yemen, which came in the wake of the 9/11
attacks on the United States.

The authors argued that governments almost always go to war
underestimating the potential duration and costs of a conflict while
overestimating “the political objectives that can be accomplished by
the use of brute force.”

The study said “an extremely conservative estimate” of the casualty
toll was about 225,000 people killed and 365,000 wounded in the wars
so far.

The number of soldiers killed comes to 31,741, including about 6,000
Americans, 1,200 allied troops, 9,900 Iraqis, 8,800 Afghans, 3,500
Pakistanis as well as 2,300 US private security contractors, it said.

The civilian toll was much higher, with an estimated 172,000 dead,
including about 125,000 Iraqis, 35,000 Pakistanis and 12,000 Afghans,
it said.

The study acknowledged that estimating the number of dead was
difficult, particularly the toll for insurgents, putting the number at
between 20,000 to 51,000 insurgents killed.

The report found that 168 reporters and 266 humanitarian workers were
among the dead since the United States launched its “war on terror”
after 9/11.

The wars also have triggered a massive flow of refugees and displaced
persons, with more than 7.8 million displaced, mostly in Iraq and
Afghanistan, it said.

The study estimated the financial cost of the wars at a minimum of
$3.7 trillion and up to $4.4 trillion, which represents about a
quarter of the country’s current debt, accoridng to AFP

From: Baghdasarian

Turkish Documentation of the Armenian Genocide on Armenocide

July 2011, announces the publication on our website of 31
original documents in Turkish related to the 1919-1922 Divan-i Harbi Örbi
trials in Istanbul. These trials were courts martial where ministerial
members of the wartime Ottoman Cabinet, administrators of the Union &
Progress Party (CUP; Young Turks), and other defendants were tried for
crimes concerning what was at the time referred to as tehcir ve taktil, the
deportation and killings of Ottoman Armenian citizens 1915-1917.

The documents have been translated from the Ottoman into modern Turkish and
are compiled and introduced by Taner Akçam, Associate Professor of History
and the Kaloosdian/Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at the Center
for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, USA.

Detailed information on the documents published here, and on all of the 62
trials that took place during the period, can be obtained from the Turkish
and American editions of this book:

Taner Akçam & Vahakn N. Dadrian, “Tehcir ve Taktil”, Divan-i Harb-i Örfî
Zabitlari, Ittihat ve Terakki Yargilanmalari (1919-1922), Istanbul: Bilgi
Ünivesitesi Yayinlari 2008;

Vahakn N. Dadrian & Taner Akçam, Judgment in Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide
Trials, New York: Berghahn Books 2011. The latter publication contains
English translations of key documents.

Last year another new section of Armenocide was launched with 80 Danish
Foreign Ministry documents on the Armenian genocide and related issues, in
the original Danish and in English translation. The documents were compiled,
introduced, and translated by Danish historian Matthias Bjørnlund. These 80
documents have now been translated into German by Michael Willadsen, making
them available to the vast German-speaking population in and outside of
Germany.

As with all documents on Armenocide, the documents in the Turkish and Danish
sections are indexed, annotated, and summarized. They add to the 1350 German
Foreign Ministry documents on the Armenian genocide, the 1909 Adana
massacres (a section that includes British documents), etc., already on the
website. Some 250 of the most important German documents online have at this
point been translated into English, and a section with German documentation
of the fates of individual Armenian deportees during the genocide is in the
making.

The editors: Wolfgang & Sigrid Gust, Taner Akçam, Matthias Bjørnlund,
Vagharshak Lalayan

From: Baghdasarian

Turkey wastes $50m in cancelled missile deal with France

July 2, 2011 – 11:33 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – A cancelled deal that Turkey had signed for the
purchase of 19,000 short-range missiles from France has caused more
harm to the Turkish economy than was initially thought, a Defense
Ministry official said.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Today’s
Zaman that a $50 million investment, which the Turkish Mechanical and
Chemical Industry Corporation (MKEK) had made to produce missiles as
part of the cancelled deal, was wasted because the facility it
constructed for that purpose has remained idle since the late 1990s.

In 1998 Turkey agreed with France on the purchase of 19,000
short-range missiles for 400 million euros. As part of that deal,
Turkey made a payment of 280 million euros, almost three-quarters of
the total amount, but only received 3,600 missiles. When those
delivered missiles were tested at the Land Forces Command (KKK) in
Ankara, it was discovered that the missiles were defective and could
not hit their targets. Although France was notified of the test
results, operational missile deliveries started to miss deadlines and
Turkey consequently cancelled the deal in 2004. Upon Turkey’s
application, the International Court of Arbitration ruled in favor of
Turkey in 2009, but by that time Turkey had lost a decade trying to
compensate losses rather than strengthening its defense industry.

This recent revelation by the ministry official has added to Turkey’s
woes as it reveals that the country not only lost time but also money
with the $50 million investment following this failed missile purchase
attempt.

From: Baghdasarian

BOXE
La générosité d’Arthur Abraham, de retour en Arménie

En séjour en Arménie, le boxeur professionnel Arthur Abraham a offert
à l’école de boxe « Vladimir Yenguibarian » d’Erévan divers éléments
et équipements sportifs d’une valeur de 100 000 dollars. L’ex-champion
du mode (IBF) né en 1980 à Erévan sous le nom d’Avédik Abrahamian
reste ainsi fidèle à ses origines et surtout à cette salle des sports
où il s’entraînait dans sa jeunesse. « Je désire marquer ma
reconnaissance à ce centre d’entraînement sportif où je m’entraînais
jadis et qui m’a beaucoup aidé dans mon parcours sportif » dit Arthur
Abraham à Erévan en précisant qu’à sa retraite professionnelle il
ouvrirait un nouveau centre d’entraînement de boxe dans la capitale
arménienne.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 2 juillet 2011,
Krikor [email protected]

From: Baghdasarian

HAUT KARABAGH
Inauguration d’un stade à Askéran
en présence du président Bako Sahakian

Lundi 27 juin, Bako Sahakian, le Président de la République du Haut
Karabagh a assisté à l’inauguration officielle d’un stade à Askéran.
B. Sahakian a souligné dans son discours, l’importance de doter de
telles structures sportives les chefs-lieux des régions de la
République du Haut Karabagh. Il a également insisté sur le rôle du
sport pour l’éducation physique des nouvelles générations. Le
président de la République a en outre récompensé des personnes qui
s’étaient largement investies dans le projet de ce stade d’Askéran.
Parmi les personnes présentes aux cérémonies, figuraient Barkév
Mardirossian, l’Archevêque de l’Artsakh (Haut Karabagh en arménien) et
Achot Ghoulian, le président du Parlement de Stepanakert.

Krikor Amirzayan

samedi 2 juillet 2011,
Krikor [email protected]

From: Baghdasarian

UN NOUVEAU PRELAT CATHOLIQUE EN ARMENIE
Gari

amenews.com
vendredi 1er juillet 2011

Le pape Benoit XVI a nomme l’Archeveque Raphael Minasian au titre
de nouveau prelat de l’Eglise catholique d’Armenie, de Georgie et
d’Europe orientale, a fait savoir un communique du Patriarcat de
l’Eglise armenienne catholique a Beyrouth. L’archeveque Minasian
remplacera Vahan Ohanian a la tete de l’eglise armenienne catholique,
a l’occasion d’une ceremonie celebree dans la Cathedrale Saint Gregoire
l’Illuminateur de la capitale libanaise. Raphael Minasian est ne au
Liban le 24 octobre 1946. Il a integre le monastère catholique de
Zmmar au Liban en 1958, puis le seminaire libanais de Rome en 1966.

Il a rejoint l’ordre catholique a Beyrouth en 1973. Mgr Minasian est
le fondateur du groupe de scouts de la Sainte Croix, qu’il a cree
en 1984, et dont l’eglise a ete consacree a Zalka. Il a egalement
accompli sa mission pastorale parmi les Armeniens catholiques de
Californie de 1996 a 2006. Il est le cofondateur de l’organisme
caritatif l’Alliance armenienne et a aussi dirige la publication du
journal Avetaber-Verelk pendant 8 ans. Une experience des medias qu’il
a pu roder en creant une compagnie de television armenienne en 2005,
dont la retransmission a ete assuree en partie par la chaîne Telepace.

From: Baghdasarian

RESOLUTION SUR LE GENOCIDE ETUDIEE
Jean Eckian

amenews.com
vendredi 1er juillet 2011

La Knesset a adopte par 25 voix contre une, provenant d’un membre
d’origine azerie, que la Commission pour la Culture et l’Education
debattra d’une resolution a soumettre a la Knesset prevoyant
un programme educatif sur le genocide armenien et d’une journee
commemorative le 24 avril. C’est la deuxième fois qu’une telle
resolution est soumise pour approbation. Elle est le fait d’AriE Eldad,
medecin et homme politique de droite, depute du parti politique “Union
Nationale” et membre de la faction Moledet, par ailleurs oppose a la
fondation d’un Etat Palestinien.

From: Baghdasarian

OSMAN BAYDEMIR : ” LES ARMENIENS ETAIENT LE PETIT DEJEUNER ”
Stephane

amenews.com
jeudi 30 juin 2011

Le succès du parti Paix et Democratie, ou BDP, le 12 juin lors des
elections parlementaires en Turquie presente une grande chance pour
entrer a une nouvelle periode de dialogue pour resoudre la question
Kurde a declare le maire de Diyarbakir.

Osman Baydemir a souligne au journal Hurriyet le besoin de resoudre
les problèmes par des negociations et le dialogue.

Il a dit que de grands progrès pourraient etre faits si le conflit
Kurde avait ete traite de facon constructive en le traitant comme un
problème au-dela de la politique.

” La rhetorique employee par les leaders [des partis pendant la
campagne electorale] et par le Premier ministre Recep Tayyip Erdogan
etait particulièrement très sevère. Une telle attitude a pu enflammer
des incidents indesirables. Mais je suis heureux du fait que le
processus electoral a ete acheve sans violences d’une part et par le
succès du BDP de l’autre ” a dit Osman Baydemir.

Osman Baydemir a critique les restrictions de voyage dont il fait
l’objet.

” Je ne peux pas promouvoir le potentiel touristique de Diyarbakir. Je
ne peux pas publier un appel a notre peuple pour revenir en arrière
[dans leurs pays.] Beaucoup de mes amis sont en prison. Meme si j’etais
libre, comment pourrais je etre libre moi-meme sans [que mes amis]
soient libres ? ” a-t-il dit.

” Les armeniens etaient le petit dejeuner et nous nous sommes averes
etre le dejeuner ” a dit Osman Baydemir, comparant la situation
presente des Kurdes aux evenements sanglants de 1915.

” Une grande souffrance est arrivee sur cette terre. … Bien que le
prix [d’une telle] douleur soit très haut, il donne de la maturite.

Les gens s’habituent a la peine avec le temps. Nous avons souffert
des guerres depuis le commencement du 20 ème siècle. Nous avons besoin
de tirer des lecons ” a dit Osman Baydemir.

From: Baghdasarian

THE TEAM OF ARMENIA CONFIDENTLY LEADS VLADIMIR DVORKOVICH TOURNAMENT

Panorama
June 29 2011
Armenia

The 6th traditional tournament, devoted to the memory of Vladimir
Dvorkovich, is being held in Moscow, Russia with participation of the
teams of Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan,
China, as well as “Gostinaya Dvorkovicha”.

In the third round Armenian team defeated Russian team (3:1) and
continues to confidently lead the tournament. The team Azerbaijan
is behind our team by 3 points, though they have also defeated their
Belarusian rivals.

In all the three meetings Armenian team managed to register perfect
victories and currently has 16,5 points on its account.

From: Baghdasarian