Defence Ministry: Azerbaijan May Hold Military Maneuvers In Its Occu

DEFENCE MINISTRY: AZERBAIJAN MAY HOLD MILITARY MANEUVERS IN ITS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES

Arminfo
2007-04-18 19:07:00

Azerbaijani Defence Ministry said that "holding of the military
maneuvers by the National Army of Azerbaijan in its occupied
territories is its own business", press-service of Defence Ministry
informed on Wednesday.

Press-service of Azerbaijani Defense Ministry also expressed its
position regarding the military exercises of the Armenian armed
forces. "Military maneuvers held by the Armenian armed forces at the
territories of Azerbaijan, that were occupied breaking international
law norms, should be condemned by the international structures. Due
to the fact that there is no control over these territories, law
violations taking place there are of intensive nature", – the authors
of the statement said.

Turkey At The Crossroads

TURKEY AT THE CROSSROADS
by Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

American Chronicle, CA
April 18 2007

What does it matter now if men believe or no?

What is to come will come. And soon you too will stand aside,

To murmur in pity that my words were true.

Turkey’s Premier could conjecturally be elected as President due to his
party parliamentary majority; however, this would be the End of Turkey.

It may sound odd that following an ordinary democratic procedure
a country may be led to destruction; yet, in reality, allover the
world the dynamics of the socioeconomic, political and intellectual
developments do not emanate from parliamentary elections.

A few days ago, 300000 Turks manifested deliberately their rejection
of their Premier’s secret desire of becoming Turkey’s Head of State.

The number is not necessarily great for a ca. 75 m people country.

Many observers even suggested that ministries’ and governmental
organizations’ functionaries formed the majority of the protesters.

Whatever the case may be, it is true that the majority of the Turks
in great numbers, probably around two thirds (2/3) of the population,
disapprove of the idea of the current Premier occupying the position
inaugurated by Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Turkey.

Turkey targeted from all parts

That Turkey has many enemies in Europe is well known; the German
Chancellor had rejected the idea of Turkey becoming a fully accredited
EU member anytime in the future, even before she was elected in
office. French presidential candidates and former prime ministers
expressed quasi-racist, anti-Turkish discourses. The Socialist Party
in France performed a comical parliamentary act by attempting to
become Judges of falsely narrated history; if the Socialist Party’s
candidate is elected in office, a law will probably penalize any
authoritative Historian would reject the factoid of the so-called
‘Armenian Genocide’. Turkey has certainly friends in Europe, from
Poland to Spain, and from Berlusconi to French academia, but it is very
obvious that the current Turkish government either failed to mobilize
them or did not calculate the extent of the provocation / conspiracy
of circles wishing to promote the concept of Christian Club – EU.

American Armenians, and Greeks, in alliance with a part of the
Zionist US lobby prevailed over the Democratic party’s instances
and push for an aberrational vote in the Congress that would replace
university syllabuses in Humanities, stipulating that there has been
an Armenian Genocide, a highly controversial and historically false
assumption. Motivated by racist, inhuman Hatred against Turkey, the
US Armenians fail to understand that instead of using their assumed
allies are rather used by a faction of the Zionist lobby that plans
further harm to Israel, Turkey and the US. Although Turkey’s image in
the US was never a matter of serious concern in Ankara, the Republicans
could be more sympathetic with Turkey because of that frontal country’s
considerable contribution to the Atlantic liberal opposition to the
late USSR. But due to extremely unfortunate decisions of Turkey’s
Islamist government as regards the Iraq War, there are few among the
present administration and the GOP to openly support Turkey. There are
only few smart US diplomats, statesmen and strategists who understand
that the West’s fate in the already engaged East vs. West conflict
hinges almost totally on Turkey.

Russia’s plans against Turkey do not need vast analysis; part of
geo-strategic and geopolitical needs, Russia under any sort of rule
will always opt for weak, divided neighbors on its south-western
border. As Moscow neo-totalitarian despotism faces serious opposition
from the oppressed Russian opposition and the mercilessly tyrannized,
numerous non Russian peoples of the vast country, Russia needs to
rise in global opposition to the US for reasons of inner political
consumption and diversion. This brings Russia back to the Middle
East whereby through all possible schemes Russian diplomacy is
expected to pursue policies in Iran, Iraq, Persian Gulf, Red Sea,
Syria, Palestine and the Mediterranean that contradict point by point
Turkish interests. The Burgaz – Dedeagac (‘Alexandropolis’) pipeline
is an indication that Moscow envies Istanbul at all times.

Iran faces only Turkey as rival model state and as politics model
within the entire Dar al Islam (Muslim World). Although dissatisfaction
runs high among Muslims allover the world, and there are many who
would be inclined to reject any state among today’s predominantly
Muslim states as possible model, Iran does not face opposition
from Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Egypt or Mauritania; the only
different model is Turkey. Discussions go on very passionately, but
the choice will be made between a theocratic model like Qom (Iran’s
religious capital) and a secular, Westernized model like Ankara;
no one would take seriously as model a lewd presidential son turned
‘heir apparent’. Iranian threat for Turkey at the nuclear / military
level does not exist; however, Iran could use religion to generate
frictions within the Turkish society, notably shaping an alliance
with the Alevi religious minority (originally concentrated in Sivas /
Sebasteia). Contrarily to what many may assume, the Kurdish minority of
Turkey cannot be used by eventual Iranian manipulators as the Turkish
Kurds are overwhelmingly Westernized, pro-secular, and socialist;
the few religious Kurds in Turkey are Sunni, and therefore out of
reach for the Shia Iranians.

Turkey faces an even greater threat from ongoing developments in
the chaotic periphery of the so-called Arabic speaking tyrannies;
by this we do not refer to states, as neither Syria, nor Jordan,
Saudi Arabia and Egypt are possibly comparable with Ankara. However,
in the aforementioned area, political developments are underway,
involving various Islamist plans, schemes, and myths about the
Islamic Caliphate’s re-establishment, the imminent expulsion of
America from Iraq, the subsequent destruction of Israel (planned
in order to let Jerusalem become capital of the bogus-Caliphate),
and the re-Islamization of Turkey. All these attempts are linked
with anti-Western hysteria, eschatological literature of the lowest
level, hatred, and exploitation of dehumanized, barbaric masses that
have been left with no other prospect; this has been the long lasting
work of naïve Western politicians and diplomats, their mendacious and
tyrannical Middle Eastern interlocutors, and the Western secretive
End of Time planners. This threat is for Turkey the only lethal.

Of lesser importance are threats emanating from the Balkan region
where Turkey has many interests to protect from the discriminations
against the Turkish minorities in Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Romania,
to European, Greek and Serbian discriminatory policies against the
Albanian outright majority of Kosovo that has been stripped so far
from its right to statehood. Turkey’s interest impose in this regard
an Albanian – Macedonian alliance that would ensure enduring peace
in the region. The racist purposes of the comical southern Cypriot
president are also to be dealt with, and Turkey should promote the
Noble Cause of international recognition of Kosovo, Transnistria and
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

Turkey as the Strategic Epicenter between East and West

Here we do not refer to the central role Turkey play to avert the
worsening of the terribly degraded Western – Eastern relationship; this
goes without saying. Beyond its role in inter-cultural, inter-religious
and inter-civilizational encounter and mutual understanding,
Turkey is key to developments in all the aforementioned countries
and alliances. Quite paradoxically, positive developments for all
these countries depend on their good relationship with Turkey. This
has not been carefully studied and widely understood so far.

If Turkey decides the reject the European tactics of double standards,
reprimanding the European decision to offer priority to less qualifying
Bulgaria and Romania instead of Turkey, and chastising the demands
for referenda to be held as regards Turkey’s adhesion to the EU
(whereas this was not an issue for Greece, Spain and Portugal),
Europe will receive an unprecedented blow on its face, and the EU
credibility will be considered as non extent. Furthermore, if Turkey
manages an explosion in the Southern Balkans or Cyprus, the European
dream of unification and pacification of the continent will turn
to a nightmare. Turkey have nothing to bother if following a Balkan
War, Muslims in Germany, France, Belgium, England and Italy revolt
against the anti-Islamic hysteria of the bogus-democratic European
authorities. Europeans will eventually become less arrogant, if the
notorious Paris suburbs riots became uninterrupted part of their
life for a few years. They may then understand that you cannot speak
against an Islamic Democratic Party in Turkey, when you tolerate a
Christian Democratic Party in Germany. The most urgent European need
has a name: Turkey.

If the US Congress decides to make of a factoid as the so-called
Armenian Genocide a bogus historical ‘event’ – part of an official
state promoted dogma, the US will turn out to be 21st century’s
Soviet Union. Majority vote consecrating a falsehood as Official
History translates to state terrorism, as we have known it at the
times of the late USSR, when you could not say openly that History
has nothing to do with the Struggle of Classes. The only difference
will be that the US Dialectical and Historical Materialism will be
turning around the Totalitarian Dogma of the Armenian Genocide. Such
a decision consist direct offense on the face of 1.5 billion Muslims,
who will interpret the American parliamentary paranoia as the greatest
Monument of Partiality, the most devilish bias in the History of the
Mankind. Instead of urgently demolishing the tyrannical states of
Sudan and Abyssinia that currently carry out practices of genocide
against the Fur in Darfur and against the Oromos in Oromia, instead of
preventing the presently undertaken Genocide against the Aramaeans of
Iraq and Syria, instead of obliging Bulgaria and Greece to recognize
their Macedonian minorities, the US Congress debates about events
occurred before 92 years (!), and deliberates unilaterally without
consulting with specialists, who in the worst (for Turkey) case would
agree upon the nature of an event that took place when Turkey simply
did not exist! It is as if accusing the US for crimes perpetrated by
Spaniards against the Aztecs! Yet, American decision makers should
consider that US interests in the Middle East would be severely
damaged, if the US does not set up a bilateral alliance with Turkey
to deal with issues related to Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Israel. Turkey
is the only ally needed for the US if there is a will to win over
Islamic Terrorism as conceived, mounted and executed by the so-called
‘Arab’ tyrannies and their barbaric pseudo-kings.

Moscow should be wise enough, instead of venturing tricky anti-American
schemes with the servants of the local hodjatoleslams and Ayatollahs,
to consider how to help, working with Turkey, America and EU, the
oppressed peoples of Iran, the Azeris, the Turks, the Kurds, the
Turkmens, the Loris, the Bakhtiaris, the Aramaeans, the Baluchis,
and the Parsis get their independence and self determination. The
totalitarian Muscovite thugs should constantly remember the number of
oppressed Muslims in their territory; it would be rather lethal to
forget their claims. Only in close cooperation with Turkey, Russia
would avoid in the years ahead an Islamist explosion in Daghestan,
Tatarstan, Yakutia. Riots in Moscow suburbs have not yet started;
if they come to happen, they will be far more devastating than those
of Paris suburbs.

It would not be worthy considering options about either Iran or
the tyrannical, barbaric realms of Pan-Arabist anti-Semitism; these
anachronistic, dysfunctional and inhuman entities are formations that
should be dissolved before too long; every day they survive is a day
won by the Islamic terrorists in their fight against Russia, Europe,
India, America, Israel and of course Turkey.

Turkey’s politically correct choices

In front of a complex situation like this, what would be the
politically correct choices?

The Turkish MPs, statesmen, academia, intellectuals, politicians,
military, and administrators should realize that for many issues the
good option for Turkey is only one. A much promising political –
socioeconomic – ideological project for the years ahead should be
based on the following points:

– Secular values must be reinstated and consolidated. The traditional
Islamic veil must be prohibited throughout the country. It is
noteworthy that the Islamic veil was not compulsory in Abbasid Baghdad
and in Ottoman Istanbul; consequently with all the progress made thanks
to Kemal Ataturk, the traditional veil cannot be tolerated outside
homes, as it has become a tool of anti-historical considerations that
are relevant to a false Islamic theology.

– The role of the military in protecting the secular values of the
Turkish Republic must be gradually and institutionally replaced by
the commitment and the patriotism of all the Turkish citizens.

– Constitutional amendments are needed in order to modernize the
Turkish society, not in a way to ‘literarily repeat’ Atatturk’s
theoretical system’s pillars but to adapt them within today’s context
– our global world. Severe legislation must be introduced for honour
crimes.

– Turkey must be identified as a multiethnic, multilingual,
multicultural, secular state whereby all local languages are instituted
in the Primary and Secondary education, and all religions are tolerated
as personal contact with God, not socially imposed prescriptions.

– Turkey must embrace and institutionalize the prevailing Kurdish
language (Kurmandja), allowing wide use of it at the level of
local administration, education, and mass media. At the same time,
the Turkish administration must not let Kurmandja prevail over the
other Kurdish languages up to the point of their obliteration /
assimilation. With a great number of mixed marriages between Turks
and Kurds (the late President Turgut Ozal being only one example), the
Turkish administration must tackle the Kurdish question as confidently
as the English political class deals with the Scottish question.

– Demonstrating true commitment to the Cause of the (treacherously
exploited by the Colonial West) Kurds, Turkey must found the
first Kurdish University in the word to promote Kurdology and all
sectors of research pertaining to the Kurds. At the same time,
this university would become the hub of further development of the
Kurdish languages, through scientific vocabulary localization,
publication of an encyclopedia in Kurmandja, and preparation of
academic publications. The Kurdish University at Diyarbakir should
set up a Linguistic Center to help introduce Latin writing for Kurdish
languages spoken in Iraq, Syria and Iran.

– Expanding Latin writing among the Kurds of these countries, Ankara
will become the main advocate of the Kurdish Cause, and gradually annex
territories inhabited by the Kurdish minority in these three countries.

– Turkey must embrace the tiny Aramaean (Suryani) minority,
institutionalize Aramaic, allowing wide use of it at the level of
local administration, education, and mass media. Turkey must solemnly
invite back all the Aramaean emigration, pay recompense for atrocities
or injustices done to them even in periods preceding the foundation
of Turkey.

– Demonstrating true commitment to the Cause of the (bitterly fought
by the Colonial West) Aramaeans, Turkey must found the first Aramaean
University in the word to promote Aramaeaology and all sectors
of research pertaining to the Aramaeans. At the same time, this
university would become the hub of further development of the Aramaic
language, through scientific vocabulary localization, publication of
an encyclopedia in Aramaic, and preparation of academic publications.

– Embracing the Cause of the Aramaeans will offer Turkey a unique
tool of prevailing in Islamic Terrorism’s territories such as Syria,
Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine. Turkey should carry out a vast
anti-colonial work of de-Arabization and re-assertion of the Aramaic
national and cultural identity of these countries. This is the only
way to forestall Islamic Terror’s plans for a new caliphate in the
Middle East, which Turks know only too well would be a bogus-caliphate
and turn sooner or later against Turkey’s existence.

– Turkey must view its existence on a multidimensional basis evolving
around following axes:

1. Multiculturalism in Anatolia (Kurdish and Aramaic must become
official languages)

2. Turkophonic Nationalism throughout Asia (to form the a political
confederation encompassing Azeris, Turkmens of Iraq and Iran,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Turkic speaking
populations in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China’s Eastern Turkestan).

3. Anti-colonial Orientalism globally (to challenge Western, colonial
Orientalism as diffused through Education, Culture and Mass Media,
forming the erroneous basis of the Western political decision-making)

– Turkey must demand an extraordinary session of the European
Parliament to be held with the participation of the Commission,
and representatives of the 27 EU governments in order to discuss the
perspectives and the possibilities of an eventual adhesion. A special
agreement shall be made in which every political bias will have no
place. Turkey must make clear that it was EU’s wrong decision to
accept Cyprus to adhere without the dispute being solved in advance.

Turkey must accept to implement EU legislation, but all the EU member
states must understand that they have to put an end to all sorts of
anti-Turkish propaganda, If an agreement is not made, Turkey should
put an end to its attempt tom adhere to the EU, and must redirect
its foreign policy around the Turco-phonic Asiatic confederation,
continuing for itself the modernization and liberalization process
that started already.

– Turkey needs to reinstate Kemal Ataturk’s predilection for a foreign
policy based on principles, and not opportunism. What Turkey will offer
to its Kurdish and Aramaic minorities, France must offer to Corsicans,
Occitans, Bretons, Alsatians and Basks. Turkey must be the advocate
of all oppressed and unrecognized peoples and minorities in Europe,
Asia and Africa.

– Turkey must enter into an alliance with the US, Israel and India in
view of a thorough and complete containment of the Islamic Terrorism;
according to the terms of the Treaty, Turkey must replace US soldiers
in America, contribute to a liberalization process in Syria, Lebanon
and Iran, and make its presence felt as a model of state for Muslims
in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia

– Turkey must become a shield of peace for the Balkans, contributing
to minority recognition, emancipation and autonomy.

– Turkey must set up an International Islamic University whereby
the model of the Turkish state will be presented and analyzed as the
only political model for Islamic states today. Through international
pressure and cooperation with its allies, Turkey must arrange a
UN / UNESCO directive according to the terms of which any country’s
Muslim citizens, if desiring to pursue Islamic studies abroad, will be
allowed to study only in this university. This will put a dead end to
the devilish and subversive work of uncontrolled bogus-universities
located in Middle Eastern tyrannies that have become undetected and
uncontrolled laboratories of Islamic Terror and Barbarism.

Turkey’s forthcoming presidential elections

Critical issues like the above must prevail during the de4cision making
process in Turkey over the next few days. Turkey can avert threats and
anti-Turkish plans and schemes of any origin, and through a correct
political cooperation and military alliance can rise to the level
of UN Veto power, representing 1.5 million Muslims at the Security
Council. To do this, Turkey needs the modernization of the ruling
party, and this can happen through merge with other smaller parties.

The Turkish Parliament’s majority deputies should never forget
that among their voters (around 30%) there are many who are
atheists and agnostics, but reject the anti-Turkish empathy of some
ultra-conservative European Christians or the racist and neo-colonial
schemes of an apostate Freemasonic lodge. Less than 15% of the Turks
are devoted religious people who would desire to somewhat Islamize
the Turkish state. They have no authority to impose one of them at
the top of Turkey; it is not democratic and it is compatible with
Turkey’s best interests. Personal ambitions must always be put aside,
whenever it comes to a Great Cause for the entire Mankind. And Turkey’s
potentialities to save the World from the impending Clash West vs. East
are not an issue of Turkish national affair; they are a focal point
and a matter of the utmost importance for the entire world.

Knowing the great horizons that exist for Turkey, and dedicating
themselves to the aforementioned pillars of national / regional /
global strategy, the majority deputies of the Turkish Parliament
must find the correct person for the position of the President of the
Republic among the country’s academia. This would bring consensus and
concord in a country that will be stricken my all sorts of calamities
if secretive, egocentric, mendacious tricks find their way to the
position of the Head of State. Cassandra’s tragic and cynical words
may be the best readings in the few next days for all the Turkish MPs,
not only those originating from Canakkale (Troy).

–Boundary_(ID_W/RLQPhJL8qdIt3zFYBfHw)–

AAA Sent A Letter Of Concern Regarding The Postponement Of A UN Exhi

AAA SENT A LETTER OF CONCERN REGARDING THE POSTPONEMENT OF A UN EXHIBIT ON THE RWANDA GENOCIDE TO UN SECRETARY GENERAL

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 17 2007

The Armenian Assembly of America this week sent a letter of concern
regarding the postponement of a UN exhibit on the Rwanda Genocide,
"Lessons from Rwanda", due to an unwarranted interference by the
mission of Turkey to the United Nations over a reference to the
Armenian Genocide. The letter was sent to UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon and Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public
Information Kiyotaka Akasaka.

In the letter, Assembly Executive Director Bryan Ardouny expressed
disappointment with the suspension of the exhibit, which included
a description of the Armenian Genocide as a prototype of the
international crimes requiring concerted response and prevention
attributed to Raphael Lemkin, who had authored the UN Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The Assembly also applauded the decision of the exhibit’s organizers
to continue to resist the removal of the reference to the Armenian
Genocide as a matter of principal and urged the UN support of the
initial exhibit without qualifications.

Earthquake That Took Place on April 13 in Azerbaijan Felt in Artsakh

EARTHQUAKE THAT TOOK PLACE ON APRIL 13 IN AZERBAIJAN FELT IN ARTSAKH,
TOO

YEREVAN, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Earthquake with magnitude 3 took
place on April 13, at 11:12 by local time in the territory of
Azerbaijan, 25 km east from the town of Aghdam. In the epicenter it
measured 4-5. As Noyan Tapan was informed from Seismic Protection
National Service, the earthquake was also felt in a number of
populated areas of Nagorno Karabakh: in particular, in Stepanakert,
Martakert the earthquake measured 3, in Martuni 4.

Draft Strategy Of Taking ANPP Out Of Service Being Worked Out

DRAFT STRATEGY OF TAKING ANPP OUT OF SERVICE BEING WORKED OUT

Arminfo
2007-04-12 18:51:00

The strategy on taking the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant out of
service will be submitted to the Armenian Government’s approval in
summer 2007, Areg Galstyan, the Deputy Energy Minister of Armenia,
told ArmInfo correspondent, Thursday.

According to him, at the moment experts are working over the
elaboration of the draft strategy. There are several methods of
taking the ANPP out of service. The most expensive method is the
greenfield site that costs about $240 mln. A.Galstyan added that in
November 2006 the Armenian Government created a special fund for the
temporary closing of the ANPP. The fund is replenished with the ANPP
funds, however, an attraction of donor funds is not ruled out either,
the Deputy Minister noted. He added that the Government is going to
take all the steps to construct a new nuclear power unit.

To note, in September 2003 the ANPP was handed over to the financial
management of the "Inter RAO UES" CJSC, a branch of the RAO "UES of
Russia" for five years. Two power units with a total capacity of 815
MW are installed at the ANPP. The first unit was put into operation in
1976, the second one – in 1980. In 1989 the operation of both units
was stopped for political reasons. In November 1995 the second 408
MW unit was re-launched.

Pullout Of Russia’s Batumi Base Starts May – Top Army Officer

PULLOUT OF RUSSIA’S BATUMI BASE STARTS MAY – TOP ARMY OFFICER

RIA Novosti, Russia
April 12 2007

MOSCOW, April 12 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will begin withdrawing from
its military base in Georgia’s Black Sea port of Batumi in mid-May,
a deputy chief-of-staff of the Russian Army said Thursday.

Lieutenant-General Valery Yevnevich said 14 trains will transport
hardware and ammunition from the Batumi base to Russia by the yearend,
while five more trains will be dispatched to a Russian base in Armenia.

Yevnevich spoke after the Georgian Defense Ministry said earlier
Thursday that a convoy of trucks carrying hardware and engineering
equipment had left Russia’s other Soviet-era base in Georgia,
Akhalkalaki, for Gyumri, in Armenia.

Under an agreement between the Defense Ministries of the two countries,
the Akhalkalaki base will be closed by the end of this year, while
the Batumi base is planned to close before next yearend.

Yevnevich said that all the 14 Russia-bound trains – five in May, four
in June, four in July and one in November – will leave via Azerbaijan,
with which Russia has an agreement on the transit of military cargo.

The five trains bound for the Gyumri base will set off from Batumi
in August (four) and November (one), Yevnevich said.

Six more truck convoys will take the remaining hardware and equipment
from the Akhalkalaki base before the end of 2007, he said.

Last December, Russia completed the withdrawal of its military
garrison from the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, handing over control of
its headquarters to Georgia’s Defense Ministry.

Thirteen of the garrison’s 387 personnel remain in Georgia to oversee
the withdrawal of Russia’s two Soviet-era bases.

Georgia’s Western-leaning leadership, which is seeking NATO
membership, is uneasy about Russia’s continued military presence,
and has repeatedly urged Moscow to close its Soviet-era bases.

Gov. Schwarzenegger Proclaims Days of Remembrance of The Genocide

Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Lisa Kalustian, Chief Deputy Director
300 South Spring Street, Suite 16701
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213)897-0322
FAX (213)897-0319

PROCLAMATION
04/06/2007
April 22nd – April 29th, 2007, as "Days of Remembrance of the Armenian
Genocide"
PROCLAMATION
by the
Governor of the State of California
Between the years 1915 and 1923, during the chaos of World War I, over one
million Armenian men, women and children living within the Ottoman Empire’s
borders were killed; forcing hundreds of thousands of Armenians to flee to
foreign countries after being stripped of their possessions, their national
identities and their homeland.
Scores fled to the United States, and California was fortunate to become
home to one of the largest populations of Armenians outside the Republic of
Armenia. Many of California’s Armenian-American families are the
descendents of these courageous genocide survivors, whose hope for a life
independent war and violence was realized on our soil. Like their family
members before them, the Armenian-American community bravely flourished and
contributed much to our state and nation.
Documented as the first instance of genocide in the twentieth century, the
Armenian Genocide remains unacknowledged to this day. I strongly echo the
sentiments that all nations must examine their own painful histories, as the
denial of genocide further wounds a nation’s ability to heal. Though over
ninety years have passed since these mass killings took place, present day
atrocities resonate throughout the world. It is our responsibility to
recognize the brutal slayings of so many innocents, remembering their
suffering and vowing to help prevent future genocides.
I join California’s Armenian-American communities and all Armenians
worldwide in remembering those who were killed and persecuted during the
Armenian Genocide, and urge people throughout the world to never forget
these horrific crimes against humanity.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Governor of the State of
California, do hereby proclaim the week of April 22nd through April 29th,
2007, as "Days of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide."
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have here unto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of
the State of California to be affixed this 6th day of April 2007.

Arnold Schwarzenegger
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA

ANKARA: Justice Boat To Sail In Istanbul

JUSTICE BOAT TO SAIL IN ISTANBUL

The New Anatolian, Turkey
April 9 2007

"Justice boat" will symbolically try the perpetrators of 1 May 1977
and Sivas bloody incidents as well as assassination of journalists
Ugur Mumcu, Hrant Dink and other intellectuals murdered.

Turkish Union of Engineers’ and Architects’ Chambers (TMMOB) informed
that the aim of the justice boat project is to draw attention to
unsolved cases. The boat will be sailing ports of Istanbul between
April 10 and 13 to host symbolic hearings.

Attorney Rasim Oz who is also among the jury of the "Justice Boat"
said that justice still didn’t procure for many cases including 1
May 1977 incidents, assassinations of journalist Ugur Mumcu, the
president of the Federation of Revolutionary Trades Unions (DISK)
Kemal Turkler, Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink, Professor Bahriye
Ucok and Susurluk accident.

"We have been looking for justice on land," Oz said. "From now on we
will look for justice in the sea and perform symbolic hearings."

Justice boat will be in Kadikoy port on April 10, to hear "Susurluk
and Semdinli cases." On April 11 in Bakirkoy Port the symbolic court
will review "cases on Gazi, Maras, Sivas and Corum incidents" and
on April 12 the boat will first hear assassinations in Bostanci port
and then move to Besiktas port to review 1 May 1977 incident.

It is noted that Ferhat Tunc, Eren Keskin, Ilkay Akkaya, Mazlum Cimen,
Suavi, Perihan Magden, Halil Ergun, Fehmi Isiklar, Yasar Seyman and
Switzerland’s UNI Union head Jacques Robert will be the jury of the
symbolic court.

BAKU: Protest to be held in NY under slogan `No to Armenian lies’

Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 7 2007

Protest action to be held in New-York under the slogan `No to Armenian lies’

[ 07 Apr 2007 16:01 ]

Turkish communities in the US will organize protest action under the
slogan `No to Armenian lies’ in famous Times Square in New-York on
the eve of the anniversary of the so-called `Armenian genocide’ on
April 24, APA US bureau reports.

Photos and shots reflecting the Armenian savagery against Khojaly
residents will be demonstrated in the mass protest actions on April
21-22. Representatives of Azerbaijani Diaspora in the US will also
attend the event. /APA/

Let’s Eradicate Poverty Housing In Armenia With Joint Efforts!

LET’S ERADICATE POVERTY HOUSING IN ARMENIA WITH JOINT EFFORTS!

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[04:35 pm] 06 April, 2007

YEREVAN, Armenia (April 6) – Buckets, shovels and trowels will swing
into action next week, as building begins to lift 37 families from
poverty housing in Armenia.

The second annual "His Holiness Karekin II Work Project" kicks off
in Armenia April 10. Volunteers from around the globe will descend
upon Armenia, to build homes side by side with homeowner families,
local sponsors, volunteers, dignitaries, and monks from the Armenian
Apostolic Church.

"The Armenian Apostolic Church is delighted to launch this event once
again with Habitat for Humanity. It’s not only a celebration of people
coming together to help families in need, but it’s also an important
step toward removing the blight of poverty housing in Armenia,"
says Archbishop Vicken Aykazian of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

During building events around the country from April through October,
37 homes for families in need will be completed in Armenia, symbolizing
36 worldwide Dioceses, plus the Holy See of Mother Etcmiadzin. His
Holiness, Karekin II, Catholicos of all Armenians, is expected to
bless the event’s official opening at the Etchmiadzin Gevorgyan
seminary on April 10.

Churches and individuals are challenged to fully sponsor, or to
contribute to a home. The Catholicos Project Family Sponsorship Cost
(FSC) for 2007 will be $7,360, which is an average of renovations
and half-build homes.

The first building event kicks off with a volunteer team coming from
the U.S. Volunteers will be working on "half-build" homes, many of
which were left unfinished after the economic collapse in the early
1990s in Armenia.

The Haroyan family of the Khor Virap village is the first selected
among the 37. Sahak, 43, and his wife Piruza, 36, are vegetable
farmers, currently residing in a neighbor’s basement with their three
children, aged 18, 16, and 14.

Economic strife forced the family to the basement for seven years,
as they have been unable to raise enough funds to complete their own
home. Piruza suffers rheumatism in her legs due to the humidity. "If
you help us we will finish and move to our new house by the next
winter," Piruza tells a visiting Habitat team.

The Armenian Church signed a historic partnership with Habitat for
Humanity in April 2006, aimed to combat poverty housing in Armenia,
and worldwide. The first "His Holiness Karekin II Work Project"
was held in Gavar, Armenia, where a building was renovated for 24
families, with an additional 13 homes being built around the country.

In Michigan in 2005, the Catholicos participated in the annual
home blitz build, the Jimmy Carter Work Project, where he met with
President Carter. Following that, the Catholicos gave his blessing
for a home-building event to be created and held in Armenia.

In Armenia, a country of 3 million nestled in the southern Caucasus,
more than 40,000 families live in poverty housing. Over the past
decade, a devastating earthquake, conflict, the Soviet Union’s
collapse, and a newfound independence have led to economic crisis.

Thousands still live in metal "domiks", iron containers used for
temporary earthquake relief, which act like refrigerators in the
winter; and boilers in the summer. Habitat for Humanity Armenia has
been working with families in need since 2000, and provided homes
for more than 1,400 people.