Author: Kajoyan Gevork

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 8 2015

Elin Suleymanov: Armenia suffers from its own policy

8 March 2015 – 9:17pm

Azerbaijani Ambassador to US, Elin Suleymanov in his interview with an
American newspaper Tribune Review said that Azerbaijan hopes for the
support of the United States in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.

The ambassador also said that Azerbaijan, a prosperous country, spends
its money wisely by investing in projects that involve neighboring
countries. Azerbaijan could also invest in Armenia, becoming a partner
in the region. The diplomat said that the reason why the countries
cannot cooperate is the policy of Armenia.

Le Parisien
4 mars 2015

« Ma victoire sur le génocide, parler arménien avec mes filles »

Dans le cadre de la commémoration du centenaire du massacre qui a fait
1,5 million de victimes, Saro Mardiryan, cadre informatique de 36 ans
vivant à Alfortville, témoigne.

Agnès Vives

Dans la famille Mardiryan, le génocide arménien, c’est toute une
histoire. Saro Mardiryan, cadre informatique de 36 ans qui vit à
Alfortville depuis l’ge de ses 5 mois, fait partie de la troisième
génération de descendants des victimes de l’élimination programmée des
Arméniens par le gouvernement turc entre 1915 et 1916. Ce massacre a
fait 1,5 million de victimes. Son arrière-grand-mère en a réchappé. Un
long parcours d’errance s’en est suivi pour la famille avant d’arriver
à Alfortville.Ce sont ses parents qui, ne voyant pas d’avenir en
Turquie, font le choix de devenir réfugiés politiques et s’installent
dans ce principal port d’attache de la diaspora arménienne où les
premiers émigrés sont arrivés à la fin du XIX e siècle. La communauté
les aide à trouver travail et logement. Trois ans plus tard, les
grands-parents les rejoignent. Aujourd’hui, Alfortville, « la petite
Arménie », compterait entre 7 000 et 8 000 Arméniens.Le mont Moïse en
TurquieC’est là que son arrière-grand-mère, 7 ans en 1915, trouve
refuge comme 4 500 autres villageois. Promis à la déportation, ils
avaient fui avec vivres, animaux et quelques armes sur cette montagne,
difficilement accessible, face à la mer. « Les Turcs vont mener sept
assauts. A chaque fois, mon arrière-grand-mère se couvrait le visage
de boue pour cacher sa beauté. Car, lorsque les femmes et les enfants
étaient arrêtés, ils étaient envoyés dans des familles turques. » Ce
siège célèbre, les 40 jours de Musa Dagh, sera raconté dans un livre
de Franz Werfel. Mel Gibson voudra même en faire un film. Sauvés par
une frégate française, les villageois seront évacués en Egypte. «
Pendant quatre ans, ils vivront dans des tentes avant de retourner
chez eux. A ce moment-là, la région est sous administration française.
»Le nom retrouvé« En 1939, la région où vit mon grand-père est
rétrocédée à la Turquie. Le gouvernement fait changer tous les noms
arméniens pour effacer l’identité arménienne. A 16 ans, il doit
s’appeler Silahli. » Mais, en 2009, Saro Mardiryan, qui a obtenu comme
ses proches la naturalisation en 1986, fait des démarches pour
récupérer le nom de Mardiryan pour lui mais aussi pour son grand-père,
son père, son frère et sa fille. « J’ai ainsi renoué un lien avec le
passé. Je me suis aussi investi dans le parti social-démocrate
Hentchakian, dont mon grand-père était membre, pour recréer un autre
lien. »Dire ou ne pas direComment transmettre la mémoire de ces
événements ? Saro Mardiryan s’est posé la question. « Gamin, mes
grands-parents m’avaient raconté le génocide. J’avais un copain turc.
Le lendemain, je me suis battu avec. » Les parents, qui, eux,
n’évoquaient pas ces événements, interdisent alors aux aïeux d’en
reparler. « Ce n’est qu’à l’ge adulte que je vais comprendre que
notre civilisation a failli disparaître. Je vais recommencer à parler
arménien. »Ce père de deux filles a choisi de « ne rien cacher ». « A
l’école, ma grande de 8 ans apprend qu’il y a eu une guerre. Je vais
plus loin, sans haine, je lui explique qu’il s’agit d’un massacre. Je
lui retransmets ce que j’ai appris. Ma plus grande victoire sur le
génocide, c’est parler arménien avec mes filles. Notre langue, c’est
notre identité. »

Azeri-Press news agency (APA), Azerbaijan
March 6, 2015 Friday

Ambassador: Turkey wants to deliver a message of peace to world with
events on Canakkale Victory

by Malahat Najafova

“We are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the victory in the Battle
of Canakkale. We are not corresponding with Armenia in this regard. We
want to deliver a message of peace to the world with these events. We
consider it very important to give this message,” Turkish Ambassador
to Azerbaijan Ismail Alper Coskun told APA.

Commenting on the reports that Russia will participate in events
dedicated to the Canakkale Victory, the ambassador said: “We will be
pleased if the country, that we have established good relations with,
like Russia attends this event.”

The ambassador said he doesn’t know representatives from which
countries will attend the event.

“We have sent invitations to all countries involved in the Battle of
Canakkale. We are ready to host the recognition of this historic
event. The Azerbaijani president also said in Turkey that he would
attend these events, we are very pleased of it,” he noted.

Rome Vittoriano Museum hosts Armenian Genocide exhibition

14:44 * 07.03.15

On the occasion of the Armenian Genocide centennial, the Vittoriano
Museum of Rome has opened an exhibition dedicated to the 20th
century’s first major crime against humanity, and the Armenian
civilization.

The cultural event, entitled “Armenia: People of Ark”, is a joint
initiative by the Armenian Ministry of Culture, the Armenian embassies
to Italy and the Holy See of Vatican, and the Mechitarist Congregation
and Italian-Armenian organizations.

A press conference attended by representatives of over 50 Italian
media outlets was held before the opening ceremony to introduce the
exhibition’s message and importance. The participants heard Armenian
Ambassador to Italy Sargis Ghazaaryan, Prof. Louis Godart, an advisor
to the Italian president on the preservation of cultural heritage and
Paolo Kessisoglu, a popular Italian-Armenian artist.

In his speech, Ambassador Ghazaryan said the exhibition’s aim was to
introduce the 3,000-year old Armenia history and civilization and the
devastating impact of the Genocide (which he described as a death
attempt against the nation and its civilizzation). He said the
nation’s rebirth and future strong efforts towards creating an
independent statehood proved to be its reaction to death attempt
perpetrated by the Ottoman Turkish rulers. The ambassador further
highly praised the Armenian community in Italy (which has a history of
2,000 years) and its contribution to the country development. He also
remembered prominent Italian public and political figures (Luigi
Luzzatti, Filippo Meda and Giacomo Gorrini) who condemned the
1915-1916 brutal massacres of the Armenians.

Highlighting the exhibition’s importance, Prof. Godart said he finds
the Armenian civilization a part of the European set of values and the
common Christian heritage – a unique barrier against the Islamist
extremism. He described the Armenian Genocide as “one of the darkest
chapters of human history” and highly praised the Armenian nation’s
strong spirit and ability to preserve its identity.

The exhibition’s opening was attended by Armenian Minister of Culture
Hasmik Poghosyan, Director of Vittoriano Museum Alessandro Nicosia and
the Armenian ambassadors to Italy and the Holy See. It brought
together thousands of visitors, including Italian public and political
figures, senators and other lawmakers, diplomats and representatives
of the Armenian community. Opening speeches were delivered by Minister
Poghosyan, the museum’s director and Ambassador Ghazaryan.

Exhibits and videos, on display in seven different halls, offer the
victors a unique journey into the origins of Christianity in Armenia,
the Armenian scripts’ history and handwritten books, architecture and
art, the centuries-old Armenian Italian relations and the Armenian
culture and history’s abound presence in Italy. Documentary records on
the Armenian Genocide are showcased in a separate hall.

The exhibition will run until May 3. It is widely covered by the
Italian media, including the public broadcaster and the print
publications.

Foreign Minister Shuns Israeli Leaders on Jerusalem Trip

Friday, March 6th, 2015

Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian (left) with Israeli
President Reuven Rivlin

JERUSALEM (RFE/RL)–Underscoring Armenia’s uneasy relationship with
Israel, Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian has not met with his
Israeli counterpart or any other member of Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s government during a rare visit to Jerusalem.

Nalbandian held talks instead with Israel’s largely ceremonial
President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday during what the Armenian Foreign
Ministry described as a one-day “working visit.” He also attended a
concert by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra dedicated to the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

Ministry statements on the trip did not explain why Nalbandian failed
to meet with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and other Israeli
cabinet members. The ministry spokesman, Tigran Balayan, could not be
reached for comment on Friday.

Nalbandian flew to Jerusalem one week after Yerevan condemned
Lieberman’s presence at what it considers an anti-Armenian ceremony in
the Israeli city of Acre that was organized by an Azerbaijani
government-linked group. The event was dedicated to the 23rd
anniversary of the deaths of several hundred Azerbaijani residents of
Khojaly, a small town in Nagorno-Karabakh. It was part of the group’s
efforts to have the international community recognize the 1992 deaths
as a genocide committed by the Armenians.

Lieberman was a keynote speaker at the ceremony. “We are here today to
combine the experience of Israel with that of Azerbaijan so that we
can prevent such tragedies from happening in the future,” he said,
according to Azerbaijani news agencies.

“It is inappropriate that any politician could allow himself to be
dragged into the Azerbaijani cheap manipulations,” Balayan said in
written comments on February 26.

Lieberman already raised eyebrows in Armenia during a 2010 visit to
Baku. He reportedly voiced support for Azerbaijan’s territorial
integrity and accused international mediators of pro-Armenian bias in
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Lieberman’s deputy, Danny Ayalon, contradicted those claims in a 2011
phone call with his Armenian opposite number, Arman Kirakosian. Ayalon
said Israel supports the peace efforts of the OSCE Minsk Group
co-headed by the United States, Russia and France.

Armenian-Israeli relations have also been soured by Israel’s
large-scale arms sales to Azerbaijan. In 2012, Israeli defense
officials confirmed a reported deal to provide the Azerbaijani
military with more unmanned aircraft as well as anti-aircraft and
missile defense systems worth a combined $1.6 billion.

An Israeli-made Azerbaijani drone was apparently shot down by Armenian
forces while flying a reconnaissance mission over Artsakh in 2011.

According to the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Nalbandian and President
Rivlin stressed the need to “invigorate political dialogue” between
their countries. They also agreed that the Armenian and Jewish peoples
share “common responsibility to prevent crimes against humanity,” a
ministry statement said.

“Few nations have as many similarities as Armenians and Jews do,”
Nalbandian said in a speech that preceded the Jerusalem Symphony
Orchestra concert later in the day. “Having endured genocides and been
scattered around the world, we are proud of restoring our statehoods
in the 20th century.”

Nalbandian, who had served as Armenia’s Paris-based ambassador to
Israel from 2000-2008, went on to pay tribute to prominent Israeli and
Jewish-American scholars advocating international recognition of the
1915 Armenian genocide.

Successive Israeli governments have declined to recognize the
slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as
genocide for fear of antagonizing Turkey. Rivlin, who is a member of
Netanyahu’s Likud party, called for Israeli recognition of the
genocide when he served as parliament speaker in 2012.

Provocations by Turkey on threshold of April 24 to be thwarted

March 6, 2015 15:00
Vyacheslav Biryukov
Photo: Photolure

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)
Border Guards in Armenia Vyacheslav Biryukov stated today that the
provocations instigated incited on the border with Turkey will be
thwarted on the threshold of April 24.

At the meeting with journalists today, he stressed that the Border
Guard will be actively engaged in activities dedicated to the Armenian
Genocide Centennial.

“First of all, it refers to activities aimed at preventing
provocations on the Armenian-Turkish border. Our employees are ready
for it. We are conducting works along the lines of border
representations and with the Turkish party, so that they rule out
provocations for their part. We also carry out works with the
population of Armenian border regions to exclude any kind of
provocation. It is a political matter, and our task is to protect the
borders, and we will do that”, said Vyacheslav Biryukov.

According to him, Turkey persistently resorts to minor violations
during the shoaling of river areas, and “we constantly draw the
attention of border commissioners to it”.

He also informed that the employees of the Border Guard detained over
60 state border offenders and over 20 border regime offenders in 2014.

Armenia President congratulates Genocide survivor’s 105th birthday

11:06, 07.03.2015

YEREVAN. – The President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, on Saturday
extended congratulations to Astghik Tetezian Alemian on her 105th
birth anniversary. She is an Armenian Genocide survivor, who now
resides in the US State of Massachusetts.

“Dear Mrs. Tetezian Alemian:

“It is a great honor and pleasure to extend congratulations to you on
your glorious 105th [birth] anniversary. I wish you a great health,
well-being and happiness, always surrounded by your loving children
and relatives.

“Your path of life, full of hardships, challenges and irreparable
losses as well as with lots of cherished moments, is an eloquent proof
of the resilient collective will of the Armenian people that survived
through Genocide.

“Living far away from your Homeland, bearing grievances of the past
and undying wounds in your soul, you have preserved your national,
religious and cultural identity, created traditional Armenian family,
[and] brought up your children in the spirit of patriotism, humanity
and respect to the past.

“Dear Mrs. Tetezian Alemian:

“Once again, I would like to congratulate you on your birthday,
reiterating that you symbolize all those Armenian expatriates, who,
like you, carry, hold dear and convey to the future generations the
Armenian precept of renaissance and the sacrosanct value of Homeland,”
reads the letter of congratulations by the Armenian President.

Armenia News – NEWS.am

Haykakan Zhamanak: No information about results of checks in
Tsarukyan’s companies

12:25 07/03/2015 >> DAILY PRESS

There is no information about the results of the checks that were
conducted by the Ministry of Finance in the companies of Prosperous
Armenia’s former chairman Gagik Tsarukyan by the instruction of
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, Haykakan Zhamanak writes.

The newspaper’s correspondent on Friday asked the Ministry to provide
the list of the companies where checks are currently being conducted,
as well as the timetable of checks and the list of the violations
revealed in these companies, but the Ministry did not provide the
requested lists.

Source: Panorama.am

Armenia’s Lazarian crowned European Shooting champion

10:52, 7 March, 2015

YEREVAN, MARCH 7, ARMENPRESS: The representative of the Republic of
Armenia Lilit Lazarian has won a gold medal at the European Shooting
Championship being held in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Lazarian was
declared the winner of the 10m Running Target Junior Women
competition.
She is a trainee of the Yerevan Children and Youth Sports School of
Shooting, the Armenian Shooting Federation informed, Armenpress
reports.

REVUE DE PRESSE
« Parce qu’ils sont arméniens », de Pinar Selek : Une voix turque au
chevet des minorités du pays

Essai rare et donc notable, ce bref livre mêle témoignages très
personnels, récits de tabous et réflexions engagées sur la question de
la non reconnaissance du génocide arménien par les autorités d’Ankara
mais aussi sur l’oppression contre toutes les minorités et les voix
pro-démocratiques, problématiques qui se sont désormais rencontrées
pour s’allier en Turquie.

Note de la rédaction : `…`…`…`…`…

« Témoigner est une responsabilité », écrit Pinar Selek dans
l’avant-propos de livre, « témoigner avec les mots du cÃ…`ur, en étant
maître de sa parole ». Elle cite un conte qu’elle a écrit quelques
années plus tôt, qui se conclut sur cet adage : « les mots qui sortent
de la bouche entre par une oreille et sortent par l’autre. Mais les
mots du cÅ`ur vont droit au cÅ`ur ».

Fille de militants de gauche turcs, devenue elle-même sociologue et
militante pour les droits de ses concitoyens, qu’ils soient turcs,
kurdes, hommes ou femmes, ou arméniens, Pinar Selek est une grande
dame de la vie civique et intellectuelle d’Istanbul. Menacée par un
procès fleuve qui la voit accusée injustement en 1998 d’avoir
participé Ã un pseudo attentat terroriste kurde, elle est emprisonnée
puis doit quitter le pays. Malgré trois acquittements, ce procès est
toujours en cours et Pinar est désormais réfugiée politique en France,
après avoir passée deux ans en Allemagne en 2010-12. Elle y poursuit
ses recherches sur l’espace militant turc et les mouvements arméniens
de la diaspora à l’ENS Lyon et ses travaux portent sur les minorités
opprimées par la République turque.

Parce qu’ils sont arméniens est un essai dense, incisif, profondément
touchant, imprégné des souvenirs de Pinar Selek, de son enfance dans
une école qui n’hésite pas à recourir à la propagande pour masquer les
crimes du passé et accuser les minorités chrétiennes de vouloir nuire
à la nation, à ses jeunes années de militantisme, pendant lesquelles
elle rencontre enfin les premiers Arméniens révoltés qu’elle cherchait
malgré les discours officiels et la peur ambiante. Elle, dont le père
a longtemps été emprisonné pour des raisons politiques, découvre le
passé de sa voisine, Mme Talin, survivante du génocide qui lui fait
découvrir l’expression « rebuts de l’épée », ces minorités témoignant
des atrocités et crimes non reconnus dont la présence dérange encore
les autorités.

La suite sur le lien plus bas.

samedi 7 mars 2015,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

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