Author: Kajoyan Gevork

CELEBRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS

Maria Titizian

BY MARIA TITIZIAN

This past weekend was celebratory in the country. The Armenian national
football team beat Bulgaria on home turf, finally breaking a streak
of losses at home. Young and old danced in the streets, strangers
congratulated one another and the tricolor was draped on everything
from people to cars. Yerevan turned 2795 years old marking it as
one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world;
Etchmiadzin, Armenia’s spiritual center marked the 2698th year of its
establishment and Gyumri (or Kumayri) Armenia’s second largest city
whose roots can be traced to the 8th century BC was selected as the
cultural city for the CIS in 2013.

A legacy of a rich history is certainly something to celebrate and
be proud of and while this comes with a monumental burden it also
presents endless opportunities. For many of us who were born and
raised in foreign lands at a time when Western Armenia was occupied
and Eastern Armenia was within the iron grip of the Soviet Union,
being Armenian meant something. It meant not only retaining that
heritage but also struggling for the liberation of an elusive homeland
that had been forgotten in the dusty pages of history books. It meant
keeping memories and traditions alive in a world that didn’t always
understand us. It meant collective action and an unbreakable sense
of community. It also meant working harder, being better, striving
for greater heights.

When I recall those formative years growing up in North America,
it seemed natural that we held commemorations, organized cultural
and sporting events, staged protests and rallies every April 24,
celebrated mass on Sundays and built schools and community centers
to preserve our language and history.

In the absence of a homeland, and even with all the absurd in-fighting
between the traditional political parties that claimed ownership of
the Diaspora and its institutions, it was a game, the rules of which
we determined and understood.

With independence that safe, familiar bubble burst and we were left
unsure of what our role was in the Diaspora vis-a-vis the Republic of
Armenia. Events in the homeland just before and after independence
were developing so quickly that we didn’t have time to reframe what
that new role was to be. Twenty two years on, we are still struggling
to realign and determine a new conceptual framework.

If we could, in general, agree on the premise that a strong, secure
and viable homeland is necessary not only for its own survival but for
the long-term survival of the Diaspora, then we need to articulate and
execute new ways of working and building structures and institutions.

In the chaos of nation-building, we have to be able to differentiate
between the ruling regime of the day and the very concept of statehood
– this regime isn’t going to last forever. We should not therefore
limit our engagement with the homeland just because we feel that the
current regime is undermining Armenia’s potential.

Armenia should be the axis around which contemporary Armenian
identity is cultivated – how we structure and define that identity
will determine how successful we are at sustaining this ancient nation.

The homeland must be the fountain that nourishes the needs of Armenians
dispersed throughout the world – art, language, culture cannot thrive
and develop without connection to the source of its inspirations.

The full potential of the Diaspora must be utilized and its efforts
geared toward the homeland’s empowerment – a weak and fledgling nation
cannot support or nurture its dispersed children, nor can it inspire
or sustain them.

Strengthening the bonds of individual Armenians and communities
with Armenia has to be an ongoing effort. Contributing to the
empowerment and sustainability of Armenia must not be seen solely
as a responsibility or burden but an opportunity to be part of its
potential.

Celebrations, while they may instill a sense of pride and belonging,
entail expectations and those expectations can be fulfilled only
if and when we determine what we want as a nation. I hope one day
we begin to see the homeland as central to our continued survival,
as the fountain of inspiration, as a place that needs the cumulative
abilities of all of its children, as a place where we belong.

ARDAK AND MIRO

By Berge Minassian MD FRCP(C), Toronto, 25 September 2013

Last week the magnificent Armenian Church of the Holy Transfiguration
was consecrated in Moscow.

The weekend immediately prior, a colleague and I were in Moscow
representing the Armenian Medical International Committee (AMIC) at
the organization of the Armenian-Russian Medical Association (ARMA)
and its joining the AMIC family.

By some estimates there are now more Armenians in Moscow than in
Yerevan. A huge number of these Moscovite Armenians are people fleeing
Armenia to work in Russia’s capital, paperless and healthcare-less,
often in dangerous jobs such as construction. The ARMA obviously wants
to help AMIC develop healthcare in Armenia, but is faced with the big
challenge of finding ways to assist the “new Armenia” established in
Moscow and other Russian cities.

I thought, being a recent and geographically nearby Diaspora, the
Russian Diaspora would be different from our Western Diasporas. I was
quickly disabused of this. The Russian culture and language have been
so dominant in Armenia that most Russian-Armenians prefer to speak in
Russian with each other. This included the servers at the two Armenian
restaurants we went to, among them Lusine, with her classic beautiful
Armenian eyes, which looked at me with bewilderment and confusion
when I spoke in Armenian to her, and at my friend who tried our
Eastern dialect. Among Armenians who prefer to converse in Russian
were physicians at our meetings, who could understand Armenian, and
often speak it, but who would speak to each other in Russian during
the meeting while others translated for us.

I ought not have been surprised. We have been able to maintain
Diasporas in ghettos such as Beirut, Aleppo, and Istanbul, but cannot
do so in the West–nor it is clear in Russia. The Diaspora is where
Armenia goes to die.

We then flew to Yerevan to join the AMIC neurology branch for our
work to develop that field in the country.

Yerevan is bustling with activity. The villages all around the country
are destitute and desolate. The village folk are in Yerevan, transiting
to Moscow and elsewhere. The fabric of society is unraveling. Most
people want to leave. They all blame the government and governance
of the country. They don’t think anything will change.

They believe the current system and regime are entrenched to stay.

Germany is the popular destination for Armenia’s doctors. Germany
is going through a physician shortage, and headhunters are roaming
Yerevan, offering jobs to Armenian doctors to work as physician
assistants in Germany with benefits, healthcare coverage, and a track
toward German and thus European citizenship. German schools abound
everywhere in Yerevan.

Yerevan is full of Aleppo Armenians. Practically no one is planning
to stay.

I do not know how people deny the fact that we are not governing our
country properly. What other reversible factor can underlie this loss
of nationhood, with families seeing no hope other than on their own
in faraway places?

Just to give mere teasers, from the medical field, of how we are
destroying our country. Practically all of Armenia’s hospitals are
private properties of the oligarchy ruling the country, including the
president (correction, his wife). The recently stepped-down minister
of health, alone, is estimated to own, privately, a third of all
healthcare facilities in the country. Armenian hospitals have a huge
surplus of beds that are open, and patients stay in hospital way
longer than they should. Armenia’s government is well-aware of this.

Why can this not be remedied? It should be obvious. Taxpayer, donor,
and international money pours into the ministry of health, goes to
fund these hospitalizations, and thus makes its way into the pockets
of the hospital owners, and trickles up to the top of the oligarchy.

Likewise, Armenia ‘trains’ way too many residents (doctors) than it
needs. Why? Because unlike a normal country where residents are paid,
in Armenia residents pay, and moneys go up the chain of command. There
are now many private medical schools, utterly unneeded and of ludicrous
quality. It would take a simple act of parliament to require licensing
of physicians and medical schools, which does not exist.

Why? Because the schools are again owned by the same band controlling
the country, and are the source of the innumerable and poorly-trained
doctors flooding the country, making nice paying residents, and
competing against the better elements in the field. As such, a
doctor’s salary is $200 a month in Armenia, enough to pay the fees
at the German school.

Our group went on a gorgeous hike from Barz Lidj to Goshavank. I have
hiked many trails across many mountains, but found paradise on the
mountain we crossed in Dilijan. Vast green mountainsides dotted white
with sheep here and there, thick green forests at the edges, sun and
beauty all around. We sang old Armenian songs, whirling around not
knowing which gorgeous spot in the scenery to absorb. A very young
Aleppo Armenian, who had joined our group and who is on his way to
Canada, led the singing, because he knew all the words of the songs,
and we la la la’ed along. His voice broke, when toothless shepherds
came out of the forest and joined us, and he cried, and we all cried.

We made it to Goshavank. The surrounding village, destitute and
desolate, villagers selling their houses for $5000. At the entrance of
the monastery complex there is a new seated statue of Mkhitar Gosh,
the great Armenian jurist, carrying the legal scale in his hand. We
prayed in the church. Might Gosh intervene with God to restore justice
to Armenia.

Our guide on the hike was Ardak. His main job is to collect the
delectable tree mushrooms from the surrounding forests. He is
30-years-old. He does not own a home. He has a wife. He has a horse,
which carried some of us up the mountain. The horse’s name is Miro,
a gentle horse that loves Ardak; always follows him; obeys him;
and cuddles about him. In the back lawn of the church is an immense
tree several centuries old. We were saying our goodbyes to Ardak and
Miro under the great tree, as the sun was setting, giving way to a
gorgeous full moon.

“Ardak, soil of the earth, would you ever, EVER, think of leaving
Armenia?”

Ardak: “Of course! I am preparing to go soon.”

“Ardak, where would you go?”

Ardak: “I am going to Kiev.”

“Ardak, what is in Kiev?”

Ardak: “I will work as a laborer, and I will make money.”

We forgot to ask Ardak what would happen to Miro after he leaves. I
guess it will be alone on that field on the mountainside, with those
sheep, looking about, searching, searching, searching for Ardak.

This story should normally end here, but “Ov Hay joghovourt, ko miyak
prgoutioune ko havakagan ouji mech eh”(Charents). We must remove the
oligarchy and replace it with a proper government.

No election will do this, because they control the election process.

Revolution is too risky, and we don’t know whether a new charismatic
leader will be any better. Let us chose the only remaining way. The
Nakhakhorhrdaran in Armenia is constructing the alternative government,
a government with all the proper institutions, systems, checks, and
balances of a true democracy. Let us join them in the homeland, and
support them from the diaspora. When the new government is constructed,
the oligarchy will flee to their Swiss banks, and may they enjoy all
they stole.

The Nakhakhorhrdaran’s concept and work are not easy, but it is the
only logical solution out of our deadly spiral. “Ov Hay joghovourt”,
do not be afraid of taking the one way out. Learn about the idea,
see its clarity and its logic, join, and let us save our mountains.

They have money. We have the Armenian nation

PLANNED SEIZURE OF ABANDONED ARMENIAN PROPERTIES

By Alin Ozinian*, Today’s Zaman, 13 October 2013 /

Even though the image of Armenians in Turkey emerges from historic
reflexes, the official approach to history and the syndrome of
domestic and external circles, there is absolutely an Armenian story
that everybody in these lands has heard.

While the 1915 issue is officially narrated as though it is an ethnic
issue, suggesting that Armenians were deported because of treason
due to the discussions over a “so-called genocide” or “nonsensical
arguments” of the diaspora, this is actually the greatest economic
victory of republican history.

The Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) announced a piece of
legislation in 1915 without delay on how to deal with properties left
behind by Armenians. Under this legislation, the government would set
up commissions for abandoned properties in the regions where people
were deported. The commissions would seal the abandoned houses and
record the goods and properties left behind in the houses after being
appraised. The remaining properties would be sold in auctions and
the revenues would be transferred to the property bodies on behalf of
the owners. Goods and items as well as sacred books in the churches
would be identified and preserved on the spot.

People who claimed that those who were murdered during this time
owed them money were required to apply to the commissions within
two months. This did not go as planned; the application periods were
reduced and some barriers were introduced. However, there was no need
for barriers; those who were sent to exile in the Deir Zor deserts had
no knowledge of this commission and they did not have the courage to
look back. It was obvious at the beginning that no one would benefit
from this legislation. Every decision and step was more painful than
what was left behind. The murder of Armenian people, the deportation
of those who remained, the mass killings en route, the destroyed
families, the lost mothers, children and spouses… Now it was time
to take care of the houses, gardens and fields of the Armenians who
were no longer there.

A commission that wouldn’t work

It was no secret that the commission would not work; some of the seized
properties of Armenians were plundered by leading Turkish, Kurdish
and Circassian figures; some of them were given to migrants from the
Balkans. Some of these properties were even granted to persons and
institutions for free so that they could emerge as Muslim-Turkish
entrepreneurs. American envoy Henry Morgenthau, in his memoirs,
said that Talat PaÅ~_a, one of the founders of the CUP, told him:
“I wish you had applied to American insurance companies to get the
full list of Armenian beneficiaries. Armenians are all dead now;
they have no inheritors left to collect their monies. Their assets
and properties are all left to the state.”

Urfa Governor Nusret Bey, who was found guilty and then executed
by a court-martial in 1921 because he ordered the massacres during
the deportation, and Bogazlayan District Governor Kemal Bey, who was
executed for the same reason, were declared national martyrs. Later,
their families were given their share of the abandoned properties;
this was one of the cruelest moments of the Armenian fate whose
planning was never admitted to.

By a decree in 1927, real estate worth TL 20,000 abandoned by
Armenians was transferred to family members of the Bogazlayan
district governor. Properties were also given to the family
of Urfa Governor Nusret Bey. The transfers were not limited to
these: Dr. Bahattin Å~^akir, one of the cruelest leaders of the
Special Organization (TeÅ~_kilatı Mahsusa), Diyarbakır Governor
Dr. ReÅ~_id and Cemal PaÅ~_a, who was assassinated in Tbilisi, were
also given properties. The punishment for massacring Armenians was
mind-blowing. Hasan Cemal, the grandson of Cemal PaÅ~_a, in his book
“1915: Armenian Genocide,” refers to a mansion in KurtuluÅ~_ which
was predominantly Armenian; the mansion was given to his family. In
the same book, Cemal also refers to something that remained almost
unknown. During the years he was working at the Cumhuriyet daily,
he told the story of the Matosyan Printing House.

“[Journalist and author] Nadir Nadi had said: ‘After the owner of
Matosyan left the country, it was sold to my father. [Mustafa Kemal]
Ataturk rushed for the printing house. If you tried to bring in a
machine from overseas, you would have needed a long time. However,
there was now an idle machine…”

In fact, Yunus Nadi, the most favored and popular journalist of the
young republic and one of the close confidants of Ataturk, never paid a
dime after taking over control of the printing house in 1924 for which
he paid only a small amount. Subsequently, he even asked for a refund
from the state because after the transfer of the machines, all were
destroyed in a fire that erupted in the printing house; no trace of
these properties was ever found. Nadi, who sold off all properties and
items in the Matosyan Printing House, sold the books in the library
to the Ministry of Education; these books were later transferred to
the Gazi Education Institute. A news report published by the Tanin
daily stated that the value of the Matosyan library alone was greater
than the amount which Yunus Nadi paid for the Matosyan Printing House.

Disconnect people from the past

After the declaration of the republic, Turkey adopted the Latin
alphabet. Unlike the conventional story, the alphabet revolution went
beyond the goal of educating people and making them literate. In fact,
this was an attempt to disconnect people from the past so that they
would not have any link to their history.

The General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre in 2005 requested
the digitalization of the deed records of the time and their storage in
the digital medium. However, the National Security Council’s body of
war preparations noted that this was against national interests. As
a result, this initiative was successfully aborted. In this way,
the CUP was able to preserve its dark past.

The Matosyan Printing House, one of the most important printing
houses of the Ottoman era, was transformed into the premises of
the Cumhuriyet daily, which served as the watchdog of the regime,
while one of the houses of the Kasapyan family was seized and later
converted to the Cankaya presidential palace. In short, the newly
established republican regime was based on the suffering of Armenians,
their loss as well as their rights and properties.

In the aftermath of the law on abandoned properties which turned into a
process of seizure, Armenian assets, the main basis of the republican
regime, were Turkified along with Greek and Jewish properties. The
seizure of the foundation properties was the last move in 1974. The
traces of Armenian presence in these lands were almost wiped out
after 100 years but some steps were recently taken despite problems
with the Law on Foundations. The pro-CUP figures and structure are,
for the first time, being defeated by these steps and measures.

*Alin Ozinian is an independent analyst.

COMMERCIAL BANKS INCREASINGLY FAVOR SMALL & MEDIUM ENTERPRISES CREDITING: STUDY

October 15, 2013 – 17:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – At present, 80 000 small and medium-sized enterprises
(SMEs) are operating in Armenia, providing a GDP share of 40%. In
2013, the government of Armenia allocated AMD 150 million to develop
the sector.

Ameria consulting company conducted a research on Armenia’s
small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The study includes
the country’s macroeconomic description, SMEs’ characteristics,
relations with banking systems, review of necessity of consulting
and other professional services, regulation of the sector as well as
comparative analysis with other countries.

The study showed that the positive attitude of the enterprise owners
will promote the development of the sectors, despite slow growth in
micro businesses, Senior Research Specialist at Ameria CJSC Artashes
Shaboyan told during the research presentation.

As he noted, representatives of SMEs have though modest but positive
expectations for the next 1-3 years.

According to the study, Armenia’s commercial banks favor the SMEs’
crediting, with 70% of credits provided in local currency (dram). The
average credit amount is AMD 8,5 million at an annual rate of 18,5%.

The rest of the credits were extended in U.S. dollars with the average
credit amount of $130 thous. at an annual rate of 14,5%.

Also, though realizing the necessity of consulting services, Armenian
SMEs chose not to use them in the absence of spare funds. According
to the study, only 31% of SMEs used professional services in the last
2 years.

Armenian SMEs are mostly reluctant to implement innovations, with
only 6% of them having announced about introducing innovations in
manufacturing of new products.

The study covers 1003 SMEs, with 655 operating in Yerevan, 144 – in
Gyumri, 152 – in Vanadzor, 52 – in Dilijan. 74,4% companies operate
micro businesses, 20,2% – small businesses, 5,1% – medium businesses.

According to the study, 47,6% SMEs are engaged in trade, 34,4% in
services sector, 15,5% – manufacturing, 2,2% – construction, with
trade prevailing among micro businesses – 55,2%.

ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT FORECASTS 4.1% GROWTH

October 15, 2013 | 13:18

YEREVAN. – The Government of Armenia has reduced the country’s 2013
GDP growth forecast all the way to 4.1 percent, notes the statement
of the draft 2014 State Budget.

To note, at the beginning of the year, President Serzh Sargsyan had
set a task before the government to ensure a 7-percent economic growth,
and a 6.2-percent forecast was put on the basis of the 2013 budget.

The government has argued that the drop in the economic growth rate
is due to the internal developments in Armenia and the slowdown in
the growth of global economy.

A 5.2-percent economic growth forecast is put on the basis of Armenia’s
2014 State Budget.

ALLEGED HAYSTACK ARSONISTS SET FREE UNDER GENERAL AMNESTY

Grisha Balasanyan

11:54, October 15, 2013

A group of young men being held on charges of setting a bale of hay
afire were first found guilty and then released under the provisions
of a general amnesty.

The controversial case had been closely covered by the press in
Armenia.

Aram Moughalyan and Robert Piloyan were sentenced to two years and six
months, and Gagik Arakelyan and Artour Klyan to one year and one month.

After leaving the courthouse, the men, who had always affirmed their
innocence, said they would appeal the verdict.

INJIGHULYAN NEVER SOUGHT TO LEAVE FOR 3RD COUNTRY: ARMENIAN CAPTIVE’S COUSIN

October 15, 2013 – 19:01 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Media reports suggesting Armenian captive Hakob
Injighulyan was to be moved to a third country from Azerbaijan haven’t
been confirmed at the Yerevan Office of the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The report was published by an Armenian media source with a reference
to Injighulyan’s cousin Arman. The latter, however, refuted the
information in a conversation with PanARMENIAN.Net noting that Hakop
never expressed intention to leave for a third country.

“Representatives of the ICRC informed us about such an opportunity,”
he said.

On October 14, representatives of the International Committee of
the Red Cross met with the Armenian captive Hakob Injighulyan in
Azerbaijan.

As media contact person for the ICRC Delegation to Armenia, Zara
Amatuni told PanARMENIAN.Net the ICRC members conveyed a letter from
the family to the Armenian serviceman.

No other details of the meeting were disclosed.

On the night of Aug 8, Injighulyan, born in 1991, failed to find his
bearings on the ground and crossed into the Azeri-controlled territory.

Azeri media outlets have been since spreading information suggesting
the captive is unwilling to return to Armenia.

However, Injighulyan never mentioned his unwillingness to return
to Armenia in a meeting with ICRC representatives, with Azerbaijani
Prisoners of War Commission Secretary noting he sees no problem with
the captive’s return.

Armenia has repeatedly slammed the “interviews” with Injighulyan as
forced by Baku and urged the ICRC to take every effort to help the
captive’s return, with no persecution to be initiated against him in
the absence of crime in the act.

KARABAKH INTERESTED IN COOPERATION WITH BELGIAN BUSINESS CIRCLES

October 15, 2013 | 19:21

President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan on
Tuesday participated in a round table discussion organized by the
Belgian-Armenian Chamber of Commerce held in Brussels and met a group
of Belgian businessmen.

In his speech, President Sahakyan noted that Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)
was interested in developing and expanding ties with Belgium and its
business circles. He noted that Belgium is a country with developed
business culture, and cooperation would be useful for Artsakh.

Speaking about Artsakh potential, President noted liberal tax field,
existence of cheap and qualified workforce and rich natural resources.

Vice Prime-Minister Arthur Aghabekyan presented the economic potential
of Artsakh and investment opportunities.

News from Armenia – NEWS.am

HAYKAKAN ZHAMANAK: ARSENYAN PUTS LAND PLOT UP FOR SALE

11:47 15/10/2013 ” DAILY PRESS

Prosperous Armenia MP Gurgen Arsenyan has put a 250-hectare land plot
up for sale in Baghramyan region of Armavir province.

Asked by Haykakan Zhamanak’s correspondent if he bought that area
in consideration of possible opening of the Armenian-Turkish border,
in order to sell it at a higher price later, Arsenyan answered in the
negative. According to him, there are two bridges connecting Armenia
and Turkey – in Margara and Akhuryan – which are a long way from his
land plot.

However, the paper notes that there is also a third bridge which
connects Sardarapat highway and Igdir-Tuzluca highway. Arsenyan’s
land plot is not far from that road, the paper says.

Source: Panorama.am

REVUE DE PRESSE N2 – 14/10/13 – COLLECTIF VAN

Publie le : 14-10-2013

Info Collectif VAN – – Le Collectif VAN [Vigilance
Armenienne contre le Negationnisme] vous propose une revue de presse
des informations parues dans la presse francophone, sur les thèmes
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Collectif VAN : l’ephemeride du 14 octobre Info Collectif VAN –
– La rubrique “Ephemeride” du Collectif VAN a
ete lancee le 6 decembre 2010. Elle recense la liste d’evenements
survenus a une date donnee, a differentes epoques de l’Histoire, sur
les thematiques que l’association suit au quotidien. L’ephemeride du
Collectif VAN repose sur des informations en ligne sur de nombreux
sites (les sources sont specifiees sous chaque entree). “14 octobre
2009 — Turquie : les presidents turc et armenien se sont retrouves
mercredi a Bursa, en Turquie, pour un match de football des equipes
nationales, un evenement hautement symbolique, quatre jours après
la signature d’accords visant a mettre fin a près d’un siècle
d’hostilite. Les deux presidents Abdullah Gul et Serge Sarkissian
ont eu avant le match un entretien “dans une atmosphère extremement
positive”, selon un diplomate turc. Avant la rencontre, des colombes
avaient ete lâchees en signe de paix. Mais malgre l’appel au respect
lance au micro par le presentateur du stade Ataturk, les spectateurs
turcs ont bruyamment siffle l’hymne national armenien”.

Brignoles : la hausse de la participation a profite au candidat du FN
Le candidat du Front national, Laurent Lopez, a remporte l’election
cantonale partielle de Brignoles avec 53,9 % des suffrages, devancant
au second tour la candidate de l’UMP, Catherine Delzers.

Juge antiterroriste cambriole: Quel rapport avec l’assassinat des
femmes kurdes ?

L’appartement d’un juge d’instruction du pôle antiterroriste du
tribunal de grande instance de Paris a ete cambriole le 23 septembre.

Il s’agit du juge Jeanne Duye qui instruit notamment le dossier de
l’assassinat de trois militantes kurdes en janvier 2013.

Article du journal franco-turc Zaman – 14/10/2013 – 1 Le Collectif
VAN relaye ici les articles du journal franco-turc Zaman (equivalent
du Today’s Zaman en langue anglaise, diffuse en Turquie).

Attention : ces articles ne sont pas commentes de notre part. Il s’agit
pour l’essentiel de traductions des versions turque et anglaise du
Zaman, journal proche du parti au pouvoir (AKP). “Le president du
Parlement turc, Cemil Cicek, a critique la resolution de l’Assemblee
parlementaire du Conseil de l’Europe (APCE) definissant la circoncision
comme une violation de l’integrite physique des enfants de moins de
14 ans”.

Communique du CCAF suite a la visite d’Arnaud Montebourg en Turquie
Lors de sa visite en Turquie, Arnaud Montebourg a declare que la
France souhaitait inaugurer avec cet Etat “de nouvelles relations
après les turbulences inutiles qui ont empoisonne leurs rapports”.

Avec cette reference detournee aux tensions qui ont suivi le vote de
la loi Boyer sanctionnant, entre autres, le negationnisme du genocide
armenien, le ministre de l’Industrie feint d’oublier que ce sont les
autorites turques qui a cette periode ont exerce un chantage odieux
sur la France et ses institutions democratiques pour l’empecher de
legiferer dans ce domaine.

Russie: emeutes a Moscou après le meurtre d’un jeune Russe Des
heurts impliquant des milliers de personnes ont secoue le sud de
Moscou dimanche. Les emeutiers protestaient contre le meurtre cette
semaine d’un jeune Russe par un homme d’origine “non slave” qui a
reussi a s’enfuir.

Hilda Tchoboyan, chevalier de l’ordre national du merite Hilda
Tchoboyan, conseiller regional PS Rhône-Alpes et militante bien connue
de la cause armenienne (Presidente de la Federation euro-armenienne
pour la Justice et la Democratie, ex-presidente de la Maison de la
Culture armenienne de Decines et militante de la FRA) a ete nommee
chevalier de l’ordre national du merite lors d’une ceremonie qui s’est
tenue a la mairie de Lyon en presence de S.E.Vicken Tchitetchian,
ambassadeur d’Armenie en France et de Bako Sahakian, president de la
Republique du Haut-Karabagh.

Une action nationaliste a Moscou degenère en affrontement avec la
police Dans le district de Birioulevo a Moscou, environ 600 membres de
l’Assemblee du peuple se sont approches du centre commercial Biriouza,
où, a leur avis, des migrants se reunissent generalement. Plusieurs
jeunes hommes ont brise des vitrines et lance des bombes fumigènes
dans le bâtiment. La foule de jeunes a affronte la police anti-emeute.

Le Vercors moteur du tourisme… armenien Cinq mille ans de retard
pour le tourisme plus tard, donc, mais toujours cette pelote de
haine tissee autour d’un pays en (grand) froid avec la Turquie,
en conflit avec l’Azerbaïdjan au sujet du Haut-Karabagh et protege
a distance par la poigne et le robinet a gaz du grand frère russe,
dont ils sont nombreux a regretter l’ex-tutelle sovietique.

Cantonale de Brignoles : le FN l’emporte avec 53,91 % des voix Le
candidat du Front national a remporte dimanche 13 octobre l’election
cantonale partielle de Brignoles dans le Var avec 53,91 % des voix,
un scrutin-test très attendu des etats-majors politiques avant les
municipales de mars. Laurent Lopez a recueilli au second tour 5.031
voix, contre 4.301 pour son adversaire UMP Catherine Delzers (46,1%),
selon la prefecture du Var.

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