Author: Kalantarian Kevo

Armenian authorities and arrogant elite serve to foreign powers –
environmental activists

news.am
April 28, 2012 | 21:36

YEREVAN. – Taken into account the parliamentary elections in the
context of the ongoing struggle over the wide range of speculations in
the Mashtots Park in downtown Yerevan, sit-on-strike participants have
made a statement.

`We assess the political system in Armenia as not democratic. Hence,
possibilities of holding fair and free elections are minimal. The
Mashtots Park is a public area and we struggle for regaining the
public property. While the self-determined citizens decided on not
allowing any political party to change the way of civil struggle.

As for the fact of serving foreign powers unreasonably, then it is
time to realize that contacts with abroad, including exchange of
intellectual and financial means, are not the monopoly of the
government and oligarchs. Moreover, there is nothing shameful in it.
In addition, it is Armenia authorizes and arrogant elite that serve to
the foreign powers,’ the statement reads.

Azeri subversives brutally killed Armenian soldiers – paper

April 28, 2012 – 17:26 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper disclosed the details of
Azeri attacks on Armenian servicemen in Tavush Province on April 27
night. According to the paper, the attack was made by Azerbaijani
subversive group.

Haykakan Zhamanak says the subversive group of several members not
only crossed the border but also went 150 meters far in Armenian
territory. It threw a grenade on the road from Aygepar to Movses
village and shelled a car, pulled the servicemen out of the car, shot
them and after finding a knife cut throat. The paper named David
Abgaryan (1984), Aram Yesayan (1986) and Arshak Nersisyan (1991) as
the soldiers murdered.

As the colleague of those killed said, four servicemen were found in
the car, with one of them managing to escape. He is currently in
military police of Berd town, which suggests he was probably wounded.
According to the paper, the soldiers had no opportunity to defend
themselves due to lack of weapons.

Aygepar village administration head Andranik Aydinyan told Haykakan
Zhamanak authors about the night incidents, noting Azeri ceasefire
violations bear a systematic character. He said Azerbaijanis
periodically cross the border at night, adding that Azeri shelling
hasn’t ceased since the incident.

Mr. Aydinyan voiced fears over many villagers’ possible fleeing their
homes in case the situation continues.

Turkey will become Iran’s first target

14:47 . 28/04

The air force commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Brig. Gen.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh has stated that the radiation coming from NATO’s
air defense radar base deployed near Malatya in Turkey can cause
disability among the children in the region.

ArmenPress informs making a reference to one of the Turkish media.
`Soon the Turkish people, too, will witness it and will be badly
affected by it,’ he has said.

Gen. Hajizadeh had announced earlier that should US or Israel attack
Iran’s nuclear facilities, then the radar bases in Turkey will become
Iran’s first target.

Biden Cashes In: 500K Raised from Turkish, Azeri Communities

by Armenian Weekly
April 28, 2012

Vice President Biden (R) and Obama

WASHINGTON (A.W.) – On April 27, three days after Armenian Genocide
Commemoration Day, Vice President Joe Biden addressed Turkish and
Azeri donors at a campaign fundraiser here in Washington, raising more
than $500,000.

The fundraiser came on the heels of President Obama’s April 24
statement, in which the President once again failed to properly
acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, resorting to euphemisms and the
Armenian term Meds Yeghern (Great Catastrophe) instead.

Biden praised `Azerbaijan as country with tremendous potential. We
want Azerbaijan to succeed in its goal of developing a modern
democracy and becoming a regional leader,’ reported The Hill.

According to The Hill, tickets for the event cost $2,500 a piece and
went to the Democratic National Committee and President Obama’s
reelection campaign. More than 200 members of the Turkish and
Azerbaijani communities were in attendance.

`Innovation, Competitiveness and Economic growth’ congress in Yerevan
28.04.2012 15:18

Hasmik Dilanyan
`Radiolur’

`Innovation, Competitiveness and Economic growth’ congress was held in
Yerevan today. The discussions focused on four topics: innovation,
private-public cooperation, public services and e-society, and the
role of information technologies in national competitiveness and
educational systems.

`Competitiveness is a most important tool in the world,’ Head of the
Armenian Represnetatons of the Microsoft Company Grigor Barseghyan
said.

`The 21st century is a competition in the intellectual field, a
competition in the filed of creation of new knowledge,’ Prime Minister
Tigran Sargsyan said in his opening remarks.

`The countries, which pay great attention to knowledge and
infrastructures that provide people with an opportunity to conduct
research and create new knowledge come out victors in this
competition,’ the Prime Minister said.

Touching upon the cooperation between the public and private sectors,
the prime minister said this format has succeeded in many countries.
According to him, the state has created a new platform with the
private sector, where the state does not play a primary role in
decision-making; on the contrary it ensures that the decisions are
made by the private sectors. `In this regard, the conditions of
competition remain equal for all branches,’ the Prime Minister said.

`To be competitive we need to have a competitive education system.
This means that the cooperation with educational establishments should
be of significant importance. The countries, which manage to build an
effective educational system, will have an opportunity to ensure their
competitiveness,’ the Prime Minister said.

Azeri Diversion?

Story from Lragir.am News:

Published: 12:55:33 – 28/04/2012

The representative of the Defense Ministry of Armenia and Permanent
Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Anjey Kasprchik talks
about the incident which killed three Armenian soldiers.

Armnews reported that David Tonoyan told Anjey Kasprchik that the
investigation shows it was a hidden action, while the injuries of the
killed soldiers prove they were killed by specially prepared people.

Recall the incident happened on April 27. Three contractual soldiers
were shot dead driving a car.

PRESSE INTERNATIONALE
Le jour où Abdullah Gül reconnaîtra…

Un jour, un dirigeant turc, sera assez homme d’État pour voir que la
dignité nationale deviendra meilleure en reconnaissant les pêchés
commis sur le sol Anatolien

Peu-être que le Président Abdullah Gül de Turquie SERA CE DIRIGEANT.

Ce texte accompagné de la photo du Président turc Abdullah Gül a été
placardé dans plusieurs journaux anglo-saxons le 24 Avril, notamment
dans l’International Herald Tribune et le New York Times. L’affiche et
les encarts ont été financés par le mécène britannique Raffy
Manoukian.

cliquer sur l’image pour agrandir

samedi 28 avril 2012,
Jean Eckian ©armenews.com

El País, España
24 abril 2012

Aniversario del genocidio armenio

Zulema Zazu Toledo Madrid

El genocidio armenio ofende la conciencia humana y es contrario a la
moral. El negacionismo del Gobierno turco no invalida el millón y
medio de armenios asesinados y los setecientos mil expulsados de su
territorio.

Pasaran los años y no habrá olvido, los que nos solidarizamos con la
causa armenia, defensores de los derechos humanos, pedimos justicia. –
Zulema Zazu Toledo.

Diario Siglo XXI, España
24 abril 2012

Armenia, la herida abierta de un exterminio silenciado

Nicolás de Miguel

“A falta de la industrial máquina de muerte nazi, el extermino sufrido
por los armenios, – y no podemos olvidar a sus desgraciados compañeros
de calvario como asirios, caldeos, helenos pónticos y sirios -, tuvo
esa impronta de piedra, fuego y hierro a través del abrasador desierto
sirio, donde muerte, violación e inanición conformaron una tríada
dantesca”.

Un 24 de Abril de 1915, en Estambul, la vieja Constantinopla
grecobizantina, daba comienzo la gran carnicería, un intento de
aniquilación total, el primer genocidio planificado, sistemático, del
siglo XX. Se inició con absoluta precisión, comenzando por la élite
sociocultural y religiosa y, una vez descabezada, se encarnizó con la
totalidad del pueblo de la Armenia occidental. La comunidad armenia en
el Imperio Otomano ya había sufrido otras persecuciones previas y
preparatorias para su Holocausto. Una comunidad cuya cultura milenaria
hunde sus raíces en un espacio geográfico reducido en la actualidad a
su mínima expresión. Porque al genocidio físico debemos sumar el
genocidio cultural como consecuencia de que un noventa por ciento, la
Armenia histórica, además de la Cilicia, se ubicaba dentro los límites
de la Sublime Puerta y actualmente en la heredera de aquélla, Turquía.

El genocidio iniciado en la primavera de hace 97 años fue también,
como no podía ser de otra manera, un crimen contra el Patrimonio
cultural de la Humanidad amén de la expropiación, del robo de
haciendas a gran escala. La Cuestión Armenia sigue siendo pues, una
cuestión actual, una herida abierta por la que brota la sangre de un
pueblo y que no cicatrizará hasta su reconocimiento final. Una
cicatrización que no debe ni puede significar olvido. Todos sabemos
que ocurre a los pueblos, a las naciones y a los ciudadanos cuando
intentan sentar bases sólidas sobre el fango del silencio, del
negacionismo, de la distorsión interesada de la realidad. La antorcha
de la causa armenia es la llama de todos aquellos que defienden, por
fea que sea, la verdad. Y sobre esta, la justicia, cimientos sobre los
que fundamentar una sociedad de ciudadanos libres.

Este genocidio nacional-cultural segó las vidas de más de millón y
medio de armenios en las condiciones más espeluznantes que imaginarse
pueda. A falta de la industrial máquina de muerte nazi, el exterminio
sufrido por los armenios,- y no podemos olvidar a sus desgraciados
compañeros de calvario como asirios, caldeos, helenos pónticos y
sirios-, tuvo esa impronta de piedra, fuego y sable a través de los
desiertos sirios donde muerte, violación y hambre conformaron la
tríada dantesca que caracterizó la masacre de cientos de miles de
inocentes a manos de los otomanos. No es la primera, ni penosamente
será la última vez que escribo sobre este demencial suceso histórico.

Y no me extenderé más sobre los relatos al alcance de cualquiera que
quiera conocer esta verdad, esta injusticia nauseabunda cuya sola
mención todavía está penada en Turquía. La columna de hoy quiere
sumarse al recordatorio que en todos los rincones del mundo civilizado
se realizan en un día de luto para Armenia. Un recuerdo vívido en el
que para su difusión, lucha y reconocimiento la Diáspora jugó, juega
un papel de primer orden. No en vano, es una Comunidad mucho más
numerosa que la que mora en el pequeño Estado de la Transcaucasia. Y
todos con el Ararat en la retina.

Conmemoramos pues un día de luto para la Humanidad. Un día negro que
los armenios, tanto del país transcaucásico como de la Diáspora, que
rememoran con dolor y oraciones. Unas oraciones que practican hasta
quiénes no son cristianos, ni siquiera creyentes, en honor a unos
antepasados que no descansan en paz. Porque nunca o pocas veces, una
religión fue a la vez bendición y cruz de un pueblo, un pueblo que es
el epítome oriental de lo que antaño se conocía como Cristiandad. Una
nación cuya situación en el mapa de la geoestrategia sigue
condicionando su fortuna. Desde la declaración conjunta de Francia,
Rusia y Gran Bretaña el 24 de Mayo de 1915 ,hasta la polémica,
esperemos no malograda en un futuro, ley francesa de 2012 que pretende
penalizar el negacionismo del genocidio armenio, un rosario de cuentas
insuficientes jalonan el calendario de reconocimientos. Un
reconocimiento entre los que no figura la firma española.

Hurriyet, Turkey
April 27 2012

Armenian, Turkish locals in court over land rights

Vercihan ZiflioÄ?lu
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News

An Armenian community mounts a legal battle to retrieve their land in
the eastern province of Batman, saying the land was illegaly given to
others. However, the new locals of the land claim they bought the land

The disputed 3,000 acres of territory covers four villages. Acar,
Heybetli, BalbaÅ?ı and Ã?aÄ?ıl villages are all located in Sason district
of the eastern province of Batman. DHA photo

An Armenian community that was forced to vacate their villages in the
southeastern province of Batman 25 years ago due to politically
motivated violence in the region has mounted a legal battle to
retrieve disputed land.

`They could not retrieve their homes and land when they decided to
return back. The Directorate of Land and Cadastre has forged illegal
documents on behalf of those who occupied [the properties],’ lawyer
Å?eyhmus Kabaday, who represents the villagers in court, told the
Hürriyet Daily News.

Acar village headman M. Å?irin Ekmen claimed otherwise, however, when
speaking on the occupant villagers’ behalf.

`We, too, are in possession of documents, and we will also present
them to the court. The [inhabitants of] Acar bought 1,300 acres of
territory from Ä°sa Demirci, a prominent Armenian villager, in 1986. We
have the documents,’ Ekmen said.

Some 3,000 acres of territory are at stake in the lawsuit filed by the
villagers, who left their land and homes behind to emigrate to
Istanbul in 1987 due to the regional violence spurred by clashes
between government forces and militants of the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers’ Party (PKK), unsolved murders and the Kurdish issue.

`They say they have deeds, [but] the signatures are fake, and there
are no originals. They are all photocopies. My clients, on the other
hand, are still in possession of their title deeds, and we have
presented them to court,’ lawyer Kabaday said.

The next hearing is scheduled for May 4 at the cadastre court in
Batman’s Sason district for the lands located in the villages of Acar,
Heybetli, BalbaÅ?ı and Ã?aÄ?ıl.

`Rights to be retrieved’

Speaking to the Daily News, a high-ranking state offcer said
beneficiaries would retrieve their rights if they filed a suit.

`[The Directorate of] Land and Cadastre entered places where it held
no authority. We have been pursuing the matter for the past three
years,’ he said.

`If such repression existed as claimed, then these people would not
have continued living here. People emigrated due to concerns about
terrorism. Now we are collecting input for the archives,’ he said.
Some of the Armenians who left their land currently live under Muslim
identities, the official added.

The damages incurred on people who abandoned their villages due to
fear of terrorism will be
compensated in accordance with Article 5233, which was legislated in
2004, if their claims can be verified, he said, adding that villagers
from Acar had already appealed to them. `We are the aggrieved party.
We [the inhabitants of] 38 households hit the road due to fear for our
lives, and we could never return back. We want to return back to our
village, but we are concerned about our security,’ Osman (Hovsep)
Demirci, one of the litigants, told the Daily News.

April/27/2012