‘Dieu m’a laissée en vie pour que je raconte’

Le Monde.fr
Vendredi 17 Janvier 2014

‘ Dieu m’a laissée en vie pour que je raconte ‘

par Guillaume Perrier

La petite femme ne sort plus beaucoup dans les rues de Marseille. Elle
se déplace voûtée sur une canne, choyée, couvée par sa fille et ses
petits-enfants. Mais lorsqu’on lui rappelle son enfance, son regard
s’allume et ses souvenirs lui reviennent, intacts. Ovsanna Kaloustian,
106 ans, est l’une des dernières survivantes du génocide des
Arméniens, en 1915. Une porteuse de mémoire, consciente du rôle qui
est le sien, à l’aube du centenaire de la tragédie. ‘ Dieu m’a laissée
en vie pour que je raconte ‘, répète-t-elle. La vidéo du récit de son
exode à travers l’Europe et le siècle est présentée au site-mémorial
du Camp des Milles, entre Marseille et Aix-en-Provence, inauguré par
le premier ministre, Jean-Marc Ayrault, en 2012.

De la terreur, des massacres et des déportations de son peuple dans la
Turquie ottomane, Ovsanna conserve une foule d’images et de détails
qu’elle raconte avec fougue. Elle est née en 1907 à Adabazar, situé à
une centaine de kilomètres à l’est d’Istanbul, et a grandi dans une
belle demeure, trois étages avec jardin. La ville, à l’époque, est un
centre important pour le commerce et l’artisanat, et la population
arménienne (12 500 personnes environ en 1914) y représente plus de la
moitié des habitants. Ovsanna se souvient que ‘même les Grecs et les
Turcs y parlaient arménien’. Son père tient un bar, qui fait aussi
office de salon de coiffure et de cabinet d’arracheur de dents. Elle y
boit le thé, le matin, avant de partir à l’école.

D’ISTANBUL À MARSEILLE

Ovsanna a 8 ans en 1915 lorsque, en pleine guerre, le gouvernement
jeune-turc lance l’ordre de déportation des Arméniens. ‘ C’était un
dimanche, la mère d’Ovsanna rentrait de l’église. Le curé venait
d’annoncer que la ville devait être vidée en trois jours, quartier par
quartier ‘, raconte Frédéric, le petit-fils de la survivante et
dépositaire de la mémoire familiale.

A pied, les convois se mettent en branle vers le sud et l’est.
Ovsanna, ses parents, son frère, ses oncles, tantes et cousins
arrivent à Eskisehir, où on les entasse dans un train. C’est dans des
wagons à bestiaux que des milliers d’Arméniens seront ainsi envoyés
vers les déserts de Syrie. Mais le train qui transporte la famille
s’arrête en chemin, à la gare de Cay, près d’Afyon. On leur ordonne
d’y dresser un campement de fortune. Les centres de triage plus en
aval sont engorgés. Ils seront finalement dispersés, deux ans plus
tard, et partent se cacher dans la campagne des environs. Ovsanna a
alors une dizaine d’années.

Avec l’armistice, en 1918, les survivants tentent de rentrer. La
famille d’Ovsanna retrouve sa maison calcinée, finit par repartir,
sous la pression des nouveaux occupants, turcs, de la ville. L’exode
se poursuit, d’abord vers Istanbul. En 1924, les oncles, tantes et
cousins embarquent pour les Etats-Unis. Quatre ans plus tard, la jeune
femme monte sur un bateau à destination de Marseille. ‘ Nous sommes
arrivés en décembre, sous la neige ‘, dit-elle. Comme tant d’autres –
10 % de la population marseillaise est composée de descendants de
rescapés du génocide arménien -, elle s’installe, fait un peu de
couture pour gagner sa vie. Elle se marie avec Zave Kaloustian, seul
survivant d’une famille massacrée, ouvre une épicerie, s’offre un
lopin de terre et y arrange sa maison.

‘ Elle nous a appris l’arménien, mais la transmission de l’histoire
est venue plus tard’, raconte son petit-fils. Ovsanna continue
aujourd’hui à témoigner, inlassablement, pour combattre le
négationnisme, toujours vivace cent ans après les massacres.

http://www.lemonde.fr/a-la-une/article/2014/01/17/dieu-m-a-laissee-en-vie-pour-que-je-raconte_4348433_3208.html

Erdogan: `Keep Turkey-Israel collaboration in secret’

Erdogan: `Keep Turkey-Israel collaboration in secret’

Posted on October 10, 2013

On October 8, 2013, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported that Turkish
prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged senior political and
security members of his cabinet to keep secret any news about his
government’s relations and cooperation with the Zionist regime on
different issues concerning Israel’s neighboring Muslim countries.

According to a government insider, Erdogan had a very important
meeting with his cabinet members, including Foreign Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu, Interior Minister Muammar Guler, National Defense Minister
Ismat Yilmaz, Security Chief Hakan Fydan, Head of IHH, Turkey’s
largest charity group, Fahmy Bulent Ildirim and a number of his
advisors on September 21.’

During the meeting, several issues related to Ankara’s foreign policy,
such as, `cooperation between Israel and Turkey on the outlawed
Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), the Syrian issue, peace talks between
the Palestinians and Israel and foiling Armenian lobby’s attempts in
the US against Turkey as well as consultations between Tel Aviv and
Ankara to persuade Washington to wage military attack on Syria`, were
discussed.

According the source, `Erdogan voiced extreme displeasure with the
leak of information about different aspects of Turkey’s relations with
Israel, and called on all the relevant governmental bodies to keep
such news secret and punish those who disobey the order even if they
are close people to Erdogan`.

The head of Israel’s Mossad, Tamir Pardo, met secretly with the
Turkish intelligence agency’s undersecretary, Hakan Fidan, on June 10,
2013 in Ankara, with Syria and Iran on the agenda.

On November 6, 2008, the Jewish Daily Forward reported that Ankara
hired several American Jewish groups, like AIPAC, ADL, B’nai B’rith
International, etc. to lobby against the passage of Armenian genocide
(HR 106) bill in the Congress. In this case, Jewish groups had common
interest with Turkey, as the genocide was Crypto Jews.

The PKK and several other Kurd groups, fighting against governments in
Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria, have Jewish Kurd leaders. More than
50,000 Kurd Jews are Israeli citizens. Before the 2003 Iraq war,
Israel armed and trained nearly 100,000 Jewish Kurds.

Last year, Scott Richard, a Washington-based intelligence analyst,
told Press TV that inspite of Erdogan anti-Israel rhetoric, Ankara is
controlled by Israel and the pro-Israel Jewish lobby.

`We (United States) have a very pro-Israel, a very pro-Zionist and
super control over Turkey. Turkey is becoming more of a puppet, while
in the past they’ve been very closely aligned with Syria,’ said
Richard.

I suspect the the anti-Erdogan campaign run by Israeli leaders and the
Jewish-controlled western mainstream media is nothing but a
smokescreen to create a `world Sunni leader’ out of Erdogan. This will
help the western imperialists to keep the Ummah divided and destroy
the Islamic Resistance from within.

http://rehmat1.com/2013/10/10/erdogan-keep-turkey-israel-collaboration-in-secret/

EU warns can halt talks with Turkey but `does not want to’

EU warns can halt talks with Turkey but `does not want to’

January 18, 2014 – 15:19 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – European Union Commissioner for Enlargement and
European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Füle has warned that the EU may
halt negotiations with Turkey but that the EU does not want to do it
because it would be a difficult process to restart once you halt the
negotiations, Today’s Zaman reported, citing sources.

Füle had a meeting with the members of the Friends of Turkey in the
European Parliament (EP) earlier this week, and his warning about the
possibility of halting Turkey’s EU negotiations came up during this
meeting, Today’s Zaman said.

Friends of Turkey is an informal group founded by members of the EP
with the main interest of following the negotiation process between
the EU and Turkey through a critical and constructive approach.

According to EU sources, Füle said the EU does not want to halt the
negotiations with Turkey because once you freeze the process it would
be very difficult to restart.

At the meeting in which eight deputies from the Friends of Turkey
group and many bureaucrats attended, Füle said 2014 has not started
well for Turkey and that the Dec 17 corruption operation is a `highly
complex investigation,’ without elaborating much.

According to sources talking to Today’s Zaman, Füle also said what the
Turkish government is doing with regards to the corruption
investigation is damaging the independence of the judiciary and the
separation of powers.

Füle tweeted earlier that he had asked the Turkish `authorities [to]
consult relevant amendments to laws before adoption to make sure
they’re in line with principles of EU legislation.’

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/175037/

Iran believes regional states can help Karabakh conflict resolution

Iran believes regional states can help Karabakh conflict resolution

January 18, 2014 – 14:50 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – Iran believes that the Nagorno Karabakh conflict can
be resolved peacefully and would welcome involvement of the countries
of the region in the process, Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan said,
according to Trend news agency.

As to possible Iran-Turkey cooperation, Mohsen Pak Ayeen said that the
conflict can be resolved `using the regional capabilities.’

Recently, in an interview with IRNA, Pak Ayeen said that the unsettled
Karabakh conflict harms regional security and implementation of major
economic projects.

http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/175030/

ISTANBUL: Seven years on, Dink murder remains unsolved

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Jan 19 2014

Seven years on, Dink murder remains unsolved

GÃ`NAY HİLAL AYGÃ`N
[email protected]

Jan. 19 was the seventh anniversary of the death of Turkish-Armenian
journalist Hrant Dink, who was gunned down in 2007 in broad daylight
in front of the offices of the bilingual Armenian weekly Agos, where
he was editor-in-chief. Seven years on, the murder remains unsolved,
with the real masterminds and motives continuing to be a source of
mystery for the entire country.

Although there has been mounting evidence that the murder was not the
job of a few individuals, those who devised the plot to kill Dink and
those who covered up the evidence after his murder have yet to be
exposed and punished.

So, what has happened since Dink’s death? An underage person who
carried out the murder was captured and sentenced, but those who
ordered him to do so have not yet been identified or brought to
justice. The hope remains — though it grows dimmer — that the
continuing investigation may eventually expose the criminal
organization responsible for Dink’s assassination.

Cengiz Çandar from Radikal said the Dink murder came at a troubled
time for Turkey, with the country headed towards a complicated
presidential election. `The first days of January suggested that 2007
would be a hard year for Turkey,’ wrote the columnist, adding that the
`sky became gloomy’ in the third week of January when Dink was shot
from behind. `Much has been said and written since then. Many people
protested against the murder. Many trials were held to find out the
truth behind the murder. Yet, the shroud of mist surrounding the
murder has not been lifted,’ Çandar complained. According to the
columnist, the state, not the deep state, was behind the murder. `It
is easier to point to the deep state in such cases. But to me, it was
not the deep state that carried out Dink’s murder. It was the state
itself. I have said several times before [in interviews and on TV
programs] that the state was behind the murder. It was the state
itself that was so close to the surface with all its institutions, he
noted.

According to Milliyet’s Nagehan Alçı, the seven years that have passed
since the killing of Dink are a source of shame for Turkey. `It has
been seven years but the Dink murder still lies there, just like a
corpse,’ she wrote. Alçı said she had interviewed Dink before the
murder, and he said he had been made a `target’ by a deep power that
wanted him to be seen as a man who insulted Turkishness. `When I go
out, I find myself psychologically torturing myself, thinking about
the men walking towards me, thinking about me,’ Alçı quoted Dink as
saying in the interview. The columnist also said those who conducted a
slander campaign against Dink were tried as part of the Ergenekon
cases, but no link between them and the Dink murder was established.
`Media actors who played the biggest role in the slander campaign that
resulted in Dink’s murder have not been called to account,’ she
stated.

Chess: Top-seeded Armenian brings high-flying So back to earth

The Inquirer, Philippines
Jan 19 2014

Top-seeded Armenian brings high-flying So back to earth

By Roy Luarca

Standings after six rounds: 5.0 points – Aronian; 4.0 – Giri, Karjakin;
3.5 – So, Dominguez, Caruana; 3.0 – Harikrishna, Nakamura; 2.0 – Van Wely,
Rapport; 1.5 – Gelfand; 1.0 – Naiditsch. Round 7 pairings: Caruana-Giri,
Rapport-Harikrishna, Nakamura-Van Wely, Naiditsch-Dominguez,
So-Karjakin, Gelfand-Aronian.

Filipino Grandmaster Wesley So found the top-seeded Armenian GM Levon
Aronian too tough to crack and came to grief in the sixth round of the
76th Tata Steel Tournament Masters Saturday (Sunday in Manila) in
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

So (Elo 2719), coming off a stunning victory over Israeli GM Boris
Gelfand (Elo 2777) on Friday, yielded to world No. 2 Aronian (Elo
2803) in 36 moves of a King’s Fianchetto Skirmish.

The result halted the Filipino’s steady rise in the super-tough
Category A tournament while giving Aronian a firmer grip on the lead
with 5.0 points, a full point clear of Dutch GM Anish Giri (Elo 2737)
and Russian GM Sergey Karjakin (Elo 2756).

So, winner of four tough tournaments last year, was mired at 3.5
points, in a tie with Cuban GM Leinier Dominguez (Elo 2754) and
Italian GM Fabiano Caruana (Elo 2782).

Giri split the point with Gelfand after 66 moves of a Gruenfeld
Defense while Karjakin beat GM Arkadij Naiditsch of Germany (Elo 2737)
after 76 moves of Barcza System.

Dominguez drew with GM Hikaru Nakamura (Elo 2786) of the United States
after 42 moves of a Ruy Lopez while Caruana halved the point with GM
Pentala Harikrishna (Elo 2708) of India after 132 moves of another Ruy
Lopez.

http://sports.inquirer.net/140725/top-seeded-armenian-brings-high-flying-so-back-to-earth

PM ordonne au gouvernement de reconsidérer la proposition des fortes

ARMENIE
Le Premier Ministre ordonne au gouvernement de reconsidérer la
proposition des députés de supprimer l’interdiction de la publicité
pour les fortes boissons alcoolisées

Le Premier ministre arménien Tigran Sarkissian a demandé au
gouvernement de reconsidérer une proposition des législateurs du parti
républicain d’Arménie d’une l’ablation partielle de l’interdiction de
la publicité pour les boissons fortes alcoolisées dans les médias,
bien que ministre de la Santé Derenik Dumanyan ait déclaré que le
gouvernement et les experts étaient contre une telle mesure.

La loi actuelle interdit la publicité pour les fortes boissons
alcoolisées dans les médias sauf pour le brandy. Le ministre a
souligné que le changement proposé comporte des risques importants
pour la santé publique.

Les députés du parti au pouvoir proposent de passer à une interdiction
partielle avec des publicités pour les boissons fortement alcoolisées
qui pourraient être diffusées à des heures précises fournissant ainsi
des ressources financières supplémentaires pour les radiodiffuseurs.

dimanche 19 janvier 2014,
Stéphane ©armenews.com

Première de la chanson dédiée au présentateur Marc Saghatelian préma

CHANSON-PEOPLE
Première de la chanson dédiée au présentateur Marc Saghatelian
prématurément disparu l’été dernier à Erévan

Lundi 20 janvier « Armenia TV » diffusera la chanson dédiée au
présentateur de télévision Marc Saghatelian prématurément disparu le
31 juillet dernier à Erévan. Il devait se rendre en Allemagne pour
subir une opération délicate. Mais le jour de son départ, il perdait
connaissance et tombait dans le coma. Il décédait à l’hôpital « Naïri
» sans avoir repris connaissance. Les stars de la chanson arménienne
ont pris part à cette chanson et vidéo-clip. Les paroles de la chanson
étant d’Avet Barseghian et la musique de Mart Babayan. Parmi les
nombreux chanteurs et chanteuses qui ont pris part à cette chanson,
citons Nouné Yessayan, Kristné Bebelian, Mhér, Razmig Amyan, Aramé et
Sona. La chanson serait d’après les premières indiscrétions, très
émouvante.

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 19 janvier 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

Erdogan demande à ses ambassadeurs de contrer les manifestations du

DIPLOMATIE TURQUE
Erdogan demande à ses ambassadeurs de contrer les manifestations du
100e anniversaire du génocide arménien par la diaspora arménienne

Le Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan a mis en garde sa
diplomatie contre les manifestations qui seront réalisées par les
Arméniens de la diaspora pour la commémoration du 100ème anniversaire
du génocide arménien en 2015. Le site turc Demokrathaber informe que
lors de la 6ème conférence des ambassadeurs turcs, Erdogan a dit «
contre cette sombre propagande politique, nous devons nous organiser
pour mettre en avant des preuves historiques et scientifiques et
lutter de front. Lorsque nous comprendrons bien l’histoire de la
Première guerre mondiale, nous pourrons bien le présenter au monde en
2015 ». Une nouvelle fois, la Première guerre mondiale pourrait
d’après le Premier ministre turc être la parade pour cacher dans les «
faits de guerre », le Premier génocide du 20e siècle, celui des
Arméniens perpétré par l’Empire ottoman.

Krikor Amirzayan

dimanche 19 janvier 2014,
Krikor Amirzayan ©armenews.com

Azerbaijani Defense Ministry calls on media and social network users

Azerbaijani Defense Ministry calls on media and social network users
“not to help the enemy’s reconnaissance

Friday 17 January 2014 17:24
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Azerbaijani Defense Ministry calls on media and social network users
“not to help the enemy

Yerevan /Mediamax/. The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry called on the
media and social network users not to mention numbers and definite
places of stationing of the military units.

The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry urged ” to approach the issues from
the viewpoint of the defense of national interests”, Trend reports.

The press release reads that “the Azerbaijani media recently published
information of various character on the operation of the Ministry of
Defense and Armed Forces which is posted in the social networks”.

“The majority of the news contains information of state secrecy,
information on the places of stationing of the military unites and
transfers of the staff. Besides, in late October 2013, a Facebook page
named “Colonel General Zakir Hasanov” was created and it has nothing
to do with the Ministry of Defense. Unfortunately, though the Ministry
of Defense repeatedly recommended to deal with state secrets more
cautiously the situation didn’t change. As a result, in a majority of
cases, the enemy’s reconnaissance easily gets data on the Armed Forces
(command, personal staff, stationing of military units etc) of
Azerbaijan with the help of such information”, the press release
notes.

http://lol54.ru/
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/region/8765/