Author: Kanayan Tamar

LA REACTION D’EDOUARD NALBANDIAN A LA PRISE DE POSITION DU PAPE

Genocide

L’Armenie a critique la reaction publique de la Turquie vis-a-vis des
propos du pape qui a reconnu officiellement le “premier genocide du
XXe siècle”.

Le ministre des Affaires etrangères, Edouard Nalbandian, a declare que
le pape Francois a prononce un “important message de solidarite et de
soutien au peuple armenien” a la basilique Saint-Pierre dimanche. Le
souverain pontife a egalement exprime son soutien aux efforts
internationaux visant a prevenir de nouveaux crimes contre l’humanite,
a releve Nalbandian dans des commentaires ecrits publies lundi.

Nalbandian a assiste a la messe avec d’autres membres d’une importante
delegation gouvernementale armenienne dirigee par le president Serge
Sarkissian. Les principaux membres du clerge de l’Eglise apostolique
armenienne, les dirigeants des organisations de la diaspora armenienne
ainsi de fidèles armeniens catholiques etaient egalement presents.

Sarkissian a remercie Francois Ier pour la liturgie au cours de leur
courte conversation qui a suivi la ceremonie de 2h30 retransmis en
direct par la television d’Etat.

Le gouvernement turc a, lui, condamne le pontife et a rappele son
ambassadeur au Vatican en signe de protestation.

“Ce sont les mots du chef spirituel de 1,2 milliard de catholiques
dans le monde”, a declare Nalbandian. “Si la Turquie est en desaccord
avec lui, qui rejoint le point de vue de nombreux pays et structures
internationales qui ont reconnu le genocide armenien, c’est le problème
de la Turquie et non de la communaute internationale.”

“Cela montre que la Turquie et la communaute internationale parlent
des langues differentes”, a charge Nalbandian. “C’est une preuve
supplementaire que la Turquie poursuit sa politique negationniste au
niveau de l’Etat, assumant ainsi la responsabilite du crime perpetre
par les autorites ottomanes.”

mercredi 15 avril 2015, Claire (c)armenews.com

LEBANON DEFENSE MINISTER HOSTS ARMENIAN COUNTERPART, ITALY ARMY CHIEF, STL HEAD

The Daily Star, Lebanon
April 14 2015

BEIRUT: Defense Minister Samir Moqbel held separate meetings Tuesday
with the Italian Army chief of staff, the head of the Special Tribunal
for Lebanon, and Armenia’s defense minister.

Moqbel discussed with Lt. Gen. Claudio Graziano military coordination
between the two countries and the activities of UNIFIL’s Italian unit
in south Lebanon, a ministry statement said.

Later in the day, Moqbel met with Ivana Hrdli?kov?, the newly-elected
head of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon investigating the 2005
assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Hrdli?kov? was accompanied by STL deputy chief Judge Ralph Riyashi,
the statement added.

Moqbel’s last visitor was Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian,
who was accompanied by the country’s ambassador to Lebanon and a
military delegation.

Ohanian told reporters that the meeting was “unique and very
important,” saying the discussion was focused on a new defense pact
between the two countries.

The Armenian official invited Moqbel to visit Armenia to continue
talks over possible military cooperation.

GENOCIDE ARMENIEN : SIGNEZ LA PETITION#REMEMBER24APRIL1915

Publie le : 15-04-2015

Info Collectif VAN – – Une petition en huit
langues, a l’initiative de l’UGAB, l’EGAM et DurDe, est mise en ligne
sur le siteRemember24April1915. En la signant, vous encouragez les
associations et militants turcs des droits de l’homme qui organisent
les commemorations du genocide armenien a Istanbul, Turquie. Le
Collectif VAN apporte son soutien a cette petition et a la delegation
antiraciste europeenne qui se rend a Istanbul le 24 avril 2015. Notre
Association est par ailleurs partenaire officiel des evenements
organises, en cette annee du Centenaire, par l’Association turque
des Droits de l’Homme (IHD), en souvenir du 24 avril 1915, date de
la rafle de 250 intellectuels armeniens a Constantinople. L’IHD,
qui a lance cette annee la Plateforme ‘100e Anniversaire – Mettre
fin au negationnisme’, porte depuis plus d’une decennie le combat en
faveur de la reconnaissance du genocide armenien en Turquie, contre
le negationnisme de l’Etat turc, et a ouvert la voie de la verite,
de la justice et des reparations. Soutenons les democrates turcs
et kurdes qui lancent toutes ces initiatives, sources de progrès et
d’evolution au sein de la societe civile turque.

Remember24April1915

1915-2015 : Commemorons en Turquie le genocide armenien !

Europeens, Armeniens et Turcs s’engagent ensemble

1915-2015. Cela fait cent ans qu’a debute le genocide des Armeniens
dans l’Empire ottoman. Un massacre au cours duquel un million et demi
d’Armeniens ont ete assassines.

Cela fait cent ans, cent ans de trop, que le negationnisme de ce
crime se situe au coeur de la politique et de la diplomatie de l’Etat
turc, qui a ete fonde notamment sur la spoliation des Armeniens et
la destruction de leur culture.

Cela fait cent ans que le negationnisme continue de faire des
victimes, nourrit le nationalisme, alimente des conflits et empeche le
deploiement de la liberte d’expression et de la democratie en Turquie.

Cela fait quelques annees que des voix, de plus en plus nombreuses
et soutenues par la societe civile europeenne, s’elèvent au sein de
la societe civile en Turquie pour reconnaître la realite du genocide
et commemorer en Turquie sa perpetration. C’est dans ce cadre que se
tiennent, depuis 2010, les commemorations en Turquie.

Cette annee, l’Etat turc a cyniquement planifie les commemorations de
la bataille de Gallipoli pour le 24 avril, dans une nouvelle tentative
d’eclipser le genocide armenien. De plus, les autorites turques sont
engagees dans une offensive de charme afin d’eviter un engagement
international pour les commemorations du genocide armenien.

Nous, Europeens, Armeniens, Turcs et Kurdes, qui avons initie,
organise, soutenu ou participe a ces commemorations, appelons tous les
individus epris de verite a commemorer, ensemble et pacifiquement,
a Istanbul le 24 avril prochain le genocide perpetre contre les
Armeniens.

En effet, la commemoration de ce genocide n’est pas l’affaire
uniquement des Turcs et des Armeniens mais de l’humanite entière, et
c’est au sein notamment de la societe turque que se situe aujourd’hui
la ligne de front du combat contre le negationnisme.

Notre demarche partagee est universaliste. C’est une demarche de
solidarite, de justice et de promotion de la democratie, donc d’avenir.

C’est une demarche de solidarite entre tous ceux qui se battent pour la
verite historique. La ligne de clivage n’est pas entre les Turcs et les
Armeniens, mais entre ceux qui combattent le negationnisme et ceux qui
le promeuvent, quelles que soient leurs origines et leurs nationalites.

C’est une demarche de justice. Le genocide est l’acte politique le plus
violent auquel le racisme puisse aboutir et le negationnisme en est
le prolongement. Lutter contre le negationnisme, c’est ainsi lutter
contre le racisme, donc pour une societe plus egalitaire et plus juste.

C’est une demarche de promotion de la democratie. Se souvenir des
disparus est un acte d’humanite et de reparation symbolique qui
s’impose a tous. Le faire en Turquie, c’est y accroître la liberte
d’expression, c’est remettre en cause les fondements-memes du caractère
non-democratique du pouvoir turc.

Ainsi, commemorer en Turquie le genocide armenien permet a tous,
en particulier aux jeunes generations, rassembles autour des valeurs
partagees de la democratie, de se confronter a la verite historique,
donc de pouvoir se projeter ensemble vers l’avenir.

Nous appelons tous ceux qui partagent ces valeurs et cette vision
a nous rejoindre et a commemorer, le 24 avril prochain a Istanbul,
le centième anniversaire du genocide armenien.

Signez la Petition ICI

Lire aussi :

Genocide de 1915 : Programme des commemorations en Turquie

Genocide armenien : Initiatives 2015 a Istanbul et Petition

Istanbul : Concert “In memoriam | 24 avril”

Rejoignez-nous a Istanbul en Avril 2015 !

Projet 2015 : Commemoration internationale du genocide armenien
a Istanbul

Agenda – Reportages sur l’identite armenienne en Turquie : “Aksor,
le retour des enfants armeniens”

Agenda – Blood For Memory : 1.5 millions de dons de sang pour le
Centenaire du genocide armenien

Dossier Collectif VAN : Commemorations du genocide armenien en Turquie
– Avril 2015

Source/Lien : Remember24April1915

KANYE WEST PLONGE DANS UN LAC EN ARMENIE POUR SES FANS

ARMENIE

Kanye West qui plonge dans le lac de Erevan au cours d’un concert. Le
rappeur est sur place depuis mercredi afin de commemorer les cent
ans du genocide. Il voyage en compagnie de son epouse Kim Kardashian,
dont les ancetres sont armeniens et qui prevoit de travailler sur un
documentaire sur l’histoire de son pays d’origine.

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C’est cette dernière qui raconte sur son compte Instagram comment
Kanye West a voulu faire un concert gratuit a Erevan, la capitale du
pays, et qui a attire des milliers de personnes. >,
a explique Kim Kardashian, heureuse de cette >.

mercredi 15 avril 2015, Stephane (c)armenews.com

LOS ANGELES PRAYER SERVICE TO COMMEMORATE ARMENIAN KILLINGS

Oroville Mercury Register
April 14 2015

Posted: 04/14/15, 6:44 AM PDT |

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roman Catholic Archbishop Jose Gomez will host
a multi-denominational prayer service in Los Angeles to commemorate
the 100th anniversary of the killings of an estimated 1.5 million
Armenians under the Ottoman Empire.

The Los Angeles archdiocese says Mayor Eric Garcetti will be the
keynote speaker at the service Tuesday evening at the Cathedral of
Our Lady of the Angels.

The service will include church leaders from around the state and
feature a procession of Armenian children carrying a lantern into
the cathedral.

The event comes days after Pope Francis described the killings a
century ago as “the first genocide of the 20th century.”

Turkey denies the killings were genocide and contends those who died
were victims of civil war and unrest. Turkey also insists the death
toll has been inflated.

EVENT IN THE NETHERLANDS DEDICATED TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

11:44, 14 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

On April 11, commemorative event dedicated to the Centenary of the
Armenian Genocide, organized by the Association of Armenian Women of
Gelderland, the Society of Young Armenians of Arnhem and the Armenian
Apostolic Church of Arnhem was held in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

A requiem mass was performed at the commemorative event, followed
by lighting of 100 candles symbolizing 100th anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide. Several episodes of the program of Dutch Public
TV of 1983-1985, “Tower of Babel”, were shown that was dedicated to
the Armenian Genocide. “Navasard” choir performed musical pieces and
students from “Nor Aig” Sunday school recited verses dedicated to
the Armenian Genocide.

Manoshak Ohannesian, Minas Arsenian and Alice Tovmasian made statements
on behalf of the organizers of the event. Ambassador of Armenia to
the Netherlands Dziunik Aghajanian, addressed the attendees calling
for consolidation and patience, mentioning, “Our cause is still ahead
of us. We have demands, demands for justice which would require our
united efforts, persistence and patience to advance our permanent
fight, in order to put an end to impunity, the impunity that is
being nourished by denialist ideologies, political expediency,
governments acting solely on economic and strategic interests, those
that pronounce themselves as protagonists of human rights, yet do
not have the courage to call the crime by its name, to denounce it
completely, a phenomenon that does not allow unhindered implementation
of international commitments aimed at prevention of genocide.”

TURKEY AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SPEAK NOT THE SAME LANGUAGE – NALBANDYAN

YEREVAN, April 14. /ARKA/. Armenia’s minister of foreign affairs
Edward Nalbandyan said that Turkey and the international community
are on the different wavelength, in commenting Pope Francis’ statement
about the Armenian genocide during the holy mass on Sunday.

On Sunday the head of the Roman Catholic Church served a landmark
mass in the Armenian Catholic rite in St. Peter’s Basilica. In his
speech, Pope Francis used the world genocide in describing the mass
killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey a century ago. The Pope’s
statement provoked anger in Turkey. Turkey recalled the ambassador
to the Vatican, and called the Vatican ambassador to the foreign
ministry for consultation.

The Pope’s statement is a call to consolidate, to support the Armenian
people, to back the efforts of the international community to prevent
the future crimes against humanity, the foreign minister said.

It is the spiritual leader’s address to some 1.2 billion Catholics,
he said.

“If Turkey disagrees with this statement and with many countries
having recognized the Armenian genocide, and does not agree with the
opinion of the international organizations, than it is the problem of
Turkey, but not of the global community. This indicates that Turkey
and the international community do not speak the same language,”
Nalbandyan said.

This confirms Ankara continues it denial policy at a high level and,
hence, assumes responsibility for the crime committed by the Ottoman
Empire leadership, the Armenian foreign minister said.

Guided by universal human values, the Pope said that concealing or
denying the genocide would mean leaving the wound bleeding without
bandaging it, Nalbandyan said.

“Denial is opening the doors not to reconciliation, but to new crimes
against humanity,” the Armenian foreign minister said. -0–

MUSLIM CLERIC FETHULLAH GULEN TERMS MASSACRE OF ARMENIANS IN OTTOMAN TURKEY AS GENOCIDE

by Ashot Safaryan

Tuesday, April 14, 00:33

A letter, penned by U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen nearly 50 years
ago, has revealed the Muslim cleric recognizes the 1915-1916 killings
as genocide; a claim Armenia defends. Gulen is the ideological and
political opponent of Turkey President Recep Erdogan.

“…I can not continue without condemning the genocide perpetrated
against Armenians in 1915. I commemorate the victims of Genocide
with a deep respect,” said Gulen in the letter written to Archbishop
Shinork Kalusyan, the former Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul on May
6,1965. “I condemn with indignation and abhorrence the massacre of
children of your great Prophet Jesus Christ by some ignorant people
who think they are Muslim,” Yeni Safak quotes the letter.

“All nations and people are actually brothers and sisters because the
grandmother of all of us is Eve and the grandfather is Adam. Man is
mortal. Living as brothers is a need,” he said. Gulen was serving as
a preacher in K?rklareli when he penned these lines to Kalusyan.

ARMENIAN INTELLECTUAL ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT GENOCIDE LITURGY IN VATICAN

14:22 * 14.04.15

The Armenian Genocide liturgy in Vatican was unprecedented as Pope
Francis’s call to recognize justice raised both a political message
and a demand for cause, say Armenian intellectuals.

“In his address, the Pope relied upon the key messages voiced by the
Armenian president in every speech of his. All that was this heard
from the mouth of a person whom the entire world was listening to,”
writer and publicist Razmik Davoyan told a news conference on Tuesday.

He said the Pope’s move to condemn the Genocide was something he
considered a moral duty not only for himself but also the world.

“This is a message calling for for unity. We know the implications
of voicing a call from Vatican. The biggest message was the one for
re-establishing the Armenians’ unity,” Davoyan added.

He further stressed the importance of leaving aside political and
party interests to consolidate over the idea of unity.

“We had such unity during the Nagorno-Karabakh movement, but the
strife for power broke that apart,” he added.

Davoyan said he thinks that Armenia now has a second chance to achieve
Turkey’s recognition of Genocide. “The Pope’s call is directly entering
into the political arena. It is a demand for cause and has political
approaches,” he said.

Vardan Devrikyan, a literary critic and a veteran of the
Nagorno-Karabakh war also attending the news conference, said he
found the liturgy a good occasion to introduce the Armenian culture
to the world.

“It was a great opportunity to demonstrate our culture and
our spiritual presence in Europe. The liturgy in Vatican was
unprecedented,” he noted.

DENIAL NOT OPENING THE DOOR TO RECONCILIATION: ARMENIAN FM

00:52, 14 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian answered the questions
of Adnkronos.com Italian website.

Question: What impression do you have from the Pope’s statement on
the ArmenianGenocide?

Answer: The address by Pope Francis I during the Sunday Mass service in
Rome marking the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide was an important
message of solidarity with the Armenian people, it was also a message
of support to the efforts of the international community for the
prevention of new crimes against humanity, new genocides.

Question: How would you comment Turkey’s displeasure with respect to
this statement?

Answer: These are the words of the spiritual leader of 1 billion 200
million Catholics of the world. If in Turkey they do not agree with
this approach, do not agree with the approach of many countries,
international organizations which have recognized the Armenian
Genocide, it is the problem of Turkey, and not of the international
community.

It shows that Turkey and the international community are talking in
different languages.

That is yet another proof that Turkey is continuing its policy of
denial on state level, thus assuming responsibility for the crime
committed by the authorities of the Ottoman Empire.

Led by universal noble values the Pope wisely said: “”Concealing
or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without
bandaging it.”

Denial is not opening the door to reconciliation, it is opening the
door to new crimes against humanity.