Author: Kanayan Tamar

PATRICK FIORI : COMMENT SA FAMILLE A ECHAPPE AU GENO-CIDE ARME-NIEN

Voici, France
6 avril 2015

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Très emu, Patrick Fiori est revenu sur le geno-cide arme-nien auquel
sa famille a echappe, alors que son village etait en train de se
faire massa-crer.

Patrick Fiori est revenu, pour C’est au programme, diffuse sur France
2 aujourd’hui, sur l’histoire de sa famille, et notam-ment sur le
miracle par lequel il est par exten-sion un > du geno-cide
arme-nien. Invite a parler de son enfance, Patrick Fiori remonte
encore plus loin, en 1915, a l’epoque où la commu-naute arme-nienne a
ete frap-pee par le geno-ci-de… >

Celui qui s’est revele dans la come-die musi-cale Notre-Dame de Paris
pour-suit son recit avec emotion : >

EL GENOCIDIO SILENCIADO

Cronicas de la Emigracion, España
6 abril 2015

Roberto Mansilla Blanco | 06 de abril de 2015

En mayo proximo se cumple el centenario del genocidio armenio,
cuando las autoridades del entonces imperio otomano ordenaron el
desplazamiento y exterminio de poblaciones armenias historicamente
asentadas en la provincia de Anatolia. Así, el año de 1915 constituye
un doloroso recuerdo para los armenios, y para muchos su dolor ha
sido el primer genocidio de la historia contemporanea.

El genocidio armenio ha sido objeto de polemica durante años. La
diaspora armenia en Europa, EE UU y America Latina ha sido
especialmente activa a la hora de presionar a traves de lobbies para
que se reconozca la matanza de armenios por parte de las autoridades
otomanas. De hecho, en 1965, la República Oriental del Uruguay,
que cuenta con una notable diaspora armenia, fue el primer país en
reconocer oficialmente este genocidio.

Por su parte, la actual República de Turquía, sucesora del imperio
otomano, se ha negado sistematica y oficialmente a reconocer
este genocidio, un aspecto que ha provocado una fuerte tension,
principalmente en las relaciones turcas y armenias con diversos países,
principalmente europeos.

Es de reconocer que la actual República de Armenia es un país
independiente desde 1991, tras la desintegracion de la URSS (Union
de Repúblicas Socialistas Sovieticas). Durante casi todo el siglo XX,
siete decadas, entre 1921 a 1991, la actual Armenia formo parte de la
URSS como República Socialista Sovietica de Armenia, sin capacidad
legal y jurídica como país independiente como para erigirse en el
portavoz estatal y oficial de la condena y reconocimiento de este
genocidio. De allí a que, entre otras cosas, diversos historiadores
denominen al mismo como el “genocidio silenciado”.

Según diversas fuentes, el genocidio armenio cobro la vida de mas
de millon y medio de armenios. El presidente estadounidense Woodrow
Wilson reconocio la existencia de este genocidio en 1918, incluso
estipulando la independencia de Armenia tras la disolucion del imperio
otomano. Otras fuentes, principalmente armenias, presuntamente
adjudican a Adolf Hitler su justificacion del Holocausto judío
reconociendo que “los turcos hicieron los mismo con los armenios”
en 1915.

Cien años despues, la polemica sigue servida. Armenia celebrara un
genocidio que ha sido paradojicamente un símbolo de su identidad
nacional. Por su parte, Turquía celebrara en esa misma fecha su
triunfo en la batalla de Gallípoli de 1915, donde lograron derrotar
el dominio naval britanico.

El estratega de esta defensa otomana en Gallípoli, ubicada en
el estrategico estrecho de los Dardanelos, fue un joven oficial,
Mustafa Kemal, posteriormente nombrado Ataturk, creador de la moderna
República turca en 1923, y a quien los armenios tambien acusan de
perpetrar otro genocidio contra armenios y kurdos entre 1922-1923.

Memoria historica mediante, hay heridas que no cierran.

ARE FILMMAKERS TELLING A LIE ABOUT BAGRATYAN? (VIDEO)

17:46 | April 6,2015 | Social

Armenia’s former Prime Minister Hrant Baghratyan today responded to
the accusations made by filmmakers. Talking to reporters on April 6,
filmakers complained of the quality of modern films. Filmmaker Edgar
Baghdasaryan even recalled the words of the former Prime Minister
[Hrant Bagratyan], who said during his tenure in office that filmmakers
and sausage manufacturers should be taxed in the same way.

This led to the fact that the movie slowly turned into a sausage,”
Edgar Baghdasaryan said.

“This is very interesting, given the fact that I was the first to
order that films be made by state order in the difficult years of the
war. It speaks of the miserable condition of some ‘representatives’ of
our intelligentsia. By the way, taxes were included in these orders,”
said Bagratyan. In comparison, I can say that filmmakers today are
not paid more than they received in 1994-1996. So, what is the problem?

These intellectuals are displeased but they cannot express their
displeasure with the current government, otherwise, they will lose
everything. They think they must say something to reduce their pain.

They think their words will find the right addressee. Can they bring
any evidence that I said such things?” said the former PM.

KANYE WEST WILL JOIN KIM KARDASHIAN ON TRIP TO ARMENIA

10:12, 06 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Kanye West will accompany wife Kim Kardashian and daughter Nori
on their upcoming trip to Armenia next week, X17online can report
exclusively.

The trio will be in Kim’s ancestral country just ahead of the 100th
anniversary of the genocide of Armenian people, on April 24.

Kim dropped her first hint of the trip back in January, when she
explained that her then-platinum blonde ‘was only temporary and that
she’d return to being a brunette ahead of her trip to Armenia. It
wasn’t certain when she’d be traveling and if Kanye and North would
come with her, but X17online can report exclusively, that Kim will
travel with her hubby and daughter and that they’ll head there
next week.

It’s still unclear whether Kim will participate in an commemorative
events but it IS clear that she wants to pass on to her family some
education about her heritage. Kim’s dad Robert, the famous OJ Simpson
attorney who died from cancer in 2003, was an immigrant from the
country and apparently Kim wants to connect to that history.

KRIKOR AMIRZAYAN >

GENOCIDE DES ARMENIENS-SONDAGE

A la veille du 100ème anniversaire du genocide des Armeniens,
Krikor Amirzayan redacteur des Nouvelles d’Armenie Magazine ainsi que
d’autres titres de la presse armenienne avait en juillet dernier mis
en ligne sur le site MesOpinions.com un sondage avec la question >.

Krikor Amirzayan >.

Krikor Amirzayan, caricaturiste et journaliste de la presse armenienne,
responsable associatif et militant de la cause armenienne : “le
genocide des Armeniens est largement connu par les Francais”

En ce debut d’annee du centenaire du genocide des Armeniens, Krikor
Amirzayan nous a communique les resultats du sondage. Sur 322 reponses
obtenues sur le site, 88% ont repondu connaitre le genocide des
Armeniens de 1915, 11% ont affirme ne pas le connaitre et 1% etaient
sans avis. Krikor Amirzayan

BILGI UNIVERSITY MAKES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CONFERENCE STATEMENT, CONFERENCE TEAM RESPONDS

04.06.2015 10:12 NEWS

Ä°stanbul Bilgi University has made a statement regarding the
blocking of the conference titled “The Armenian Genocide: Concepts
and Comparative Perspectives” planned to be held at the university
on April 26.

The statement claims that it is not true that the university has
cancelled the aforementioned conference, adding that an official
request to organize the conference was never submitted to the rector’s
office, and that therefore the university could not be said to be
hosting such an event.

Reservation application made months ago

However, the conference organization team, in their statement to Agos,
explained that the university’s statement did not reflect the truth
and that the application for venue reservation was made months ago.

The statement read, “In accordance with the official procedures of
Bilgi University, first a venue reservation was made, and when the
program of the event became clear, the event application was prepared,
signed and presented to the events department under the General
Secretary on 17 March 2015.” The team added that the conference had
been announced on the events page of the university, but that it was
then removed when they had been notified by e-mail that the venue
reservation had been cancelled.

The conference organization team concluded their statement with the
words, “The blocking of this conference, which we aimed to realize
as a necessity of our profession, is an intervention to and breach
of academic freedom and freedom of expression. This prevention
unfortunately also harms the well-deserved, positive image of our
university built over many years.”

ARMENIAN TROOPS DEPART FOR TRAINING IN EUROPE

11:47, 6 April, 2015

YEREVAN, APRIL 6, ARMENPRESS: On April 3, Ambassador Mills joined
Armenian members of the Armenian Peace Keeping Brigade at Zvartnots
Airport to send off 36 Armenian peacekeepers to participate in
Saber Junction 15, a USAREUR-led Decisive Action Training Environment
exercise designed to train a brigade-level unit to operate with allied
and partner nations as part of a combined force. This exercise takes
place across Germany, Lithuania and Romania until April 30. Saber
Junction 15 prepares NATO and partner-nation armies for offensive,
defensive and stability operations and promotes interoperability
among participants.

Saber Junction 15 participation includes 17 nations and will train more
than 5,000 service members. These nations include the following NATO
Allies: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungry, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxemburg, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Turkey,
and the United States; and the following NATO Partnership for Peace
(PfP) nations: Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Sweden.

The joint Armenian-U.S. exercise is underwritten by a Memorandum of
Understanding between the Armenian Ministry of Defense and the U.S.

Army in Europe.

FOURTEEN CASES OF CANCER DETECTED DURING DISCOUNT PERIOD AT ARMENIAN-AMERICAN HEALTH CENTRE (VIDEO)

12:48 | April 6,2015 | Social

Director of Armenian-American Health Centre, Khachanush Hakobyan,
is glad to announce that the discounts announced at the Centre on
the occasion of Women’s Month will last for another week.

“After we announced discounts, we saw a significant increase in the
number of patients visiting our Centre. Also, 14 cases of cancer
were detected by screening mammography. Most of these patients were
unaware that they had the disease,” she said.

Khachanush Hakobyan says people are becoming more careful about their
health but they cannot afford treatment because of financial problems.

“I was convinced that people do not go to doctors because they are not
emotionally ready to do it, but the sharp increase in the number of
patients during discount periods proves the opposite: people want to
be healthy but cannot afford the cost of treatment,” she said adding
that the number of visitors from regions has also increased.

La depeche, France
3 avril 2015

«Meguerditch» : du désert de Syrie au grand café Daroles

Le cinéma près de chez vous

Le 12 novembre 1923, «La Dépêche» annonçait l’arrivée à Auch de 48
jeunes «originaires du Proche-Orient» invitant les personnes qui
s’étaient manifestées à se présenter le lendemain pour recevoir les
apprentis qu’ils avaient demandés. Florence Giroir-Cotonat, qui a
présenté en 2012 à la Société archéologique le fruit de ses recherches
sur l’immigration des orphelins arméniens dans le Gers (1923-1940),
vient de publier un nouvel ouvrage : «Méguerditch, des rives de
l’Arménie aux rives du Gers», contant le parcours de ce petit orphelin
(Meguerditch Karaguezian), rescapé du génocide, arrivé à Auch en 1923.
La suite : l’accueil en Armagnac, puis, à la recherche d’un emploi
nouveau, Auch, Arcachon, Bordeaux, Paris, la mobilisation, le Stalag 1
B en Prusse, le retour à Auch (à nouveau le café Daroles), le mariage,
la naissance de Nadine. Nadine était présente à la médiathèque
intercommunale avec plusieurs autres descendants de ces rescapés du
génocide (on en compte environ 400 000 en France aujourd’hui) pour
assister à l’exposé de Florence qui a rappelé, images à l’appui,
l’horreur de cet épisode dramatique : un travail de mémoire
remarquable sur un sujet dont la gravité et l’ampleur ont échappé à
nos concitoyens dans les années 1915 et après.

Ce soir, Serge Avedikian présentera au cinéma «Le Scandale de
Paradjanov». Aujourd’hui, à 20 heures, dans le cadre de l’hommage à
l’Arménie rendu en différents lieux culturels de Marciac, Serge
Avedikian présentera à la salle Emir-Kusturica son dernier film : «Le
Scandale de Paradjanov» . Ce film est sorti le 7 janvier dernier.

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
April 5 2015

Armenian journalist: I am sick of being a good-bad Armenian

Jan DevletoÄ?lu, who has been practicing journalism for a long time
now, has attracted attention with his recent memoirs, `Ä°yi Kötü
Ermeni’ (good-bad Armenian).

Our first question was about the title of the book. He noted that the
title can be traced back to his childhood, when he was working in a
small store: `My boss Jule sent me to a state office so that I would
give bribe money to a manager there. The director took the envelope
and told me that Jule is a good Armenian. This influenced me greatly
and made me think. I concluded that Armenians are generally bad but
that Jule was not one of those bad Armenians. He was a good-bad
Armenian.’

The many incidents of discrimination he faced form the main theme and
subject of the book. He does not, however, define the book as merely a
personal biography, saying: `The name of the book will not change if
you narrate the stories of any people who have been discriminated
against, regardless of their identities. As I noted in the preface of
the book, I am sick of being a good-bad Armenian in my own country.’

We kept talking about discrimination; at some point, we started
chatting about his son, Rafi, a name that has its own story.
DevletoÄ?lu picked this name to protect his son against discrimination
in case he ever chose to live and study in Turkey, because Rafi is a
popular name in Islam as well as in other religions. He says: `Given
that the state does not consider stopping its discriminatory practices
or taking the religion section off ID cards, I needed to take a
measure of protection and make sure that the religion of my son would
be recorded as Islam. I needed to protect a young individual against
biases, stereotypes, discrimination and religious pressure. For me,
religion is a personal thing, a decision that should be made by the
individual. I believe that what I did was right. I made efforts to do
this in the consulate. You cannot have your rights without a fight.’

`My religion was recorded as Islam on my ID; I was as happy as if I
had won the lottery’

DevletoÄ?lu’s religion was mistakenly changed to Islam on his ID when
he went to get a new one. He felt as if he had won the lottery,
because on his previous ID card the religion section read `Armenian’
and `Catholic.’ For a brief period of time, Islam superficially
eliminated the sense of being part of a lower class or of a minority.
According to DevletoÄ?lu, the state had profiled him on the ID card,
and for this reason, he was humiliated all the time: `This mistake
saved me from discrimination for a while. Now I can take a copy of my
ID card and use it in official places and hotels instead of my
passport which I preferred, as a more secular ID, in the past.’

`You cannot publish a report abroad without verifying it through at
least two sources’

Of course, I wanted to take the opportunity to ask this veteran
journalist about the current state of affairs of Turkish media. He
said: `In order to attain the truth in Turkish media, I have to read
at least three papers, and throw at least 50 percent of what I read
away. So you do the math.’

DevletoÄ?lu maintained that it is quite different to be a journalist
abroad, explaining: `You cannot publish a report without verifying it
through at least two reliable sources. If you do, and it turns out
that the report is falsified, you can no longer do that job. A
journalist has to comply with the principles of the profession. When
you do not, you become an outcast. The best-selling paper in the UK
had to shut down because it violated journalistic principles.’