Author: Kanayan Tamar

At the Armenian mission in New York an official reception was
organized in honor of the Artsakh Republic President

(Noyan Tapan – 19.11.2011)

On 18 November at the Armenian mission in New York an official
reception was organized in honor of the Artsakh Republic President
Bako Sahakyan.

President Sahakyan noted the importance of the work of the permanent
representation mission in objective presentation of the Artsakh issue
in one of the most important international organization – the UN.
According to the President this work would have a positive impact on
the international recognition of the NKR.

During the event the Head of the State handed in the `Vachagan
Barepasht’ medal to American philanthropist of Armenian origin Andreas
Roubyan noting that the philanthropist standing at the origins of the
Artsakh National Liberation movement continues to take an active part
in the development of the NKR.

Head of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church
Archbishop Pargev Martirosyan, head of the central information
department of the office of the Artsakh Republic President David
Babayan, representatives of the local Armenian community partook at
the event, the Central Information Department of the Office of the
Artsakh Republic President informs.

European Federation for Immunogenetics opens regional conference in Yerevan

14:19 – 19.11.11

Upon the initiative of the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, the
European Federation for Immunogenetics launched today its first ever
regional conference in Yerevan.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, the participants attached a major
importance to the event, considering it a great contribution to the
development of the country’s healthcare sector.

They highly praised the recent years’ legislative reforms allowing for
the transplantation of organs through a medical intervention.

“We must be able to use all the resources to save and prolong human
life,” said Ara Babloyan, the head of the National Assembly’s Standing
Committee on Healthcare, Maternity and Childhood.

Babloyan, who is also the head of Arabkir Joint Medical Center,
expressed belief the meeting would enable numerous healthcare
institutions across Armenia to follow their clinic’s example of
transplanting organs and choosing appropriate methods of treating
blood diseases, cancer and genetic disorders.

“I am sure that this meeting will open doors to our future,” he said.

The Bone Marrow Donor registry is a charitable trust founded in 1999.
Its beneficiaries are patients suffering from leukemia and various
blood diseases, as well as blood donors. Over the 11 years of its
existence, it has registered over 20,000 donors (5,576 being from the
Diaspora).

Tert.am

Solidarity with the Victims of All Genocides
c/o The Temple of Peace, King Edward VIII Road, Cathays Park, Cardiff
[email protected]
07718982732 (UK) 00447718982732 (Int.)

Solidarity with Prisoners of Conscience in Turkey
(including Turkish-Occupied Armenia)

Proposed action to coincide with UK visit of Turkish President,
22 & 23 November:

We invite you warmly to a Vigil outside Buckingham Palace the night of
the 22nd November (7 p.m. onwards) to co-incide with the visit of The
Turkish President.Then opposite Downing St on the 23rd (exact time to be
obtained from 07588256783)

1 “Free Turkish Intellectuals imprisoned for “Thought Crime””
2 “End Turkish State Terrorr on the Kurds”
3 “Recognize that Modern Turkey is built on the Genocide of its
Armenian, Assyrian and Greek population”

Please RSVP to: [email protected] 07588256783

2 Solidarity with Prisoners of Conscience in Turkey

You are warmly invited to a meeting in 1 Parliament St, (Parliamentary
Offices), (on the corner of Parliament Square and Bridge St, next to
the Parliamentary Bookshop) Houses of Parliament, at 5 p.m. on
Wednesday 23rd November to support Ragip Zarakolu, publisher of books
on the Armenian Genocide, detained by the Turkish State in a high
securiuty prison for expressing his thoughts on the National Minorities
of Turkey

Meeting Sponsored by Michael Connarty MP

SYRIE : LA TURQUIE SOUTIENT LES SANCTIONS DE LA LIGUE ARABE CONTRE DAMAS
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 18 novembre 2011

La Turquie soutient la suspension annoncee de la Syrie de la
Ligue arabe, a indique mardi a Rabat le ministre turc des Affaires
etrangères, a la veille d’une reunion ministèrielle de la Ligue pour
evoquer cette sanction.

Nous estimons que c’est une decision juste, a indique M. Ahmet
Davutoglu, lors d’une conference de presse conjointe avec son homologue
marocain Taïeb Fassi-Fihri.

Le 12 novembre, les ministres des Affaires etrangères de la Ligue
arabe ont annonce au Caire que la Syrie allait etre suspendue le 16
des activites de l’organisation pan-arabe si Damas ne mettait pas
fin a la repression de son opposition.

Une reunion entre les pays arabes et la Turquie doit aussi avoir lieu
dans la capitale marocaine au moment où Ankara a egalement menace
la Syrie de sanctions, notamment de lui couper l’approvisionnement
en electricite.

M. Fassi-Fihri a toutefois invite la Syrie a participer a la rencontre
arabo-turque, en depit de la suspension qui vise Damas : Les portes
restent ouvertes aux responsables syriens s’ils veulent participer
demain au Forum, a-t-il assure.

La Ligue arabe et la Turquie se retrouvent a Rabat alors que la
pression s’est accrue contre le regime de Bachar al Assad, au prise
depuis huit mois avec une rebellion armee qui a touche plusieurs
regions du pays.

Le regime syrien ne veut pas ecouter son peuple et continue dans sa
strategie repressive, a estime le ministre turc.

Il a indique que son gouvernement, qui a deja accueilli plusieurs
reunions d’opposants syriens, etaient prets a rencontrer tous les
opposants syriens et a la ecouter.

Lorsque la Syrie eternue, la Turquie s’enrhume, a poursuivi M.

Davutoglu en allusion a la dimension regionale du conflit en Syrie,
et il a insiste sur les relations profondes (de la Turquie) avec la
Syrie et avec le peuple syrien.

Nous voulons les aider, a-t-il encore assure, mais, selon lui,
le regime du president Assad doit faire des efforts en faveur de
reformes politiques.

Mardi, Ankara a menace de suspendre la fourniture d’electricite a
son voisin, comme elle le fait depuis 2006 dans le cadre d’un accord
d’exportation. La Syrie est très dependante du partage des eaux de
l’Euphrate qui prend sa source en Turquie, et lui fournit 60 % de
son energie hydroelectrique.

La Turquie a egalement annonce avoir arrete sa participation a des
explorations petrolières conjointes sur six puits en Syrie.

PASCAL LEGITIMUS, UN “INCONNU MECONNU” SEUL EN SCÈNE AU PALACE
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 18 novembre 2011

Ne d’un père antillais et d’une mère armenienne, il se definit comme
un “black a part” : Pascal Legitimus reussit a emouvoir et faire rire
sur ce metissage atypique, a l’occasion d’un premier “one man show”
a l’affiche du Palace, a Paris, jusqu’au 7 janvier, avant une tournee.

Revele avec le trio des “Inconnus” forme avec Didier Bourdon et
Bernard Campan, rencontres en 1982 au Petit theâtre de Bouvard, Pascal
Legitimus signe avec “Le Meconnu” un spectacle intimiste en s’amusant
de cette heredite “entre deux chaises” aux heritages complexes,
sans prendre parti : un genocide d’un côte, l’esclavage de l’autre.

“Je suis issu de peuples qui ont tellement pleure que j’ai voulu
faire rire !”, explique d’emblee l’humoriste, qui apparaît sur scène
en costume papou et etui penien pour un hommage aux figurants noirs
du debut du cinematographe.

“Je suis Francais mais ca ne se voit pas. Hier, les flics me
demandaient mes papiers. Aujourd’hui, ils veulent des autographes
!”, observe Pascal Legitimus, qui deroule une galerie de personnages
hilarants, tout droit sortis de deux grandes armoires installees sur la
scène, l’une blanche l’autre noire, pour symboliser sa double culture.

Entre deux eclats de rire, le public est invite a la reflexion sur
le racisme ordinaire, la discrimination et le sort des minorites.

Defendant ses combats sans les assener, Pascal Legitimus touche
aussi au coeur avec le portrait drôle et attachant de sa grand-mère
antillaise.

Depuis la separation des “Inconnus” et en attendant d’hypothetiques
retrouvailles, Pascal Legitimus a tourne plusieurs films dont recemment
“Demandez la permission aux enfants” d’Eric Civanyan et “Bancs publics
(Versailles rive droite)” de Bruno Podalydès.

L’humoriste a egalement signe la mise en scène de nombreux “one man
shows” pour Pierre Palmade, Laurent Ruquier, Anthony Kavanagh et
Stephane Rousseau. A la television, Pascal Legitimus a incarne des
rôles recurrents (“Crimes en serie”, “Les tricheurs…) et participe
a plusieurs telefilms.

Avec Mathilda May, il a joue plusieurs annees a Paris et en tournee
le spectacle “Plus si affinites”, qu’ils ont coecrit sur le thème de
la seduction et qui a rencontre un grand succès.

GENOCIDE ARMENIEN – TROUS NOIRS DE LA TURQUIE
Stephane

armenews.com
vendredi 18 novembre 2011

Sous la plume de la journaliste Regina Monch le journal allemand FAZ –
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung a denonce l’emprisonnement en Turquie
des intellectuels ” traitant ouvertement avec le genocide des Armeniens
” notant ” qu’en attendant, les scientifiques soulèvent la section
peu explore du genocide “.

Regina Monch introduit son article en indiquant que Ragip Zarakolu et
le Premier ministre turc Recep Erdogan auraient pû se rencontrer en
Allemagne. ” Tous deux etaient invites pour deux evenements absolument
differents. Mais l’intellectuel hautement respecte d’Istanbul
(..) n’a pas atteint son avion. Il a ete arrete. Zarakolu devait
etre a Berlin pour une conference a la Maison de Lepsius consacree a
la societe civile turque et son attitude a l’egard du genocide des
Armeniens ottomans en 1915. Contrairement au passe les miliatnts
ne sont plus persecutes comme Zarakolu pour insulte a la turcite,
mais selon les dispositions des lois anti-terroristes. La police a
saisi ses livres et manuscrits sur l’assassinat et la persecution
des Armeniens chretiens dans l’Empire ottoman. Dans une lettre a
la Conference de Potsdam Zarakolu a explique que son arrestation
s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une campagne d’intimidation contre les
intellectuels et les democrates en Turquie “.

” Rappellant que 48 intellectuels ont ete arretes et son fils, Deniz,
directeur general de la maison d’edition Belge Zarakolu ecrit que son
arrestation fait partie de la politique negationniste turc qui aurait
” envisager une action contre la menace de sa propre securite “. Il
devait faire un rapport a Potsdam sur ” l’industrie de la negation
du genocide ” et des pseudo-etudes scientifiques commandees par le
gouvernement et ” la Coordination contre les accusations infondees
de genocide “.

En l’absence de Ragip Zarakolu c’est Elke Hartmann, qui a parle des
differentes phases de la negation, de la periode immediate après
la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu’a aujourd’hui. Encore et encore,
mais le silence est rompu après la publication de ” Musa Dagh ” de
Franz Werfel ou en 1965, quand les Armeniens partout dans le monde
manifestent. Mais les protestations vont de nouveau etre stoppees.

Mais grâce au livre de Fethiye Cetin ” Ma grand-mère ” la parole s’est
liberee et a commence a fissurer le beton. Les decès qui sont enterres
trop profondement, dit un proverbe, reviennent comme des fantômes. La
femme turque Cetin avait decouvert que sa grand-mère etait armenienne.

Son livre est devenu un best-seller, et la politique a reagi avec des
campagnes de propagande et des mythes historiques. Mais la verite,
dit Hartmann, deplie ses propres forces. Soudain apparurent partout
en Turquie ” des grands-mères armeniennes ” et qu’elles peuplaient
le trou noir de la memoire.

L’historien Ayse Gul Altinay (Universite de Sabanci, Istanbul, Turquie)
a fait des recherches pendant des annees sur les femmes survivantes
du genocide de 1915 Leurs petits-enfants comme Cetin ont brise le
silence et mis en lumière ce groupe oublie : Beaucoup de femmes et
d’enfants ont ete violees après les massacres et les deportations,
comme femme de plaisir ou seconde femme dans des familles musulmanes
ou les orphelinats où ils etaient places pour etre reeduques en tant
que Turcs. La force ” assimilation ” etait accompagnee par le mariage
force – par la conversion qu’Altinay a considere comme un effacement
de cette tragedie.

La sociologue Necla Kelek a appelle les Turcs allemands a Potsdam,
ici, en toute securite et sans danger, a faire vivre la memoire
de cet assassinat de masse. ” Celui qui perd son passe, dit-elle,
citant Gyorgy Konrad, se perd “.

Rober Koptas, le jeune redacteur du magazine turco-armenien ” Agos
” a rappelle Hrant Dink le fondateur de son journal. Beaucoup ont
commence a reflechir et a explorer notre propre origine precisement
quant Hrant Dink a ete assassine parce que ce dernier a voulu se
rappeler de 1915 La Turquie a dit Koptas, a besoin d’un Willy Brandt
maintenant pour enfin se reconcilier avec elle-meme.

YEREVAN WANTS STRONGER CULTURAL COOPERATION WITH IRAN

Islamic Republic News Agency
Nov 18 2011

Moscow, Nov 18, IRNA — Armenian Minister of Culture and Youth Affairs
Hasmik Poghosyan says Iran and Armenia should tighten cultural.

Speaking to Iran’s Cultural Attache Mohammad-Reza Shakiban at the end
of his mission, Poghosyan in Yerevan on Friday highlighted areas of
mutual cooperation in building bridge of literature, publishing tens
of books in Armenian and Farsi languages, and holding scientific and
cultural meetings as well as arts and music festivals and culture
weeks, especially a border cultural festival.

She hoped that the two neighbors will continue cooperation in the
culture domain.

A group of Iranian and Armenian cultural, scientific and literary
elites were present in the meeting.

The Armenian minister to the end of the meeting offered highest
cultural medal of Armenia to the Iranian diplomat, Shakiba.

SUSPECT’S FATHER REVEALS NEW INFO ON DINK MURDER
Vercihan Ziflioglu

Hurriyet Daily News
Nov 17 2011
Turkey

The father of one of the suspected conspirators in journalist Hrant
Dink’ murder, Bahattin Hayal says his son Yasin Hayal was used as
a pawn in the murder case. “The true criminals must be revealed,”
Hayal says.

Suspected instigator Yasin Hayal’s father, Bahattin Hayal says his
son was used by police informant Erhan Tuncel and others in planning
the murder of journalist Hrant Dink. DAILY NEWS photo, Emrah GUREL

The father of one of the suspected conspirators in the murder of
journalist Hrant Dink has released new information on his son’s
connections with police informants and said the real people behind
the assassination must be revealed.

“We learned that my son had gone off to Azerbaijan before the murder,
even though he had no passport or money,” suspected instigator Yasin
Hayal’s father, Bahattin Hayal, told the Hurriyet Daily News on Nov.
16.

The case will never be illuminated unless police informant Erhan
Tuncel’s connections are revealed in full first, he said, adding that
his son was used as a pawn.

“They stayed at a luxury hotel in Akcaabat [a district in the Black
Sea province of Trabzon]. My son was introduced to two persons in the
hotel. Erhan Tuncel had told [him] that one of these was the Chechen
chief of staff,” Bahattin Hayal said, adding that his son’s trip to
the Akcaabat with Tuncel constituted yet another point that needed
to be further investigated.

“I am deeply saddened by this murder. I have no courage to venture
near Rakel Dink [Hrant Dink’s widow]. This case will not come to light
unless Erhan Tuncel’s connections are found. The true criminals must
be revealed,” he added.

Bahattin Hayal said he attempted to meet with the Dink family’s lawyers
several times, and added that they had told him to convince his son to
reveal the truth. However, one of Dink family’s lawyers, Bahri Belen,
said he had not been previously aware of the father’s statements.

“I do not know how serious Tuncel’s statements are. I do not know
whether he was specifically selected to issue such statements either.

He gave us no information regarding Azerbaijan or Akcaabat,” Belen
told the Daily News.

“I am not bluffing; my son was used. He is being tried for life
imprisonment, while Erhan Tuncel may possibly be released. I damn
the day they met,” Bahattin Hayal said, adding that he had earlier
testified to the prosecutor’s office but later changed his testimony
due to the threats he received.

According to the father’s testimony, Yahya Ozturk, who was the chief
of police in Trabzon at the time of the incident, told Hayal that his
son was serving the country and that matters would be arranged so that
he would not have to serve a long sentence for any role in the murder.

Bahattin Hayal also said a high-ranking intelligence official from
the southeastern province of Mardin contacted him in 2007 to send a
message to him, and that he relayed this information to the prosecutor
on Nov. 14.

“‘I pay my respects to you. You have raised a patriotic son,’ was the
message he sent, but I find the praise of this murder disturbing,”
Bahattin Hayal added.

Dink, a journalist of Armenian origin, was the chief editor for
weekly Agos, a paper published in both Turkish and Armenian. He was
shot in front of his office on Jan. 19, 2007; triggerman Ogun Samast
was sentenced to 22 years in prison in July for the murder.

ARMENIA’S DIAMOND CUTTING INDUSTRY RECOVERING, MINISTER SAYS

Israel Diamond Portal

Nov 17 2011

Armenian Economy Minister Tigran Davtyan announced on Wednesday
that the country’s diamond cutting industry was emerging from the
economic crisis, which had caused “serious losses” for Armenian
diamond manufacturers.

By the end of the year, Davtyan said, he expected diamond exports to
reach pre-crisis levels. The National Statistical Service of Armenia
reports that from January-September 2011, Armenia’s diamond cutters
produced 51,500 carats, an 8.3% increase over the corresponding period
of 2010.

Davtyan spoke while visiting two diamond cutting companies in the
Kotayk province, both of which cut rough diamonds sourced from Alrosa.

American Horror Story: This Week’s Freakiest and Funniest Moments
Ethan Alter

Television Without Pity

Nov 17 2011

After a few weeks away, American Horror Story co-creator Brad Falchuk
returned to write the show’s seventh episode, “Open House,” which
we suspect is the main reason why this was the weakest outing
since the second hour, the last one penned by Falchuk and his
partner-in-supernatural-crime, Ryan Murphy. The Harmon clan played only
a minor role in “Open House” with the spotlight primarily shining on
Constance and Larry, The Burn Victim Guy instead. Turns out that these
two were once lovers and Larry even planned to leave his wife for the
not-so-good widow next door… that is, until she set their bedroom on
fire, killing herself and their two girls and giving her philandering
husband those hideous scars. (So much for the original story that
Larry had spun to Ben, which positioned him as the arsonist.)

The episode’s other main plotline involved an Armenian (not Persian!)
real estate developer, Joe Escandarian (Amir Arison), who expressed
interest in buying the Murder House and tearing it down to make room
for a luxury apartment building. While that sounds great to Viv and
Ben, the dynamic trio of Constance, Larry and Moira have other ideas.

It was all very uninteresting, although the Armenian dude did utter
some of the funniest dialogue since the pilot (see below). We’ve
already put “Open House” out of our heads and are eagerly looking
forward to next week’s pre-Thanksgiving episode that will supposedly
delve into the mystery of the so-called “Rubber Man.” (At least,
that’s what we presume, since “Rubber Man” is the title of the freakin’
episode.) Here’s hoping Falchuk and Murphy handed that plum assignment
off to another writer. Hey guys, Jessica Sharzer did an awesome job
with “Piggy Piggy”! Just sayin’…

Freaky: Stuck in the Attic With You Before half his face burned off
and he fell out of Constance’s affections, Larry was so deeply in
love with the honey-voiced temptress that he was literally willing to
commit murder on her behalf. Specifically, he’s supposed to kill Beau,
the deformed boy living in the Murder House attic. So Larry climbs
the attic latter under the pretense of playing the kid’s favorite
game — rolling a red ball back and forth — and then tucking him in
for the night, while quoting that famous Shakespeare line: “For in
that sleep of death, what dreams may come”? (Really, that should have
been Beau’s tip-off that something wasn’t quite right. Then again,
he doesn’t seem like the savviest chained prisoner around.) As Beau
drifts off, Larry grabs a pillow and covers the boy’s face, pressing
down with all his might.

Obviously he wasn’t strong enough though, since Constance pays a visit
to her “beautiful boy” in the attic at the episode’s end. Between that
and his messed-up face, it’s no wonder that Constance kicked Larry to
the curb. [Note: In Larry’s defense, it’s very possible that Constance
was visiting Beau’s ghost, especially since he hadn’t seemed to have
aged since the 1994 smothering incident. — Ethan]

Funny: Now That’s Giving Him The Hard Sell >>From the moment he enters
the Murder House, Joe’s eyes are only for its hot-as-hell maid, Moira
(as her young, attractive self, natch).

Their innuendo-laced conversation (“I like it deep,” indeed) during
the open house brings him back to give her a private tour… of his
pants. What really made this scene for us was the shot of Moira —
now in the form of Frances Conroy — exiting the room afterwards and
wiping her mouth with a handkerchief. Betcha never saw anything like
that on Six Feet Under.

Freaky: We Call Him Sonny Boy The episode’s one standout sequence
checked back in with crazy Dr.

Montgomery and his equally crazy wife, Nora. Apparently, Charles
didn’t stop tinkering around with their son’s butchered corpse,
eventually stitching the baby back together and powering him up with
the “beating heart of one of our girls.” Nora was so touched by the
gesture that she fired a bullet into his skull and then stuck the gun
in her own mouth. Okay, show of hands: who thinks that this creature
and Beau are one and the same?

Funny: Dr. Tate, Armchair Psychiatrist After Tate butters up his
girlfriend’s dad by lying to him about what a big help he’s been,
Ben goes and proves how ill-suited he actually is for his profession
by asking his patient for advice on how to talk to his daughter. Tate
responds by bullshitting something about how “Violet isn’t a little
girl anymore” and how he wishes Ben had been his father, all the
while sporting a grin on his face that basically says “I got your
number, pal.”

Freaky: Say Goodbye To Your Little Friend Tempting Joe into coming
back for another “meal,” Young Moira leads him down to the basement
and shows him who’s boss by separating him from his member. While
he’s screaming in understandable agony, Larry slips up behind him
and wraps a plastic bag around his head. Finally, Constance appears
and orders him to finish the job somewhere off the property so that
Joe’s ghost won’t bother them again. Smart move.

After all, who would want to spend eternity with that asshole?

Funny: Dialogue Like This “Fags have such a great eye for detail,
don’t they?”

“There are a lot of minority men in this city who would like nothing
more than to ravage me on this countertop.”

“Is there a third option? ‘Cause both of you kind of make me want to
kill myself.”

“I’ve always heard Persians have big, thick cocks. Something a girl
can gnaw on.” “Yeah, no teeth though. And I’m not Persian, by the way.

I’m Armenian.”

“No matter how gruesome or horrible the murder, you can always find
somebody out there who’ll buy the house.”

“I love you.” “Ecchhh.”

“There are three reasons I deal with women: sex, money or making me
sandwiches. And unless you’re planning on going into my kitchen and
slapping some ham between two slices of bread, this conversation
is over.”