Author: Kanayan Tamar

L’OM A SALI SON MAILLOT

FRANCE

Le partenariat signe le 30 août dernier entre la compagnie nationale
turque Turkish Airlines et l’Olympique de Marseille a souleve l’emoi
et la colère des Francais d’origine armenienne et Marseillais, qui
sont tous supporters de ce club porte drapeau de la bonne image de
Marseille. Ils ne comprennent pas cette alliance contre nature !

Nous avons d’une part, l’Olympique de Marseille, club emblematique de
Marseille, qui vehicule des principes vertueux de moralite sportive
et Marseille, capitale europeenne de la culture, qui est aussi la
capitale europeenne de la diaspora armenienne, qui n’ignore pas que
les Turcs ont commis le premier genocide du XXème siècle.

D’autre part nous avons, la compagnie nationale Turkish Airlines
representante de cet Etat turc negationniste, heritier et complice des
criminels commanditaires du genocide des Armeniens. Ainsi, la Turquie
profite de la notoriete du prestigieux club pour s’acheter une bonne
conscience et pour se donner cette image bienfaitrice dans le coeur des
marseillais necessaire a la poursuite de sa propagande negationniste.

Les supporters que nous sommes, ne peuvent pas en meme temps avoir la
joie de regarder un match de leur equipe et en meme temps avoir sur le
maillot des joueurs le rappel des atrocites subies par leurs aïeux. Il
s’agit-la d’une nouvelle provocation de l’Etat Turc negationniste. Ce
sponsoring est insupportable. Nous aimons tous l’Olympique de
Marseille, et par consequent nous le ressentons comme une trahison.

Parce que la Turquie d’aujourd’hui est l’heritière de celle qui
s’est construite sur le genocide des Armeniens, parce que la Turquie
d’aujourd’hui parachève le crime de 1915 par sa politique negationniste
et armenophobe, nous considerons que chaque fois que cet Etat est mis
a l’honneur cela constitue une atteinte a la memoire des victimes du
genocide et a la dignite des descendants des rescapes du genocide. A la
veille des commemorations du centenaire du genocide il est necessaire
de le rappeler.

En ce sens l’Olympique de Marseille, en collaborant avec la
Turquie, commet une entorse a la morale et a l’ethique et se met en
contradiction avec les valeurs morales qu’elle vehicule.

Nous ne souhaitons pas que l’Olympique de Marseille ou d’autres clubs
de France suivent l’exemple du RC Lens qui s’est recemment vendu a un
oligarque Azerbaïdjanais, porte-parole d’un autre etat negationniste
et armenophobe.

Marseille, le 06 Septembre 2013

Le bureau du CCAF-SUD

Conseil de Coordination des organisations Armeniennes de France

339, Avenue du Prado – 13008 Marseille –

Tel / Fax : 04.91.76.00.00 – Tous les Jours de 9H00 a 13H00

mardi 10 septembre 2013, Stephane ©armenews.com

Intereconomía, España.
2 sept 2013

‘No podemos dejar de hacer arte y llorar por los recortes’

CAROLINA ISASI

Ara Malikian ha viajado por todo el mundo con su violín y ha decidido
quedarse en nuestro país. Para este músico armenio el escenario es su
adicción.

Es uno de los mejores violinistas del mundo, armenio-libanés afincado
en España, es ante todo un hombre de mundo y su bandera es la música.
Considerado un revolucionario en su campo él, sin embargo, piensa que
`tan sólo’ es el violinista de su violín, un intermediario.

-¿Cómo fueron sus comienzos?
El amor por el violín viene de mi padre. Di mi primer concierto a los
doce años y desde entonces la música es mi vida.

-Utiliza el humor. Tal vez haya personas que no casen muy bien humor/música.
¿Por qué no? Todo se puede tratar con humor. Yo mismo intento no
tomarme demasiado en serio,no es bueno. Creo que en estos tiempos hay
que conseguir que la gente olvide sus penas aunque sólo sea un rato.

Por eso creé junto a Thomas Potiron, Eduardo Ortega y Gartxot, el
cuarteto de cuerda Pagagnini, con el que hacemos una revisión en clave
de humor de la música clásica como Sarasate, Mozart, Gainsbourg…

-¿Qué hace un libanés de antepasados armenios en Madrid?
Nací en Beirut, la capital del Líbano, aunque en realidad dejé mi
ciudad hace veinte años y luego he vivido un poco en todos los lados.
Conocí España y me quedé. Supongo que como justo antes había vivido en
Londres, cuando llegué aquí tuve la sensación de que era un país que
compartía una sensibilidad más próxima a la mía, la mediterránea.

-Regresa mucho al Líbano o a Armenia?
La situación en el Líbano es complicada y viajo mucho por trabajo. Si
te soy sincero, no me siento ni del Líbano ni Armenio. Puede sonar a
tópico pero me siento un ciudadano del mundo. De todas formas, regreso
cada tres o cuatro años. Hay mucho de estos países en mi música pero
creo que también la hay de otros muchos. Eso es lo bueno de viajar.

-¿Y qué hace para desconectar?
Viajo tanto que recargo las pilas en el sofá de mi casa.

-¿Y cómo ve la tradición musical en España?
En España hay mucha tradición, afición y amor a la música. No hay nada
que envidiar de otros países. Aquí se puede crear y hacer música muy a
gusto.

-Se le ve disfrutar mucho en el escenario,casi como si estuviera jugando…
Siempre la música tiene que parecer un juego. De hecho, es un juego.
Me gusta estar en el escenario. Es una adicción sana, pero una
adicción. Quemo mi adrenalina en el escenario.

-¿Necesita buscar ratos de silencio después de tanta música?

¡No te creas! ¡No lo necesito tanto como se supondría! Aunque es
cierto que el silencio es parte de la música.

-¿Con qué proyecto está más ilusionado en estos momentos?
Tengo mucha ilusión por un concierto homenaje que haré en 2015 por el
centenario del genocidio armenio.

-¿Conserva algún violín al que le tenga un cariño especial?
¡Sí! Conservo un violín veneciano del siglo XVIII. Pero soy de los que
piensa que no soy su dueño, lo tengo prestado. Otras personas lo
tocaron antes y otras lo tocarán después de mí.

-¿Influyó mucho su padre en su decisión de ser violinista?
Crecí con un padre bastante estricto con el violín que hubiera querido
ser violinista clásico, pero que se ganaba la vida tocando música
árabe. A los tres años tenía un violín y jugaba con él, a los cinco ya
tocaba algo, a los ocho años lo hacía `más en serio’. Con catorce años
el director de orquesta Hans Herbert-Jöris me escuchó y me consiguió
una beca del gobierno alemán para estudiar pero la música para mí es
un poquito de talento y mucha personalidad.

-¿Cómo ve la situación de la cultura en España?
La situación es difícil y lo primero donde salpica y se recorta es en
cultura. Un error pero no puede afectarnos a la hora de crear. No
podemos dejar de hacer arte y llorar.

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Sept 8 2013

First baptism in 100 years takes place in Turkey’s Akdamar Church

8 September 2013 /TODAY’S ZAMAN, ?Ä?°STANBUL
For the first time in 100 years, a baptism ceremony has taken place at
the Armenian Church of the Holy Cross on the island of Akdamar in
Turkey’s eastern province of Van.

This is the fourth year that Armenians from Turkey and around the
world have flocked to Akdamar for an annual religious service in the
island’s 10th-century church. However, this year, for the first time,
a baptism ceremony was performed during the service in the historic
church. Six people, from both Turkey and Armenia, were baptized in
Lake Van. Following the baptism ceremony, hymns and prayers resounded
in the Armenian church, which occupies a special place in Armenian art
and architecture from the medieval era.

Some 800 security officers stood on guard during the ceremony. Police
took tight security measures in and around the island, including bomb
searches on vehicles with sniffer dogs and police divers.

The Armenian Church of the Holy Cross was a monastic complex until the
1920s, but fell into disrepair after being abandoned during World War
I. Upon a suggestion from the Van Governor’s Office, approved by the
Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the church started to host annual
religious services in 2010.

The church was in ruins and on the verge of collapse. However, by
order of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?Ä?an, the Ministry of Culture
and Tourism started a restoration project in 2005 to preserve the
church’s historical legacy. The church has since become a focus for
domestic and international tourists after it was converted into a
museum by the ministry upon completion of its restoration in 2007.

The Armenians resident in this province, located to the east of Lake
Van in eastern Anatolia, were deported by Ottoman forces in 1915.
Armenian organizations claim that 1.5 million Armenians were killed as
part of a systematic campaign in eastern Anatolia, while Turkey
strongly rejects the claims of genocide, saying that the killings
occurred because the Ottoman Empire was trying to quell civil
disturbances, and that Muslim Turks were also killed in the conflict.
There are a mere 60,000 Armenians left in Turkey, mostly in ?Ä?°stanbul.

Neighboring Turkey and Armenia do not have diplomatic relations, and a
move for reconciliation launched in 2009 has not borne fruit. This
historic reconciliation process was launched between Turkey and
Armenia in 2009, when the two sides signed twin protocols to normalize
diplomatic relations, but the move was not well received in
Azerbaijan. The protocols, signed in Zurich, disrupted
Turkish-Azerbaijani relations because the Nagorno-Karabakh territorial
conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan has yet to be resolved.

Ratification of the protocols stalled after Turkey insisted that
Armenia first agree to resolve the long-standing Nagorno-Karabakh
issue. The issue of Armenia’s withdrawal from the Nagorno-Karabakh
region and seven adjacent territories is important to Ankara, which
has frequently signaled that this step would pave the way for the
opening of its border with Armenia. Turkey closed its border with
Armenia in 1993 in solidarity with Azerbaijan after Armenian armed
forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the
Nagorno-Karabakh region, in 1992.

, Turkey
Sept 8 2013

Akdamar Church hosts special mass- UPDATED

The 4th special mass which was held in Akdamar Church in Turkey’s
eastern province of Van on Sunday ended

Many Turkish and foreign visitors attended the religious ceremony held
with the participation of clergymen charged in Turkish Armenian
Patriarchate.

The special mass which was conducted under tutelage of Vicar of the
Armenian Orthodox Church Aram Atesyan lasted about 2 hours.

Speaking at the mass, the clergyman Zakeos Ohanyan pointed out that
the ceremony held in Akdamar was recovery of holy and religious values
which were lost for a while, but not a political, economic, military
and national victory.

The annual mass began at 11 a.m. Turkish local time.

Akdamar Church is a 10th century Armenian church located on Akdamar
Island in Lake Van. The church held its first mass in 95 years in 2010
after it was restored by the Turkish government.

PRESS RELEASE
Ararat-Eskijian Museum
15105 Mission Hills Rd
Mission Hills CA, 91345
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 818-838-4862

ARARAT-ESKIJIAN TO HOST LECTURE ON SEIZURE OF ARMENIAN ASSETS IN AINTAB

Ümit Kurt, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark
University IN Worcester, MA, will present a lecture entitled “The
Emergence of the New Wealthy Class Between 1915-1922: The Seizure of
Armenian Property by Local Elites in Aintab,”

and the documentary “My Father’s Aintab”.

On Sunday, September 15, 2013, at 4:00 p.m. at the Ararat-Eskijian
Museum, Hasmik Mgrdichian Gallery, 15105 Mission Hills Road, Mission
Hills, CA. The lecture is sponsored by the Ararat-Eskijian Museum and
the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). A
reception will follow the lecture.

The processes of genocide and deportation directed at
Aintab Armenians were in fact put into practice by local notables and
provincial elites themselves, and these local actors actually
prospered and became a new wealthy social class through the
acquisition of Armenians’ property and wealth. In this respect, Ümit
Kurt argues that the Committee of Union and Progress’ (CUP) genocide
and deportation decree had a certain social background, effective
power, and control and support mechanism(s) at the local levels.
Therefore, what took place at the local areas or periphery deserves to
be examined.

By zooming in on Aintab, Kurt sheds light on the
origins of the property and wealth of local and provincial
elites/notables in Aintab and how massacred and deported Armenians’
properties in Aintab changed hands. To date no comprehensive research
has been done that examines in detail the expropriation of Ottoman
Armenians in general and in Aintab in particular as a component of the
genocide.

Ümit Kurt, a native of Aintab in 1984, holds a Bachelor
of Science degree from Middle East Technical University in Political
Science and Public Administration and a Master’s from Sabancý
University in the department of European Studies. He is currently a
Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Clark University and
an instructor at Sabancý University. He is the author of numerous
articles and several books, including most recently Kanunlarýn Ruhu:
Emval-i Metruke Kanunlarýnda Soykýrýmýn Ýzlerini Aramak (The Spirit of
Laws: Seeking for the Traces of Armenian Genocide in the Laws of
Abandoned Property, 2012), with Taner Akçam. His main area of
interest is confiscation of the Armenian properties and the role of
local elites/notables in Aintab during the Armenian genocide.

For more information contact the Ararat-Eskijian Museum at
818-838-4862 or

[email protected] or NAASR at 617-489-1610 or
[email protected].

espndeportes.espn
7 de septiembre de 2013

Armenios protestan en Argentina contra la candidatura de Estambul

Actualizado: 7 de septiembre de 2013, 16:22 EDT

BUENOS AIRES — Agrupaciones armenias y organizaciones argentinas de
izquierda se manifestaron hoy en contra de la candidatura de Estambul
y del gobierno del primer ministro turco, Tayyip Erdogan, frente al
hotel donde se decidirá la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos 2020.

Alrededor de un centenar de manifestantes se concentraron hoy delante
del hotel Hilton de Buenos Aires, donde se desarrolla la 125 sesión
del Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI), con banderas armenias y
pancartas en contra del gobierno “represivo” de Erdogan y reclamaron
justicia por “los 1.500.000 armenios asesinados por el gobierno turco”
a principios del siglo XX.

“Estamos en contra de la candidatura de Estambul 2020 porque Turquía
es un país que viola constantemente los derechos humanos y eso no es
compatible con el espíritu olímpico”, dijo a Efe María Florencia
Zanikian, miembro de la Unión Juventud Armenia.

Los manifestantes portaban pancartas donde se podía leer “Turquía
estado genocida” y gritaban consignas contra el Gobierno de Erdogan
durante la movilización, que se desarrolló bajo un temporal de lluvia
en el barrio de Puerto Madero.

“Protestamos para que Erdogan no sea bienvenido en la Argentina que es
un país emblema en la lucha por los derechos humanos en el mundo”,
comentó Zanikian.

“Si la comunidad internacional elige a Estambul como sede de los
Juegos Olímpicos, alentará a las autoridades turcas a continuar con
sus políticas xenófobas y discriminatorias”, denunciaron los
manifestantes en folletos que repartieron frente a la sede temporal
del COI.

En la manifestación participaron también agrupaciones piqueteras y de
izquierda que denunciaron violaciones de los derechos humanos en
Turquía y recordaron que la represión de las protestas populares dejó
el pasado junio un saldo de cinco muertos.

Entre los manifestantes también se encontraba también un reducido
grupo que se identificó como “republicanos españoles exiliados en
Argentina” que protestaba contra la candidatura olímpica de Madrid,
que compite con Estambul y Tokyo, para denunciar la falta de apoyo
institucional al proceso judicial abierto en Argentina por los
crímenes cometidos por la dictadura franquista.

La protesta se disolvió sin incidentes en medio de un fuerte
dispositivo de seguridad que involucra a cerca de un millar de agentes
en los alrededores del hotel Hilton, donde se reúnen los miembros del
COI que elegirán hoy la sede de los Juegos de 2020.

Today’s Zaman, Turkey
Sept 7 2013

Armenia’s bombshell

AMANDA PAUL

Last week during a visit to Moscow, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
announced that Armenia would be joining the Russian-led Eurasian
Customs Union (CU). The price tag for membership is ditching a trade
agreement that Yerevan had been planning to initial with the EU in
November at Vilnius, as the two tariff systems are not compatible.

While Sargsyan is reported as stating it was a `rational decision
based on Armenia’s national interests,” nobody really believes this
was a free choice but rather a consequence of the significant leverage
that Russia has over Armenia, which clearly includes deciding
Yerevan’s foreign policy. If this were not the case, then why did
Yerevan waste so much time negotiating with the EU, given these same
national interests existed when talks kicked off? While Armenia may
have talked (or dreamed) about having a balanced policy, the reality
is very different. Not surprisingly, most Armenians reacted with
outrage, with protests outside the presidential palace declaring
Sargsyan’s betrayal to the nation, which led to several arrests.

Armenia spent three years negotiating an association agreement (AA),
which included a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA)
with the EU. The DCFTA would allow Armenia to diversify its export
opportunities as well as improve the regulatory and legal standards of
the country by aligning with the EU. However, as Yerevan inched toward
completing the talks (negotiations were finalized in July), Moscow
turned up the heat — even though such an agreement with the EU would
in no way jeopardize Russia’s dominant role in the country. Russia had
been squeezing Yerevan for months, including on issues related to gas
prices and restricting Armenian labor migration to Russia. An arms
deal with Azerbaijan was also clearly aimed at Armenia.

Unfortunately, Armenia is reaping what it has sown. Its deep-rooted
security and economic reliance on Russia has resulted in Armenia’s
sovereignty being increasingly eroded. Armenia is entirely dependent
on Russia for security. Yerevan is a member of the Collective Security
Treaty Organization (CSTO), Russia maintains a military base in
Armenia and Moscow is the key force in Armenia’s conflict with
Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh, with the power to leave Armenia high
and dry if they so wish. Russia also has a significant stake in the
country’s economy, including in the transport sector — with Russian
railways running the Armenian railway — and related to the energy
sector — with Russia having a significant stake in the electricity
and nuclear market as well as Gazprom being a majority owner of
Armenia’s pipeline system. As well-known Caucasus expert Thomas de
Waal states, `Both the administration of Sargsyan, and Robert
Kocharyan before them, embraced a Russian take-over of the economy,
which left them political control and did not expose them to
European-style competition.’ While Armenia is small, Russia’s presence
there is important in terms of having an outpost between Turkey and
Azerbaijan, including from the south of Georgia.

The agreement still needs to be signed and ratified by the Armenian
Parliament. Questions have also been raised over whether it is legal,
with some analysts, such as David Shahnazaryan, saying Armenia’s
constitution does not allow full-membership of the CU; then there is
the issue that the two countries have no common customs territory.

Armenia apparently still wants to initial its AA with the EU at
Vilnius, although without the DCFTA element it is rather an empty
document. Armenia’s boundaries have been set, and this was made clear
during a meeting between EU European Neighborhood Policy Commissioner
Stefan Füle and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian on Sept.
5, when Nalbandian stressed Armenia’s readiness to continue broad
cooperation with the EU as long as it would not contradict Armenia’s
membership of the CU.

The EU is clearly disappointed and frustrated. It represents a blow to
the EU’s Eastern Partnership policy, which is still lacking a success
story; its ability to succeed when faced with serious challenges in
its neighborhood; and its influence and ability to play a key role in
the South Caucasus.

The game is not yet over. Three `prey’ remain: Moldova, Georgia and,
the topic prize, Ukraine. We can be sure that between now and Vilnius,
Moscow will be pulling out the stops to keep these states in its
`sphere of influence.’

Rustavi-2 TV, Georgia
Sept 6 2013

Georgian officials, MPs react to Armenian statement on re-opening railway line

[Translated from Georgian]

Georgian officials and MPs have unanimously denied the statement by
the Armenian Security Council Secretary Artur Baghdasaryan that
Russia, Georgia, and Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia have agreed to
reopen the railway line connecting Armenia with Russia.

The railway line has been blocked since the start of the
Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in 1992.

“No one has given such permission and no one has voiced the readiness
or decision. In general, the railway problem is a very interesting
issue, which can be in our economic interests. When talk about the
problem started, we said that the Georgian government would not do
anything that is not in its interests. Unfolding events will show what
may be in its interests. However, disseminated reports saying that
permission has been issued and some agreement has been reached are not
true,” Rustavi-2 showed Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze
saying.

“There was a certain stir raised in our media five or six months ago.
In my opinion, we gave a full answer regarding this problem at that
time. We said that we were not holding talks with Russia on this issue
and we are not talking with Russia on restoring the railway line
across Abkhazia. I can unambiguously confirm the same thing now. As a
rule, such things cannot be concealed. We are not speaking with Russia
on this issue,” Georgian Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for relations
with Russia Zurab Abashidze told Rustavi-2. “This issue was not at all
discussed within the framework of my dialogue with [Russian Deputy
Foreign Minister] Mr [Grigoriy] Karasin. Therefore, it is difficult
for me to say now, where this information has come from,” Abashidze
added. At the same time, Abashidze said that “if there is an
initiative or proposal on Russia’s part, we are ready to hear what
their idea of restoring the railway line is”. “We are not saying that
we will never speak about it,” Abashidze said, adding that “if this
happens, of course, it must happen based on the principle of Georgia’s
territorial integrity”.

“Georgia’s strategic interest lies in implementing the
Kars-Akhalkalaki project, which is already being implemented. This is
a project that connects Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey with Europe.
It is a serious project that is advantageous for Georgia economically
and geopolitically. It connects Georgia with its strategic partners.
It is a very important project for the whole region and Georgia. It is
important for our sovereignty and our economy,” Rustavi-2 showed
Georgian National Security Council Secretary and Georgian President
Mikheil Saakashvili’s close ally Giorgi Bokeria saying. “As regards
the idea of restoring this railway line and so forth, this project is
linked to: a) serious risks, because we should be very careful, where
the Russian Federation is our partner; and b) particularly because it
goes across the occupied territory. We should take all these
difficulties into account when implementing this project. In a few
words, the implementation of such a project would be possible if it
were part of a package that resolves the problem of de-occupation,”
Bokeria added, expressing hope that the Georgian government would not
make a “fundamental mistake that would damage our country’s
interests”.

MP Giorgi Gabashvili of the pro-presidential United National Movement
told Rustavi-2 that Georgia’s territories were “occupied” by Russia,
so Georgia’s national interests should be taken into account when
discussing such issues. Gabashvili stressed that the opening of the
railway line was “contrary to Georgia’s national interests” and added:
“The public should have full and exhaustive information about that. If
something like that has happened, we should not be hearing it from the
Armenian media”.

“Our opponents sometimes invent things and then build stories on them.
I do not know precisely the context in which the secretary of the
Armenian Security Council made the statement. but there is one thing
that I know: People thought about restoring the Abkhaz railway and
developing economic projects and of course, they are thinking about
that now too, but you, journalists, are well aware that there can be
and there is no talk about any decision on this issue, given the fact
that it is one thing to discuss something and it is another thing to
make a decision at the government level,” MP Viktor Dolidze of the
Georgian Dream coalition told Rustavi-2.

Regular `beating brigade’

September 7 2013

There have always been `beating brigades’ in Armenia who attack social
activists, opposition members, and journalists. In mid of 90-s, they
were called `Yerkrapahs’ (Translator’s note, Defends of the Land). The
latter were beating Krishna believers (probably for not having a
`national character’), attacked the attorney Ruben Sahakyan, have
applied violence against citizens gathered in the Freedom Square after
the elections on July 5, 1995. No `yerkrapah’ was punished for these
crimes. In early 2000s `beating brigades’ began to be called
`oligarchs’ bodyguards’ or `skinheads’, who were throwing eggs at
opposition rallies, were organizing riots, attacking opposition
political figures and activists, and journalists. A couple of
`skinheads’ got light, symbolic sanctions. Apparently, these `body
guards’ played their role during the `March 1³ events. As to what
`department’ today’s `attackers’ belong to, it’s hard to say, but it
is apparent that all aforesaid gangs are connected with this or that
cycle of the authorities. The proof of it is, of course, the impunity
of attackers to people. For example, the law enforcement entities
`could not’ figure out how beat the `Karabakh’ committee member Ashot
Manucharyan, or who attacked the former Minister of Internal Affairs
Suren Abrahamyan. As for this and many other similar cases, the
reasons of attacks are political, in the sense that the some
government circles remained dissatisfied with the actions or
statements of opposition figures, and command `attack!’ to the
hooligan under their hand to intimidate the public. The attack against
Haykak Arshamyan and Suren Saghatelyan are from the same series. The
evidence to the contrary can only be the thing that not one the actual
beaters are identified and adequately punished, but also those who
have sent them. The previous experience in this regard does not
inspire optimism. But there is another aspect in these stories, which
is certainly worth talking about, the lack of unified will in the
society. Naturally, there is no public or political figure in the
world whose work everyone will like, there are always competing
political parties, competing NGOs or just people who do not like the
views of victims for attack. But that, in no case, could cause some
reservations, which contains a very insidious implication, `maybe they
deserve it.’ Violence must be condemned in all cases, without
reservation. That is the most important guarantee of non-repetition of
such crimes. Aram Abrahamyan

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Argentine Armenians protested against Prime Minister of Turkey visit

BUENOS AIRES (Diario ARMENIA).- Armenian community of Argentina rallied on
Saturday against the visit of Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan
who traveled to Buenos Aires to bid for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Razmig Nalpatian, President of Armenian Youth Federation of South America,
said that “Erdogan, who still denies the Armenian Genocide and recently
repressed his people in Taksim Square and has jailed dozens of journalists,
should recognize the rights of the Kurdish people and end its aggressive
foreign policy that destabilizes the region if he wants to nominate Turkey
again as the Olympic Games host”.