Author: Kanayan Tamar

MONS-EN-BAROEUL : JACQUELINE KASPARIAN PORTE L’HISTOIRE DE L’ARMENIE ET DE SES DOULEURS

REVUE DE PRESSE

Jacqueline Kasparian est nee en France où ses parents avaient trouve
refuge. Enfant, elle a rejoint l’Armenie sovietique. Retraitee, elle
est revenue dans son pays de naissance. Son histoire se confond avec
celle, dramatique, de l’Armenie occidentale, theâtre d’un genocide,
il y a exactement 100 ans.

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L’histoire de Jacqueline debute a Bursa, au nord-ouest de l’Anatolie,
où ses grands-parents et son père residaient. Comme le plus grand
nombre des habitants de la ville, les Kasparian furent massacres. L’un
des fils, Arakel, parvint a s’enfuir. Après bien des aventures passant
par la Bulgarie, la Grèce et la Syrie, il rejoint la France en 1923,
a l’âge de 23 ans.

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Le voici ouvrier a la regie Renault et habitant la banlieue
parisienne. Il y rencontre Arousiak, une autre miraculee du genocide.

De leur union, en 1930, naîtra Jacqueline Kasparian. >, temoigne-t-elle. La republique d’Armenie, Etat de la
nouvelle Union des republiques socialistes sovietiques (URSS), invitant
les Armeniens du monde entier a revenir au pays pour construire un
Etat nouveau, Arakel et sa famille, montent a bord de l’Armenia et
debarquent a Batum, port de la mer Noire, un beau jour de 1936.

Mais la deception du militant armenien est vive. Il est emprisonne en
tant >, un crime comme un
autre dans le delire stalinien. Au bout de quelques annees, libere,
il participe a la reconstruction d’Erevan.

Jacqueline va faire toute sa carrière dans cette ville. Elle sera,
pendant plus de quatre ans, journaliste a l’Agence telegraphique
de l’Union sovietique (Telegrafnoïe aguentstvo Sovietskogo Soïouza,
TASS).

ARMENIA 1915 – THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE

Mumbrella, Australia
April 13 2015

At the same time as our Anzacs were fighting the Turks at Gallipoli,
the Ottoman Empire was systemically decimating its civilian Armenian
population.

24 April 2015 marks the centenary of the Armenian genocide, in which
as many as 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of the Turkish
Ottoman Empire.

It is sometimes called the ‘forgotten genocide’, yet it was of great
significance to 20th century history, becoming the blueprint – and a
rationale – for Holocaust of the Second World War. On the eve of the
Polish invasion, Hitler remarked, ‘Who today remembers the annihilation
of the Armenians?’

Ashley Kalagian Blunt explores the genocide’s history, including its
connection to Anzac Day and the Gallipoli campaign.

Guest Speaker

Ashley Kalagian Blunt is a writer and teacher who delivers workshops
and courses on language and culture. She has completed extensive
research on Armenia, including interviews with over 150 Armenians on
three continents. Ashley’s travel memoir of her solo journey through
Armenia, The Pomegranate’s Daughter, was recently shortlisted in the
Varuna Publisher Introduction Program. She has lived and worked in
Canada, Mexico, South Korea and Peru.

FREE & Open to the Public For more information visit:

When

21st April 2015 12:30 pm To 21st April 2015 01:30 pm

Where

Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts 280 Pitt St, Sydney 2000 Sydney
CBD 2000

US URGES ‘FULL’ ADMISSION OF FACTS IN 1915 ARMENIAN KILLINGS

Hurriyet Daily News, Turkey
April 15 2015

WASHINGTON

The United States April 14 called for a “full, frank” acknowledgement
of the facts surrounding the mass killing of Armenians in World War I,
but shied away from calling it “a genocide.”

Ankara has hit out at Pope Francis for his use of the word in a
weekend address, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan saying
“I condemn this mistake.”

“The president and other senior administration officials have
repeatedly acknowledged as historical fact, and mourned the fact,
that 1.5 million Armenians were massacred or marched to their deaths
in the final days of the Ottoman empire,” State Department acting
spokeswoman Marie Harf said.

They had also stated “that a full, frank and just acknowledgement
of the facts is in all our interests, including Turkey’s, Armenia’s
and America’s.”

Harf added that “nations are stronger and they progress by
acknowledging and reckoning with pretty painful elements of their
past.”

Such moves were “essential to building a different, more tolerant
future,” she said.

However, she refused to term the mass killings a genocide, even
though during his 2008 campaign for the White House, then senator
Barack Obama had pledged to “recognize the Armenian genocide.”

Turkey is a key US ally and a fellow member of NATO.

Harf refused to be drawn on what candidate Obama had said, adding
reporters should check with the White House as she spoke for the
State Department.

April/15/2015

ARMENIAN NATIONAL TEAM TO PARTICIPATE IN WORLD TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

13:11 16/04/2015 ” SPORT

World Team Championship will take place in Armenia’s resort city of
Tsakhkadzor on April 19-28.

The national teams of Armenia, Russia, China, Ukraine, United States,
Hungary, India, Israel, Cuba and Egypt will participate in this chess
event, armchess.am reports.

Source: Panorama.am

ARMENIA-GERMANY PARLIAMENTARY COLLABORATION DISCUSSED AT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

14:16, 16 April, 2015

YEREVAN, APRIL 16, ARMENPRESS. On April 16, the Chairman Standing
Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly of the Republic
of Armenia Artak Zakaryan received Canan Atilgan, Head of the Konrad
Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Regional Programme: Political Dialogue:
Southern Caucasus. Silvia Schtober, journalist, evaluator of Konrad
Adenauer Foundation also attended the meeting.

The Information and Public Relations Department of the National
Assembly of the Republic of Armenia informed “Armenpress” that Canan
Atilgan, Head of the Foundation presented the programmes of the
foundation and proposed the MPs’ participation and support in them.

Silvia Schtober, as a journalist, was interested in the regional
situation, Armenia-European Union relations, as well as Armenia’s
participation and role in the Eurasian Economic Union and the events
dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Centennial and their responses.

In the course of the meeting the sides also discussed issues concerning
the parliamentary cooperation between Germany and Armenia.

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.

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.

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

ERDOGAN WARNS POPE OVER ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMARKS

The Times of Israel
April 14 2015

Holy See comes under fire from Turkish officials for statements on
Ottomans’ mass killings in WWI

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday expressed anger over
the pope’s use of the word genocide to describe the mass killings
of Armenians in World War I, saying such talk was nonsense and the
pontiff should not repeat such a mistake again.

Ankara at the weekend summoned the Vatican nuncio and recalled the
Turkish envoy to the Holy See in a furious reaction to Pope Francis’
description of the killings of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman
forces.

“If politicians and religious leaders do the job of historians then
we will not get to the truth and only end with nonsense,” Erdogan said
in a speech in Ankara in his first reaction to the pope’s comments.

“Respected pope: I condemn this mistake and warn against making it
again,” he said to applause from an audience of businessmen.

Turkey has vehemently rejected the use of the term genocide to
describe the Ottoman era killings and is keeping to its line in the
100th anniversary of the tragedy.

Armenians say 1.5 million of their ancestors were killed in a targeted
campaign of extermination by Ottoman forces. The Turkish government
said hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians were killed on
both sides in a wartime tragedy.

The comments by the pope, who visited Turkey last November, have led
to unprecedented attacks on the pontiff by Turkish officials.

EU Minister Volkan Bozkir said Monday that the pope had made the
comment because of a strong Armenian lobby in his homeland of
Argentina.

“I think Pope Francis made this statement because he is an Argentine.

Unfortunately, in Argentina, the Armenian diaspora is dominant in
the press and business world,” Bozkir said, quoted by the official
Anatolia news agency.

Referring to the influx of war criminals to Latin America after World
War II, Bozkir declared that Argentina “welcomed Nazis, who were the
lead performers of the Jewish Holocaust.”

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