Author: Kanayan Tamar

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

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.

US CALLS FOR ‘FULL, FRANK’ RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN MASSACRES

01:10, 15 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

The U.S. on Tuesday called for a complete and fair acknowledgement
of the facts surrounding the 1915 events.

“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 told a daily briefing.

“A full, frank and just acknowledgement of the fact is in all our
interests, including Turkey’s, Armenia’s and America’s,” she said.

“Nations are stronger and they progress by acknowledging and reckoning
with pretty painful elements of their past,” she said.

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

GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING IN GREATER EUROPE, 1875-1945

US Official News
April 12, 2015 Sunday

The University of California has issued the following news release:

Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Greater Europe, 1875-1945

Thursday, April 16, 2015 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Bunche Hall Meeting Room
– 6275

A lecture by Donald Bloxham, History, University of Edinburgh

See below for additional information.

Admission

Free and open to the public.

Contact

Center for Near Eastern Studies (310) 825-1181
[email protected] Website

Additional Information

This paper will address some of the most important patterns in
intergroup violence in the title’s spatiotemporal ‘Raum’. It will focus
in particular on the ethno-religious element of such violence, against
the backdrop of the modernisation of Europe and adjacent regions.

The narrative broadly follows the decline and fall of the old
multinational empires, the rise of new nation-states, and then the
rise of new empires in Soviet and especially Nazi form. Eschewing
a directly comparative approach between, for instance, the Armenian
genocide and the Holocaust, it tries to place those events and others
in a broader framework in which geopolitics, economics and the role of
‘great powers’ is to the fore.

Donald Bloxham is Richard Pares Professor of European history at
the University of Edinburgh. He is author of The Final Solution:
a Genocide (Oxford University Press, 2009); Genocide, The World
Wars, and the Unweaving of Europe (Vallentine, Mitchell, 2007), the
Raphael Lemkin-prizewinning The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism,
nationalism, and the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (OUP, 2005)
and Genocide on Trial (OUP, 2001). He is co-editor of The Oxford
Handbook of Genocide Studies (OUP, 2010) and Political Violence in
Twentieth Century Europe (Cambridge UP, 2011). He is in the final
stages of completing a manuscript on the role of moral thought in
historianship.

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

THIS IS THE REASON WHY POPE FRANCIS’ REMARK ON THE ARMENIAN MASSACRE ANGERED TURKEY

Health Aim
April 14 2015

By Lucielle Campanero · Apr 14th, 2015

The Turkish government did not take lightly the statement of Pope
Francis during the 100th year anniversary of the bloodbath between
Armenians and Ottoman Turks. At St. Peter’s Basilica on April 12,
the Holy See pronounced the incident as the “first genocide of the
20th century”.

Turkey quickly reacted by withdrawing its ambassador and censuring
Francis for making “unfounded claims”.

In his defense, the Pope claimed that it was a call of duty to
memorialize and honor over one million lives murdered by Ottoman
Turks. He said, “Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound
to keep bleeding without bandaging it”.

Francis also noted that modern-day Christians are “publicly and
ruthlessly put to death — decapitated, crucified, burned alive —
or forced to leave their homeland”. This was in reference to recent
reports on attacks by Islamic groups in Iraq and Syria against
Christians practicing their faith.

On the other hand, Turkey denies that any genocide took place. The
casualties were a result of civil war. Over the years, the Turkish
government had fought hard to stop countries and even the Pope to
recognize the events that transpired a hundred years ago as genocide.

In his Twitter account, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
tweeted: “The pope’s statement, which is far from historic and legal
truths, is unacceptable. Religious positions are not places where
unfounded claims are made and hatred is stirred”.

Watch as Pope Francis delivers the controversial statement during a
mass held at St. Peter’s Basilica.

EU URGES TURKEY, ARMENIA TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS

Journal of Turkish Daily
April 14 2015

14 April 2015

The European Union has urged Turkey and Armenia to normalize their
relations following a spat prompted by remarks made by Pope Francis
over the events of 1915.

EU foreign affairs spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic told reporters in
Brussels on Tuesday: “It is very important in our view for relations
to be normalized as soon as possible between Turkey and Armenia.”

“The (European) Commission encourages both sides to take extra measures
to open the way towards a complete reconciliation,” Kocijancic said.

Pope Francis said on Sunday that “the first genocide of the 20th
century” had struck Armenians – a move that prompted Turkey to
recall its ambassador in Vatican and also summon the Vatican’s envoy
in Ankara.

Turkey and Armenia disagree on what happened between 1915 and 1923,
with Armenia saying that 1.5 million were deliberately killed and
Turkey saying the deaths did not constitute genocide but were a result
of deportations and civil strife.

“In the context of Turkey’s status as a (EU) candidate country we are
following the issue of reconciliation and normalization of relations
with Turkey,” Kocijancic said.

The European Parliament is set to mark the centennial of said 1915
events in Brussels on Wednesday.

14 April 2015

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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.”

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