THE FRA PLATFORM IN ARMENIA
by Stéphane
armenews
Monday May 10, 2010
ARMENIA
Following the alarming events that shook the nation
Armenian, the FRA in Armenia proceeded with the establishment of a
platform, aiming to reaffirm the orientation
state and national of the country, the improvement of the process of
democratization, socio-economic development and finally
anticipation of the next elections. The platform is focused on three fundamental areas:
national, socio-economic and domestic policy. NATIONAL PROBLEMS-EXTERNAL POLICY
National problems have a pan-Armenian impact. They evoke
the unitary position of Armenia and the Diaspora. In this historical phase of our nation, the foundations
The strategic strategies listed below are of paramount importance. A) The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
In order to resolve the conflict with Azerbaijan, a plan will be developed
and based on the following principles:
1° A mutual concession on the part of the Armenians (Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh), cannot be conceived without taking into account the
referendums of 1991 and 2006, respectively date of independence
and the adoption of the Constitution of Nagorno-Karabakh, which express
the will of the people. 2° Nagorno-Karabakh, the main part of the conflict, must be present
on the negotiating table, as a full member. In
as far as Armenia is concerned, it must ensure national security
and vouch for the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. In addition, it is essential to put in place a strategic agreement
between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. 3° In terms of foreign policy, it will be necessary to strengthen
the steps taken for international recognition
of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and ensure the continuation of
negotiations with Azerbaijan, with the aim of giving priority
to the resolution of problems linked to the national security of the
Nagorno-Karabakh. B) Armenian-Turkish relations
The development of the normalization of relations between Armenia
and Turkey will only take on its full dimension from the moment
or Ankara will be ready to recognize the Armenian genocide,
to understand the question of reparations and to put an end to
its anti-Armenian policy orchestrated in complicity with Baku. Currently, in this historical period, the process of
normalization of bilateral relations without preconditions
is the only concession that Armenia must make. 1- The lifting of the blockade without prior conditions and the establishment
diplomatic relations based on international principles,
should be the starting points for the normalization of relations. 2- Armenia’s foreign policy will have to face the plans
anti-Armenians, led by Azerbaijan and Turkey. The conditions presented by Turkey are unacceptable. We must separate the question of Armenian-Turkish relations from the conflict
of Nagorno-Karabakh. This will allow us to continue the fight for
resolution of the Armenian cause. No protocol should be signed which calls into question the Treaty
of Sèvres. With a view to restoring all our rights and
claims, international recognition and compensation
of genocide must be part of the policy
exterior of Armenia. We must exclude all steps that weaken the process
of international recognition of the genocide, by neutralizing the
denialist policy of the Turkish state. C) Djavakhk
Establishment of Armenian-Georgian friendly relations is
conditioned by the protection and respect of their right to
Georgian citizens, of Armenian origin, in matters of security,
political and sociocultural. The determination towards autonomy of the Armenian population of
Javakhk is legal and justified within the framework of obligations and
international conventions ratified by Georgia, towards
minorities. At the same time, it is essential to expand the programs
cultural, economic, social and to strengthen links with
Armenia. D) The Diaspora
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and the Diaspora form one entity
unitary of the Armenian nation. To affirm the potential of this
entity and achieve our national objectives, it is essential
to ensure a higher level of national coordination. It’s
only through our national unity can we face the
pressures exerted by our border neighbors and the powers
world, as well as by the conservation of our national identity
and by the restoration of our rights. It is, moreover, essential to create favorable conditions
to the real operational implementation of the law on double
nationality. SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
National unity, which is essential for the resolution of our
fundamental national problems, is based on equalities and
social freedoms. The main goal of Dachnaktsoutioun is to found an egalitarian state
on a social level, based on democratic principles. During this process, the priorities and objectives of the Party are
the following:
Eradication of poverty and improvement of living standards
of the population
Establishment of the necessary funds for the construction of HLM
Allocation of birth allowances and family allowances
Reorganization of the social security operating system
Access to public education, at the international level
Access to sports and cultural education free of charge
Right to work for all and remuneration based on work
carried out. Implementation of a specific policy aimed at eliminating
economic monopolies. Establishment of a strategy for the exploitation of resources
natural resources and prohibition of their overexploitation. Establishment of a system of private property rights. INTERNAL POLICY
In order to achieve the process of democratization, it is essential
to get out of the plutocratic system. The main directions of
this process are as follows:
Legislative and constitutional reforms. Strengthening legislative power
Reduction in the number of seats in the National Assembly and
limitation of parliamentary immunities. Total independence of the judicial system. Deepening of the European integration process. Establishment of a special unit against corruption, under the
leadership of the opposition. Guarantee the maintenance of freedom of expression and opinion. Right of opposition, ensured by law. Reform of the electoral system. Citizen participation in elections must be compulsory. Õ~FÔ±Ô½
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Kurds In Serious Danger In Armenia?
KURDS IN SERIOUS DANGER IN ARMENIA?
by Anna Israyelyan
Aravot
May 5 2010
Armenia
In response to a document circulated by the Azerbaijani delegation
at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe [PACE], the
editor-in-chief of a Kurdish paper says that it is Azerbaijan where
a policy of estrangement is carried out against Kurds.
As Aravot reported, a member of the Azerbaijani delegation at the
PACE, Rafael Huseynov, circulated a document No 12227 at the assembly
on 28 April. Nineteen delegates from Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria,
Sweden, Greece and other countries signed this document to make it a
draft resolution. The document, entitled "Armenia’s determination to
become a mono-ethnic state and to implement a policy against national
minorities", states that many representatives of national minorities
have slowly left Armenia over the past decades.
"At present, 42,000 Kurds, which make up the largest ethnic minority,
are in serious danger. After Armenians recently decapitated four Kurds
in Yerevan, the Federation of Yezidis of Kurdistan issued a statement,
telling international news agencies that the above mentioned bloody
murder was politically motivated and that it was part of a policy
of persecution and isolation against Kurds. Hundreds of Kurds held a
rally in front of the Armenian embassy in [Georgian capital] Tbilisi
on 20 April 2010 in protest against this policy," the document read.
Grishae Mamen (Chatoyev), editor-in-chief of the Kurdish paper Ria
Taza which has been published in Yerevan for 80 years now, answered
our questions about the information reported by the Azerbaijani
delegation at the PACE. He said: "I would like to say right from
the beginning that it does not correspond to reality. First of all,
the killing of the mentioned four persons took place not in Yerevan
but in one of the villages in Abovyan [a district in Armenia], in Nor
Geghi if I am not mistaken, and this was a domestic crime. I should
say that the law-enforcement entities solved it in less than three
days and the perpetrators (as far as I know, they were two brothers)
were sentenced to life in prison. It is totally wrong to interpret that
as a crime with political motives". The editor did not know anything
about a rally held in front of the Armenian embassy in Georgia. "I
have no information, but I do not believe [the information is true]".
Mamen added: "Those ‘brotherly’ Azeris – let them watch themselves.
According to the last census held in the Soviet Union in 1989,
70,000 or more Kurds lived in Armenia. According to our information,
at least 700,000 to 800,000 Kurds should be living in Azerbaijan. But
they were simply put under the name of ‘other nationalities’, and
it turns out that there are no Kurds there. There has been no war,
no earthquake or flood in Azerbaijan. So what has happened to those
Kurds? A policy of estrangement has been carried out," he said.
Asked if he agrees with the statement in the above mentioned document
that at present the 42,000 Kurds living in Armenia are in serious
danger, the editor-in-chief of Ria Taza paper answered: "I would
advise them [the Azerbaijani delegation] to give at least a couple of
examples when they speak of serious danger. Of course, our community
does have numerous needs. There are numerous shortcomings. However,
these difficulties are common for all residents of Armenia."
Vic Darchinyan To Take On Eric Barcelona May 20
VIC DARCHINYAN TO TAKE ON ERIC BARCELONA MAY 20
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 11, 2010 – 12:50 AMT 07:50 GMT
WBC/WBA super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan will stage a title
fight at Parramatta Leagues club (Australia) for the IBO bantamweight
(w.c. 53.5kg) belt against Filipino Eric Barcelona on May 20.
This is Darchinyan’s second attempt to strengthen his positions in
the bantamweight, while he failed the first one, being beaten by IBF
bantamweight champion Ghanaian Joseph Agbeko on July 11, 2009.
Earlier it was reported that Darchinyan will take on Filipino Richard
Garcia in Sidney, again on May 20.
34 year-old and six time world champion Vic Darchinyan, the Armenian
born 2000 Olympian and Australian citizen, has a professional boxing
record of 34 wins, 2 loss, 1 draw and 27 wins by knockout.
Ex-Wrestler Guilty Of Kidnapping Associate
EX-WRESTLER GUILTY OF KIDNAPPING ASSOCIATE
San Francisco Chronicle
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May 10 2010
A former Armenia wrestling champion was convicted Monday of kidnapping
a business associate, beating him and demanding a $1 million ransom.
A federal jury found Vagan Adzhemyan, 42, guilty in his second trial.
His first trial ended with a mistrial last year after the jury
deadlocked 6-6.
Galvin Gibson, a friend of Adzhemyan’s who also took part in the plot,
was convicted as well.
Adzhemyan admitted kidnapping Sandro Karmryan in July 2009, beating
him, shocking him with a stun gun, holding him captive at various
locations across Southern California and demanding a $1 million ransom
from his family.
Adzhemyan argued his actions were necessary because Karmryan was
plotting to have him killed because he knew about an alleged loan
scam. Karmryan had paid a Russian mafia boss $27,000 to kill him after
a complicated financial deal between the men went sour, his attorney
Harland Braun said.
After five days, a SWAT team rescued Karmyan, who was near-death
because he suffered a ruptured bowel while trying to fend off his
attackers. Infections from the wound almost killed Karmyan, but he
recovered after weeks in the hospital and several surgeries.
Braun said his client kidnapped Karmryan because he wanted to get proof
that Karmryan had paid someone to kill him. Many of the interrogations
that took place were captured on cell phone or audio recordings,
and Braun said Karmryan admitted more than 100 times to paying a
killer. Prosecutors said the confession was forced.
The tapes were played for jurors during the first trial.
At the retrial, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Nguyen barred Braun
from presenting evidence to explain why Adzhemyan committed the crime
because she found it irrelevant to his guilt or innocence.
A judge must determine that the defendant faced imminent danger of
serious harm or death and there was no reasonable legal alternative
to his actions before he can present such an argument, which is known
as a justification defense.
Braun said Nguyen’s decision left his client with virtually no defense.
"The jury did not hear the most important evidence in the case,"
he said. "They really had no choice, given the evidence they heard."
Prosecutor Robert E. Dugdale called the kidnapping a "savage" crime.
The Armenian-born Adzhemyan was a champion wrestler in Armenia and
the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Braun has said. He faces up to life
in prison when he is sentenced Aug. 2.
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Civil Oversight Mechanisms Applied In Special Education Schools
CIVIL OVERSIGHT MECHANISMS APPLIED IN SPECIAL EDUCATION SCHOOLS
ARMENPRESS
MAY 5, 2010
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 5, ARMENPRESS: Mechanisms of civil oversight are being
applied in special education schools of the republic. Artak Poghosyan,
head of the General Education Department of the Armenian Ministry of
Education and Science, told Armenpress that the staff of the council
has already been confirmed; it includes 15 NGOs.
The council must implement a monitoring in special education schools.
People selected beforehand can visit special education schools, carry
out studies, talk to children and in case of finding out problems
make aware the ministry. The council has already summoned its first
session and in near future is to develop its activity system.
"There are problems in any educational establishment, and the ministry
undertakes all the measures for their solution. The civil oversight
can play a serious role in that issue. The application of suchlike
approaches enables to find out the problems in a short period of time
and respond to them in time," A. Poghosyan said.
According to the formation system of the council, it must be comprised
of 7-21 people, and as today it has 15 members, according to A.
Poghosyan, people from other NGOs are possible to be involved in it
as well. "Involvement of NGOs has not been an end in itself. We have
had a wish to involve all those who have been engaged in educational
programs in the last two years," A. Poghosyan said.
He also noted that the council is open for cooperation. All the NGOs
which want to involve their representatives in the monitoring works
can apply to the council. The selection process of observers will be
followed by their training. A. Poghosyan said that the training is
of great importance, for the observer must understand the main scope
of its activity.
There are 24 special education schools in the republic, 10 of which
are subordinated to the Armenian Ministry of Education and Science.
Three thousand 500 children learn in 24 general education schools. A.
Poghosyan noted that in near future the observers of the council will
conduct monitoring in the schools subordinated to the ministry. And
later a monitoring is intended to conduct in other special schools
as well.
USC Shoah Foundation Institute Signs Historic Agreement With Armenia
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE SIGNS HISTORIC AGREEMENT WITH ARMENIAN FILM FOUNDATION
Asbarez
Monday, May 10th, 2010
LOS ANGELES
-The USC Shoah Foundation Institute, part of the USC College
of Letters, Arts & Sciences, signed an historic agreement with
the Armenian Film Foundation and Dr. J. Michael and Antoinette
Hagopian. The agreement paves the way for the preservation and
dissemination of the largest archive of filmed interviews with
survivors of and witnesses to the Armenian Genocide.
The two organizations and Dr. Hagopian will work together to make
approximately 400 testimonies of Armenian Genocide survivors and
witnesses available for educational purposes through the Shoah
Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive. The signed agreement
is the first step in the process to digitize, index, preserve, and
disseminate the filmed testimonies collected by Dr. Hagopian and the
Armenian Film Foundation between 1968 and 2004. Once the process is
complete, the testimonies will become accessible through the Shoah
Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive, which contains nearly
52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses.
Funds must be raised before work will commence.
"As a preliminary step towards including Armenian Genocide survivor
testimonies in the archive, our agreement with the Armenian Film
Foundation is a major milestone," said USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Executive Director Stephen Smith. "This project will help preserve
evidence of a genocide that must be acknowledged. It will honor the
memory of those whose lives were taken, and it will ensure that future
generations are able to learn from individuals who experienced the
Armenian Genocide firsthand."
With the attempted annihilation of the Armenian people being the first
major genocide of the 20th Century, the Armenian Film Foundation’s
filmed interviews are significant to the scope of the Shoah Foundation
Institute’s Visual History Archive. The Institute is beginning to work
with partners around the world to expand its archive with testimonies
from survivors and witnesses of other genocides, including the Rwandan
genocide and the Cambodian genocide.
"We believe this agreement is the beginning of a long-term partnership
with the world-renowned USC Shoah Foundation Institute that will
promote the study and prevention of future genocides," said Dr.
Hagopian. "Inclusion of these filmed Genocide survivor interviews,
a ‘national treasure’ of the Armenian people, side by side with
testimonies of Holocaust survivors in an archive that can be accessed
and searched around the world, will finally help us fulfill our
mission of disseminating these eyewitness accounts worldwide."
The Shoah Foundation Institute’s mission is to overcome prejudice,
intolerance, and bigotry-and the suffering they cause-through the
educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies.
"Victimization and genocide perpetrated and denied in one part of
the world, can become the breeding ground for greater crimes against
humanity in another part of the world," said Dr. Hagopian, who is
96 years old and a Genocide survivor himself. "I have felt that it
was my responsibility to educate and inform so that history won’t
be repeated."
About the Testimony Collection
The foundation’s film archive includes nearly 400 interviews of
Genocide survivors and witnesses conducted in 10 countries. The
voices of these filmed survivors and witnesses, now deceased, echo
from all corners of the world in 10 different languages. The majority
of the 400 interviews are either in English or Armenian (some in rare
dialects), with some witnesses speaking in Arabic, Greek, Spanish,
French, Kurdish, Turkish, German, and Russian. Those interviewed were
from 8 to 29 years of age at the time of the Genocide.
The major areas that were covered in those interviews are from the
following cities and towns of Anatolia (mainly Eastern Turkey):
Adabazar, Eskisehir, Konia, Sivas, Kharpert, Urfa, Aintab, Marash,
Malatia, Dickranagerd, Erzeroum, Van, Bitlis, Der Zor, Smyrna,
Erzingan, Musa Dagh, Kessab, Aleppo, Shabin Karahisar, Guren, Sepastia,
Banderma, Yozgat, Everek, Hadjin, Zeitoun, Amassia, and Kutahya.
About the Armenian Film Foundation
The Armenian Film Foundation was established in 1979 as a non-profit,
educational, and cultural organization dedicated to the documentation
in motion pictures of Armenian heritage and life. Its goals are to
inspire pride in and to create worldwide recognition of the Armenian
people and their contributions, and to preserve the visual and personal
histories of the witnesses to the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
Dr. J. Michael Hagopian, co-founder of the Armenian Film Foundation,
has released 17 documentary films on the Armenian heritage, culture,
and history, including an epic trilogy on the Armenian Genocide
comprised of Voices from the Lake, Germany and the Secret Genocide,
and The River Ran Red.
The foundation has in its archives nearly 400 irreplaceable and
invaluable filmed interviews with witnesses and survivors to the
Armenian Genocide, as well as Genocide descendants, scholars and
others.
Recognizing the pressing need to record the experience of Armenians
who were subject to the first genocide of the 20th Century, Dr.
Hagopian in 1968 began filming Armenian Genocide survivors and
eyewitnesses.
As aging Genocide survivors began dying in large numbers, the Armenian
Film Foundation embarked on a massive project to interview on 16mm
film the remaining survivors of and eyewitnesses to the Armenian
Genocide of 1915. When the survivor interview project commenced
in 1982, an estimated 2,500 credible eyewitnesses to the Armenian
Genocide of 1915 were still alive. Fifteen percent of these were
subsequently completed and documented on film by the Armenian Film
Foundation, which retains the original footage, sound tapes, record
books, relevant photographs, and other documentation that may have
been provided by the survivors and eyewitnesses.
For more information, visit the Foundations’s website,
About Dr. J. Michael Hagopian
Born to an Armenian family in Kharpert-Mezreh, Dr. Hagopian
is a Genocide survivor who has dedicated his life to the visual
documentation of the Turkish extermination of 1.5 million Armenians in
1915. In all, his work encompasses nearly 400 interviews of survivors
of and witnesses to the Armenian Genocide and 40 years of research.
Dr. Hagopian holds a doctorate in international relations from
Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from the University
of California at Berkeley. He also did two years of graduate work in
cinema at the University of Southern California. He taught political
science and economics at the University of California at Los Angeles;
American University of Beirut, Lebanon; Banaras Hindu University,
India; and Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Dr. Hagopian is the chair of the Board of Directors of the Armenian
Film Foundation and producer/director of many award-winning documentary
films. As President of Atlantis Productions, he has also been engaged
in the research, writing and production of educational and documentary
films for instructional and informational use in the classroom and
on television.
He has written, directed and produced more than 70 educational and
documentary films which collectively have won over 160 national and
international awards, including two Emmy nominations for the writing
and production of The Forgotten Genocide, the first full-length feature
film on the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Germany and the Secret Genocide
received the coveted First Place Golden Camera Award in the History
Category from the 2004 U.S. International Film and Video Festival,
the largest festival of its kind. The River Ran Red was voted Best
International Historical Documentary by the New York International
Film & Video Festival in 2009 and it won second place in the History
and Biography categories at the 2009 U.S. International Film and
Video Festival.
Several of his films were produced under grants from the U.S. Office of
Education and the Ethnic Heritage Program, the MacArthur Foundation,
California Endowment for the Humanities, and California State
Department of Education.
Dr. Hagopian himself is the recipient of numerous honors,
including Jewish World Watch’s "I Witness" Award for dedicating his
professional life to chronicling the history of the Armenian people
and commemorating victims of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian
National Committee honored him as Man of the Year in 2000.
About the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
Established in 1994 by Steven Spielberg to collect and preserve
the testimonies of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust,
the USC Shoah Foundation Institute maintains one of the largest video
digital libraries in the world: nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32
languages and from 56 countries. The Institute is part of the College
of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California;
its mission is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry-and the
suffering they cause-through the educational use of the Institute’s
visual history testimonies.
The Institute works within the University and with partners around
the world to advance scholarship and research, to provide resources
and online tools for educators, and to disseminate the testimonies
for educational purposes. In addition to preserving the testimonies
in its archive, the Institute is working with partner organizations
to help document the stories of survivors and other witnesses of
other genocides.
For more information, visit the Institute’s website,
www.armenianfilm.org.
www.college.usc.edu/vhi.
Doing Good, Saving Lives
DOING GOOD, SAVING LIVES
The Civilitas Foundation
Saturday, 08 May 2010 09:07
Spotlight / Events
The Civilitas Foundation, in collaboration with the Armenian Bone
Marrow Donor Registry, hosted ‘Be a Donor, Save a Life! on May 7.’
The turnout was impressive and inspired the participants to continue to
repeat the drive on Friday May 14, from 5 to 7 pm, again at Civilitas,
in central Yerevan.
The reason for Civilitas’ participation is not only humanitarian,
it also has to do with the story of Civilitas intern, Olivia
Katrandjian, whose mother is suffering from lymphoma, an aggressive and
unpredictable form of blood cancer. At this point, her only chance for
a cure is a bone marrow transplant. In order to perform this procedure,
the doctors need a blood donor who is a genetic match, but currently,
there are no registered donors who qualify.
The best chance of finding a match is another Armenian, and so Olivia
has been working with the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry to
increase the number of Armenian registrants in the system.
Joining the registry is simple – it requires only a cotton swab to
collect some cheek cells from the inside of your mouth. The Armenian
Bone Marrow Donor Registry has already saved the lives of 8 people.
"But 1300 people are still in need of a match and it’s possible that
that match is you," said Olivia. "Signing up only takes five minutes
and it could mean saving the life of someone like my mother."
"This next drive on May 14 is on Olivia’s birthday. Olivia’s enthusiasm
and positive outlook in the face of this huge challenge will make
everyone believe that we can indeed rely on each other, that our
dignity and humanity really does depend on the other person’s act of
kindness," said Salpi Ghazarian, Director of Civilitas, who herself
became a donor. "Random events and coincidences often determine
our lives. This illness randomly afflicted Olivia’s mother Irene,
and little Charlotte (see ). Correspondingly, a random
donor may be the one to save their lives, so come by for 5 minutes
and be registered," said Mrs. Ghazarian.
Vartan Oskanian, President of the Civilitas Board, also became a
donor. "This is one of those causes that is only good," he said. "This
is something about which we can all agree, all work together, all
contribute. It’s really for the common good, and it requires common
effort," he said.
www.abmdr.am
Europe’s Finance Ministers Approved Crisis Aid Package
EUROPE’S FINANCE MINISTERS APPROVED CRISIS AID PACKAGE
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 10, 2010 – 10:23 AMT 05:23 GMT
Europe’s Finance Ministers approved in an emergency meeting late
Sunday a "stabilization mechanism" that could provide at least 440
billion euros (US $560 billion) for a crisis aid package aimed at
ensuring financial stability across Europe, CNN reported.
The deal comes after a week of heavy stock market losses for some of
the European Union’s member states in the wake of a massive bailout
for Greece’s battered economy.
The Ministers, meeting in Brussels, Belgium, sought to ease markets
shaken by the Greek economic crisis before they re-opened Monday.
Under the deal announced early Monday, the International Monetary
Fund could provide up to 220 billion euros (US $280 billion) to the
crisis fund in addition to the EU’s contribution of 440 billion euros,
Spain’s Finance Minister Elena Salgado said.
Another 60 billion euros (US $76 billion) would be available should
member states experience "exceptional occurrences" beyond their
control, Salgado said.
European Central Bank officials have tried to play down fears that
the economic turmoil in Greece could spread to other heavily indebted
European countries such as Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Spain saw three straight days of losses in its stock market last week
after the country’s credit rating was downgraded by the influential
rating agency Standard & Poor’s.
Olli Rehn, the European commissioner for economic and monetary
policy, praised the deal early Monday, saying "the fiscal efforts
of European Union member states, the financial assistance by the
(European Commission) and member states, and the actions taken today
by the (European Central Bank) proves that we shall defend the euro
whatever it takes."
" Où En Est La Turquie Avec Son " Problème Armenien " ? " Par Sahin
" OÙ EN EST LA TURQUIE AVEC SON " PROBLÈME ARMENIEN " ? " PAR SAHIN ALPAY
par Stephane
armenews
vendredi7 mai 2010
PRESSE TURQUE
Sahin Alpay, sans doute pour montrer la generosite de l’intelligentsia
turque, nous apprend qu’un diplomate avait suggere a Gul de proposer
aux Armeniens d’Erevan la citoyennete turque ! Selon lui, une majorite
de turcs qui connaissant l’histoire sont en gros d’accord avec le
gouvernement pour ne voir dans ‘les evenements’ de 1915 que des
tueries entre musulmans et Armeniens ! On n’est plus très loin des
luttes intercommunautaires de banlieue ! Mais le journaliste nous
ressert le couplet sur la vocation des parlements qui n’est pas de
porter des jugements sur des faits historiques. On sait bien, depuis
Geoffrey Robertson, que "genocide" est un terme juridique, un crime
defini dans le droit international. L’histoire, ce sont des faits,
et les parlements, qui creent du droit, caracterisent ces faits en
genocide. Collectif d’historiens effarouches et autres Chandernagor
ou Lang ont assez balade les Armeniens avec ca…
On craint que ce long article, reprenant au fond contre-verites
et faux-fuyants, n’apportera rien, si ce n’est la reponse a la
question-titre, ‘où en est la Turquie avec son problème armenien’ :
nulle part.
Mais il y a quand meme une lueur : on pourra voir dans cet article
au detour de l’avant dernier paragraphe, dans son sens direct,
l’expression -Genocide Armenien- libre de tout guillemet. Certainement
une première dans un journal turc depuis longtemps.
Gilbert Beguian
" Où en est la Turquie avec son " Problème armenien " ? "
SAHIN ALPAY
La Turquie a un problème connu sous le nom de ‘problème armenien’. Il
concerne la facon dont l’etat turc et la societe turque doivent faire
face a leur histoire relativement a la grande tragedie qui toucha
les Armeniens ottomans, quand les dictateurs de Union et Progrès,
pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale, en reponse a la revolte des
nationalistes armeniens qui se sont mis aux côtes de l’ennemi russe,
ont puni les citoyens armeniens dans leur presque totalite en les
deportant de force en Syrie, provoquant la mort de plusieurs centaines
de milliers d’entre eux par des massacres, la famine et les epidemies.
Cette question a ressurgi recemment quand la Commission des Affaires
etrangères de la Chambre des Representants de l’"allie strategique"
de la Turquie, a adopte le 4 mars une resolution pour appeler le
President a declarer genocide les deportations et les massacres des
Armeniens ottoman en 1915. Une semaine plus tard, le 11 mars, le
parlement de Suède, le pays supportant le plus fort la candidature
la Turquie pour sa candidature a l’Union Europeenne, adoptait une
resolution appelant a la reconnaissance non seulement du genocide des
Assyriens, mais aussi des Armeniens et des grecs pontiques en Turquie.
Le parlement suedois est devenu le 20 ème parlement a reconnaître le
‘Genocide Armenien’. Contestant les resolutions, le gouvernement
turc a rappele ses ambassadeurs a Washington et a Stockholm pour
consultations, une mesure qui n’a pas ete prise quand les parlements
francais, allemand, italien, polonais et russe avaient adopte des
resolutions similaires.
Il y a differentes approches au problème armenien en Turquie, a la
fois au niveau societal et gouvernemental. La plupart de ceux qui ont
quelques connaissances des evenements de la Première Guerre Mondiale
dans l’empire ottoman souscrivent a la ligne officielle qui soutient
en gros que ce qui s’est passe etaient des tueries reciproques de
Musulmans et d’Armeniens. Avec eux se trouvent aussi ceux qui partagent
le souci que si les massacres d’Armeniens etaient consideres comme
genocide, les Armeniens demanderaient des restitutions de propriete et
des compensations, et que l’Armenie ferait des demandes territoriales
a la Turquie. Il y a cependant aussi une minorite dans la societe
turque, en nombre croissant au moins depuis 2005, qui reconnaissent
que le massacre d’Armeniens ottomans a ete une vaste tragedie, voire
un genocide intentionnel comparable a l’Holocauste, et soutenant que
les Armeniens meritent au moins qu’on leur demande pardon.
Ces gens ont organise, peu après que le gouvernement turc ait
propose au gouvernement d’Armenie de negocier afin d’aller vers une
normalisation des relations entre les deux pays, une conference a
Istanbul qui abordait la question "qu’est-il arrive aux Armeniens
ottomans ? " Quand le journaliste turco-armenien Hrant Dink a ete
assassine par des ultranationalistes (suspectes d’avoir des liens avec
l’"etat profond" turc) en 2007, au moins 100 000 personnes marchaient
derrière son cercueil en criant "nous sommes tous des Armeniens ! "
En 2008, plus de 30 000 personnes ont signe une declaration demandant
pardon a leurs "frères et soeurs armeniens" pour ce qui s’etait passe
en 1915. Et quand le president Gul avait visite Erevan, la meme annee,
un ambassadeur a la retraite suggera que le gouvernement turc, ne
serait-ce que de facon symbolique, paie des indemnites aux familles
des victimes des deportations et offre la citoyennete turque a ceux
qui le souhaiteraient .
Il y a cependant des differences d’opinion parmi une minorite. Un
plus petit groupe croit que les resolutions sur le genocide adoptees
par un nombre croissant de parlements aident la Turquie a regarder
son histoire en face. Pour la plupart, ils croient que les parlements
n’ont pas vocation a porter des jugements sur des faits historiques,
que les resolutions sont seulement motivees par des considerations
l’humanitaires ou idealistes, mais aussi par l’espoir de gagner des
voix lors des elections ou pour se venger de la Turquie pour telle
ou telle raison. Ils pensent que pour obtenir de la Turquie qu’elle
regarde son histoire en face, il est necessaire d’ôter le voile de
l’ignorance au sein du peuple turc sur le sort des Armeniens ottomans,
aidee en cela par la normalisation des relations entre la Turquie et
l’Armenie. Ils ressentent les resolutions negativement parce qu’elles
declenchent des reactions nationalistes et genent par consequent la
normalisation des relations. J’appartiens resolument a ce groupe.
Vis a vis du gouvernement, on peut soutenir que le parti au
pouvoir actuellement, le Parti Justice et Developpement (AKP) se
distingue des gouvernements precedents qui ont refuse d’etablir
des relations diplomatiques avec l’Armenie et ferme les frontières
lorsque les Armeniens ont envahi l’Azerbaïdjan dans la guerre pour le
Nagorno-Karabagh. Ce gouvernement a propose au gouvernement armenien
en 2005 des negociations en vue de normaliser leurs relations entre
les deux pays, et les negociations sont allees jusqu’a la signature
par les deux parties de protocoles en octobre l’an passe pour etablir
des relations diplomatiques et ouvrir les frontières. La ratification
des protocoles s’est malheureusement bloquee, due principalement
a Ankara, sous la pression de l’Azerbaïdjan, avec laquelle elle a
des liens culturels et economiques, et la puissant lobby azeri en
Turquie declarant que la ratification depend de l’acceptation par
l’Armenie de faire des pas vers la normalisation avec l’Azerbaïdjan. Et
malheureusement l’Armenie, qui occupe le cinquième du territoire de
l’Azerbaïdjan, forcant près de un million d’Azeris a la condition
d’immigres dans leur propre pays, ne donne aucun signe dans ce sens.
Il y a une difference d’opinions concernant la politique de l’AKP
parmi ceux qui pensent que la Turquie doit faire face a son histoire.
Certains pensent qu’il n’est pas different des autres gouvernements
niant le genocide Armenien ou tragedie. D’autres donnent du credit a
l’idee que le gouvernement AKP, lui aussi, croit que la normalisation
avec l’Armenie est necessaire si la Turquie veut affronter son passe.
Il est possible aussi que le gouvernement AKP soit lui meme divise
sur ce point.
Que peut-il etre fait a ce stade pour aider a resoudre le problème
armenien de la Turquie ? Nous le verrons dans un prochain article.
Events In Syria Dedicated To Victory Of The Great Patriotic War
EVENTS IN SYRIA DEDICATED TO VICTORY OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
Aysor
May 7 2010
Armenia
On May 6 in Syria on the event organized by the Armenian and CIS
countries’ embassies was celebrated the 65th anniversary of the
victory of the Great Patriotic War.
On the reception dedicated to the anniversary of the victory partook
the Defense Minister of Syria, deputy minister of the Foreign Ministry,
members of parliament, heads of embassies, diplomats, veterans of the
Great Patriotic War, journalists, etc. informs the press, information
and public relations department of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.