Author: Vanyan Gary

TURKEY’S FM HOPES ARMENIA TO REVERSE SUSPENSION

WorldBulletin.net
April 23 2010
Turkey

Davutoglu said regarding the decision made by Armenia to suspend
protocols signed with Turkey was a unilateral one.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said regarding the decision
made by Armenia to suspend protocols signed with Turkey was a
unilateral one.

Turkey and Armenia which have no diplomatic ties or economic relations
since Turkey closed its border with Armenia since this country invaded
the Upper-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan in 1992, signed two protocols
in October 2009, for normalisation of relations, after months-long
Swiss-mediated talks.

Speaking to reporters in Estonian capital of Tallinn on Friday,
Davutoglu said, "it is a decision made by Armenia unilaterally. The
decision is about their own process. As Prime Minister (Recep Tayyip)
Erdogan said, it is their own decision."

Armenian President Serzh Sargsian announced on Thursday that Armenia
was freezing its ratification of protocols on normalization of ties
with Turkey.

"I hope that available political atmosphere will take place in Armenia
and Turkey as soon as possible and the process will resume," he said.

Not only Turkey and Armenia but all regional countries as well as
international community especially the United States, Russia and
France would benefit from resumption of the process, he said.

Davutoglu said everyone including Turkey and Armenia as well as
Caucasus and Minsk group should make good use of acquisitions.

Recalling Prime Minister Erdogan’s statement, Davutoglu said there was
no change for Turkey and the country always highlighted its loyalty
to protocols since the beginning.

The protocols that have been signed between Turkey and Armenia were
still at the parliament’s foreign affairs committee, he said. "We are
ready to take steps when appropriate conditions occur," Davutoglu said.

He said they discussed the matter with the U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton.

Sources said Clinton underlined the importance of continuation of
the process between the two countries during their conversation.

"Process"

Both Turkey and Armenian governments initiated the internal
ratification process.

Turkish government sent the protocols to the parliament. The protocol
needs to be approved by the parliament in order for it to take effect.

The Turkish government says it will not open the border unless Armenia
ends its occupation of Upper-Karabakh.

However, on January 12, 2010, the Armenian Constitutional Court
approved the protocols, however the tone of the court’s reasoned
verdict drew criticism from Turkey and Turkish officials who voiced
their uneasiness in various platforms.

Turkey thought the fifth article of Armenian Constitutional Court’s
verdict regarding the protocols was against the target and basis of
the protocols.

EDGAR MANOUCHARYAN AT LAST SCORED A GOAL

Tert.am
24.04.10

An Armenian national football team attacker Edgar Manoucharyan kicked
a goal in the 36 tour of the Dutch second League.

Edgar Manoucharyan, 23, was playing in Apeldoorn which was competing
in a visiting game with De Graafschap.

Apeldoorn won at a 5:3 score and Manoucharyan became the author of
the 5th goal bring an a wide victory for his team.

Earlier Manoucharyan had kicked a goal on March 8 his 13th one during
the Dutch Second League, reports Armsport.am.

COUNCIL OF GERMAN-ARMENIANS STRUGGLES TO HAVE THE WORD ‘GENOCIDE’ INCLUDED IN THE BUNDESTAG RESOLUTION
Liana Yeghiazaryan

"Radiolur"
24.04.2010 15:15

A number of events are being held in many countries of the world,
including Germany, to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide. As s country that has been directly or indirectly involved in
the perpetration of the Armenian Genocide, Germany adopted a special
resolution in 2005, in which it presents and condemns the atrocities
carried out in 1915. However, the resolution fails to mention one
word – genocide.

"We pursue to change the resolution and have the word "genocide"
included in the document," says Azat Ordukhanyan, President of the
Central Council of German-Armenians.

"We struggle to have the Armenian Genocide issue included in
German textbooks and make it become part of European memory,"
Azat Ordukhanyan said, adding that one of the main objectives of
the Council of German-Armenians is to have the Genocide issue put on
Bundestag agenda. "We’ll continue struggling until the word "genocide"
is included in the 2005 Resolution on the Armenian Genocide," he said.

How did Germany accept its crime against Jews, while Turkey refuses
to accept what it did against Armenians? Azat Ordukhanyan says it’s a
matter of politics. Besides, according to him, the Jews did not lose
their Motherland after the Holocaust, while Armenians lost a large
part of their people and land. "The losses are incomparable," he added.

"Without an intention to offend the Turkish people, it should be
asserted that the intellectual and political circles in Turkey are
not mature enough to overcome racism," Azat Ordukhanyan noted.

President of the Central Council of German-Armenians says it’s untimely
to speak about the positive dynamics of the Armenian-Turkish relations
until Turks accept their crime and speak about reimbursement. "I think
it’s a long process. I don’t believe the opening of the shared border
or establishment of diplomatic relations will change anything. But
it is at least a start," Azat Ordukhanyan concluded.

SERZH SARKISYAN: ARMRENIA IS NOT OUT OF THE NORMALIZATION PROCESS WITH TURKEY BUT SUSPENDS RATIFICATION OF PROTOCOLS SIGNED WITH TURKEY

APA
April 22 2010
Azerbaijan

Baku-APA. Armenia has not yet decided to abandon the process of
normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations, but only to suspend the
ratification of the protocols. APA reports quoting Novoisti Armenia
Agency that about it is told at the message of Armenian President to
the nation.

At the message also was noted that Armenian President continues
discussions on this issue with Presidents of France, the United States
and other partners of several European institutions.

"I am grateful to them for their support to our initiative. I have
to confess that our partners call on me to continue the process,
not to suspend it", – Sarkisyan told.

"Following discussions at the National Security Council we have decided
not to abandon the process yet, but merely to suspend ratification of
protocols. I am sure our national interests demand it", – emphasized
Sarkisyan.

Armenian President also notified that Armenia will retain its signature
on the protocols. So according to him, Armenia wants to retain the
possibility of establishing relations.

Our political objectives to establish Turkish-Armenian relations
remain in force, and we will consider the continuation of this issue
when we will be sure that in Turkey there is a conducive atmosphere
for progress", – Sarkisyan said.

Armenian President also expressed gratitude to Turkish President
Abdullah Gul "for being politically correct during this period and
for the positive relationship that emerged between them"

HAYK DEMOYAN: THE SUBJECT OF GENOCIDE IS INTERTWINED WITH MEMORIES OF NATIONS WORLDWIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
April 21, 2010 – 14:04 AMT 09:04 GMT

Armenian Genocide issue is intertwined with a number of historic
events; memories of nations worldwide are linked with the first
Genocide of 20th century, according to Armenian Genocide Museum
director Hayk Demoyan.

As he stated at Yerevan-Moscow TV space bridge: "Political aspect
of Genocide issue is often emphasized. Yet, it must first of all be
considered from humanitarian viewpoint. Many countries who extended
help to Armenians became eyewitnesses to atrocities committed in
Western Armenia."

"Presenting reality accompanying the historic event to international
community should become the main task to future generations."

As Mr. Demoyan stressed, Genocide recognition issue has become subject
to political manipulations. "By forming documents running counter to
academic history, Armenia and Russia’s common neighbor seeks to create
the artificial one. The fact must be given an adequate assessment,"
he stated.

Mr. Demoyan emphasized the importance of academic consensus on Genocide
issue, noting with regret that some foreign historians still deny
the fact of Armenian Genocide.

DAVUTOGLU: TURKEY’S GOAL IS RESOLUTION OF KARABAKH PROBLEM AND LIBERATION OF AZERBAIJANI TERRITORIES

NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY
APRIL 20, 2010
BAKU

BAKU, APRIL 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. President of Azerbaijan
Ilham Aliyev hosted Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on
April 19. The sides underlined the necesiity to strengthen the
Turkish-Azerbaijani friendship, promote cooperation of the two
countries and make joint efforts.

Azerbaijan’s mass media reported that Ahmet Davutoglu informed Aliyev
about the details of the Washington meeting between Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

After the meetings with Azerbaijani president and foreign minister, A.

Davutoglu gave a press conference, during which he declared that
among Turkey’s main missions are resolution of the Karabakh problem
and liberation of Azerbaijani territories.

According to him, Ankara’s goal is to ensure normal relations, open
borders, confidence and security in the South Caucasus. He expressed
a hope that they will manage to achieve this goal thanks to joint
efforts with the OSCE Minsk Group.

Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov attached importance
to the information that his Turkish counterpart had provided about
the Washington meetings. "It is early to speak about progress, but
it is important that with the help of Turkey we are activating the
negotiations on the Karabakh problem," he said.

INCREASING OF THE ROLE OF THE SOCIAL NETWORKS ON THE MEDIA FIELD
Samvel Martirosyan

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19 April 2010

Today the conceptual change of the network media connections is
taking place. In recent years the search engines, which, in fact,
became dominant in the sphere of the information dissemination, have
been the key factor for spreading information. For the owners of the
web-sites the main factor of entering the information field was and
is the dominance in the search engines on the relevant request. At
the same time the tendency is exhibited towards the re-formatting
of the information field and shift of the dominance in favour of the
social networks.

>From search engine to the social recommendations Search engines deliver
a result on a definite demand according to the separately elaborated
and permanently refreshed principles of the site authoritativeness,
its novelty, content and more than a hundred other principles, a part
of which is kept secret (in order to avoid artificial markup on behalf
of the web-sites owners) and is varied depending on the search engine.

The availability of the huge amount of the information delivered
brings to the fact that search engines show the end user only the most
relevant results. Thus, Google delivers only first thousand results,
ignoring the rest. At the same time, according to the statistics,
most of the users turn only to first 10 results of the request (and
among them the majority looks only first three results).

The increasing of the media stream and the exponential growth of the
online media caused the search engines shift to separate services
which deliver the real time automatic matching of the news. Thus,
in June 2003, the main Russian language search engine announced their
new ñÎÄÅËÓ.îÏ& #xD7;ÏÓÔE service. At that time the company announced that
the users are delivered quite a new service – the unification of the
news close in content in topics and highlighting the main topics of the
day. At the same time ñÎÄÅËÓ.îÏ& #xD7;ÏÓÔE became multi-media project. There
are not only texts, presented on the site, but also photo-, audio-,
and video files. "The processing and systematization of the news
is going on automatically. Yandex does not produce its own news; it
just reflects impartially the informational picture of the day. The
algorithms of the analysis and ranking of the data are the original
elaboration by Yandex, based on the textual likeness and clustering
of the information flows". (1)

Google released the analogous service Google News in test mode a
year earlier, in April 2002, but the final release of the news search
was made only in 2006. The similar services were also introduced by
other search engines. (Besides, the separate services, which aggregate
the news on media grounds, have also appeared). The achievements of
the search engines which were breakthrough at that moment, gave the
impulse to the development of the online media resources.

At the same time the development of the Internet caused the information
market to be ceased by two competitors of the traditional media. On
the one hand, the blogs, which have turned into the alterative source
of information, are getting more and more popular.

The materials have been generated in the blogosphere which can compete
with the big mass media in the responsiveness and content. Later on,
the integration of the blogosphere with the traditional information
grounds began.

But the qualitative changes in the distribution of the media
traffic have been caused by the appearance and promotion of the
social networks. For the recent five years social networks have shown
explosive growth; the number of the active users in the separate social
networks meets tens and even hundreds of million; their prevalence is
of global character. Many social networks are localized, e.g. Chinese
, which has more than 100 million registered users, or
the Russian language Odnoklassniki.ru (45 million registered users,
the traffic is 10 million in 24 hours (2)) or VKontakte.ru (the
most active Russian-language social service which has more than 65
million registered users). At the same time the main social networks
as for the number of the users, are global and multi-language. Thus,
the Facebook – the biggest social network, has gathered more than 450
million registered users for 4 years of its existence and continues
its dynamic growth. Among the dynamically growing social networks
the Twitter should be mentioned where the content formed by the users
is restricted to 140 symbols. The obligatory brevity of the messages
and the easiness of their publication (the messages in Twitter can be
posted both through the computers and the programmes for the mobile
phones or SMS) caused the service to be actively used by traditional
media for disseminating its information and to become a mean of civil
journalism. Twitter, in fact, substituted traditional media in the
period of the cataclysms or social unrest (e.g. during the encounters
between opposition and police in Iran, or the earthquake in Haiti and
etc.). Today, more than 50 million posts appear in Twitter every day.

Social networks are generating a huge amount of content. Besides, here
the conditions are created to spread material, links and multimedia.

Unlike search engines in the social networks the clusters of the users
who trust to each other are formed; the authoritative users appear.

Correspondingly, the recommendations of the definite users become more
acceptable for the average user than the results delivered by machines
like Google, Yahoo, Yandex. The factor of the increasing information
flow is also important. Under such conditions the average user is
not able to single out the necessary news sifting out the secondary,
even using the modern search engines. Correspondingly, the role of
the authoritative users who can work with information by themselves
is increasing. Thus, social networks become "recommendation" services,
which generate a huge amount of links to the media resources. E.g.

according to Yandex the 8% of all the records in Russian segment of
Twitter are the links to the mass media (3). Today the social networks
are turning into the dominating "recommendation" services to which
the search giants cede. Thus, since the middle of 2009 the traffic
only from Facebook social network to the sites of the broadcasting
companies exceeded the traffic from Google News service (Table 1). At
the end of 2009 the number of Facebook users surpassed the number of
Yahoo.com visitors (Table 2). In March 2010 Facebook outrun Google
as for the share of visitors (Table 3). In general the traffic from
Facebook to the biggest sites exceeds, sometimes rather essentially,
the similar rates from Google (Table 4).

Thus, the influence of the mass media in the Internet is directly
connected not only with their position in the search engines but
also in the social networks. Correspondingly, the format of the
media materials is being changed too. Thus, the specificity of the
social networks implies giving greater consideration to the titles,
headlines of the materials.

Armenia and social networks As for Armenia, here the social networks
become a key factor of communication both in Armenia and in the context
of Armenia-Diaspora communication. Thus, Armenian network mass media,
in fact, have rather restricted audience. The main mass media have 2-3
thousand visitors a day on average. At the same time social networks
are the main points of entering Internet for the Armenian user. For
example, Odnoklassniki.ru has more than 200 thousand users from Armenia
which is comparable to the number of the Internet users in Armenia.

Besides, the Armenian user is actively mastering the English language
social networks today – Facebook, Twitter (it should be mentioned
that the penetration in this networks is lower than to the Russian
language services, such as Odnoklassniki.ru, VKontakte.ru). Even more,
there are exclusively Armenian networks being formed, which, however,
have still had rather restricted contingent.

So the social networks turn into the main sources of information for
the Armenian users as well. At the same time, Armenian online mass
media began penetration into the social networks, hoping to increase
their own audience essentially. The appearance of the social networks
may cause the qualitative changes in the structure of the Armenian
segment of Internet and Armenia online media (e.g. it may cause,
on the one hand, the growth of the number and, on the other hand,
the increase of the gap between separate resources in the aspect of
the number of the audience).

IRAN PROPOSES TO HOLD TRILATERAL MEETING BETWEEN ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI AND IRANIAN FMS

armradio.am
19.04.2010 15:02

Tehran proposes to hold a trilateral meeting of foreign ministers
of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr
Mottaki told media at a press conference, Ä°SNA agency reported.

The Minister said that Azerbaijan had already given its consent.

Tehran is awaiting a response from Armenia now.

Iran will make every effort to resolve the conflict, Mottaki said.

"The Karabakh conflict can be resolved through negotiations and on
the basis of the principle of justice," Iranian Foreign Minister said.

"BY ITS CONDITION AND CHARM AZERBAIJAN IS BETTER THAN ARMENIA"

Aysor
April 15 2010
Armenia

Today the NA deputy ARP representative Gagik Minasyan on the meeting
with the journalists said that he thinks we are at the edge of a big
round and at the beginning of another one.

"There were two very important achievements, Armenia proved that it
is an active factor in the territory, our active policy was in the
center of the attention of the international active political centers,
as a result we gained a rather big political weight. Our political
rating has risen."

The second achievement according to Minasyan is that we got a
development in the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide. In
Turkey today they speak about the Genocide during the Parliamentary
discussions and call on accepting it, the MP thinks.

"A process is launched as a result of which the taboo on Genocide will
disappear and the people of Turkey will speak about their history,"
Minasyan believes.

The NA member Vardan Khachatryan mentioned that there are some changes
and that Armenia is coming out with honor from two parallel developing
processes.

TIGRAN SARGSYAN RECEIVED FARID MUKHAMETSHIN

Aysor
April 15 2010
Armenia

Today Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received special
representative of the Russian president in the CIS countries head of
the federal agency of international humanitarian cooperation Farid
Mukhametshin and the delegation headed by him.

As the information and public relations department of the RA Government
informs T. Sargsyan, greeting the guests assured that the RA Government
will do everything possible bringing into life the joint projects.

During the meeting Farid Mukhametshin informed the PM that they are in
Armenia to participate in the opening ceremony of the Armenian-Russian
center of innovation cooperation in Armenia and in the founding
conference of the center. He noted that the center is aimed at
assisting in the integration processes between the two countries.

The works of the newly opened center will be carried out in two
directions, educational, for students and pupils and scientific.