Author: Vorskanian Yeghisabet

Kim Kardashian was spotted leaving Armenian restaurant Carousel in Hollywood wearing an all-black ensemble including a draped overcoat and open-toe shoes, The Daily Mail reports.

She’s always kept connected with her Armenian heritage.

And Kim Kardashian enjoyed dinner at an Armenian restaurant in Los Angeles on Thursday.

The pregnant reality television star, 35, showed off her blossoming baby bump as she stepped out in her favorite black stretch tube dress, and covered her shoulders with a draped coat.

Her amble bosom was well on display as she wore her glossy brunette locks loose in a center parting as she arrived at Carousel – said to be the favorite restaurant of her late father Robert Kardashian.

Kim’s ancestors on her father’s side fled their homeland after warnings of the impending Armenian Genocide in 1915 and settled in the United States.

Earlier this year the beauty paid a visit to Armenia with sister Khloe and cousins Kourtni & Kara.

They paid a visit to the Prime Minister of Armenia, Hovik Abrahamyan in April which was filmed for their Keeping Up With The Kardashians programme.

Photo by AFP

The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a wave of attacks in Paris that killed 127 people and said France would remain at the “top of the list” of its targets, the Associated Press ssreports.

Spokesman for the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tigran Balayan has dismissed reports on the arrest of an Armenian national in Egypt.

Five foreigners and one Egyptian were arrested for joining “Islamic State” Monday, the reported.

The six individuals are accused of volunteering to join IS, conducting acts of sabotage, and harming the country’s economic and social interests.

The defendants were identified as former army officer Ishan Jan from Tajikstan, Ali Akbr Abduallah from Serbia, Akhbar Yan Ali Tan from Belarus, Mohamed Share Ali, 44, a businessman from Armenia, Mohamed Bahaai from Iran, Bashar Ali Abduallah Al-Ansary from Syria, and Mohamed Faaz from Egypt.

The security forces arrested them inside a car while they were monitoring the Giza Pyramids area. The security forces seized six laptop devices with them, with IS and Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis logos, Egyptian police and armed forces uniforms, daggers, rifles, and Egyptian and foreign currency, according to state newspaper Al-Ahram.

The Armenian Embassy in Egypt requested clarifications from authorized bodies, Tigran Balayan said.

“Egypt authorities confirmed to Armenia Embassy in Cairo that there is no citizen of Armenia among the arrested members of the Islamic State,” the Spokesman said in a Twitter post.

In today’s Grand Chamber judgment1 in the case of Perinçek v. Switzerland (application no. 27510/08) the European Court of Human Rights held, by a majority, that there had been: a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The case concerned the criminal conviction of a Turkish politician for publicly expressing the view, in Switzerland, that the mass deportations and massacres suffered by the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 and the following years had not amounted to genocide.

Being aware of the great importance attributed by the Armenian community to the question whether those mass deportations and massacres were to be regarded as genocide, the European Court of Human Rights held that the dignity of the victims and the dignity and identity of modernday Armenians were protected by Article 8 (right to respect for private life) of the Convention.

The Court therefore had to strike a balance between two Convention rights – the right to freedom of expression and the right to respect for private life – taking into account the specific circumstances of the case and the proportionality between the means used and the aim sought to be achieved.

The Court concluded that it had not been necessary, in a democratic society, to subject Mr Perinçek to a criminal penalty in order to protect the rights of the Armenian community at stake in the case. In particular, the Court took into account the following elements: Mr Perinçek’s statements bore on a matter of public interest and did not amount to a call for hatred or intolerance; the context in which they were made had not been marked by heightened tensions or special historical overtones in Switzerland; the statements could not be regarded as affecting the dignity of the members of the Armenian community to the point of requiring a criminal law response in Switzerland; there was no international law obligation for Switzerland to criminalise such statements; the Swiss courts appeared to have censured Mr Perinçek simply for voicing an opinion that diverged from the established ones in Switzerland; and the interference with his right to freedom of expression had taken the serious form of a criminal conviction.

My wish is to see the copy of Tsitsernakaberd Memorial opened in Turkey, Turkish writer Kemal Yalcin told a press conference in Yerevan.

Kemal Yalcin is a Turk and a Muslim. He has nothing to do with Armenians. As a student he read in Turkish textbooks that Armenians were traitors. He met the first Armenian in Germany, where he has been living since 1980. It was Meline, an Istanbul Armenian teacher.

“Meline was teaching us, telling about different countries – China, Finland, India, but never about Armenia and Armenians. ‘It’s impossible to tell about our pain,’ she said, when I asked her why she avoided telling about her Motherland and her people. When I revealed my plans to write about Armenians, she made me promise I would visit Cilicia to find the heirs of Genocide survivors and talk to them. Only after that she agreed to speak about her pain,” Kemal Yalcin said.

The Turkish writer visited the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial today. “I’m shocked and extremely excited,” he said. “I have dedicated more than 5,000 pages to the Armenian people and the Armenian Genocide, but I know it’s nothing compared to the sufferings the Armenian people went through. Believe that I carry that pain in my soul and I’m aware I have a lot to do to support your just cause,” Kemal Yalcin added.

The author’s dream is to see the copy of Tsitsernakaberd built in Ankara. “I want Turks to lay flowers at the memorial to the innocent victims every April 24 just like Armenians do,” he concluded.

Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed as a result of a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board says, the BBC reports.

The missile hit the front left of the plane causing other parts to break off, it said in a final report into the July 2014 disaster, which killed 298 people.

The report does not say who fired the missile, but says airspace over eastern Ukraine should have been closed.

The plane – flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur – crashed at the height of the conflict between government troops and pro-Russian separatists.

Most of the victims were Dutch – 196, including some with dual nationality. The other passengers and crew were nationals from 10 countries.

President Serzh Sargsyan received today Michaëlle Jean, secretary-general of the International Organization of La Francophonie.

The president welcomed the guest and noted that he is glad the meeting is taking place in Armenia within the frames of the 31st Ministerial Conference of the International Organization of La Francophonie. According to Armenia’s president, the regular session of the Francophonie’s governing body is of special importance to Armenia, and it was a great honor and responsibility to host that crucial event. Stressing that Armenia is one of the most active member states of the International Organization of La Francophonie, Serzh Sargsyan assured the secretary-general that our country is faithful to its commitment to encouraging the values shared by the Francophone family and attaches great importance to its cooperation with the International Organization of La Francophonie, its partner institutions and with the Parliamentary Assembly of La Francophonie.

The Francophonie’s secretary-general thanked the president for the excellent organization of the conference in Armenia, as well as for the warm reception, and stressed that the conference’s quite busy agenda included vital items, and the subject proposed by Armenia as a conference heading was very symbolic, important and contemporary. Noting that the Francophonie is an alliance of countries sharing common values where Armenia occupies a unique and important place, Michaëlle Jean assured the president that the organization opens up new opportunities and horizons for broadened cooperation. According to the Francophonie’s secretary-general, the organization has managed to present itself as a key player and a reliable partner in the international arena, so that is why it is necessary to make efforts to use the organization’s full potential.

At the meeting with Armenia’s president, Mrs. Michaëlle Jean presented her views on the prospects of the International Organization of La Francophonie, its great development opportunities and on Armenia’s place and role in that process.

Posecutors in Istanbul on Tuesday ordered the arrests of nine people suspected in the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Daily Sabah reports.

Dink was one of the founders of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian Agos newspaper and was killed outside his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, 2007.

Ogun Samast, who was aged 17 years at the time of the killing, was jailed for 23 years in 2011. He claimed he killed Dink for “insulting Turkishness”.

An earlier investigation showed that the prosecutors who worked on the case ignored serious allegations into the involvement of top police officers in the murder.

The prosecutors are accused of having ties with the Gülen Movement, a group whose widespread infiltration of the judiciary and police enabled them to influence cases or fabricate them for their own interests.

By escalating tensions at the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, Baku changed the main agenda of the Foreign Ministers, political scientist Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan told a press conference today. According to him, organization of a presidential meeting was to be high on the agenda of the Foreign Minister’s meeting in New York. Meanwhile, renewed tensions at the border foiled the agenda.

Unable to solve its problems in a political way through negotiations, Azerbaijan tried and changed the agenda of the Foreign Ministers’ meeting.

“This is another expression of continuity of Aliyev’s evasive policy, aimed at foiling a new stage of negotiations by increasing tension,” Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

The actions at the border were so intensive that they really changed the political situation; Armenia’s assessment of Azerbaijani actions became the main development, the political scientist noted.

“I first of all mean President Serzh Sargsyan’s statement, which openly accused the international community of inspiring Azerbaijan by putting an equal sign between the conflicting sides’ actions. A second important message was the statement about Artsakh being an inseparable part of Armenia,” Hrant Meli- Shahnazaryan added.

According to him, Armenia is thus starting a new process, where Artsakh will be treated as an inseparable part of Armenia. As for the statement of the Ministry of Defense, it will bring some new stage of military situation, which envisages imposing peace on Azerbaijan through force. “This is the solution at this point,” Melik-Shahnazaryan said.

As for the resumption of large-scale military actions, the political scientist considers it unlikely, as Azerbaijan sees danger here and is not ready for war.