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    Originally posted by Federate View Post
    More about Armenians' love affair with Antalya.
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    ARMENIANS PUT ASIDE THE PAST AND CHOOSE TURKEY FOR SUMMER VACATION
    Marianna Grigoryan 7/27/09

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    Some Armenians call it "a disgrace." Others put it down to price. Turkey’s popular Mediterranean resort town of Antalya ranks as Armenians’ number-one summer vacation destination, travel agents say, and no amount of controversy over Turkish-Armenian ties looks likely to reverse the trend.

    Yerevan travel agency managers report that, amidst a grueling economic slowdown, Antalya’s reputation for low prices and high-quality customer service outweighs for many customers the fact that it is located within the borders of longtime foe Turkey.

    Tez Tour’s Armenia office director, Narine Davtian, estimates that by summer’s end her Russian-owned agency will have twice the number of Antalya-bound customers as the 8,000 who chose to travel to the Turkish town in 2008. Armavia’s four direct flights to Antalya each week from Yerevan, a service offered by Tez Tour, are regularly full, she said.

    "I am a patriot, but let’s not mix tourism and politics," Daytian commented. "No other country can provide the same range [of travel options] and quality. People want a good vacation and they get it."

    Other travel company managers echo that assessment.

    "We offer tours to different destinations -- Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Georgia, Jordan -- but the hottest tours are to Antalya in Turkey," said Flight agency manager Marine Ayvazian, who estimated that the town is the choice of 70 percent of Flight’s customers.

    The government has no data on the number of Armenians who travel to Turkey each summer. Armenian travel agencies, it says, will not share the information, and the lack of diplomatic ties with Turkey means no alternative option for the data exists.

    But while the notion of swimming in the Mediterranean Sea may appeal to many landlocked Armenians, posters promoting Antalya’s "delightful" sun-drenched beaches only bring to mind politics for others.

    A youth group associated with the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutiun has requested the Yerevan mayor’s office remove all street posters advertising Antalya and "to deal seriously" with the issue. The mayor’s office has not yet acted on the request.

    "Advertisements for a vacation in Antalya are springing up like mushrooms and, instead of spending their vacations in Armenia, people are leaving for Turkey. Is this normal?" complained Haroutiun Melikian, who runs an anti-Antalya protest campaign for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s Nikol Aghbalian Student Union.

    "The money that goes to arm and strengthen Turkey [via tourism] could remain in our country and contribute to our own strength," he added.

    To combat Antalya’s popularity, the Nikol Aghbalian Student Union has hung posters throughout Yerevan that declare that "Armenians who spend their vacation in Antalya are arming the Turkish army."

    Other placards focus on Ottoman Turkey’s 1915 slaughter of ethnic Armenians, on slain Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink or on Mount Ararat, a symbol of Armenian ethnic identity located within Turkey.

    "We decided to remind people of something they seem to have forgotten, to sober them up," explained Melikian.

    Some Yerevan residents heartily second that decision. "Turkey shouldn’t have won us over, since political pressures still persist and the word ’Turk’ is still a curse for us," 34-year-old actor Vahe Nersesian commented.

    Employees of several government ministries tell EurasiaNet that unwritten rules forbid state employees from spending their vacations in Antalya -- this despite the recent official push towards some form of rapprochement with Turkey.

    But the disapproval tactic does not always work.

    "If I have to choose between the high prices of Armenian resorts and an all-inclusive vacation at the seaside in Antalya, I’ll pick the sea for my family and me, especially when the difference in prices makes no sense," commented one Yerevan resident booking an Antalya trip in a travel agency.

    On average, travel agencies charge as low as $450 per person for a week-long package tour in Antalya, while a similar vacation at Armenia’s Lake Sevan, the mountain resort of Tsaghkadzor or the mineral water spa of Jermuk start at about $700.

    Yerevan State University psychologist Nelly Haroian believes that, lured by the attractive prices, Armenians are able to put aside misgivings about the past and feel "comfortable" visiting Turkey since "Turks are serving them."

    Given the crisis-friendly prices for tours to Antalya, expecting any other reaction is not realistic, commented sociologist Aharon Adibekian. "There are many questions linked to national self-esteem, but people are free to decide where to have a vacation and what to do," Adibekian said.

    The Armenian government says it plans to help with that decision - and beat the competition -- by promoting tours to the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabkah as an alternative to Antalya.

    "We have no sea, and this is a difficulty. We plan serious steps for developing domestic tourism to Nagorno Karabakh," said Mari Grigoryan, deputy director of the Ministry of Economy’s department of tourism and territorial economic development.

    "The prices will be reasonable and will counteract those of Turkish resorts," Grigoryan continued. "Travel agencies working in this direction will get serious benefits." She did not elaborate.

    But, while rich in mountain vistas and historical sites, Nagorno Karabakh, a favorite with Armenian Diaspora groups, has no resort hotels or seaside sunbathing on offer.

    That brings the question of a summer vacation back to the simple matter of individual choice, Yerevan travel agents argue.

    "We all are patriots," said Tez Tour’s Daytian. "And spending a vacation in Turkey does not mean being less Armenian."

    Editor's Note: Marianna Grigoryan is a freelance journalist based in Yerevan.

    http://www.eurasianet.org/department...av072709.shtml
    Are there diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia? Aren't the borders closed? I don't understand how and where these people get a visa?? It just goes to show the sad state of our people's mentality...
    Last edited by Lucin; 07-28-2009, 07:43 AM.

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    • Re: Armenia and the information war

      Originally posted by ninetoyadome View Post
      http://www.louysworld.com/2009/07/25...#1377;մ/

      a very good map of what should be with the newly formed azerbaijan.

      Guys you didnt get it in this part Artsakh is a part of azerbajan as an AO (Autonomus Oblast) in line with otther autonomus parts. check the legends.

      Not very bright idea....

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      • Re: Armenia and the information war

        Add another website that doesnt accept azerbaijans territorial integrity, but this time with Nakichevan.

        Today.Az » Politics » British BMI calls into question fact related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity – PHOTO

        28 July 2009 [14:19] - Today.Az

        Day.Az has received another letter of discontent from a regular reader from England.

        The letter says the www.flybmi.com map of air flights at http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/flig...zerbaijan.aspx describes Azerbaijan’s territory separately from Nakhchivan.

        Besides, Azerbaijan’s territory is also described as being part of Asia while Georgia and Armenia that of Europe although South Caucasus countries must be indicated on the same content.

        It is noticeable that this is not the first case of this kind. So far, Wikipedia online encyclopedia, Mail.ru and Google have called into question Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity for various reasons.

        Admittedly, the map on the BMI Web site is wrong and needs immediate correction.

        We urge readers to let the administrator of the Web site to know about the mistake via http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-ie/cont.../feedback.aspx, or dial 994 12 4970500 (Baku office) and 0870 126 6755 (head office in London).

        Sample letter:

        On page (http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/flig...zerbaijan.aspx), the administrative borders of the Nakhchivan region of Azerbaijan are wrongly marked in a format similar to state borders, creating an impression as if Nakhchivan is an independent territory.

        The map posted by BMI represents a clear violation of international standards, in general, and Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity, in particular.

        The BMI map indicates Armenia and Georgia as European, but Azerbaijan as an Asian country. The ?aucasus region should be indicated on the same continent. Azerbaijan’s enclave territory of Nackhchivan also has border with Turkey as Armenia.

        I urge you to change the map published in your Web site, since it is completely incorrect and spreads the wrong information about Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory.

        Please replace the current (wrong) map.

        Thank you

        (Your name and surname)

        /Day.Az/

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        • Re: Armenia and the information war

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            Azerbaijan updates the list of personae non gratae

            28.07.2009 18:13

            Persons who have a visa to Karabakh in their passport will not be allowed to Azerbaijan.

            Those who trip to Karabakh without official notification and permission of Azerbaijani authorities, violate Azerbaijan’s legislation, Bakililar.az reports referring to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan.

            Currently Azerbaijan is updating the list of representatives of this or that country who have visited Karabakh. The list will be submitted to corresponding bodies in Azerbaijan. The ban applies to all, including representatives of the show business.

            Popular Russian singers Katya Lel, Aziza, Soso Pavliashvili and many others will never be allowed to Azerbaijan because of having visited and performed in Karabakh.

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            • Re: Armenia and the information war

              looks like in a few years the only musicians who will perform in azerbaijan will only be azeris.

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                So this means any Armenian who has visited Artsakh will de jure be a persona non grata in Azerbaijan
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                • Re: Armenia and the information war

                  Its about time

                  European Movement Armenia calls to stop Azeri lies
                  28.07.2009 22:42 GMT+04:00
                  /PanARMENIAN.Net/ It’s not a secret that Azerbaijan mobilized all its public and political sources across the globe to spread anti-Armenian propaganda, European Movement Armenia said in a statement.

                  “Any citizen of Azerbaijan whether it be a student, a public figure, an emigrant or a diplomat is a soldier in this information war. Azerbaijani propaganda develops Europe's negative outlook on Armenia and years are needed to neutralize it,” the statement said.

                  EMA president Viktor Yengibaryan called on the Armenian nation to put an end to these lies.

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                    Baku not skimp in distorting Armenian history

                    29.07.2009 17:06 GMT+04:00

                    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Since Soviet times Azerbaijan leads the anti-Armenian propaganda and distort the history. In recent years, the distortion of historical facts and strengthening the anti-Armenian propaganda became a huge scale, since for poisoning the consciousness of Azerbaijan’s people Baku makes major investments, Ruben Galichian, the Honorary Consul of Armenia in London in 1992-2000, author of books on the history and cartography, said.

                    "At present, the Azerbaijani side publishes books and articles in English language with anti-Armenian content and presents them free to well-known universities, libraries and public entities around the world. The Armenian side has not taken any steps to stop the process of misrepresentation. Time passes and the libraries of the world will exhibit only book representing interests and approaches of Azerbaijan.

                    Ruben Galichian has decided to publish his book "Imaginary History of Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan and Armenia, Myths and Facts”. “In my book, I touched upon the history of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 1918, gave the historical arguments that define what is Agvank and Azerbaijan (Caucasian Albania).

                    According to him, Baku does not hesitate to misappropriate Armenian Churches, allegedly saying that they were built by the Albanians, who allegedly were their ancestors. With all this, Ruben Galichian stressed that today there are many scientific studies showing that the Armenians have lived in Nagorno-Karabakh for more than 4 thousand years.

                    In the book the author has presented the facts and photographs testifying destruction of Armenian churches and monuments in the territory of today's Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan, destruction of Armenian cross stones (khachkars) in Old Djugha and Armenian cemetery in Baku. “Today, Armenia inform the international community about the policy of Azerbaijan, appeal to international courts to protect its cultural heritage and to suspend the distortion of the Armenian history by Baku,” Ruben Galichian emphasized.

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                      Deutsche Welle corrects one more error on Azerbaijan’s map posted to its Web site
                      30 July 2009 [16:54] - Today.Az
                      As Day.Az earlier reported, Deutsche Welle news agency Web site’s Weather Forecast and Discover Europe sections included Azerbaijan’s map where Nagorno-Karabakh was marked in a format similar to state borders or as being not integral part of Azerbaijan.

                      For instance, Weather Forecast section looked like this which was gross violation of Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity: http://usazeris.org/integrity/DW%20m...orrect%201.jpg)

                      After Azerbaijani citizens applied to agency’s administration with a request to remove the errors, DW web designer ‘filled” the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan with blue (ie, the same color as the rest of the territory of Azerbaijan), but did not remove the bold marks which do not differ from the format of state borders. Thus, the map of Azerbaijan now looked somewhat different, which was also far from ideal:



                      Meantime, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestria were not be marked on the maps of Georgia and Moldova, respectively.

                      On June 3, Day.Az published an article which called on Azerbaijan citizens and diaspora members to continue to insist on bringing the country's map to its proper form after which Deutsche Welle received a great deal of letters from Azerbaijanis. The result was not slow to come: the agency’s management instructed to replace the existing map in the Weather Forecast section with the one that was offered instead:



                      However, DW left unchanged an interactive map of Azerbaijan in the section Discover Europe in which the Nagorno-Karabakh was in contrast to Transdniestria, Abkhazia and South Ossetia was marked with state borders. Before correction it looked as follows:



                      On June 15, Day.Az published another article calling on Azerbaijanis to request the DW management to remove the last error and replace the wrong interactive map with the one that was offered:



                      All errors on Azerbaijan’s map were corrected recently.

                      AzerTaj, Berlin


                      URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/54259.html
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                      British BMI corrects error related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity
                      30 July 2009 [11:27] - Today.Az
                      As we earlier reported, Day.Az regular reader reported about an error on Web site of BMI, British airway company.

                      Formerly the Web site had a map which described Azerbaijan’s territory separately from Nakhchivan.

                      It is noticeable that now Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia are described on the same part of Europe and Nakhchivan is indicated as Azerbaijan’s integral part. You can access the corrected version of the Web site at http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/flig...zerbaijan.aspx

                      /Day.Az/

                      URL: http://www.today.az/news/politics/54240.html
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