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Intellectuals Concerned With Fate Of Armenian Monuments In Turkey

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    Intellectuals Concerned With Fate Of Armenian Monuments In Turkey

    INTELLECTUALS CONCERNED WITH FATE OF ARMENIAN MONUMENTS IN TURKEY

    ArmenPress
    July 15 2005

    YEREVAN, JULY 15, ARMENPRESS: Members of Armenian intellectual
    community, concerned with the plight of Armenian historical and
    cultural monuments in Turkey, have welcomed today the authorities'
    efforts for international recognition of Armenian genocide in the
    Ottoman empire, but urged them to condemn Turkish authorities' policy
    of destruction and misappropriation of Armenian monuments and ask
    international organizations to hold Turkey responsible for this crime.

    Ruben Safrastian, head of Turkey division at the Institute of Oriental
    Studies, said thousands of Armenian cultural monuments are subject to a
    policy of willful neglect and destruction on the part of Turkey. This
    policy violates Turkey's commitments under the 1923 Lausanne Treaty,
    which does have enforcement mechanisms. Under the treaty, "the Turkish
    government undertakes to grant full protection to the churches"
    of Turkish nationals belonging to non-Moslem minorities."

    Safrastian said Armenian authorities must make full use of relevant
    international legislation to stop the barbaric policy of Turkey and
    urged Armenian authorities to raise this issue at the Parliamentary
    Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) saying PACE would not hesitate
    to offer its support. He said Turkey has also signed various treaties
    that provide for the protection of monuments.

    These treaties include the 1954 Hague treaty and the UNESCO treaties of
    1970 and 1972. He said Turkey actively uses these treaties to sue for
    possession of cultural artifacts that originate within its territory.

    Using the UNESCO treaties, Turkey gets financial support from
    the international community to maintain selected monuments, but
    discriminates, however, against important monuments of Armenian
    origin. He also cited UNESCO data about Armenian monuments in Turkey,
    which say that after 1915 genocide there were 1,000 monuments,
    in 1974 there remained 464, part of them destroyed. In 1991 Turkish
    archeologists started excavation in Ani, a medieval Armenian capital,
    which Safrastian said is carried out unprofessionally resulting in
    further destruction of its monuments. He said an Armenian church in
    Turkish Urfa was turned into a fire brigade station. The gathering
    participants said they would ask all authorized Armenian bodies to
    raise this issue with all relevant international organizations and
    to force Turkey to honor its commitments
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    Armenian Cross Smashed in Syktyvkar, Russia

    5 January 2006

    Armenian Cross Smashed in Syktyvkar, Russia

    Unidentified vandals smashed a cross erected by the Armenian community of
    Syktyvkar, Russia (Komi Republic), according to a December 28, 2005 report
    by Igor Sazhin, head of the local branch of the human rights group Memorial,
    a participating NGO in a European Commission sponsored project to monitor
    xenophobia in Russia (UCSJ, the Moscow Helsinki Group, and the Moscow Bureau
    on Human Rights are the main grantees of the project).

    The recently erected cross was broken in two at some point the previous day.
    Mr. Sazhin believes that the vandalism was the work of local neo-fascists,
    whom he blames for the still unsolved December 1, 2005 arson attack against
    a mosque in the city. The Armenian community plans to rebuild the cross.

    Background Information: http://www.fsumonitor.com/stories/120705Russ4.shtml

    ************************************************** ***********
    Nickolai Butkevich
    Research and Advocacy Director
    UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union
    Phone: (202) 237-8262 x107
    Fax: (202) 237-2236
    www.fsumonitor.com-- Daily Updates on Antisemitism, Extremism and Jewish
    Life in the FSU

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      Armenian Patriarch Of Jerusalem Appeals To Unesco

      In a letter addressed to Koichino Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO in Paris, the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, expressed deep concern and outrage about recent reports of the on-going desecration and destruction, by Azeri soldiers, of khachkars in a medieval Armenian cemetery in the Autonomous Region of Nakhichevan. These stone crosses, noted His Beatitude, are historically and religiously significant tombstones and unique artistic expressions of millennial Armenian Christian sculpture.

      The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem considers this vandalism and violence as cultural genocide and has appealed to UNESCO to put a stop to these malicious attempts to eradicate the evidence of the Armenian Christian cultural legacy from the region, which is under Azerbaijani sovereignty.

      The letter also urged the UNESCO Director-General to bring these crimes to the attention of the international community, so that such unconscionable acts of ethnic cleansing are not allowed to be perpetuated. It also expressed the hope that the organization would exert its influence over the government of Azerbaijan to honor its commitment of preserving and safeguarding religious and cultural monuments within its territory.










      © AZG Daily, 2001

      AZG Armenian Daily #002, 11/01/2006
      "All truth passes through three stages:
      First, it is ridiculed;
      Second, it is violently opposed; and
      Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

      Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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        Pashayev Told US Congressmen `Truth' on Destruction of Armenian Monuments

        Pan Armenian

        Pashayev Told US Congressmen `Truth' on Destruction of Armenian Monuments

        28.01.2006 19:41 GMT+04:00

        /PanARMENIAN.Net/ `The stand of the US Government over the conflict in
        Nagorno Karabakh is unchanged. This in its turn has a positive impact on
        efforts to settle it,' Azeri Ambassador to US Hafiz Pashayev stated in an
        interview with journalists. He remarked the US-Azeri relations are at a high
        level and keep developing. These relations will further strengthen after the
        visit of Azeri President Aliyev will pay to the US, he emphasized. As for US
        Congressmen's suit over destruction of Armenian monuments in Nakhichevan,
        Pashayev called it idle talks. `This is nothing but idle talks. After we
        told them the truth about Azerbaijan, the things cleared up,' the diplomat
        insists, reported Day.az.

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          Originally posted by Hovik
          Pan Armenian

          Pashayev Told US Congressmen `Truth' on Destruction of Armenian Monuments

          28.01.2006 19:41 GMT+04:00

          /PanARMENIAN.Net/ `The stand of the US Government over the conflict in
          Nagorno Karabakh is unchanged. This in its turn has a positive impact on
          efforts to settle it,' Azeri Ambassador to US Hafiz Pashayev stated in an
          interview with journalists. He remarked the US-Azeri relations are at a high
          level and keep developing. These relations will further strengthen after the
          visit of Azeri President Aliyev will pay to the US, he emphasized. As for US
          Congressmen's suit over destruction of Armenian monuments in Nakhichevan,
          Pashayev called it idle talks. `This is nothing but idle talks. After we
          told them the truth about Azerbaijan, the things cleared up,' the diplomat
          insists, reported Day.az.
          In Turkey All nations' monuments are being destroyed or left destroyed by nature except Turkish monuments.So it isn't surprising for me.

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