International Genocide Recognition

[Helen]

France launches 1915 Genocide stamp

France launches 1915 Genocide stamp

[Joseph]

France is unanimous in condemning Armenian Genocide

Yerkir.am
January 19, 2007

About 2,000 political leaders and intellectuals participated in a rally
supporting criminalization of the Armenian Genocide Denial organized
on Wednesday by the Coordination Council of Armenian Unions in France
in Paris.

ARF's Hay Dat Office for Europe informs the rally participants
supported unanimous fight against Genocide denial and expressed
solidarity with the victims of the Genocide. Representative of France's
Jewish community Serge Clarsfeld assured that their community will
support the calls for criminalization of the Genocide denial by the
French Senate.

Chief Secretary of the French Socialist Party Francois Holland spoke
on behalf of the Socialist Party and its presidential candidate
Segolen Royal.

Representative of People's Movement Union Party Patric Devejian
stressed that "Turkey's denial will bother citizens of France and not
visa versa". The rally was concluded by Charles Aznavour's performance
that was received with warm applauses.

The law passed by the French Parliament on October 12, 2006 prescribes
a punishment of 45 thousand euros and one year of imprisonment for
denial of the Armenian Genocide.

[Joseph]

Seems Ankara is warning everyone these days, the EU, the US, the Kurds, etc.





Ankara warns US over Armenian genocide bill
By Zaman, Ankara
Thursday, December 28, 2006
zaman.com

Faced with the possibility that the U.S. Congress will consider a proposal with regard to the alleged Armenian genocide, Spokesperson for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Namik Tan asked the U.S. Administration to continue its long-lasting balanced and constructive policy.
At a weekly press conference Tan discussed news reports indicating that with the Democrats in control of both houses of Congress, the U.S. legislative body would consider a proposal on the alleged Armenian genocide. Tan noted that Turkey was following the efforts of the Armenian lobby to exploit the political situation in the United States with great concern.
Noting that bilateral relations between Turkey and the United States were multidimensional and strategic, Tan further said: “The U.S. has always been constructive and right minded vis-à-vis those kinds of efforts. We believe that the U.S. administration will continue the same approach. The relations between the U.S. and Turkey are so important that they transcend those insignificant issues.” Asked about the recent remarks made by Armenian authorities, Tan recalled that any concrete results from those efforts largely depended on Armenia’s flexible and constructive approach to resolve the regional problems in compliance with the international legal rules and regulations.
EU invitation letter insufficient
Tan noted that Turkey requested information from Azerbaijani authorities concerning the allegations made by Armenian-origin Turkish citizen Burak Bedikyan that he was maltreated and not admitted into Azerbaijan. Spokesperson Tan also noted that the European Union’s invitation letter to initiate negotiations in the field of industry and establishments has arrived in Ankara. Tan stressed that the letter did not meet Turkey’s expectations, as an invitation to start negotiations in four chapters was anticipated.

[Joseph]

Argentine Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide

By Diego Karamanukian in Buenos Aires

The lower house of Argentina’s parliament adopted late Wednesday a resolution recognizing the 1915-1918 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.

The bill overwhelmingly approved by the assembly declared April 24, which sees annual commemorations of more than one million genocide victims in Armenia and its worldwide Diaspora, an official “day of mutual tolerance and respect” among peoples around the world. It gives Argentine citizens of Armenian descent the legal right to be absent from work or university classes on that day.

There was no immediate reaction to the move from Turkey, which has strongly condemned similar resolutions passed by about two dozen other nations and insists that the mass killings did not constitute a genocide.

The bill has to be approved by the Argentine Senate in order to become a law. Officials in Buenos Aires say the upper house could discuss it as early as next week.

Argentina is home to tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians, most of them descendants of genocide survivors. They have long been lobbying the authorities in Buenos Aires to officially recognize the genocide. Neighboring Uruguay, which also has an influential Armenian community, did so several years ago.

Argentina Passes Law Declaring Armenian Deaths A "Genocide"

December 14, 2006 2:24 p.m. EST

Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer
Buenos Aires, (AHN) - Argentina has passed a bill labeling the mass killings of Armenians in Turkey a "genocide."
The Argentinean Senate has unanimously voted to mark April 24 as an annual day commemorating the deaths which occurred around the time of World War I, and remain a sensitive subject for the modern Turkish government.
The issue has been receiving recent attention after the French National Assembly approved a bill making it a crime to deny calling the deaths a genocide. However, the bill, passed in October, still needs to pass through the French Senate and President.
French President Chirac has opposed the bill, while Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has also spoken out against both bills.

[Joseph]

Argentina

Argentine Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide

By Diego Karamanukian in Buenos Aires

The lower house of Argentina’s parliament adopted late Wednesday a resolution recognizing the 1915-1918 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.

The bill overwhelmingly approved by the assembly declared April 24, which sees annual commemorations of more than one million genocide victims in Armenia and its worldwide Diaspora, an official “day of mutual tolerance and respect” among peoples around the world. It gives Argentine citizens of Armenian descent the legal right to be absent from work or university classes on that day.

There was no immediate reaction to the move from Turkey, which has strongly condemned similar resolutions passed by about two dozen other nations and insists that the mass killings did not constitute a genocide.

The bill has to be approved by the Argentine Senate in order to become a law. Officials in Buenos Aires say the upper house could discuss it as early as next week.

Argentina is home to tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians, most of them descendants of genocide survivors. They have long been lobbying the authorities in Buenos Aires to officially recognize the genocide. Neighboring Uruguay, which also has an influential Armenian community, did so several years ago.

[Hovik]

The More States Recognize Armenian Genocide the More Aggressive Turkey Becomes

The More States Recognize Armenian Genocide the More Aggressive Turkey Becomes
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “Recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is not a precondition for the establishment of normal neighbor relations,” RA Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told France Press. He voiced assurance that ‘the obstacle can be removed via cooperation between the Armenian and Turkish people. The RA FM described the proposal of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan on formation of a commission of historians for investigation of the events of 1915 as smoke screen. “How can a joint commission be formed in the absence of diplomatic relations between Yerevan and Ankara?” he said adding that it’s a political issue and the approach should be political. Minister Oskanian condemned Turkey for its denial policy. “The more states recognize the Armenian Genocide the more aggressive Turkey becomes. Turks have never been so organized at the state level as in this denial campaign,” he remarked. In his words, the adoption of the French bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial is a response to the aggressive line of the Turkish government. When commenting on the fear that the acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide may arouse claims of compensation Vartan Oskanian said. “Armenia’s foreign policy agenda includes the recognition of the Genocide only,” reports RFE/RL.
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[Gavur]

Genocide Recognition

Embassy Magazine, Canada
April 5 2006

British Columbia's provincial government passed MLA Adrian Dix's
Private Member's Motion recognizing "the genocide of the Armenians as
a crime against humanity," and designated April 24 as a day to remember
the 1.5 million victims of the first genocide of the 20th century.

[TurQ]

Alevis are called as Gavur?
Did you ever hear it said to yourself Rudo?

May be it is because some of the alevis are fierce left-wingers like TIKKO type anarchists. Thats not because they are alevis but because they are extreme-left wingers.

Yes sunnis use gavur for chrıstıans jewish and also Shias(Alevis in Turkey)Do you know alevis?
I am alevi so sometimes Sunnis say me gavur also.

[Hovik]

Serbia denies Mladic arrested

Notice the number of vicims in this genocidal event... goes to show that numbers mean little when considering whether or not an event was Genocide... keep that in mind Turkey... you can argue whether it was 1.5 million, 1.2 million, 1 million and so on until you're blue in the face, it won't change anything...

Serbia denies Mladic arrested
news.yahoo.com

The Serbian government on Tuesday denied media reports that top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic had been arrested, but Bosnian and Serbian sources said he was in custody in Bosnia.

"The news about Ratko Mladic is not correct," government spokesman Srdjan Djuric said. "It is a manipulation which damages the (Serbian) government."

Djuric was speaking to Reuters by telephone. No official statement was issued.

Independent Belgrade broadcaster B92 said that in spite of Djuric's denial, a number of sources had told its reporters that the 63-year old general was arrested in Serbia then transferred to Tuzla in northeastern Bosnia for a flight to The Hague.

This was the route used to take former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic to The Hague when he was extradited in 2001 and flown from Belgrade via the U.S. military base Camp Eagle near Tuzla to the Netherlands.

Morning newspapers on Tuesday speculated that Belgrade would spirit Mladic into Bosnia after his arrest in order to counter charges by the Hague war crimes tribunal that he had been hiding in Serbia for years with government knowledge and army help.

In the afternoon, Serbia's state news agency Tanjug and the main Bosnian Serb agency SRNA said the wartime Bosnian Serb Army commander had been arrested in Belgrade then taken to Tuzla.

TWO COUNTS OF GENOCIDE

Mladic was indicted in 1995 for genocide for the 43-month siege of Sarajevo which claimed 12,000 lives and for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the worst atrocity in Europe since World War Two.

His political boss Radovan Karadzic, indicted on the same charges, is still at large.

Serbian newspapers have been saying for days that Mladic would be on a plane to The Hague before the end of February, in time to avert suspension of European Union association talks with Belgrade, which would deal a body blow to the government.

The end of February is the deadline for a report by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn to the EU assessing whether Serbia is cooperating fully with the U.N. tribunal.

Florence Hartmann, spokeswoman for the U.N. war crimes prosecutor, said they had no information on the reported arrest. "These are rumors, we cannot comment on something that doesn't exist," she said.

Without confirming the newspaper reports of an imminent arrest, Vladeta Jankovic, adviser to Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, said efforts to find Mladic were "in full swing."

"The government is aware of the consequences," he told B92 radio. "It might be a decisive moment, not only for the survival of the government, but for the future prospects of the state," he said. Mladic's handover was "almost a condition of survival."

Belgrade is desperate to avoid suspension of Stabilization and Association pact talks begun last year. They are the first step to eventual EU membership -- Serbia's top priority -- and Brussels has warned they will stop if Mladic is not arrested.

Reports predicting his imminent arrest or detailing official efforts to track him down intensify each time Serbia faces a Western deadline for action, although Serbia constantly protests that it has no evidence he is even in the country.

Mladic lived openly in Belgrade until the fall of nationalist strongman Slobodan Milosevic in 2000 undermined his support. Hague chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte has repeatedly charged that he is still protected by hardliners in the Army and security agencies of Serbia.

Serbian Human Rights Minister Rasim Ljajic said it would be a good time to extradite Mladic, who is still regarded as a hero-soldier by staunch nationalists opposed to his arrest.

"The latest polls show 57 percent of citizens are in favor of this option," he said.

[Hovik]

Turkey Understood International Recognition Of Armenian Genocide Unstoppable

TURKEY UNDERSTOOD INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE UNSTOPPABLE

Yerkir
15.02.2006 12:31

YEREVAN (YERKIR) - Turkey convening several international conferences
on the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire evidences the country
finally understood the process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide
by parliaments of different countries, even those like Latvia, Poland,
Slovakia, where there the Armenian communities are not large, has
gathered speed, Director of Institute of History of the National
Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Doctor of Historical Science Ashot
Melkonyan told PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent. In his words, Armenian
scholars not participating in conferences on Armenian Genocide in
Turkey just convinces the parliaments of countries, which recognized
the Genocide that they were right.

"If we bring the matter to historical debate with Turks, we will
indirectly express distrust to states, which believed us. I want
to remind that the sadly known Armenian-Turkish Reconciliation
Commission, which existed from 2001 to 2003, suspended recognition of
the Genocide. As soon as it was disbanded, literally in 15 days the
Swiss Parliament acknowledged the Armenian Genocide," Melkonyan said.

Speaking of trials of journalists in Turkey, Ashot Melkonyan remarked
it may be inspired by Turkish authorities themselves. "Taner Akcam,
the Armenian press likes referring to, does what he is told by
Ankara. It is like a pilot balloon and at the same time a curtsey
towards Europe, aimed to show Turkey takes the way of democratic
development and it has freedom of speech. In actual fact everything
can turn out quite the contrary," Melkonyan emphasized. In his words,
Turkey choosing the way of canceling the "taboo" of the Armenian
issue means nothing. "Turkey just tangles cards in Europe," he said.