The 100th Anniversary - and Events to Mark it

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Re: The 100th Anniversary - and Events to Mark it

Armenian trash like the above 3 posters are the main reason why the word "alleged" or words "Armenian allegations" will continue to go alongside the phrase "Armenian Genocide" into 2016 and into the foreseeable future. And those sad little jerks will blame everyone but themselves for that, because they need to hate and need to hide their incompetence and also because they would not have a clue how to exist in a scenario where "alleged" was no longer used.

Look who is doing the hating here, and generalizing and lying, and....Bell you tell almost as many lies as the number of lives you seem to have in this forum. I have never said we should rely on the west and have always supported strengthening Armenia in every way possible. My record is quite clear on this manner but you go on and make up fairy tails...its ok Bell I like fairy tails.

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Translation from a German publication.

KathWeb, Austria

11 mar 2015



Iran: Parliament commemorates the victims of the Armenian genocide


Members of the Christian minority are resolutions to the

Condemnation of the genocide in the Ottoman Empire 100 years ago

submit


11.03.2015


Tehran, 11.03.2015 (Cape) that Iran's Parliament (Majlis) is in the

April of the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire from 1915

commemorate. Two Armenian members of Parliament in

Tehran, Karen Khanlaryan and Robert Beglaryan, were invited to the

Plenary session of the Majlis a resolution condemning the

Genocide is to present and explain the press service reported

the Foundation "Pro Oriente" on Wednesday. At the same meeting, he is

Assyrian MP Yonathan Betkolia a further resolution to the

Condemnation of the also by the Ottoman Government to

justified genocide of Christians of Syrian tradition

Insert.


Both of these actions against the Christian population were from the

Ottoman Government under the pretext of the first world war

initiated; at this time, the Ottoman Government was by the

Young Turk "Committee of Union and progress" made. The

Genocide of Christians of Syrian tradition played on some

Iranian territory, especially at the level of Urmia and the

Mountain villages to the border of the Ottoman Empire and.


The three members of the Christian minority in the Iranian

Parliament have now numerous letters to their Muslim

Colleagues written to them in regard to the conviction of the

100 years ago to genocide of Christians in the Ottoman Empire

raise awareness. In Tehran, there will be a public Memorial in April

at the beginning of the Rwandan genocide, the members give, the

Armenian Iranian friendship society will be on April 24 in

travel the Armenian capital of Yerevan and at the time of remembrance for the

Victims of the genocide, the "Tsitsernakaberd", an official visit

pay.


On April 24 is all over the world the arrest of the Armenian elite

in Constantinople conceived 100 years ago; Politicians, industrialists,

Artists, scientists, and journalists were on the early morning of the

24 April 1915 by the Ottoman secret police arrested and in

sent out sealed trains to Anatolia, where most were killed.

http://www.kathweb.at/site/Nachrichten/database/68414.html

[Mher]

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Another European Resolution Backs Armenian Genocide Recognition


A parliamentary body representing the European Union’s member and partner states on Tuesday called for greater international recognition of the 1915 Armenian genocide and urged Turkey to “come to terms with its past.”

In a resolution adopted during a session in Yerevan, the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly said “the absence of unequivocal and timely condemnation of the Armenian Genocide largely contributed to the failure to prevent future crimes against humanity.”

Therefore, it said, “prevention of genocides and crimes against humanity should be amongst the priorities of the international community.”The world should also strive for “the restoration of the rights of people subjected to genocide,” added the assembly bringing together members of the European Parliament and legislatures of ex-Soviet states involved in the EU’s Eastern Partnership program.

The resolution further “deeply deplores” attempts to deny the World War One-era slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians in Ottoman Turkey and other genocides. In that regard, it “invites Turkey to come to term with its past.”

The Euronest text was adopted less than a week after the European Parliament reaffirmed its recognition of the Armenian genocide in an annual report on human rights practices around the world. It urged all EU member states to do the same.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry rejected the EU legislature’s appeal, saying that it is “utterly devoid of historical reality and legal basis.”

“We find these assertions in all respects extremely problematic and regret them deeply,” the ministry spokesman, Tanju Bilgic, said in a weekend statement. “The report interprets a certain period of the Ottoman Empire, which was tragic for all the people of the Empire, one-sidedly and with a sense of selective justice.”

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/26906174.html

[Haykakan]

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PBS aired a film on the genocide here in the Detroit area. I think it was done ok. It was less one-sided then most such films and gave important background information. I think there are plans to air it on many other pbs networks so you may want to keep an eye out for them. These film draw out an emotional response from any normal human being because it is traumatic seeing people suffer so much. The active denial by the Turkish government was also displayed along with how turkey rewrites its own history books. It is surely worth watching and I loo forward to other such shows which are scheduled between now and April 24.

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GEOFFREY ROBERTSON DISCUSSES THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ON THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW (VIDEO)

10:54, 18 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

International jurist, human rights lawyer, and academic Geoffrey
Robertson QC discusses the facts of the Armenian Genocide, condemns
President Obama's reticence to properly acknowledge that crime and
urges Turkey to end its international campaign of denial in this
powerful interview with Ethan Bronner on the Charlie Rose Show (first
aired on March 16, 2015), reports the Armenian National Committee of
America (ANCA).

His latest book is An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Remembers the
Armenians? In recent years, he has been particularly prominent in
the defense of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. He has also represented
author Salman Rushdie, and prosecuted General Augusto Pinochet. In
2008, he was appointed by United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban
Ki-moon as a "distinguished jurist" member of the UN's Justice Council,
which nominates and supervises UN judges. His memoir, The Justice Game,
has sold over 150,000 copies.

>From March 13th to 15th, Mr. Robertson was in New York City
headlining the "Responsibility 2015: Armenian Genocide Centennial
Conference, a three day spotlight on the state of Armenian Genocide
scholarship, genocide education, building solidarity, individual
and group reparations, genocide denial, transitional justice, gender
and mass violence, Islamized Armenians, and the Armenian Genocide in
policy circles.

http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/03/18/geoffrey-robertson-discusses-the-armenian-genocide-on-the-charlie-rose-show-video/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a9gAfLncAI

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A LECTURE BY HILMAR KAISER: "THE EXTERMINATION OF ARMENIANS IN THE DIARBEKIR REGION"

By MassisPost
Updated: March 17, 2015

WATERTOWN -- The Armenian Museum of America presents a Lecture by
Hilmar Kaiser titled "The Extermination of Armenians in the Diarbekir
Region". The event will be held on Sunday, March 29, 2015 2:00 PM -
4:00 PM at Adele & Haig Der Manuelian Galleries of the museum.

The lecture and slide presentation will introduce a new study on
Diarbekir in 1915 and present substantial new findings from the
Ottoman archives in Istanbul. For the first time, an order authorizing
mass-murder of Armenians will be presented. Moreover, the research on
Diarbekir has authenticated two documents from the post-war Ottoman
courts martial which were believed to have been lost. New light will
shed on the resistance against the genocide and the murder of Abidin
Nesimi Bey who condemned the atrocities.

Hilmar Kaiser received his Ph. D. from the European University
Institute, Florence, Italy. His research focuses on late Ottoman social
and economic history. He has published numerous studies including
"Genocide at the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire", in, Donald Bloxham
and A. Dirk Moses (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies,
Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, NY, 2010; "Regional
resistance to central government policies: Ahmed Djemal Pasha, the
governors of Aleppo, and Armenian deportees in the spring and summer
of 1915."

http://massispost.com/2015/03/a-lecture-by-hilmar-kaiser-the-extermination-of-armenians-in-the-diarbekir-region/

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Cyprus President to Attend Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemorations

NICOSIA, Cyprus—The President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades will visit Armenia from April 23 to 25 to participate in events commemorating the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the press office of Vartkes Mahdessian, Member of the Cyprus House of Representatives, reports.

According to the source, “Nicos Anastasiades has accepted the official invitation of the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sarkisian to visit Armenia from 23 to 25 April to attend the Armenian Genocide centennial commemoration events to be held in Yerevan and confirm the support of the Government of Cyprus to the Armenian people.”

Meanwhile, the political parties of the Republic of Cyprus have drafted a bill criminalizing public denial of the Armenian Genocide.

As Turkyey’s Hurriyet Daily reports, the bill jointly submitted by all the political parties represented in the Parliament of Cyprus envisages penalties for those who fail to recognize genocide, war crimes and the crimes against humanity.

It is mentioned that the bill is proposed to be passed on the occasion of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The Republic of Cyprus has recognized the Armenian Genocide. It is assumed that the Parliament of Cyprus will include the bill in the agenda this week.

http://asbarez.com/133279/cyprus-president-to-attend-armenian-genocide-centennial-commemorations/

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French President Hollande to Visit Dzidzernagapert with 120-Member Delegation

YEREVAN (Armenpress)—France will be participating in the Armenian Genocide commemorations in Armenia on April 24 with about 120 delegates, French Ambassador to Armenia Jean-François Charpentier told journalists in Yerevan, adding that the French Embassy in Armenia is currently working on organizing President François Hollande’s visit to Armenia. “Francois Hollande will be arriving in Yerevan with quite a large delegation consisting of nearly 120 delegates. There is still no information about the composition of the delegation. I can simply add that the delegation will include members of the French-Armenian community,” Charpentier said.

April 24th marks the centennial of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey. Several delegations from different countries will be visiting Armenia. Notably, French Presidents François Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin have announced their intentions to attend the commemorations.

A Swiss delegation will also visit Armenia, Switzerland’s Ambassador to Armenia Luke Gasser said. Gasser said details about the delegation will be revealed in the upcoming fortnight. “However, at this moment, I can declare that the Parliament of Switzerland will be represented by quite a large delegation at Tsitsernakaberd,” Gasser said.

http://asbarez.com/133238/french-president-hollande-to-visit-dzidzernagapert-with-120-member-delegation/

[Mher]

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long overdue ...
a couple years back the HHK blocked a similar bill 2 years following the Turkish normalization nonsense because it might "hurt Armenian-Turkish" relations


Armenia Recognizes Greek, Assyrian Genocides

Tatevik Lazarian
Հրապարակված է՝ 24.03.2015

Armenia formally recognized the First World War-era mass killings of Assyrians and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire as genocide with a resolution unanimously passed by its parliament on Tuesday.

“The National Assembly of Armenia declares that it condemns the genocide of Greeks and Assyrians perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923,” reads the resolution co-sponsored by the main parliamentary factions.

The document says that the widely documented massacres conformed to the definition of genocide set by a 1948 United Nations convention. It also cites “centuries-old friendly relations between the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian peoples.”

An estimated 300,000 Assyrian subjects of the Ottoman Empire were killed or starved to death during and in the aftermath of the First World War. An even larger number of Ottoman Greeks died at the time as part of the same genocidal government policy that also left some 1.5 million Armenians dead.

The International Association of Genocide Scholars concluded in 2007 that “the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontic and Anatolian Greeks.”

The Armenian parliament adopted the resolution one month before official commemorations in Yerevan of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

“This will be our contribution to the international fight against genocides,” its ethnic Greek deputy speaker, Eduard Sharmazanov, said as he presented the text to fellow lawmakers on Monday.

Leaders of Armenia’s small Assyrian and Greek communities were invited to the parliament to witness its passage. They hailed the development.

“People in various countries with Assyrian communities have long wondered why this issue is not addressed in Armenia,” said Arsen Mikhaylov, head of the Yerevan-based Assyrian association Atur.

Eduard Polatov, who leads the Patrida union of ethnic Greeks in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, also called the official Armenian recognition overdue. Polatov said it will encourage more Greeks around the world to campaign for greater international recognition of the Armenian genocide.

Greece and Cyprus recognized the Armenian genocide in 1999 and 1975 respectively. Last year, Greece also enacted a law making it a crime to publicly deny this and other genocides.

http://www.azatutyun.am/content/article/26918647.html

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Our exleader/traitor speaks his mind

LEVON TER-PETROSYAN CALLS TO STOP PUTTING PRESSURE ON TURKEY OVER 'GENOCIDE'

Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 26 2015

27 March 2015 - 12:16am

The first president of Armenia, leader of the 'Armenian National
Congress' Levon Ter-Petrosyan, has published his own draft of the
message of Armenia to the international community in connection
with the 100th anniversary of the tragic events of 1915. He noted
that although Armenia supports the international recognition of the
'Armenian genocide', the issue of recognition of 'genocide' should
not be the cornerstone of its foreign policy and it should not be
put in front of Turkey to recognize the genocide claim, considering
it to be an internal affair of the latter country.

"The Armenian Republic at the same time considers it necessary to
emphasize that it is not going to dictate its agenda to the Armenian
diaspora, as representatives of the Armenian people are scattered
throughout the world, as citizens, taxpayers and voters of different
countries, and have the right to put pressure on their governments
and to require them to recognize the condemnation of the Armenian
Genocide," Ter-Petrosyan said in a letter published in the newspaper
Chorrord Ishkhanutyun.

Armenia, according to Ter-Petrosyan, should appeal to European
countries, so that they do not require recognition of the 'Armenian
genocide' as a precondition for negotiations on Turkey's accession
to the EU. Armenia, according to him, should be ready to establish
diplomatic relations with Turkey on the basis of the Zurich protocols
of 2009, "with the reservation only on the advisability of establishing
a commission of Armenian and Turkish historians to study the genocide."

Ter-Petrosyan also writes: "Taking into account the interconnectedness
of some of the Armenian-Turkish relations and the Karabakh settlement,
Armenia is ready to resolve the conflict on the basis of the Madrid
principles through peaceful negotiations, and also on the condition
that prior to the implementation the schedule of the settlement, the
terms, conditions and legal consequences of the planned referendum on
the future status of Nagorno-Karabakh will be specified, as well as
issues related to the deployment of international peacekeeping forces
in the region to ensure the safety of the population of Karabakh."

The leader of the ANC expresses his willingness to listen to and take
into account suggestions, comments and remarks of all stakeholders
about the project, radio station Azatutyun reports.

http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/politics/68525.html