German Jewish leader urges government to recognize Armenian Genocide

April 17, 2015 By administrator

The Central Council of Jews in Germany has called on the German government to recognize the Armenian Genocide, the Council’s website reported.

“One hundred years ago, in the government of the Ottoman Empire ordered the deportation of one million Armenians. They were murdered directly, or died of starvation and dehydration in the desert,“ Central Council President Josef Schuster told the newspaper ‘Der Tagesspiegel’. He added: “These terrible events should be called what they were: a genocide.”

Schuster said the Armenian genocide later served Adolf Hitler and his Nazis as a blueprint for the Holocaust.

Video Bibi Netanyahu expos Turkish Crime Against Armenian & Kurd But as Gov. Yet to recognize Armenian Genocide

April 16, 2015 By administrator

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Both Obama and Netanyahu have one thing in common both privately Recognize Armenian Genocide but not as Government, in-fact his father told him that Armenian genocide lead to Jewish holocaust. will they get energize by POPE and EU parliament?

Born in Tel Aviv to secular Jewish parents, Netanyahu is the first Israeli prime minister born in Israel after the establishment of the state. Netanyahu joined the Israel Defense Forces during the Six-Day War in 1967 and became a team leader in the Sayeret Matkal special forces unit. He took part in many missions, including Operation Inferno (1968), After graduating from MIT with S.B. and S.M. degrees, he was recruited as an economic consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.

He returned to Israel in 1978 to found the Yonatan Netanyahu Anti-Terror Institute, named after his brother Yonatan Netanyahu, who died leading Operation Entebbe. Netanyahu served as the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988.

Netanyahu profile Source: Wikipedia

Time of Israel Holocaust and Aghet #Armeniangenocide against any denial!

April 16, 2015 By administrator

Chaim Ouizmann April 16, 2015

Just when our people is preparing to commemorate the memory of the six million of our people exterminated by Nazi Germany, my thoughts are directed to the Armenian cause.

Indeed, on 24 April, will commemorate our Armenian friends, in turn, the centenary of the genocide which they were direct victims, mostly from 1915 to 1917 genocide perpetrated by the government led by the Union and Progress Party the “Young Turks” .

One and a half million men, women and children were exterminated.

How we Jews, holders of so much suffering, can we remain indifferent to that of the Armenians?

The drama of the early 20th century, “the first genocide of the 20th century”, in the words of Pope Francis April 12, 2015 before a delegation of Armenian Patriarchs, cleverly planned and executed drama with great cruelty by Talaat Pasha, Djemal Pasha and Enver Pasha, is as much ours as theirs. Why is this cause ours? What unspeakable catastrophe of the Holocaust which we were the victims he forced us to explicitly recognize the tragedy of the Armenians?

The Holocaust would probably not take place, or at least would not have known the dimensions that we know him, if nations had emerged and had intervened in their day for the Armenians.

FRANCE 24 Hidden Armenians in Turkey

April 16, 2015 By administrator

The Report “Hidden Armenians in Turkey: Quest for Identity” will be broadcast on FRANCE 24, the French channels, English and Arabic, from 18th to 24th April inclusive, and on www.france24.com

Days and broadcast schedules

18/04: 10:10 p.m.

19/04: 4:10, 24:10, 6:10 p.m.

20/04: 2:40, 12:40

21/04: 4:45 p.m.

23/04: 2:15, 10:10

24/04: 11:15

25/04: 2:10 p.m.

Thursday, April 16, 2015,
Ara © armenews.com

UFC Champion Ronda Rousey to remember #ArmenianGenocide victims in Yerevan

April 16, 2015 By administrator

Ronda Rousey

UFC World Champion Ronda Rousey will be in Yerevan on April 22-26.

Rousey’s coach Martin Berberyan told Mediamax Sport correspondent that the initiative to visit Armenia belongs to the athlete herself. report sport.mediamax.am

“It was Rousey’s initiative and we agreed with our team that head coach Edmond Tarverdyan will also join Ronda during her visit to Yerevan. Other athletes will also join them, but we have yet not decided who exactly”, said Berberyan.

Rousey aims to pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian Genocide and to attend the Centennial events.

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NYT Turkey’s Century of Denial About an #ArmenianGenocide

April 16, 2015 By administrator

By TIM ARANGOAPRIL 16, 2015

Nearly 1.5 million Armenians died at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, during World War I. Turks by and large do not believe mass killings were planned.

CUNGUS, Turkey — The crumbling stone monastery, built into the hillside, stands as a forlorn monument to an awful past. So, too, does the decaying church on the other side of this mountain village. Farther out, a crevice is sliced into the earth, so deep that peering into it, one sees only blackness. Haunting for its history, it was there that a century ago, an untold number of Armenians were tossed to their deaths.

“They threw them in that hole, all the men,” said Vahit Sahin, 78, sitting at a cafe in the center of the village, reciting the stories that have passed through generations.

Mr. Sahin turned in his chair and pointed toward the monastery. “That side was Armenian.” He turned back. “This side was Muslim. At first, they were really friendly with each other.”

A hundred years ago, amid the upheaval of World War I, this village and countless others across eastern Anatolia became killing fields as the desperate leadership of the Ottoman Empire, having lost the Balkans and facing the prospect of losing its Arab territories as well, saw a threat closer to home.

Worried that the Christian Armenian population was planning to align with Russia, a primary enemy of the Ottoman Turks, officials embarked on what historians have called the first genocide of the 20th century: Nearly 1.5 million Armenians were killed, some in massacres like the one here, others in forced marches to the Syrian desert that left them starved to death.

The genocide was the greatest atrocity of the Great War. It also remains that conflict’s most bitterly contested legacy, having been met by the Turkish authorities with 100 years of silence and denial. For surviving Armenians and their descendants, the genocide became a central marker of their identity, the psychic wounds passed through generations.

“Armenians have passed one whole century, screaming to the world that this happened,” said Gaffur Turkay, whose grandfather, as a young boy, survived the genocide and was taken in by a Muslim family. Mr. Turkay, in recent years, after discovering his heritage, began identifying as an Armenian and converted to Christianity. “We want to be part of this country with our original identities, just as we were a century ago,” he said.

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BBC: The problem with insulting Turkey’s President Erdogan

April 16, 2015 By administrator

By Mark Lowen BBC News, Istanbul

With US President Barack Obama, they focus on his ears. For UK Prime Minister David Cameron, it’s his cheeks; French President Francois Hollande, his stature. And for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the cartoonists go for the downturned mouth, a jowly look that Penguen, arguably Turkey’s most famous cartoon magazine, loves to play on.

“He provides us with plenty of material,” admits Selcuk Erdem, one of Penguen’s editors, scribbling an image of Mr Erdogan in seconds.

The problem is that Turkey’s president isn’t laughing.

Under Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 12 years in office – first as prime minister, now as president – Penguen has been sued a number of times, including by Mr Erdogan himself for portraying him as different animals.

The latest case came over a recent front cover.

The president is depicted in front of his new, controversially extravagant palace.

“We could at least have sacrificed a journalist for the inauguration,” says Mr Erdogan, with connotations of an Islamic ritual.

The man welcoming him is shown buttoning a suit jacket with a gesture that was deemed to suggest Mr Erdogan is homosexual.

A complaint was filed with the prosecutor, backed up by Mr Erdogan’s lawyers, on the basis of “insulting the president”.

The two Penguen cartoonists were sentenced to 14 months in prison.

It was reduced to 11 months for “good conduct” and then commuted to a fine of 14,000 Turkish lira ($5,350; £3,630).

‘No sense of humour’

“We were very sorry – sad actually,” says Selcuk Erdem, “not as cartoonists but as citizens, because someone going to court due to a cartoon is a very sad thing.”

He insists that the gesture was misinterpreted and that his liberal publication would never joke about sexuality.

Mr Erdogan and his government “don’t have a sense of humour”, says Mr Erdem.

“They don’t want – or like – freedom of speech or criticism. We’ll carry on drawing cartoons. We don’t insult anyone – and worrying about court cases will lead to censorship in your mind, which is something we don’t want.”

Turkey’s hard line on insults:

Between August 2014 and March 2015, 236 people investigated for “insulting the head of state”; 105 indicted; eight formally arrested
Between July and December 2014 (Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s presidency), Turkey filed 477 requests to Twitter for removal of content, over five times more than any other country and an increase of 156% on the first half of the year
Reporters Without Borders places Turkey 149th of 180 countries in the press freedom index
During Mr Erdogan’s time in office (Prime Minister 2003-14, President from 2014), 63 journalists have been sentenced to a total of 32 years in prison, with collective fines of $128,000
Article 299 of the Turkish penal code states that anybody who insults the president of the republic can face a prison term of up to four years. This sentence can be increased by a sixth if committed publicly; and a third if committed by press or media.

Turkey angered by Copenhagen #ArmenianGenocide sculpture

April 16, 2015 By administrator

A sculpture that will be placed in the heart of Copenhagen in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide threatens to further derail the already-strained relations between Denmark and Turkey, The Local Denmark reports.

The nine-metre high sculpture, entitled ‘The Draem’ (Danish Remembrance Armenian Empathy Messenger), is to be placed in the square Kultorvet for ten days in May to mark 100 years since upwards of 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman regime.

The plans have elicited a protest from the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen.

“We are disappointed that a sculpture that describes the actions of 1915 as a genocide will be displayed in one of Copenhagen’s large squares,” the embassy wrote in an email to Politiken, adding that the sculpture is “morally indefensible”.

While the European Parliament, a UN sub-committee and more than 20 countries worldwide recognize the killings as a genocide, Denmark does not.

“The Danish government does not keep silent about the tragic events of 1915 but has not officially acknowledged the events as genocide. Our opinion is that that distinction is better left to historians,” Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard told Politiken.

Lidegaard declined to comment specifically on the sculpture, but Copenhagen city officials did not.

The city’s deputy mayor for culture, the Danish People’s Party’s Carl Christian Ebbesen, said Turkey should stay out of local decisions.

“Turkey should completely stay out of what we do in Copenhagen and what sort of freedoms of expression and freedoms of art that we have,” Ebbesen told Politiken.

Photo: Cphpost.dk

The Local Denmark. Turkey angered by Copenhagen sculpture

Turkey PM’s Armenian senior advisor is sacked “No Surprise”

April 16, 2015 By administrator

Istanbul-Armenian journalist and writer Etyen Mahcupyan, who is Senior Advisor to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey, has been dismissed from this duty.

As the reason for Mahcupyan’s sacking, they point to the incompatibility of his age with this post, reported Hurriyet daily of Turkey.

Furthermore, this daily has made a ridiculous claim that Mahcupyan was actually removed from this office back in March 9; that is, when he declared what had happened in 1915 was genocide.

After Pope Francis’ recent statement on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Etyen Mahcupyan had announced that it is impossible to describe what happened in Africa and in Bosnia as genocide without describing what had occurred to Armenians likewise as genocide. He had stated that the surprising thing is not that the Pope says “genocide” now, but why he did not utter this word for so many years.

Mahcupyan had also noted that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent harsh statements against Armenians are linked to pulling the Turkish nationalists—which comprise 4 percent—towards him.

USA: The State of Nevada recognizes Armenian Genocide

April 16, 2015 By administrator

The Assembly and Senate of Nevada on Tuesday adopted a resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The lawmakers recorded crime committed against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 – 1923 as the first genocide of the 20th century and called on the U.S. President and Congress to recognize the historical fact, Armenian MFA’s press office reported.

Deputy Consul General of Armenia Valery Mkrtumyan, members of the Armenian community were present at the sessions.

Consulate General of Armenia in Los Angeles, Honorary Consul of Armenia in Las Vegas Adrushan Armenyan, local structure of the Armenian Cause office contributed to the adoption of the document.