Erdogan called Israel many times worst than Hitler, and now Israel is much better than Hitler, as we say Turkey your friend today your enemy tomorrow, Turkish economy in the tank election is coming

Erdogan 🇹🇷 today sent a huge delegation of more than 100 Turkish businessmen to Israel 🇮🇱 to meet with Israeli businessmen and signed a new economic cooperation agreement at a ceremony held at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv. (#Normalization is a trust that will be the new slogan of Erdogan’s group

The sham trials of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) continue in Azerbaijan.

A court in Baku on Saturday sentenced two POWs, I. Saghatelyan and V. Rafaelyan, to 19 and 18 years in prison, respectively, after bringing fabricated terrorism charges against them.

The two were captured by Azerbaijani forces in Artsakh’s Karvachar district on May 27, 2021.

A Turkish citizen wanted for involvement in the murder of journalist Hrant Dink has been detained in Bishkek, the Interior Ministry press service reported.

While detaining the 38-year-old foreigner, A.I. was found to be using a fake passport and driving license.

It turned out that this foreigner is wanted by the law enforcement agencies of Turkey. A search has been launched in Istanbul. A.I. is suspected of involvement in the murder of journalist Hrant Dink in January 2007, as well as a number of other serious crimes, including involvement in organized crime and illegal possession of firearms.

A criminal case has been initiated under articles 378 “Illegal crossing of state border” and 379 “Document forgery” of the Criminal Code of the Kyrgyz Republic.

On 28 February, by decision of the Bishkek Court, A.I. was detained for two months.

Hrant Dink, the editor-in-chief of Agos Armenian newspaper published in Istanbul, was killed by Ogun Samast at the editorial entrance on 19 January, 2007. The murder provoked a wide response in Turkey. Thousands of people in Istanbul and other cities in the country staged protests demanding that the organizers of the crime be found and punished.

The murder trial was not completed until five years later. Ogun Samast was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in prison. There were 19 people involved in the case.

By Armen Ghazarian,

Marcon has been developing the architecture of the new pro-Azeria policy of France and the European Union (since he has been president since January 1st) to free himself from Russia’s gas supplies.

These new guidelines aim to no longer depend on Russia, but they will have the same adverse effects since these new supply channels will be dependent on Azerbaijan (producer) and Turkey (transitional).

The first losers and sacrificed by Macron are Armenia and Artsakh since he has been giving in to all Ilham Aliyev’s desiderates for a few weeks: €2 billion in aid, official thanks from the European Union to Azerbaijan, recon France’s implied birth of Azerbaijan’s state lie about an alleged “genocide” Azerbaijanis in Khodjalou perpetrated by Armenians, the silence of France and the European Union on the attacks against the population of Artsakh, funding by France the repopulation of Azerbaijanis in the Armenian territories of the Arts akh taken and occupied by Azerbaijan…Just look at the double weights, two measures of aid and taking positions brought to Ukraine by France, and the minimal treatment during the “44-day war”.

If you ask yourself why the Armenian structures of France do not react in any way to Macron’s support of this pantheistic policy that is being done on the back of Armenia and Artsakh you will soon understand.A kind of “agriculture fair” for Armenouches must be organized by and for Macron to hide his pro-Azeria policy. He will be able to make a difference by throwing a few pieces by exhibiting Armenouches peoples with the same communal “leaders” who have been serving as a doorsteps to the French public authorities for twenty years.After Macron, he also knows the docility and servility of the Armenians. He saw that year after year, they applaud François Hollande during the CCAF diners while he was selling, in front of their eyes, weapons and satellites for military use in Bakou with the complicit silence of community structures ar menies of France. Weapons that will participate in killing and maiming thousands of Armenians during the Fall 2020 War.

Russian forces attacked and subsequently seized control of a massive nuclear power plant in Ukraine early Friday.

Russian projectiles at the facility caused a fire, which was later extinguished by Ukrainian State Emergency Service units, according to Ukraine’s State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate. The agency also said that while Russian forces had taken control of the plant, it was still being operated by its regular staff.

The International Atomic Energy Agency stated that the safety systems of the plant’s six reactors were not affected and there was no release of radioactive material. Two people were reported injured.

The Zaporizhzhia facility is the largest power plant in all of Europe, according to Ukraine’s interior minister adviser Anton Gerashchenko. Ukrainian officials had been urging Russian troops to stay away from the plant, warning that shelling the power station could result in a nuclear disaster.

“Firing shells in the area of a nuclear power plant violates the fundamental principle that the physical integrity of nuclear facilities must be maintained and kept safe at all time,” Rafael Mario Grossi, the IAEA’s director general, said.

Source: buzzfeed

Russia will continue its development and strengthen the transport and logistics infrastructure across the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, TASS reported.

“No matter how hard and difficult it is, we will definitely continue our development, we will strengthen the transport and logistics infrastructure throughout the country,” the president said.

The President also called on the neighboring countries not to escalate and worsen relations with Russia. “I want to highlight once again, we have no ill intentions towards our neighbors. And I would advise them not to escalate the situation, not to impose any restrictions, we fulfill all our obligations and will continue doing so,” Putin said.

Edik Andreasyan,

The country must have ahead. We were headless for two months and lost our heads and were scattered like chickens. The mother hen had taken the hawk, what, we were left completely homeless, hoping for Nikol. Alen Simonyan tried to play the role of the head of the state, and he succeeded to the extent that. And there were people who took advantage of our headless situation. For example, Nikol Pashinyan managed to take the presidency of the Republic of Armenia as a strategist.

How do you know what changes will be made to the Constitution tomorrow, the next day, and how important that seat will be? Pashinyan is a far-sighted figure, he is not forced. One of the beneficiaries of our headless situation is also Hakob Arshakyan, Alen Simonyan’s deputy, who considers himself a complete Arshakun in the absence of the boss. To set the table, something…
But it was good, the term provided by the Constitution expired, and we finally had a head of state. I hope we will unite around that head and, as the Chapter said, we will be able to overcome the difficult situation together. What should we do, that the candidate was nominated by the CP, what should we do, that the CP elected him? than living headless in Nicole’s hope.

Today, however, I do not intend to give a damn about the newly elected. I will do it later when I see that Vahagn Khachaturyan is able to cope with the responsibilities of the head of state. But let me tell him, Vahagn Khachaturyan, that the hope is not great. Look at your predecessor, pity you, Mr. Khachaturyan. Ponch was no less a boy than you. A scholar, he had wide connections with the world, he sat and stood with the sheikhs, he opened the doors of Buckingham Palace on foot… Did you see what happened? And the reason for all this was Nicole, with whom she could not work. Let me tell you more, Mr. Khachaturyan. Was it the RA presidential election organized by Nikol? There was an impression that the CP was electing a condominium chairman in the National Assembly. Anushuk is not that word yet. You were also brought to the hall in a mask before the discussion of the issue of the RA presidential election. Did Hakob Arshakyan conduct the session well, present-absent? Voting on the issues discussed and not discussed, Election of the Chairman of the Control Chamber… It is your turn. You came, you were sitting in the hall with a mask, what were you going to do, did you admire Arshakyan? Poor head, who may need the Prime Minister to accompany him to the hall, why not the Catholicos and a number of other prominent people. It was already clear to you, wasn’t it, that this humiliating situation was created by Nicole and her backpacks to show who you owe to sit in the RA President’s chair.

Or that in response to Arsen Torosyan’s question you said confidently that I would be the president of everyone… Did you say that seriously, Mr. Khachaturyan? The more Nicole is the prime minister of all, the more you will be president, no more. How could Nicole create something better than herself? Excluded: And you, Mr. Khachaturyan, will not even be able to play tail like Armen Sargsyan and not sign this or that anti-constitutional decision of Nikol. Nicole took care of it and put you in that chair so that you could sit smartly and watch the coming devastation.

Pride is not my character trait, Mr. Khachaturyan. So let me end with a simple tip. Appoint Levon Ter-Petrosyan Chief Advisor to the President of the Republic of Armenia. That way you will hit two rabbits at once. First, time will pass happily, and then, in a short time, you will solve the issues of the nation’s unification, the country’s security and Artsakh.

A Turkish professor of political science has called on NATO to sanction Turkey over its 1974 invasion and continued illegal occupation of Cyprus, citing the example of sanctions on Russia for doing exactly the same thing in Ukraine.

Pointing out the obvious double standards, Mehmet Efe Caman, a visiting Assistant Professor who teaches politics at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, made the comments on his Twitter account.

Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, separated the sovereign and independent country by using force and has occupied the northern half of it ever since with a constant military presence. Turkey is a @NATO member. NATO must address it and coerce Ankara to end its illegal occupation.

— Efe Caman, PhD (@MehmetEfe_Caman) February 27, 2022

“Turkey invaded Cyprus in 1974, separated the sovereign and independent country by using force and has occupied the northern half of it ever since with a constant military presence. Turkey is a @NATO member. NATO must address it and coerce Ankara to end its illegal occupation.”

“NATO must also put pressure on Turkey to stop the assimilation policies towards the Kurds in Turkey based on a Turkish-supremacist identity. Turkey must respect human rights and return to the rule of law and constitutional liberal democracy.

“So, apply the same criteria to Turkey that you apply to the Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Russia is an aggressor state violating the international law. Turkey has been doing the same since 1974. Ergo, Turkey is also an aggressor state violating the international law.”

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Dr. Caman earned his B.A. – M.A. and obtained his Ph.D. at Augsburg University in Germany. He focuses on democratization and human rights as well as on Turkish politics in comparative politics and international politics contexts. He is broadly interested in democratic decay, current human rights issues in Turkey and political justification mechanisms of authoritarian regimes. Dr. Caman has published a monograph on Turkish foreign policy, numerous book chapters and scholarly articles in English, German and Turkish about topics related to his research areas. His recent research investigated why the Turkish opposition accepted the regime’s discourse in the process of democratic decay. He taught in Germany (2005-2006) before he went to Turkey where he worked several years as a professor, and also served as department head and dean. He has been teaching at MUN Political Science Department since August 2015.

They also had a good communicator with a man-of-the-people image. Now the Ukrainian leader reminds them of the unwarranted optimism they had in 2020.

Ani Mejlumyan,

For Ukrainians and much of the rest of the world, President Volodomyr Zelenskiy has become a cult hero for his inspiring wartime messages as he rallies his people against an invading enemy. 

For Armenians, though, it has triggered a different reaction: unhappy memories of the 2020 war with Azerbaijan, when their own leader, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, affected much of the same style and messaging, only for it to prove hollow and unable to prevent an eventual defeat.

In Azerbaijan, meanwhile, the comparisons are less common, but some have drawn unflattering comparisons between the everyman, cheery Zelenskiy and their own closed-off, bitter leader.  

In Armenia, the comparisons are ubiquitous: on social media, at conversations over coffee or drinks, at family dinners. Zelenskiy and Pashinyan are both relatively young political outsiders with strong communication skills: the former a comedian, the latter a journalist. Zelenskiy relies, as Pashinyan did in 2020, on rhetoric rallying the entire population to fight and on informal social media videos outside rather than being hunkered down in a command center.

On February 28, the fourth day of the war, Zelenskiy issued a public address: “When I was running for president, I said that each of us is a president. Because we are all responsible for our state. For our beautiful Ukraine. And now it so happened that each of us is a warrior. A warrior in his/her own place. And I’m sure that each of us will win.”

To Armenians, it sounded familiar. 

“Each of us must dedicate himself/herself to one goal, the name of that goal is victory,” Pashinyan said on October 3, 2020, the eighth day of that war. “And each of us must be ready to be at the frontline of that victory at any moment. And we will win. And we will definitely win.” 

Zelenskiy’s “each of us is a president” line also recalled another well-known Pashinyan phrase from his election campaign: “I believe that in our country we have three million prime ministers.”

One Armenian Facebook user posted Zelenskiy’s speech with the comment: “Doesn’t this remind you of something? Makes me nervous.” 

Armenians also have noticed a popular Ukrainian hashtag, #мипереможемо – “We Will Win.” While the Ukrainians’ fight is far from over, that confidence has brought back unhappy memories of the wartime Armenian slogan, ՀաղթելուԵնք – also “We Will Win.”

The rosy – and ultimately false – military pronouncements from 2020 were blamed on the then-spokesperson of the Armenian Defense Ministry, Artsrun Hovhannisyan, whose memory also has been resurrected in the current war. Early in this war one Armenian Facebook user posted an image of Ukraine’s flag with the caption: “’We will win,’ Artsrun Hovhannisyan.” 

While the parallels between Pashinyan and Zelenskiy are strongest, Zelenskiy also is seen to share traits with Hovhannisyan as well as with Arayik Harutyunyan, the de facto leader of Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Like Zelenskiy, Harutyunyan lost his suits during the war and adopted an unshaven, camo-wearing image. When Zelenskiy posted a photo of himself sitting around a table of food with soldiers, to Armenians it recalled a famous photo op by Harutyunyan when he visited soldiers on the front line and drank coffee with them.

“He has reached the scene of drinking coffee with the army … It is obvious that the end is near,” wrote government critic Narek Samsonyan on Facebook. “We should ask Arayik Harutyunyan what the next step would be, but most importantly, what scale of losses is Ukraine looking forward to after the coffee … By the way, this photo is being spread on the net with the same intensity by the innocent Ukrainian people, under the slogan ‘we are winning.’” 

“Zelinsky might be suffering from a multi-personality disorder,” one Armenian Twitter user suggested. “The guy is Nikol, Arayik & Artsrun at the same time.”

The bad memories of 2020 are compounded by the sense that Ukraine is getting the international support that Armenians felt they deserved in their war, and the fact that Zelenskiy has consistently taken Azerbaijan’s side in the conflict. 

From the other side of the line, Azerbaijanis are more unreservedly rooting for Zelenskiy. And some are seeing their own wartime leader, President Ilham Aliyev, in a comparatively unfavorable light.

Prominent journalist Khadija Ismayil noted Zelenskiy’s public appearances with soldiers and compared him to wartime Aliyev, who remained mostly isolated during the 2020 war. “Our nation’s expectation from the president was so low that it saw him giving interviews from his warm office as heroism,” Ismayil wrote on Facebook. “Zelenskiy gives interviews, holds negotiations, and does it all right from hot spots. … We should raise our heroism standards a bit.” 

The post occasioned a spirited debate. “Our enemy didn’t make it to Baku,” another journalist and war reporter, Heydar Mirza, commented, noting that Kyiv now is under attack while the 2020 war took place many miles from Azerbaijan’s capital. “President [Aliyev] didn’t need to walk with a helmet on the frontline. People were as one fist anyway, our situation was different,” Mirza wrote. 

Another journalist, Aytan Farhadova, recalled Aliyev’s rhetorical style of slinging slurs, calling Armenian soldiers “dogs” and Pashinyan a “drunk clown.” In his speech announcing Azerbaijan’s victory on November 10, 2020, Aliyev made reference to the style of his wartime addresses, saying that he knew that the “nation likes my words”. 

Zelensky “doesn’t call names or use insulting slurs against Putin’s personality,” Farhadova wrote on Facebook. “The head of the state, under attack by the Russian army, knows he is on the right side and with confidence in that righteousness doesn’t lose his temper,” she added.

Source: https://eurasianet.org/armenians-see-unhappy-parallels-between-zelenskiy-and-their-own-wartime-leaders

Wally Sarkeesian

PRESS RELEASE: The Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region successfully concluded the 2021 session of the Walter and Laurel Karabian Fellowship program. California native Araksya Nordikyan was selected as the 2021 fellow, spending 6 months at the ANCA-WR office working on the organization’s policy initiatives and the remaining term of the 9-month program at the Los Angeles Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department.

“We congratulate Araksya upon the successful completion of the fellowship program and wish her the best of luck in future professional endeavors,” said ANCA-WR Interim Executive Director Verginie Touloumian. “We also look forward to utilizing Arakysa’s expertise and knowledge to tackle issues pertaining to racial discrimination and rise in Armenophobia faced by our community in recent years.”

“As a Karabian Fellow, I became intrigued by the inherent role that the public sector plays in ensuring civil and human rights are not violated and opportunities are available for everyone through the creation and implementation of equitable policies and empowering programs. The exposure to both city and non-profit operations offered me further understanding and appreciation of the complexities of advocacy and laws,” noted Nordikyan. “I am forever grateful to the staff at ANCA-WR and CHRED for their mentorship, and look forward to applying these experiences in my future endeavors. For those interested in public service, I highly recommend applying to this program!”

Throughout her tenure at the ANCA-WR, Nordikyan worked on a number of legislative and policy initiatives of the organization including the Duty to Prevent – D2P Initiative launched in response to the alarming escalation of Armenophobic crimes and incidents around the world. D2P entails proactive measures aimed at raising awareness, monitoring, reporting, and condemning hatred, bigotry, and xenophobia with the goal of preventing crimes from taking place in the first place.

“As the second fellow of this innovative program, we are proud to have supported Araksya’s growth and development as a civic leader,” stated Karabian Fellowship Selection Committee Member Nareg Kitsinian, Esq. “Our goal is to prepare Armenian-American leaders of tomorrow and I invite all interested and qualified candidates to apply in the future iterations of the fellowship.”

“Araksya represents the epitome of public service and the highest standards of grace, poise, and excellence of the Armenian community. She has done incredible work with us at the LA Civil Rights Department as part of the Karabian Fellowship,” remarked Capri Maddox, Executive Director, Civil + Human Rights and Equity (LA Civil Rights) Department, City of Los Angeles. “We are so grateful to the Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region for their partnership and to Araksya for her continued service for our city. Remember the name Araksya Nordikyan, she’s a leader in the making!”

The Walter and Laurel Karabian Fellowship is a nine-month experience that offers young Armenian-Americans the opportunity to enhance their leadership and professional skills. The purpose of this fellowship is to produce professionals in the public policy and political arena.

The Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region is the largest and most influential nonpartisan Armenian American grassroots advocacy organization in the Western United States. Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the Western United States and affiliated organizations around the country, the ANCA-WR advances the concerns of the Armenian American community on a broad range of issues in pursuit of the Armenian Cause.

Information regarding the 2022 session of the Walter and Laurel Karabian Fellowship will be released in the coming months.

PRESS RELEASE
March 3, 2022
For Immediate Release
Contact: Verginie Touloumian