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“Three Books Not to Be Overlooked” By Lucine Kasbarian

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These recently released titles were produced outside of mainstream publishing mechanisms. They remind us that Armenians can and should avail themselves of alternatives in order to achieve publication, avoid censorship and tell their stories as they wish for them to be told. 

The MIGRANT AND THE MAVERICK: AN ALLEGORY

By Abie Alexander; Publisher: AA Books; abiealexander.com

On the surface, this is a straightforward tale about Ken, a Rhode Island Red rooster whose life is forever altered by the arrival of migrant Canadian geese, and goose Helen with whom he develops a fond relationship.

Helen teaches Ken about migratory (and worldly) ways and not a moment too soon. Ken’s keepers are readying to slaughter him, spurring him to prepare for flight.

Upon closer reading, we discover the tale’s moral and political underpinnings — particularly as they relate to trials undergone by refugees and immigrants who reinvent their lives on foreign soil, and to whom this book is dedicated.

Ken and Helen deliberate about how social attitudes around the world can differ depending on circumstances, culture and environment. They also express opinions on a range of issues dominating today’s headlines, such as global hegemony, climate change, nationalism, immigration, reproductive rights, gun control and political correctness, giving readers much to weigh and consider. Sometimes didactic, often touching and almost always thought-provoking, the Migrant and the Maverick is the product of a diplomatic, perceptive and sensitive soul. A financier by profession, Mr. Alexander became acquainted with Armenia through his work there with Christian relief organizations such as World Vision and the Fuller Center for Housing.  Though himself not ethnically Armenian, Alexander mentions the Armenians in every one of his six published books and is considered an honorary Armenian by Choice by his peers.

 

MY FATHER: A MAN OF COURAGE AND PERSEVERANCE – A SURVIVOR OF STALIN’S GULAG

by Rubina Peroomian; Publisher: Rubina Peroomian Minassian; abrilbooks.com/my-father.html

During WWII and overlapping with the Stalinist Purges, the Soviet Union extended its long arm of influence to harass the citizens of Iran. Hunting down free-thinkers, the NKVD (Soviet secret police) sought to quash opposition, instill fear in the people and break the will of anyone who posed a potential threat to Stalin’s leadership. These brutal repressions adversely affected millions who were either incarcerated or put to death – and by extension, blighted entire families and communities. Baghdik Minassian — a Tabriz-based scientist, teacher, writer, editor and political activist of Armenian descent — was one such victim.

Minassian’s daughter, UCLA lecturer, scholar and author Dr. Rubina Peroomian, deftly pieces together a never-completed memoir written by her father who was forced into a life of depredation in one of the most inhospitable climates of the world: a Soviet hard labor camp in Norilsk, Siberia.

Why an unfinished memoir? Dr. Minassian, who miraculously survived his 10 years in captivity, was only able to bring himself to write about the experience many years after his release and did not live long enough to complete his account. Upon liberation, he endeavored to make up for lost time with his family, teaching and activism, all while operating in a weakened state caused by his internment.

Minassian’s experience mirrors that which was described in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich only in this case, Minassian survived the ordeal and resumed his productive and exemplary life, even if deeply scarred.

Dr. Peroomian, who has written many books about the Armenian genocidal experience, has finally focused her literary lens on her own family’s journeys around injustice, loss, trauma and achievement in spite of tremendous odds. This long overdue tribute to the fortitude of Minassian and his family is worthy of our attention, recognition and praise. It also adds another dimension to existing first-hand, non-fiction accounts of the horrors suffered in Siberian gulags.

 RAVISHED PARADISE: FORCED MARCH TO NOTHINGNESS

By Mardig Madenjian; Publisher: Mardiros Madenjian; mardigmadenjian.com

Following years of research, travel, interviews and investigations into family history, Mardig Madenjian produced this unique work that is really two books in one. Filled with meticulous detail, conviction and righteous indignation, Ravished Paradise recalls the Madenjian clan’s activities in their native region of Chepni, located between Sepastia and Kayseri in Western Armenia. We learn about their history through anecdotes, folklore, genealogical connections, and family dynamics of conflict, coincidences and redemption. At the same time, Mr. Madenjian presents a parallel and condensed narration of the Armenian Genocide brimming with facts and figures in historical context.

Though the book has a few spelling, grammatical and factual errors, it is a formidable achievement in that it makes learning about the Armenian Genocide — especially for students — an engrossing (but not always comfortable) experience. Readers can, for one thing, apply faces, names, personalities and vignettes to an otherwise daunting topic.

Among many precious details, we are reminded that all Armenians were targeted during the Turkish extermination, not just the so-called radicals; that statesman-author Krikor Zohrab had his head smashed to pieces so that his Turkish tormentors “could see what the brains of a genius looked like”; that the victorious French during WWI who ultimately betrayed Cilician Armenia put slippers over their horseshoes to conceal that they were abandoning the Armenians to the predatory Turks; and that medicinal folk remedies – many now lost —  were often life-saving in their properties. 

In speaking of the savagery of the genocidists, Madenjian does not sugarcoat his words, nor does he abide by tenets of political correctness. Some information in Madenjian’s book has never before been presented in English.  The author of 16 books, Madenjian won the Hollywood Book Award twice — for this book and again for its sequel, Reclaiming Ravished Paradise.

 

Watch The Legend of V series: At age 15, Varak Kaloustian published and debuted his book “VIDEO”

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Wally Sarkeesian interview Varak Kaloustian, the author The Legend of V series

By Wally Sarkeesian

Meet  Varak Kaloustian
the author The Legend of V series

We meet Varak Kaloustian and the family at 21st Arpa International Film Festival 2018. Incredible young man.

At 15 years old, Kaloustian published and debuted his book earlier this year to a warm reception. The story — concerning the protagonist, simply named V, and a group of characters, who take a supernatural journey through archeology and science-fiction mysteries – has proven popular enough to instigate demands from readers for a sequel.

“The Legend of V: The Solar System’s Prophesies,” by Varak Kaloustian, is a captivating cavalcade of adventure, humor and science-fiction written by a promising teenage author in what should be considered a sign of many good things to come.

A sophomore-to-be at Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles, Kaloustian, says the idea for writing his book stemmed from a school assignment in sixth grade.

Varak Kaloustian is eighteen years old in his freshman year of college. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his mom, dad, and two brothers. He likes to play basketball, travel, and spend time with his friends and family. He currently has two published novels: “The Solar System’s Prophecies” and “Triangle Corruption”. Both are a part of a series called “The Legend of V”.

Dictatorship, Imperialism and Chaos: Iraq Since 1989 (Global History of the Present) Book

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by Thabit A.J. Abdullah (Author)

This is a concise, readable, yet rigorous history of Iraq since the end of the Iran-Iraq War and the Cold War to the present day by a well-regarded and serious Iraqi intellectual. Abdullah takes the reader through a chronological journey, exploring how Hussein came to power, the consequences of the Iran-Iraq war; how Hussein’s regime developed; the war in Kuwait; the devastation of Iraqi society under international sanctions; the US and allies’ invasion; the future implications for Iraqi society. Abdullah undercuts the widespread view that Iraq as a nation state is an artificial construct. Finally, the book also explores the relationship between Iraq’s economy and the ‘globalized’ economy of the post-1989 period.

Source; https://www.amazon.com/Dictatorship-Imperialism-Chaos-History-Present/dp/1842777874/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537116500&sr=8-1&keywords=dictatorship%2C+imperialism%2C+and+chaos+iraq+since+1989

The book by Armenian writer named fiction bestseller in Bulgaria

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Narine Abgaryan book

The books of famous Armenian-Russian writer Narine Abgaryan have been named the most popular in Bulgaria in 2017, while her novel “Three Apples fell from Heaven” was named the year’s fiction bestseller. As the press department at the foreign ministry reported, a special meeting honoring the famous write was organized by “Yerevan” organization and “Labyrinth” Bulgarian Publishing House in Sofia. It was attended by members of the Armenian community, intellectuals and art workers.

The event was attended by the Armenian Ambassador to Bulgaria Armen Sargsyan.

During the event works by the writer that had been translated into Bulgarian were presented After the presentation a Q/A session took place, where Narine Abgaryan responded to numerous questions from the auditorium, speaking of her childhood in hometown Berd, the prototypes of her heroes, the Armenian Genocide and the Karabakh conflict among other things.

It is noted that from September 5-7, similar meetings will take place in Plovdiv, Stara Zagora and Burgas towns.

To add, Narine Abgaryan was born in 1971 in Berd, Armenia, to the family of a doctor and a school teacher. She graduated from Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences with a teacher’s diploma in Russian Language and Literature. Abgaryan is the author of eight books, including her bestselling and prize-winning (Manuscript of the Year 2010 and Russian Literature Prize) trilogy about Manyunya, a busy and troublesome 11-year-old in the small Armenian town of Berd. Abgaryan’s other book for children, Semyon Andreich, received the BABY-NOSE from New Literature Prize in 2013, as the best children’s book of the decade. Narine Abgaryan is also the editor of several anthologies of modern Russian prose. Since 1993, Narine has lived in Moscow with her husband and son.

 

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Talaat Pasha Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide

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Hans-Lukas Kieser,

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian Genocide

Talaat Pasha (1874–1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern Turkey. He was also the architect of the Armenian Genocide, which would result in the systematic extermination of more than a million people, and which set the stage for a century that would witness atrocities on a scale never imagined. Here is the first biography in English of the revolutionary figure who not only prepared the way for Atatürk and the founding of the republic in 1923, but who shaped the modern world as well.

In this explosive book, Hans-Lukas Kieser provides a mesmerizing portrait of a man who maintained power through a potent blend of the new Turkish ethno-nationalism, the political Islam of former Sultan Abdulhamid II, and a readiness to employ radical “solutions” and violence. From Talaat’s role in the Young Turk Revolution of 1908 to his exile from Turkey and assassination–a sensation in Weimar Germany—Kieser restores the Ottoman drama to the heart of world events. He shows how Talaat wielded far more power than previously realized, making him the de facto ruler of the empire. He brings wartime Istanbul vividly to life as a thriving diplomatic hub, and reveals how Talaat’s cataclysmic actions would reverberate across the twentieth century.

In this major work of scholarship, Kieser tells the story of the brilliant and merciless politician who stood at the twilight of empire and the dawn of the age of genocide.

Hans-Lukas Kieser is associate professor in the School of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Newcastle in Australia and adjunct professor of history at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. His many books include Nearest East: American Millennialism and Mission to the Middle East, World War I and the End of the Ottomans: From the Balkan Wars to the Armenian Genocide, and Turkey beyond Nationalism.

Editions
  • Hardcover
    39.95
    30.00
    ISBN
    9780691157627
    552 pp.
    5 1/2 x 8 1/2
    23 b/w illus., 6 maps
  • E-book
    ISBN
    9781400889631
    https://press.princeton.edu/titles/11285.html

Endorsements

“In this brilliant book, Kieser moves the architect of Ottoman imperial nationalism and the Armenian Genocide to center stage in the European drama. This is the first scholarly biography of a man both revered by the beneficiaries and reviled by the victims of his drive to save an empire, only to preside over its demise.”—Ronald Grigor Suny, author of “They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else”: A History of the Armenian Genocide
“This is an extremely important book that not only fills a large gap in the existing scholarship but also introduces new perspectives on the Armenian Genocide. It is a must-read for anyone who wishes to understand late Ottoman history and the Committee of Union and Progress, which organized the genocide against the Christians during First World War.”—Taner Akçam, author of A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

Taner Akcam: Armenian Genocide denial can only be defeated politically

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Turkish historian Taner Akcam,

Turkish historian Taner Akcam, who has been studying the Armenian Genocide for decades, says he came across the topic by coincidence.

“When I was studying at Hamburg Institute of Social Research, my first topic was history of torture in the Ottoman Empire. This is how I started reading about the Abdul Hamid period massacre and other events related to the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Akcam said in an interview with Public Radio of Armenia.

“When I was reading I was not even aware there were Armenians living in Turkey. During that period, when I was researching on the history of torture, our institute launched a big project on Nuremberg Tribunals, on whether Nuremberg could be taken as a standard for all macro-crimes. My project was almost coming to an end, and I was looking for another topic to research, and I thought I might maybe do something on the trials in Istanbul, because I knew there was a relation between Istanbul military tribunals and Holocaust. I made the proposal without knowing how complicated the topic is. The institute accepted my proposal. And so I started working on Armenian genocide and it never ended,” he said.

Turkish historian Taner Akcam, who has been studying the Armenian Genocide for decades, says he came across the topic by coincidence.

“When I was studying at Hamburg Institute of Social Research, my first topic was history of torture in the Ottoman Empire. This is how I started reading about the Abdul Hamid period massacre and other events related to the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Akcam said in an interview with Public Radio of Armenia.

“When I was reading I was not even aware there were Armenians living in Turkey. During that period, when I was researching on the history of torture, our institute launched a big project on Nuremberg Tribunals, on whether Nuremberg could be taken as a standard for all macro-crimes. My project was almost coming to an end, and I was looking for another topic to research, and I thought I might maybe do something on the trials in Istanbul, because I knew there was a relation between Istanbul military tribunals and Holocaust. I made the proposal without knowing how complicated the topic is. The institute accepted my proposal. And so I started working on Armenian genocide and it never ended,” he said.

When in Turkey, as any common Turk and as a progressive leftist young university student, Taner Akcam knew there happened something in the past – Turks killed Armenians, Armenians killed Turks, but thought it was way back and there are more important problems to solve.

“Another important perception I had was that Turkey was actually established in a fight against great power, imperialist power, and mainly Armenians and the Greeks were with these colonialists to partition our country. So this was my mindset. Over the years during my research I changed this perception, although this was difficult. This is what I have been writing since then, that Turkey actually should face own history and acknowledge these wrongdoing,” Taner Akcam said.

Mr. Akcam does not see a perspective for Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide any time soon.

“Turkey is now in its winter again. Turkey is back up to its traditional policies, this is the original setup of the Turkish Republic, to deny the Armenian Genocide. There was an opening between 2002 and 2012, but after that Turkey went back to its traditional policies, because the ruling Justice and Democracy Party (AKP) and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan started to ally themselves with the traditional force in Turkey – the bureaucracy and the military, who established the Turkish republic and who are the core of the denialist policy,” the historian said.

He does not expect anything to change in Turkey regarding the Armenian genocide after the elections expected on June 24. According to him, only a small Kurdish party with about 10 percent support recognizes this as a fact, while the remaining political parties vehemently deny the Armenian Genocide. “Even if the opposition comes to power, they won’t change this traditional denialist policy.”

As for international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Mr. Akcam says only recognition by the United States could make a change.

“All other countries might have some moral impact or affect the international politics, but could hardly have any impact with regard to recognition. Why United States is different? Because if the US characterizes the events of 1915 as crimes against humanity or genocide, then legally all Armenians or all other parties can file lawsuits against Turkey in the United States, which can end with a big loss of Turkish assets in the US and even a kind of an embargo against Turkey. Legally, the American government would have to do that. This is the reason why the American government denies the recognition of the Armenian Genocide,” Mr. Akcam stated.

Taner Akcam destroys all Turkish arguments with his studies, as he presents original documents, but says that “denialism has nothing to do with academic work.”

“My recent publication was an important blow to this Turkish denialist policy. They might not continue their traditional arguments to deny the Armenian Genocide, but they will find new ways, new policies, I have no doubt about it. Denial can only be defeated politically, not academically,” he said.

In his groundbreaking new book, “Killing Orders: Talat Pasha’s Telegrams and the Armenian Genocide,” published in March Taner Akcam destroys the Turkish government’s denial strategy. The book represents an earthquake in genocide studies, particularly in the field of Armenian Genocide research.

A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide the documentary evidence surrounding it.

This book provides a major clarification of the often blurred lines between facts and truth in regard to these events. The authenticity of the killing orders signed by Ottoman Interior Minister Talat Pasha and the memoirs of the Ottoman bureaucrat Naim Efendi have been two of the most contested topics in this regard.

The denialist school has long argued that these documents and memoirs were all forgeries, produced by Armenians to further their claims. Taner Akcam provides the evidence to refute the basis of these claims and demonstrates clearly why the documents can be trusted as authentic, revealing the genocidal intent of the Ottoman-Turkish government towards its Armenian population.

The book includes the “smoking gun of the Armenian Genocide” – an original telegram sent from Ezrum by Behaeddin Shakir to Kharberd Governor Sabit Bey.

“Are the Armenians who were deported from there being liquidated? Are the troublesome individuals whom you have reported as having been exiled and expelled being exterminated or merely being sent off and deported? Please report back honestly,” the telegram reads.

Taner Akcam said in an earlier interview with Public Radio of Armenia that the uncovered telegram will force the Turkish government seek new ways of denying the Armenian Genocide.

The historian is now working on Jerusalem Patriarchate archives and has been working on a book project related to Armenian orphans in Aleppo in 1920-1921, as well as on Cemal Pasha. He is not confident which study will be completed and published first.

Turkish Intellectuals Who Have Recognized the Reality of the Armenian Genocide Volume II

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Searched and Compiled by Hambersom Aghbashian, 

This book is Volume II of a very important study which sheds light on Armenian and Turkish history. 50 additional Turkish intellectuals (Turkish historians, physicians, artist, human rights activists, journalists and others ) who support justice to Armenians and justice to the world, and have recognized the reality of the Armenian Genocide,  blamed the Ottoman Empire for the perpetrated atrocities, and asked the Turkish government to admit the Armenian Genocide and  apologize for that, and even to make reparations to the victims ancestors, are researched and comprehensively presented by the author. It includes a work, which  puts history in the right perspective and proves the veracity of the Genocide. This is Volume II . Volume I was published in 2015.   

Volume II is also  published by “Nor Or Publishing Association, Inc.” and printed in USA.

For copies contact:
-“Nor Or Publishing Association, Inc.”   (Email: Nor-Or@sbcglobal.net),

-The Author ( Email: hampomg@yahoo.com). 

-https://www.amazon.com

Paris: Debate with Bernard-Henry Levy: “Erdogan will end up in the dustbin of history”

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On the occasion of the release of his book The Empire and the 5 Kings , Bernard-Henri Lévy said he wanted to present it to three communities in priority: Jews, Kurds and Armenians. This was done on April 25 at the invitation of the Armenian News Magazine , and this on the premises of the UGAB Paris. For nearly 2 hours, the philosopher and writer explained his reading of contemporary barbarities, especially those related to the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, highlighting his rejection of Turkish fascism against a hundred people very attentive, who have asked questions at the end of this conference and had their book signed.

Before entering the AGBU room, BHL was promoted by Cyrille Eldin, a journalist for Canal +.

Why come to present this book to the Armenians, asked Ara Toranian, editor of the Armenian News Magazine , to start this discussion. ” The medal I received from your hands 3 years ago at the CCAF dinner, I received it with real emotion, without words in the air, ” recalled Bernard-Henri Levy. The meeting of 25 April was therefore an opportunity to express its gratitude to the Armenian people, but also to highlight one of the main threads of the book: the question of Turkey and the resurgence of Ottoman temptation today. If he admits to having been part of the beginning of those who believed in Erdogan’s arrival, he clearly thinks today ” that pan-Turkism is at the root of his regime “. If he had the idea of ​​the book The Empire and the 5 Kings during a trip to Kurdistan, the writer calls for solidarity between ” the people in excess “, the ” unaccounted for by the nations ” .

” The thesis of my book , the philosopher argued, is that today there are five master-singers in the world, the two most perverse are Erdogan and Putin. But they are in an alliance not unnatural, but counter-historical . Regretting that few people do not care: ” Europe lies down to this, that’s what I write in this book, that’s why I’m revolted. “

Before making a confession: ” If I were to die tomorrow, there is one thing I would be ashamed of for me: it was not being able to convince of the necessity of intervention in Syria “. Comparing the situations between Libya and Syria, ” from a place where one intervened and one where one did not intervene “.

Ara Toranian then asked him about Bashar Al Assad, perceived by the Christian minorities as a protector against the Islamists. He uses it as a strategic shield and human shield estimated Bernard-Henri Levy. What attitude do you have towards this? ” An international supervision for a given time? It will bring back bad memories, but if it’s the price to pay … “he said, adding that their fate was a top priority.

ournalist Le Monde , Gaidz Minassian then spoke, becoming at first the advocate of the devil: ” These five kings you speak – in China, Turkey, Iran, Russia, the Arab world – n do they have reasons to blame the West? “. To which Bernard-Henri Lévy replied: ” If I were Turkish, I will feel more humiliated by Erdogan than by the Westerners! “. But the author ensures not to be disenchanted, not to have lost courage – as proof of the publication of this book that ends with a message full of hope, ” but with some tears of melancholy, dedicated to Kurds ” – declaring under the applause: ” Erdogan, I think it will end up in the trash bin of history “.

According to him, it is up to Europe to take up the torch, since the United States is a little behind, the latter saying in words that Iran is his worst enemy, but leaving him such a gift in Syria, especially to Afrin. The problem: ” How to take up the torch if there is no solidarity between European countries? Yes, there is a war of civilization within Europe, and it is this battle that we must now lead “.

An exciting conference, which ended with a book signing.

Saturday, May 5, 2018,
Claire © armenews.com

Greece: Athens takes center stage in honor of literary greats

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Athens honor of literary greats

Athens honor of literary greats

Athens on Monday started its one-year tenure as the World Book Capital, during which time it will host more than 250 book-related events across the city.

The World Book Capital title is awarded to a different city each year as part of UNESCO’s initiative to pay tribute to two giants of world literature, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, who died on the same day – April 23, 1616.

Athens was officially inaugurated on Monday by Mayor Giorgos Kaminis in a special ceremony at the Acropolis Museum in the presence of President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

Cultural events also took place in the evening on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, a pedestrian walkway just south of the Acropolis, and the Herod Atticus Theater.

Erdogan two Thugs Plead Guilty For Roles In Attacks On Peaceful Protesters

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Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavosoglu (right) meets with Eyup Yildirim (left) in Washington, D.C. (Youtube screen grab)

Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavosoglu (right) meets with Eyup Yildirim (left) in Washington, D.C. (Youtube screen grab)

Chuck Ross Reporter

Two Turkish-American men who took part in attacks on peaceful protesters outside of the Turkish ambassador’s residence earlier this year have pleaded guilty in a Washington, D.C. court.

Eyup Yildirim and Sinan Narin accepted guilty pleas in exchange for dropping hate crime charges for their roles in the attacks, which occurred on May 16.

The pair, who face one-year jail sentences as part of their plea deals, were captured on video along with a group of supporters and bodyguards for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacking a small group of Yazidi, Armenian and Kurdish protesters.

Yildirim, the owner of a New Jersey construction company, was seen on video kicking a woman as she laid curled up on the ground. Narin, who lives in Virginia, was also recorded assaulting the protesters.

The attack sparked a diplomatic standoff between the Turkish and American governments. Turkish officials claimed that indictments handed down in the case were politically motivated. They also claimed that U.S. Secret Service and Washington, D.C. police failed to protect Erdogan, who watched the beatings unfold from near the entrance to the ambassador’s residence.

Erdogan may also have directly ordered the attacks. Video showed Erdogan speaking with his personal bodyguard moments before he relayed instructions to the attackers. The protesters — who numbered fewer than two dozen — had gathered at the ambassador’s residence to protest against Erdogan’s increasingly authoritarian policies. (RELATED: Audio Analysis: Erdogan Goons Were Instructed To ‘Attack’ Peaceful Protesters)

In addition to Yildirim and Narin, 17 others were indicted for their role in the attacks. Two Turkish-Canadian supporters of Erdogan were indicted along with 15 members of Erdogan’s security detail, including the dictator’s closest bodyguards. (RELATED: Video Shows Erdogan Calmly Watching Bodyguards Attack Protesters)

Aram Hamparian, an Armenian activist who witnessed the brutal assault, blasted Thursday’s plea deal.

“A proposed one year sentence for a brutal, unapologetic foreign government directed assault against Americans on U.S. soil is an absolute travesty,” Hamparian, the executive director of the Armenian National Committee of American, said in a statement on Thursday.

“The Erdogan-ordered attack wasn’t just a violent hate crime against Americans but an open assault on American values. This sentence, if approved by the court, will effectively serve as a green light to Erdogan and other foreign dictators intent on exporting their violence to American shores.”

Hamparian recorded video of the May 16 protest. He also helped two of the people attacked by Erdogan’s henchmen.

One of the women Hamparian helped was Lucy Usoyan, the president of the Ezidi Relief Fund. Usoyan was seen on video being kicked in the back and head by Yildirim. She identified Yildirim to The Daily Caller earlier this year. Usoyan said that she suffered head trauma from the assault. (RELATED: Meet The Erdogan Goon Who Brutally Assaulted A Woman In Washington, D.C.)

When TheDC contacted Yildirim back in May, he denied knowing anything of the attacks. He and Narin were arrested in June by U.S. Marshals. They will be sentenced in Washington, D.C. on March 15.

Source: http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/21/erdogan-supporters-plead-guilty-for-roles-in-attacks-on-peaceful-protesters/