While Australian and NZ prime minster Deny Armenian Genocide Australian Couple defy Tony Abbott, & John Key, Attend Yerevan #ArmenianGenocide Commemoration
Constantinople: Thousands came together to commemorate the genocide victims
Armenian Genocide adopted by the beginning of April 24 was commemorated by thousands of people in Istanbul in the 100th. In remembrance of that intense participation in the genocide, as well as diaspora banner red candles in memory of those who lost their lives and red carnations moved.
The walk started in front of Galatasaray High School “face genocide 100th year” moved placard. Some of the Assyrian genocide, which is also known as Seyfo of respondents rated the walk, put unutmabeni flower badge symbolizing the 100th anniversary of the genocide all over the world.
France Konsolosllug ribbon that represents the wish to put in front of the tree and Armenian texts were hanged.
Hrant Dink’s wife Rakel Dink with Sevag Sahin at the memorial ceremony attended by close to Fisherman, 1915 The event was spread on the photographs of those killed. Then throwing carnations üzaer the photo was released around the candle.
‘I have here, 100 years ago, I owe my great-grandmother to come to the mountain’
Time 19.15’t France Consulate beginning of the genocide memorial in front of the first family of the victim Heghnar Watenpaugh said. Watenpaugh, Hıdırbey living in villages and fled with her three children from deportation Moses Mountain refuge Vartan great grandmother told the Kocanyan the story:
“I have my presence here today, a hundred years ago, I owe to my mother’s grandmother came to be a mountain. Her husband was taken to the military force by the Ottoman state, and never came back. Shortly after the government had commanded the evacuation of the village. Inhabitants of the village were collected Hıdırbey to decide how to respond to it. Some villagers have set out in obedience to the order, but short after a while it was realized that a death march out of them, few will survive. Then the mother of 3 children, a young mother and my grandmother came to the mountain stubborn than a few villagers refusing obedience command and surrounding mountains have resisted the Ottoman army. 40 days after resisting a warship belonging to miraculously rescued by allied states. This and Armenians can survive like this anywhere in the refugee camps they go GbR my ancestors, starting from zero back to life in all the cities have established their village always install the craving. Duda, they commemorate their past lives lived in the shadow of their lost stare pomegranate trees. Here I killed today, I’m here to offer my respects to all Armenians resisted and survived. Today we proudly with you here, my grandmother and my grandfather’s name standing tall, I remember our beautiful Armenian language can survive in spite of everything: Sarkis Kit and Vartur kocany that.
Speaking after the AGBU Europe Representative Nicolas Tavyti also the story of the grandmother calls genocide telling confrontation did.
“Do not mention the mutual pain, I expect”
Armenian Genocide Commemoration is the press statement on behalf of members of the Platform Platform Nurcan Kaya studied. Rock that the emphasis face in his speech, genocide 100th anniversary of the hundreds of thousands who were massacred in 1915, the struggle for the realization of the confrontation that conscientious responsibility to the people and said, “This confrontation to endeavor to realize, as a responsibility to perpetuate the memory of the peoples who are torn off our heads. Ensure that the confrontation realization of Hrant Dink ‘E, Sevag fisherman to, Maritsa our debt to Small. owe to our own consciences, “he said. The Rock, “Now for the state; that’s not to mention the pain of mutual condolences, I expect. The sorry. It is an opportunity to confront the 100th anniversary, confront!” urged.
BBC: Armenia marks centenary of mass killings by Ottoman Turks, Putin the events of 1915 “shook the whole world”
President Vladimir Putin said the events of 1915 “shook the whole world”
Ceremonies have been held in Armenia and around the world to mark the centenary of the start of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
The presidents of France and Russia joined other leaders for the memorial in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.
Armenia says up to 1.5 million people died, a figure disputed by Turkey.
Turkey strongly objects to the use of the term genocide to describe the killings and the issue has soured relations between the nations.
Turkey accepts that atrocities were committed but argues there was no systematic attempt to destroy the Christian Armenian people. It says many innocent Muslim Turks also died in the turmoil of war.
A memorial service was held in Turkey on Friday and its prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, said the country would “share the pain” of Armenians. But he reiterated Turkey’s stance that the killings were not genocide.
Turkey also hosted ceremonies on Friday to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Gallipoli.
However, the actual fighting there began on 25 April, and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has accused Turkey of “trying to divert world attention” from the Yerevan commemorations.
The purple forget-me-not is the symbol of the centenary.
‘Never again’
After a flower-laying ceremony in Yerevan, Mr Sargsyan addressed the guests, saying: “I am grateful to all those who are here to once again confirm your commitment to human values, to say that nothing is forgotten, that after 100 years we remember.”
In his address, French President Francois Hollande said: “We will never forget the tragedies that your people have endured.”
France has been a strong advocate of recognising the killings as genocide and President Hollande has pushed for a law to punish genocide denial.
Russian President Vladimir Putin described the killings as “one of the most tragic disasters in the history of humankind” which “shook the whole world”.
“There cannot be any justification for mass murder of people,” he said. “Today we mourn together with the Armenian people.”
Commemorations in Yerevan drew to a close with a candlelit procession. People carried flowers to the city’s memorial late into the evening.
Elsewhere:
- In Lebanon – home to one of the largest Armenian diasporas – tens of thousands of people attended a march and commemoration service in Beirut
- In Jerusalem, Armenian priests held a two-hour mass in the Old City. Posters outside the church called on Turkey to recognise the mass killings as genocide
- And in Tehran, hundreds of Armenian-Iranians attended a rally from an Armenian church to the Turkish Embassy.
US President Barack Obama issued a carefully worded statement for the anniversary, referring to “one of the worst atrocities of the 20th Century”, without using the term genocide.
During his 2008 presidential election campaign, then senator Obama had vowed to “recognise the Armenian genocide” and in his new statement said: “I have consistently stated my own view of what occurred in 1915, and my view has not changed.”
However, his phrasing has angered Armenian Americans.
Bryan Ardouny, executive director of the Armenian Assembly of America, said in a statement: “President Obama’s exercise in linguistic gymnastics on the Armenian genocide is unbecoming of the standard he himself set and that of a world leader today.”
US Envoy to Turkey Attends Concert Marking Armenian Genocide
US Ambassador to Turkey, John Bass, speaks to a journalist at a concert commemorating the Armenian Genocide in Istanbul.
YEREVAN (Armenpress)—US Ambassador to Turkey John Bass on Thursday participated in a concert in Istanbul dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.
During an intermission in the show, the US Ambassador responded to questions from Turkish journalists from IMC TV, saying: “As US President Barack Obama mentions in his annual April 24th statement, we believe that 1.5 million Armenians were killed in 1915 and that the Great Catastrophe is an undeniable tragedy. We also believe that we have to work on making sure each person in this society acknowledges that tragedy and the facts about the Great Catastrophe fairly.”
Touching upon the Armenian American community’s criticism against President Barack Obama for not preparing to use the term “genocide” in his April 24th statement this year, John Bass said: “The freedom of speech and expression is a valuable and fundamental right in the United States of America. That’s why it’s important that all citizens can interpret official statements, as well as the President’s statements.”
Other notable people in attendance included French Ambassador Laurent Bili, former Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertuğrul Günay, human rights lawyer and Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu, and Turkish intellectual Hasan Cemal.
Watch System of a Down’s First Ever Armenian Show 100th Armenian Genocide
Serj Tankian
Update: The show has ended, but the concert can be replayed in the video above.
System of a Down are descended from survivors of the Armenian genocide, and as a band, they have long sought to make people more aware of the massacres and deportations that killed over a million people and dispersed countless more across the globe. Although frontman Serj Tankian has played solo shows within Armenia, “timing or the challenge of investment in infrastructure” has prevented a proper System of Down concert from ever taking place. That changes today, when the band closes its Wake Up the Souls Tour with a free show in the homeland’s capital city.
“In Armenia, our status is unparalleled,” frontman Serj Tankian told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “I don’t want to use any monikers like the Beatles or anything, but it’s a unique kind of thing. So we want to go there and play for the people, which we’ve never done as System of a Down.”
The tour began on April 7th in Los Angeles and memorializes the 1915 genocide on its 100th anniversary. “Part of it is bringing attention to the fact that genocides are still happening, whether you use the word ‘genocide,’ ‘holocaust’ or ‘humanitarian catastrophe,'” Tankian says. “None of that is changing. We want to be part of that change. We want the recognition of the first genocide of the 20th century to be a renewal of confidence that humanity can stop killing itself.”
The band is scheduled to take the stage at 8:30 p.m. Armenian time – 12:30 p.m. on the U.S.’s East Coast. Watch the entire set in the live stream above.
Eurovision 2015: Armenia’s “Face the Shadow” gets more than 1 million YouTube views
Armenia’s “Genealogy” project’s “Face The Shadow” song gets more than 1 million view in YouTube.
Lyrics of “Face The Shadow” song are written by Inna Mkrtchyan, music by Armen Martirosyan, director – Aren Bayadyan.
To remind, Armenia will take part in the first Semi-Final of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest (Austria, Vienna) on 19th of May.
The celebration of Easter in Diyarbakir Surp Giragos
Happy Easter / Chenoravor Surp Zadig
wishing you happy Easter / Zadig.
He who gives the “Hi” should say
“Kristos hariav mérélots i” – “Christ is risen from the dead”
Whoever receives the “Hi” must answer:
“Orhtnial é Haroutioun Krisdosi” – “Blessed is the resurrection of Christ”
Քրիստոս յառեաւ ի մեռելոց – Օրհնեալ է յառութիւնն Քրիստոսի
Genocide 100: Musicians plan concerts under ‘I Remember and Demand’ slogan
Cellist Alexander Chaushian will hold a concert with the slogan “I Remember and Demand” today in the Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet after Alexander Spendiarian with the participation of the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra (ANPO) and Alain Altinoglu, a conductor of Armenian descent.
Alain Altinoglu, a regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses (the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Staatsoper Wien, Opernhaus Zürich, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and all three opera houses in Paris) is in Armenia for the first time. In April he will conduct the Requiem Mass by Mozart in the concert devoted to the Centennial of the Genocide.
The ANPO artistic director and head conductor Eduard Topchjan introduced Alain Altinoglu to the reporters saying that he was surprised by Alain’s fluent Armenian.
“When I called him he said “Hello, I am Alain Altinoglu.” I was astonished,” said Topchjan, who was not previously acquainted with the young conductor.
Forty-year-old Alain Altinoglu of Armenian decent was born in France. He said he speaks Armenian to his son at home, his wife is French, understands Armenian but does not speak it. As for his surname he said, “It also has its story. Our surname is Altunian, and in 1934 when the Turks made Armenians change their surnames, we also had to change to Altinoglu. This does not mean anything, I know that I am an Armenian, I am Armenian in my heart.”
In regards to the cooperation with the ANPO he said that they already held one rehearsal and he is pleasantly surprised by the professionalism of the Armenian musicians.
“Eduard Topchjan has his big role in all this. It is a mere pleasure to work with him,” he said.
Cellist Alexander Chaushian was born in Yerevan in a family with rich musical traditions. Currently he is the artistic director of the Paros Chamber Music Festival in Cyprus and Yerevan International Music Festival.
The ANPO main mission and direction of actions for this year is publicizing the Armenian question, remembrance of the Armenian Genocide in the whole world.
The Orchestra will hold concerts through April 10-15 in three Scandinavian countries within the Centennial of the Genocide under the slogan “I remember and I demand” with Eduard Topchyan’s leadership; on April 11 – in the homonymic concert hall in Tampere (Finland), on April 12 – in the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen (Denmark), on April 13 – in Myuzikens House Olborg (Denmark), and on April 14 – in the Cathedral in Oslo (Norway).
Concerts will take place with the support of the Ministry of Culture, as well as with the support of the Armenian Embassies to Denmark and Norway. On April 9 the Philharmonic will present to the Armenian audience parts of the concert to be held in Norway with the participation of famous pianist Marianna Shirinyan, performing parts from the Spartacus ballet by Aram Khachaturian, the Piano Concerto by Edvard Grieg and Symphony No. 6 by Tchaikovsky.
Lebanese Leaders to Attend April 24 Commemorations in Yerevan
Lebanon’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gebran Bassil
YEREVAN (Armenpress)—Lebanon will be represented at commemoration ceremonies in Yerevan marking the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on April 24, the Beirut-based Aztag Daily’s Editor-in-Chief Shahan Kandaharian has told Armenpress.
“On April 24, a four-member delegation of the Lebanese Government, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Industry, will visit Yerevan. Besides the executive body, a parliamentary delegation will visit Armenia as well, including the Vice President of the National Assembly and deputies,” Kandaharian said.
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