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URGENT: Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, The Honorable Antony J. Blinken @SecBlinken United States Secretary of State

December 29, 2022 By administrator

Via Email: secretary@state.gov December 19, 2022

Glendale, CA Grant Petrosyan Secretary
New York, NY Lucy Varpetian Chair Ex Officio Los Angeles, CA

Members at Large

Hon. Amy Ashvanian Los Angeles, CA
Hrag Alex Bastian
Los Angeles, CA Giselle Davidian Toronto, Ontario Harry H. Dikranian Montreal, Quebec Levon Golendukhin New York, NY
Armen K. Hovannisian Los Angeles, CA Souren Israelyan

New York, NY Mariam Kuregyan Encino, CA
Scott A. Ohnegian Morristown, NJ Tigran Palyan

Los Angeles, CA Ovsanna Takvoryan Encino, CA

NALSA Representative

Diana Gazaryan Los Angeles, CA

Advisory Board

Hon. Larry A. Burns
San Diego, CA
Hon. Dickran Tevrizian (Ret.) Los Angeles, CA

URGENT Re: Humanitarian Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh

The Honorable Antony J. Blinken United States Secretary of State 2201 C St NW
Washington, DC 20520

Dear Secretary Blinken:

We write on behalf of the 30,000 children who are trying to survive in Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).1 Azerbaijan has trapped them under its heavy heel and these most vulnerable members of the human race remain under siege. As you have undoubtedly heard, they have been blockaded since December 12, 2022, deprived of the only road that links them to food, supplies, and other necessities of life, including medicine.

The Lachin Corridor,2 the only land route connecting Nagorno-Karabakh to the Republic of Armenia, was blocked by provocateurs masquerading as Azerbaijani environmentalists but chanting their true intentions to beleaguered Armenians: “Karabagh is Azerbaijani.” Many of these so-called “environmentalists” have been exposed to be agents of the repressive Azerbaijani regime.3 As of today, that crucial road remains blocked. While Azerbaijan also cut off the gas supply to Nagorno-Karabakh for several days in freezing temperatures, for the time being, it has been restored.

This blockade is being wielded as a political lever by the Aliyev regime and it has already created a humanitarian crisis that endangers the health and wellbeing of the most vulnerable in society (notably the children and elderly). This blockade is also imposed with the intent to paralyze the functioning of administrative and civil infrastructures (schools, hospitals, hospices) in Nagorno-Karabakh and to terrorize the Armenians living there. It must be stopped.

All of the medicine in Nagorno-Karabakh must travel through the closed road. Dire shortages have already been registered, and hospitals have suspended their planned procedures in order to preserve scarce supplies for new emergency patients. In addition, 270 children are separated from their parents, who were temporarily outside of Nagorno- Karabakh when the road was blocked and now cannot return.

Nagorno-Karabakh is an enclave that was part of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic but

populated by ethnic Armenians. Because of discrimination by Soviet Azerbaijani authorities, it exercised

its right under Soviet law to secede from Soviet Azerbaijan in 1991. While its sovereign status has been

disputed by Azerbaijan, we do not address that issue here to focus on the current urgent humanitarian

crisis. 2

Based on a 10 November 2020 ceasefire statement between the Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation, Nagorno-Karabakh was left to be connected to the outside world by a sole road, which was to be protected from Azerbaijan by a peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation. Under that statement, there was to be “road safety along the Lachin corridor of citizens, vehicles and

goods in both directions.”

3

Aliyev’s Puppet Eco-Activists: Who Blocked the Lachin Corridor Leading to Artsakh? – FIP.AM

Filed Under: Genocide, News

Forbidden Homeland, Story of a Diasporan is Katia Tavitian Karageuzian’s vivid memoir, Interview Video

December 27, 2022 By administrator

Forbidden Homeland, Story of a Diasporan is Katia Tavitian Karageuzian’s vivid memoir of the personal journey that helped define her understanding of the Armenian Cause.

In 1988, a chance comment she made at college led to the discovery of long-lost relatives she knew nothing about. The family secrets that surfaced next became the catalyst to a decades-long search for answers she had been looking for since childhood.

Born in Lebanon, Karageuzian draws on her personal accounts of diaspora, and her research on the Armenian Genocide and the Karabakh conflict, to expose buried truths and unveil the geopolitics that consistently stand in the way of justice, and muffle the ongoing wars in Transcaucasia.

Forbidden Homeland is an American story of immigration and the pursuit of happiness, and the story of Diasporas that continue to form because of tyranny and leading nations engaged in power games. It is also a testament to bravery and resilience and the stubborn human will to live in freedom.

The book is now available on Amazon.com Forbidden Homeland in both paperback and Kindle e-book.

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Conversation with Author Katia Karageuzian Forbidden Homeland Story of a Diasporan, The story of how a single innocent comment ended up unlocking answers to a lifetime of ancestral inquiries. https://t.co/bGj2knQVP3

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) December 21, 2022

Filed Under: Books, Genocide, Interviews, News, Videos

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights: Movement along the Lachin Corridor should be restored as a matter of urgency to prevent a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Nagorno-Karabakh

December 22, 2022 By administrator

“I have been closely following the situation around Nagorno-Karabakh following the blocking of the road running through the Lachin Corridor since 12 December. I am concerned that the prolonged disruption in the movement of people,

Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

preventing some from reaching their homes, and in access to essential goods and services, including food supplies and urgent medical care, threatens the enjoyment of human rights by the population of Nagorno-Karabakh”, said today Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović. “Those responsible for maintaining public order and security of the Corridor should take all the necessary steps to restore movement along that road as a matter of urgency and prevent a deterioration of the humanitarian situation. Furthermore, all relevant stakeholders should avoid escalation of tensions.

The present situation shows once more the importance of ensuring free and unhindered access of humanitarian assistance and international human rights missions to all areas and people, including those residing in Nagorno-Karabakh. As I indicated in my 2021 Memorandum, the relevant authorities should come up with effective and flexible modalities of access enabling all relevant actors, including my Office, to reach out to those in need of humanitarian assistance and human rights protection as a matter of priority.

As the Commissioner for Human Rights, I will continue paying close attention to the human rights situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. I stand ready to engage with all the relevant interlocutors to assist in overcoming the existing challenges.”

Filed Under: Events, Genocide, News

Genocide Warning: Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh)

December 20, 2022 By administrator

Conditions are present for genocide against the indigenous Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh).

On December 12, the government of Azerbaijan imposed a blockade on Nagorno Karabakh and its 120,000 Armenian residents, preventing food, medicine, gas, and other vital goods from transiting through the Lachin Corridor, the only land route into the region.

The government of Azerbaijan has long promoted official hatred of Armenians, has fostered impunity for atrocities committed against Armenians and has issued repeated threats to conquer not only Nagorno Karabakh but also Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, by force.

The present blockade is designed to, in the words of the Genocide Convention, “deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about the end of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group in whole or in part.”

All 14 risk factors for atrocity crimes identified by the UN Secretary-General’s Office on Genocide Prevention are now present.

The current Azerbaijani aggression against the Armenians of Nagorno Karabakh conforms to a long pattern of ethnic and religious cleansing of Armenian and other Christian communities in the region by the government of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, and their partisans.

We call on all contracting parties to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, particularly the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation, to fulfill their obligations, through the UN Security Council, to prevent another chapter of the Armenian Genocide.

We also call on the UN Security Council to act to ensure unrestricted humanitarian access for all international organizations to Nagorno Karabakh, in accordance with the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Christian Solidarity International

Baroness Cox, Independent Member of the House of Lords

American Friends of Kurdistan

Armenian Bar Association

Armenian National Committee of America

Genocide Watch

Hellenic American Leadership Council

Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust

In Defense of Christians

International Christian Concern

The Philos Project

Prof Armen T. Marsoobian (First Vice President, International Association of Genocide Scholars)

Lela Gilbert, Fellow: Hudson Center for International Religious Freedom

Center for Truth and Justice

Filed Under: Genocide, News

Pashinyan Regime Ignore On December 9, 1948, the UN General Assembly approved the “Convention on the Prevention of Genocide and its Punishment”,

December 11, 2022 By administrator

By Naira Zohrabyan,

There is a version that the Armenian Genocide was carried out by the Mayans or the Sumerians

On December 9, 1948, the UN General Assembly approved the “Convention on the Prevention of Genocide and its Punishment”, and by the efforts of the former authorities of the Republic of Armenia, the United Nations, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide At the session of the Human Rights Council of the Nations Organization of Nations, the formula on the Prevention of Genocide initiated by consensus was adopted by Armenia, by which on December 9, the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and on the day of adoption of the convention on punishment, a day of remembrance of the victims of the crime of genocide was set.

Why did I tell you about the UN life for so long? Because the Armenians who survived one of the cruelest genocides logically assumed that Armenia’s “sur-democracy” and “barometer of humanity” government should be the first on December 9 once again commemorate the prevention and condemnation of genocides, and once again remind the elite broccoli-eating international community and the world of the Armenian Genocide and about the Ottoman Turkey implementing it.

But December 9 passed under the national selfie of rabis lights of the tasteless Christmas tree in the square, and only the next day the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia remembered that we had committed genocide.

And what?

Nothing in particular. In the background there was an idiotic text in which the term Armenian Genocide was used once, in the context of historical reference, and no mention of who committed the most inevitable genocide of the 20th century?

Reading the text of the RA MFA, I thought that the Armenian Genocide may have been carried out by the Maya tribe’s “toleats” or by the Sumerians and “postdeath” into the pocket of Ottoman Turkey.

Yes, by the way, there was no message to the international community in the text of the Armenian Foreign Ministry to recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide.

I understand, maybe Mevlut Chavushoghli would get angry and once again show us Armenians the symbolism of grey wolves, as he has already done.  ·   ·

Կա վարկած, որ Հայոց Ցեղասպանությունն իրականացրել են մայաները, կամ՝ շումերները

1948 թվականի դեկտեմբերի 9-ին ՄԱԿ-ի գլխավոր ասամբլեան հաստատեց «Ցեղասպանության կանխարգելման և նրա համար պատժի կոնվենցիան», իսկ նիկոլազգիների համար վախենալու ՀՀ նախկին իշխանությունների ջանքերով Հայոց ցեղասպանության 100-րդ տարելիցի նախաշեմին Միավորված ազգերի կազմակերպության Մարդու իրավունքների խորհրդի նստաշրջանում կոնսենսուսով ընդունվեց Հայաստանի նախաձեռնած՝ Ցեղասպանության կանխարգելման վերաբերյալ բանաձեւը, որով դեկտեմբերի 9-ը, Ցեղասպանության հանցագործության կանխարգելման եւ պատժման մասին կոնվենցիայի ընդունման օրը, սահմանվեց ցեղասպանության հանցագործության զոհերի հիշատակի օր:

Ինչի՞ համար էսքան երկար պատմեցի ՄԱԿ-ի կյանքից, որովհետեւ մարդկության ամենադաժան ցեղասպանություններից մեկը վերապրած հայը տրամաբանորեն ենթադրում էր, որ Հայաստանի «սյուր-դեմոքրըսի» եւ «մարդասիրության բարոմետր» իշխանությունն առաջինը պիտի դեկտեմբերի 9-ին եւս մեկ անգամ հիշատակի ցեղասպանությունների կանխարգելումն ու դատապարտումը, եւ եւս մեկ անգամ էլիտար բրոկոլի ուտող միջազգային հանրությանն ու աշխարհին հիշեցնի Հայոց Ցեղասպանության ու այն իրականացնող Օսմանյան Թուրքիայի մասին։

Բայց դեկտեմբերի 9-ը անցավ հրապարակի անճաշակ տոնածառի ռաբիս լույսերի համազգային սելֆիի տակ, ու միայն հաջորդ օրը Հայաստանի արտաքին գործերի նախարարությունը հիշեց, որ մենք ցեղասպանվել ենք։

Եւ ի՞նչ։

Առանձնապես ոչինչ։ Հետին թվով երկնեցին մի իդիոտ տեքստ, որում Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն եզրույթն օգտագործված է մեկ անգամ, այն էլ՝ պատմական ակնարկի շրջանակում, եւ որեւէ հիշատակում, թե ո՞վ է իրականացրել 20-րդ դարի ամենազարհուրելի ցեղասպանությունը՝ չկա։

Կարդալով ՀՀ ԱԳՆ-ի տեքստը, մտածեցի, որ Հայոց Ցեղասպանությունը գուցե իրականացրել են Մայա ցեղի «թալեաթները», կամ՝ շումերները ու «հետմահու» գցել են Օսմանյան Թուրքիայի ջեբը։

Հա, ի դեպ, Հայաստանի արտաքին գործերի նախարարության ղզիկ տեքստում չկար նաեւ որեւէ ուղերձ միջազգային հանրությանը՝ ճանաչել եւ դատապարտել Հայոց Ցեղասպանությունը։

Հասկանում եմ, կարող է Մեւլութ Չավուշօղլին ջղայնանար ու եւս մեկ անգամ ձեռքի 3 մատով մեզ, հայերիս, գորշ գայլերի սիմվոլիկա ցույց տար, ինչպես արդեն արել է։

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How did the bright days of the Armenian theater end? Interview with Nesim Ovadya İzrail AGOS

December 11, 2022 By administrator

Ermenice tiyatronun parlak günleri nasıl sona erdi?

Actors of the Ottoman Theater founded by Agop Vartovyan, known as Güllü Agop
Aşod Madatyan
Nesim Ovadya İzrail
Mardiros Mınakyan yönetimindeki Osmanlı Dram Kumpanyası’nın bir afişi

Nesim Ovadya İzrail was one of the speakers at the conference titled “Istanbul, 1914-1922: The History of War, Collapse, Occupation and Resistance” organized by the Hrant Dink Foundation on November 4-5. At the closing of the conference, Izrail gave a speech titled “The Rise of Armenian Theater Activities in Istanbul During the Armistice Years.” Based on his presentation with Izrail, we looked at the history of Armenian theater in Turkey.

What was the state of the Armenian theater before the armistice, that is, before 1918-1922? When did Armenian theater actors get the opportunity to perform theater in Armenian and when was this interrupted?

Theater in the European style entered Ottoman society in the 19th century thanks to the Armenians, one of the components of this society. From 1858 to 1881, theater performances, which continued in Armenian and Turkish in multilingual, were banned from playing in Armenian after this date. The founders, developers and Armenian artists of the theater stage, accustoming the audience to watching plays by going to the halls, continued with Turkish plays under the leadership of Mardiros Mınakyan, and brought the theater ship of Abdülhamit’s oppression years to the Meşrutiyet port until the Constitution proclaimed in 1908. The only Western-style theater company of these years was Mnakyan’s Ottoman Drama Company.

When the constitutional order was passed in 1908, making theater in Armenian was allowed. Turkish artists, who took to the stage with great excitement in these days of relative freedom, consisted of young volunteers who did not have enough experience yet. With the end of the years of tyranny, everything could be said and played freely on the stage. While some of the Turkish volunteers were in league with Armenian artists, some of them were making theater trials by forming groups among themselves.

For Armenian artists, the most important feature of the Constitutional Monarchy in an environment of freedom was that it was now free to play games in Armenian. With the excitement of going on stage, young Armenian artists formed a group called Azad Tadron (Free Theater) in the first days of 1908. This group of young people, who set out with a completely Armenian repertoire, declared that they were close to socialism, the newly shining ideology of the period. In the plays they staged, they took place with themes against kings, oppressors and bosses, with themes that reminded the Armenian nation of its identity. The founding and prominent names of Azad Tadron group were Ashod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Şahen Hovhannesyan and Eliza Binemeciyan, who had just appeared on the stage. Vahram Papazyan from Istanbul, who was an actor in Italy, also came to the capital at regular intervals and shared his experiences with this group and took the stage together.

With his successful stage performance for Turkish intellectuals, Turkish theater managers such as Reşad Rıdvan and Burhanettin Tepsi, Vahram Papazyan was seen as an option in the development of Turkish theatre. In 1910, attempts were made to play plays with Turkish theater companies in the personality of Vahram Papazyan, the leading artist of Armenian Dramatic. Although there were inconsistencies between Papazyan, who grew up with a European discipline, and the Turkish artists of the National Ottoman Theatre (like the Othello performance played together in September 1910), in April 1912 Muhsin Ertuğrul’s in Turkish and Vahram Papazyan’s in Armenian, two songs in Armenian, were produced by the New Theater Company. The performance of Hamlet as a language has also been an indicator of important collaborations.

In the second half of 1910, the Armenian Theater Society was established in order to support the Armenian theater activities financially and in terms of audience. In 1911, the Armenian Dramatic Theater got this support behind it, with the participation of Vahram Papazyan, Aşod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Kevork Sarkisyan, Eliza Binemeciyan and Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd, Hraçya Nersesyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, her sister Adrine Tertsakyan, and Nşan Beşiktaş members. took shape. The performances of the theaters that were interrupted during the Balkan Wars, and the performances of the Armenian Dramatic Theater continued with the participation of young artists Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd and Adrine Tertsakyan from April 1913.

Darülbedayi, which was brought to life in Istanbul in 1914, was planned as a Turkish national theater and one of its main aims was to end the Armenian artist dominance on the stage. Armenian actresses were admitted to Darülbedayi, where no Armenian actors were admitted, due to the barrier of Turkish and Muslim women to appear on the stage. This tragic situation continued for nine years until 1923.

When we come to the armistice period, we know that the Armenian theater experienced a revival. How long did this last and who were the prominent artists of this period?

In 1918, the war continued but slowed down, Armenian citizens who survived the genocide and deportation and had valid excuses were allowed to return to their places of residence and to Istanbul. Least damaged by genocide.

In the atmosphere of distrust between the Armenians of the survivors of Istanbul and the Turkish and Muslim citizens, young Armenian theater artists attempted to prepare the bylaws and regulations of the Istanbul Armenian Dramatic Theatre, which they planned to reactivate in the first months of 1918. Despite this work, which was accepted and concluded in August 1918, they waited for the war to officially end.

With the charter published in December 1918, in line with the theater process initiated by Azad Tadron in 1908, the establishment of the Istanbul Armenian Dramatic Society (Bolso Hay Dramatik Ingerutyun) was announced. The founding names of the society were Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd and Yervant Tolayan, who were new to the stage in the pre-war years. The stage and management staff of the group came together with great excitement in a very short time and started rehearsals. Actresses Siranuş Aleksanyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, Yevkine Acemyan, Adrine Çanan, and actors Hraçya Nersesyan, Dırtad Nişanyan, Hrant Isdepanyan, Krikor Hagopyan, Şahan Saryan, and Dikran Boğos were the first artists to come forward. Ashod Madatyan, who was in Aleppo at that time, came to Istanbul with a delay of a few months and joined the group.

The new political reconciliation environment created by the days of occupation and struggle against the occupation, which started for the Turkish and Muslim majority throughout the country, became a period of relaxation and breathing for the Armenian community in Istanbul. A free environment suitable for making theater in Armenian emerged and it was the beginning of bright days for the Armenian stage in Istanbul. A large part of the Armenian theater artists who got up again gathered under the umbrella of the Istanbul Armenian Dramatic Theater with the support of wealthy Armenians. On the other hand, with the Benliyan Operetta Company, the activities of companies such as Felekyan Sisters Theatre, Vahan Şahinyan’s Cilicia Armenian Dramatic Theater, Krikor Hagopian’s Oriental Theatre, the Armenian stage peaked in Istanbul.

Hrant Dink Vakfı’nca 4-5 Kasım’da düzenlenen ‘İstanbul, 1914-1922: Savaş, Çöküş, İşgal ve Direnişin Tarihi’ başlıklı konferansta sunum yapan isimlerden biri de Nesim Ovadya İzrail’di. İzrail konferansın kapanışında “Mütareke Yıllarında İstanbul’da Ermenice Tiyatro Faaliyetlerinin Yükselişi” başlıklı bir konuşma yaptı. İzrail ile sunumundan yola çıkarak Türkiye’de Ermenice tiyatronun tarihine baktık.

Mütareke, yani 1918-1922 öncesi dönemde Ermeni tiyatrosu ne durumdaydı? Ermeni tiyatrocular, Ermenice tiyatro icra edebilme imkanlarını ne zaman elde edebildiler ve bu ne zaman kesintiye uğradı?

Osmanlı toplumuna Avrupa tarzında tiyatro, bu toplumun bileşenlerinden Ermeniler sayesinde 19. yüzyılda girmiş ve yer etmiştir. 1858’den 1881’e kadar Ermenice ve Türkçe çok dilli olarak devam eden tiyatro performanslarına, bu tarihten sonra Ermenice oyun oynama yasağı gelmişti. Tiyatro sahnesinin kurucuları, geliştiricileri ve seyirciyi salonlara giderek piyes izlemeye alıştıran Ermeni sanatçılar, bundan sonra Mardiros Mınakyan’ın liderliğinde Türkçe oyunlarla yola devam ettiler ve 1908’de ilan edilen Anayasa’ya kadar Abdülhamit’in istibdat yıllarının tiyatro gemisini Meşrutiyet limanına yanaştırdılar. Bu yılların Batılı tarzdaki tek tiyatro kumpanyası, Mınakyan’ın Osmanlı Dram Kumpanyası oldu.

1908’de Anayasal düzene geçildiğinde Ermenice tiyatro yapmak serbest bırakıldı. Bu günlerdeki göreceli özgürlük ortamında büyük heyecanla sahnelere atılan Türk sanatçılar, henüz yeterli tecrübeye sahip olmayan genç gönüllülerden oluşuyordu. İstibdat yıllarının sona ermesiyle sahnelerde her şey özgürce söylenebiliyor, oynanabiliyordu. Türk gönüllülerden bazıları, Ermeni sanatçılarla birlik olurken, bazıları da kendi aralarında gruplar oluşturarak tiyatro denemeleri yapıyorlardı.

Ermeni sanatçılar için özgürlük ortamında Meşrutiyet’in en önemli niteliği, Ermenice oyun oynamanın artık serbest olmasıydı. Sahneye çıkma heyecanıyla genç Ermeni sanatçılar 1908’in ilk günlerinde Azad Tadron (Özgür Tiyatro) isimli bir topluluk oluşturdular. Tamamen Ermenice bir repertuarla yola çıkan bu gençler topluluğu, dönemin yeni parlayan ideolojisi olan sosyalizme yakınlık duyduklarını ilan ediyorlardı. Sahneye koydukları oyunlarda krallara, zalimlere ve patronlara karşı konularla, Ermeni milletine kimliğini hatırlatan temalarla yer alıyorlardı. Azad Tadron grubunun kurucu ve öne çıkan isimleri Aşod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Şahen Hovhannesyan ve sahnelere yeni çıkan Eliza Binemeciyan’dı. İtalya’da aktör olarak bulunan İstanbullu Vahram Papazyan da belli aralıklarla başkente gelip bu grupla tecrübelerini paylaşarak, birlikte sahneye çıkıyordu.

Türk aydınları, Reşad Rıdvan, Burhanettin Tepsi gibi Türk tiyatro yöneticileri için başarılı sahne performansıyla Vahram Papazyan, Türk tiyatrosunun geliştirilmesinde bir seçenek olarak görüldü. 1910 yılında Ermeni Dramatik’in önde gelen sanatçısı Vahram Papazyan’ın kişiliğinde Türk tiyatro topluluklarıyla birlikte oyunların oynanması için denemeler yapıldı. Avrupai disiplinle yetişen Papazyan ile Milli Osmanlı Tiyatrosu’nun Türk sanatçıları arasında (Eylül 1910’da birlikte oynanan Otello performansında olduğu gibi) uyumsuzluklar olmasına rağmen, Nisan 1912’de Yeni Tiyatro Kumpanyası tarafından Muhsin Ertuğrul’un Türkçe ve Vahram Papazyan’ın Ermenice, iki dilli olarak Hamlet’in sahneye konulması da, önemli iş birliklerinin göstergesi olmuştur.

1910 yılının ikinci yarısında, İstanbul’da Ermenice tiyatro faaliyetlerini maddi ve seyirci bakımından desteklemek üzere Ermeni Tiyatro Cemiyeti oluşturuldu. 1911’de bu desteği de arkasına alan Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu, Vahram Papazyan, Aşod Madatyan, Yenovk Şahen, Kevork Sarkisyan, Eliza Binemeciyan ile Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd, Hraçya Nersesyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, kız kardeşi Adrine Tertsakyan, Nışan Beşiktaşlıyan gibi genç kadroların katılımıyla şekillendi. Balkan Savaşı günlerinde aksayan tiyatroların gösterileri, 1913’ün Nisan ayından itibaren genç sanatçılar Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd ve Adrine Tertsakyan’ın katılımıyla Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu’nun performansları devam etti.

1914 yılında İstanbul’da hayata geçirilen Darülbedayi, Türk milli tiyatrosu olarak planlanmıştı ve temel amaçlarından biri sahnedeki Ermeni sanatçı üstünlüğüne son vermekti. Hiçbir Ermeni aktörün alınmadığı Darülbedayi’ye, Türk ve Müslüman kadının sahneye çıkma engeli nedeniyle Ermeni aktrisler zorunlu olarak kabul edildi. Bu trajik durum 1923’e kadar dokuz yıl devam etti.

Mütareke dönemine geldiğimizde ise Ermenice tiyatronun bir canlanma yaşadığını biliyoruz. Bu ne zamana kadar sürdü ve bu dönemin öne çıkan sanatçıları kimlerdi?

1918 yılı savaşın devam ettiği, ancak hız kestiği, soykırım ve tehcirden sağ kurtulan ve geçerli mazeretleri olan Ermeni vatandaşlara yaşadıkları yerlere ve İstanbul’a dönme izinlerinin verilmeye başlandığı günlerdir. Soykırımdan en az hasarl

a kurtulan İstanbul’un Ermenileri ile Türk ve Müslüman vatandaşlar arasında oluşan güvensizlik ortamında, genç Ermeni tiyatro sanatçıları 1918’in ilk aylarında yeniden harekete geçirmeyi planladıkları İstanbul Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu’nun tüzük ve yönetmeliğini hazırlamaya giriştiler. Ağustos 1918’de kabul edilip sonuçlandırılan bu çalışmaya rağmen savaşın resmen sona ermesini beklediler.

Aralık 1918’de yayınlanan tüzükle birlikte, 1908’deki Azad Tadron’un başlattığı tiyatro sürecinin doğrultusunda, İstanbul Ermeni Dramatik Cemiyeti’nin (Bolso Hay Dramatik Ingerutyun) kuruluşu ilan edildi. Cemiyetin kurucu isimleri, savaş öncesi yıllarda sahneye yeni çıkan genç sanatçılardan Mıgırdiç Çanan, Yetvart Çaprasd, Yervant Tolayan’dı. Grubun sahne ve yönetim kadroları çok kısa bir zamanda büyük bir heyecanla bir araya geldi ve provalara başladı. Aktrislerden, Siranuş Aleksanyan, Hraç Tertsakyan, Yevkine Acemyan, Adrine Çanan, aktörlerden Hraçya Nersesyan, Dırtad Nişanyan, Hrant Isdepanyan, Krikor Hagopyan, Şahan Saryan, Dikran Boğos ilk günlerde öne atılan sanatçılar oldu. O sırada Halep’te bulunan Aşod Madatyan birkaç aylık bir gecikme ile İstanbul’a geldi ve gruba katıldı.

Ülkenin genelinde Türk ve Müslüman çoğunluk için başlayan işgal ve işgale karşı mücadele günlerinin oluşturduğu yeni siyasal saflaşma ortamı, İstanbul’da Ermeni toplumu için bir rahatlama ve nefes alma dönemi oldu. Ermenice tiyatro yapmaya elverişli özgür bir ortam ortaya çıktı ve İstanbul’da Ermeni sahnesi için parlak günlerin başlangıcı oldu. Yeniden ayağa kalkan Ermeni tiyatro sanatçılarının çok büyük kesimi, varlıklı Ermenilerin de desteğini alarak İstanbul Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu’nun şemsiyesi altında toplandı. Diğer yandan Benliyan Operet Kumpanyası’yla beraber, Felekyan Kız Kardeşler Tiyatrosu, Vahan Şahinyan’ın Kilikya Ermeni Dramatik Tiyatrosu, Krikor Hagopyan’ın Şark Tiyatrosu gibi kumpanyaların faaliyetleri ile İstanbul’da Ermenice sahne, zirve yaptı.

Cumhuriyet’e doğru giden 1923’ün ilk aylarında Ermenice tiyatro yapmaya yasak konulması son darbe oldu. İstanbul’da kalan bir kısım sanatçı kabuğuna çekilirken, yine de çok sayıda önemli Ermeni sanatçının sahne faaliyetlerine devam etmek için Türkçe oyun oynamaktan başka alternatifi kalmamıştı. Çok kültürlü ve çok dilli tiyatrodan tek dilli sahneye geçiş yapıldı. Türkiye’de mütarekeden önce başlayan ve dört yıl süre için ertelenen Ermeni sahne sanatçılarının dışlanması, kaldığı yerden devam etti.

İkinci Dünya Savaşı sonrasında, dünyada esen demokrasi ve faşizm karşıtı hava ile Türkiye’de Ermenice tiyatro yapmak serbest bırakıldı. Yeniden nefeslenen Ermenice sahneler yaklaşık on yıl devam eden profesyonel performanslarla bir dönem daha parlak günler yaşadı. Siyasette gayrimüslim vatandaşları dışlama ve asimile etmenin devam etmesi ile 1955’te yaşanan 6-7 Eylül ve benzeri olaylar, profesyonel Ermeni tiyatrosunun parlak günlerinin sönümlenmesini getirdi ve amatör Ermeni sahnesi tiyatronun bayrağını devraldı. Yıllar içinde devam eden amatör Ermeni tiyatrosu giderek gücünden çok şey kaybetti. Amatör Ermeni tiyatrosu günümüzde Ermenice performansın yerini Türkçe performanslara terk ederek yetersiz bir seviyede yoluna devam etmektedir.

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Armenia Should Bring Back Skulls of Five Genocide Victims from Museum in France

December 5, 2022 By administrator

By Harut Sassounian

The New York Times published on November 28, 2022, a shocking article by reporter Constant Méheut, titled: “A Paris Museum Has 18,000 Skulls. It’s Reluctant to Say Whose.”

The article reveals that the Musée de l’Homme (Museum of Mankind) in Paris, France, holds a “vast collection of human remains.” Stored in the basement of that museum are “18,000 skulls that include the remains of African tribal chiefs, Cambodian rebels and Indigenous people from Oceania. Many were gathered in France’s former colonies, and the collection also includes the skulls of more than 200 Native Americans, including from the Sioux and Navajo tribes. The remains, kept in cardboard boxes stored in metal racks, form one of the world’s largest human skull collections, spanning centuries and covering every corner of the earth.” Five of the skulls belong to Armenian Genocide victims. The museum has not made public the information about the identities of the 18,000 skulls, fearing restitution lawsuits.

I read the December 15, 2021 report of a French Senate Committee on its discussion of a proposed law about the fate of the remains at the museum. During that meeting, Sen. Catherine Morin-Desailly, co-author of the proposed law, stated: “amazingly, we find in our collections skulls dating from the Armenian Genocide.” Sen. Pierre Ouzoulias, another co-author of the proposed law, added: “I was overwhelmed learning that five Armenian skulls of victims of the Armenian Genocide, which were recovered in Deir-ez Zor [Syria], are still in the collections of the Museum of Mankind.”

Since New York Times reporter Méheut mentioned in his article that he had obtained confidential documents about the human remains in the museum, I wrote to him asking if these documents contained any details about the skulls of the five Armenian Genocide victims. He informed me that they were female skulls which were collected by Emmanuel Passemard, a French prehistory specialist, during his explorations in Syria in 1925-1926. The Bulletin of the French Prehistoric Society reported that Passemard gave a lecture at the Sorbonne University in Paris on February 16, 1927, during which he described his trip to the banks of the Euphrates River in Syria.

Méheut wrote in his article that “while France has led the way in Europe in investigating and returning colonial-era collections of artifacts — cultural objects, made by human hands — it has lagged behind its neighbors when it comes to remains.” The claimant of the remains has to prove an ancestral connection. However, “French legislation has made any return a cumbersome and time-consuming process.”

Méheut added: “As with other 19th-century museums, the Museum of Mankind was initially a repository for items gathered from around the world. The skulls were collected during archaeological digs and colonial campaigns, sometimes by soldiers who beheaded resistance fighters. Prized by researchers working in the now-debunked field of race science, the remains then fell into relative oblivion. In 1989, Philippe Mennecier, the curator [of the museum], put together the first electronic database of the collection. It enabled him to identify hundreds of what he called ‘potentially litigious’ skulls — remains of anticolonial fighters and Indigenous people, collected as war trophies or plundered by explorers — that could be claimed by people wishing to honor their ancestors.”

Christine Lefèvre, a top official at the Museum of Natural History, which oversees the Museum of Mankind, and Martin Friess, who is responsible for the museum’s modern anthropology collections, told Méheut the information was withheld because of privacy concerns, fear of controversy and because of uncertainties around some remains’ identities. “But several scholars and lawmakers said the museum’s stance stemmed from a greater concern: that transparency could open the floodgates for restitution claims,” Méheut wrote. “Over the past two decades, France has returned only about 50 sets of remains, including to South Africa, New Zealand and Algeria.”

Méheut explained that “to make matters more complicated, objects in public museum collections are the property of the French state and cannot change ownership unless the return is voted into law — a cumbersome process that has sometimes led France to lend remains instead of ceding possession. A representative for France’s culture ministry said officials were working on a sweeping law to regulate future returns of human remains.” The French government has yet to accept “a bill passed by the Senate in January that would remove the need for Parliament to approve every restitution.”

During the French Senate committee hearing, referring to the skulls of victims of the Armenian Genocide, Sen. Ouzoulias told his colleagues: “This is intolerable. We risk a major diplomatic conflict with certain countries when they become aware of the content of our collections. It is time to stop this. We can no longer live with corpses in our closets.”

Now that Armenians have learned about the storage of the skulls of five Armenian Genocide victims in a French museum, I suggest that the Armenian government, through its embassy in Paris, make an immediate request for the return of these skulls to Armenia to be buried near the Armenian Genocide Memorial complex in Yerevan. These victims deserve a respectful burial after being stored in a box in the basement of a French museum for a century.

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Highly Anticipated Multi-Award-Winning Documentary Feature Film, ‘Motherland,’ By Vic Gerami, Is Released On Vimeo

December 1, 2022 By administrator

Vic Gerami, Press Release

The Film, Which HuffPost’s Thom Senzee Declared ‘Most Anticipated Documentary Film of 2022,’ Is An ‘Official Selection’ In Sixty-One Film Festivals, Has Won Thirty-Six Awards, Was Shortlisted By Film Independent For Their’ Spirit Awards,’ And Is In The Academy’s ‘Screening Room’ For The Oscars Race

 LOS ANGELES — Produced and directed by Los Angeles-based Armenian American journalist and activist Vic Gerami, ‘Motherland’ is a new feature-length documentary about the genocidal assault and the violent ethnic cleansing unleashed on September 27, 2020, by Azerbaijan and Turkey. The 113-minute documentary film focuses unwavering attention on the coordinated, systematic, and wholly unprovoked genocidal attack and ethnic cleansing against the Armenians of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh.

‘Motherland’ is a journalistic investigative film analyzing why the international community watched in a deafening silence while Azerbaijan, Turkey, ISIS, Syrian, Libyan, and Pakistani mercenaries massacred 5,000+ Armenians in forty-four days,’ said Gerami. He continued, ‘It further examines the failure of the media to accurately cover the massacre without toxic bothsideism, false-balance, and flat-out bias.’ 

The Cast of ‘Motherland’ includes seven (7) leading members of Congress, including Congressman Adam Schiff (D–CA), Sen. Bob Mendez (D–NJ), Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), Congresswoman Katie Porter (D-CA), Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Baroness Caroline Cox, Life Peer Member of the British House of Lords, among others.

‘Motherland’ can be rented for $9.99 on Vimeo, https://vimeo.com/ondemand/motherland2022 and on the film’s official website, MotherlandDoc.com.

You can watch the film’s trailer, visit the film’s website and IMDB page, and review the press kit. 

Vic Gerami is available for interviews. You can contact him at 310.880.8563 or vic@thebluntpost.com. High-resolution photos and headshots can be found here.  

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About ‘Motherland’

Produced and directed by Los Angeles-based Armenian American journalist and activist Vic Gerami, ‘Motherland’ is a new feature-length documentary film about the genocidal assault and the violent ethnic cleansing unleashed on September 27, 2020, by Azerbaijan and Turkey. The 90-minute documentary film focuses unwavering attention on the coordinated, systematic, and wholly unprovoked genocidal attack and ethnic cleansing against the Armenians of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh.

Gerami is the founder and editor of The Blunt Post and host of the national radio show that focuses on politics titled THE BLUNT POST with VIC on KPFK 90.7 FM, part of Pacifica Network.

‘We are racing against time to bring much-needed attention to this ongoing humanitarian catastrophe and its imminent threat to millions of innocent people,’ says Gerami.

‘Armenian and Artsakh people have a combined population of about three million, but Azerbaijan and Turkey have ninety million,’ he continues. ‘It’s a genuine David versus Goliath nightmare.’

 21st-Century Armenian Genocide in the Making

‘We are trying to prevent another Armenian Genocide,’ Gerami explains.

It took 106 years before the United States formally recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915, which Ottoman Turks committed.

On April 24, 2021, President Joe Biden became the first US president to recognize the Armenian Genocide officially — and to recommit America to its promise to prevent such an atrocity against humanity from ever occurring again.

Yet tragically, history is repeating itself. Turkey’s and Azerbaijan’s ongoing genocidal attack and ethnic cleansing against Armenians, as we’ve witnessed recently in Artsakh, is unrelenting.

Motherland tells the story of this ongoing and tragic chapter of human history as it was recently witnessed in Armenia and surrounding areas when Producer-Director Vic Gerami and his film crew capped a yearlong reporting and advocacy project by taking cameras on riveting location shoots near the scenes of what many are calling war crimes.

New Chapter in Regional Warfare

With declared assistance from Turkey, Azerbaijan has launched a large-scale offensive against Artsakh. Employing thousands of Turkish-paid jihadist mercenaries airlifted from terrorist camps in Syria, Libya, and Pakistan, Azerbaijan’s war effort has been empowered by Erdogan to magnify the violence already being perpetrated by the Azerbaijani Army against innocent children, women, and men who, previously, had lived peacefully for generations in Artsakh.

The 2020 invasion opened a new chapter in the history of regional warfare. The travesty has been marked by unmatched suffering anywhere on the planet today, which Artsakh’s civilian population currently endures daily. For 44 days, the world stood by, largely in silence, as more than 5,000 Armenians were massacred.

For more information, please visit the film’s website, MotherlandDoc.com. High-resolution photos and headshots for Judy Saryan and others can be found here.

About Vic Gerami

 Vic Gerami is an award-winning journalist, columnist, media commentator, and the host of his prime-time headline news + politics radio program, THE BLUNT POST with VIC (TBPV) on Independent + Progressive Radio KPFK 90.7 FM (Pacifica Network). Vic is also the editor + publisher of The Blunt Post. 

Today reaching national and international audiences, Gerami first built a foundation of knowledge and skills by learning the media industry during his years at Frontiers Magazine, followed by positions at LA Weekly and Voice Media Group. 

Gerami’s radio program, TBPV, covers national, regional, and local headline news, politics, and current events, and Gerami offers analysis and commentary. He also interviews a high-profile member of Congress or other high-profile public figures on each show. His recent guests include Congressman Adam Schiff, Senator Bob Menendez, Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Governor Howard Dean, Congresswoman Katie Porter, Congressman Brad Sherman, Congressman Mike Levin, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, and Congresswoman Judy Chu, LA District Attorney George Gascon, among many others. You can listen to all the interviews here. 

Gerami is also a contributor for some of the most prominent publications in the nation, including Windy City Times, Bay Area Reporter, Armenian Mirror-Spectator, The Advocate, The Immigrant Magazine, GoWeHo, Destination Luxury, OUT Traveler, The Fight, and among others.

Gerami founded the Truth And Accountability League (TAAL), a 501©3 non-profit organization that advocates for Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) and Armenia. TAAL monitors & addresses Armenophobia, extremism & bigotry around the globe on the level of media, including social media, public policy, academia, and intelligentsia. 

The Wall Street Journal featured Gerami as a “leading gay activist” in its landmark 2008 coverage of opposition to Proposition 8, the ballot measure that for years denied same-sex couples in California the freedom to marry. In addition to his years of volunteer work as a leading advocate for marriage equality, Gerami served as a Planning Committee member for the historic Resist March in 2017. 

In 2015, Gerami was referenced in the landmark Supreme Court civil rights case, Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Court held in a 5–4 decision that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Please click here for more information about Vic Gerami.

Instagram: @vicgerami

Facebook: facebook.com/vic.gerami

Twitter: @vicgerami

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Tatoyan: Azerbaijani forces display a pan-Turkic slogan near the Armenian village school

November 28, 2022 By administrator

Azerbaijani troops have unlawfully deployed close to the school in Shurnukh, a village in Armenia’s Syunik Province, displaying the pan-Turkic slogan “Önce vatan” in big letters, former Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan, the head of the Tatoyan Foundation, said on Saturday.

“Önce vatan” is one of the fundamental Turkish nationalistic slogans created during Ataturk’s rule in the 1930s. It means “Go Forward Homeland” or “Homeland First”, he explained.

“This slogan is directly connected to pan-Turkism. It does not consider possible equality of representatives of non-Turkish ethnic groups or nations living in Turkey with Turks, because according to Turkish nationalism, the idea of creating a nation, an ethnically Turkish homogenous nation, is equally important to the motherland. Moreover, this nationalism was based on the ideology of the Young Turks, pan-Turkism, and was essentially its continuation,” Tatoyan wrote on Facebook.

“In this Azerbaijani position, that is immediately in front of the Shurnukh school, in front of children, servicemen are always on duty, armed and watching the school and the children. Cameras are also installed there to track people’s movements, illegally collecting personal data,” he added.

The former ombudsman said the facts were collected during his team’s mission to Syunik jointly with lawyers Garo Ghazarian and Karnig Kerkonian. The studies were carried out by the Center for Law and Justice Tatoyan foundation.

“Now the question arises: What does this nationalistic slogan do at the Azerbaijani unlawful armed deployment right in front of the Shurnukh school? It is clear that even children are being targeted from this location, they are trying to intimidate and put pressure on our children. It is specially designed in big letters and in a way that is visible to children,” he underscored.

“Obviously, the move is aimed at intimidating the civilian population. All this once again indicates that Azerbaijani forces not only seriously threaten people’s physical safety and lives, but purposefully do everything to cause mental suffering to people, even children, and keep them in anxiety and tense.

“Azerbaijani army positions must be removed not only from the seized territories of Armenia but also from the areas near villages and roads between Armenian communities. A demilitarized security zone must be created so that normal life of people is restored,” Tatoyan stated.

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Lethal Nationalism Genocide of the Greeks, December 3, 2022, 6 PM Reception LA Sophia Greek Orthodox Cathedral

November 27, 2022 By administrator

This documentary chronicles the genocide of the Greeks, and other indigenous Christians, at the hands of the Ottoman and Nationalist Turks.

Nearly a million Greeks were killed, while millions more were uprooted from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace as part of the Turks’ campaign of ethnic cleansing of its Christian populations. The Genocide also annihilated Armenian and Assyrian Christians.

This tragic event, the first Genocide of the 20th century, has been kept silent for 100 years. The voices of those martyred will no longer be silent.

DECEMBER 3, 2022
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PM RECEPTION | 7 PM SCREENING

Q & A WITH PETER LAMBRINATOS, FILM DIRECTOR, AND SPIRO LAMBRINATOS, PRODUCER AND
GEORGE MAVROPOULOS, PRESIDENT, ASIA MINOR AND PONTOS HELLENIC RESEARCH CENTER

JIM GIANOPULOS FAMILY THEATER, ST. SOPHIA GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL 1324 S. Normandie Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90006

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