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Turkish Girl with red foulard’ and four other Gezi protesters face up to 98 years
ANTALYA – Doğan News Agency
The defendants include Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, a young protester who spent four months in custody and became publicly known as ‘the girl with the red foulard’ as prosecutors linked the color of her scarf with socialism. DHA Photo
Prosecutors in the southern province of Antalya have demanded up to 98 years in prison for five Gezi protesters who participated in demonstrations held after the death of a protester in Hatay last September, while their presented a public transportation card as part of their key evidence.
The defendants include Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, a young protester who spent four months in custody and became publicly known as “the girl with the red foulard” as police and prosecutors linked the color of her scarf with socialism during her interrogations. Karacagil faces between 24 and 98 years of prison for charges of “membership of a terrorist organization,” “opposing Assembly Law,” and “resisting against law enforcement officers.”
Prosecutors demanded between 26 and 95 years and six months for Murat Sezgin, 16 and 55 years and four months for Mustafa Cihan Yılmaz, 11 and 26 years for Ali Karakuş, and 13 and 38 years for Leyla Nuyan.
The first hearing of the trial will be held at Antalya’s 6th High Crimes Court on June 12.
The existence of a lawsuit had already drawn widespread ridicule and the prosecutors’ demand for mammoth prison sentences are attracting more dismay regarding the independence and common sense of prosecutors.
20-year-old Karacagil’s interrogation, which focused on the color of her foulard, became infamous during the Gezi protests and was even turned into a theater play by a troupe.
She also faces between one and three years as part of another interrogation opened by another prosecutor. The second investigation was dismissed by her lawyers who stressed a second lawsuit on similar charges with one ongoing should be invalidated.
However, Karacagil is set to appear in front of court for the second trial as well on June 13.
June/01/2014
Omar Sharif in the footsteps of Henri Verneuil launched the week Franco-Armenian
“Mayrig” Henri Verneuil still reliving Monday, June 17 in Marseille on the occasion of the arrival in Marseille actor Omar Sharif. After a visit to the district of Joliette, where the first immigrants Armenians fleeing genocide, Omar Sharif (81 years old) with actor Jacky Nercissian arrived and many personalities-including Richard Findykian, the organizer-launched the Week ‘ Franco-Armenian excellence with the exhibition devoted to Henri Verneuil in (…)
London Taner Akcam: Forced Assimilation as a structural element of the Armenian Genocide Lecture
FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Forced Assimilation as a structural element of the Armenian Genocide
A lecture by Prof. Taner Akçam (Clark University)
Chair: Dr. Hratch Tchilingirian (Oriental Institute)
Tuesday, 3 June 2014, 4:00 PM
Mary Hyde Eccles room, Pembroke College
Taner Akçam holds the Kaloosdian and Mugar Chair in Armenian Genocide Studies at Clark University. A historian and sociologist, Prof. Akçam has lectured and published extensively, with numerous books and articles in English, French, German and Turkish, including A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility (Metropolitan Books); Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials (with Vahakn Dadrian) (Berghahn Books). For his most recent book, The Young Turks’ Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton), Prof. Akçam was awarded the prestigious “Hourani Book Prize” (2013) by the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
For further information about this lecture, please contact Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, email: hratch.tchilingirian AT orinst.ox.ac.uk; for Armenian Studies, please contact Prof. Theo van Lint, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies, email: theo.vanlint AT orinst.ox.ac.uk.
Details
Date: TUESDAY, 3 JUNE, 2014
Time: 16:00 – 17:30
Cost: Free
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Council of Europe committee condemns Azerbaijan for Safarov case
The Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe condemned the use made by Azerbaijan of Article 12 of the Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons in the case of Ramil Safarov, ” which constitutes a violation of the principle of good faith in international relations and the principles of the rule of law. “
The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons provides for the transfer of foreign prisoners to their country of origin. She goes first and foremost a humanitarian purpose, to improve the prospects for rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners into society.
The draft resolution based on the report of Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EDG), is concerned that the Convention has been invoked to justify the immediate release after the transfer in Azerbaijan Ramil Safarov, Azerbaijani sentenced for murder of an Armenian colleague who attended a training course “Partner for Peace” organized by NATO in Hungary. Upon his arrival in Azerbaijan, it was hailed as a national hero, was immediately pardoned long before the expiration of the minimum sentence imposed by the Hungarian court, received a retroactive promotion and was rewarded for his gesture in many other ways .
The text stresses that the Convention “is not intended to be used for the immediate release of detainees after their return to their country of origin.” It stresses “the importance of implementing the Convention in good faith and in interpreting these provisions, to comply with the principles of the rule of law”, particularly in the case of transfer may have political or diplomatic implications .
The draft resolution should be submitted to the Assembly for debate before the end of 2014.
Stéphane © armenews.com
Armenian Startup’s Tech May Spell Death of Powerpoint
YEREVAN (Forbes)—Entrepreneurship can come from all places. And just as Skype launched Estonia into the forefront of technological start-up innovation, a new company based primarily in Armenia hopes to bring the Caucasus start-up scene into the global spot-light.
If it succeeds in doing so, it could spell an end to Powerpoint: nobody’s favourite presentation tool. The company – Voiceboard – is creating a presentation platform that incorporates different voice recognition platforms and Microsoft’s Kinect – the technology used for body motion control of Xbox games – to give presenters the ability to control presentations through vocal commands and gestures.
Currently Voiceboard is expanding its Armenian office and just starting to offer a demo product to customers. It signed up its first customer in March and hopes to have the first edition out in June. Initially the product will only have voice control features with gestures to be added in at a later date.
The company has grown significantly in a short period of time in order to get to this point. It has grown from four under-employed engineers brainstorming in a living-room to a company with offices in Bulgaria and Armenia, as well as a separate entity in the USA.
“We were sitting in my living room with a whiteboard thinking about getting into IT consultancy and brainstorming,” says Nigel Sharp co-founder of Lionsharp, the company behind Voiceboard. “We thought: ‘It’s so annoying to have to get up from sofa and write something and then the board would get filled up and we’d have to take a picture of it, wipe it clean and start again. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just control everything from here digitally?’”
Development started and the start-up secured a series of opportunities. First it won a competition, organised in conjunction with Microsoft’s Armenian Innovation Center – to go work in a business accelerator in Bulgaria called Eleven. The company then got a chance to demonstrate its presentation tools at TEDx – a popular series of lectures on science and technology. The start-up also had some success at the Microsoft Imagine Cup – an international innovation competition for technology.
“TEDx is a fantastic platform to get the word out. We did our first ever presentation there and were getting phone calls from investors from a week after that,” he says. “A month later and we had concrete offers on the table.”
Sharp attributes some of the success the country had to the start-up scene in Armenia. The country poses significant problems – particularly around areas like international security, potential visas for Armenians to visit other countries, a lack of financial backers and significant red-tape when forming a company. However, it also provides a skilled pool of labour at a low cost that is interested in experimenting in the IT sector and not afraid to take on the risks associated with entrepreneurship.
“I found that young Armenians are ready to do a bit more to choose their opportunities,” says Sharp. “My co-founders are 20-21 and they’re throwing away a job that has a salary to come found a start-up.”
Although Sharp worries about the potential geo-political situation – with Armenia allying itself with Russia and rumours flying about the resumption of a decade-plus long war with Azerbaijan over the semi-autonomous province of Nagorno-Karabakh – he remains confident in both his economy and the wider opportunities available in Armenia.
“Armenia is aligning itself with Russia in formal treaties as well as informally in things such as the Eurovision Song Contest,” he says. “It does raise concerns for a company like ours which is now mothered in the USA.”
“But there is huge potential. Collaborative entrepreneurship should be happening here,” he adds. “Guys with good ideas and management skills should be bringing those into Armenia. There are plenty of good ideas but they need backing, organisation, which is not always a strong point.”
If Voiceboard can revolutionise business presentations in much the same way Skype changed international online communication, it would put Armenia on the map and could start a flood of investors searching for the next big technological solution. Who said that messing with an Xbox Kinect would never get you anywhere?
Public archives in Yerevan
Agos
Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in the United States from the Center for Ümit Kurt, Armenia to the terms of his research at the National Archives wrote to Agos. Kurt, the Prime Minister often voiced “Our archives are still open, closed Armenian Government Relations. They’re also open archive “rhetoric does not reflect reality, unlike Turkey, Armenia says that the archive is open to all researchers.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in the United States from the Center for Ümit Kurt, his research in the National Archives of Armenia has occurred in the conditions under which wrote to Agos. For two weeks of intensive work in various archives in Yerevan Kurt, Prime Minister Erdogan frequently voiced “Our archives are still open, closed Armenian Government Relations. They’re also open archive “rhetoric does not reflect reality, unlike Turkey, Armenia says that the archive is open to all researchers.
My doctoral thesis two weeks so I’m Yerevan’d the capital of Armenia. America is about to finish her PhD thesis in Yerevan as a researcher in the archives doctor regarding problematic for two weeks with no pressure, prejudice and ill-treatment in a comfortable position without having tried.
Everyone was helpful
Into Turkish Armenia National Archives’ (Hayasdan Azkag the Arkhivner of), translated as the archive center on my research demanded all I document, document and image archive materials, archives center employees are great zeal and with the assistance without any problems I have achieved.
Even for Turkish passport holder, I said I was allowed to meet privately with the director of the archive center. He illustrated archive of all facilities in the meantime I found in the archives of the matters to be dealt with me giving employees specific instructions provided.
There were other Turks
Besides printed books, monographs, classical Armenian books, periodicals and newspapers, where the Armenian National Library (Azkaine the Kıratar) and Madenatar the so-called library in an extremely comfortable environment to work I had the opportunity. In this library, by then my Turkish researchers who spend hours working out and had.
At the same time, the National Archives of Armenia also had the opportunity to benefit in every way. So I see a very important primary source for my research archive documents, materials, printed books, newspapers, written and visual materials, including testimony for nearly a historian ‘blessing’ I have obtained documents will be considered. During my two-week research what any archive in the center of a safety investigation, nor did encounter a situation of double standards. Armenia as an ordinary researchers in their national archives and libraries in a comfortable environment with a highly efficient research period spent.
In essence, Armenia’s national archives here in no way be closed to researchers and very comfortable to work in a way that an archive center in the heat of this experience as one would like to specify lived.
Ashotyan: Armenia rules out customs border with Karabakh
Deputy chairman of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan says Armenia is not considering the possibility of establishing a customs border with Nagorno-Karabakh after joining the Eurasian Economic Union.
“No individual living and working in Armenia, especially a political figure, is considering such a possibility. I cannot imagine that any member of a political party in Armenia could take such an absurd idea serious, and, what is more, discuss it,” Ashotyan told a briefing in the National Assembly on Friday.
“Armenia and NKR are one territory. Yes, they are two separate states, but they are one economic, educational and cultural area,” he said, adding that Armenia has repeatedly stated that it is the guarantor of Nagorno-Karabakh people’s security.
Louisiana Senate Condemns Anti-Armenian Atrocities In Azerbaijan
Legislators Call for Azerbaijani Perpetrators in Sumgait, Baku, Maragha and Kirovabad to be Brought to Justice
BATON ROUGE—The Louisiana State Senate unanimously adopted a resolution, yesterday, condemning Azerbaijani pogroms against its Armenian citizens and called on the U.S. government to press Baku to bring the perpetrators to justice, reported the Armenian National Committee of America – Eastern Region (ANCA-ER).
The measure was introduced by Senator Edwin Murray, who just last year spearheaded State Senate recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s independence and urged US support the self-determination and democratic independence of this developing democratic state.
The measure was introduced by Senator Edwin Murray, who just last year spearheaded State Senate recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic’s independence and urged US to support the self-determination and democratic independence of this developing democratic state.
This year’s resolution, Senate Resolution 166, expresses “sympathy in support of the families of victims of massacres and atrocities perpetrated against the Armenian people in Azerbaijan.” The measure goes on to call on the “President of the United States and the Congress [to] exert all available influence on the government of Azerbaijan to cease the falsification of the historical facts and bring those in Azerbaijan who are responsible for the Armenian massacres [to justice].”
Read the complete text of the resolution.
Vazken Kaltakdjian, Louisiana Chairman of the Armenian Council of America, worked closely with Senator Murray, Secretary of the Senate Glenn Koepp, Attorney John Seago and the broader Louisiana Armenian American community in moving this issue forward.
“The Louisiana State Senate once again spoke out for truth and justice by condemning Azerbaijan’s vicious attacks against Artsakh and the Armenian populations in Baku, Sumgait and throughout the country,” said Kaltakdjian. “Resolutions such as these are particularly important in the face of an unrepentant Aliyev regime, which regularly violates the fragile Nagorno Karabakh ceasefire.”
ANCA Eastern Region Board Chairman Steve Mesrobian welcomed the initiative, stating, “We join with Armenians in Louisiana and across America in thanking Senator Edwin Murray and the Louisiana State Senate for condemning the Azerbaijan’s anti-Armenian attacks and calling on the U.S. government to take concrete steps to bring the perpetrators to justice.”
The U.S. has served as safe haven to tens of thousands of Armenian-Americans who are refugees of pogroms against Armenians in Sumgait (1988), Kirovabad (1988), and Baku (1990), and the ethnic-cleansing of the Armenian population of Azerbaijan. These pogroms set the stage for two decades of aggression by Azerbaijan, during which it launched and lost a war against Nagorno Karabakh, and later used its oil wealth to buy a massive military arsenal that its leaders, to this day, vow to use to renew their attempts to conquer a Christian people that have lived on these lands for thousands of years and, after great challenges, have flourished in freedom from Soviet oppression for more than 20 years.
Armenian genocide, new evidence in the UK (Book)
According to the Italian newspaper “La Stampa” a book recently published in Britain, “In the front line: a doctor between War and Peace” written as a private for his children by Dr Alec Glen memo provides novel evidence and testimony about the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities – especially Greek and Syriac – by the Turks in 1915.
According to the journalist Marco Tosatti Alec Glen was a doctor in the British Army, and in 1918 he walked in northern Iran to Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, where he witnessed the plight of Armenians who had attempted to escape deportation and massacres of 1915. Indo-British troops had joined Glen met thousands of Armenian refugees every day.
“It was a tragic and surprising vision … we passed a person who died on the way, or someone who is already dead and half eaten by dogs and jackals … we’ve collected some- one of the youngest, who was lucky to survive. We put on the backs of mules and we’d take in the closest “villages.
“Craig Salisbury (another doctor, author’s note UK) told me later that he had taken care of an old refugee on the road, and, before dying, gave a leather belt full of coins, asking him to spend it to help the refugees. “
Stéphane © armenews.com
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