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Today marks International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

August 9, 2013 By administrator

The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People (9 August) was first proclaimed by the General Assembly in December 1994, to be celebrated every year during the first International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (1995 – 2004).

g_image-indigenose PeopleIn 2004, the Assembly proclaimed a Second International Decade, from 2005 – 2014, with the theme of “A Decade for Action and Dignity.” The focus of this year’s International Day is “Indigenous peoples building alliances: Honouring treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements.”

The theme aims to highlight the importance of honouring arrangements between States, their citizens and indigenous peoples that were designed to recognize indigenous peoples’ rights to their lands and establish a framework for living in proximity and entering into economic relationships. Agreements also outline a political vision of different sovereign peoples living together on the same land, according to the principles of friendship, cooperation and peace.

A special event at UN Headquarters in New York will be held on Friday, 9 August, starting at 3pm, featuring the UN Secretary-General, the Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, a delegate of Panama, a representative of the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, and an indigenous representative. The event will be webcast live at webtv.un.org.

Also on 9 August, hundreds of indigenous and non-indigenous rowers are scheduled to arrive at Pier 96 at 57th Street in Manhattan at 10am, after having collectively travelled thousands of miles on rivers and horsebacks to honour the first treaty -– the Two Row Wampum -– concluded between Dutch immigrants and the Haudenosaunee (a confederacy of six nations, with capital in the Onondaga nation, in NY State) 400 years ago, in 1613. They will gather with members of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza at 1:30pm, un.org reported.

Source: Panorama.am

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Assyrians Call on Kurdish Regional Government to Acknowledge Genocide

August 9, 2013 By administrator

Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan

SANTA CLARITA, Calif.—The American Mesopotamian Organization and The Iraqi Christian Relief Council have challenged the Kurdish Regional Government to Assyrian_Genocideissue a formal apology to the Assyrian and Armenian descendants of the survivors of the genocides committed by Kurdish allies of the Ottoman Turks against the indigenous Christian populations of the region, during and subsequent to WWI.

In a letter addressed to Masoud Barazani, President of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), and in commemoration of the Assyrian Martyr’s Day of August 7, Assyrians around the world demand the KRG, in northern Iraq, to formally and officially acknowledge and recognize the genocide of the indigenous Assyrians and Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks and their allies from Kurdish tribes during and after the First World War.

In December 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), recognized both the Assyrian and Greek genocides (in addition to its 1997 recognition of the Armenian Genocide), announcing the following: “It is the conviction of the International Association of Genocide Scholars that the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted genocide against Armenians, Assyrian and Pontic and Anatolian Greeks”.

KRG is urged to give the same recognition to Assyrians that it desires to receive from western governments concerning the issue of the “Kurdish genocide” at the hands of Saddam’s regime.

The American Mesopotamian Organization is a grassroots political action committee founded to influence and guide US policy on matters of interest to the Assyrian American community.

The Iraqi Christian Relief Council was founded mainly to raise awareness among the American public about the religious and ethnic cleansing being inflicted on Christians in Iraq.

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Another Byzantine Church Becomes Mosque in Turkey

August 8, 2013 By administrator

A couple visits the site of the 13th century Hagia Sophia Church in Trabzon, Jan. 25, 2007. (photo by REUTERS/Umit Bektas)

By: Amberin Zaman for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse Posted on August 7.
To match feature TURKEY-NATIONALISM/TRABZONPerched on a grassy hill overlooking the Black Sea, the Hagia Sophia church in the northeastern port city of Trabzon is hailed as one of the finest, and pitifully rare, examples of late Byzantine architecture still standing in Turkey. As The Economist’s Bruce Clark put it in Twice a Stranger, his much acclaimed history of the population exchange between Turkey and Greece in the early 1920s, “the frescoed biblical scenes in the church of Hagia Sophia … are evidence that the Greek spirit flowered with particular brilliance in the 13th century.”

Today, the Greek spirit at Hagia Sophia has been all but extinguished, its frescoes determinedly concealed by tenting stretched under its central dome, and its magnificent tiled floors obscured by crimson carpeting. A Turkish flag hoisted by a newly erected preacher’s pulpit drove the message home: Hagia Sophia is ours. What had happened?

Sadly, it came as no surprise that Hagia Sophia had been converted into a mosque. Built in in the mid-13th century, the church had been at the heart of a long-running dispute between Turkey’s secularists and its Islamists. Its outcome has dramatic implications for the world-famous Hagia Sophia in Istanbul and flies in the face of the ruling Islam-based Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) moves to restore various Christian monuments across the country.

Mosque or museum?

The debate over Hagia Sophia is cloaked in historical legalese, but its essence is political. The Islamists claim that Mehmet II, the Ottoman sultan who wrested Istanbul from the Byzantines in 1453, converted the church to a mosque in 1462 following the conquest of Trabzon. Therefore, the Islamists argue, Hagia Sophia in Trabzon must remain open to Muslims for worship, otherwise the sultan’s legacy would be breached. The secularist argue that Hagia Sophia did not become a mosque until a century later and contest the claim that it belongs to the sultan, asserting there are no documents to prove this.

In fact, for the past 50 years Hagia Sophia in Trabzon was neither a church nor a mosque. After being rescued from dereliction by a team of archeologists from Edinburgh University between 1958 and 1962, the church reopened its doors to the public as a museum. This stemmed from a practical formula devised to get around the dispute and one that was successfully tested at the Istanbul Hagia Sophia, which has been a museum since 1935.

In December 2012, however, a local court ruled in favor of the General Directorate of Pious Foundations, or Vakiflar, the government body responsible for the country’s ancient mosques, declaring that the mosque was an “inalienable” part of the foundation of Mehmet II. The Ministry of Culture, the court held, had been “illegally occupying” the building. The government swiftly embarked on the conversion, and it was declared complete on July 5, when the mufti of Trabzon and other citizens gathered there for the first Friday prayers of the holy month of Ramadan.

The move provoked an outcry in the academic world. “The conversion into a mosque is nothing but tragic. It will inevitably lead to damage in the structure and its priceless decoration, both sculpted and painted,” Veronica Kalas, a Byzantine historian told Al-Monitor.

Antony Eastmond of London’s Courtauld Institute has closely studied the church and agrees. “The paintings at the Hagia Sophia are important as the best surviving imperially sponsored paintings in Turkey. They are vitally important in understanding the nature and development of the empire of Trebizond, the offshoot of the Byzantine Empire that was established in the city in 1204 and outlasted Constantinople, only to fall in 1461,” he told Al-Monitor.

“What I find most alarming in the recent changes is the fact that most of the discussion is done through a discourse of ‘conquest’ [fetih]. It does fit with the AKP’s neo-Ottoman ambitions and pretentions,” said Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir, a Turkish art historian.

Such views are widely, and somewhat unusually, echoed in Trabzon, a city notorious for its ultra-nationalist leanings. As news of my presence and mission to report on the conversion spread, locals flocked to me, eager to convey their anger. Zeki Bakar, the headsman for Fatih, the neighborhood where Hagia Sophia stands, noted that there were “more than enough mosques” to go around “without adding another.” “Half of them are empty,” Bakar asserted.

Suat Gurkok, who heads the Black Sea branch of TURSAB, the national lobby for tourism agencies, claimed that since the conversion, tourists, for whom the city has little else to offer other than Hagia Sophia, had began canceling their bookings.

“There is nothing left for them to see. Come and look,” pleaded Ali Kaynar, a local businessman who said his souvenir shop had been deserted for days. Thus I succumbed to yet another depressing tour of Hagia Sophia. Stripped of its museum status, the church lost the security guards charged with protecting the ancient sculptures and tombstones scattered across its once verdant garden.

“Anyone can come and steal these at any time,” Kaynar fumed. Meanwhile, a trickle of unsupervised tourists snap pictures with their flashes on, which can damage to the few frescoes that remain in view.

Two down, one to go?

The fate of Hagia Sophia in Trabzon appears to have been sealed in July 2012, before the court ruling, when Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, whose portfolio includes the Vakiflar, inaugurated a mosque in the western town of Iznik. The new mosque had until then also been a Hagia Sophia museum, or more precisely, Hagia Sophia of Nicaea, as Iznik was known during early Christendom. Here bishops from across the Roman Empire gathered to reach consensus about the Christian faith at the First Ecumenical Council in the year 325.

In a speech to mark the conversion, Arinc heralded the happy news: “We have opened the Iznik Ayasofya mosque to worship. Insha’allah, we will be delivering that of the opening of the Ayasofya mosque in Trabzon as well. The mosque has been turned into a museum, such things cannot happen during our rule. Mosques are places of worship to Allah,” he said.

With two Hagia Sophia’s converted to mosques in such rapid succession, the question now preying on many a mind is whether the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is next. There is a small but noisy campaign being led by Islamists and ultra-nationalists pushing for conversion. Mazhar Yildirimhan of the Vakiflar in Trabzon argues that the legal case for its conversion is airtight, and he makes no secret that he would like to see Hagia Sophia in Istanbul become a mosque. “It is what Fatih [Mehmet II “The Conqueror”] ordained,” he said to Al-Monitor.

Western diplomats warn that the court ruling for the Trabzon Hagia Sophia has set a dangerous precedent. Even so, converting Hagia Sophia in Istanbul seems far-fetched. Restoration work on the famous basilica has continued throughout a decade of AKP rule, and new frescoes have been uncovered. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has himself dismissed speculation about Hagia Sophia’s future. Drawing around 3.3 million visitors in 2012, the museum is in the words of Kalas, the Byzantine historian, “a money-generating machine.” Kalas believes Hagia Sophia will not be converted into a mosque “precisely for this reason, … not because [the government] doesn’t want this to happen,” she concluded.

Amberin Zaman is an Istanbul-based writer who has covered Turkey for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Daily Telegraph and the Voice of America. A frequent commentator on Turkish television, she is currently Turkey correspondent for The Economist, a position she has retained since 1999. On Twitter: @amberinzaman

 

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RCSI June Conferring 2013 – Lord Ara Darzi receives Honorary Doctorate (An Armenian from IRAQ and Also UK Health Minister) VIDEO

August 8, 2013 By administrator

The amazing journey of Lord Ara Darzi
Lord Ara DarziThe Rt Hon Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham KBE received the third RCSI honorary doctorate at the June conferring ceremony 2013 which was held in the National Concert Hall on Thursday 6th June 2013. Lord Ara Darzi, an alumnus of RCSI also delivered the keynote address to approximately 260 graduates.The first Honorary Doctorate was awarded in 2011 to former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese. In 2012 Professor Fr. Michael Kelly, Jesuit and internationally renowned expert on HIV / AIDS was awarded the second RCSI honorary doctorate.
RCSI

And very thank you to yanos yano from Germany for emailing the link.

Darzi was born in Iraq to Armenian parents displaced by the 1915 genocide. He moved to Ireland at the age of 17 to study medicine.[19] He studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and subsequently obtained the postgraduate degree of MD at Trinity College, Dublin. He has become strongly identified with reform of the National Health Service (NHS)[5][6] in England and is recognized internationally as an advocate for applying innovative reforms to health systems globally.
He moved to the UK from Ireland in 1990 to further his career in surgery. In 1991 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Central Middlesex Hospital at the age of 31 and then moved to St. Mary’s Hospital in 1994. In 2002 He was awarded a knighthood for his services to medicine and surgery and subsequently elevated to the peerage in 2007. He was appointed to Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in June 2009.
He is married to Wendy with whom he has two children, Freddie and Nina.[

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Senior House Members Cosponsor Genocide Resolution

August 7, 2013 By administrator

Senior_Congress_MembersLeft to right: Representatives Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Henry Waxman (D-CA), and Nita Lowey (D-NY) are among the senior House leaders cosponsoring the Genocide resolution.

Senior Members of the U.S. House Back Passage of the Measure Urging “Fair, Just, and Comprehensive International Resolution” of Turkey’s Crime of Genocide

WASHINGTON—Senior Congressional leaders serving on key foreign policy and appropriations panels have lent their support to a groundbreaking human rights measure that seeks improved Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey’s acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and a just international resolution of this still unpunished crime, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

Among the top House Committee leaders supporting H.Res.227, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution are: Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Scott Garrett (R-NJ), the Chairman of the Financial Markets Subcommittee on Capital Markets; Rush Holt (D-NJ), the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy; Steve Israel (D-NY), the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; Nita Lowey (D-NY), the Ranking Member on the Appropriations Committee; Grace Napolitano (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power; Devin Nunes (R-CA), the Chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade; Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), the Chief Deputy Whip; Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), the Vice Ranking Member on the Budget Committee, Brad Sherman (D-CA), the Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, John Tierney (D-MA), the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security; Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), the Ranking Member on the Budget Committee, and; Henry Waxman (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) in May of this year, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution reflects and reinforces previous U.S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide as a crime of genocide, citing the U.S. Government’s May 28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, President Ronald Reagan’s April 22, 1981 Proclamation and Congressional adoption of Armenian Genocide legislation in 1975 and 1984.  H.Res.227 builds on the record of past U.S. Executive and Legislative branch affirmation of this crime, and calls on “the President to work toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of Turkey’s full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution of this crime against humanity.”

ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian discussed the very real, modern day consequences of Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide – and international community inaction in the face of that denial.  “Turkey’s obstruction of justice has, over the course of nearly a century, allowed Ankara to consolidate its hold on the genocidal gains of its crimes against the Armenian people, blocking the return to the Armenian nation of key elements—indispensable elements—of viability that long sustained the Armenian people on their ancient homeland,” explained Hamparian, in a May 9th op/ed. “This denial poisons Armenian-Turkish relations, fosters wave after wave of anti-Armenian intolerance within Turkey, threatens Armenia’s and Artsakh’s security, and, of course, fuels regional tensions.”

Prominent supporters of this bipartisan measure also include the two Members of Congress of Armenian heritage, Congresswomen Anna Eshoo (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology; Jackie Speier (D-CA), the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements; Tim Bishop (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, and; Jim McGovern (D-MA), the Co-Chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, and Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Bruce Braley (D-IA), Michael Capuano (D-MA), Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA) , David Cicilline (D-RI), Chris Collins (R-NY), Jim Costa (D-CA), Joe Courtney (D-CT), Jeff Denham (R-CA), Janice Hahn (D-CA), James Langevin (D-RI), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Gary Peters (D-MI) , John Sarbanes (D-MD), and Dina Titus (D-NV).

Armenian Americans across the country are reaching out to their U.S. Representatives during their annual August recess to educate and advocate in support of H.Res.227, as part of a broad range of issues of concern to the Armenian American community. To send a free ANCA Webmail, visit: www.anca.org/justice.

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Not in Turkey’s Interest to Provoke Border Clash with Armenia (it was two Turkish young men had crossed the border at 3 a.m., to steal sheep)

August 7, 2013 By administrator

By Harut Sassounian
Publisher, The California Courier

A deadly incident with potentially serious consequences took place on the Armenian-Turkish border in the night of July 31.

g_image-Major policy shiftArmenian and Turkish sources have provided conflicting versions of this event. They agree, however, that a Turkish shepherd was shot dead after crossing into Armenian territory.

Kars Governor Eyup Tepe claimed that without warning “Armenian soldiers” opened fire on 35-year-old Mustafa Ulker, as he was trying to retrieve his “sheep” from the Armenian side. The Turkish Governor accused Armenians of using “excessive force,” alleging that “the shepherd did not have a gun in his hand.” Another local Turkish official, Osman Ugurlu, identified the intruder as a Turkish citizen of Azeri origin who was armed only with a knife and was shot in the back.

In a diplomatic note of protest delivered to Armenia, the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated: “We strongly condemn the shooting of an innocent citizen for a simple border infringement apparently made very innocently. There is no valid explanation for the disproportionate use of Armenian force in such an ordinary event.” In a separate public statement, Ankara called on Armenia to show “good sense” in its relations with Turkey and Azerbaijan, warning Yerevan of the dire consequences of wrong moves that could endanger regional stability and peace.

Armenia disputed the Turkish version of events, stating that two Turkish young men had crossed the border at 3 a.m., to steal sheep. When Russian soldiers guarding the Armenian frontier ordered the intruders to go back, the Turks mocked them and refused to retreat. The border guards then fired two warning shots in the air at which point one of the Turks opened fire on them. The Russian troops responded, killing one Turkish intruder, according to the Armenian Border Department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.

Turkish sources have repeatedly stressed that the shepherd was shot by Armenians, despite Ankara’s awareness that Russian troops are the ones guarding Armenia’s borders with Turkey and Iran, in line with the Moscow-Yerevan agreement of 1992. Instead of blaming the Russians, the Turkish government insists on holding Armenia responsible for the shepherd’s killing, turning it into an Armenian-Turkish incident rather than a Russian-Turkish quarrel.

The Armenian Foreign Ministry issued a restrained statement, expressing regret for the loss of life and hoping that such incidents will not recur in the future. It is clear that Yerevan does not wish to inflame tempers and trigger a more serious incident with unintended consequences.

It is understandable that Turkish leaders would want to exaggerate the significance of this relatively minor border incident in order to distract attention away from Turkey’s multitude of domestic and foreign troubles, in particular:

• On-going mass protests in Turkey, challenging Prime Minister Erdogan’s despotic rule.

• Arresting 3,000 demonstrators, injuring 8,000, and killing five others as a result of the “disproportionate use of force” by Turkish police.

• Announcements placed in major American, British, and German newspapers, denouncing Erdogan’s “Nazi-like” actions. The Turkish Prime Minister’s threatened lawsuit against The (London) Times for publishing a full-page paid letter, signed by dozens of prominent Western intellectuals and artists, would more widely expose his intimidating tactics.

• Letter addressed to Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul by 46 Members of the US House of Representatives, asking him to condemn the recent anti-Semitic statements of Turkish leaders, including Erdogan, who had referred to Zionism as a “crime against humanity” and blamed the recent Gezi Park protests on Jewish instigators.

• Serious internal feuds with Kurdish groups, opposition political parties, and high-ranking imprisoned military leaders.

• Repeated military intrusions into Iraqi Kurdistan.

• Strained relations with Egypt’s new rulers after the overthrow of Pres. Mohamed Morsi, Erdogan’s fellow Islamist.

• Frictions with Cyprus, Greece, Iran, Iraq, and Israel, and hostilities with Syria.

• The bombing of the Turkish Embassy in Somalia last month by an al-Qaeda-linked group.

With all these problems swirling in and around Turkey, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu’s announced policy of “zero problems with neighbors” has turned into “zero neighbors without problems.”

At a time when Armenians are planning worldwide commemorations of the Genocide Centennial, Turkey can ill afford to add to its host of troubles a border clash with Armenia, which would only serve to publicize Turkey’s long list of past and present crimes!

Aysor.am

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Obama Cancels Meeting With Putin as Snowden Adds to Tensions

August 7, 2013 By administrator

President Obama has canceled a planned summit with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, senior administration officials said Wednesday, a response to frustration 167698with the Russian government for refusing to send Edward J. Snowden to the United States to face charges of leaking national security secrets.
The move is also a reflection of growing tensions between the two countries on a series of other issues, including Mr. Putin’s continuing support of Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria.
Mr. Obama is scheduled to be in St. Petersburg for a meeting of the Group of 20 set for Sept. 5 and 6, and had planned to go from there to meet Mr. Putin.

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Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution gains more support

August 6, 2013 By administrator

August 6, 2013 – 10:02 AMT

Senior Congressional leaders serving on key foreign policy and appropriations panels have lent their support to a groundbreaking human rights measure that seeks improved Armenian-Turkish ties based upon Turkey’s acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and a just international resolution of this still unpunished crime, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

Among the top House Committee leaders supporting H.Res.227, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution are: Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Scott Garrett (R-NJ), the Chairman of the Financial Markets Subcommittee on Capital Markets; Rush Holt (D-NJ), the Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy; Steve Israel (D-NY), the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and others.

Introduced and spearheaded by Congressmen David Valadao (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Frank Pallone (D-NJ) in May of this year, the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution reflects and reinforces previous U.S. affirmation of the Armenian Genocide as a crime of genocide, citing the U.S. 167556Government’s May 28, 1951 written statement to the International Court of Justice regarding the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, President Ronald Reagan’s April 22, 1981 Proclamation and Congressional adoption of Armenian Genocide legislation in 1975 and 1984. H.Res.227 builds on the record of past U.S. Executive and Legislative branch affirmation of this crime, and calls on “the President to work toward equitable, constructive, stable, and durable Armenian-Turkish relations based upon the Republic of Turkey’s full acknowledgment of the facts and ongoing consequences of the Armenian Genocide, and a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution of this crime against humanity.”

ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian discussed the very real, modern day consequences of Turkey’s denial of the Armenian Genocide – and international community inaction in the face of that denial. “Turkey’s obstruction of justice has, over the course of nearly a century, allowed Ankara to consolidate its hold on the genocidal gains of its crimes against the Armenian people, blocking the return to the Armenian nation of key elements—indispensable elements—of viability that long sustained the Armenian people on their ancient homeland,” explained Hamparian, in a May 9th op/ed. “This denial poisons Armenian-Turkish relations, fosters wave after wave of anti-Armenian intolerance within Turkey, threatens Armenia’s and Artsakh’s security, and, of course, fuels regional tensions.”

Source PanARMENIAN.Net

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BY: Zeynep TOZDUMAN This writing is dedicated to 7 August 1933, the Assyrians suffered genocide in Iraq.

August 6, 2013 By administrator

BY: Zeynep TOZDUMAN

EAST SYRIAC GENOCIDE   — Turkish and English version
In general, the count of the Assyrian genocide in our country who are members of the same ring Assyrian / Syriac and Aramaic / Syriac genocide known. It is Zeynep TOZDUMAN Pictureperceived as the Nestorians and Chaldeans, or to any other known halkmış.

In today’s Assyrian / Syriac people of ancient Assyrian, Chaldean and Babylonian civilizations heir.
These days, Tur Abdin (Mardin and vicinity), in Christianity is still the heir of the old state.

Nestorians (Eastern Assyrians, Assyrians) for the years 1843-1846 were the first massacres. This mass slaughter, Cizre and Hakkari Bedirhan Miri Miri-Botan by Nuru was to intimidate the Ottoman Empire. Assyrian, the Russians and their cooperation İngiliz’lerle “grounds” acts of destruction during World War II for the public to have all of a hindrance.

Nuru Bey, the Turkish and Kurdish forces in the war is a military force that defeated the Assyrians and set fire to the patriarchate. Turkish troops, and for that they did not support the Badr Khan Bey Nuru had to resort to a second military operation which killed 10 thousand Assyria experienced very hard moments. Against this, even more so in the Ottoman Army Ruler, reckoning with England and France, followed by the movement of a punishment, and that the nature of operations resulted in an agreement with the Emir on the same days.

Attempting to sever the roots of such massacres Assyrians, down at the bottom of an attack took place added pressure in 1907, the territory of Iran. In the context of the Turkish-Iranian border wars, not only the Turkish and Kurdish troops battle the forces of Persia expulsion border region but also for working with Pers’lerle Tergavar ‘(so many Christians in the village area) also attacked the Assyrians in. Urmia Assyrians fled to the survivors.

These days, though forgotten how terrible massacres For the first 1 Outshine them happened in World War II, but these days, the south-east Turkey, the Assyrian Church of the East on the Apostolic neglected historical ruins consist of a single person has resulted in even dispensed. In 1915, after the withdrawal of Russian troops in the north west of Iran, which lasted for five months during the invasion of the Turkish-Kurdish slaughter of countless Christians, causing the expulsion and escape.

Gawar’lı Assyrian men, deprived of all the imprisoned Urmia, Ismail (Simko) Qalla Aga village “were then put to the sword.” Dilman’daki killed and his boys over the age of 12, women should be forced to convert to Islam and Muslims evlendirilmişlerdir force. Children are orphans, and the Kurdish families in trauma. Russia and Tabriz fleeing hunger and disease is broken.

Acts of destruction of the Chaldeans (Adda-i-Sharia which is an important metropolitan among those killed.), The Syriac Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Protestants, and eventually included the. About 70 thousand Assyrians living in the mountains, at the end of Urmia in Iran to escape impartial saved. Some of them were taken by the Russians in the Caucasus. Patrik Kurdish traditions and customs of Semun by the Kurdish leader Simko in a manner inconsistent with 140 men, he was shot from behind brutally murdered. Losses due to the constant attacks that quite a few people realized the Kurds, the British withdrew from the right and from where Bakuba sent to Hamadan. Efforts to return to their homeland after the end of the war in 1918 resulted in a bloody way.

Sevres delegates participating in the Assyrian, Assyrian Assyrian Christians in order to guarantee the security of the state demanded.

However, diplomats involved in the talks at Sevres, Assyrians during the war, they denied the alliance. Instead, the Treaty of Sevres in the future “for the safety of the Assyrian-Chaldeans” are required to provide a full guarantee 62.madde including the establishment of an autonomous Kurdistan, has been added. Such as whether the rights recognized in the Treaty of Sevres, salvation for the Syrian people until the present day yararlandırılmadılar.

REPUBLIC OF TURKEY One of the first actions of the Syrian homeland after the installation of Hakkari (1 to 28 September 1924) “Nestorian Uprising” was extermination and techni-cal. Kemalist power “Western Armenia Ermenisizleştirildikten” after the first goal was to suppress the Nestorians. Official history literature “Nestorian uprising” 12 to 18 September 1924, the event, is the essence of an uprising. Kemalist republic in Lausanne for the homogenization of the border of the National Pact had had registered his “internal expansion” campaign. Internally driven out of the operation of a re-occupation of the Nestorians of Hakkari, local Christians is a continuation of policies yurtsuzlaştırma and exile. Kurdish officers in the army troops had participated in the operation. 18th Ihsan Nuri Azadi captain in the regiment is a member of the organization (that is, the commander of the military wing of the organization, then Hoybun Pain Rebellion started) had both. During this operation three lieutenants and troops fleeing and 3 to 4 September 1924, TC 350 Kurdish soldiers. ‘Against, Beytülşebab rebellion started. September 12 to 18 as a result of the Turkish army continues military operations outside of Hakkari Nestorians were forced to withdraw. Is not known how much of human life is lost tens of Tîyar valley village about 20 thousand Nestorians, with the support of the Kurdish tribes, were expelled from their homes into Iraq and Iran detached.

Over the tragedy continues, the project Assyrian emigration to Canada in 1925, as well as return and border crossing desperate efforts, as well as adventurous as you settle in places far from civilization Khabur River basin plans and other massacres in Iraq at the end of 1933, Simele led to slaughter. Assyrians first act was to kill the Iraqi army. 7 – From August 1933, the Catholic, Jacobite, and gather together peacefully slaughtered the men of Assyria.

Gabriele Yonan (holocoust forgotten) 1915/1916 the number of murdered 20 years of the mountainous region of Hakkari with only 30 thousand, 45 thousand and the number of that in Mosul and the Tigris is.

Assyrians 1915 until 1924, the victim of at least 400 thousand to 500 thousand claims to be considered on the basis of their claim Seyfo center (Assyrian genocide center) via the world are trying to make their voices heard. Is of course not possible to determine the exact number of victims. How is calculated in, the number of victims is not down to a minimum of 200 thousand to 300 thousand. I understand that at that time the church records of baptism.

1915 until today, the Assyrians, the massacres, oppression, intimidation and the number of Mesopotamia, the homeland of homogenization unfortunately these days because of the policies of three thousand remained. The most ancient people of Mesopotamia in the last six years, which to be occupied territory of the monastery of Mor Gabriel’s case law on non-stop shot. Moreover, the Mor Gabriel’s case, was the subject of bargaining hit the Diaspora genocide studies. Parable of two birds with one stone. Both tie the hands of the Assyrians in the country, both in Europe and the languages ​​of the Assyrians living in the U.S. …

In order to prevent another genocide need to confront the past of our history in this land. Or yüzsüzleşeceğiz confrontation with our past, or to the whole world.

Zeynep TOZDUMAN

Bibliography:

· Recep Marash Armenian genocide in 1915

· The prosecution, deportation and destruction Tessa Hofmann

· Holocoust forgotten Gabriele Yonan

This writing is dedicated to 7 August 1933, the Assyrians suffered genocide in Iraq.

Turkish Version

DOĞU SÜRYANİ  SOYKIRIMI

Genelde Süryani soykırımı deyince; ülkemizde aynı halka mensup olan Asur/Süryani ve  Arami/Süryani soykırımı  bilinmektedir. Sanki Nasturiler ve Keldaniler başka bir halkmış gibi algılanır ya da hiç bilinmez.

Günümüz Asuri/Süryani halkı kadim Asur, Kalde ve Babil uygarlıklarının mirasçısıdır.

Bu gün Turabdin (Mardin ve civarı) bölgesi halen en eski Hıristiyanlığın mirasçısı durumundadır.

Nasturilere (Doğu Süryanileri, Asurlar) yönelik ilk katliamlar 1843-1846 yıllarında yapılmıştır. Bu kitlesel katliamlar, Cizre-Botan Miri Bedirhan ve Hakkari Miri Nurullah tarafından Osmanlı’ya gözdağı vermek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Asurların, Ruslar ve İngiliz’lerle iş birliği yaptıkları ”gerekçesiyle” imha eylemleri dünya savaşı sırasında hiç bir engelle karşılaşmadan tüm halka yönelik olmuştur.

Nurullah Bey, Kürt ve Türk savaş güçlerinin de içinde yer aldığı bir askeri güçle Asurları yendi ve patrikhaneyi ateşe verdi. Türk birliklerinin destek vermediği ve bunun için de Nurullah Bey’in Bedir Han’a başvurmak zorunda kaldığı ikinci bir askeri harekatta ise 10 bin Asur’un yaşamını yitirdiği çok sert anlar yaşanmıştır. Bunu Osmanlı ordusu’nun Emir’e karşı daha çok da İngiltere ve Fransa ile hesaplaşma mahiyetinde olan bir cezalandırma hareketi izlemiştir ve harekat aynı günlerde Emir ile yapılan bir anlaşma ile sonuçlanmıştır.

Asurlar bu tür katliamlarla köklerinden koparmaya çalışılırken, altta alta gerçekleşen baskılara 1907’de İran topraklarında bir saldırı daha eklendi. Türk-İran sınır savaşları bağlamında, Türk ve Kürt Birlikleri sadece Pers savaş güçlerini sınır bölgesinden sürmekle kalmayıp ayrıca Pers’lerle işbirliği yapan Tergavar’ (Çok sayıda Hıristiyan köyünün olduğu bölge) daki Asurlulara da saldırdılar. Hayatta kalan Asurlar ise Urmiye’ye kaçtı.

Bu gün unutulmuş olan bu ilk katliamlar ne kadar korkunç olsa da 1. Dünya savaşı’nda yaşananlar bunları gölgede bırakmakla kalmayıp, bu gün Türkiye’nin güney doğusunda ihmal edilmiş tarihi kalıntılardan ibaret Apostolik Doğu Asur Kilisesi’ne bağlı tek bir kişinin bile kalmaması sonucunu doğurmuştur. Rus Birliklerinin 1915’te İran’ın kuzey batısından çekilmesiyle sonraki beş ay boyunca süren Türk-Kürt işgali süresince sayısız Hıristiyan’ın kılıçtan geçirilmesine, sürülmesine ve kaçmasına sebeb olmuştur.

Gawar’lı Asur erkekleri, Urmiye’de her şeyden yoksun bir şekilde hapsedilip, İsmail (Simko) Ağa’nın Qalla köyü’nde “kılıçtan geçirildiler” . Dilman’daki 12 yaşından büyük erkek çocukları katledilip, kadınlar Müslüman olmaya zorlanıp ve zorla müslümanlarla evlendirilmişlerdir. Travma içindeki yetim ve öksüz çocuklar ise Kürt ailelere verilmiştir. Rusya’ya ve Tebriz’e kaçanlar ise açlık ve hastalıktan kırıldı.

İmha eylemleri Keldaniler’i (çok önemli bir Metropolit olan Adda-i Şer’de öldürülenler arasındaydı.), ortodoks Süryani Hıristiyanları ve nihayetinde katolik ve protestanları da kapsıyordu. Dağlarda yaşayan yaklaşık 70 bin Süryani, sonunda İran’daki tarafsız Urmiye’ye kaçıp kurtuldular. Halkın bir kısmı Ruslar tarafından Kafkaslar’a götürüldü. Patrik Şemun ise Kürt önder Simko tarafından Kürt gelenek ve törelerine aykırı bir şekilde 140 adamıyla birlikte arkadan vurularak hunharca katledilmiştir. Kürtler’in gerçekleştirdikleri sürekli saldırılar nedeniyle epeyce kayıplar veren halk, İngilizlerin bulunduğu Hamadan’a doğru çekildi ve buradan Bakuba’ya gönderildiler. 1918’de savaşın bitiminden sonra yurtlarına dönme çabaları ise kanlı bir şekilde sonuçlandı.

Sevr’e katılan Asur delegeleri, Asurlu Hıristiyanların güvenliğini güvence altına almak amacıyla bir Asur devleti talebinde bulundular.

Ancak Sevr’de görüşmelere katılan diplomatlar, savaş sırasında Asurlularla ittifak yaptıklarını inkar ettiler. Bunun yerine Sevr antlaşması’na gelecekte “Asur-Kıldanilerin güvenliği için” tam garanti sunması gereken bir otonom Kürdistan’ın kurulmasını içeren 62.madde eklendi. Süryani halkı için Sevr kurtuluş olmadığı gibi Lozan’da tanınan haklarından da günümüze değin yararlandırılmadılar.

T.C. kurulduktan sonra ilk eylemlerinden biri anayurdu Hakkari olan Süryanilere  ( 1-28 Eylül 1924 ) “Nasturi Ayaklanması’’  Tedip ve Tenkil yapmıştır. Kemalist iktidar Batı Ermenistan “Ermenisizleştirildikten” sonra ilk hedefi Nasturileri bastırmak oldu. Resmi tarih literatüründe “Nasturi ayaklanması” 12-18 Eylül 1924’de olan olay; özünde bir ayaklanma değildir. Kemalist cumhuriyetin, Lozan’da tescil ettirdiği Misak-ı Milli sınırında homojenleşmek için yaptığı “iç genişleme” harekatıdır. Nasturilerin Hakkari dışına sürülmesi operasyonu içerde yapılan bir yeniden işgal, yerli Hıristiyanları yurtsuzlaştırma ve sürgün politikalarının bir devamıdır. Harekata katılan ordu birlikleri içinde Kürt subaylarda vardı. 18. Alayın içinde Azadi örgüt üyesi olan yüzbaşı İhsan Nuri (ki, daha sonra Ağrı İsyanını başlatan Hoybun örgütünün askeri kanadının komutanı)’ de vardı. Bu harekat sırasında 3 teğmen ve 350 Kürt asker birlikleriyle firar edip 3-4 Eylül 1924’te TC.’ye karşı, Beytülşebab isyanını başlatmıştır. Türk ordusunun sürdürdüğü askeri harekat sonucunda 12-18 Eylül arasında Nasturiler Hakkari dışına çekilmeye zorlandılar. Ne kadar insan hayatı kaybedildiği bilinmemekle birlikte Tiyar vadisinden onlarca köyde yaklaşık 20 bin Nasturi, Kürt aşiretlerinin de desteğiyle, yurtlarından koparılarak Irak ve İran içlerine sürülmüşlerdir.

Trajedi bitmedi devam ediyor; Asurların 1925 yılında Kanada’ya göç ettirilmesi projesinin yanı sıra, umutsuz geri dönüş ve sınır geçme çabaları, ayrıca yer yer medeniyetden uzak Habur Nehri havzasına yerleşmeleri gibi maceracı planlar, başka katliamlara ve en sonunda da 1933’te Irak’taki Simele katliamına yol açtı. Asurluları öldürmek Irak ordusunun ilk icraatı oldu. 7- Ağustos 1933’ten itibaren Katolik, Yakubi ve barışçıl Asur erkeklerini bir araya toplayıp katlettiler.

Gabriele Yonan (Unutulan bir Holocoust)  1915/1916 yıllarındaki sadece Hakkari dağlık kesiminde katledilenlerin sayısını 20 ile 30 bin, Musul  ve Dicle bölgesindekilerin sayısını ise 45 bin olarak vermektedir.

Asurlular 1915-1924’e kadar en az 400 bin ile 500 bin arasında kurban verdikleri iddiasına dayanarak taleplerinin dikkate alınması için Seyfo center (Süryani soykırım merkezi) aracılığı ile dünyaya seslerini duyurmaya çalışıyorlar. Kurbanların sayısını tam olarak saptamak mümkün değil elbette. Nasıl hesaplanırsa hesaplansın, kurban sayısı en az 200 bin ile 300 binden aşağı değildir. Bunu da o dönemde kilise vaftiz kayıtlarından anlıyoruz.

1915’ten günümüze değin Süryaniler; katliamlar, baskılar, sindirme ve tek tipleştirme politikaları yüzünden bu gün anayurdu Mezopotamya’da sayıları ne yazık ki üç bin kalmıştır. Mezopotamyanın en kadim halkı son 6 yıldır ise Mor Gabriel manastırının işgal edilmek istenilen topraklarıyla ilgili hukuk davası ile durmaksızın vuruluyor. Üstelik, Mor Gabriel davası, diasporada soykırım çalışmaları pazarlık konusu edilerek vuruluyor. Bir taşta iki kuş misali. Hem ülke içi Süryanilerin elini kolunu bağla, hem Avrupada ve ABD’de yaşayan süryanilerin  dillerini…

Bu topraklarda başka soykırımlar yaşanmaması için geçmiş tarihimizle yüzleşmek gerek. Tüm dünyaya karşı geçmişimizle ya yüzleşeceğiz ya da yüzsüzleşeceğiz.

ZEYNEP TOZDUMAN

Kaynakçalar:

·     1915 Ermeni soykırımı    Recep Maraşlı

·     Takibat,Tehcir ve İmha   Tessa Hofmann

·     Unutulan bir Holocoust   Gabriele Yonan

Bu yazımı 7 Ağustos 1933’de Irak’da soykırıma uğrayan  Süryanilere ithaf ediyorum.

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