Turkey, April 24, in Turkey the opportunity to confront all the pain, Selahattin Demirtas

April 22, 2014 By administrator

BDP Co-chairman Selahattin Demirtas, BDP parliamentary group meeting HDPE “Human identity, our people if we want to get our honor be trampled, no injustice done to the oppressed people never face can not ignore. April 24, in Turkey the opportunity to confront all this pain, “he said.

Speaking April 22 Kurdish journalists Day began celebrating Demirtas, the world’s largest journalist was jailed journalists dismissal of the government, the judiciary and the boss is under pressure to work in an environment of today’s festive atmosphere will be capped, he said.

Demirtas, 246 Armenian intellectuals in Istanbul on 24 April 1915 with the introduction of the genocide began, the Union and Progress of mindset is the beginning of a comprehensive policy of genocide was voiced. Demirtas, Union and Progress racial, unitary nation-building, Turks and non-Muslims to clear all the elements of a comprehensive plan for these lands opting stressed. Demirtas, still continued marginalization of Armenians by pointing out that, “The Fellowship of the Armenian lands that we are trying to build a promise to accept us as a witness to the swearing,” he said.

Demirtas, “Turkey should confront this painful history, saying,” Union and Progress mentality and tradition must give account, he said. Demirtas, it is necessary for the culture of coexistence expressed. Demirtas, “human identity, our people if we want to get our honor be trampled, no injustice done to the oppressed people never face can not ignore. April 24, in Turkey the opportunity to confront all this pain, “he said. However, the government still Muslims facing discriminatory language that they use this land for the population of counting non-Muslims counting said Demirtas, “Their belief respect Is it because it still CUP mentality residues from the brains assignment because we are curious. In this country, Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians yet? Why count them yourself counting a single element of Muslim persecution do you see? “He asked.

‘MUSLIMS IN 76 MILLION DOES?’

This pain is common with the future can not be established expressing Demirtas, the Holocaust because of Germany in 1977 the Prime Minister of the Jews to apologize recalled and “a symbolic apology, but a historic reconciliation of the symbol has become,” he said, in Turkey sincere apologies needed voicing Demirtas , he continued: “Dersim massacre, the Kurds made a believer of Muslims, Armenians, Assyrians, Ezidi to the Greeks being done to apologize if you can not, in this country, 76 million of the brotherhood mention anyone should not. There are 76 million in all of these elements. Or say the figure is in your hearts, or at 50 percent of the population or 76 million people take to the mouth. Do not say a 76 million and we’re together. If these brave one and together we need to discuss and fulfill the need. “

Demirtas, sharing the sufferings of the Armenian community as they expressed, added: “Never open hostility, without a real justice, peace and brotherhood, we will build together.”

Source: Agos Weekly

Everyone in the world understands the pain of my grandmother, the Turks did not understand a single

April 22, 2014 By administrator

AGOS Weekly:

Anita Toutiki: “The world and everyone understands the suffering of Kohara great grandmother, but one could not tell the Turks. They have calculated the new property and wealth were busy.”

ANITA who TOUTIKI

ANITA who TOUTIKI: was born in Beirut in 1961. Starting with private lessons in arts education continued at the University of Haigazi, also a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Saint Joseph in Beirut did. Over eighty of the artists participating in personal and collective exhibitions, the Middle East’s many publications on the art field.

My family history includes many but not too much violence, although over the full four generations pass’m ashamed to tell you. Only one person from my family’s story of what happened to an entire nation will portray enough.

Great grandmother Koharu’s father, brother and uncle just melt in the sun like a lollipop on piles perished. Koharu’s family was very rich, where they keep the gold they have a confession to die slowly tied to stakes. Confessed, but instead of releasing them piles, they slowly die in pain and everyone can see he placed them in a more visible location. Koharu’s sister fled to Kars, died in the middle of the snow; cousins, around the same place, falling from TA repeatedly until the return of hunger and thirst on a death march that he was raped. Koharu’s husband was thrown down from a high hill. One of his sons was killed when he went to find food, had just got married, his wife was kidnapped. Other son to America before contact was lost. His stepfather was a priest and he was humiliated, just remove the rings cut off his fingers, then he was killed. Small babies, they are stored for months in cold caves fed by grazing and lizards, and then worked with his hands almost like a slave. He was able to tolerate any pain and humiliation, but Turkey has not tolerate it. In the early 1930s he went to Aleppo, where the road have had to give what you have, even the little newborn grandson died from the swaddling cloth … Baby it’s cold. The enormous suffering of everyone in the world understands this woman, but one could not tell the Turks. They have calculated the new property and wealth were busy.

I will not like the idea of entering into dialogue with the government of Turkey feels like an illusion. Turkey with a male child born of a combination of a wolf believe that, but when it comes to the victims, to the logic of a child and not realize that they have the appetite of a wolf. He was a boy toy of torture, how can a dialogue? How to Open a dialogue between a wolf his food can be installed? If a modern form of dialogue, who lived 113 years ago, an Armenian tombstone, a Turkish graffiti artist wrote of the ‘son of a bitch’ message, the dialogue How is that possible? According to the mind of the offender Turkish tombstone. I was not injured, but their adult needs to be a few hundred years later.

‘Anybody in the world will understand the suffering of my grandmother except the Turks’

By Anita who Toutiki, April 2014, Beirut

Your proposal provoked me, and I honor it. I left everything to write this in spite of the huge pressure about Thursday’s exhibition.

My family stories are very very violent, I feel ashamed to tell them even after four generations. The story of just one member of my family is enough to give the whole picture of what happened to a nation.

The father, Uncles and brothers of my great grandmother died on the kazoo Kohr sticks drying in the sun like lollypops. I can not even dare to describe What is kazoo. Kohler’s family were very rich, they were put on the kazouk in order to kill them slowly, until they confess where their gold was hidden. They confessed, but the perpetrators did not spare them, they just changed the location of the kazooks to a busy crossroad so that everybody could see them die slowly and in agony. Kohr’s sister died in the snow when they were escaping to Kars, all cousins were raped while walking in the death march that turned round and round in the same location until all fell of hunger and thirst. Kohler’s husband was thrown down from a high cliff. One of every sons was killed when he tried to go find food, he was a newly wed, and his wife was stolen. The other end who had gone to the USA was a lost contact with earlier. Every father in law who was a priest Disgraced and his finger was cut off was because he had a ring that was not pulling out, than he was killed too. Every young babies ate grass and lizards hiding in the cold mountains for months, and she later worked in almost every owner lands as salve. She could tolerate all kinds of suffering and humiliation, but Turkey did not tolerate any. She had to leave in the early 30’s to Aleppo, on the way she had to give away everything she possessed, even the swaddling or wrapping the cloth of every newborn grandson was taken away. The baby died of cold. Anybody in the world will understand the extreme suffering of this woman except the Turks. They were busy counting their new possessions and wealth.

I have the feeling that dialogue with the Turkish government is an illusion I can not entertain. They believe that they are born from the union of a child boy and a wolf, but they are unaware that they have the logic of a child and the appetite of a wolf when it comes to their victims. How is a dialogue betwee possible that a child and his toy Tortured? how is a dialogue betwee possible that a hungry wolf and his food? How is a dialogue possible if a dialogue is a modern example of the “whore of cog” message from a graffiti artist to an Armenian Turk man who died 113 years ago? For the Turkish mind the gravestone must be guilty. I am not hurt, but they need a few hundred years to adolescents to become.

If Lies Blinding us how real it really is liberating (Armenian Genocide)

April 22, 2014 By administrator

AGOS Weekly Micheline Aharonian Marcom: “My grandmother is a citizen of the Ottoman Empire, ninety-nine years ago, the age of thirteen, his mother, his father and the whole family was killed. Relatives were either killed or sent to Der Zor. My grandmother lost their homes. “

Micheline Aharonian MARCOM

“We take over end up, though.”

Myuong Mi Kim

Micheline Aharonian MarCom: In 1968, an American father and an Armenian Lebanese mother as a child comes into the world Micheline Aharonian Marcom, grew up in Los Angeles. Until the Civil War started in 1975, the summer holidays, spent his mother’s family lived in Beirut. A trilogy dealing with the Armenian Genocide, and in 2001 published his first book, ‘Three Apples Fell from Heaven’, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, among the best books of the year by the newspaper as shown. The second book in the series was released in 2004, including Pan American, has been awarded important prizes. Taught writing at various universities. Currently lives in Berkeley, California.

My first novel ‘Three Apples Fell From Heaven’ [Three Apples fallen from the sky], in 1915 and 1917, with two neighboring Ottoman cities and hamlets Harpoot (now Elazig) passes. The stories told in the book, in part, at the beginning of the last century and four men came into the world, survivors of the Armenian Genocide with a sister of my grandmother’s life is based on Demirjian Anagül. My grandmother and her sisters, grandfather of the family of a Turkish partner hiding next two years, Der Zor of extending freed from death march. From there, go to Beirut to Aleppo, and finally settled fled. My mother was born and raised there.

I was born in the Middle East, but my father grew up in his hometown of Los Angeles. My mother, my family in Turkey about the history, especially my grandmother’s family how to save that other children from each other leave orphanages when placing his own children how to hold together that, on one hand, not to exceed number of sentences were bequeathed to me. Starting from these few sentences (‘ve done quite a bit of research and a considerable time after the break), I wrote my first novel. My goal is, in some ways, the story of my grandmother did learn better (my grandmother, I was nine years old, and another during the war, died during the Lebanese Civil War); but at the same time, some of the things I carry in me, I took over inheritance of grief and sadness as we understand better, I think I also had a goal. Every one of us, our families, and of course, we are members of the public, remains as a legacy of stories. The stories told to us, and even, I think, censored, is not mentioned, denied the story that you’re getting the inheritance. The untold story of a ghost, little hints, grief, and even anger are appearing out of nowhere as sources. Telling our story in an uncensored way, we know better ourselves, the better we understand and believe that we have liberated. In this sense, lies and Blinding If you are connecting us how real it really is liberating.

So much love being a writer of books and perhaps this is why. Books, time, space, and have the capacity to transcend borders as well as the reader, whoever and wherever they may be-of-consciousness, the consciousness of a book are also provided in the asset discovery. It is extremely beautiful, a radical possibility of affective. Every one of us, another in, albeit as a summary, it can be summed up as, in a sense when you read it because we’re going, we put ourselves in his place.

My grandmother is a citizen of the Ottoman Empire, ninety-nine years ago, the age of thirteen, his mother, his father and the whole family was killed. Relatives were either killed or sent to Der Zor. My grandmother lost their homes. Two years later, together with his brothers went into exile. Maybe you can revive it in your mind. Today, his grandson, I am writing to you from California. The so both myself, as well as to you: who is alive, lost their lives, the rights have been usurped, silenced minorities have stayed in, excluded, exiled the people and Anadolulu a young girl, Anagül to remember; to tell their stories; in fact, the author once said of Ralph Waldo “as described really ensure” that, it is our duty.

Truth does free us, just as blind us lies

Not to have seen it, yet inheriting it.

Kim Min-Myuong

My first novel, Three Apples Fell From Heaven, takes place in the adjacent Ottoman towns of Harpoot and Hamlet (now Elazig) in 1915 and 1917. That book is based, in part, on the life of my maternal grandmother, née Anaguil Demirdjian, who was born at the turn of the last century, and who, along with her four brothers and one sister, survived the Armenian Genocide. My grandmother and her siblings hidden with a Turkish family, my great-grandfather’s business partner, for two years, therebye evading the death marches to Der Zor, until they could escape, first to Aleppo, and finally to Beirut where they settled, and where my mother was born and raised.

I myself was born in the Middle East, but raised in Los Angeles, my father’s hometown. From my mother I inherited a handful of sentences about my family’s history in Turkey, mostly about how my grandmother had saved the family, kept the children together when others would have separated them and put them into Orphanages. From the few sentences I inherited I eventually (after Considerable research and time) I wrote my first novel-in some ways to know my grandmother’s story better (she died when I was just nine during another war: the Lebanese Civil War), and also, I think, to have a better understanding for some of the things which existed in me: the melancholy and sadness I had inherited. We, all of us, inherit stories from our families, and also, of course, from our nations. We inherit the ones told to us, and even, I think, the ones that are censored and untold, or denied. The untold stories show up like apparitions, ghosts, like small inklings, and even rages melancholies. I believe that in the telling of our stories without censorship we come to know and understand ourselves more fully, and, I think, we find a freedom: in that sense truth does free us, just as lies bind and blind us.

Perhaps this is why I love books so much, and why I am a writer, not only because books have the capacity to cross time and space and borders, but because they allow the reader’s consciousness, whomever he is and wherever he is, to be in the consciousness of a book’s: such a beautiful, radical act of pathos. It is in this way that each one of us can, however Briefly, come to know the other, for in some sense we become, hum while we read, we walk in feeling shoes.

Ninety-nine years ago my grandmother, citizen of the Ottoman Empire, a girl of thirteen, lost her parents and all of each extended family – they were either murdered or sent to the Der Zor; She lost her home; and two years later went into exile with her siblings. Perhaps you can imagine it. Today every granddaughter writes to you from California. I tell it to you as I tell it to myself: it is our duty to remember them, to tell their stories, to let the truth, as the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, be “truly told,”-of the living, the dead, the Disenfranchised, the silenced ones, the minorities,, the denied, the exiled, and of a young Armenian girl from Anatolia Anaguil named.

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

Paris: Armenian Youth Vigil April 23 Place du Trocadéro Armenian Genocide

April 22, 2014 By administrator

Armenian youth commemorates the Armenian Genocide, Wednesday, April 23, Place du Trocadéro, from 18h.

During the vigil, artists, activists, intellectuals and politicians gather around a solidarity concert organized in a symbolic place of Paris: previous years Parvis Notre-Dame de Paris, Parvis de Saint Germain, Place de la Bastille, Place de la République, Le Pantheon.

Panel discussion, educational Village, participatory stands, artistic performance: attention is not only focused on the Armenian genocide. Because during this vigil, it is recalled the importance of being vigilant and attentive to the events that occurred and may still be caused. Unfortunately, some pages of history repeating …

The Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, they are also episodes of world history which are highlighted in this vigil.

The evening of April 24, allows to remember all the victims of genocide and denounce all forms of crimes against humanity.

Since 1998, the associations of the Armenian youth of France meet during the evening of April 24, to commemorate the Armenian Genocide of 1915.

On this occasion, artists, activists, intellectuals and politicians gather around a concert in a symbolic place in Paris.

With the participation of: PEP’S – DAVE DARIO – QUIET PLEASE – COMPANY Nairi …

These associations are nine in number to organize this annual event since 1998:

AYO – COPEA (Guidance Centre for Armenian Students) – DA-connection (Armenia-Diaspora connection) – FRA Nor Seround – Homenetmen – JAF (Armenian Youth France) – Youth NAZARPEK Hentchakian – UCJA (Christian Union of Young Armenians) – AGBU Young (Armenian General Benevolent Union)

Despite Turkish pressure, the memorial to the Armenian Genocide will be well inaugurated in Almelo (Netherlands)

April 22, 2014 By administrator

The memorial of the Armenian Genocide will be well launched on April 24 in Almelo, a town in the Netherlands almost 80 000 inhabitants which houses an Armenian community of more than a thousand members. Despite pressure from the Turkish media offended by this dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, the municipality of Almelo authorized its inauguration. Mariam Makoukian responsible for organizing the opening ceremonies of the memorial stated that “despite these pressures Turkey, the inauguration of the memorial will take place is.” Turkish media and Turkish organizations in the city of Almelo had asked the municipality to prohibit the erection of the memorial, which includes a set of 16 khatchkars. The organizers expect around 15,000 Armenians from all over the world. The memorial is funded by a generous benefactor.

Krikor Amirzayan

Turkish Diaspora reps demand admission of Armenian Genocide

April 22, 2014 By administrator

A number of members of the Majlis of European Peace and Democracy (Avrupa Barış ve Demokrasi Meclisi – ABDEM), who introduce themselves as representatives of the Turkish Diaspora, held a press conference in Yerevan, on Tuesday.

They announced their intention to visit the Memorial to Armenian Genocide victims in Yerevan on April 24 and make a statement, demanding that Turkey admit the Armenian Genocide and assume responsibility for it.

ABDEM member Rojda Yıldırım, who is a citizen of France, noted that the group is visiting Armenia to encourage the Armenian people and advocate for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

“We are here for the sake of peace and we want a peaceful settlement to the issue. All the peoples that survived genocide are important for us, and we want the Armenian Genocide be recognized everywhere,” he said.

Turkey must admit its history. Otherwise, it will never be a democracy.

Founded in Europe and headquartered in Germany ABDEM has nothing in common with the Turkish government and has over 1m members in different countries.

“Our organization was founded in 2013. We want peace and democracy for Turkey,” Yıldırım said.

ABDEM does not see democratic Turkey without its admitting the Armenian Genocide.

Turkish citizen Aliekber Pektaş said:

“We recognize the [Armenian] Genocide and we are here now. We have come to bring the Alevis’ voice here as well as Alevis constitute a third of Turkey’s population.”

Source: Tert.am

Turks Want ‘Unprejudiced Discussion’ on Genocide

April 22, 2014 By administrator

PARIS (Hurriyet Daily News)—Hakkı Akil, who began his term as Turkey’s ambassador to Paris on April 14, has described the “Armenian issue,” which is the thorniest subject in his portfolio, as “heartbreaking.”

In an interview with daily Hürriyet, Akil stressed that he was ready to engage in an “unprejudiced dialogue” with Armenians in France ahead of 2015, the 100th anniversary of the genocide perpetrated against Ottoman Armenians.

“Two nations that are so alike should finally make peace. We should take steps to realize it,” Akil said at his official residence in Paris.

Denying the common assumption that Paris is a difficult post for Turkish ambassadors, Akil referred to his previous stations as ambassador.

“Turkmenistan was a more difficult post. There were also various difficulties in Abu Dhabi and in Italy. Although France has some difficulties, it also has some ease. You can receive a response from the French authorities on a certain subject within a week, while other countries may provide it only within two or even six months,” he said.

As the first Turkish graduate of Paris’s renowned Ecole National d’Administration, Akil remembers several incumbent French officials from his school years. “From UMP chair Jean Francois Cope to the current governor of Haute des Seine, several officials were my classmates. I organized a Turkish night for my classmates every month,” he said.

Akil added that he views the three main subjects of Ankara-Paris relations “positively”: EU accession, the Armenian issue, and the Turkish community in France. Stressing that a relatively more healthy atmosphere had been created in EU negotiations since French President Francois Hollande had come to office, the new Turkish ambassador said “the train should not be derailed.”

“After the necessary ground has been covered, both sides may put their thinking caps on and evaluate the situation. The Turkish people may have a say on [the EU membership] through a referendum, after Turkey completes all the necessary reforms. Perhaps they may oppose membership like Norway, or opt to stay out of the Euro or Schengen areas like the United Kingdom. However, the exact future of neither Europe nor Britain is clear now,” Akil said.

The “Armenian problem,” on the hand, should be considered in general terms, rather than with regards to France only, according to the Turkish diplomat, adding that the “genocide question” should be addressed in the near future by international courts.

“Armenian officials go beyond jurisprudence and take this issue to parliaments by practicing a ‘perception policy.’ Frankly, they are successful, but there is a drawback: a serious term like ‘genocide’ is being trivialized and emptied of meaning in this way,” Akil said.

He supports the thesis that recent European Court of Human Rights rulings and the related verdict of the Constitutional Council in France have put an end to “Armenian intellectual terrorism.”

“Now it’s time for friendship and peace. Seeing two nations that lived together for more than 10 centuries, listening to the same music, having the same culture, eating the same food, laughing at the same jokes, be separated by hate speech breaks my heart,” Akil said.

Stating that the second wife of his great grandfather was an Armenian woman, Akil stressed, “We should provide the opportunity for our peoples to live peacefully on the grassroots level,” he said.

The new ambassador also admitted that he has “no special preparation” for the symbolic year 2015. “Whether it’s 2014 or 2016, I suggest the same policy: leave the legal and historical debates to jurists. Our mission is to eliminate hate speech,” Akil added.

Francois Hollande to honor Armenian Genocide victims

April 21, 2014 By administrator

April 21, 2014 | 17:32

French president’s administration confirmed his intention to attend the Armenian Genocide commemoration ceremony in Paris.

The event will be held near Komitas monument in Paris at 7p.m. on April 24.

The Co-ordination Council of Armenian organizations of France (CCAF) thanked the authorities for honoring 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide, Nouvelles d’Arménie reported.

US Ambassador: President Obama will make very strong statement on April 24

April 21, 2014 By administrator

April 21, 2014 | 13:17

YEREVAN. – U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Heffern said Barack Obama will make a very strong statement on the Armenian Genocide anniversary on April 24.

On Monday Ambassador Heffern participated in the opening of temporary exposition entitled “FIRST WORLD WAR: allies, images, massacres” at the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute.

He said President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are well aware of the 1915 events. The diplomat said the president’s statement will be very strong and will recognize the fact of annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians. However, Ambassador noted that he cannot say exactly what words will president use.

The United States have not recognized the Armenian Genocide yet.

FRANCE I give Ulule, I agree to the Vigil!

April 19, 2014 By administrator

For the 2014 edition of the evening of 23 April, the Armenian youth associations have innovated calling to participate in this event through the site Ulule.

By launching the operation “I give Ulule, I agree to the Vigil! “9 associations organizing the vigil offer users to become involved in the vigil.

What Ulule? Hoots is a site where various project called users to contribute. To make a film, an album recording, an object to be invented by Ulule all these initiatives can take shape. 1st European crowdfunding site, the organizers of the vigil April 23 focused their project on Ulule.

How to participate in this operation? By clicking on the link below, the project of the evening is presented. Each contributor therefore see concretely the purpose of the donation. More or less, every donation is entitled to its return.

http://fr.ulule.com/veillee-24avril/

With the operation “I give Ulule, I agree to the Vigil” is a new action that is available to all, without any barrier, no border, a common goal: to support the Armenian youth of France who fights for the defense of the memory of the Armenian Genocide.

Armenian Youth counting on you.

Thank you for your support. Thank you for your commitment.

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