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Kansas Air National Guard expanded partnership with Armenia

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The Kansas Air National Guard expanded their partnership with Armenia this year with two Humanitarian and Civic Assistance kansas-aironational-gardinitiatives.

Airmen from the Kansas Air National Guard remodeled a school and medical clinic in the village of Darbas in Syunik region, and on August 14 the Embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission, W. Clark Price officiated ribbon cuttings of the clinic and school in Darbas together with the Governor of Syunik region, Vahe Hakobyan and the Darbas mayor, Mayis Mizoyan.

In addition, a plane load of medical supplies from the United Armenian Fund was presented to the Republic of Armenia utilizing the Kansas Air National Guard KC-135 as a Humanitarian Assistance airlift. The estimated value of the supplies is $4.1 million.

The humanitarian efforts have been a joint partnership between the Kansas Air National Guard, the Office of Defense Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy, USAID, the Ministry of Defense, the United Armenian Fund, the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Ministry of Health. The Office of Defense Cooperation at the U.S. Embassy would also like to recognize the support from Zvartnots Armenia International Airports and Civil Aviation.

The State Partnership Program between the Kansas National Guard and the Office for Defense Cooperation is in its eleventh year. This year’s efforts are by far the largest. Previous years have included military to military engagements supporting NATO’s Operational Capabilities Concept, Expeditionary Medical Support system development, non-commissioned officer development, demining operations training, cyber defense familiarization, and senior legal engagements. The Kansas National Guard has also supported civilian to military engagements which include disaster preparedness and biosecurity training.

Sarkisian “it would be offensive to the Armenians to learn that Erdogan is Armenian”

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“Turkey is the country that continually supports Azerbaijan” Sarkisian said in an interview with “Armnews.” Observing very close ties and very high between Ankara and Baku arton102291-480x407with press condolences of Turkey to Azerbaijan after the loss of the soldiers in the Armenian-Azerbaijani Azeri front, as well as anti-Armenian recent statements and hurtful to ‘Erdogan after a question from a journalist questioning the Armenian origins of the Turkish leader, Armenian President said “Why be surprised at the attitude of Turkey? Y-Has there been a fact of non-hostile Armenians Turkey? Turkey is the country that openly supports Azerbaijan. And it all matters. And it is true that I would have been surprised Erdogan also offers its condolences to the Armenians. “President Sargsyan also said” there is nothing surprising. And it would be offensive to the Armenians to learn that Erdogan is Armenian (…) persons occupying such positions must have restraint. And Erdogan did not. “

Krikor Amirzayan

Azerbaijani general who tortured Armenian hostage, is called murderer even in his homeland

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It turned out that the hands of the General of the Azerbaijani army Rovshan Akbarov who during the interrogation had tortured Karen Petrosyan, the hostage from the tortured-armenianArmenian village Chinari, are in blood of not only the Armenians but also the Azerbaijanis, the news agency “Pastinfo” informs. It writes that the Azerbaijani bloggers and Internet users write about it openly.
Akperov is one of the youngest generals of the Azerbaijani army. By the end of the Artsakh war, he had a grea prestige among the military leadership of Azerbaijan. Akperov has provided services to President Heydar and Ilham Aliyevs more than once, eliminating those Azerbaijani veterans of Karabakh war who were hampering the implementation of their plans.

Probably as gratitude for these services in 1998 Akperov was appointed commander of the Fourth Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan. And now, according to Azerbaijani sources, he claims for the ministerial post. In this context, apparently, another heroic act was the “accidental” death of the innocent Armenian young man.

Thus, according to the Azerbaijani media, Shamkhor Corps headed by him is the most corrupt one. Here are recorded large numbers of unsolved mysterious deaths of soldiers.

As for the moral character of Akperov, then he has always been distinguished by the fact that he had periodically arranged fights while being drunk. In 1996, he has even been taken to the police station for being intoxicated.

Akperov has once become a cause of a road accident, when he once again had a conflict with the police. All of these cases at the time caused extensive discussions among the Azerbaijani users, one of them even came to the conclusion that “Akperov is not the person he means to be. No one should trust him.”

However, the most important chapter of his biography is that 10 years ago he in Kiev he had killed one of his compatriots. This case entered even the European Court. Of the document of the European Court it became clear that in 2001 Akperov who was passing training at a military school in Ukraine, had a dispute with the Azerbaijani entrepreneur Elchin Aliyev and killed him by a knife. The Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine prepared the documents and sent to the Azerbaijani prosecutor’s office, but the case was hushed up, and Akperov remained unpunished.

Source: Panorama.am

U.S. Armenians, Assyrians rally against Islamist violence in Mideast

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Armenian National Committee of America Eastern Region (ANCA-ER) activists joined with leaders of the Assyrian, Chaldean and Syriac communities to rally international 181506support for ending targeted attacks against their brethren in Iraq and Syria during a peaceful protest held in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

The ANCA Eastern Region’s Armen Sahakyan offered powerful remarks citing Armenian American solidarity with the Assyrian community, noting that the violence harkens back to Turkey’s genocide and exile of over 3 million Armenian, Pontian Greek and Assyrian Christians from 1915-1923. Sahakyan went on to urge greater international effort to end the violence against these beleaguered communities.

Protesters wore special t-shirts with the Arabic letter “N” for “Nasrani,” which means Christian in Arabic to show their solidarity with those persecuted in Iraq, Syria and other parts of the Middle East.

This is the greatest mass flight of Christians in the Middle East since the Armenian, Assyrian and Pontian Greeks genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire.

Over the past several months, the Armenian community of Aleppo, Syria has been subjected to constant bombardment by Muslim extremists, which has led to the destruction of local schools, churches and social service centers. Earlier, on March 21, 2014, the city of Kessab located in northwestern part of Syria bordering Turkey was overrun by extremist foreign fighters, forcing the town to flee for safe haven at moment’s notice.

Mosul, the capital of Iraq’s Nineveh province and the second largest city after Baghdad, has recently come under control of al Qaeda breakaway ISIS, which now brands itself as Islamic State. The city was once home to around 60,000 Assyrians, Chaldeans, Armenians and other Christians. ISIS is also targeting Muslim holy sites, including the mosque housing the tomb of the Biblical figure of Jonah.

Ancient Armenian New Year, Navasard, marked on August 11

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In pagan Armenia the New Year was celebrated on August 11. The feast was called Navasard.

Ancient-armenianAncient sources bear out that Navasard – New Year was adorned with solemn and splendid festivities, which lasted several days. There were carnivals, cavalcades, various games with participation of the king, noblemen and plain folk. Various open-air celebrations were often held at night around the fire at holy shrines.

Many legends have been told about this most beloved feast; it is said that on this very day our forefather Hayk had a stunning victory over his enemy Bel and gave start to the history of Armenians. It was also believed that this day Noah’s Arc landed on the peak of Mount Ararat, and so the yearly celebrations of Navasard-New Year were to reconfirm the beginning of the new era of humanity.

After the adoption of Christianity in Armenia this feast, along with many others, was officially reformed. The pagan temples were destroyed, the known celebrations and pilgrimages were forbidden. Navasard found its place neither in the church nor in civic calendar, but the people didn’t forget their tradition and they kept celebrating it for many centuries.

 

Same-movie same-pictures Turkish massacre of Armenian and ISIS Yazidis massacre both using Islam as tools.

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Only Armenians understand the pain of the Yazidi, the only difference the Armenian massacre was at massive scale and it was by the Turkish government.

Yezidi-246It’s an impossible question to answer. Then again, it’s difficult to fathom most anything thousands of minority  Yazidis have endured in recent weeks as they’ve fled from ISIS militants into remote, rugged, sparse mountains of northern Iraq.

Now some of them are under siege or under fire, targeted by ISIS for not succumbing to demands to convert to Islam or else. Others, like Tariq, have managed to find some refuge in recent days, though worries remain about finding the resources they need to survive.

Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some of their victims, including women and children. Some 300 women were kidnapped as slaves, he added.

“Some of the victims, including women and children were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar,” Sudani said.

The minister’s comments could pile pressure on the United States – which has carried out air strikes on Islamic State targets in response to the group’s latest push through the north – to provide more extensive support.

“In some of the images we have obtained there are lines of dead Yazidis who have been shot in the head while the Islamic State fighters cheer and wave their weapons over the corpses,” said Sudani. “This is a vicious atrocity.”

at least now there is USA to come to call for help but in Armenian case when they ask the british for help the answer was our ships can not climb Mount Ararat.

Turkish dictator Erdoğan insult Armenians, complains of being called ‘even uglier things, Armenian’

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ISTANBUL
Edogan-insultPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sparked a fresh debate while trying to defend himself for labeling his opponents according to their minority religious or ethnic identity.

“They have also said a lot of things about me. One of them came and said I was a Georgian. Then another came up and, I beg your pardon, called me uglier things, saying I was Armenian,” Erdoğan said during a live interview on Aug. 5, adding that he was a purebred Turk. reported by Hurriyet daily news

“What I have learned from my grandfather, my father and all of them is that I am Turkish. That’s it,” he said in remarks that have caused great controversy.

The Turkish prime minister has repeated several times during his campaign that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is an Alevi, Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) candidate Selahattin Demirtaş is a Zaza-origin Kurd, and the CHP and other parties’ candidate Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu is “not even a native” for being born in Egypt, albeit to Turkish parents.

During his speeches, Erdoğan has consistently reminded the nation’s populace that he is a “Sunni.”
His comments triggered accusations of sectarianism, causing a backlash on social media and prompting the left-leaning daily BirGün to bitingly respond with the front-page headline: “Kılıçdaroğlu is Alevi, Demirtaş is Zaza, İhsanoğlu is Egyptian and you are a thief.”

But Erdoğan argued during his interview that no one should hesitate to unveil his identity.

4 ethnic Armenians killed, 5 injured in Aleppo

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A mortar shelling targeting residential neighborhoods in the Syrian city of Aleppo killed 4 and injured 5 ethnic Armenians on Wednesday, July 30.

181217According to Canada-based Horizon Weekly, those killed were identified as Sona Palkian, Azniv Arushian, her sister Araksi Arushian-Khachaturian and Gevorg Gelemchian.

Juliet Khachatrian, Gevorg Tashchian, Hakob Hakobian, Hovhannes Ayvazian and Raffi Ayvazian were injured.

The war in Syria, which has killed over 170,000 people and displaced around 9 million more.

In June, the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (ANC Europe) published an open letter, along with a letter addressed to the European Union’s foreign affairs representative, urging for action to be taken to stop the wholesale destruction taking place in the Armenian neighborhood of Nor Gyugh in Aleppo.

Earlier, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) launched a #Save Aleppo campaign calling President Obama to stop anti-Armenian attacks in Syria. The campaign aims to urge President Obama to stop the rebel bombing of innocent Christians and all civilians in Aleppo, press Turkey to allow the free flow of Euphrates waters to Syria, answer the ANCA’s concerns regarding Turkey’s role in the forced depopulation of the historically Armenian populated city of Kessab.

Armenians are good citizens of Canada – minister

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YEREVAN. – The Armenians are good citizens of Canada. With their diligence and high intellect, they contribute to the development of the country.

good-citizenJason Kenney, who is the Canada’s Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism and also member of the Canadian House of Commons, stated the aforesaid Tuesday in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan, and at his meeting with Armenia Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan.

The Armenian minister, for her part, underscored the Canadian government’s hospitable and warm disposition towards the Canadian-Armenian community.

She appreciated the fact that, in 2002, the Senate of Canada had adopted a resolution on recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Hakobyan added that a high-level Canadian representation is expected in Armenia, and in connection with next year’s centennial commemoration events of the genocide.

The minister also briefed the Canadian official on the programs and activities of the Ministry of Diaspora of Armenia.

Furthermore, the diaspora minister presented to Kenney a picture book on the Armenian Genocide, and a collection of articles which The New York Times daily had run on the genocide.

In addition, the interlocutors discussed the activities toward rendering assistance to Syrian Armenians, and construction of the New Aleppo district in Armenia.

Body of Armenian man found in France

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A body of 47-year-old man of Armenian origin was found in  Haucourt-Moulaine district, in north-east of France.

Armenian shotShots were heard  in  Haucourt-Moulaine on Saturday evening not far from children camp, republicain-lorrain.fr  ((http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/actualite/2014/07/27/un-armenien-victime-d-un-homicide-a-haucourt-moulaine) reported. The rescuers found the body of a 47-year-old man of Armenian origin who sustained a fatal wound in his chest.

As reported by  france3-regions, a man turned to police in Paris 48 hours after the homicide. He is in custody and is being interrogated. According to the website, he could be a possible murderer of an Armenian man.