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Turkish author Livaneli: We are like intellectuals of Nazi Germany; who resists, who reconciles with the regime, who silences

February 13, 2018 By administrator

Turkish author and poet Zülfü Livaneli:

Translated from Turkish

Through traversed the political atmosphere in Turkey intellectuals, the situation likened Livaneli intellectuals living in Nazi Germany, “Some resist, while others compromised by the regime to continue to work, others are ignoring shut up,” he said. Livaneli, “Are you thinking of going to Turkey?” To the question “What ever happened to us where we’re going. People who live with honor must die in honor. “

Writer Zülfü Livaneli has commented on the latest book “Unrest” about the story of Ezidi woman Meleknaz, who lived the IŞİD persecution, in an interview with Ezgi Atabilen from the Republic about the issue of the uneasiness of the intellectuals from the political atmosphere in the country.

For the referendum, “I am very afraid of provocations, from incitement to propaganda for the next few months. Because neither side sees it as a battle between life and death, “said Livaneli, Turkey likened to Nazi Germany in the Second World War, today’s enlightened intellectuals. Livaneli said, “Some are resisting, some agreeing with the regime to continue, some coming from silence.”

Some of the interviews with Livaneli are as follows:

The poster of the book was not allowed to hang on the metro because of the OHAL. Perhaps people were worried that they would realize that they were ‘restless’?

There are so many human rights violations … It is not so important to prohibit the banner of a book so painfully. But today, book banners are forbidden, tomorrow books will be banned. The cover says ‘Restless’ and it’s my name. They did not put this banner and said to the people, “No, you are peaceful”. It is already clear that we went one step by step. But they banned the posters, so they did not interrupt. ‘Restlessness’ reached 250 in 15 days.

You presidential referendum process where Turkey will take?

It is no use other than to sharpen the people in a country that already has a camp. The struggles in the parliament, that nerve and anger create a microcosm. Now think of it spreading to society, which will be. I am very afraid of provocations, from incitement to propaganda for the next few months. Because both sides see it as a war of death and death.

Do you think the possibility of civil war?

We do not have much civil war tradition. But there are major conflicts. For example, 5 thousand people died in the ’80s conflict. Every day on the streets people were killing each other. I was looking in history in Turkey until the edge of the cliff carefree people behave, but I see that the brakes at the last moment. Now it seems to me like it will be.

‘We will remain what we are, honest people have to die honorably’

We’re talking about going from Turkey in all these alternative scenarios would you consider it?

No. I was imprisoned three times after 12 March on various, silly charges. The fourth time I was going to jail, my friends decided to go abroad. They were not going to live much anymore, we were in the situation. At that time there were blobs to the ground, electricity supplies, and Palestinian hangers and so on. It was a terrible time. I stayed in Sweden for five or six years. Then I went to Paris, for a total of 11 years. But then I was 20, I was not a well-known person. My situation is different now. There are people in the society who know me and love me. “Livaneli also left, he left the country,” I said. It would be to break the hopes of those people. It is both unfair and selfish. So we will stay here whatever comes. People who live honorably have to die honorably.

‘We are still in the barbaric period …’

Who gave people the right to torture animals? Anyway, if people can stop killing other living things, it will stop killing them. Especially in the Middle East are people constantly cutting each other’s heads? All these people saw that in their childhood the feet of the animals were tied and their heads cut off. One day the people will kill and eat other living things will definitely be closed and our period will be mentioned as the period of barbarism again.

‘A lot of my friends were killed’

I’m restless too. I was in military prison in my 20s. I came to the age of 70 guarding my friends in front of the prison. We talked to Yaşar Kemal every day. The persecution, justice … went without seeing that an environment where human dignity was held high was established. Tariq Akan is also like our other friends. We probably will not see the end of this …

Of course people are tired. I saw too many bumps. More than 50 friends were killed. All writers, writers, journalists, scientists … These people were imprisoned, miserable. But we’re here again. We’re doing our duties. We are again today like the intellectuals of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Some resisting, some reconciling with the regime to continue, some coming from silence. But if you are a recognized human being and you can communicate with the community, then seeing them is a compromise. Turkey is a country with people changing their lives newsletters …

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Prominent Ukrainian author seized in Belarus, ordered to leave

February 12, 2017 By administrator

Ukraine-author A noted Ukrainian poet and novelist says he was seized by security agents in the middle of the night while visiting the capital of Belarus and ordered to leave the country, The Associated Press reports.

In a posting on a social media website, Serhiy Zhadan said Saturday, February 11 that police confronted him in his hotel room in Minsk about 2 a.m.

“Nothing was explained … I had to spend the night in a cell,” he wrote. He said he was later informed by the country’s security agency, the KGB, that he was not allowed to be in Belarus because Russia in 2015 banned him for alleged participation in terrorist activities.

Belarus and Russia share a visa regime.

Zhadan’s work, which critics have compared to that of William Burroughs and Beat writers, criticizes post-Soviet society.

Several days ago, Belarus extradited Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan as he had visited Nagorno Karabakh and written posts critical of Azerbaijani authorities.

Lapshin, 40, divides his time between Israel and a few other places. He was arrested on December 15 in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, at the request of Azeri authorities who demanded his extradition. The arrest was made one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

Lapshin was arrested following his visits to Karabakh as well as due to critical posts in his Russian-language blog against Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.

Turkish Author Serkan Engin: Shame of A Turk Because of the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocides “eBook”

February 3, 2017 By administrator

Turkish Author Serkan Engin Book

Published on Feb 2, 2017

react-text: 84 Free e-book of Turkish author Serkan Engin on the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek genocides This e-book has been collected from the essays and interviews of Turk-Laz poet Serkan Engin about the Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides in English, Armenian, Russian, Greek, French, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, German, and also Turkish.

Turkish police find author of anti-Armenian video

April 29, 2016 By administrator

The Turkish police have identified the man whose video footage with racist and anti-Armenian content was widely shared in the social media recently.
A deputy interior minister, Sebahattin Ozturk, said the man was a security officer who has been dismissed from service, Agos reports.
In the footage, he appears against the background of the ruins in the town Sur (Diyarbekir province).
The district where he shot the scene has been under curfew since December. It is home to the Armenian church of St Giragos.
The man was sacked after a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party, Nadir Yildirim, applied to Interior Minister Efkan Ala, calling his attention to the racist and xenophobic statements, and threats heard in the footage. In a subsequent phone conversation with Garo Palyan, a Turkish-Armenian MP elected from the HDP party, Ozturk said that the man was no longer in service.

The video features the ravages in the district, caused by the recent violent clashes. The Turkish-Armenian publication claims that it has been shot by a team of professionals.

India: For the Love of Armine: Indian author says his new novel is tribute to memory of Armenian Genocide victims

October 27, 2015 By administrator

Abie Alexander

Abie Alexander’s new book “For the Love of Armine” that tells about a love story between a young Armenian woman, Armine, and an Indian man is a tribute to the memory of the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide on the 100th anniversary of the massacres.

The author of the book, an Indian based in the United States, says that writing about the Armenian Genocide was on his mind for a long time, but he did not want to make it a documentary, or simply a description of some facts.

“I tried to write in such a way that the Genocide could be presented in a clear way to the reader, but without being too explicit.

The events take place in the 1970s and in 2005, but the entire book is about the Genocide and the events that happened 100 years ago,” says Alexander. “I had two goals in writing the book: to show to young Diaspora Armenians what sufferings their ancestors went through and finally to inform non-Armenian readers about the Armenian Genocide.”

The novel about the young couple’s love story weaves a tapestry of the history and culture of the Armenian people going back in time to their very beginnings as a nation and down to the traumatic Genocide in 1915 at the hands of the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. The events described in the book take place in India’s southern Kerala state, which is known worldwide for its production of various spices which are in high demand. The writer presents Kerala Armenians, who miraculously survived the Genocide, and settling down in a new place established the settlement of New Garni and got engaged in trade.

Alexander says that whichever country he is in he tries to find a local Armenian church there, visits and studies it.

“The Armenian Diaspora is unique and special. They adapt to the environment never losing their identity. And the Diaspora is the main theme of my book. I present the small Armenian community, which, like many other Armenian communities around the world, seeks to preserve its ethnic traditions, culture, language, and most importantly, faith in the Armenian Apostolic Church,” says Alexander.

A financier by profession, Alexander worked for the State Bank of India for many years and then for World Vision and Search for Common Ground. Now he is Chief Financial Officer for Institute for Development Impact. The 62-year-old says he has traveled to and managed projects in India, the United States, Armenia, Uzbekistan, and several counties in South East Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. At present, he lives and works in the United States.

Alexander does not consider himself a writer, but the “For the Love of Armine” novel is actually his fifth book.

For the first time he learned about Armenia in 2005 in Cyprus, where he attended a training course organized by World Vision.

“It was then that I first met Armenians and learned about them. One day, our group traveled to the Turkish part of Cyprus, where a problem arose on the border between frontier officers and two Armenian women of our group, who were not allowed to cross the border. The following day they told me about Armenia, Armenians and everything which is connected with this wonderful country,” says Alexander. “I first came to Armenia in 2006 and the very first moment I got off the plane, I don’t know why but I fell in love with this country,” he adds.

The book “For the Love of Armine” was published in three languages – Armenian, English and Russian. The English and Armenian versions are already on sale online.

Source: By Gayane Mkrtchyan
ArmeniaNow reporter

Video, Interview Author Matthew Karanian Book “Historic Armenia”

February 11, 2015 By administrator

By Wally Sarkeesian

The ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years “(100 Years Later Date Armenia) has published a travel book.

Historic Armenia book

100 years ago the world’s scattered throughout, without forgetting where they came with a history of bitter memory of where they go, for most Armenians entered into a new life building efforts while preserving their own culture, this land we live on, due to the many emotions. Some fear, curiosity for some, but perhaps not knowing the ending for four generations and the most restless longing …

In recent years, accompanied by all these feelings and listen to their family history, especially in Diyarbakır, Van, eastern provinces, such as the number of visitors has increased considerably in Kars. America, Europe, the Middle East and the individual trips and group trips organized by Armenia, thus building a bridge between the past and the present and future. This is one of the long journey that perform second generation Armenian American Matthew Karani, the ‘Historic Armenia After 100 Years “(100 Years Later Date Armenia) has published a travel book.

Yesterday and today

History of “Western Armenia” land of the 6 provinces of Van, Erzurum, Harput, Bitlis, Diyarbakir and Sivas; ‘Eastern Armenian Region’ Ani, Kars provinces, also Sason important centers Gürün, Cunkuş, Zara, Mus, Erzincan, from Egin, the author enriched he shot 125 photos and map book, a guide for those who want to travel to this region. Karani, the church, the monastery and told the history of the village; In 100 cases the previous year and the current razed a book that reveals the circumstances been, ‘Hidden Armenians’ has prepared a section called.

since 1915, eliminating many of the cultural monument removed or used for other purposes that emphasizes the Karani, a journey of discovery that challenges the devastation promises. For those who can not return to their homeland, the old and the new way to book presents detailed been illustrated, this aspect is not just a travel guide, navigate from himself.

Among the reasons that make this trip special book, you can go to the area of how to book, where you can visit, the proposal on how to assess your time day to day taking place. Karani, the first part of the journey to a page in the book will commemorate Hrant Dink said.

Those who want to get the book, the following addresses can learn.

‘East and a life devoted to Western Armenia

Matthew Karani who received legal training in California, lived and worked for many years in Armenia. Karani, who teaches law at American University in Yerevan that, since 2003, with a law student magazine ‘Armenian Law Review’ began to remove. US and Canada in various magazines, articles have been published that describe Armenia. Since 1995, the research, ‘the Eastern and Western Armenia was organized many trips. A previous study of the Karanian, after traveling again penned in English ‘in Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide’ (Armenia and Karabakh: The Stone Garden Travel Guide) was the book.

Yervant Dink “Hasan Cemal life is in danger! THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK “THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE-1915”

December 21, 2014 By administrator

On December 11 in Yerevan during the presentation of his book “Armenian Genocide in 1915,” translated from Turkish into Armenian Hasan Cemal, the grandson of Cemal (Cemal) Pasha one of the organizers of the Armenian Genocide was the subject a scandal. The Armenian translator Roupen Melkonian had accused Hasan Cemal for asking -with the help of the editor Hrant Foundation Dink- the withdrawal of several passages in the original book in Turkish. In these passages including Hasan Cemal criticized “ASALA terrorist organization” and referred to “the occupation by Armenia of Azerbaijani territories.” These revelations during the public presentation Hasan Cemal’s book had the effect of a scandal, which led the author and journalist Hasan Cemal to cancel its upcoming appointments presentation of the book in diaspora.

In an interview with our fellow Armenian Tert.am, Yervant Dink, brother of Hrant Dink says it is worried about the life of Hasan Cemal whose head was a price by the Turks military. “Turkish armed groups,” Tchétiénner “have already decided the fate of Hasan Cemal. There is an atmosphere of fear around his scheduled murder and now his life is in danger, “said Yervant Dink. For passages removed his Armenian version of the book by Hasan Cemal, Yervant Dink evokes a translator handling and minimizes About Hasan Cemal. “He has already stated that it may also be wrong about certain facts or matters as it holds not the absolute truth, “said Yervant Dink about Hasan Cemal.” This book of Hasan Cemal on the Armenian genocide is not written for Armenians, it is primarily the 80 million people in Turkey. The Armenian player knows the reality of the Armenian genocide (…) we want that in Turkey the distribution of this book reaches the million copies. “Said the brother of Hrant Dink.

“In Turkey, Hasan Cemal is recognized as a great editor and writer. Of the 80 million people of Turkey at least 60 million know. Hasan Cemal not only expressed his views on the Armenian genocide, but also on other issues such as Kurdish southeast of Turkey or the question of the Alevis. The Kurdish question is now the subject of negotiations, Hasan Cemal was one of the architects of this dialogue. Feel its influence in Turkey! “Continues Yervant Dink.

He continues, “In Turkey there are some hidden nationalist forces, armed groups that specifically act to a national goal. They have already decided the fate of Hasan Cemal. The risk of his assassination is present. His life is in danger. Its position in favor of national minorities are not appreciated by those nationalist forces. Hasan Cemal has often opposed the armed force, the force of power, and Turkey there is a strong personality who faces these forces. The life of this man is also at risk for bringing to light the issue of the Armenian genocide … but I see that in Armenian, there is no information about it … (…) I see now some groups in Armenia want to dirty the name of Hasan Cemal. This is also the case in Turkey, where for example the Talaat Pasha Committee carries a serious hatred against Hasan Cemal. And now this man fell into the fire! Turkey now we fear for his life. “Yervant Dink continues,” If I speak in Turkey of the Armenian genocide, the Turks say that I am Armenian, and my words will not be heard strongly. But the word of a man like Hasan Cemal will be much heard and reach faster the ear of government. Our claim is field in Turkey is in Turkey that we must be active. »

Finally, on the issue of recognition of the Armenian Genocide Hasan Cemal, Yervant Dink concludes, “Hasan Cemal said when he was in Armenia” I am a man, I am not a government official, but if I were, I would recognize the Armenian genocide and ask forgiveness to the Armenians. And whether to raise the issue of compensation should also address and achieve. “ What should he say even stronger Hasan Cemal? The grandson of Cemal Pasha said that there was genocide, we do not say that this statement is sufficient. Myself for this book Hasan Cemal I have criticisms and I’m fifty questions. “

Krikor Amirzayan