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Hrant Dink Foundation 2015 calendar has been published

December 29, 2014 By administrator

Hrant Dink Foundation’s calendar for 2015 has been published. 1915 calendar dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in the dispersed pattern of death in the world survive the journey, tells the story of the forced change of religion.

Turkish, English, Armenian prepared 2015 calendar, the 1915 Genocide to look at different aspects, died of remembrance, outgoing, and the rest are to understand, not to forget to live the rest of art, history for a fair future and present talk, get the occasion to share he prepared.

53 text and include a different topic every week in 64 calendar which takes place visually. Hrant Dink Foundation, located in preparing stories in the press release calendar, which says:

“One night the arrested death sent the leading intellectuals of the Armenian community will re-read rooting struggling and the stories of those who have been forced to forget the language changed his religion to be able to continue living in their own homes scattered to the four corners survival succeed in the world of death journey they were removed. In this story, the, now forced migration conscientiously opposed to Avoid statesmen, now face those involved in breaking years of silence, now a book or a movie, it will be the root learned after kah identity fifty accompanied with pursuing. ”

Calendar also public holidays, as well as Muslims, Alevis, Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, Musevei of, EZiD and Kurds are also included festivals and special days.

AYF Australia Gets Robertson Book on Genocide into Libraries

December 23, 2014 By administrator

SYDNEY—The Armenian Youth Federation of Australia (AYF Australia) has announced it has succeeded in getting libraries around the country to purchase and display “An Inconvenient Genocide,” which is Geoffrey Robertson’s recently-released book on the Armenian Genocide.

Over the past month, AYF Australia worked closely with libraries in Sydney and Melbourne, writing letters and making phone calls, to ensure this book — which unequivocally proves the legal case of the Armenian Genocide — is available to be borrowed by community members, as well as students who study the Armenian Genocide as part of the New South Wales syllabus. AYF Australia advises the community to read the book and make the authorities of the country change their position on the Armenian Genocide. The Head of the Armenian National Committee of Australia, Vache Kahramanian, stated that the book will pave a great way to change the country authorities’ position on the Armenian Genocide.

Australia’s largest Armenian youth organization was pleased to announce that 13 local and university libraries have purchased 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

Turkey, Stories of Armenian survivors of 1915 compiled in new book

December 19, 2014 By administrator

The stories of Armenians who survived the mass killings of the late Ottoman era have been gathered in a book titled “100 years… Real Stories.”
The 47 stories inside the book – which were collected as part of the “Turk Who Saved Me” project supported by the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and realized by the Armenia-based Armedia Agency and the European Integration Non-Governmental Organization – are presented in the words of the survivors with minimal editing, bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos has reported.

The book has been translated into Armenian, English and Turkish, and will be distributed free of charge as part of the project.

Lilit Gasparyan, who translated the book into Turkish, said they had selected 47 stories for publication but received many more after initially calling for contributions.

“We deliver the verified, real stories of the people who survived the genocide thanks to the efforts of their Turkish neighbors, friends or ordinary Turks,” said Gasparyan.

Journalist Aris Nalcı, who coordinated the project, said similar projects also needed to be conducted in Turkey.

The year 2015 marks the centenary of the 1915 Ottoman Armenian mass killings during World War I. While Armenia and some countries legally refer to the incidents as “genocide,” the Turkish state does not accept the term and says the issue should be reviewed from a wider perspective.

Video-Interview: Armenian Cinema book Overview with Prof. George Bournoutian

December 15, 2014 By administrator

Quick Overview

This book is the first English language study of Armenian cinema. It is divided into twelve chapters, followed by an appendix on animation.

Chapter 1 explores the birth of cinema in Armenia in 1899 with a screening in Yerevan and provides the setting for the following survey. Chapter 2 is dedicated to the founder of the Armenian cinema, Hamo Beknazaryan, whose work represents an entire era not only of Armenian but also in Soviet cinema, since his name stands alongside those of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, and other great filmmakers. Chapter 3 concerns other works created during the silent period in Armenia. Chapter 4 discusses the processes of Armenian cinema in the Stalin era, broadly covering the period from 1930 to 1959. New filmmakers appeared on the stage during those years. The role of the short film genre is mentioned, as well as films that were shelved by Soviet censorship. Chapter 5 analyzes the most significant films for the subsequent rise of Armenian cinema as well as musical films. Chapters 6 and 7 are devoted to prominent filmakers, Sergei Parajanov and Artavazd Peleshyan, subjecting their works to theoretical and morphological analyses.

Siranush Galstyan

Professor Siranush Galstyan received her degree from the Yerevan State (the former Yerevan State Polytechnic Institute) in 1991. In 1999 she graduated from the School of History of Cinema, Theory and Film Criticism at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema. In 2008, she completed her doctoral thesis “Metaphors, Symbols and Allegory in Armenian Cinema,” at the Institute of Arts in the Academy of Sciences of Armenia in Yerevan. Since 1995, she had been contributing critical and theoretical articles to various newspapers and magazines in Armenia. Some of her work has also been published abroad. Beginning in 1999, she has lectured on the History of Film at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema and, since 2002, at the Yerevan State University. She has been a member of the FIRESCI since 2000 and the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia since 2007. She has also participated as FIPRESCI jury member at different film festivals.

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Taner Akcam’s new book devoted to the forceful Islamization of the Armenians

December 9, 2014 By administrator

December 9, 2014

Turkish intellectual Taner Akcam, who has recognized the Armenian Genocide, has released a book entitled “forceful Islamization of the Armenian”. Silence Denial and Assimilation”. As armenPress reports, the book is available at all bookstores in Turkey.

“I referred to the Ottoman Turkish archives and tried to present the history of the forceful islamization of the Armenian,” Akcam mentioned. according to Him, the book shows that the forceful Islamization was not a result of Islamic fanaticism, but the result of the policy on forcefully gathering and assimilating children and forcing young girls to marry. “These weren’t the direct actions, but one of the elements required for perpetration of the Armenian Genocide,”the Turkish historian emphasized.

Armenian Cinema Book Siranush Galstyan: An Overview

December 6, 2014 By administrator

Siranush Galstyan

Quick Overview

This book is the first English language study of Armenian cinema. It is divided into twelve chapters, followed by an appendix on animation.

Chapter 3 concerns other works created during the silent period in Armenia. Chapter 4 discusses the processes of Armenian cinema in the Stalin era, broadly covering the period from 1930 to 1959. New filmmakers appeared on the stage during those years. The role of the short film genre is mentioned, as well as films that were shelved by Soviet censorship. Chapter 5 analyzes the most significant films for the subsequent rise of Armenian cinema as well as musical films.

Chapters 6 and 7 are devoted to prominent filmakers, Sergei Parajanov and Artavazd Peleshyan, subjecting their works to theoretical and morphological analyses. Chapter 8 is about Armenian documentary cinema and its unique traditions. Chapter 9 deals with the theme of World War II in Armenian cinema. Chapter 10 focuses on the creative search during the 1970s for variety in style and genre, which increased film production. The films of Henrik Malyan and Frunze Dovlatyan are singled out in the discussion, and the most famous films of those years and their international recognition are examined. Chapter 11 explores the work of filmmakers who left their trace on Armenian cinema during the 1970s and 1980s, representing the way of thinking of a new generation and their films, and the successful adaptations of classical works. The chapter also offers a summary of Armenian cinema of the Soviet period. Finally, chapter 12 deals with feature films and documentaries of the post-Soviet era (1990-2010), exploring changes of consciousness and representations of national identity in films of the new era, as well as the international recognition of some films. The appendix provides a brief history of Armenian animation.
While writing the book, the author has tried not to omit any important or significant film or filmmaker. In certain cases, she also dwelt on the actors and their performances as well as the camera operators’ work and the films’ music. As in art history, it is even more so in film history that the content of films is closely connected or even inseparable from the history of the country of production. Therefore, the author sometimes draws brief parallels to decisive and important events in Armenia. Only thanks to such details and explanations do some national nuances of the films become perceptible.

The author has discussed mainly the formation and development of Armenian film history in the context of Soviet cinema, and in some cases, as for example Beknazaryan’s, Parajanov’s, and Peleshyan’s films, she has explored their original film language and their distinctive style in the context of world cinema.
No matter how modern is the look of the book, it would be incorrect to ignore or dismiss the observations of film critics of previous generations; therefore, the author has often given quotations from articles and books from the distant and not so distant past, thus relating past assessments to present views.

Siranush Galstyan

Professor Siranush Galstyan received her degree from the Yerevan State (the former Yerevan State Polytechnic Institute) in 1991. In 1999 she graduated from the School of History of Cinema, Theory and Film Criticism at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema. In 2008, she completed her doctoral thesis “Metaphors, Symbols and Allegory in Armenian Cinema,” at the Institute of Arts in the Academy of Sciences of Armenia in Yerevan. Since 1995, she had been contributing critical and theoretical articles to various newspapers and magazines in Armenia. Some of her work has also been published abroad. Beginning in 1999, she has lectured on the History of Film at the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinema and, since 2002, at the Yerevan State University. She has been a member of the FIRESCI since 2000 and the Union of Cinematographers of Armenia since 2007. She has also participated as FIPRESCI jury member at different film festivals.

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Published: 2015

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Cemal Pasha grandson to present Genocide book in Yerevan

December 6, 2014 By administrator

Yerevan will host a presentation of the “1915: The Armenian Genocide” book, authored by Hassan Cemal, the grandson of the Genocide orchestrator Cemal Pasha.

The event will be held December 11 in the framework of the Civilitas Foundation project Climbing the Mountain.

A prominent Turkish journalist and writer, Hasan Cemal was the Chief Editor of the Cumhuriyet daily, and columnist for Sabah and Milliyet daily papers. He extensively covered the Kurdish issue and has been criticized by the Turkish government for his publications.

In 2008, after a visit to the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Hasan Cemal left a note in the commemorative book, stating that the denial of the 1915 atrocities spells complicity in this crime against humanity. In his book released in 2012, Hasan Cemal highlights his personal experience of going from the Genocide denial to the recognition of the tragedy.

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide (1915-23) was the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I. It was characterized by massacres, and deportations involving forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees, with the total number of deaths reaching 1.5 million.

The majority of Armenian Diaspora communities were formed by the Genocide survivors.

Present-day Turkey denies the fact of the Armenian Genocide, justifying the atrocities as “deportation to secure Armenians”. Only a few Turkish intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk and scholar Taner Akcam, speak openly about the necessity to recognize this crime against humanity.

The Armenian Genocide was recognized by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, the Italian Chamber of Deputies, majority of U.S. states, parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium and Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Chamber of Commons of Canada, Polish Sejm, Vatican, European Parliament and the World Council of Churches.

The Armenian-Turkish Protocols

The Protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of the border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks held through Swiss mediation.

On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia found the protocols conformable to the country’s Organic Law.

Commenting on the CC ruling, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that “it contains preconditions and restrictive provisions which impair the letter and spirit of the Protocols.” ”The decision undermines the very reason for negotiating these Protocols as well as their fundamental objective. This approach cannot be accepted on our part. Turkey, in line with its accustomed allegiance to its international commitments, maintains its adherence to the primary provisions of these Protocols. We expect the same allegiance from the Armenian government,” the Ministry said.

New Book on Genocide To be Sent to Turkish Leaders

November 22, 2014 By administrator

YEREVAN (PanArmenian.net)—On October 17, the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum, Dr. Hayk Demoyan hosted a presentation of his book “Armenian Genocide: Front Page Coverage in the World Press.”

The illustrated volume, released in Armenian and English languages, contains reports of the British, French, American, Italian, Russian, Austrian, Czech, German and Norwegian media on the crime against humanity committed in the Ottoman Empire.

The Genocide Museum and Demoyan himself spent six years to gather from the world press of 19th and 20th centuries the materials detailing the atrocities, published on the front pages.

During the presentation, Demoyan signed three copies of the book to be sent to Turkish President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. “From now on, all publications on the Armenian Genocide will be sent to the above-mentioned [Turkish] officials,” he said.

The publication was sponsored by Ameria Group of Companies.

“This book is the expression of our gratitude to the countries and people who lent a helping hand to Armenians. Sponsorship in the publication of the book was a matter of honor to Ameria. It’s been our 3rd collaboration with the Genocide Museum and we’re proud with the partnership. As Hemingway says, the bell tolls for all, it is in the heart of each of us, and this book can let other people hear it who study our history,” Ameria Development Director Tigran Jrbashyan said.

Paris: Hasan Cemal grand son of Djemal Pasha, to AGBU: the honor of Turkey

October 25, 2014 By administrator

How come to recognize the Armenian genocide when is the little son of Djemal Pasha, one of the three organizers with Talat Pasha and Enver Pasha Company extermination? How to make this gesture when ADDITION your grandfather was the victim of a commando vigilante Armenian? These are the birth pangs of this intellectual, both very intimate and very symbolic of the bad conscience of his own country, came to talk with Hasan Cemal Friday evening in Paris. The man who was on the platform of Alex Manoogian AGBU center had another life before move toward recognition of the Armenian genocide. He was columnist for Milliyet, well known journalist in Turkey. Considered one of the opinion leaders in the country, he in addition, the ear of the authorities. Social status who suffered the consequences of the publication of his book event in 1915: the Armenian genocide, which was released in 2012.

This book has sparked controversy and he came to explain the genesis echoes the personal questioning that begins to engage Turkey on this crime founder erected in real national taboo. Prohibits a state that has started to crack in the years 70-80, with the emergence of the Armenian cause in the international news, and that has been eroded by the work of early scholars and publishers Turkish historians on the issue in the 90s, but that was largely undermined by the action of Hrant Dink. Work, words, and the tragic assassination of Armenian journalist of the seat in front of Agos newspaper in Istanbul in January 2007 was the catalyst for free speech on the Armenian genocide, he explained.

Hasan Cemal, Samson Ozararat, Alexis Govciyan.

Hasan Cemal posed in front of a packed a very deep series of questions about taboos, scourges of nationalism, racism, Holocaust denial, but also the function of intellectuals in his country. How can we live in an environment that forces to hide its origin? If he asked, referring to the case of two of its illustrious confreres columnists, Mehmet Ali Birand and Ilhan Celik, which had to wait for death to learn that was the first Kurdish mother and second mother Armenian. Secret they had hidden throughout their lives. These are banned, generated by, which has so long imprisoned his own thought, Hasan Cemal has shelled before an audience Turkish-Armenian who drank in his words Turkish dominant ideology.

Referring to “the fear of history” to which Turkey is facing, he told the process that brought nationalism to theorize and put into practice the unity of its people, trying to merge in a share of the Turkishness differences among Sunni Muslims and by, secondly, the elimination of non-Muslims.
“Do you have any taboos? “Hasan Cemal launched in the room. “Mine is genocide. And it is also that of my country. “ And yet, “we can not escape history” he exclaimed denouncing nationalism as a disease. “We need to move the stones.” Even though the year was it painful. For Hasan, who has the most “moving stones” to lose his life is Hrant Dink, with whom he says he forged an imaginary dialogue, inside the genocide memorial in Yerevan on this day in the summer of 2008 where it was collected. A tribute to his friend close this fine speech writing, that simultaneously translated Kirkor Adjéranian and the content will be published in the Turkish press on 25 October.

The evening was followed by questions from the audience. Hasan Cemal to specify particular he has little family. Just two cousins who have not criticized his book. He referred to the little son of Enver Pasha, who worked in Turkey for an American firm weapon and daughter of Talat Pasha, chemist, that chance led him to work for a time with his father, eldest son of Djemal Pasha, in a cement company. He has no contact with them. On the issue of reparations, Hasan Cemal said he was not an expert in the field and returned the book to the public, showing all the same knee-jerk reactions aroused by the mention of this problem in Turkey … However, he thinks that Turkey will eventually recognize the genocide. Citing the difficulties of France to confront the war in Algeria and even those from Germany (he said that 65% of Germans had expressed hostile gesture Willy Brand, who was kneeling at Auschwitz) he believes that Turkey is not the only country in the world to back the dark pages of its past, even though he fought this attitude. He also qualified as a crime against humanity that the Armenians were uprooted from their land which he thinks they keep nostalgia.
The meeting ended with the signing of the book Cemal. A book in Turkish awaits translation into French.

The intellectual was accompanied by Ozararat Samson, who runs with Kirkor Adjéranian SOS Armenia-Cote d’Azur, co-organizer of the meeting with AGBU ile-de-France.

Alexis Govciyan, President of AGBU Europe, who introduced and closed the meeting by announcing that it rightly was exceptional, said, aptly, the words of Raymond Aron: “Men are the history, but they do not know the story they do. “The flower of the Turkish elites seems all fine and well if his eyes open at the same time his heart on this terrifying episode that marked the birth of the Republic. Comments that led Antoine Bagdikian, president of the ANACRA (Armenian veterans and resistant) to proclaim from the ranks of the public he saw Hasan Cemal “the honor of Turkey.” A widely shared by the audience that evening feeling.

Photo Krikor Djirdjirian