Putin to attend Armenian Genocide Centennial events in Yerevan

March 13, 2015 By administrator

President of Russia Vladimir Putin

President of Russia Vladimir Putin will attend commemoration events dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan, his spokesperson confirmed.

“Yes, he will fly to Yerevan,” Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesperson told AFP, adding that the Russian leader had discussed the issue with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisian by telephone on Thursday .

As reported earlier, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan discussed the upcoming personal contacts during a phone conversation on Thursday.

Armenian Genocide Centennial in D.C.: Events Proceeding at Top Speed

March 11, 2015 By administrator

By Florence Avakian on March 11, 2015

Mark Geragos to MC banquet

WASHINGTON—Preparations for the Armenian Genocide Centennial commemorations, slated to take place in Washington, D.C., from May 7-9, are proceeding with speed as details emerge daily. The unique event will present a united Armenian-American community, bolstered by dedicated supporters from the American and worldwide religious, diplomatic, and governmental fields.

The commemoration is the work of the Armenian Dioceses and the Armenian Prelacies in the United States working together on all levels, including organizational and fundraising efforts.

Leading the three-day commemoration will be the Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I. This will be their first appearance together following the inspiring ceremony on April 23 in Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia, which will anoint the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide as saints.

Also attending the commemoration will be Armenian President Serge Sarkisian. President Barak Obama and members of Congress have been issued special invitations by both the National Council of Churches and the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops.

Appreciation, unity, awareness, revival

The weekend will begin at Washington’s famed National Cathedral on Thursday evening, May 7 at 7 p.m., with Catholicos Karekin II and Catholicos Aram I jointly leading clergy of the Armenian Church and heads of other faiths in prayers of remembrance, respect, unity, and revival. The keynote speaker in the cathedral will be the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Rev. Olav Fyske Tviet.

On Friday evening, May 8, beginning at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, a special program entitled, “A Journey through 100 Years of Armenian Music,” will be presented. A group of compositions, both classical and contemporary by the beloved Komitas Vartabed, framed especially for the Genocide Centennial, will be presented. A surprise grand finale awaits the presentation.

Among the acclaimed musicians taking part are the renowned Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hover Chamber Choir of Armenia. Also performing will be celebrated sopranos Isabel Bayrakdarian and Hasmik Papian, pianists Sahan Arzruni and Serouj Khradjian, violinists Levon Chilingirian, Ara Gregorian, and Ida Kavafian, cellist Alexander Chaushian, and clarinetist Narek Arutunyan.

On the morning of Sat., May 9, starting at 10 a.m. at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, which holds 3,000 seats, Catholicos Karekin II and Catholicos Aram I will lead a magnificent rendering of the Holy Badarak (Divine Liturgy), sung by more than 150 members of choir representatives from Armenian churches in the United States. The choir will be conducted by New York’s St. Vartan Cathedral Choir Director Maestro Khoren Mekanejian, with St. Vartan Cathedral Dean, the Very Rev. Fr. Mamigon Kiledjian, accompanying on the organ.

“A Time to Give Thanks” will be the theme of the banquet taking place at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Saturday evening, May 9, starting with a reception at 6 p.m. Those dedicated individuals and institutions that helped and supported the Armenians in the past, and the present, will be honored. The master of ceremonies for this auspicious event will be the well-known California lawyer Mark Geragos. Among the evening’s musical performers will be the Zulal Acapella Trio. Entertainment activities for children will be provided during the banquet.

Throughout the three-day weekend, a number of related events will take place, including a tour and a lecture at the Library of Congress, and a tour of the American Indian Museum. There will also be a series of workshops, films, and exhibits throughout Washington and at the Marriott Marquis Hotel.

For hotel and event reservations, visit www.armeniangenocidecentennial.org.

BREAKING: City of Glendale Designates April 2015 As “Armenian Genocide Commemoration Month”

March 10, 2015 By administrator

By MassisPost

Glendale Designates April 2015 As “Armenian Genocide Commemoration Month”

GLENDALE – The Glendale City Council Tuesday presented a proclamation designating the Month of April 2015 as “Armenian Genocide Commemoration Month.” Mayor Zareh Sinanyan presented the proclamation during the regular session of the City Council to representatives of the Armenian-Genocide Centennial Committee of Western United States.

The Glendale City Council also unanimously passed a Resolution designating April 2015 as the “Month of Commemoration of Centennial Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide”; and Taking Actions Necessary to Ensure the City and its Institutions Including Schools, Libraries and Publicly Owned Museums Properly Commemorate, Inform and Provide Education About the Genocide.

Below is the text of the Resolution:

RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE DESIGNATING APRIL 2015 AS THE “MONTH OF COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE”; AND TAKING ACTIONSNECESSARY TO ENSURE THE CITY AND ITS INSTITUTIONS INCLUDING SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES AND PUBLICLY OWNED MUSEUMS PROPERLY COMMEMORATE, INFORM AND PROVIDE EDUCATION ABOUT THE GENOCIDE

WHEREAS, the Armenian people were subjects of a systematic and premeditated Genocidal campaign which began on April 24, 1915, at the hands of the Young Turk Government of the Ottoman Empire from 1915-1919, and which continued at the hands of the Kemalist Movement of Turkey from 1920-1923 whereby over 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children were slaughtered or marched to their deaths in an effort to annihilate the Armenian Nation in the First modem Genocide of the 20th century, while thousands of surviving Armenian women and children were forcibly converted and Islamized, and hundreds of thousands more were subjected to ethnic cleansing during the period of the modern Republic of Turkey from 1924-1937; and

WHEREAS, during the genocides of the Christians living in the Ottoman Empire and surrounding regions which occurred during the first half of the 20th Century, hundreds of thousands of Assyrians, Greeks and other Christians, lost their lives at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Republic of Turkey, and
WHEREAS, these crimes against humanity also had the consequence of permanently removing all traces of the Armenians and other targeted people from their historic homelands of more than four millennia, and enriching the perpetrators with the lands and other property of the victims of these crimes, including the usurpation of several thousand churches; and

WHEREAS, in response to the Genocide and at the behest of the President Woodrow Wilson and the U.S. State Department, the Near East Relief organization was founded, and became the first Congressionally-sanctioned American philanthropic effort created exclusively to provide humanitarian assistance and to rescue the Armenian Nation and other Christian minorities from annihilation, who went on to survive and thrive outside of their ancestral homeland all over the world and specifically in the State of California; and

WHEREAS, the planning and implementation of Genocide is indisputably recognized in international law as a Crime Against Humanity and is punishable as such, yet has remained unpunished for nearly one hundred years, as the government of Turkey is allowed with impunity to distort history and to deny the Genocide and its consequences perpetrated both by its Ottoman predecessor and its subsequent regimes despite international recognition of the Armenian Genocide by 23 countries, including the United States of America; and

WHEREAS, the Republic of Turkey inexplicably and adamantly has denied the occurrence of the crimes against humanity committed by the Ottoman and Young Turk rulers for many years, and continues to do so a full century since the first crimes constituting genocide occurred despite the Turkish governments’ earlier admissions and the overwhelming proof of genocidal intent; and

WHEREAS, the Republic of Turkey has escalated its international campaign of Genocide denial; it maintains its illegal blockade of humanitarian aid to the Republic of Armenia, and steadily increases its pressure on any movement in Turkey acknowledging the Armenian Genocide and seeking justice for its victims and other persecuted indigenous minorities; and WHEREAS, this resolution declares that the Glendale City Council deplores the persistent, ongoing efforts by any person, in this country or abroad, to deny the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide and its related atrocities; and WHEREAS, every person should be made aware of and educated about the Armenian Genocide and other crimes against humanity, and know that April 24, 1915 is globally recognized as the commencement of the Armenian Genocide and that 2015 marks the centennial anniversary since its commencement.

NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GLENDALE AS FOLLOWS:

1. That April 2015 is hereby designated as the “City of Glendale Month of Commemoration of the Centennial Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923″, in order to ensure that the Armenian Genocide is properly commemorated and taught to the community at large, to the schools, their faculty and student body, and to visitors to Glendale through educational and cultural events.

2. That the Glendale City Council hereby commends the extraordinary service which was delivered by Near East Relief to the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and Assyrian Genocide, including thousands of direct beneficiaries of American philanthropy who are the parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents of many Californian residents, and the City Council reaffirms its commitment to working with community groups, nonprofit organizations, City personnel, and the Glendale Unified School District to host campus wide educational events dedicated specifically to these efforts as an important part of American history.

3. That the Glendale City Council calls upon the President of the United States 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 toward a fair, just, and comprehensive international resolution of this crime against humanity, including reparations to the Armenian nation.

4. That the Glendale City Council transmit copies of this Resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, to the Majority Leader of the United States Senate, to each United States Senator and Member of Congress from California, to the Governor of California, and every member of the California State Legislature, to the California State Superintendent of Instruction, and to the Turkish Ambassador to the United States.

NYTimes: Armenian Leaders Establish Rights Award to Commemorate Centenary of Genocide

March 9, 2015 By administrator

By RICK GLADSTONE
March 10, 2015

Leaders in the Armenian diaspora, preparing to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, have collaborated with Hollywood celebrities and human rights advocates to create a prize to be awarded annually to those who put themselves at risk to ensure that others survive. NYT

The humanitarian prize, to be announced on Tuesday in New York, is part of an expansive effort by prominent Armenians to ensure that the history of the genocide by Turkish Ottoman troops, which is still disputed by Turkey’s government, is documented and archived through the stories of survivors and their saviors, in ways similar to the chronicling of the Jews’ suffering in the Holocaust.

The effort, the Armenian sponsors said, will emphasize how survivors of the genocide — people who in some cases were protected by sympathetic Turks — went on to lead successful lives as they and their descendants spread throughout the world, many of them relocating to Russia and the United States.

About 1.5 million Armenians died from 1915 to 1923 in what is widely acknowledged as the 20th century’s first genocide. About 500,000 survived, many because of interventions by foreign individuals and institutions. The official commemoration of the genocide in Armenia begins next month.

“The humanity, generosity, strength and sacrifice shown by those who saved so many Armenians compels us to tell these stories,” said Ruben Vardanyan, an Armenian investment banker and philanthropist who grew up in Russia and is a co-sponsor of the commemoration effort, known as the 100 Lives Initiative.

“My grandfather was saved by a missionary,” Mr. Vardanyan said in an interview, crediting his existence today to that event.

Along with commemorating the survivors and those who saved them, the effort will establish a $1 million award, to be called the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity, to be given starting next year. The winners will not keep the money, instead presenting it to the organizations that they identify as the inspirations for their work.

The award is named after a survivor of the genocide, Aurora Mardiganian, who as a child was forced to witness the deaths of family members. She devoted her life to raising awareness of the genocide and starred in a 1919 film called “Ravished Armenia.”

Mr. Vardanyan and his associates collaborated with Not On Our Watch, an organization founded by George Clooney and other celebrities — including Don Cheadle, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt — that seeks to prevent mass atrocities. Its principal undertaking in the past few years has been to document, through satellite imagery, evidence of possible atrocities in parts of Africa; the effort is known as the Satellite Sentinel Project.

In a statement, Mr. Clooney said his group shared a common goal with the Armenian sponsors, “to focus global attention on the impact of genocide as well as putting resources toward ending mass atrocities around the world.”

Members of the selection committee for the prize, which has yet to be finalized, resembles a Who’s Who of personalities in human rights advocacy and Armenian success. They include Mr. Clooney as well as the Nobel Peace Prize winners Elie Wiesel and Óscar Arias; Mary Robinson, a former United Nations high commissioner for human rights; Gareth Evans, an adviser to the United Nations on genocide prevention; and Vartan Gregorian, an Iranian-born American academic who is president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Mr. Clooney is to award the inaugural prize at a ceremony to be held in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, on April 24, 2016, the sponsors said in a statement.

Fresno: Armenian Genocide Commemoration Preliminary Calendar of Events

February 15, 2015 By administrator

January 2-25, 2015 “Remembering Armenia” Photography Exhibit

Dr. Jane Kardashian and Michael Karibian

Spectrum Gallery, 608 E. Olive Ave, Fresno, California

Art Hop Reception Jan 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Open: Thursday 12:30-5:00 p.m.

Friday 12:30-8:00 p.m.

Saturday, Sunday11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Admission Free

January 24, 2015 Sayat Nova Choral Group of Los Angeles Hamazkayin

First Armenian Presbyterian Church

430 S. First Street, Fresno, California

January 8-February1 “/alter/pieces: degrees of sacrifice”

Hazel Antaramian-Hoffman art exhibit

Art Hop reception, Jan 8, 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Fig Tree Gallery 644 Van Ness Avenue, Fresno, California

Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12:00-4:00 p.m. Admission Free

February 11, 2015 “The Armenian Genocide in Film: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives” Part I, first in a three-part series of lectures by Kazan visiting Professor Dr.Myrna Douzjian (UCLA).

Organized by the Armenian Studies Program, California State University, Fresno

University Business Center, Alice Peters Auditorium Room 191 7:30 p.m.

Admission Free

February 21, 2015 Armenian Cultural Day

(Backgammon Tournament, Music, Dancing, Costumes,

Arts and Crafts, Food Demonstrations, Coffee Reading) 2:00 p.m.

Fresno, Art Museum, 2233 N. First Street, Fresno, California 93703

Open Thursdays-Sundays 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Admission: $5.00 for non-members, Free for members

Children under 5 years of age are free

March 2- April 9 Art Exhibits:

“Armenia Observed”

Photography by Peter Carapetian

and they walked for you and for me

Installation by Joyce Gostanian Kierejczyk

Art Space Gallery, Fresno City College Admission Free

1101 E. University Ave., Fresno, California

Art Hop Reception March 9, 2014 4:00-8:00 p.m.

Hours: Monday/Tuesday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.,

Wednesday/Thursday 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.

Closed Friday-Sunday

Closed March 30-April 3

March 8, 2015 Chookasian Ensemble and Dance Troup

100th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide “Essaï: I do not forget – Chem morana” Video

February 4, 2015 By administrator

On the occasion of the 100th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, singer-songwriter Essaï, family name Altounian, created a song especially dedicated to the victims of genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman government. “I do not forget,” his new single will take off in Armenia even this week, where Essaï went to promote.

Istanbul: Thousands march to mark 8th anniversary of slain journalist’s Hrant dink murder

January 19, 2015 By administrator

Thousands of people have started marching from Taksim Square to the headquarters of the Agos newspaper to commemorate slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot dead outside his newspaper’s office in Şişli on Jan. 19, 2007, on the eighth anniversary of his assassination. Report Today Zaman

The large-scale march kicked off at 1:30 p.m. on Monday in İstanbul’s Taksim Square and will end in front of the Agos newspaper, which is on Halaskargazi Street in the Şişli district.

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairpersons Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ were also expected to attend the march.

Security forces have taken strict security measures in Taksim for the march.

Dozens of people, including Dink’s wife, Rakel Dink, and other members of the Dink family, gathered at the Balıklı Armenian Cemetery in the Zeytinburnu district of İstanbul on Sunday, one day before the eighth anniversary of Dink’s death. Carnations were laid on Dink’s grave.

Various journalists’ unions released statements on Monday to commemorate Dink.

Turkish Journalists Federation (TGF) Chairman Atilla Sertel said the case launched to find the perpetrators of Dink’s murder has not reached a conclusion that satisfies the public even though a long time has passed since the murder. Noting that justice has not yet been served despite eight years having passed since Dink was shot to death in the middle of the street, Sertel said they want the real perpetrators to be revealed and they want them to justly suffer the consequences of their deeds.

A woman looks out of a window near a banner marking the eighth anniversary of the killing of Hrant Dink in İstanbul. The banner reads: “We are here, my brother. 8th year” (Photo: Reuters)

The Turkish Journalists Association (TGD) stated in its commemoration message on Monday: “The murderers and the dark powers behind the Dink murder have not yet been punished, although years have passed. Hrant Dink, a journalist who was defending the unity and peaceful co-existence of communities in Turkey, and thus fighting against racism, was killed by a fascist mindset.”

In its commemoration message, the Turkish Journalists’ Society (TGC) highlighted that the real criminals behind the murder have not yet been revealed. It said the public conscience, which was damaged by the murder, can only be recovered after the real perpetrators are punished in a fair trial.

Dink was shot and killed by an ultra-nationalist teenager. The hit man, Ogün Samast, and 18 others were brought to trial. Since then, the lawyers for the Dink family and the co-plaintiffs in the case have presented evidence indicating that Samast did not act alone. Another suspect, Yasin Hayal, was given life in prison for inciting Samast to murder.

Istanbul: Hrant Dink commemorated on 8th year of murder

January 19, 2015 By administrator

Mourners have marched in Istanbul to commemorate Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, on the 8th anniversary of his killing.

The march started 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 from Taksim Square and ended with a homage to Dink in front of the Armenian weekly Agos newspaper’s office building in the Pangaltı neighborhood of the Şişli district.

The marchers observed one minute of silence and then chanted slogans in front of the Agos office.

Writer and poet Murathan Mungan gave a speech to the gathered crowd from the window of the office.

“This country not only lost a precious son, but also a prominent journalist. The absence of him and journalists like him is felt more in a period when journalism is suffering a huge loss of dignity. Even if only for this reason, we must look after Agos, which is Hrant Dink’s fouth child and his legacy,” Mungan said.

People have been waiting for justice for 12 years in a country ruled by a party that includes “justice” in its name, Mungan added.

“Hrant Dink spoke in the language of peace, as a person who had believed in the equality and brotherhood of all nations,” he said, adding that Dink was the 62nd person in Turkey who had paid the price of his words with his life.

“He was not the spokesperson of Armenians but the voice of all people of Turkey who were oppressed, excluded and exploited. His fight and the fight of those like him is not a fight that can be interrupted by their deaths. The crowds gathered on these squares show this,” Mungan said.

The parents of Berkin Elvan, who died in March 2014 after spending 269 days in a coma after being hit by a tear gas canister during a police crackdown during the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, also attended the ceremony.

Dink, the highly esteemed former editor-in-chief of weekly Agos, was murdered in broad daylight in front of his newspaper’s building on Jan. 19, 2007 by a 17-year-old Turkish nationalist.

The triggerman, Ogün Samast, was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to 22 years and 10 months of prison after a two year-trial.

The trial into the murder resumed Sept. 17, 2013 after the Supreme Court of Appeals ruled that all suspects in the case had acted as part of a criminal organization, rather than individually.

Istanbul’s 5th High Criminal Court, which is overseeing the case, announced on Oct. 30, 2014 that it will focus on the “criminal organization” allegations against suspects, a move that lawyers representing the victim’s family have demanded since the start of the retrial.

Yusuf Hayal and Erhan Tuncel are accused of convincing Samast in the Black Sea province of Trabzon to shoot Dink.

Civil servants and institutions allegedly implicated in the murder of Dink should be investigated, Turkey’s Constitutional Court stated in its detailed ruling on the case on Nov. 12, 2014. The court had earlier stated that the case had not been probed efficiently and the victim’s rights were violated, in a ruling issued in July 2014.

The ruling became a milestone in the case that has been lingering since the killing in 2007. It came after the Justice Ministry cleared the path for investigations into nine civil servants, including senior police officers occupying key posts at the time of the murder. The officials have been accused of negligence and threatening Dink before his death.

Before his killing, Dink had been called to a police department and warned about a possible plot against him. It is therefore thought that the murder plot was known about within some state institutions before it happened.

In a recent development, Muhittin Zenit and Özkan Mumcu, two police officers on duty at the police department in Trabzon when Dink was killed in Istanbul, were arrested. Zenit and Mumcu testified at court and were released immediately on Dec. 26, 2014.

Former Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah, former Trabzon police chief Reşat Altay, former Trabzon Police Intelligence Chief Faruk Sarı, former Istanbul Deputy Governor Ergun Güngör and former Istanbul Police Intelligence Chief Ahmet İlhan Güler have also testified as suspects in the case.

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France: commemorate hrant dink 8th years assassination

January 19, 2015 By administrator

January 19 – there are eight, Hrand Dink was cowardly assassinated in Istanbul in front of the offices of his Agos newspaper. Eight years after the tragic death of one who always sought to do justice to the Armenians in Turkey itself, the one who wanted the Turkish civil society and thus the Turkish state to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915 that Turkey finds his memory and History, who strongly denounced all obscurantism of the Turkish company first and foremost the State itself, so that one, we still lack Hrand Dink.

In January 19, 2015, in the centenary year of the Armenian Genocide, we have a thought for him, for his family and friends.

Eight years later we are still waiting for justice is Turkish and condemns not only the author but also all the sponsors, all the inspirers of this crime. Eight years later, we still expect that Turkey makes justice to the Armenian people by recognizing and repairing the Genocide crime committed in 1915. Eight years later, we still expect Turkey to end its denial policy with regard to the Armenian Genocide, it ceases to finance pseudo deniers research institutes, it ceases its denial propaganda in France based on the most extreme fringes of her community, she continues to support the ultra nationalist Turks that still threaten including physically, everyone in Turkey want to tell the truth about the Armenian Genocide. Eight years later, we still expect that Turkey continues its discriminatory policy, hateful, racist against the Armenians of Turkey but also Diaspora.

Eight years later, we see nothing on the horizon and even less since Erdogan’s election as head of state who week after week, gives the world his vision of Turkey, delusional, megalomaniacal and to be honest dangerous for peace and stability in the region. If Hrand Dink was among us, he would certainly be a fierce opponent of Mr Erdogan, with his words, with his ideas with his humor, but he could not accept the authoritarian and anti-democratic Turkey. He would certainly denounced Turkey this weapon, trains and assists Islamic terrorists against its Armenian brothers, Kurds, Yazidis, Christians, Muslims of Syria and Iraq.

Yes, eight years later, we still think of you Hrand Dink.

Beirut to host int’l conference on 100th anniv. of Armenian Genocide

January 19, 2015 By administrator

Haykazyan University of Beirut and the Lebanese central body for the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will organize on Jan 31-Feb 1 an international conference “Armenian Genocide centennial: Consequences and assignments”, sponsored by the head of the Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in Middle East, Megerdich Karageozian.

Suren Manukyan (The demographic, cultural, geographical, economic and political consequences of the Armenian Genocide), Vladimir Vardanyan (The elimination of the consequences of the Armenian genocide by international law), Zaven Msryan (The international community resistance during and after the Armenian genocide), Saleh Zahreddin (Genocide abuse by states against Turkey), Arsen Avagyan (Armenia-Turkey relations from 1991-2014), Tatul Hakobyan (Armenia- Turkey non-governmental relations), Bulent Bilmez (The attitude of Turkey towards minorities (1923-2014), Hranush Kharatyan (The status of Armenians in Modern Turkey: Islamized Armenians) will deliver reports with the above-mentioned titles.

Before closing the conference, the presentation of the volumes (in Arabic) “100 Arabian testimonies: The 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide” by Damascus University professor Nora Arisian and “Artsakh Diary: Green and Black” by journalist and expert at the ANI Center Tatul Hakobyan will be held.