Exceptional picture on the Armenian genocide survivors conducted by the Germans soldiers in Diyarbakir

September 26, 2015 By administrator

Haig Demoyan director of the Genocide Museum of Yerevan has announced that the museum has been enriched by a historical and exceptional image of the Armenian Genocide. On his Facebook site, Haig Demoyan says “a few days ago after much research, we managed to get their hands on a picture of 1915. It represents the Armenian orphans homeless, dragging through the streets of Diyarbakir and the Austrians military tending them bread. From this, witness the German words inscribed on the photo. In all likelihood this photo was made by the military Germans because it was found in Germany. This is an exceptional testimony to the consequences of the Armenian Genocide. “

Krikor Amirzayan

Armenia: More than a billion viewers for the events marking the centenary of the Armenian Genocide

September 26, 2015 By administrator

Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) – The programming on the celebrations dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian Genocide – concentrated especially from 22 to 24 April – were followed in the media around the world by 1.3 billion people.

This was said Chief of the Presidential Administration, Vigen Sargsyan, during a meeting with journalists on the sidelines of a forum dedicated to the collective memory of the massacres planned by the Young Turks in Anatolia in 1915 .

According to Vigen Sargsyan, the result reached by the broadcasts and reports on the Genocide is also due to the coordination established between the media operating in Armenia and Armenian media operators belonging to diaspora communities. (GV) (Agenzia Fides 09/25/2015)

Saturday, September 26, 2015,
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Memorial chess tournament in Toronto to mark Armenian Genocide

September 26, 2015 By administrator

One of the top chess masters in Canada will compete in Toronto during a memorial tournament held in honour of the victims of the Armenian genocide, CTV News reports.

The “Chess to Remember,” hosted in Toronto on Sunday, is meant to raise awareness of the death of 1.5 Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman government.

It’s being held as part of the commemoration of the Centenary of the Armenian Genocide, which began on April 24, 1915.

More than 80 participants have registered to take part in the event, including a grand chess master, four international masters and two women international masters. An additional five FIDE (World Chess Federation) masters and seven national masters will be in attendance.

The event will be broadcast live online.

The tournament takes place at the Toronto Armenian Community Centre. A total of $2,500 is up for grabs in prizes, trophies and medals.

Egypt’s new parliament to raise issue of Armenian Genocide acknowledgement

September 25, 2015 By administrator

Two of the largest political parties of Egypt, which have already announced that they accept the fact of the Armenian Genocide, will raise the question of acknowledging and condemning the Armenian Genocide in the parliament after the new elections in Egypt. Egypt’s Armenian National Committee member Armen Mazloumyan told the aforementioned to Armenian News – NEWS.am during the “I Remember and Demand” Expert Forum held in the framework of the events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

“Through 2 large parties, Armenian National Committee will try to introduce the issue of the Armenian Genocide acknowledgement in the new parliament. The Committee tried to reach the acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide by Egypt, but perhaps the time was not yet mature for that. But I think, Egypt has almost acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, since it hosted many Armenian refugees in 1915,” Mazloumyan said.

He also stressed the importance of informing the Egyptians about the Armenian Genocide, since the Turks and Azeris disseminate disinformation on the Armenian Genocide.

According to Mazloumyan, one of the most important issues in Egypt is the preservation of the Armenian community, Armenian school and cultural centers.

France: Choisy-le-Roi commemorates the centennial of the Armenian Genocide

September 24, 2015 By administrator

From September 24 to 26, the city of Choisy-le-Roi, in partnership with the County Council of Val-de-Marne, commemorates the centennial of the Armenian Genocide around several initiatives, with the descendants of refugees from Choisy-le-Roi as part of the International Day of Peace.

The centenary of the Armenian Genocide is an opportunity to discuss the history of Armenian refugees who settled in 1926 in Choisy-le-Roi at 1 bis rue Rouget de Lisle. In this house lived the refugees of the genocide and their descendants. The City and County Council Choisy highlight this tragic event and give to understand a major episode of early twentieth century.

In the program :

Urban Exposure: 1 bis Rue Rouget de Lisle, the Armenian house

September 19 to November 30

The exhibition presents the life of Armenian refugees who settled in Choisy-le-Roi in 1926, and the double culture developed by the generations that enriches our society. Exhibition on the gates of City Hall Park Avenue A. France in Choisy-le-Roi, complemented by an exhibition of objects in the municipal archives (16, av. A. France)

An evening lecture: Armenian refugees and the Val-de-Marne

Thursday, September 24: 18h

With the intervention of Bernard Dreano, member of the European Citizens Assembly and CEDETIM (center of studies and international solidarity initiatives) and Sevan Ananian, professor of history and geography.

Musical entertainment with Medz Bazar group, Armenian buffet.

Pavilion departmental archives, Departmental Archives – 10 rue des Archives, Creteil.

Evening Armenian Tales “Djilivii! “Friday 25 September-19h

By Christine Kiffer storyteller and singer Anouch

By opening the film “Lunch for memory” of Nicolas Bertrand will be screened.

Reservations at 01 75 37 60 70, from 12 years.

Mediatheque Louis Aragon – 17 rue Pierre Mendes France, Choisy-le-Roi.

Laying the memorial plaque to the “Armenian Home” in Choisy-le-Roi, Saturday, September 26 – 10:30

Musical and poetic animations with Anouche choir Meudon-the-Forest.

In the presence of Didier Guillaume, Mayor of Choisy-le-Roi –

With the support of Sofilogis. 1 bis rue Rouget de Lisle, Choisy-le-Roi.

Cinema meetings “100 years after the Armenian Genocide, build peace”

The Armenian chronic 1a Jocelyne Sarian.

Saturday, September 26 – 2:30 p.m.

The film traces the history of the Armenian refugee families of the 1915 genocide, welcomed at Choisy-le-Roi at 1 bis rue Rouget de Lisle, 1926. A story between East and West that resonates to this day . Screening followed by a discussion with the participation of Mrs. Claire Mouradian, historian of the Armenian diaspora in France, Gaïdz Minassian journalist in the world and representatives of associations: National Association of Armenian Veterans and Resistance (ANACRA), the Armenian Association Choisy-le-Roi (AACLER), the “Collective shared dream”, “Assembly of the Citizens from Turkey” and the European Anti-Racist Movement (EGAM).

The Royal Room – 13 Av Anatole France, Choisy-le-Roi..

Armenian Evening

Armenian meals, dances and songs of Armenia. Saturday, Sept. 26 – 19h Evening co-organized by the city of Choisy-le-Roi, the ANACRA and AACLER.

Admission fee upon reservation by email: d.artinian19@gmail.com

The Royal Room – 13 Av Anatole France, Choisy-le-Roi..

Thursday, September 24, 2015,
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Ambassador: Bundestag to adopt resolution on #ArmenianGenocide this fall

September 22, 2015 By administrator

YEREVAN. – Bundestag will adopt resolution on the Armenian Genocide this fall, German Ambassador to Armenia Matthias Kiesler said.

“There are some processes in the parliament, but I cannot name a precise date,” Ambassador said during a media conference dedicated to the first stage of program of Armenia-Turkey reconciliation.

Ambassador recalled the speeches made by President of Germany Joachim Gauck and chairman of Bundestag Norbert Lammert.

The Armenian Genocide was a subject of heated discussions in Germany, Mr. Kiesler said.

He informed about the visit to the Armenian Genocide Museum and Armenian Genocide Memorial complex together with Saxony Culture Minister who is in Yerevan.

New textbooks are made in Saxony and one of the chapters will be dedicated to the genocides of the past century, including the Armenian Genocide.

At the same time diplomat added that reconciliation between Armenia and Turkey should not depend on recognition by the parliaments of other countries only.

Read: an excerpt from 1915: the Armenian Genocide Cemal Hasan

September 20, 2015 By administrator

Hasan Cemal, 1915 Armenian genocide, Paris, Common Priairies, 2015, 288 pages, 23

The past never dies. Besides, the past is never really past.

Logbook. New York, April 2011

I am from Los Angeles. The back room of the Coffee Fanelli, one of my favorites, is still almost empty. Calm reigns. Only one or two tables are occupied.

I seat and tuck in my favorite place in front of the street. The servers have changed again. New York is like that, everything changes very quickly. In Paris, I know almost servers cafes of Saint-Germain-des-Prés of view. We can go back forty years and the same faces on his return. At least that’s the impression I have, maybe because I like to see some familiar faces returning to the same location years later.

I remember some editorials written here, especially two papers that had cost me particularly and that I had been able to complete with the help of a few glasses of whiskey.

One of them was devoted to the death of Handan Selçuk, the other to put in custody in the early morning, her husband, Ilhan Selcuk, as part of the Ergenekon case. Ilhan, big brother … Two particularly painful moments. On the one hand, shared memories, another justice who gets involved and what to write without feeling let speak. No wall between. It also should not that was the case.

Handan Ilhan and both occupy a special place in my life. Difficult in a short chronicle of honor that, while candidly addressing differences of opinion emerged between us over the years. The pen may slip at any time on one side or the other.

Such is life. The past does not give people too easily. Continue to wear itself, also true that we can not get rid of his brain. Sitting in the coffee Fanelli writing my editorial, I had in mind the image of Handan greeting me from afar or shaking the index as a warning …

Last night I was at the Blue Note jazz club with my wife Ayşe. Michel Legrand played piano and sang old nostalgic tunes. I thought of three days in New York last week, especially those few hours spent at Istanbul Armenian Association under the gaze of Hrant Dink. Garabet Efendi was to give his own name to the room but preferred to baptize in honor of Hrant ….

Garabet. His life is a real novel! Not just his, of course. I saw how these Anatolian Armenians gathered after years of wandering kept, buried deep within themselves, the pain of exile. Over the years, you learn to deceive. By relating their misfortunes, and the others kept Garabet good figure. But one felt a deep nostalgia of Anatolia and Istanbul did not leave them.

Ilhan why he hid his mother was Armenian? This question haunts me. Handan told me yet how Ilhan loved his mother and how her death had affected him, though he efforçât not leave it show.

France: The Armenian genocide taught in 3rd class

September 20, 2015 By administrator

The curriculum will integrate well the teaching of the Armenian Genocide. In the curriculum draft circulated by Le Monde yesterday, we read about the third class that will be addressed in the ongoing First World War. It is particularly indicated the following: “The third class gives students the keys to understanding the contemporary world. It allows to show the magnitude of the crisis that French companies, European and world have crossed, but also social and political changes it could engender. By mobilizing the civilian as well as military, the Great War is testing the cohesion of societies and sustained weakening of regimes in places. Combatants and civilians suffer extreme violence, which particularly reflects the genocide of Armenians in 1915 “.

Nothing seems to have to change at this level. On the contrary, since the genocide issue is clearly highlighted in the few lines devoted to the program of the First World War. It therefore appears that the Ministry of Education headed by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has resisted lobbying Ankara and its loyal supporters, as the academician Pierre Nora, who had campaigned for the removal of the teaching of the Armenian Genocide on the grounds that “choosing to focus on the Armenian Genocide in the First World War to the dedicated program falls history of ideological and electoral choice.”

Armenian Genocide Centennial concert to be held in US city

September 20, 2015 By administrator

A concert marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be held on October 11 in Troy, New York, USA.

Members of the Armenian, Jewish, Greek, Italian and Catholic communities will participate in this event, reported timesunion.com.

The first half of the program will feature performances by ensembles of diverse origin, including Armenian. The second half will feature the New York Catholic Chorale performing Armenian songs.

California: Nation’s 2nd Largest Teachers Union Unanimously Passes Armenian Genocide Resolution

September 18, 2015 By administrator

Participants raise their hands in favor of the measure, which passed unanimously

LOS ANGELES—On Wednesday, September 16, the United Teachers of Los Angeles House of Representatives (UTLA), the policy making body for the nation’s second largest teacher union local adopted a resolution recognizing 2015, as the “Year of Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and the month of April of every year thereafter as the month of Commemoration of the Anniversary Genocide”, reported the Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region (ANCA-WR).

“Our heartfelt appreciation goes to the UTLA’s leadership and membership for taking this historic and critical step to ensure that the Armenian Genocide is properly taught to the students and staff at LAUSD; and to educators Mr. and Dr. Sean and Suzie Abajian for leading the effort, Jose Lara and many others for their continuous support,” stated ANCA WR Executive Director Elen Asatryan. “This motion is particularly important because having the support and commitment of the teachers who are in the classrooms will ensure that genocide studies remains an important part of the high school social studies curriculum. We look forward to working with them and connecting them to the Genocide Education Project in providing the proper materials they may use both in World and American History classes to teach the next generation about the Armenian Genocide,” added Asatryan.

During the meeting, Asatryan took the floor to speak in support of the resolution on behalf of the ANCA-WR, highlighting that the case of the Armenian Genocide is not only a critical component of World History, but perhaps the proudest chapter in American history, during which time the Unites States and the American people helped rescue the Armenian nation through the Near East Relief in its most expansive humanitarian aid effort to date. “All students should be familiar with modern world history and this important part of American history, no matter what their course of study. Study of 20th Century world history would be incomplete without familiarity with the Armenian Genocide, its impact on global events, and subsequent genocides then, and also the manner in which it has shaped and affected the Armenian-American community of California,” Asatryan stated in her remarks. “Your commitment here today to teaching of the subject to faculty and students in Los Angeles Unified School District — notably the extraordinary response of Americans to the Genocide, will do exactly that,” she added before urging the UTLA leadership to echo the message of countless governing bodies, including the California State Legislature, the Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles Unified School District by conveying its support for a fair, just and comprehensive resolution of this crime against humanity.

Following Asatryan, author, filmmaker, former educator, and ANCA-WR Education Committee Member Kay Mouradian also spoke in support of the resolution, more specifically from an educator’s perspective. Mouradian went on to tell the capacity filled room the story of her mother, who was also a Genocide survivor, the significance in not allowing this important part of history to be forgotten or denied, and the critical role teachers play in preserving history.

Last to speak in support was the Vice President of the El Rancho Unified School District, Jose Lara, who also serves as the Coordinating Committee Member of the Ethnic Studies Now Coalition and is a member of the California Teachers Association and the California Federation of Teachers. In his remarks Lara stated, “This is exactly what our endorsement of the ethnic studies campaign is about. It’s about bringing stories of those who have been oppressed and marginalized. We have a large Armenian community in Los Angeles that needs to be recognized. It’s the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, and if we look at the world today and what’s going on around us, there are many lessons that need to be learned to understand modern day genocide such as the Armenian Genocide, and what happened to Armenia – so I urge you to pass this motion at this time.”

After closing the in-support comments portion, UTLA President Alex Caputo Pearl asked the membership if there was anyone in the room that would like to speak in opposition. The room remained silent, allowing Lara to make the motion for a vote. One after another, then all together, the UTLA House of Representatives held their signs up high with pride as they voted unanimously in favor of the resolution.

Prior to coming for a full floor vote in the UTLA House of Representatives, the resolution was unanimously passed on August 26, 2015 at a UTLA Area Meeting, and again on September 9 by the UTLA Board of Directors.

Read the entire motion.

With more than 31,000 members, UTLA is the second largest teachers union local in the nation and one of the most influential. UTLA is comprised of teachers and health and human service professionals that make up the Los Angeles Unified School District throughout the following eight areas: North, South, Harbor, Central, East, West, Valley East, and Valley West. UTLA is affiliated with the two largest national affiliates, the American Federation of Teachers/California Federation of Teachers as well as the National Education Association/California Teachers Association.
The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region is the largest and most influential Armenian American grassroots advocacy organization in the Western United States. Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the Western United States and affiliated organizations around the country, the ANCA-WR advances the concerns of the Armenian American community on a broad range of issues.