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Kim Kardashian, Armenian Ambassador in honor of Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles “

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kim kardashian hospitalKim Kardashian was in recent days in New York where her husband Kanye West was to give a concert. Before New York, the queen of American reality shows was in Los Angeles where she was received by Paul Viviano director of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where Kim Kardashian was honored to have been part of “honor Armenian Ambassadors children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “ She was accompanied by the Archbishop of the Armenian Church, Archbishop Derderian Hovnan who was also a guest of honor. Kim Kardashian was pleased that his work recognized by the Armenian community and the children’s hospital. Kim Kardashian (35) which helps for 8 years already this hospital in Los Angeles. “The Armenian Ambassadors Hospital Los Angeles Children” is a group formed by Armenians who financially support the development of structures for sick children.

Krikor Amirzayan

Is Kim Kardashian West Armenian? What the Reality Star Has Said About Her Heritage

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c8a87acb2dcb916d9180b8cbdeb68616By  Anna Swartz,

Kim Kardashian West puts much of her life on public display — from her family to her wardrobe to her wedding — but what about her Armenian heritage? It turns out that the Keeping Up With the Kardashians star and professional famous person has been vocal about her Armenian background, and about raising awareness regarding Armenian history.

Back in April, Kardashian West penned an essay for Time magazine in which she reflected on her Armenian background and her late father, Robert Kardashian, who was an attorney. “When we grew up, all my father did was talk about our heritage,” Kardashian West said. “It was such a big part of our life: We’d eat Armenian food, we would listen to stories — my dad was really outspoken about our history.”

In the essay, Kardashian West discussed her family history — including her great-great-grandparents’ move to the United States shortly before the Armenian genocide of 1915, during which 1.5 million Armenians living in the collapsing Ottoman Empire were killed. “Had they not escaped, we wouldn’t be here,” Kardashian West wrote in Time.

In April, Kardashian West, along with her sister Khloé and her husband Kanye West and daughter North, took a trip to Armenia to observe the centennial of the genocide, during which they met with Armenian Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, reported ABC News.

Kardashian West called for Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, saying, “It’s time for Turkey to recognize it … To not do so is an act of disrespect.” She also called on President Barack Obama to specifically use the word genocide in describing the mass killings, something he has not yet done.

“The Kardashian family trip to Armenia has helped shine a global spotlight on Armenia and the Armenian genocide — sharing the historical facts and the need for justice for that crime with millions,” Elizabeth Chouldjian, communications director of the Armenian National Committee of America, told ABC News in April. “The Kardashians have helped strike a powerful blow at Turkey’s campaign of genocide denial.”

So will Kardashian West raise her children to share her pride in the family’s Armenian heritage? Apparently she plans to do so.

“I’m half Armenian, but I grew up with a such a strong sense of my Armenian identity, and I want my daughter to have the same,” Kardashian West wrote in Time. “My great-great-grandparents were so brave to move their whole family. I’ll honor them by passing their memory down to my daughter.”

Correction: Feb. 18, 2016
A previous version of this article incorrectly reported the number of people who were killed in the Armenian genocide. The number is 1.5 million.

Kim Kardashian to present media award to Instagram founder

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f555c70fec697d_555c70fec69b7.thumbKim Kardashian revealed on Instagram on Tuesday that she will present Kevin Systrom, the founder of the social media platform, with The Media Award in Honor of Eugenia Sheppard.
Kardashian is a huge fan of Instagram. She has 33.3 million followers and just published a book of selfies, reports the Fashion Times.
News broke back in March that Instagram would received the CFDA Award for media. On Monday, some of the 2015 CFDA Award presenters were announced: Taraji P. Henson will present the accessories award, Amanda Seyfried will take the stage for womenswear and actor Joshua Jackson will present the awards for menswear.
The presenters for the Swarovski awards haven’t yet been finalized, according toWWD, and are expected to be revealed at a later date.

Kim Kardashian urges Obama to call Armenian massacre a genocide

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d2e86d10-15a3-464c-986d-5a47d880ce76-1020x612Reality TV star criticises president’s choice of words in Time magazine op-ed, saying she will ‘fight for the genocide to be recognized for what it was’
An influential voice has joined critics of President Barack Obama’s decision not to refer to the deaths of as many as 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as genocide: Kim Kardashian West.

“I would like President Obama to use the word ‘genocide’,” the reality TV star, who is married to the rapper Kanye West, wrote in an op-ed piece for Time magazine. “It’s very disappointing he hasn’t used it as president. We thought it was going to happen this year.

“I feel like we’re close – but we’re definitely moving in the right direction.”

Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks in 1915. Turkey, however, disputes the use of the word “genocide” to describe the killings and says the death toll has been inflated.

On Tuesday, the White House announced that the US would use the 100th anniversary of the genocide “to urge a full, frank and just acknowledgement of the facts”. Obama’s statement, however, did not include the word “genocide”.

On Saturday, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said France, Germany, Russia and Austria – whose leaders or parliaments have recently described the killings as genocide – supported “claims constructed on Armenian lies”. Erdogan also accused the US of siding with Armenia, despite Obama’s omission of the contentious word.

“They should first, one by one, clean the stains on their own histories,” Erdogan said.

Despite having previously described the events of 1915 as genocide, Obama has yet to do so as president. In 2008, Samantha Power, now US ambassador to the United Nations and then a campaign surrogate for Obama, recorded a campaign video urging Armenian-Americans to vote for him because he would “call a spade a spade and speak truth about it.

“I hope you in the Armenian community will take my word for it, but if not, I hope you will just pay attention in the coming days to everything that comes out of that person’s mouth, Barack Obama’s mouth, because he is a person who can be trusted,” Power said.

Kardashian, whose great-great-grandparents left Armenia in 1914, plans to increase awareness of the genocide and has called on other celebrities with an Armenian background to do so as well.

“So many people have come to me and said, ‘I had no idea there was a genocide,’” she wrote. “There aren’t that many Armenians in this business. We have this spotlight to bring attention to it, so why would we just sit back?

“I will continue to ask the questions and fight for the genocide to be recognized for what it was.”
Analysis The Armenian genocide – the Guardian briefing
Turkey has never accepted the term genocide, even though historians have demolished its denial of responsibility for up to 1.5 million deaths
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This is not the first time Kardashian has called for the genocide to be recognized. In 2011, she wrote a similar blogpost to urge the US government to recognize it.

Kardashian and her family have spent the last month visiting Armenia. While Armenians might have been uneasy about her visit at first, it has changed the way Armenia is covered in the mainstream media, said historian Vahram Ter-Matevosyan.

“This discourse shows that Armenian identity is still alive,” he said. “I am sure Turkey is having nightmares about it. Some there said that Kim Kardashian was the latest weapon the Armenians are using. Once she leaves, she will be missed.”

London IBT: Kim Kardashian and Pope Francis left Turkey in PR disaster over Armenian genocide

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Pope-KardashiansSome countries are so upset by Holocaust deniers that they make it a crime. There have been calls to do the same in Britain but we have, luckily, avoided such a heavy-handed and grandstanding approach to the freedom of speech of idiots, Simon Heffer wrote in his article, published in the International Business Times.

We prefer to see people who deny the Nazi genocide as idiots – or something stronger – and in a very British way content ourselves that the obloquy, contempt and derision such people heap upon themselves by expressing their offensive views is punishment enough, and comes free of charge, the author says.

It is disputed to this day by Turkey that its Ottoman forebears conducted a genocide against the Armenians in 1915.

Armenians see this as their Holocaust and when an entire nation denies it happened, it is denial on a truly grand and awesome scale. Imagine how the Jews would feel if the present German republic itself – not just handfuls of mentally disturbed anti-Semites – said there had been no German-led genocide against the Jews, and you will understand how the Armenians and those who sympathise with them feel about Turkey, a state about to celebrate 100 years of denial, the author notes.

The historical consensus is that 1.5 million Armenians were murdered. Many countries recognise this as an act of genocide. So too did Pope John Paul II, who issued a declaration in 2001 saying as much. Francis chose to quote his predecessor-but-one’s words: but it still upset the Turks, who immediately recalled their ambassador to the Vatican and demanded the Vatican’s man in Ankara come and explain himself, the article notes.

The Vatican, which is also keen to see a diminution of the conflict in that region, wants good relations with the Turks too, but not, to judge from Francis’s remarks, at the expense of pretending not to notice Turkey’s responsibility for an outrage that happened just outside living memory, the author says.

Armenia itself is building up to a formal commemoration of the genocide on 24 April. Last week, Kim Kardashian and her sister Khloe were in Yerevan to lay flowers at a memorial to the victims: the whole performance was captured on the sisters’ reality TV show, so anyone out there who is not aware of this atrocity may soon be alerted to it.

The author highlights that the combination of the Kardashians and the Pope adds up to a PR disaster for Turkey, at a time when in every other respect it is trying to show itself to be a responsible and progressive member of the family of civilised nations.

Source: Panorama.am

Kardashians Take Armenia! 10 Fascinating Facts to Know About the Country’s Culture and History

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 by Brett Malec,

Brian-Prahl-Splash-NewsBy now you should know that the Kardashians are in the process of taking Armenia.

That’s right, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kanye West and North West are currently on vacation in Armenia to learn about the land of the family’s ancestors. So what better time for everyone to learn about Armenian culture, right? While the famous fam continues their sightseeing overseas, here are 10 fascinating facts about Armenian culture and history.

1. The Kardashians aren’t the only famous Armenians. Cher is also of Armenian decent through her father’s lineage. Michael Vartan also has Armenian blood as does Dita Von Teese and Joe Manganiello. And although Steve Jobs was of Syrian decent, his adoptive parents Paul and Clara Jobs were Armenian.

2. Pomegranates are a favorite food among Armenians. Aside from being tart and delicious, they symbolize fertility.

3. The Armenian people were the first culture in the world to adopt Christianity as the official state religion after two of Jesus’ apostles, St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew, travel through the region soon after Jesus’ death.

4. They discovered wine (sorry, France!). Back in 2011, scientists concluded that the real birthplace of wine may have been in a cave in Armenia. Archaeologist called the cave the “oldest” winery ever dating back over 6,000 years.

5. Wine isn’t Armenia’s only contribution to the world. They were also among the first to invent yogurt and coffee.

6. In 1915, 1.5 million Armenians were murdered in the Ottoman Empire in what is now known as the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the historical event. The 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will be honored on April 24.

7. Armenians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 6, the original date of the Christian holiday.

8. Armenians love to dance (especially a type of line dance) and call dancing “keff time,” which means party time.

9. Cheese boregs are a traditional Armenian dish made of feta cheese wrapped in filo dough and baked until golden brown.

10. The word for beautiful in Armenian is “siroon” (pronounced “SEE-ROON).

Tune in to a brand-new episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashiansthis Sunday, April 12 at 9/8c on E!

—Reporting by Lindsey Caldwell

Source: eonline.com

Video: Kim Kardashian and Family Arrive Yerevan with Queen Welcome #ArmenianGenocide

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Kim Kardashian, Yerevan, Armenia

Kim Kardashian, Yerevan, Armenia

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West got the full diplomat treatment as they arrived in Armenia to the cheers of an enormous crowd and tons of media.

Although their trip is just days short of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Kim says she simply wants to get in touch with her Armenian roots.

North and Khloe were also there — as they were greeted by women in traditional Armenian garb, who presented the fam with bread and salt … a tradition for greeting dignitaries. They all left the airport together in a minivan.

They plan to visit the genocide monument, museums, meet with politicians and they will reportedly go to the town of Gyumri … where relatives of her dad may live.

 

Kim Kardashian to remember victims of #ArmenianGenocide on trip to Yerevan

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Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and their daughter North en route to Armenia. Photograph: Broadimage/Rex

Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and their daughter North en route to Armenia. Photograph: Broadimage/Rex

Reality star, her husband Kanye West and family members travel to Armenia to mark 100th anniversary of the slaughter
Kim Kardashian will pay tribute to the victims of the Armenian genocide on a trip to the country beginning on Wednesday.

The Armenian-American reality TV star will be joined by her husband Kanye West and her sister Khloé as she makes the journey to mark the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

They will be followed by camera crews from the broadcaster E! to film several episodes of the reality series Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but no official meetings or press conferences are planned.


Kardashian, West, their daughter North and several other members of her family arrived at Los Angeles airport to begin the pilgrimage to Armenia, where she will visit the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in the capital, Yerevan.

Her late father Robert was a third-generation Armenian American, and on several occasions she has publicly supported international recognition of the Armenians’ systematic extermination at the hands of the Ottoman government.
The US government, apparently wary of spoiling relations with Turkey, is yet to join the 22 countries that have formally recognised the event as genocide, although 43 American states have accepted its status as such.

The word genocide was coined and defined by the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1943 to describe the extermination of ethnic Armenians by Ottoman authorities in Turkey.

As many as 1.5 million people are thought to have been killed in the slaughter, which Armenians say began on 24 April 1915, when Ottoman security forces rounded up and arrested 250 Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople, and continued throughout the first world war. Turkey still denies that genocide is an appropriate term for the killings.

In 2011, Kardashian broke from her usual frivolous image to write a blog post calling on Americans to recognise Armenian genocide. “Until this crime is resolved truthfully and fairly, the Armenian people will live with the pain of what happened to their families and the fear of what might happen again to their homeland,” she wrote.

Kim Kardashian has become the victim of red carpet pest Vitalii Sediuk

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_Kim_Kardashian_and_Kanye_Kim Kardashian, 33, has become the latest victim of red carpet pest – the Ukranian former journalist Vitalii Sediuk.
According to Daily Mail, he was in the huge crowd which gathered around Kim and her husband Kanye’s car as they arrived at the Balmain show at Paris Fashion Week, in which her sister Kendall Jenner was walking, on Thursday.

In bizarre scenes Vitalii – the prankster who accosted Brad Pitt at the Maleficent premiere in Los Angeles earlier this year – is reported to have pulled Kim’s hair [which he denies] and almost knocked the 33-year-old starlet to the ground, in front of Kanye and her mother Kris Jenner.

A source close to Vitalii said: ‘The information about Vitalii pulling Kim’s hair is untrue. Vitalii hugged Kim and that caused a big crowding with the security that pulled him down to the ground. Because of the mess, Kim may have lost her balance , But Vitalii didn’t mean any harm.’

Security quickly jumped in and escorted a shocked Kim into the building.

 

 

 

 

Kim Kardashian & Kanye West tie the knot in Italy

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The parents of North West have made it official.

Kim Kardashian - Kanye WestKim Kardashian and Kanye West tied the knot at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy, on Saturday, CNN reported, citing the reality star’s publicist.

Kardashian is reported to have walked down the aisle by Bruce Jenner while Andrea Bocelli sang “Con te Partiró”; and Kris Jenner was seen in the front row wiping her eyes during the ceremony. Guests reportedly broke into applause twice during the ceremony: first when the couple kissed and when the newlyweds were presented.

The wedding capped off a weekend of extravagant European affairs, starting with a brunch hosted by fashion designer Valentino in Paris on Friday.

Later that evening, hundreds of guests were invited to the Palace of Versailles for a private tour and a surprise performance by Lana Del Ray. According to E!, the couple then flew guests to Florence for the wedding ceremony.

The city has special meaning to them; Kanye said they conceived their daughter, North, there “among the masterpieces of the Renaissance.

This is the third marriage for Kardashian and West’s first. The couple got engaged in October 2013, as seen on TV, after Kardashian gave birth to their daughter.