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These Armenians from Turkey who started a new life in Armenia

January 22, 2017 By administrator

The issue of migration is of concern to many in Turkey, where the political atmosphere is increasingly tense. At times such as these, we wanted to meet Armenians from Turkey who emigrated to Armenia, the nearest and most distant country at the same time, during the harsh periods of recent history, and report Testimony firsthand. These people, who spoke to us about their lives with the utmost sincerity, are exemplary of the strength of men and their hope in a new beginning.

The tail is long in front of the open counter for flights to Yerevan from Istanbul. Most people waiting to check in their luggage are Armenians, the plane goes to Armenia and almost all passengers speak Turkish. When my eye catches the eye of the clerk, who glances at the tail he sees forming four times in the week, I guess he also poses the question that has long preoccupied him : “All these people go to Armenia. What is going on in the background with Armenia? “.

There are many Armenians who have emigrated from Turkey to Armenia. Some of them went away in the late 1970s, and they were young people who had made up their minds recently. Even though each of them has different motives, hopes and dreams, one thing is certain: on the streets of this formerly Soviet country, we hear very often Turkish and Armenian from the west.

“I was in Turkey when Madimak was destroyed by fire”

Sabri Bey was sitting next to me during the flight; He was an Armenian from Bitlis. In the queue, he was immediately after me, and I offered him the allowable weight of luggage to which I was entitled because he was in surplus. In his hand luggage there were beans and rice for him, kadayif for his younger daughter and filo pastries for his wife Armenian citizen to whom he has been married since 1995. He travels to Istanbul twice a year And bring with him from Turkey all that they lack. Sabri Bey heard what the employee said. He said he heard similar things also in Armenia: “They asked me why I was coming. I replied that it was not their business! “I also asked why and he said,” I was in Turkey when Madimak was destroyed by a fire. “

On his way to Armenia in the 1990s, Sabri Bey had three children, the oldest being less than 20 years old. His two daughters are Armenian citizens and his son is a Turkish citizen. He is exempt from military service in Armenia. His children work in Yerevan and Sabri Bey was the first to introduce drip irrigation systems in this country. They all live in Etchmiadzin.

“Life has brought us here”

However, the first destination of people migrating to Armenia is certainly Yerevan. Everyone we called before taking the road told us a coffee and recommended it as a starting point. The café that Lerna Bahkci Ozder opened in partnership with her husband, is under the sign “Cosi E la Vita”. According to Lena, “La Vita means life. The life that brought us here “.

We left for this country as a result of others who were driven here by life. After a two-hour trip, Nichan came to greet us. Studying history at the Public Faculty since 2013, Nichan is nicknamed “the chief of Yerevan”. He is the one whom all those who come from Turkey know and trust. He will take us to Yerevan and tell us his story. His closest friend, Guevorg, Turkicologist, will be our interpreter, using for this a Turk that is peculiar to him. As soon as he saw me, Guevorg asked me “what motivates the people who come here? Istanbul is the most beautiful city in the world; the best”. As I can not find anything to say to him, he answers his question himself: “They come to live their identity here, that’s why.” He told me that Turcology was the third highest-rated department in Yerevan. Each year, nearly 50 people graduate from this department. And the employment opportunities there are much more numerous compared to other departments. Guevorg makes his life working as an interpreter and adviser. His family is from Yozgat. He was born in Yerevan. He visited many cities in Turkey, but he never went to Yozgat: “I feel a little embarrassed by this situation. I am afraid of being a stranger and that is probably how I will feel. “ After Istanbul, it is Diyarbakir who has his favors. He questions what is happening there and is sorry about it. About the church Sourp Guiragos, he said: “They have destroyed something that belongs to us. Now it’s the state that owns it, but what for? “ Nichan and Guevorg speak Turkish to each other, not Armenian. Nichan said, “I speak the Armenian from the west, and he speaks the Armenian from the east, but the Turkish we are talking about is the same.” After lunch with a fried crouton, we go to Yerevan in a place where Turkish is usually spoken, and I note that Guevorg takes a small glass of vodka.

The Vita team is particularly keen to make Armenia love Armenian cuisine in Istanbul

The reasons for

In Lerna’s life, two days decided to come here. One is April 24, 2011; The day she lost her brother Sevag … Some time ago, they both dreamed of opening a coffee together. Sevag told him, “We’ll open a cafe when I’ve finished my military service.” It serves La Vita the dishes that Sevag loved; The soufflé is one of them. Lerna tells us, “The souffle is called” lava cake “here. We made sure it was appreciated here. They like to eat it. Sevag was also very fond of pastries, but they do not know filo pastries here. We propose them now: I hope they will love them. The dishes with olive oil and “topigs” are not eaten here. They do not know anything about Armenian cuisine in Istanbul. “ She says she came here on a sudden decision and explains how she got there.

Lerna worked in a company organizing demonstrations and her husband Chant was director in an investment company. Their partner Alex Findikoglu is from Perchembé Pazari. Opened six months ago, Cosi E la Vita is located on the favorite avenue of the city; There is a statue of William Saroyan on the other side and the famous Cascade next door; Cascade, a grand staircase, is the most popular tourist spot of Yerevan. Coffee is a kind of association of Armenians in Istanbul. As you can imagine, Istanbul dishes and “mezes” are on the menu. Jewelery dealer Sarkis Hanzovyan sits at another coffee table; He came from Aleppo nine months ago. He came to us when he saw Nichan. In reality, he came to Armenia to marry, but not finding the woman he was looking for, he will go to Latakia. He says “now, there, it’s okay”. He says he feels good to him. He asks me why I am in Yerevan. Having told him my story, he speaks to me in turn of a friend from another city. I ask: “Is he from Istanbul? Can I talk to him? “. He said, “No, he’s from here, he’s an Armenian.” The people in Yerevan do not see the inhabitants of Istanbul as Armenians. Lerna also deplores it. Their coffee and menu need to attract more local customers. In any case, three partners are determined to do so.

A new life, a new hope

Lerna said that when she was in Istanbul she was not part of the Armenian community. After his brother Sevag fell, a victim of a hate crime while doing his military service, she no longer goes to church. “I have lost faith. There were too many unanswered questions. I touched the bottom. “ The other turning in the life of Lerna took place on May 30th 2013 … “It was about two weeks that we had lost Sevag. One day my father said there was no reason to live here. That day, my husband said to my father “You’re going to be grandfather”. Chant and Lerna have been married since 2006. Their plan was to spend the money they earned on trips, and they had not planned to have a child. Lerna said, “I looked at my husband. It was new. That was not possible, my feelings of the moment were at the lowest. He says, “the coming of a child is necessary for them to overcome what happened”. May 30th 2013 is the day of the birth of their little Odin …

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenian, moving, Turkey

Yerevan: Family moved from Canada to Armenia: Our dream came true

January 4, 2017 By administrator

YEREVAN. – Tamara Kabasakalian, her husband and two small children moved to Armenia from Canada five years ago. The family which has no relatives in Armenia, has been dreaming of returning to their historical homeland since 2000. The older generation of the family was born in Canada and visited Armenia only several times.

“I visited Armenia four times, first in 1989. Then I fell in love with Armenia. I arrived with my husband in 2001. Returning to Canada, I kept saying that that I will move to Armenia once. It was a dream and actually I had no idea that this day would come true. Then all our family visited two more times and baptized children here. The decision to move to Armenia was accepted quickly. In October, 2010 we made a decision and arrived in Yerevan in June, 2011. Our friends were surprised, relatives were saying that our dream came true,” Tamara said.

According to her, she and her husband had good jobs in Canada, a house, a car – everything that is necessary for welfare of the family with two children: “But we decided to tie the future of our children with Armenia.”

As 43- year-old Tamara claims, Armenia is safe, one can take children to theater every day. Everything is expensive in Canada and the Armenian theater comes there once in four or six months.

“Difficulties are everywhere and we decided to overcome them here. At first there were concerns connected with employment, integration, education of children, medical care. But now, when children ask, if we want to return to Canada, we give a negative answer unambiguously,” Tamara said.

in five years, the family had to overcome many difficulties and now Tamara speaks about them with a smile. According to her, difficulties hardened them.

“If we stayed in Canada, we would not gain such experience,” Tamara jokes.

Teacher by profession, Tamara deals with human rights protection, social services, education, and medical care, assistance for disabled and elderly people in Armenia. Tamara makes contribution to development of Armenia by means of training center where she teaches English and French by a new technique.

Asked what she would like to bring from Canada to Armenia, Tamara thought a little and then named two things: rule of law and desire to study.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Armenia, Canada, moving, Yerevan

100 ISIL militants reportedly enter Turkey for an offensive

September 30, 2015 By administrator

(ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (Photo:AP)

(ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (Photo:AP)

Turkey recently changing its stance regarding the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), adopting more aggressive policies, has led the ISIL leadership to consider an offensive against Turkey, a news agency has reported, claiming that 100 ISIL militants have already entered the country to offer training to sleeper cells.

In a plan approved by ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, 100 militants were assigned to give military training to ISIL members and sympathizers in Turkey, the news agency Sputnik Türkiye reported on Tuesday.

According to the agency’s “reliable sources in Syria,” ISIL will use members in Turkey to carry out attacks in various cities if current policies are maintained by Turkey, which only two months ago took an offensive stance against the group by participating in air strikes with an international coalition, authorizing it to use important airbases.

The transfer of militants through the border provinces of Kilis and Gaziantep was executed with “great secrecy,” the report stated, adding that nine ISIL emirs (commanders) accompanied the militants as the terrorist group’s structure requires one emir for every 12 militants.

After crossing Turkey’s border from Syria in groups, 100 militants scattered to Adana, Adıyaman, Ankara, Diyarbakır, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kilis, Konya and Şanlıurfa. The militants were instructed to avoid unnecessary communication by phone. In addition to arms training, ISIL members and sympathizers in Turkey will also be taught to make bombs.

Sputnik Türkiye also claimed the group traveled with military equipment, including Kalashnikov rifles, Bixi machine guns, pistols with silencers, binoculars, rocket launchers, grenades, mines and explosives. The report also states that some members bought weapons from smugglers in Kilis.

The Justice and Development Party (AK Party) administration had long been criticized for allegedly turning a blind eye to the passage of foreign fighters, many coming from European countries, to war-torn Syria with the intention of joining ISIL. Ignoring warnings from many experts that a lack of border security might one day cause Turkey trouble, the AK Party government long maintained its policy of neglecting necessary precautions at its borders.

When Turkey was shocked by a bomb attack in the southeastern border town of Suruç on July 20, the AK Party changed its stance regarding ISIL, which was held responsible for the attack that killed 34 civilians on their way to reconstruct a city that had been ravaged by the terrorist group.

Within a week after the Suruç bombing, Turkey agreed to grant the US expanded access to the İncirlik Air Base, located in the southeastern province of Adana, close to Syria. By late August, Turkey had also joined air strikes on important ISIL targets, conducted by a US-led coalition, in which it had previously declined to participate.

Source: Zaman

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: ISIL, moving, Turkey

Iraq: Over 70 Islamic State Daesh families depart Iraq’s Mosul for Syria: Official

September 30, 2015 By administrator

This file photo shows Takfiri Daesh militants in an undisclosed location in Iraq.

This file photo shows Takfiri Daesh militants in an undisclosed location in Iraq.

The Takfiri Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has reportedly moved tens of the families of its own members from Iraq’s conflict-ridden northern province of Nineveh to an unknown location in neighboring Syria.

Saeed Mamouzini, the spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network on Wednesday that the families have been departing the militant-held city, situated some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, for Syria on board a number of buses over the past few days.

He said that 23 militants, among them commanders, had left Mosul for Syria last week.

Daesh kills own injured member

Meanwhile, Daesh has executed one of its injured members in Iraq’s conflict-ridden western province of Anbar, days after it murdered more than two dozen of its own wounded Takfiri terrorists elsewhere in Iraq.

Jabbar al-Ma’mouri, a commander of the pro-government Popular Mobilization units, told al-Sumaria on Tuesday that Daesh extremists killed the injured comrade in the city of Saqlawiyah, located 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the capital, Baghdad.

Ma’mouri added that Daesh members then left the body to be recovered by Iraqi security personnel. The slain militant had reportedly sustained injuries in Saqlawiyah during clashes with Iraqi army troopers backed by allied fighters.

On September 22, Mamouzini said Daesh had executed 27 of its wounded members in the old prison of the militant-held city, situated some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of Baghdad.

The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by violence ever since Daesh began its march through Iraqi territory in June 2014. Army soldiers and the Popular Mobilization units have joined forces and are seeking to take back militant-held regions.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Daesh, Iraq, Mosul, moving, Syria

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