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Turkish documentary telling the story of Islamized Armenians to be premiered in Yerevan

June 6, 2017 By administrator

story of Islamized Armenians The documentary “The Children of Vank” (Vank’ın Çocukları), telling the story of the Armenians who survived the Genocide and then went through another cycle of violence during the 1937-1938 bloody military campaign initiated by the Turkish state in Dersim region (currently Tunceli), will be screened in Yerevan on June 7.

Nezahat Gündoğan, the film director, who originates from Dersim and attempts to raise the untold stories of the massacre survivors, told a press conference today in Yerevan, suggesting the Turkish people themselves are the target auditorium of the film.

“They should reckon with the past pages of their history. The film features heroes in their live language, telling their stories without any author interferences, and the film, certainly, contains the Genocide word,” the film director said.

The premiere of “Children of the Monastery” was held on February 9 this year in Istanbul.

Kazim Gundogan and Nezahat Gundogan, the researchers of the movie, traced the Armenian survivors of these two genocides in the provinces of Konya, Bolu, Istanbul, Izmir, and Dersim and conducted interviews with them. Dozens of accounts and facts collected during the interviews spread a light on the fate of hundreds of Christian children who survived the Dersim massacre, were subjected to Turkification and grew up in Turkish or Kurdish families without their families knowing anything about it.

The film reflects on the story of the only Armenian St. Karapet monastery that operated in the area and whose clergy was arrested and killed along with Alevi and Armenian population of the village in the course of the massacres. The church was destroyed by the state in 1938.

 

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Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Armenians, Film, Islamized, story

US-Armenian builds $65m tech company thanks to Google

August 11, 2016 By administrator

Armenoan-companyIn 1987, a 32-year-old Annie Safoian moved to Los Angeles from Armenia with her husband, Hovig, and their 9-year-old son, Tony.

Today and she and her family run an LA tech company called SADA Systems, a thriving Google and Microsoft reseller expected to do $65 million in revenue this year, she tells us.
And she has been fending off a constant stream of offers to acquire the company, for a healthy multiple over revenues. She wouldn’t tell us how much money she’s been offered, but given the market, offers have likely ranged from hundreds of millions of dollars to as high as half a billion, Business Insider reports.
But she likes her job and her company, worries a sale wouldn’t be good for employees, and simply doesn’t care that much about the loot.
“We have discussed selling within the family. Everybody wants to buy us. We are in our 60’s, our son is 38 years old. He’s the CEO, my husband is CTO. We’ve been all together here and working all these years,” she said. “If we sell this company and get more money in our bank account, we would still have to do something. My son is very young. We are still so passionate about this technology. It’s never boring, but so exciting every single day. Why would I sell?”
Back in 1987, when the Safoians first moved to America, she couldn’t have predicted her success. Her English was mediocre, she had no technical training and she wasn’t exactly sure what she was going to do for a living. But she knew she loved her new home country and became a citizen right away.
She took some accounting classes, got a job as a payroll coordinator, which she disliked, yet might have toiled away at forever if the company hadn’t laid her off. So she jumped into graphic designed, something she loved, and learned how to build web pages. Her husband found work as a programmer.
Slowly, her hard-work ethic had her customers asking her to do more and more tech jobs. One of them asked her to modify their accounting software. She enlisted her husband’s help for that and they founded a tech company, SADA Systems, which then went on to manage computers and networks for small businesses, doing small custom apps for customers along the way.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: armenian-us-company, story, success

The Prince in Switzerland love story book” Centuries of Armenian history and culture”

February 23, 2015 By administrator

By Wally Sarkeesian

The-Prince-in-Switzerland, By Dalita I. Alex

The-Prince-in-Switzerland,
By Dalita I. Alex

Author Dalita Alex

“A wonderful love story book, the author glides us through centuries of
Armenian history and culture. highly recommend it.”

Hrant, a young Swiss man working in finance, meets on a train a very
prominent Swiss historian, who is very much interested in his Armenian
heritage and his family’s past experiences of migration, survival and
integration. Hrant decides to further enlighten the professor about the
Armenian people’s struggle, past and present, for recognition and respect.
He belongs, on his father’s side, to a very important Armenian aristocracy,
the Bagraduni and Hetoumian dynasties that belonged to the kingdoms of
Cilicia, Armenia and Georgia during the Middle Ages. These dynasties were
the foundation, the source of his bloodline, lineage and history. Hrant is
very proud of his legacy. He eventually falls in love with a French-Armenian
girl, Sara, but their relationship is difficult, since she resides in Paris, while
he lives in Zurich. Eventually love triumphs, and Sara leaves her homeland
to marry Hrant, the Armenian Prince in Switzerland. Full of true historical
recollections, it is the love story between two people, and the love of proud
people towards their legacy. The story of faith, hope and love with all its
facets, engulfs compassion, friendship and beauty.

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Filed Under: Articles, Books Tagged With: Armenian, book, culture, love, story, Switzerland

‘US Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story’ Named Book of the Month

February 20, 2015 By administrator

'Ambassador Morgenthau's Story' by Henry Morgenthau

‘Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story’ by Henry Morgenthau

YEREVAN (Armenpress)—As the centennial of the Armenian Genocide approaches, the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute in Yerevan has launched a “Book of the Month” initiative. The Museum says it will carefully select a book about the Armenian Genocide to be featured each month.

The books must be the memoirs of Armenian Genocide survivors or witnesses, research papers, or other publications of great importance. The aim of this project is to introduce readers to rare and still unknown works related to the topic in order to raise awareness of the subject and provide an in-depth knowledge about the Armenian Genocide.

The Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute (AGMI) selected “Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story” to be the Book of the Month for February. These memoirs have the significance of being a unique primary source for the history of the Armenian Genocide, particularly for how it documents the unraveling of the Genocide, determined and planned by the Turkish government, and for how it identifies and explores the thoughts of the Turkish criminal regime of that time. The memoir of U.S. Ambassador Morgenthau is a monumental work indeed, where the represented facts and testimonies undeniably prove that the Armenian Genocide was planned and premeditated.

Morgenthau gives deep analysis of the situation reinforcing it by information from official sources. Moreover, he describes the process of decision-making, the intrigues of the Young Turks government, as well as introduces the reader to the German propaganda policy, which made Turkey involved in World War I. The story of Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, presented in accuracy of an eyewitness and an analyst, is an important primary source against the policy of denial in Turkish modern historiography.

“When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact. . . I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915,” Morgenthau wrote in his memoirs.

Filed Under: Articles, Books, Genocide Tagged With: Ambassador-Morgenthau, armenian genocide, book, story

Devil’s Due explore Armenian Genocide in Operation Nemesis

February 20, 2015 By administrator

A story of Genocide and revenge

A story of Genocide and revenge

Devil’s Due are said to have a very interesting project coming out in April called Operation Nemesis: A Story of Genocide & Revenge  a graphic novel honoring the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Comicsbeat.com reports.

Writer Josh Blaylocl and artist Hoyl Silva tell the story of Soghomon Tehlirian, the Armenian survivor who killed Talaat Pasha on the streets of Berlin to revenge the execution of 1,500,000 Armenians in the Ottoman Empire … and walked away from court a free man.

In 1915, Talaat Pasha, leader of the Turkish Ottomon Empire ordered the mass execution of every Armenian within his nation’s borders, resulting in the death of over 1,500,000 victims.

Besides Blaylock and Hoyt, Greg & Fake Studio provide the colors, and David Krikorian and Thomas Dardarian are listed as producer and co-producer respectively.  Pin-ups will be provided by Dan Panosian, Sedat Oezgen, and Harry Bogosian, son of monologist Eric Bogosian, and formerly a student of Paul Pope.

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Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Devil’s-Due, Genocide, story

Iraq A Train Ride Through Time: From Iraq’s Checkered Past Into an Uncertain Future

October 19, 2014 By administrator

By TIM ARANGOOCT. 18, 2014  nytimes.com

 TRAIN-1-articleLargeBAGHDAD — Saad al-Tammimi is in his fourth decade working for Iraq’s railroads, a career that has taken him all around his country, and around the Middle East. Nowadays, though, he can go only from Baghdad to Basra, across the relatively calm Shiite-dominated south of this war-torn country.

“If we have a problem and have to stop, it’s safe,” he said on a recent evening as he drove his regular route. “Even the Sunnis feel comfortable going to Basra.”

With so much violence, neglect and political dysfunction here, it has been years since passenger trains leaving Baghdad went anywhere other than Basra. In recent years, however, grand ambitions to link the country by railroad had begun taking shape. Freight trains shuttled goods around Iraq, and a few years ago there were test runs of a new train service between Mosul and Turkey. But as the militants of the Islamic State have advanced around the country, those efforts have halted.

At least Mr. Tammimi has a new train to drive, a sleek and shiny one built in China that glides out of the station at dusk and through the closed-in thicket of this city. It almost kisses the storefront awnings and low-slung homes that line the track as it moves past waving families, boys playing soccer and trash being burned, before reaching the rural south, past endless rows of date palms, on an overnight journey to Basra.

Inside are the luxuries of first-class rail travel, including flat-screen televisions and refrigerators in the sleeper cabins. Rowdy young army recruits, answering the call to arms from their Shiite religious leaders and on their way to basic training, crowd the brightly lit cafe car. The food is second-rate — cold fried chicken and soggy French fries — but there is a good falafel joint in Hilla, a town on the way; if you call in advance, sandwiches will be waiting at the station.

The new train is a small but noticeable sign of progress — of oil money spent in the interests of the public — in a country consumed by violence and corruption that is quickly coming apart in the face of an onslaught by the Sunni militants of the Islamic State, also called ISIS or ISIL.

It is also a reminder of what has been lost in Iraq and in the broader Middle East. Once, the region was connected by trains; building rail lines was central to the imperial ambitions of European powers — the Germans, the British and the French — to exert influence in the Middle East in the years before World War I, when the region was part of the Ottoman Empire. In more recent times, sectarian violence has torn apart diverse societies, especially in Iraq and Syria, that, for better or worse, were once held together by dictators. The areas reachable by trains have steadily shrunk, the diversity of the passengers who rode them a long-lost memory.

“Before was different,” said Ahmed Ali, who for 31 years has held various jobs for Iraqi Republic Railways, the state rail authority, and now works as a cashier in the cafe car. “I used to meet the educated people, the uneducated, the actors, the poets, the poor man. Many different groups.”

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He adds, “Now, everything is gone.”

Mr. Ali recalled trips to Mosul, where on layovers he would visit the city’s famous tombs and shrines, and buy candy and pistachios and clothes to bring back to his family in Baghdad. For months now, Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, has been under control of the militants, and many of those historical sites have been destroyed.

On alternate evenings at dusk, the new train, which was introduced in recent months and would operate at high speed if it were not for the woeful condition of Iraq’s tracks, leaves for Basra. On the other nights, an older train, built by the French and in operation for almost three decades, makes the same 12-hour trip. That train may lack amenities, but it has an abundance of charm with its wood floors and paneling and green velvet seats in the cafe.

Riding the trains feels like an act of nostalgia — and, in some ways, an act of defiance, for the train represents connection in a place where people and communities are increasingly becoming detached from one another.

For those who have spent their lives working on Iraq’s railroads — jobs that have been passed down through generations, from father to son — each train journey is like a journey to the Iraq of their memories.

Ehab al-Shiekhly stood recently under a giant, twinkling chandelier in the grand, domed foyer of Baghdad Central Station, built by the British and opened in 1953. It is one of his favorite spots in the city.

“Sometimes I just sit here and take pictures of the dome,” said Mr. Shiekhly, 41, who has worked here for a quarter of a century, beginning as a teenager operating the telegraph machine. “It reminds me of the old days of Iraq, when it was safe.”

Standing under the chandelier, an old memory came to Mr. Shiekhly and he smiled, and pointed to a corner.

“Now you have to take tanks or jet fighters to get to these places,” said Ahmed Abdulrahman, 50, who has worked at the station since the late 1970s.

Outside, near the tracks, a banner in red and blue on a white background speaks of the present with these words, written in Arabic: “The Iraqi Railways supports the Iraqi Army against ISIS and terrorists.”

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Sitting in the cafe car of the new train on a recent evening at the outset of an overnight trip to Basra, Ali Abdul Hussein, a rail worker for 24 years, recalls the old bar car, where the favorite drink during the times of rule by Saddam Hussein’s secular, but brutal, Baath Party was Grant’s whisky. There is no booze available these days on the train — nor at the station, where it once flowed freely in the V.I.P. room and in the officers’ saloon — a reflection of the religious mores that have dominated Iraqi life since 2003.

As for Mr. Hussein, he had his own train, which now sits in a railroad graveyard in an overgrown field near the station. Partially looted after the American-led invasion, it stands as a remnant of a different era.

Salam Hamid, 54, a railway worker with more than 30 years of service, showed a visitor around and shared a story of the time he was working as a technician and rode with Mr. Hussein to Mosul in the 1980s.

The day was hot, and the air-conditioner in the dictator’s cabin — which Mr. Hamid was responsible for maintaining — broke down.

One of Mr. Hussein’s aides, he recalls, said to him, “Saddam is saying it’s hot in here. Get it fixed.”

“I was really afraid,” he said. “Maybe he would just put a bullet in my head.”

Luckily, he got it fixed.

As the country is being pulled apart by the Islamic State insurgency, the men of the railways are dreaming of knitting it back together.

In his office at the station, Hamid Ali Hashim, a project manager, lays out a map on a table and traces his finger from Jalawla in the northeast, a city that has seen fierce fighting against ISIS militants, to Sulaimaniya in the Kurdish north, and across to Mosul. It is one piece of an ambitious, $60 billion rail project that at this stage feels aspirational at best — one that Mr. Hashim said, “would mean all the villages and cities in Iraq would be linked.”

“This,” he said, with a degree of optimism rare in Iraq these days, “is the goal.”

Omar Al-Jawoshy and Falih Hassan contributed reporting from Baghdad and Basra.

“I used to stand there waiting for a girl I liked,” he said. “I would go stand and wait for her and smile at her.”

The girl became his girlfriend, but they never married, and he still misses her.

“Her father was a high-ranking officer, and they refused because they were wealthy and I came from a poor family,” he said.

With just one departure daily, the station is mostly empty. But Mr. Shiekhly says that in his mind’s eye he can still see the girl, and everything else that once made the station such a special place to him: a nice restaurant over there; groups of men playing backgammon and dominoes; the officers’ lounge that was, he recalls, “beautiful and full of wood.”

The station itself is a time capsule. The ticket booths in the circular room are identified by destinations long out of reach to passenger trains.

One sign reads, “Booking for Mosul Train.” Another booth is where passengers once bought tickets to Turkey, Syria and Anbar Province.

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