Kurdish children textbooks in Armenia

September 27, 2016 By administrator

By Varduhi Balyan

Students in the regions densely populated by Kurds have textbooks in Kurdish now. Kurdish students in 1st to 12th grades will receive education in their mother tongue.

Kurdish children in Armenia will be able to learn their culture and mother tongue thanks to newly-published textbooks in Kurdish. Poet Alixane Mame, the head of Kurdish Writers Department of the Writer Union of Armenia, is the author of the textbooks in Kurdish. Speaking to Armenpress, Mame noted the historical and scientific significance of these textbooks: “In Kurdish history, there haven’t been any textbooks as extensive as these. We published 13 textbooks. In Armenia, we were able to publish these books, after the scientific studies sponsored by the state. This is a historical event for Kurdish people.” Mame also stated that there is not enough teacher who can teach in Kurdish in Armenia and they are working on it.

In the Kurdish textbooks, Kurdish literary works are compiled in accordance with the historical chronology.

Turkish textbooks should address Armenian Genocide: German MP Cem Ozdemir

May 4, 2016 By administrator

211644 Co-chairman of the German political party Alliance ’90/The Greens, MP Cem Ozdemir said at a parliament sitting that Germany turns a blind eye to the Genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire.

Ozdemir previously authored and introduced a resolution to recognize the Armenian Genocide which will be discussed in the Bundestag in early June.

“If the Armenian Genocide of 1915 was spoken out on, no ethnic minorities would have been persecuted or attacked afterwards,” Ozdemir said.

“If Armenians hadn’t been slaughtered, Van would have become the Paris of the East.”

“The Turkish textbooks should feature the truth about the Genocide, and Talaat pasha should by no means be a hero for children,” he added.

Sweden’s Left Party proposes to include materials on Armenian Genocide in school textbooks

May 15, 2015 By administrator

Sweden’s Left Party has initiated the inclusion of materials on the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Genocide of Assyrians and Pontic Greeks into the school textbooks, said Hans Linde, a Foreign Affairs spokesperson for the Left Party, Horizon Weekly reports.

Linde said that in order to prevent new genocides, it is necessary to recognize the past genocides and tell the wide masses about these crimes.

The Swedish parliament recognized the Armenian Genocide on March 11, 2010.

Turkish intellectuals slam textbooks spreading ‘hatred towards Armenians’

September 27, 2014 By administrator

A group of academics, journalists, artists and intellectuals have released a statement condemning in the harshest terms what they define as expressions that include “open hatred and hostility” towards Armenians in Turkish schoolbooks, which were recently exposed by the newspapers Agos and Taraf.

The two newspapers recently published reports on hateful remarks targeting Armenians in the textbooks used in history classes, according to Today’s Zaman.

A letter accompanying the text of the condemnation, written by historian Taner Akçam, notes that including such expressions as lesson material to teach children is a disgrace.

“Standing with integrity in the face of history is the prerequisite for establishing the future on the foundations of friendship and peace. I do hope that this signature campaign will be taken as a scream from all of us for the publication of textbooks that we would like to see,” Akçam noted.

“The revolutions history and history textbooks should be collected immediately, with an apology issued to everyone and particularly to Armenian students. This is where the path to Turkish-Armenian peace lies, at this time when we are approaching 2015,” the statement reads.

Photo: Today’s Zaman