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An official site armeniangenocide100.org to centralize events related to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

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arton107590-400x300Yesterday January 30 was opened on armeniangenocide100.org site. Dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, this impressive site is in Armenian, Russian and English. According to its creator Haroutioun Berberian, the site will identify numerous articles related to the events of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide as well as other sections of the international press related to genocide. According to Vicken Sarkissian,

members of the Armenian government and coordinator of the manifestations of the genocide centennial, the main objective of the site is not to gather and compile information related to genocide, but to have an educational attraction. “We are waiting come to visit this site mass schoolchildren and students, “says Vicken Sargsyan also said that the site will centralize a lot of information on the Armenian Genocide and events in Armenia and worldwide.

www.armeniangenocide100.org

Website devoted to Armenian Genocide opens in Israel

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armenian-website-israelThe Armenian Genocide 100th Anniversary Jerusalem Committee has launched a website, whose objective is to inform the Israeli readers about this terrible tragedy that occurred at the turn of the 20th century.

The Noyan Tapan Center informed Armenian News-NEWS.am that the creators of this website hope that the activities being carried out within Israel’s population, and in collaboration with the academia and intelligentsia of this country, will have an impact on the Israeli government’s position with respect to this matter.

The website is in Russian and Hebrew so that all layers of the Israeli population may get familiarized with the Armenian Genocide issue.

Turkish police raid critical news website

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n_72381_1Turkish police raided the headquarters of a news website Sept. 30, allegedly demanding that a critical article about last year’s massive corruption investigations be removed immediately.

Police officers came to the office of Karşı, a newspaper that shut down its print edition in April and turned itself into a digital-only publication, in Istanbul’s Mecidiyeköy neighborhood early on Sept. 30. After preventing five of its employees from working on the news website, the Anti-Cyber Crime Unit conducted a search in the office.

Emrah Direk, editor-in-chief of karsigazete.com, said the police officers asked the paper to remove an article about the corruption probes initiated in December 2013 that implicated several government figures. “We are a press organization. We have the right to inform the public,” Direk said. “We have just five employees. We were surprised that 10-15 police officers raided our office.”

Direk claimed that the unit did not produce a search warrant when it asked for the removal of the article, which was published by compiling social media reactions to the government’s claims that the wiretapping records were montaged. “They didn’t explain to us their reasoning,” he said. “They didn’t tell us which crime we committed by publishing that article. But we are not intimidated. We will keep walking our line.”

The Istanbul Police Department rejected claims that the raid was conducted without a court order. “The process regarding the aforementioned newspaper is being conducted according to court orders and laws,” read a written statement.

The Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC), on the other hand, condemned the police raid. “This is the latest example [of] the censorship that is present in this country. It is a fresh blow to the right of the people to be informed,” TGC said in a Sept. 30 statement on its website.

September/30/2014