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

April 8, 2015 By administrator

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.

Today lets all stand together & remember the 1.5 million people who were massacred in the Armenian Genocide. April 24th, 1915. #NEVERFORGET

— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) April 24, 2012

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.

Lebanese Leaders to Attend April 24 Commemorations in Yerevan

April 4, 2015 By administrator

Lebanon’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Gebran Bassil

YEREVAN (Armenpress)—Lebanon will be represented at commemoration ceremonies in Yerevan marking the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on April 24, the Beirut-based Aztag Daily’s Editor-in-Chief Shahan Kandaharian has told Armenpress.

“On April 24, a four-member delegation of the Lebanese Government, including the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Industry, will visit Yerevan. Besides the executive body, a parliamentary delegation will visit Armenia as well, including the Vice President of the National Assembly and deputies,” Kandaharian said.

Yerevan: Media forum participants visit Armenian Genocide Memorial

March 19, 2015 By administrator

YEREVAN. – Participants of the Yerevan-hosted media forum “At the Foot of Mount Ararat” on Thursday visited Memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims (Tsitsernakaberd).

Accompanied by director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan, the journalists from different countries got familiarized with the temporary exhibition pf the museum (the main exhibition opens on April 24). They headed to the eternal flame where they laid flowers and joined hands to form a circle to commemorate the victims (photo).

One of the participants, London-based journalist Isaac Karipidis told the Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent the visit to Tsitsernakaberd was close to his heart, since he is from a family of the Pontic Greecks that faced massacres in the Ottoman Empire.

President of the International Federation of Journalists Jim Boumelha said he visited Armenia and participated in the media forum to show that reporters can really make changes.

Yerevan Tonight: Premiere of the Armenian entry!

March 12, 2015 By administrator

Yerevan, Armenia –

Genealogy. Photo: Public Television of Armenia

In the past weeks, we have already introduced five members of the Armenian band Genealogy to you. Tonight at 18:30 CET it’s finally time for the last big announcement: You will find out who is the sixth member of the group that will go on to represent Armenia in Vienna, and we will also premiere the official video clip for Don’t Deny, right here on Eurovision.tv!

Five artists from five different continents have already been presented as members of the Armenian group Genealogy: Stephanie Topalian, Essaï Altounian, Vahe Tilbian, Mary-Jean O’Doherty Vasmatzian and Tamar Kaprelian. Tonight the sixth and final member will be presented. Together they will represent Armenia in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.

But that’s not all: You will also be able to listen to their entry Don’t Deny and watch the official video clip for the first time here on Eurovision.tv, at 18:30 CET!

Learn more about the story behind Genealogy and the five members that have already been presented in our special feature:

Armenia: “Don’t Deny” presented March 12

In the past days we have introduced five out of six members of the Armenian band Genealogy. Now, in less than one week, it’s finally time to get to know the video clip of their song Don’t Deny: W…

Inauguration of the Yerevan-Baghdad-Erbil Airline

February 28, 2015 By administrator

Since February 26, a new line serves Yerevan. This is the airline Erbil-Baghdad-Yerevan (the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan), which is provided by the Iraqi company “Irakian Airlines”. According Roupen Grtzelian the press responsible for the direction of the Armenian Civil Aviation, weekly two-Baghdad-Erbil Yerevan flights will be operated on aircraft CRJ900 and Boeing 737. On the first flight, fifty Iraqi government officials and tourist agencies came to Yerevan. The representative in Armenia of the Iraqi National Company “Irakian Airlines” is the Armenian society “Avia Service”.

Krikor Amirzayan

ARMENIA The US Embassy will commemorate the victims of the Armenian Genocide

February 15, 2015 By administrator

Armenian Genocide monument

The US Embassy in Armenia will mark the centenary of the Armenian Genocide with the Armenian people on Friday said newly appointed US Ambassador Richard Mills at a press conference.
As for the participation of the US government, the ambassador said that President Obama was honored to be invited to participate in events to mark the hundredth anniversary of the genocide, “but during my meetings in Washington, he n was not yet

Armenia schoolchildren to make 1.5 million forget-me-nots #armeniangenocide

February 11, 2015 By administrator

100th commemoration of Armenian genocide

YEREVAN. – The Minister of Education and Science of Armenia, Armen Ashotyan, chaired a consultation at the ministry.

The discussants conferred on the events to be organized within the country’s public education sector, and devoted to the forthcoming centenary of the Armenian Genocide.

In particular, it was decided that Armenia’s fifth to twelfth graders will prepare 1.5 million forget-me-nots, which have been recognized as the symbol of the genocide centennial.

Subsequently, these flowers will be presented to the Armenian and foreign guests who will be visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial, in capital city Yerevan, on April 24, the 100th anniversary of this calamity.

Yerevan: Ankara makes another attempt to conceal its inability to face history

February 2, 2015 By administrator

YEREVAN. – It turns out that it’s acceptable for the Turkish diplomacy not to respond to the invitation to attend the events dedicated to the Armenian Genocide Centennial sent by President Sargsyan, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan told Armenpress agency.

He emphasized that it turned out to be acceptable for the Turkish side to move to that very day the events devoted to the anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli and, furthermore, to dare to send an invitation to the Armenian leader contrary to all moral standards.

“By such simple deceptions, Ankara makes another unsuccessful attempt to conceal its inability to face with the past and accept the historical truth, which can pave way for the regulation of the ArmenianTurkish relations. To avoid appearing in such absurd situations, the Turkish authorities should have changed not the traditional day of marking the anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli, but change their way of thinking, which is continuation of the policy of genocide,” Kocharyan added.

PACE delegates want to visit Armenia on April 24

February 2, 2015 By administrator

YEREVAN. – The delegates of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have expressed willingness to visit Armenia on April 24, member of the Armenian delegation to PACE Hermine Naghdalyan said.

However, it must be taken into account that the next plenary session is planned for the days when Armenians mark centennial of the Armenian Genocide, namely on April 20-25, she added.

“Nevertheless, many of our European colleagues said they want to visit Armenia several days earlier or even later to honor memory of the innocent victims of Armenian Genocide,” Naghdalyan added.

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

January 31, 2015 By administrator

Yesterday 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.