Armin T. Wagner - Photographer during the Armenian Genocide

Envie de vomir ?: Hymne national Turque au Hrazdan

« Une (foot) balle dans le pied » par Ara Toranian

For once in a lifetime, I must admit I am in full agreement with nouvelles d'Armenie editorial.

ABDULLAH GUL ARRIVES IN ARMENIA

The press service of the president of Turkey reports that on September 6 Abdullah Gul will arrive in Yerevan on Serge Sargsyan’s invitation to watch the football match Armenia vs. Turkey. "The visit may promote peace and establish a new climate of friendship in the region", the release of the press service holds.
Well, as a Armenian, I must say that this is the last betrayal I will endure from the Armenian state. The Republic of Armenia has lost its honor and credentials to me.

Shame ! Shame on Armenia ! Shame on all Armenians !

"We Are Ready to Talk to Turkey" By SERZH SARGSYAN FROM TODAY'S WALL STREET JOURNAL EUROPE

Must be f** kidding us ? ... Shame ! Shame on us !

Le 23 juin le president Serge sarkissian a rencontré les représentants de la communauté arménienne à Moscou. S’exprimant sur les relations turco-arméniennes il a déclaré « Notre position en la matière est claire : il ne devrait y avoir aucune frontière fermée entre des pays voisins au 21e siècle. La coopération régionale peut être le meilleur moyen pour établir la stabilité. La partie turque suggère de former une commission qui étudierait les faits historiques. Nous ne sommes pas contre établir cette commission, mais seulement quand la frontière entre nos pays sera ouverte. Autrement, cela peut devenir un moyen de prolonger la solution de la question pendant de nombreuses années. Dans l’avenir j’ai l’intention d’entreprendre de nouveaux pas pour normaliser les relations arméno-turques. Le plus probablement, j’inviterai le Président turc Abdullah Gul à Yerevan afin de voir le match entre les équipes nationales de football d’Arménie et de Turquie ».

1908-2008: Centennial of the Young Turk Revolution

An international congress entitled “1908-2008: Centennial of the Young Turk Revolution” commemorating the 100th anniversary of the second Constitutional Period of the Ottoman Empire will be hosted by The Faculty of Political Sciences of Ankara University in Ankara, during 28-30 May 2008.
Papers will consider the place of the concept of bourgeois revolution in the social sciences, the connection between the Young Turk Revolution and bourgeois revolutions at the beginning of the 20th century, the impact of the Young Turk Revolution in the world and its influence on the Turkish Republic.

THIS IS A PETITION AGAINST THE CONGRESS ! Please join me in SUBMITTING OUR OWN PAPERS to the conference coordinator:
Sina Akşin
saksin@politics.ankara.edu.tr
Faculty of Political Sciences
Ankara University

OUR PAPERS SHOULD CONCERN THE ROLE OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE YOUNG TURKS [TALAT, ENVER, DJEMAL] IN THE ANNIHILIATION OF THE ENTIRE ARMENIAN POPULATION OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE !

REDISCOVERING ARMENIAN BARDIZAG (BAHCHEJIK) IN WESTERN TURKEY

INVITATION

27 January 2008, 3:00 pm
Armenian House, 25 Cheniston Gardens, London W8
London, England

Nearest tube High Street Kensington

For more information please write to Roland Mnatsakanyan
at info@gomidas.org or telephone 020 7603 7242

Entrance is free. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP.

This presentation by Ara Melkonian will be the first in our new series, "The Lost Armenian Communities of Ottoman Turkey." Melkonian will use a rich tapestry of sources to visit Bahchejik, the ancestral village of his family, in western Turkey. He will recall the memory of his village for a new generation of Armenians to connect with their ancestral past.

Ara Melkonian is a Fellow at the Gomidas Institute, London, where he specializes in Armenian-English translations and works on other special projects. His recent work includes translations of Vahram Dadrian’s Forsaken Love (Taderon Press, 2006) and Raffi’s Tajkahayk, (Taderon Press, 2007). He just began a database series on Armenian Orphans in the Aftermath of WWI. He is the author of “Memory Faultlines” which appeared in the July 2006 issue of Ancestors, the journal of the British National Archives.

2007 The Year that was.

In the following days, Bardizag will launch the "Year that was" series. The worst and the best, Ups and Downs of 2007. So stay tuned ......

FIFA 2010 Qualifiers- Are we really gonna play ?

My view: We should not play.

Sending 30 Armenians in a country where they kill Armenian journalists is dangerous. Let's make a political statement.

We will probably play anyway: When you read our president's interview in "Les nouvelles d'Armenie" #136, who opens his harms to business with Turkey? After the visit to Akhtamar ... Let's play Football now !!!

What will happen during the national anthems ?

What about the Footbal organisations .... After Azerbaidjan for the EUFA-08 Qualifiers, now Turkey !!!??? Stupid ...

Bush administation has sent two senior officials to Ankara to ally Turkish anger

Reading this article, I was wondering: did it strike anyone that the two officials were named 'Erci Edelman' and 'Dan Fried' ?

"Regis est un con" serie - 1

A Yerevan-based American-Armenian political analysts spoke today about weak signals coming from the Turkey’s government and its army, which he said indicate that they have started to comprehend the wisdom of lifting the blockade of Armenia.
The political analyst, Richard Giragosian, called these signals ‘revolutionary.”
Speaking to a news conference Mr. Giragosian argued that the passage of a resolution by the US Congress recognizing the 1915 Armenian genocide would have no impact on Washington’s relationships with Ankara ‘because they are already bad.’
Mr. Giragosian further said that Turkey and Armenia can normalize their relations only through boosting economic ties, because ’Turkey needs Armenia as an economic partner to stabilize the situation in its eastern Kurdish-populated areas.”
Mr. Giragosian also reiterated fears that Turkey’s accession to EU with its 75 million population may pose a serious threat to Europe’s integrity, but he said Armenia would benefit from a Turkish EU membership, ‘because Ankara would have to reduce its military spending and cut its armed forces.’
According to Mr. Giragosian, Armenia may act as a go-between between Iran on one hand and the USA and Europe on the other hand.
live from YEREVAN, AUGUST 14, ARMENPRESS

How mean can these people be .....

Found this thread on JPierre's blog, from 2005 ....

http://www.jpierre.com/node/152

Don't tell me the world powers did not know..

Journal La Croix 15 février 1916
source : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark :/12148/cb343631418/date1916

Le mas des alouettes

Un pan d'Histoire vu par une petite histoire
1915. Dans une petite ville de Turquie, une famille arménienne ouvre sa belle demeure pour les funérailles du patriarche. Assadour, le fils aîné parti à Padoue depuis des années, revient pour l'occasion et tous préparent son accueil. Personne ne semble conscient du destin tragique qui va bientôt frapper toute la nation arménienne...

C'est comme ça qu'est decrit le synopsis du film. Il y a longtemps que je voulais le blogger.
Tout d'abord grand merci au frères Taviani (auteurs il y a quelques années de Good morning Babylonia, c'est pas rien), pour ce film émouvant et pour sa justesse (pour des non armeniens ....). Et un grand merci aux bloggers et internautes pour avoir souligné à quel point ce film donnait à réflechir par rapport aux positions de la Turquie actuelle.

Je n'en dirais pas plus, car bien évidemment pas objectif. Je dirais juste: Allez y nombreux, precipitez vous sur le DVD à sa sortie ..... Grand Film !!!

Genocide/Assurance vie: AXA verse 17 millions de dollars

La compagnie française d’assurances Axa vient de publier la liste de ses clients assures dans sa filiale turque jusqu’en 1915 et qui furent victimes du génocide arménien. Les proches de ces victimes qui avaient souscrit une assurance-vie pourront signaler leurs droits auprès de la compagnie jusqu’au 1er octobre 2007. Selon un accord Axa devra verser au total 17 millions de dollars. 3 millions seront à destination des associations et organisations arméniennes de France, 3 autres millions seront utilisés pour couvrir les frais juridiques des familles des victimes et 11 millions seront reversés dans le Fonds d’indemnisation destinés aux familles des clients ayant souscrit avant 1915 une assurance-vie auprès de la compagnie

Alice Cirganyan Interview

Read this moving interview of Alice Cirganyan, a fellow bardizagtsi, realized on December 9, 2005 in Melbourne.

Born in 1923 (probably in Bolis), Alice knows about Bardizag - like all of us - mostly what her parents told. Though, she visited the village with her husband and a group of Bolis Armenians years later.

The evocation of bardizagn' "claire fontaine" - "They had a big spring (well), all of us uses to go there to get water...with the girls, in a group" Alice's mother used to say - speaks by itself.

Alice finally had to leave Turkey in the 70's. She lives in Melbourne. Bardizagn' armenian is the only language she speaks.

92nd Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide: Reconciliation is impossible !

Further to the commemoration ceremonies or meetings I have personally been able to take part on April 24th, I must say that I have been quite in disgareement - not with the tone - but with the underlying meaningful core ideas of various speeches held by officials of Armenian diaspora in the region of Lyon, France.

Key quotes as I registered them: " There will be no reconciliation without dialogue (Decines, France, April 29th)". " To establish a real dialogue, 2 parties should be involved (Lyon, France, April 24th)".

I think the key finding of 2007 can be summarized as follows: "1,500,000 + 1". If Hrant Dink's murder has proven us one thing is that there is no reconciliation possible.

As a matter of fact, what is unforgivable cannot be forgiven. We would be lying to ourselves and to the world if we pursue in this direction. No one can deny that We have an historical repsonsability in front of all citizens from all nations around the world. We can mislead the entire world. Whatever Turkey does or does not do, there is no dialogue possible.

There can be no reconciliation.

April 24th, DerZor. No Comment Serie-3

Bon ben Bravo les Suisses !!!!! :LE NEGATIONNISME TURC CONDAMNE POUR LA PREMIERE FOIS

A l’heure où l’Union européenne envisage de pénaliser le
négationnisme, la Suisse montre la voie à suivre --
Le président du Parti des Travailleurs turc, Dogu Perincek, a été condamné ce vendredi 10 mars par le tribunal pénal de Lausanne à une amende de 3 000 CHF, et à verser 1000 CHF de dommages et intérêts à l’Association Suisse-Arménie (ASA) pour avoir publiquement nié le génocide des Arméniens à deux reprises sur le territoire helvétique.