Saturday, June 28th, 2008
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1:03 am - TIME TO EXPOSE LIES
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moonleight
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Taner Akcam's Response To Yusuf Halacoglu Article -
TARAF, Sunday, June 15, 2008
It is time to put an end to the primitive and deceitful policy of the
Turkish Historical Society, based on lies and propaganda for internal public
opinion and a cause for embarrassment for Turkey and Turkish historians. ( read more... )
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
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12:19 pm
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aregjan
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from: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/05/armenian.valedictorian/index.html
A high school valedictorian's plans to study medicine at a California state university have run headlong into the federal government's attempts to return him and his family to Armenia.
Arthur Mkoyan, 17, was 2 years old when his family came to the United States.
"I haven't been in Armenia since I was 2, so I don't really know anything about the place," said Arthur Mkoyan, 17. "All I've seen is just videos my mom has watched on the Internet."
Mkoyan's long-term plans were turned upside down one morning in April when two immigration officers arrived at the door of his family's house.
"They took both of my parents, and they released my mom because she had to take care of us, since me and my brother are minors," he recalled. "But instead they took my dad away to a detention center in Arizona."
Mkoyan, who has a grade-point average above 4.0 -- extra credit for Advanced Placement classes makes that possible -- is set to graduate next week from Bullard High School in Fresno, California. Watch students from Arthur's school talk about his case »
Ten days later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to deport him and his family to the Armenian capital city of Yerevan, the same city his family fled in fear 16 years ago.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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2:23 pm - The "Blue Book" at ArmenianHouse.org
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ahousekeeper
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The electronic version of "Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire" by James Bryce is now available at the ArmenianHouse.org Electronic library. This version keeps page numeration as in the original, so it can be used as a source for citations in academic works.
JAMES BRYCE,
1st VISCOUNT BRYCE
(1838 – 1922)
British jurist, historian, diplomat and politician. Also well-known as an alpinist, Bryce climbed Mt. Ararat in 1876 and later published a travelogue called Transcaucasia and Ararat (1877). From 1907 to 1913 he served as Her Majesty's ambassador to the United States.
The most notable of his works concerning the Armenian question is the collection of eye-witness accounts on the Armenian genocide, compiled with the help of the famous historian Arnold J. Toynbee and published by the British government in 1916 under the title The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1915-16 (also known as “Blue Book”).
This work still angers the deniers of the Armenian genocide and all possible means are being employed to discredit its factual accuracy. For example, in the original version of the book the names of the correspondents were withheld for security considerations. That was used by some Turkish historians to declare the Blue Book as disinformation and wartime propaganda. However in 2000 historian Ara Sarafian published the critical and uncensored version of the book, thus once again confirming its importance as a primary source on the Armenian Genocide.
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
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11:14 am
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
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10:27 am - March 1st
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aregjan
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Police SUV running over an unarmed protester and driving away.
As far as I know, there has been no internal police investigation of this. And
when the General Prosecutor sees this clip I am sure they'll dismiss it as a "provocation"
(as they did with all previous damaging evidence).
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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5:53 pm - LJ strike
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
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9:56 am
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miadzin
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Why is this community locked? I keep wanting to send posts to my cousin (who does not have an LJ account) but he is unable to view entries.
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
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4:12 pm - Serge Sargsyan interview (also online at LiveJournal.com)
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ahousekeeper
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![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) uzogh announces:
This Thursday, March 15th 13th at 3:00PM Yerevan time (6:00AM EST) Serge Sargsyan will be giving an interview. The questions to the newly elected Armenian president will be collected through different channels including LiveJournal.com. Special account under his name has been created at LiveJournal.com. More information on the interview and how the questions will be collected will be published soon at that account: http://serzhsargsyan.livejournal.com/
IMPORTANT:
1. No censorship on the questions except for the insulting ones.
2. The questions will be answered in Armenian. So it is better to ask them in Armenian too to avoid unnecessary translation difficulties and misunderstanding.
3. Some of the questions will be answered during a TV interview with Serge Sargsyan, the answers to the rest of the questions will be posted in 1-2 days in his LiveJournal account.
4. No limitations on the subjects. Anyone can ask as many questions as he or she wants. Every question is promised to be answered.
5. Questions will be collected from 10.00AM March 11th to 9.00PM March 12th (Yerevan time).
6. All technical questions can be asked here: http://uzogh.livejournal.com/167658.html
7. Questions by Anonymous commenterss are also accepted, though it is preferable to sign questions (LJ-username, OpenID are also considered as signatures).
Crosspost from: http://ahousekeeper.livejournal.com/189078.html
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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12:12 pm - Police opening fire at the protesters
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aregjan
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Until now the Armenian police has categorically denied having opened fire
in the direction of the protesters. This video shows masked policemen chasing
protesters and then opening fire from AK-74 automatic rifles with tracer rounds
at them, killig at least one person, and then calmly walking away from the scene.
p.s. here is the actual statement of the Prosecutor-General's spokeswoman (from www.armenianow.com):
“The preliminary investigation will establish all circumstances of the deaths. I can state basing on the data of the preliminary investigation available as of today that no shot was fired in the direction of the demonstrators even during the mass unrest,” Truzyan said, adding that to quell the riots police used tear gas and tracer bullets fired solely into the air.
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
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9:09 pm
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aregjan
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Those who still take seriously the statements of the Armenian police
need to read this. Soon we'll be told that Levon Ter-Petrossian has
conspired with Darth Vader himself to use the Death Star in order to seize power
in Armenia.
Armenians ‘Hypnotized By Ter-Petrosian’
Former President Levon Ter-Petrosian and his allies resorted to a mass hypnosis of the population and other “psychological tricks” to muster popular support for their bid to topple Armenia’s leadership, Prosecutor-General Aghvan Hovsepian said on Friday.
The rest can be found here: http://www.armenialiberty.org/armeniareport/report/en/2008/03/321B497A-1D95-4448-858A-F2603260C292.ASP
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1:51 pm
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aregjan
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The address of the Human Rights' Ombudsman of Armenia
(from http://www.ombuds.am/main/en/9/18/1281/)
Statements
Human rights defenders position on the existing situation in the country
03/03/08
1. Even from the pre-electoral campaign period, the public activities of different political bodies resulted in the atmosphere of intolerance in our society. Unfortunately the calls for tolerance, made both by competent international organizations and by the Human Rights Defender were ignored. Even more, the atmosphere of intolerance turned into mutual hatred after the tragic events on the March 1.
2. The events of March 1 started from the forced dispersal of the demonstrators in the Azatutyun square early in the morning. It was officially announced that there was an accumulation of weapon in the place of demonstration, and Police officers simply tried to inspect the area but faced tough resistance.
The Human Rights Defender’s position is that the authorities should clarify some issues. Notably, who, when and under what circumstances there was made a decision to disperse peaceful demonstration by using force early in the morning of March 1, whether the demonstrators were presented an official warning of corresponding searching and whether the participants refused or resisted, and whether the use of force was adequate to the situation.
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
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3:37 pm - About Armenians of Hamshen
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ahousekeeper
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A speech by historian and turkologist Lusine Sahakyan about the history, language and the current situation of Hamshenci Armenians in Turkey. There is a Hamshentsi folk song in the last part of the playlist. The speech is in perfect Armenian, so that would be a good practice for those who know Armenian but hear it rarely.
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
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5:12 pm - If Our Friends Do It, It Is Not Genocide
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
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1:48 pm - Learn Armenian
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
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2:10 pm - Wilson arbitration docs now online.
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ahousekeeper
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The text of so-called «Wilson arbitration» on the boundary between Turkey and Armenia (the legendary «Wilsonian Armenian», remember?) is now available online at archives.genocide.ru both in the form of electronic text and microfilm scans from the U.S. archives.
Check also a short intro by Ara Papyan — former Armenian ambassador to Canada — which provides more details about what it is all about.
Feel free to distribute this information over mailing lists, forums, blogs.
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
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10:10 am - Deconstructing the "Turkey an ally" myth.
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ahousekeeper
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For the last few days Groong has been full of anti-Armenian, anti-resolution crap from American and Turkish media. The main argument by Turks and their allies is: Turkey is an important ally for the U.S. and Armenian genocide bill hurts their relations. The same is told about Israel: strategic partners, blah-blah-blah.
Whenever you hear such crap, here are some counter-arguments for your use:
1. If Turkey is so much pro-Israel, how come Hitler's Mein Kampf became a national bestseller in Turkey 2 years ago? The infamous The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is very popular with Turkish buyers too.
2. How can a «strategic ally» [sic!] of Israel threaten to harm it's Jewish community, especially given the fact that these Jews are Turkish citizens?!
3. How can Turkey be an «important ally for Iraq campaign» if it prohibited the United States to use its territory to attack Iraq back in 2003? (Not that I'm a fan of Bush's Iraq campaign, but this «Iraq campaign ally» thing is a total lie). Moreover, it was Turkey who was buying oil from Saddam, thus violating UN embargo.
4. «America uses Incirlik military base in Turkey» thingy... Well, yeah, Americans use Incirlik and in turn provide tens of million dollars to Turkey in form of military aid annually.
5. If Turkey is pro-American and pro-Israeli, why is the «Valley of the Wolves» movie so popular in Turkey and has been praised personally by Erdoghan. If you don't know: that's a film about good Turkish commandos successfully fighting against bad-bad-bad Americans and and even worse Jews in Iraq.
There are more examples of Turkish hypocrisy, but well, these should be more than enough for a regular chit-chat session :)
P.S. Feel free to distribute, if you find it appropriate
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
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2:28 am
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flutenerd
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Did anybody catch Jon Stewart on the Daily Show talking about the Genocide bill? He did a considerably long excerpt on his show about the topic and I must say he did quite a good job bringing it to the front-burner (and made it funny too). Huge applause for him.
Anyway, can anybody find a clip of that online somewhere?
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
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12:02 am - Those two women in Iraq...
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bobquasit
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Was I the only one who was shocked to hear that the two women who were shot and killed in Baghdad were Armenians?
Apparently private masked security guards from Australia who were working with Coalition forces opened fire on their car, using US-supplied weapons. The two women were instantly killed, while two children in the car survived. The guards left the scene without checking the victims.
2 Killed in Shooting Mourned Far Beyond Iraq (New York Times)
current mood:  shocked
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2:20 am - The irony of denial
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ahousekeeper
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It's ironical that Turkish fierce and hysterical denial campaign made much, much more publicity for the Armenian cause than any Armenian individual or organization would ever be able to achieve. Actually Ankara's lobbying money works for us rather than for Turks.
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1:53 am - News
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