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"Ararat Foundation", California
"Ararat" Center for Strategic Research, Yerevan
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April 21, 2007

"The results of forceful islamization of the Armenians in the Ottoman
Empire"

Dear friends:

You are cordially invited to a lecture and book presentation by Dr.
Lusine Sahakyan, on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at 5:30 p.m., at Glendale
Central Library, 222 E. Harvard St., Glendale, California.

Dr. Lusine Sahakyan is an Assistant Professor and Vice-Chair of
Turkish Studies as well as Academic Council Secretary of the Faculty
of Oriental Studies at Yerevan State University (YSU). Dr. Sahakyan
lectures Contemporary Turkish, the History of Turkish Literature,
Turkish Historiography and History of Contemporary Turkey. In 2002, she
defended the Ph.D. dissertation on the toponyms and demography of the
provinces of Baberd, Sper and Derjan in the Ottoman "Tahrir-Defters"
of the 16’th century.

Dr. Sahakyan is the author of a number of scholarly articles which
sum up the results of historical toponyms and demography of Armenia,
the distortion of historical facts in Turkish scholarly circles as well
as the forceful islamization of the population of historical Armenia.

The event is open to the public. The admission is free.

The Mission of "Ararat Foundation": The primary objective of "Ararat
Foundation" would be step by step formation and development of an
Armenian school of strategic thought ("Ararat" Center for Strategic
Research). This would be an independent institution dedicated to
promoting understanding and resolution of Armenia’s security problems
through a program of research, information and outreach.

To contact "Ararat" Center for Strategic Research, please visit
or e-mail us at info@ararat-center.org