Author: Badalian Vardan

STUDY BACKS MOVSES KHORENATSI’S DATE FOR FOUNDING OF ARMENIA

10:15, 11 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Movses Khorenatsi, a historian in the fifth century, wrote that his
native Armenia had been established in 2492 B.C., a date usually
regarded as legendary though he claimed to have traveled to Babylon
and consulted ancient records. But either he made a lucky guess
or he really did gain access to useful data, because a new genomic
analysis suggests that his date is entirely plausible, The New York
Times reports.

Geneticists have scanned the genomes of 173 Armenians from Armenia
and Lebanon and compared them with those of 78 other populations
from around the world. They found that the Armenians are a mix of
ancient populations whose descendants now live in Sardinia, Central
Asia and several other regions. This formative mixture occurred from
3000 to 2000 B.C., the geneticists calculated, coincident with Movses
Khorenatsi’s date for the founding of Armenia.

Toward the end of the Bronze Age, when the mixture was in process,
there was considerable movement of peoples brought about by increased
trade, warfare and population growth. After 1200 B.C., the Bronze
Age civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean suddenly collapsed,
an event that seems to have brought about the isolation of Armenians
from other populations. No significant mixing with other peoples
after that date can be detected in the genomes of living Armenians,
the geneticists said.

The isolation was probably sustained by the many characteristic
aspects of Armenian culture. Armenians have a distinctive language and
alphabet, and the Armenian Apostolic Church was the first branch of
Christianity to become established as a state religion, in A.D. 301,
anticipating that by the Roman empire in A.D. 380.

The researchers also see a signal of genetic divergence that developed
about 500 years ago between western and eastern Armenians. The date
corresponds to the onset of wars between the Ottoman and Safavid
dynasties and the division of the Armenian population between the
Turkish and Persian empires.

“This DNA study confirms in general outline much of what we know
about Armenian history,” said Hovann Simonian, a historian of Armenia
affiliated with the University of Southern California.

The geneticists’ team, led by Marc Haber and Chris Tyler-Smith of
the Sanger Institute, near Cambridge in England, see long-isolated
populations like that of the Armenians as a means of reconstructing
population history.

Armenians share 29 percent of their DNA ancestry with Otzi, a man
whose 5,300-year-old mummy emerged in 1991 from a melting Alpine
glacier. Other genetically isolated populations of the Near East,
like Cypriots, Sephardic Jews and Lebanese Christians, also share
a lot of ancestry with the Iceman, whereas other Near Easterners,
like Turks, Syrians and Palestinians, share less. This indicates
that the Armenians and other isolated populations are closer than
present-day inhabitants of the Near East to the Neolithic farmers
who brought agriculture to Europe about 8,000 years ago.

The geneticists’ paper was posted last month on bioRxiv, a digital
library for publishing scientific articles before they appear in
journals. Dr. Tyler-Smith, the senior author of the genetics team,
said he could not discuss their results for fear of jeopardizing
publication in a journal that he did not name.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS HOLLANDE – SYLLABUS

March 10, 2015

The international conference organized by the International Scientific
Council for the study of the Armenian Genocide (CSI) “Genocide
of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in the Great War. 1915-2015:
one hundred years of research “will be held in Paris from 25 to 28
March 2015 under the patronage of the President of the Republic,
Francois Hollande.

Syllabus

Wednesday, March 25

Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne, 76 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris

4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Official speeches and messages of support

Inaugural lecture by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, President of the School
of Higher Studies in Social Sciences and Yves Ternon, historian, member
of the Scientific Council of the Holocaust Memorial, president of CSI

Thursday, March 26

Memorial of the Shoah, 17 rue Geoffroy The Asnier, 75004 Paris

10h-12h30 – First Panel: Space-time, the steps of the genocidal process

Chair: Catherine Nicault, historian, University of Reims. Discussant:
Stephan Astourian, historian, UC Berkeley

The legacy of Abdulhamid II by Janet Klein, Historian, University
of Akron.

The Ottoman opposition, the Committee of Union and Progress and the
1908 revolution Erdal Kaynar, historian, Polonsky Academy of the Van
Leer Institute, EHESS.

The “European Concert” and reforms in the eastern provinces, 1878-1914
by Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS.

The Organization for Special Sait Cetinoglu, historian, Free University
of Ankara.

The entrance of the Ottoman Empire in the war, 1914-1915 by Mustafa
Aksakal, historian, Georgetown University.

12h30-13h30: lunch

13h30-15h – Second Panel: Perpetrators, Victims, Rescuers

Chair: Richard Hovannisian, historian, UCLA. Discussant: Vincent
Duclert, historian, EHESS.

The first phase of the Destruction: Deportations and Massacres
(April-August 1015) by Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of
Paris VIII.

The second phase of genocide KM-historian, Rutgers University.

Forced conversions by Umit Kurt, historian, Sabancı University.

15h-15h15: Pause

15h15-16h20 – Third Panel -: Witnesses

Chair: Wolfgang Gust, journalist. Discussant: Ara Sarafian, historian,
Gomidas Institute.

European and American witnesses by Hans-Lukas Kieser, historian,
University of Zurich.

Armenian witnesses Amatuni Virabyan, historian, State Archives
of Armenia.

16h20-16h30: pause

16h30-19h – Fourth Panel: The other Empire minorities

Chair: Gérard Chaliand, geostrategist. Discussant: Laurent-Olivier
Mallet, historian, University of Montpellier.

The Jews of the Ottoman Empire in the late nineteenth century by
Georges Bensoussan, historian, the Holocaust Memorial.

The complexity of the genocide of the Assyrian-Chaldeans by David
Gaunt, a historian, Centre for Baltic and East European University
of Soedertoern.

The Ottoman Greeks by Sia Anagnostopoulou, historian, University
of Athens.

Kurdish-Yezidi-Armenians, many facets of a community in exile (s)
by Estelle Amy of Bretèque, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, CNRS.

Friday, March 27

EHESS, 105 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris

10h-12h30 – Fifth Panel: Logic of war, economic, ideological

Chair: JoÔl Kotek, a political scientist, historian, University of
Brussels. Discussant: Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, historian, EHESS.

Ideological, demographic and economic logic of genocide by Hamit
Bozarslan, political scientist, historian, EHESS.

The logic of pre-genocidal massacres by Vincent Duclert, historian,
EHESS.

The world in turmoil: waves of refugees and massacres in the occupied
northern Persia (1914-1918) by PeterHolquist, historian, University
of Pennsylvania.

The mechanisms of decision making of the Young Turk leadership
(1913-1915) by Erik-Jan Zurcher, historian, University of Leiden.

The confiscation of Armenian property during the genocide by Mehmet
Polatel, historian, Koc University.

12h30-13h30: lunch

13h30-16h – Sixth Panel: International Relations and Criminal Law

Chair: Peter Mertens, lawyer, Sociology of Literature Centre, Free
University of Brussels. Discussant: Vincent Nioré, lawyer and
president of the Institute for Criminal Law

The trials of Constantinople (1919-1920) by MikaÔl Nichanian,
historian, National Library of France.

The breakdown of consensus. The Perincek case, the Armenian genocide
and international criminal law by Sevane Garibian, lawyer, Universities
of Geneva and Neuchâtel.

The status of Armenian stateless refugees and international action
of the League of Nations and the International Labour Office by
Dzovinar Kevonian, historian, Institute for Political Social Sciences,
University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense Raphael Lemkin, the
extermination of the Armenians and the invention of the word genocide
by Annette Becker, historian, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Défense Lemkin and the Armenian genocide, a legal play by Olivier
Beauvallet, international judge.

16h-16h15: Pause

16h15-18h20 – Seventh Panel: historiography, a new research field

Chair: Michel Marian, philosopher, Institute of Political Studies in
Paris. Discussant: Edhem Eldem, historian, Bogazici University.

The historiography of the Armenian genocide, a new field of research
by Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute
of Political Studies in Paris.

Reflections on Ottoman historiography (years 1960-1990) about the
role of non-Muslims and Ottoman Armenians in commerce and the urban
economy by Stephan Astourian, historian, University of Berkeley.

Ottoman governors opposed to deportations and massacres of Armenians
by Ayhan Aktar, historian, Bilgi University.

The speech of Turkey on the genocide of Armenians by Jennifer Dixon,
political scientist, Villanova University.

18h20-18h30: Pause

18h30-20h30 – Eighth Panel: Perspectives on clearing trails or the
Armenian ghost

Chair: Patrick Donabedian, art historian, University of Aix-Marseille.

Discussant: Antoine Spire, journalist, vice president of Lycra.

The permanence of traces of the 1915 genocide in the Armenian memory;
role of politics in their registration or erasure by Janine Altounian,
essayist, translator, Freud specialist.

Confiscation and destruction of property by Armenian Dickran Kouymjian,
historian, California State University.

After photograph by Pascaline Marre, photographer and Anouche Kunth,
historian, CNRS.

Aram Andonian, the Nubar library and the creation of a heritage in
exile after the destruction of Ottoman Armenians by Boris Adjemian,
historian, Library Nubar AGBU.

Saturday, March 28

National Library of France, Quai Francois Mauriac, 75013 Paris

10h-12h30 – Ninth Panel: Memory, transmission, history, negation

Chair: Henry Rousso, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Claude Mutafian
historian.

The sacrifice, witness and forgiveness: The Candidate Zareh Vorpouni
by Marc Nichanian, professor of philosophy, Sabancı University.

Gender, genocide survival. Islamized Armenians new working memory
AyÅ~_e Gul Altinay, anthropologist, Sabancı University.

The teaching of genocide: European examples Alban Perrin, historian,
the Holocaust Memorial, Institute of Political Studies in Bordeaux.

The Founding Myths of Turkish denial by BuÃ…~_ra Ersanli, political
scientist, University of Marmara.

The memory of the genocide in Turkey Armenians by Hira Kaynar,
historian, EHESS.

12h30-13h30: lunch

13h30-15h: Tenth Panel: Features & comparatismes, I

Chairman: Jean-Pierre Chrétien, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Meir
Waintrater journalist.

Genocidal thinking: a comparative perspective by Dominik Schaller,
historian, University of Heidelberg.

The genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by the Ottomans by
Roger Smith, historian, College of William and Mary.

The Armenian Genocide in the light of a general theory of genocide
by Bernard Bruneteau, Professor of Political Science, University of
Rennes I.

15.00-15.15: Pause

15h15-17h – Eleventh Panel: Features & comparatismes, II

Chair: Claire Mouradian, historian, CNRS. Discussant: Yves Ternon,
historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Shoah Memorial.

Singularity of the Holocaust by Christian Ingrao, historian, CNRS.

Singularity of the famine in Ukraine by Nicolas Werth, historian, CNRS.

Singularity of the genocide of Tutsis by Helene Dumas, historian,
EHESS.

17h00-17h15: pause

5:15 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Closing Conference

Chair: Gaïdz Minassian, journalist and political scientist, Institute
of Political Studies in Paris.

Symposium balance by Raymond Kevorkian, historian, University of
Paris VIII.

1915 and the social sciences by Taner Akcam, historian, University
of Clarke.

Turkism and pan-Turkism by Erik-Jan Zurcher, historian, University
of Leiden.

The contemporary revisionism and its defenders Richard Hovannisian,
historian, UCLA.

The outlook from the perspective of international justice by Nicholas
Koumjian, prosecutor at the international courts.

The publication of research on the Armenian genocide in Turkey by
Ragıp Zarakolu, editor.

Practical information

Registration by email within the limit of available seats.

Founding members of the CSI

Annette Becker, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of
Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense), member of the Institut Universitaire
de France.

Hamit Bozarslan, historian, political scientist, director of studies
at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS).

Vincent Duclert, historian, lecturer and researcher at the Center
for Sociological and Political Studies Raymond Aron (EHESS).

Raymond Kevorkian, historian, emeritus director of research at the
French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Paris VIII.

Gaïdz Minassian, journalist, doctor of political science lecturer
at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris.

Claire Mouradian, historian, research director at the CNRS.

MikaÔl Nichanian, historian, curator at the National Library of
France, associate researcher at the College de France.

Yves Ternon, historian, member of the Scientific Council of the Shoah
Memorial, President of CSI.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS ONE OF ARMENIA’S MOST SERIOUS ISSUES, SAYS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER

03.11.2015 16:12 epress.am

Domestic violence is widespread in Armenia, wrote the Council of
Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, in his summary
report following his visit to Armenia from 5 to 9 October, 2014,
criticizing the practice of violating women’s rights and observing
the disadvantaged situation of women in the country. Muiznieks notes
that in some instances of domestic violence women have died; 7 deaths
were registered in 2013, 12 in 2014.

Citing the NSS and UNFPA’s survey, the report noted that 8.9% of
Armenian women have been subjected to at least one form of physical
violence by their partners, mostly in the home.

25% of women report at least one form of psychological violence,
while 3.3% have testified that they have been subject to sexual
violence by their intimate partner. 61.7% of those surveyed endured
some form of controlling behavior by an intimate partner through
restricting contacts with family and friends, controlling movement
or any undertaking outside the household, or making a woman seek
permission for accessing health services. The survey also tackles forms
of economic violence against women such as economic disempowerment,
including economic deprivation (e.g. withholding of money, confiscation
of earnings and savings, forbidding a woman to work).

The Human Rights Commissioner also noticed that the phenomenon of
prenatal sex selection in preference to boys over girls testifies to
the presence of gender bias. Forced abortions are considered a form of
psychological violence and a clear manifestations of the disadvantaged
situation of women and gender inequality in Armenian society.

The commissioner notes that Armenia’s authorities are not implementing
the proper steps to solve the problems. “A number of political
leaders, including parliamentarians, have denied the problem of
domestic violence in Armenia and even justified it in some cases,”
writes the commissioner.

“The Armenian criminal legislation does not include a specific offence
of gender-based violence, including domestic violence, and does
not address prevention, protection and prosecution issues. Crimes
of domestic violence may be prosecuted under other, more general,
provisions of the Armenian Criminal Code, such as assault, battery,
bodily harm and murder.

However, some forms of violence against women are not specifically
criminalised, such as rape by a husband or intimate partner, and
forced abortion. No distinction is drawn in the criminal legislation
between strangers or family members perpetrating violent crimes,”
stated the report.

Muiznieks also called on the Armenian authorities to ratify the Council
of Europe’s Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against
Women and Domestic Violence. The commissioner stated in his report,
that he was informed by government officials that Armenia needs time
to asses if the convention is compatible with Armenian legislation,
as well as, the financial resources necessary.

ARMENIAN FM TO ADDRESS SPECIAL MEETING OF THE OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL

OSCE
March 10 2015

ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER EDWARD NALBANDIAN TO ADDRESS SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL ON WEDNESDAY

VIENNA, Austria

The following information was released by the Organization for Security
and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE):

Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Edward Nalbandian will address
a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council on Wednesday 11 March
2015, at the Hofburg, Vienna.

The address to the Permanent Council by Minister Nalbandian will
be open to media. Journalists are invited to the Neuer Saal of the
Hofburg Congress Centre at 15:00 hours.

Journalists wishing to attend should register by sending an e-mail
to [email protected]

For admittance to the Hofburg Congress Centre, please bring a valid
press card and a document with a photo to the security desk (main
entrance from the Heldenplatz).

Contacts

Communication and Media Relations Section OSCE Secretariat Office:
+ 43 1 514 36 6756 (From 09:00-18:00 Vienna time, weekdays) Mobile:
+ 43 676 71 74 592 (For urgent and out of office hours requests)
[email protected]

72,6% OF DEPOSITS IN ARMENIAN BANKS IS FOREIGN CURRENCY

10:17, 11 March, 2015

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS: The deposits of the legal and physical
persons in the Armenian banks in the end of 2014 made 1 trillion 604
billion drams. 29,5% of it are demand deposits and 70,5% are term
deposits. The Central Bank of Armenia told Armenpress that the demand
and term deposits of the legal persons during the last trimester of
2014 increased by 5% and made 560,5 billion drams and the demand and
term deposits of the physical persons increased by 6,1%, making 43,7
billion drams.

According to the currency structure, dram deposits decreased by 7,5%,
while foreign currency deposits increased by 11,7%. In the result,
the share of foreign currency deposits in the total deposits increased
by 3,9%, reaching 72,6% in the last trimester.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEPUTY CHAIRMAN INVITES CZECH SENATE COUNTERPART TO ARMENIA

14:02, 11.03.2015

Armenia is determined to jointly expand, with the European partners,
the institutional reforms aimed at the continuous strengthening of
democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.

Armenian National Assembly (NA) Vice President Eduard Sharmazanov,
who is in the Czech Republic on an official visit, stated the
aforementioned at his talk Tuesday with Vice-President ZdenÄ~[k
Å kromach of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.

They underscored the importance of mutual visits and NA-Senate
cooperation in further strengthening and enhancing Armenian-Czech
relations.

Speaking on the avenues for the settlement the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict, Sharmazanov stressed that Armenia favors solely a pacific
settlement. Å kromach, for his part, noted that he likewise advocates
only a peaceful resolution of conflicts.

At the end of the talk, Eduard Sharmazanov invited the deputy chairman
of the Czech Senate to the Armenian capital city of Yerevan to attend
the Armenian Genocide centenary commemorations.

DEMONIZATION OF RUSSIA WILL NOT LEAD TO ANYTHING GOOD: ARTASHES GEGHAMYAN

10:56, 11 March, 2015

YEREVAN, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS. The Head of the Armenian Delegation
to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, MP of the Republican Party of
Armenia of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Artashes
Geghamyan responded the questions of “Armenpress” News Agency.

– Mr Geghamyan, to which extent did the delegation succeed to be
heard on those matters, which are of principle significance for the
formation of the governing bodies of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

– Very interesting question. For being heard in such an authoritative
organization, it isn’t only required consistently work during the
OSCE PA conferences, but that is not less important, as well as in the
period between conferences. For instance, during the OSCE Parliamentary
Assembly in Istanbul (2013), the heads of all the delegations of the
conference received the book by Artashes Geghamyan “Tough Road to
Istanbul”, translated into all working languages of the OSCE.

Before the conference of OSCE, the delegates had opportunity to
get acquainted with another book, entitled “Artashes Geghamyan:
The Alternative of Armenia’s Accession to Eurasian Union is War.”

Those books allowed to introduce the Republic of Armenia’s foreign
policy actual issues to the delegations of 56 member-states of the
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which relies on the fundamental principles
of the Helsinki Final Act.

Such a respectful attitude towards the OSCE PA partners mainly is
mutual. And under these conditions the audience is very attentive
toward your speeches. (THE FULL VERSION OF INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE
IN ARMENIAN)

PASTINFO.AM: AVETIK BUDAGHYAN’S FATHER FILES COMPLAINT WITH EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

17:36 | March 11,2015 | Politics

Emil Budaghyan, the father of Avetik Budaghyan killed in a shootout
near the house of governor of Syunik province Surik Khachatryan in June
2013, has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights.

Talking to PastInfo News Agency, Lawyer Hayk Alumyan, who represents
the interests of the Budaghyan family, said they asked the Court to
recognize violations of human rights prescribed by Articles 6 (1 and
2), 2 and 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights

Article 6 of the Convention states that everyone is entitled to a fair
and public hearing within a reasonable time by an independent and
impartial tribunal established by law. Under Article 6(2), everyone
charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until
proved guilty according to law.

SPORTS: ARMENIA SET TO TAKE PART IN EUROPEAN GAMES DESPITE

Agence France Presse
March 11, 2015 Wednesday 9:28 AM GMT

Yerevan, March 11 2015

Armenia’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) announced Wednesday that
it will send athletes to the inaugural European Games set for later
this year in arch-foe Azerbaijan.

“Armenian athletes have had some outstanding results in recent times
and have serious chances of winning medals at the European Games,”
Armenian NOC Secretary General Grachia Rostomyan, told a press
conference.

“It is entirely up to the country’s NOC to make a final decision on
the matter.”

However, the NOC decision has been hotly contested between the Olympic
Committee chiefs and some of the country’s sports federations bosses,
who have opposed the idea of participating in the fledgling games to
be held in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku from June 12-28.

Armenia and Azerbaijan are locked in a festering decades-long dispute
over the region of Nagorny Karabakh which Armenian-backed separatists
seized in a bloody conflict in the early 1990s.

“There’s no need for our athletes to go to Baku,” Levon Julfalakyan,
the country’s Greek-Roman wrestling team squad head coach said.

“They will never get a fair deal for their performances in Azerbaijan.”

His statement was backed by Armenia’s gymnastics boss Albert Azaryan.

“Regardless of our athletes’ performances they will never be given
a chance to win in Baku by any means,” he said.

“Armenia has a difficult relationship with Azerbaijan and the trip
to Baku could become a pretty risky affair.”

Meanwhile, the organisers of the European Games have already given
security guarantees for the members of the Armenian delegation at
the event.

The 2015 European Games will be the inaugural edition of an
international multi-sport event for athletes representing the Olympic
commitees of Europe.

The dispute between two former Soviet republics over the region
of Nagorny Karabakh has its immediate roots in a war that left some
30,000 people dead after ethnic-Armenian separatists backed by Yerevan
seized the territory from Azerbaijan.

Despite years of internationally-mediated negotiations since the 1994
ceasefire, the two sides have not yet signed a final peace deal.

Baku, whose military spending exceeds Armenia’s entire state budget,
has threatened to take back the region by force if negotiations fail
to yield results, while Armenia, which is heavily armed by Russia,
says it would crush any offensive.

Karabakh is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but
the ethnic-Azeri community — which before the war made up around 25
percent of the population — was entirely driven out.

Almost all of the current 145,000 population of the enclave is Armenian
and the region has declared itself the Nagorny Karabakh Republic.

ISTANBUL : ACTION ANTI-NEGATIONNISTE D’ETUDIANTS TURCS

Publie le : 09-03-2015

Info Collectif VAN – – > Nota CVAN : A notre connaissance, il s’agit
la de la première action de ce type. Esperons que d’autres initiatives
de ce genre suivront. Le HDK est essentiellement compose de Kurdes ou
de Turcs pro-Kurdes. Le Collectif VAN vous invite a lire la traduction
d’un article en anglais publie sur le site Armenpress le 6 mars 2015.

Des etudiants turcs protestent contre la negation du genocide armenien

Armenpress

6 mars 2015

Les etudiants de l’Universite Bogazici* (du Bosphore) d’Istanbul ont
mene une action pour protester contre l’evenement niant le genocide
armenien, organise par le Club de la pensee d’Ataturk.

Citant l’agence de presse turque Etha, Armenpress a rapporte qu’a
l’appel du Conseil du >,
les etudiants turcs sont entres dans le hall [où se tenait] l’evenement
intitule “Le centenaire de la deportation”, organise par le Club de
la pensee d’Ataturk, et ont fait une declaration pour les medias.

Dans leur communique, les etudiants ont souligne que les fetes de
Noël etaient celebrees il y a 100 ans a Malatya, Kayseri, Konya,
Mardin et Hatay (Antioche) et dans plusieurs endroits du meme type
[où etaient etablis les Armeniens], et que la nation de Hrant Dink,
vivant depuis 4000 ans sur ces terres, n’existait plus.

Après avoir fait la declaration, ils ont accroche sur les murs du
hall des affiches mentionnant : “Ce n’est pas une deportation, c’est
un genocide”, “Affrontez Hrant et le genocide”.

Nota CVAN : L’agence de presse turque Etha ajoute que les etudiants
ont quitte les lieux en scandant ces memes slogans. Soulignons que
de multiples Associations de la Pensee d’Ataturk existent en France.

*L’universite du Bosphore (en turc, Boðazici Universitesi) est
une universite publique turque situee dans le quartier de Bebek a
Istanbul. L’enseignement y est entièrement dispense en anglais.

(c)Traduction de l’anglais Collectif VAN – 04 mars 2015 –

Lire en turc :

Ermeni Soykýrýmý’ný inkar eden etkinlik protesto edildi

Observatoire du Negationnisme du Collectif VAN

Source/Lien : Armenpress