Author: Chmshkian Vicken

Iran seeks to re-open Tabriz-Julfa-Nakhchivan-Iran railway

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
Dec 21 2004

Iran is interested in reopening the Tabriz-Julfa-Nakhchivan-Iran
railway, Iranian Deputy Transport Minister Mohammad Seyidnejat told
the Iran News agency last week.

The closure of the railway as a result of the Armenia-Azerbaijan
conflict over Upper Garabagh, which broke out in 1990, caused damage
worth $2 billion to regional countries, he noted.

Seyidnejat said that 3 million tons of cargo had been transported
through the railway by the time it was closed.

“Iran is carrying out certain activities to reopen the railway,
but this is impossible due to the inaction of regional states.”

The Tabriz-Julfa-Nakhchivan-Iran railway was destroyed by Armenia
late in 1989-early in 1990.*

PRIMATE PERFORMS OPENING PRAYER FOR BURBANK CITY COUNCIL MEETING

BURBANK, CALIFORNIA, December 17 (Noyan Tapan). Upon the invitation of
Council Member Stacey Murphy His Eminence Archbishop Hovnan Derderian,
Primate of the Armenian Church of North America Western Diocese,
offered the opening prayer for the Burbank City Council meeting held
on December 14, 2004. According to the Press Office of the Diocese,
the meeting was presided over by the Honorable Mayor Marsha Ramos.

His Eminence prayed, “Tonight, we pray especially for Mayor Ramos
and City Council Members Borght, Campbell, Golinski and Murphy
who work diligently for the City of Burbank and the members of the
community. Give them the strength to steadfastly serve and protect
the citizens of this blessed country for the glory of God’s Holy name”.

“It is important that we become proactive in further developing the
church’s good relationship with the City of Burbank. The Diocesan
Cathedral, soon to begin construction, will be the first and only
Cathedral in the city of Burbank. We will work closely with city
officials to ensure that as the Diocese grows, so too will our
friendship with the City of Burbank,’ stated the Archbishop.

ARF Bureau representative meets with Cyprus president

14.12.2004 17:29

YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Bureau
representative Hrant Margarian met on December 14 with Cyprus
President Tasos Papadopulos in Nicosia.

Cyprus claims Turkey should recognize the European Union’s 25 member
states, including Cyprus, if it wants the accession talks to
begin. Turkey refuses to recognize the Republic of Cyprus since its
1974 invasion of the northern part of the island, which it recognizes
as Turkish Republic of Cyprus.

The ARF delegation was comprised of the ARF Western Europe Central
Committee (CC) representative Murad Papazian, ARF Greece CC
representative Grigor Erjenian, European Armenian Federation
Chairwoman Hilda Choboian, ARF Cyprus organization representative
Vahan Ainejian, and Armenian National Committeeof Cyprus Chairman
Andranik Ashjian.

Margarian briefed the Cyprus president on the ARF’s position in
Turkey’s bid to join the EU and conveyed his party’s backing to
Cyprus’ stance in the issue. He also pointed out that the pressures on
Cyprus should be overcome.

The Cyprus president explained his country’s position and possible
moves concerning Turkey’s aspiration to join the EU.

Later, the ARF delegation met with Ianakis Omiru, president of the
Cyprus Socialist Party (EDEK) and other officials.

AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV LIKELY TO DISCUSS SETTLEMENT OF
KARABAKH CONFLICT IN GREAT BRITAIN

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13. ARMINFO. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev will
discuss the problem of settlement of Karabakh conflict in Great
Britain.

According to Day. Az, Azerbaijani leader left for Great Britain
Sunday. According to non-official source, the main goal of the visit
is discussion of prospects of expansion of bilateral economic
cooperation. Besides, the issue of the situation in the South Caucasus
is expected to be discussed. Ilham Aliyev is expected to meet British
Prime Minister Tony Blair and the key members of the Cabinet. The
president will hold talks in the parliament and will receive the heads
of a number of British leading companies. Ilham Aliyev is expected to
speak at a conference for development of oil sector of Azerbaijan in
London. The visit will be completed on December 15.

Global Politician, NY
Dec 13 2004

Turkey’s Self-Emasculation

12/14/2004

By Antero Leitzinger

Under the new Islamist government, Turkey’s foreign policy has been a
complete disaster, unrivalled in the country’s long and proud
history. Few other countries in the world have ever managed to depart
from their traditional foreign policies so rapidly while voluntarily
missing so obvious chances for achieving great victories. Instead of
participating in the liberation of Iraq, to which Turkey was invited
by the USA, its closest ally, Turkey prostrated to France – to the
very same country that just recently condemned Turkey for the
Armenian genocide, and opposed NATO guarantees for Turkey’s security.
Instead of having the Turkish Army parading in Kirkuk as the
protector of Iraqi Turks and Kurds, Turkey not only choose to side
with the Arab Socialist Baath Party dictatorship of Saddam Hussein,
but even went on expressing publicly concerns on Kirkuk’s security on
April 10th, the very day its inhabitants were celebrating their
liberation by Kurdish freedom-fighters.

Turkey’s disastrous choices and perverted image campaign in order to
appeal to traditionally anti-Turkish left-wing peace activists and
Arabic radicals, can no more be explained by the lack of experience
of its new government, leading AK Party, and foreign minister
Abdullah Gül. The only rational explanation must lie in Turkey’s
political self-emasculation. Apparently, it will present its
application for EU membership as a political eunuch for Europe – as a
harmless country without real military capabilities (not even a show
of force beyond Cyprus, for over 80 years), and without an
independent agenda to integrate its Kurdish minority. Instead of
having a grateful Kurdish protectorate, or a friendly Iraqi
government as its south-eastern neighbour, Turkey will be bordered by
independent-minded Kurds who will have a leading role in shaping the
foreign policy of Free Iraq.

The consequences of Turkish total failure in spring 2003 will be
studied and regretted by scholars of military strategy and diplomacy
for decades to come. The frustration felt in the Turkish Army and
intelligence services, will boil for a long time. When the media will
realize, that Turkey lost a unique chance to secure a role in forming
future Iraqi policy, and to present its military force as the
guarantor of peace and prosperity for the whole Kurdish people, added
with the realization of being betrayed by the French and the
disappointment of being left outside the EU anyway, the popularity of
the current AK Party administration will fall to low bottom. How much
humiliation can a government take? Since the party has a majority in
the parliament, a crisis of Turkish democracy will be inevitable. A
military coup would not be the worst possible result.

Just when Turkey was on the brink of becoming the leading country of
the region, and a trusted pillar of the Free World, Turkish
politicians and journalists failed to follow the example of Kemal
Atatürk, who had led his country with convincing strength and vision.
Instead of winning the top prize in the three weeks. war, Turkey
became the worst casualty of the whole process, irresponsibly
degenerating into a third-class power, and a destabilizing factor in
the Middle East. The contrast can not be exaggerated. Consequences
will be felt also in the Caucasus and Cyprus, where Turkey lost
critical credibility and authority.

Imagine the Turkish Army having returned from a glorious march
through Mosul and Kirkuk to Baghdad. There would have been many
military decorations and promotions, valuable experience, some
martyrs to be commemorated, and plenty of deserved self-assurance.
The Turkish people as a whole would have felt a new sense of unity
and pride. Turkey as the main Muslim member of the international
coalition would have been remembered and loved in the USA, in
Britain, and in several other courageous EU member states. The
economy would have gained both through immediate US aid and Iraqi
contracts. The Greek, Armenians, Syrians, and Iranians, would have
respected Turkish concerns and taken Turkey’s requests into account.

But this all did not materialize. The sole responsibility lies on the
Turkish government, and all attempts to make any late recovery by
attempts to bully the Kurds, to occupy Northern Iraq, or to act as an
interested party to the reconstruction of Iraq, are vain, will be
ridiculed, and only serve to emphasize Turkish confusion. It is sad,
but the heavy work of generations of skilled Turkish diplomats,
analysts, public relations officers, and private friends of Turkey,
was wasted in a few weeks. Honour is hard to earn, shame even harder
to loose.

Some years ago, foreign policy analysts wondered “Who lost Russia”.
Today, the question is, “How did Turkey lose itself?”

The article was originally written in April 2003.

Antero Leitzinger is a political historian and a researcher for the
Finnish Directorate of Immigration. He wrote several books on Turkey,
the Middle East and the Caucasus.

Lexington Herald Leader, KY
Dec 13 2004

Church mulls taking up arms to defend itself

Today’s topic: Christianity in Iraq

By David George

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Leaders of the ever-dwindling Christian population in
Iraq say bombings of their churches and attacks against their
communities may force them to take up guns.

Two more churches were bombed in Mosul last week, the latest attacks,
and some Christians say extremist Muslims are terrorizing them with
the intent of ousting them and seizing their houses and belongings.

Iraq is home to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world,
made up largely of ethnic Assyrians, an ancient people who speak a
modern form of Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. But as the turmoil
increases, hundreds of Christian families are leaving each week for
exile in Syria and Turkey.

Some Christians have called for the establishment of a “safe haven”
in Iraq’s north, where they would be protected by special Iraqi army
units. Others are threatening to add a Christian militia to Iraq’s
already militarized society.

“Assyrians need security, so we need a legal army within the Iraqi
army to protect ourselves,” said Michael Benjamin, a leader of the
Assyrian Democratic Movement.

Said another Assyrian leader, Yonadem Kanna, “We do not want to
transform our movement into a militia, but if we need to we can arm
more than 10,000 people.”

Christians are only a sliver of Iraq’s population, but their leaders
argue that driving them from Iraq would make it unlikely Iraq could
ever develop into a nation that values religious pluralism and
tolerance. Estimates of how many Christians have left Iraq in recent
months range from 10,000 to 40,000 people.

Christians have lived in the region nearly since the dawn of
Christianity. They are believed to number about 800,000, or about
three percent of Iraq’s population.

Many Christians have collaborated with U.S. forces, hoping that Iraq
will become a democratic and free secular state. Their links to
Americans, often as translators, have put them under threat. Some
anti-U.S. Sunni Muslims said that anyone aiding the Americans should
be killed, or even beheaded.

“The Christians have no future here,” said Athnaiel Isaac, a
23-year-old deacon in Baghdad. “We may be under the same pressures
that made the Jews leave Iraq (following World War II).”

Isaac said he will leave soon for Syria and that his al-Wehda
district of Baghdad is emptying of Christians.

“I know about 100 families that have left the al-Wehda neighborhood
in the last three months,” Isaac said.

Other Christians said the nation’s turmoil leaves them vulnerable.

“The extremist Muslims are attacking us because the coalition forces
are not controlling the country,” said Hayraw Bedros, an Armenian
Christian.

Many of Iraq’s churches have thrown up protective walls or placed
perimeter barrels filled with cement to protect against car bombs.
Some services have been cancelled after coordinated church bombings
in Baghdad and Mosul Aug. 1, in which 11 people died, and subsequent
bombings Oct. 16, Nov. 8 and again last Tuesday.

In last week’s attacks, insurgents bombed an Armenian-Catholic church
and the Chaldean bishop’s palace in Mosul.

Christians say they have had to find new places for worship.

“I used to go before to Saint George Church but now it’s destroyed,”
said Lilia Hermez, a 70-year-old Baghdad resident.

Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
Advertiser, Australia
The Mercury, Australia
Dec 7 2004

On this day: 07dec04

1988 – Huge earthquake in Soviet Armenia claims at least 25,000
lives.

1815 – France’s Marshal Ney is shot after a treason trial for aiding
Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo.
1841 – Edward John Eyre arrives in Albany, Western Australia, after
first crossing of the Nullarbor Plain.
1858 – French and Spanish announce blockade of Cochin, China.
1889 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera The Gondoliers premieres in
London.
1895 – Ethiopians defeat Italians at Ambia Alagi, Abyssinia.
1901 – England and Italy agree on settling Sudan frontier.
1907 – Commonwealth and South Australia agree on the transfer of
Northern Territory to the Commonwealth.
1921 – Austria and United States resume diplomatic relations.
1922 – Northern Ireland votes for nonalignment in Irish Free State.
1940 – The British attack larger Italian forces in Libya by surprise,
capturing 40,000 prisoners in three days.
1941 – Japanese planes attack the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, destroying many aircraft and ships and precipitating the US
declaration of war on Japan.
1949 – Nationalist government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek,
fleeing the Communist takeover of mainland China, establishes its
seat of government in Taiwan.
1952 – Riots break out in French Morocco.
1953 – David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel.
1965 – Pope Paul VI and ecumenical patriarch Athenagoras I of
Istanbul abolish the mutual excommunications of 1054 that split
Christianity into Catholic and Orthodox.
1970 – East Pakistan-based Awami League wins a majority government in
Pakistan’s general elections. In response, President Agha Mohammed
Yahya Khan suspends the government, triggering widespread rioting in
East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Deep divisions between East and West
Pakistan lead to civil war.
1971 – Unmanned Soviet space capsule sends back radio and television
signals from planet Mars.
1972 – Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippines’ President Ferdinand
Marcos, is slashed during public ceremony in Manila by man who is
killed at the scene.
1974 – Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus after five months in
exile, and says he will pardon those who plotted his overthrow.
1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
1988 – Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, at United Nations,
announces unilateral reduction of his country’s troops, tanks, combat
aircraft and artillery; Huge earthquake in Soviet Armenia claims at
least 25,000 lives.
1989 – Republic of Lithuania abolishes constitutional guarantee of
communist supremacy and legalises multiparty system.
1990 – GATT talks among 107 nations are suspended after failure to
end impasse between US and EC over reductions in farm subsidies.
1992 – The Indian Government announces a ban on fundamentalist groups
after more than 200 Muslim and Hindus are killed and a Muslim shrine
in Ayodhya is demolished.
1993 – Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Africa’s
longest-serving ruler, dies.
1994 – PLO chairman Yasser Arafat pledges to protect Israelis from
militant Islamic terrorists and insists that all Palestinians on the
West Bank and in Gaza respect his authority as “the law.”
1994 – President Sam Nujoma’s ruling South-West Africa People’s
Organisation wins more than two-thirds of the vote in Namibian
national elections.
1995 – Australian Federal Court finds Aboriginal Affairs Minister
Robert Tickner failed to follow due process in placing a 25-year ban
on the Hindmarsh Island Bridge.
1995 – A probe from the Galileo spacecraft enters the gases of
Jupiter’s atmosphere and sends back 75 minutes of data before it
disintegrates.
1996 – After nearly 18 days aloft, Columbia and its astronauts return
to Earth, ending the longest space shuttle flight ever.
1997 – One Austrian and two American skydivers are killed when their
parachutes fail to open over the South Pole.
1998 – President Boris Yeltsin rouses himself from his sickbed for
three hours, fires several of his top aides and then returns to a
Kremlin hospital where he is recuperating from pneumonia.
1999 – A teenage student apparently bent on revenge opens fire inside
a high school in the Netherlands, wounding a teacher and four
students in the first school shooting in Dutch history.
2000 – Activists protesting near a European Union summit in Nice,
France, set fire to a bank and attack fire services when they arrive
to put out the blaze. Many arriving leaders wipe tears from their
eyes after officials sprayed tear gas at protesters.
2001 – A consortium of philanthropic foundations announces an
initiative to provide treatment for an estimated 2.5 million pregnant
women infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
2001 – Americans hold services on the 60th anniversary of the Pearl
Harbor attack.
2002 – Iraq turns over to United Nations weapons inspectors a
document detailing its weapons of mass destruction programs and
industries with military applications, as required by a November UN
Security Council resolution.
2002 – Miss Turkey, Azra Akin, wins the Miss World competition
relocated to London from Nigeria. This followed the death of more
than 200 people in violence between Nigerian Christians and Muslims,
sparked by a newspaper article viewed by many Muslims as blasphemous.

2003 – Commonwealth leaders uphold their 18-month suspension of
Zimbabwe after tense debate that threatens to split Western and
developing-world members – and Zimbabwe, snubbed, withdraws from the
bloc of Britain and its former colonies. Commonwealth heads of state
declare Mugabe’s outcast status would stand until he made demanded
human rights and democratic reforms in his increasingly troubled
southern African nation.

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“NOVA” PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN TAVUSH

IJEVAN, December 3 (Noyan Tapan). The “Nova” public health program
will be implemented in the Tavush region during the upcoming five
years. It is directed at reproductive health protection. Karine
Dovlatbekian, the Chief of the Department of Public Health and Social
Security of the Tavush regional administration, told NT’s
correspondent that it is expected that the arrangements, researches,
supplies of medicaments, retraining of hospital nurses, etc. will be
carried out in accordance with the program. The program will be
financed by USAID, which will cooperate with “Save the Children”
organization during the implementation of the program.

Colorado Daily
Dec 3 2004

Holding out for hope
By: JOSEPH THOMAS Colorado Daily Staff

The American dream isn’t supposed to work this way.

The people who know Gevorg Sargsyan and his family the best say they
embodied the American dream until a month ago when they were whisked
away and placed in a United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services (USCIS) detention center in Aurora, Colo.

“They (the Sargsyan family) came here with not one single dollar, and
built themselves up,” said Patrick Edwards, a close friend of Gevorg
and a CU-Boulder student. “They are working to support Gevorg – a
dean’s list chemical engineer major at CU-Boulder, while paying
out-of-state tuition.”

The family came to America out of fear for their lives. According to
friends of the Sargsyan’s, the family lived in prestige in Armenia
where the father, a former Soviet rocket scientist, was known and
respected. They came to America as nobodies just trying to get by.

“This former rocket scientist was pressing donuts all night just so
his son could go to college,” said Edwards. “That is what America is
supposed to be about right? Apparently some people do not think so.”

A month ago the Sargsyan’s were abruptly placed into a USCIS
detention center. The visas the family obtained to come to America
were student visas. Allegedly turned in to the Immigration and
Naturalization Services by Gevorg’s sister’s husband, the Sargsyan’s
were instructed to go to a government office on Nov. 4 and have been
detained ever since.

“I found out about this in September, that there was a possibility
that he could get deported,” said Edwards. “So we started passing out
petitions, but I didn’t know anything was wrong until I was in class
and picked up the paper and saw he was in jail.”

“That broke me,” said Edwards.

Gevorg’s family moved to America when his sister, Nvart met Vaughn
Huckfeldt, an American man in 1999. She married him and moved to a
small home in Ridgeway, Colo. Nvart was granted permanent residence
in the United States, although the Immigration and Naturalization
Services (INS) has appealed her residency.

The family came to the United States amid death threats from the
Russian mafia.

Huckfeldt allegedly conned people in the community into buying United
States visas, charging each family more than 1,000 dollars a piece
but never distributing any visas.

Since Nvart was married to him at the time, families who were conned
then blamed the Sargsyans. The families who were conned paid the
Russian mafia to collect the lost money over the visas.

With the possibility of death looming, the Sargsyans then sold
everything and quickly relocated. Huckfeldt provided U.S. visas to
the family, and told them that they were valid.

They settled in Ridgeway, in Colorado’s Western Slope, where the
family gained a reputation as being smart and diligent, according to
friends of the family.

People close to the family say that Nvart’s marriage turned sour and
she filed for divorce.

Huckfeldt then turned her family into immigration officials for
faulty visas.

“Gevorg is a dean’s list chemical engineer; his brother is a honor
student at Ridgeway and an all conference soccer star; his father is
a former rocket scientist; his sister is a concert pianist and they
are all locked-up with violent criminals and drug addicts,” said
Edwards.

“The rights of aliens in the United States have been severely
diminished since 9/11 in this administration,” said Robert Golten,
director of the International Human Rights Advocacy Center at the
University of Denver. “It is harder to get into this country, and
once you get in and you run afoul of the law, even for relatively
minor offenses you are subject to deportation.”

Experts say that there is a chance for political asylum for the
Sargsyans, but it depends on how the Armenian government is portrayed
during the hearing.

“If he can establish that if he goes back he will be persecuted by
the government because of affiliation with political or religious
group, or some social group that is being discriminated against,”
said Golten.

According to Golten, there is an argument that can be made that the
government has an obligation to protect him from assassination or
personal harm.

“If he can establish that the government will not or is not able to
protect him, then he can argue that that kind of persecution would
entitle him to get asylum in the United States,” Golten said.

Meanwhile, Gevorg will live with in the same room with 45 other
people until his case is decided. He stays in the same room for 23
hours out of the day, and is allowed for one hour a day to go to a
recreation room – which entails a ping-pong table and two weight
machines that look as if they are from the 1970s.

Instead of studying chemical engineering, Gevorg spends his day
either watching television, reading, or crying.

“Even though I don’t have good memories about America, I do have good
memories of Americans,” Gevorg Sargsyan told the Colorado Daily from
the USCIS detention center in Aurora. “Regardless of what happens to
me, I will never hate Americans.”

Gevorg doesn’t see friends regularly anymore, nor can he pursue his
passion for soccer or attend the United States Kickboxing
Championship that he was invited to participate in this month.

Still, he said even that isn’t the worst part of being detained. The
worst part, he said, is not knowing what is going to happen and
losing hope.

“I have lost my hope quite a few times, where I didn’t care what was
happening and didn’t have any regard for the future,” said Gevorg.
“You don’t see anything out there, everything is restricted in here.
I suppose it is the worst feeling you can have, losing your hope.”

Pioneer Press Online, IL
Dec 2 2004

Koshgarian rug owner killed
BY KAREN BERKOWITZ
STAFF WRITER

A 78-year-old man who for decades ran a family carpet business in
Evanston was killed Nov. 23 when he was struck by a sports-utility
vehicle while crossing Central Street.

Services for Edward N. Koshgarian were held Saturday at St. James
Armenian Church, 816 Church St.

The fatal accident occurred shortly after 5 p.m. as Koshgarian was
leaving his cousin’s Central Rug and Carpet Co., 3006 Central St.,
where the semi-retired Koshgarian continued to serve his longtime
clientele. According to witnesses, he had crossed Central Street to
go to his car on the north side of the street, but apparently decided
to backtrack and return to the south side of the street.

Cmdr. Joseph Bellino said Koshgarian was standing at the double,
yellow lines in the middle of the roadway, waiting for an eastbound
bus to clear his path, when he was struck by a GMC Yukon traveling
westbound. An Evanston fire ambulance arrived at 5:11 p.m. and took
Koshgarian to St. Francis Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 9:23
p.m.

The driver, Ann Hunzinger, 53, of Gurnee, was ticketed for failure to
exercise due care. She is to appear in traffic court at the Skokie
branch of Cook County Circuit Court on Dec. 15.

The accident occurred 14 months after Merle Kingman, 86, and his wife
of more than 60 years, Melva Kingman, 85, were killed when they were
struck by a car while crossing Central Street at Prairie Avenue.

Koshgarian, of 3208 Bellwood Lane, Glenview, had been semi-retired
since 2001, when he sold the building at 1911 Church St. that had
housed the family’s carpet businesses for 75 years.

Koshgarian’s father, Luther Koshgarian, founded the carpet business
in 1906. The family lived in a storefront over the shop and Ed
Koshgarian began helping out in the business by washing rugs at the
age of 8, according to the family.

He also accompanied his father on visits to customers’ homes. As a
teenager, he studied violin at Northwestern University and practiced
three to four hours each day while continuing to work in the family
business.

In 1944, he left high school to join the Army and served as a heavy
artillery shell loader during World War II. He made a significant
contribution during the Battle of the Bulge, according to his family.

In 1946, he returned to the family business, working with his father
and brother Robert. He took over day-to-day management in 1954 with
the death of his father, Luther. His brother Robert passed away in
1996.

He continued to play stringed instruments, including the mandolin,
guitar and violin, and performed in several community orchestras.

“He was a genuine guy,” said his son-in-law, Larry Farsakian. “He
would go into somebody’s home and if it was a good (Oriental rug), he
would tell them, and if was bad, he would tell them.

“He presented it in a way that you were not insulted. After telling
you that your rug was bad, he’d ask about your family and start
talking about his family.”

Mr. Koshgarian is survived by his wife of 47 years, Mary Anne
Koshgarian. He also is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law:
Wendy and Larry Farsakian, Janelle and Jeffrey Baderian and Eydie and
Michael Pridavka.