Author: Nahapetian Lilit

Kathimerini, Greece
Sept 24 2005

Misbehaving in the waiting room
The legal case against novelist Orhan Pamuk and the court decision
halting an academic conference dealing with the massacre of Armenians
under the Ottoman Empire (which will go ahead nevertheless),
organized by three Turkish universities, suggest that the Armenian
genocide is more than just a taboo in the neighboring country.

Pamuk’s prosecution and the conference ban are not isolated incidents
that can be attributed to the excessive zeal of specific judges.
Rather, they seem to fit a more systematic pattern. The Turkish
political establishment has a long tradition of using courts to lend
repression a veneer of legitimacy. Freedom of historical research is
one of the victims of this repression.

Interestingly, the freedom of expression violations took place on the
eve of Ankara’s talks with the European Union – and despite growing
skepticism over Turkish ambitions. In a clear sign of Ankara’s warped
mentality, the awkward juncture facing Turkey was not enough to stop
the establishment from provoking democratic sentiment on the
continent.

The question is how can a country like Turkey begin accession
negotiations in 10 days? Ankara went through many different stages
before making its way into the EU’s waiting room. It signed a customs
union agreement with Brussels, it won candidate status, and, at the
summit meeting last December, it finally got a date for the launching
of EU membership talks.

Even if we accept that Turkey’s cultural identity should not be an
obstacle to joining the European home, there are still doubts about
the extent to which it has met the formal conditions for membership.
Has Ankara really passed all the previous stages after fulfilling all
the necessary requirements? Not quite. The truth is that American
pressure made sure Brussels lowered the bar for Turkey when
necessary.

Now Europe has to pay the price. Many Europeans are shocked at the
consequences. The truth is that Ankara never tried to blanket its
human rights violations, its torture practices and its awkward policy
toward its neighbors. Never did Turkey try to hide its willingness to
join the EU on its own terms and not as a country that is seeking to
adapt to the norms and principles of European culture. This is
Europe’s problem, not Turkey’s.

ARKA News Agency
Sept 22 2005

ARMENIAN MEDICAL OFFICERS PARTICIPATE IN NATO TRAINING
“MEDCEUR-RESCUER – 05”

YEREVAN, September 22. /ARKA/. A medical rescue training
“MEDCEUR-RESCUER – 05” of NATO member-countries and of countries
involved in the Partnership for Peace program was held at the
Department of Military Medicine, Yerevan Medical University, on
September 8-19, 2005. Colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan, Press Secretary to
RA minister of Defense, reported that it is the first training of
this type in Armenia. The “academic” and “field” part of the training
were held in Georgia. Ten Armenian officers and students of the
Department of Military Medicine participated in the training as well.
In Yerevan, a staff circle of a computer military game “Responce
Cell” was organized. The work plan of the game was fulfilled 100%.
The work was controlled by two officers and two 1st-class specialists
of the US Armed Forces. Armenia was represented by a senior officer
of the Military Medical Department, three officers of the Emergency
Department, and three officers of the Department of Military
Medicine. US military specialists made a high appraisal of Armenian
officers. The “RESCUER – 06” part of the “MEDCEUR-RESCUER – 06”
training is most likely to be held in Armenia. P.T. -0–

AZG Armenian Daily #169, 21/09/2005

Diaspora

‘WE SHALL DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE FOR HIS RELEASE’, CYPRUS AND LEBANON
PROMISE

An Armenian woman has made a tearfully impassioned plea for the release of
her nephew kidnapped in Baghdad and kept hostage by a hitherto unknown group
of Iraqi militant a; who are demanding $2 million ransom for his release.

Rita Medzadourian made her plea on local television here in a voice
interrupted by sobbing. “He has done no harm to anybody in his life”, she
said. “He has been to Iraq many times and this was to be last trip. We are a
poor family, working hard for a living. We don’t have the kind of money
those people are asking.

“I beg with all my heart for the governments of Cyprus and Lebanon to do
everything they can, exert all the pressure in their power to help my Garo
come out alive.”

Rita’s television plea came shortly after the Cyprus foreign minister
officially confirmed the kidnapping of Garabed Djighardjian, 40, a salesman
for an offshore company owned by a Lebanese who supplied Foodstuff and
drinks to Iraq. He had been listed “missing” in Baghdad since September 11,
and was officially declared kidnapped in a bulletin issued late Friday
night.

On Saturday night local television here showed footage said to have been
recorded by militants who called themselves “The Group for the promotion of
virtues and the prevention of vice”. He was shown sitting on a stone floor
hands and feet tied and with a hooded gunman pointing an automatic rifle at
his heats. He looked worn out and terrified.

Speaking in Arabic ha said: “I hold both Lebanese and Cypriot nationality as
my father is of Lebanese nationality and my mother Cypriot. The company I
work for is Jetco which operates in Lebanon, Cyprus and Iraq. It supplies
foodstuff and alcoholic beverages to the occupation forces in Iraq and the
Iraqi army.

“I bag the company to leave Iraq and ask the Lebanese embassy (in Iraq) to
put pressure on the company to sever links with the occupation forces that
terrorize the people of Iraq as they did the people of Lebanon years ago.”

Rita said: “Garo’s kidnappers asked for the withdrawal of the company from
Iraq. The company did so, but Garo was not freed. Then they came back with a
demand for $20,000. When the money was paid, again they did not release Garo
and demanded two million dollars.

“Since then, they have lowered their demand to $500,000 but kept up their
threats that unless it is paid in four days they would kill him.

“I have very little information but from what I have been told, the
kidnappers went to his house disguised as policemen in a police car, and
took him away. I understand it happened late at night.

“Garo’s employer promised my sister at her death bad that he would always
care for his children. Now he has to live up to his promise. My sister Seta
used to be his executive secretary and the backbone of his company.

“If anything happens to my nephew, his boss will have his blood on his
hands,” Rita said.

The Foreign Ministry in Nicosia said: “The Cyprus government has been in
close contact with the Lebanese government as well as with Greece and the
European Union and friendly Arab governments.

“We shall do everything possible for his release.

“The Lebanese government is currently handling the matter via their embassy
in Baghdad”.

By Parthogh

LUCAS’ SEARCH FOR HIS IDENTITY

Hartford Courant
Sept 20 2005

Smith Grad Is One Of Four Transgender Students In Sundance Series

By ROGER CATLIN, Courant TV Critic It was a simple choice for the
Oklahoma high school senior to attend Smith College in Northampton.

“Academically it’s one of the top schools in the country,” says the
student, who graduated from Smith with highest honors in May. “It’s
one of the only schools that offer a neurosurgery major. And it had
very good financial aid. It just happens to be a women’s college.”

The gender issue wasn’t quite as black and white for the student,
born as Leah 22 years ago but more recently known as Lucas.

He didn’t realize there was such a thing as transgender students –
and that he was one – until he got there. Not that it was some kind
of campus fad.

“It’s not something that suddenly happened to me,” Lucas says by
phone from his home near Tulsa. “I spent my entire life with a certain
problem. I didn’t have any language to use to understand where I was
coming from.

“As a young child, I was more masculine, and I had trouble relating
to people in ways they could understand. When you’re 2, you hardly
know what transgender is.

“The issue has been there my entire life,” Lucas says. “That made it
very identifiable when somebody gave me a word for it. That’s when I
realized it. I started taking steps to let people I knew that I knew.”

At first that came in making more visible the transgender support
group at Smith. It comes with a wider impact in a new eight-episode
series that follows Lucas and three other transgender students from
other campuses.

“TransGeneration” begins tonight on Sundance Channel, in cooperation
with the Logo network.

It’s produced by World of Wonder, maker of such films as “The Eyes
of Tammy Faye,” “Party Monster” and “Monica in Black and White.”

“They have a way of looking at characters who might be challenging for
audiences or people might have preconceptions about and finding a way
to really humanize them,” says Adam Pincus, senior vice president of
original programming at Sundance, who said he got the idea for the
series from a New York Times article.

“One of the things that we’ve been trying to do with the documentary
work is to find stories and characters who are really pushing things
in new directions and challenging the status quo,” Pincus says.

“These kids are pretty radically redefining what their gender identity
means to them. And they’re smart, and they’re articulate.”

Besides Lucas, the subjects are:

Gabbie, 21, a male turning female at the University of Colorado,
entering her junior year, the only one of the four to undergo surgery
during filming.

Raci, 20, a male-to-female entering her sophomore year at California
State University in Los Angeles, who was most reticent to tell her
fellow students what the camera crews were about. “They’re doing a
documentary on women in college,” she’d fib.

T.J., 24, a graduate student at Michigan State University, an activist
who has the most trouble getting accepted by her parents, who are of
Armenian descent.

“The only thing these four have in common is that they’re dealing
with an issue of gender in some way,” says Jeremy Simmons, director
and supervising producer of “TransGeneration.” “These are four very
different experiences we’re showing.”

“We’re almost like polar opposites,” Lucas says of his fellow subjects,
whom he met at an early screening of the film.

The producers said they tried to reach out through groups and on the
Internet to find the right people. In the case of Lucas, it was his
roommate, Kasey, whom they had originally come out to interview a
year ago. After months of filming, Lucas says, “We didn’t know who
was going to be the focus until after the school year ended.”

Why agree to do it?

“I guess overall I wanted people to appreciate the aspects of me
that they can relate to that didn’t have anything to do with gender
reassignment,” says Lucas, who adds that he’s been a fan of documentary
film and Sundance.

Parents of all the subjects eventually become part of the series, and
Lucas’ mother emerges as “so incredibly likable,” Pincus says. “It’s
so counter to what some people’s preconceptions would be about what
that woman’s reaction and experience of her son is,” he says. “She
goes through a whole process that you see in the course of the show.”

Now that it’s about to be seen, “my mom is very anxious,” Lucas says.

“She’s worried someone she knows is going to see it, which is
understandable. My dad is not so anxious about that, but he’s extremely
aware on how it’s being marketed.”

The series’ promotional catchphrase is: “Four college students
switching more than their majors.”

“He doesn’t understand that you have to trivialize the issue to create
public interest,” Lucas says.

Lucas says he feels a little anxious in advance of his life’s being
shown on national TV. “But mostly I’m excited in a positive way.”

As he decides his next move in his graduate education, he says he
feels more comfortable in Oklahoma, ironically, than he did in the
famously liberal enclave.

“I’d come home and just be read as male,” he says. “Then I’d go back
to Northampton, and there’d be so many lesbians there, they’d know
me as female.”

US COMMITTEE APPROVES ARMENIAN RESOLUTIONS

Turkish Press
Sept 16 2005

Press Review

TURKIYE

The International Relations Committee of the US House of
Representatives yesterday passed two resolutions affirming the
so-called Armenian genocide allegations. The resolutions, which
are expected to reach the House floor, urge commemoration of the
anniversaries of the so-called genocide by the US and call on the
president to take into consideration the Armenian genocide allegations
in setting foreign policy. Supporting the resolutions, committee head
Rep. Henry Hyde stated that he didn’t believe that the resolutions
would harm relations with Turkey. /Turkiye/

COMMITTEE: ARMENIANS ENDURED GENOCIDE
By Lisa Friedman, WASHINGTON BUREAU

The Argus, CA
Sept 16 2005

State Department, House speaker fear resolution could hurt
U.S.-Turkish relations

WASHINGTON – In a momentous victory for California’s sizable Armenian
communities, the House International Relations Committee voted
overwhelmingly Thursday to declare the massacre of Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire a genocide.

In a surprise move, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, declared that after
years of opposing the genocide resolution, he now would support it.

The only Holocaust survivor in Congress and the founder of the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Lantos had long cited Washington’s
close relationship with Ankara as a key reason for objecting to
the resolution.

The separate resolutions by Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, and George
Radanovich, R-Fresno, still must pass several hurdles. The State
Department and House Speaker Dennis Hastert fiercely oppose recognition
of the Armenian genocide, arguing its passage will rupture U.S.-Turkish
relations. Both are expected to try to block a full House vote.

Nevertheless, Armenians on Thursday said by voting 35-11 for Schiff’s
bill and 40-7 for Radanovich’s, the panel sent a strong message that
Congress should not equivocate when it comes to recognizing crimes
against humanity.

“If the United States does not step up and acknowledge this history
and show moral backbone and clarity on these sorts of issues, people
are going to be disappointed in us. We believe in this country because
it does the right thing,” said Armen Carapetian, spokesman for the
Armenian National Committee of America.

The panel voted after more than three hours of tense debate, in
which lawmakers invoked the Holocaust, slavery, Darfur and the fate
of American Indians.

Every Californian on the panel voted in favor of the resolutions.

In 2000, when the issue came before the same committee, Lantos told
his colleagues, “There is a long list of reasons why our NATO ally,
at this point, should not be humiliated.”

On Thursday, Lantos said that while he was “profoundly moved and
anguished by the Armenian people’s horrendous suffering” he remained
unconvinced that the massacres they endured technically constitute
genocide.

Instead, he cited Turkey’s unwillingness to allow U.S. troops to
use its territory to launch an invasion into northern Iraq as well
as the country’s growing closeness with Syria even in the wake of
former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri’s assassination.

“Turkey ignored our interests,” Lantos said. “Our allies must
understand that if they expect the U.S. to support matters of great
interest to them, we expect them to support the things that are
important to the United States.”

Armenians estimate more than 1.5 million died and hundreds of thousands
of others displaced in a planned genocide campaign between 1915 and
1923. Turkey maintains there was no systematic extermination plan,
that only about 300,000 Armenians were killed, and that Armenians
also killed thousands of Turks in the tumultuous last years of the
Ottoman Empire.

ARMENIA TO STOP NEGOTIATIONS ON KARABAKH CONFLICT SETTLEMENT IF AZERBAIJAN IS TO INSIST ON DISCUSSION OF ITS LAST YEAR’S INITIATIVE AT UN

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 14. ARMINFO. Armenia will stop negotiations on
the Nagorno-Karabakh peaceful settlement if Azerbaijan is to put
forward any issue at the UN, and then Baku will be forced to continue
negotiations directly with Stepanakert, stated press-secretary
of Armenia’s Foreign Ministry Hamlet Gasparyan commenting on the
transfer of the issue “on situation in Azeri occupied territories”
to the agenda of the UN General Assembly’s 60th session.

In his words, in accordance with the UN regulations, the issue
undiscussed among others at Assembly’s 59th session may be
automatically transferred to the next session agenda. “However,
Azerbaijan can undertake no steps insisting on this point as it will
contradict to agreements reached by the sides earlier”, Gasparyan noted
adding that Armenia’s approach on this issue has not been changed.

Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. Commits More Than $250,000 to Katrina Relief
Efforts

RED BANK, N.J., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Hovnanian
Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:_HOV_ (aol://4785:HOV/) ), a leading national
homebuilder, announced that the Company has contributed $250,000 to
The American Red Cross Hurricane 2005 Relief Fund. The Company is also
matching the personal contributions from its 5,000 associates across
the U.S.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with those whose lives have been
disrupted by the hurricane and its aftermath,” said Ara K. Hovnanian,
President and Chief Executive Officer. “Hovnanian Enterprises, our
associates, and many of our subcontractors have a long track record of
providing assistance for families and communities in times of need.
We hope that our contribution will be of assistance to many of those
who are currently in great need of help as they strive to rebuild
their lives over the coming months.”

Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc., founded in 1959 by Kevork S. Hovnanian,
Chairman, is headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey. The Company is
one of the nation’s largest homebuilders with operations in Arizona,
California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan,
Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The Company’s
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Forecast Homes, Parkside Homes, Brighton Homes, Parkwood Builders,
Great Western Homes, Windward Homes, Cambridge Homes, Town & Country
Homes, Oster Homes and First Home Builders of Florida. As the
developer of K. Hovnanian’s Four Seasons communities, the Company is
also one of the nation’s largest builders of active adult homes.

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09/12/2005 04:00 ET

KARABAKH ISSUE DISCUSSED IN PARIS

Azat Artsakh Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
16 Sept 05

On September 12 the first closed meeting of the PACE special
provisional commission on the regulation of the Karabakh issue took
place in Paris. The representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan, the
OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs and the representative of the European
Union discussed the present state of the regulation of the conflict.

At the beginning of the meeting the historical background of the
conflict was presented by the executive director of the London
Information Network on Conflicts Denis Samouth. According to the head
of the Armenian delegation in the PACE Tigran Torossian, the
historical outline of the prehistory of the conflict and the present
situation provided an interesting and objective picture of the
conflict. In the meeting Armenia was represented by the head of the
department on the OSCE of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia
Varoujan Nersissian, and Azerbaijan was represented by the vice
minister of foreign affairs Araz Azimov. Besides the co-chairs of the
Minsk Group, the special representative of the PACE on Karabakh Goran
Lennmarker and the special representative of the European Union in the
South Caucasus Heikki Talvitie were in the commission too. Nothing new
was said in the opinions expressed during the meeting but once again
it was emphasized that it is impossible to reach a resolution based on
only the principles of territorial integrity or self-determination of
nations. The two principles of the Helsinki agreement, that is
territorial integrity in reference to the so-called occupied
territories and the right for self-determination in reference to
status should be applied together. The Armenian side pointed out the
fact that the necessity of applying the principle of self-determination
is already considered. According to the head of the Armenian
delegation in the PACE Tigran Torossian, a clear understanding of the
fact that without the principle of self-determination of nations the
resolution of the Karabakh conflict is impossible is needed.
According to him, in regulation and decision making it is impossible
to reach good results unless the representatives of Nagorno Karabakh
Republic are involved. Once again stressing the preoccupation of the
international organizations with the peaceful and fair resolution of
the conflict clearly distinguishing between the responsibilities of
the organizations, he mentioned that the Minsk Group should deal with
the regulation, while the PACE should create atmosphere for the
regulation of the issue. `The issue completely fits into the mandate
of the Council of Europe and the obligations assumed by Armenia and
Azerbaijan in the Council of Europe, at the same time the promotion of
Eurointegration of the region has a very important role in the peace
process of the conflict,’ he said. The next meeting will take place in
December but before that the delegations of Armenia and Azerbaijan
will meet to discuss the things to do.

CHRSITINE MNATSAKANIAN.
16-09-2005

Ottoman Armenians during the Demise of the Empire:
Issues of Democracy and Scientific Responsibility

23 – 24 – 25 September 2005

Boðaziçi University
Garanti Cultural Center
Ayhan Þahenk Conference Room

Organizing Committee

Murat Belge (Professor and Chair, Bilgi University Department of
Comparative Literature),

Halil Berktay (Associate Professor and Coordinator, Sabancý University
History Program),

Selim Deringil (Professor and Chair, Boðaziçi University History
Department),

Edhem Eldem (Professor, Boðaziçi University History Department),

Çaðlar Keyder (Professor, Boðaziçi University Sociology Department),

Cemil Koçak (Associate Professor, Sabancý University History Program),

Nükhet Sirman (Professor, Boðaziçi University Sociology Department)

Akþin Somel (Assistant Professor, Sabancý University History Program)

Advisory Committee

Fikret Adanýr (Professor, Bochum Ruhr University, Germany)

Engin Akarlý (Professor, Brown University, USA),

Taner Akçam (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, USA),

Ayhan Aktar (Professor, Marmara University),

Þeyla Benhabib (Professor, Yale University, USA),

Üstün Ergüder (Professor and Director, Sabancý University, Ýstanbul
Policy Center),

Fatma Müge Göçek (Associate Professor, University of Michigan, USA)

Nilüfer Göle (Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
France),

Cemal Kafadar (Professor, Harvard University, USA),

Metin Kunt (Professor, Sabancý University),

Þerif Mardin (Professor, Sabancý University),

Oktay Özel (Assistant Professor, Bilkent University),

Ýlhan Tekeli (Professor, Middle East Technical University),

Mete Tunçay (Professor, Bilgi University),

Stefan Yerasimos (Professor, Paris VIII University, France)

23 September Friday

Registration 08:30 a.m.

Opening Statements 09:15

Selim Deringil (Boðaziçi University History Department Chair)

Session 1 09:30-10:40
A Collective View of the Issues

Þerif Mardin
Session Chair

Halil Berktay
What Does the Official Narrative Comprise?

Selim Deringil
Archives and the Armenian Question: ‘Grabbing the Document by the Throat’

Murat Belge
The Armenian Problem from the Standpoint of Democracy

Coffee Break 10:40-11:10

Session 2 11:10-13:00
Differences in Knowledge and Perception between Turkey and the World

Üstün Ergüder
Session Chair

Osman Köker
Armenian Presence in the Ottoman State before the Deportation

Fikret Adanýr
Massacre, Genocide and the Historical Profession

Fatma Müge Göçek
What the World Knows but Turkey Does Not:

The Chicago-Salzburg Turkish-Armenian Workshop Process as an
Accumulation of Knowledge

Nazan Maksudyan
The 1915-1916 Events according to the Historians of the 20th century and
the world

Lunch 13:00-14:00

Session 3. 14:00-15:40
The ‘Old Order’ before the Balkan Wars

Hakan Erdem
Session Chair

Akþin Somel
Armenian Schools and the Regime of Abdülhamid (1876-1908)

Oktay Özel
Locals, Refugees and non-Muslims: some observations on the boundaries

of social harmony in the Black Sea Region during the late Ottoman period

Edhem Eldem
The Istanbul Armenian Incidents of 1895-96

Meltem Toksöz
Adana Armenians and the 1909 “Disturbance”

Coffee Break 15:40-16:10

Session 4. 16:10-18:00
The Point of Rupture: 1912-1915

Mete Tunçay
Session Chair

Stefan Yerasimos
Approaching
1915: Armenian Autonomy and the Zeytun and Van Incidents

Nesim Þeker
The Armenian Question and ‘Demographic Engineering’

Rober Koptaþ
The Unionist-Dashnak Negotiations and the 1914 Armenian Reform from
the pens of Krikor Zohrab, Vahan Papazyan and Karekin Pastýrmacýyan

Elif Þafak
Zabel Yesayan and the list of ‘marked Armenian intellectuals’

24 September 2005 Saturday

Registration 09:00

Session 5. 09:30-11:00
The Deportation and its Aftermath

Taha Parla
Session Chair

Fuat Dündar
The
Settlement Policy of the Union and Progress (1913-1918)

Taner Akçam
The Intent and Organization of Genocide, with both the survivors and the
destroyed, among the leaders of the Union and Progress in light of the
Ottoman documents

Cemil Koçak
How Do You Know of the Special Secret Organization (Teþkilt-ý Mahsusa)?

Coffee Break 11:00-11:30

Session 6. 11:30-13:20
Tales of Tragedy and Escape

Ferhunde Özbay
Session Chair

Sarkis Seropyan
Landscapes of conscience from within a Painful History

Fethiye Çetin
>From Heranuþ to Seher, the tale of a ‘liberation’

Ýrfan Palalý
Fatma Ane, the Child of Deportation

Aykut Kansu
Thinking through the Tales of Those Who Survived the Deportation

Lunch 13:20-14:20

Session 7. 14:20-16:00
Witnesses and Memories

Ayþe Öncü
Session Chair

Hülya Adak
The Armenian Question in Memoirs

Ahmet Kuyaþ
What Do the Unionists Say?

Gündüz Vassaf
Armenians in the Educational Calendar (Saatli Maarif Takvimi)

Cevdet Aykan
The Meaning of Memories and The Responsibility of Politics and the Times

Coffee Break 16:00-16:30

Session 8. 16:30-18:00
>From the Threshold of Confrontation to the Formation of Taboos

Selçuk Esenbel
Session Chair

Ayhan Aktar
The Armenian Question in the Ottoman Assembly, November-December 1918

Erol Köroðlu
Examples of Remembrance and Forgetting in Turkish Literature:

the Different Breaking Points of Taciturnity

Baskýn Oran
The
Roots of a Taboo: the Historical-Psychological Suffication of

Turkish Public Opinion on the Armenian Problem

25 September Sunday

Registratio 09:00

Session 9. 09:30-11:30
The States of Armenianhood

Nükhet Sirman
Session Chair

Hrant Dink
The New Sentences of Armenian Identity in Turkey and the World

Ferhat Kentel
Turkish and Republican Armenian Societies: Boundaries and Prejudice

Karin Karakaþlý,
To Be an Armenian in Turkey: community, individual, citizen

Ferhat Kentel,

Günay Göksu Özdoðan,

Füsun Üstel

Melissa Bilal
An Identity Trapped In Between the Past and Present:

the Experience of Being an Armenian in Turkey

Ayþe Gül Altýnay
Two Books and an Exhibit: The Rediscovery of Turkish Armenians

Coffee Break 11:30-12:00

Session 10. 12:00-13:40
Turkish Democracy and the Armenian Question

Murat Belge
Session Chair

Ali Bayramoðlu
Views and Approaches to the Armenian Question in Turkish Society

Etyen Mahcupyan
The Relationship between Historical Perception and Mentality as

Founding Principle of National Identity in Turkey

Ahmet Ýnsel
The Armenian Question and the Concept of the Enemy Within in Turkish
Politics

Murat Paker
Turkish Armenian Issue in the Context of a Psychoanalytic Evaluation of
Turkey’s Dominant Political Culture

Þahin Alpay
What Can Be Done to Reinstitute Turkish-Armenian Friendship?”

Lunch 13:40-14:40

Session 11. 14:30-16:00
Panel: Armenian Question and the Freedom of the Press

Ýsmet Berkan
Session Chair

Yavuz Baydar
(Sabah) newspaper

Kürþat Bumin
(Yeni Þafak)

Oral Çalýþlar
(Cumhuriyet)

Ahmet Hakan
(Hürriyet)

Fehmi Koru
(Yeni Þafak)

Coffee Break 16:00-16:30

Session 12. 16:30-18:30
Panel: Today and the Future

Halil Berktay
Session Chair

A diplomat :
Temel Ýskit

A lawyer:
Turgut Tarhanlý

A publisher:
Ragýp Zarakolu

A politician:
Cem Özdemir

A historian:
Mete Tunçay

Participants other than those on the Organizing and Advisory Committees

Hülya Adak
Sabancý University:
Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)

Þahin Alpay
Bahçeþehir University:
Assistant Professor (Political Science); Zaman newspaper

Ayþe Gül Altýnay
Sabancý University :
Assistant Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)

Cevdet Aykan
Mediical doctor; former deputy of Tokat and Minister of Health

Ali Bayramoðlu
Yeni Þafak newspaper

Yavuz Baydar
Sabah newspaper

Ýsmet Berkan
Radikal newspaper

Melissa Bilal
Chicago University Ph.D. student (ethnomusicology)

Kürþat Bumin
Yeni Þafak newspaper

Ahmet Hakan Coþkun
Hürriyet newspaper

Oral Çalýþlar
Cumhuriyet newspaper

Fethiye Çetin
lawyer, author of the book entitled Anneannem (My Grandmother)

Hrant Dink
Agos newspaper

Fuat Dündar
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) : Ph.D. student

Hakan Erdem
Sabancý University: Assistant Professor (History)

Selçuk Esenbel
Boðaziçi University: Professor (History)

Ahmet Ýnsel
Galatasaray University: Professor (Economics)

Temel Ýskit
retired ambassador

Aykut Kansu
Bilgi University: Associate Professor (History)

Karin Karakaþlý
Agos newspaper

Ferhat Kentel
Bilgi University: Assistant Professor (Sociology)

BRober Koptaþ
Boðaziçi University: Ph.D. student (Atatürk Institute)

Fehmi Koru
Yeni Þafak newspaper

Osman Köker
editor in chief, Birzamanlar Publications

Erol Köroðlu
Sabancý University:
Assistant Professor (History of Literature, Cultural Studies)

Ahmet Kuyaþ
Galatasaray University: Assistant Professor (History, Political Science)

Etyen Mahcupyan
Zaman newspaper

Nazan Maksudyan
Sabancý University: Ph.D. student (History)

Baskýn Oran
Ankara University: Professor (Political Science)

Ayþe Öncü
Sabancý University: Professor (Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies)

Ferhunde Özbay
Boðaziçi University: Professor (Sociology)

Cem Özdemir
Deputy of the Green Party, Germany

Günay Göksu Özdoðan
Marmara University: Professor (Political Science and International Relations)

Murat Paker
Bilgi University: Assistant Professor (Psychology)

Ýrfan Palalý
Ege University: Associate Professor (Neurophysiology)

Taha Parla
Boðaziçi University:
Professor (Political Science and International Relations)

Sarkis Seropyan
Agos newspaper

Elif Þafak
writer, literary person; University of Arizona (USA) : Assistant Professor
(Near Eastern Studies)

Nesim Þeker
Middle East Technical University: Assistant Professor (History)

Turgut Tarhanlý
Bilgi University: Professor (Comparative Law)

Meltem Toksöz
Boðaziçi University: Assistant Professor (History)

Füsun Üstel
Marmara University: Professor (Public Administration)

Gündüz Vassaf
Associate Professor (Psychology); Radikal columnist

Ragýp Zarakolu
editor in chief, Belge Publications