PanARMENIAN.Net – Young French-Armenian director and actress Nouritza Emmanuelian won the award for best female performance in the 8th edition of the prestigious Nikon Film Festival for her work in her touching movie "I'm my 8 years".
This is Emmanuelian's second participation at the NFF as a director, Nouvelles d'Armenie reports.
The Nikon Film Festival rewards the best short films with a duration of 2.20 minutes or less.
Armenpress News Agency , Armenia Friday Armenia's gymnast Yulia Vodopyanova qualifies for Buenos Aires Youth Olympics YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, ARMENPRESS. The National Olympic Committee of Armenia reported that gymnast Yulia Vodopyanova has qualified for the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games. The athlete of Armenia’s national artistic gymnastics team has qualified for the games in Moscow. 56 athletes were competing at the event, and the Armenian athlete finished 6th. The Youth Olympics will be held October 6-18.
Armenpress News Agency , Armenia Friday Arsenal's Mkhitaryan named best player in Ostersunds clash LENGTH: 160 words YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 16, ARMENPRESS. Arsenal’s Henrikh Mkhitaryan has been named best player of the Europa League clash versus Ostersunds. As the match ended 0:3 in favor of the Gunners, Arsenal held an online poll to determine their best player of the match. Choosing between Monreal, Mkhitaryan or Ozil, fans gave the Armenian 63% of votes. Monreal and Ozil gained 15% and 22% respectively. Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger praised Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s performance in the Ostersunds Europa League clash. “"He has worked very hard, I think it was a positive performance," Wenger said of Mkhitaryan. "He adapts slowly to the team. He had a positive game." Captain of the Armenian national football team and midfielder of Arsenal Henrikh Mkhitaryan was in the starting lineup of the Gunners, but Arsene Wenger substituted the Armenian international in the 82nd minute. The match ended 0:3 in favor of the Gunners, and the Armenian international provided the assist for Ozil’s goal.
Armenian skier Mikayel Mikayelyan finished the 83rd in the 15k freestyle race at the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. The Armenian athlete showed a result of 39:01.4, around six seconds behind the winner.
Speaking to sports reporters after his performance, Mikayelyan said he gained a great deal of experience from the PyeongChang 2018, the National Olympic Committee said.
“The Olympics gave me a much-needed experience, which I will naturally use in my future performances. I am not so satisfied with the results I showed. Although I was not in a good shape, I tried my best. Now I am trying to get better prepared for the U20 Junior World Ski Championship,” he added.
PanARMENIAN.Net – Al-Monitor has prepared an article about kadaif (or kadayif or kataifi), a delicious dessert claimed by Turks, Greeks and Middle Easterners, which can be made into different shapes.
In the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, locals believe that the dessert was first baked in the Armenian houses of the cosmopolitan city in the 18th century, the article by Mahmut Bozarslan says.
As the dessert became popular, the Armenians taught it to the Muslim population in the 19th century, mainly migrants from Bingol, a small city to the north, who had come to Diyarbakir looking for jobs.
“My grandfather Riza Ansin learned the art of making kadaif from an Armenian chef called Agop,” Ahmet Altunay, the third generation of a family of kadaif makers, told Al-Monitor.
“After the Armenians left [Diyarbakir in the beginning of the 20th century], we took over the business. Nowadays, all the kadaif makers are from Bingol.”
He added, “When my grandfather died in 1990, he was 85 years old. Our family has been making and selling kadaif for more than 100 years now. My grandfather taught my father, and my father taught me and my four brothers. I am currently teaching my own children how to make kadaif. I take them to the shop the weekends and tell them to look and learn. They will end up running the business one day.”
Altunay’s business is growing, with a new branch in Ankara and prospects for another in Istanbul. He's shipped kadaif all the way to the United States. “There was an Armenian who moved to New York from Diyarbakir. One day, he called and asked us to send to the United States 10 kilos of kadaif. We told him it would be too expensive, but he asked us to send it anyway. So we sent him 10 kilos of kadaif — the shipping costs were twice as much as the cost of the sweet. We send the dessert to most of the European countries. We have a customer who works with Boeing and we ship him his kadaif wherever he is.”
Turkish Foreign Ministry on Feb. 17 summoned the Dutch charge d'affaires Erik Weststrate over reports that Dutch politicians were expected to submit a motion to the parliament recognizing the killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as “genocide.”
"Turkey’s attitude towards 1917 events is based on historical facts and legal norms. Judicial opinions in European law have ruled that the 1915 events are a legitimate question of debate. When this is the case, it is not possible to approve initiatives politicizing the issue of 1915 events and taking it out of its historical and legal context to which Turkey and Turkish national approach sensitively," said a statement issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Feb. 17.
Some Dutch deputies are expected to submit a motion on the issue to their parliament next week according to various media reports.
Armenia and Armenians in the diaspora say 1.5 million were killed by Ottoman forces in a targeted campaign to eradicate the Armenian people from what is now eastern Turkey.
Turkey takes a sharply different view, saying hundreds of thousands of both Turks and Armenians lost their lives as Ottoman forces battled the Russian Empire for control of eastern Anatolia during World War I.
Residents of Shirakatsi street in Gyumri complain about a huge waterfall near the houses.
Water also penetrates the homes of the residents. Employees of the Electric Networks of Armenia have found out that there is electricity under the house, which is dangerous.
On February 20, at 6 pm, the Armenian National Congress (ANC) organizes a jubilee celebration dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Karabakh Movement at Liberty Square.
Pictures of the Movement, posters, slogans, videos will be displayed in the square.
There will be speeches, music, and the trumpet of the Movement.
The presentation of the historian Ashot Sargsyan’s “History of the Karabakh Movement 1988-1989” will take place.
We invite leaders of the Karabakh Movement, activists, younger generation, and everyone to participate in this heroic episode of our history.
The screening of the materials will continue on February 21 and 22.
The chambers of the Dutch Parliament, known as Tweede Kamer
AMSTERDAM—The lower house of the Dutch parliament, known as the Tweede Kamer, approved to consider two resolutions on Thursday one definitively recognizing the Armenian Genocide, the other calling on its foreign minister to visit Armenia in April to observe the anniversary of that crime.
According to NLTimes, both motions were submitted by Christian Union party parliament member Joel Voordewind. All four coalition parties supported the motions. Thus, when the bill is debated in parliament in the next two weeks, it is expected to pass.
The Dutch parliament recognized the Genocide in 2004 approving another measure brought forth by the Christian Union Party, which in 2011 also introduced legislation that would criminalize the denial of the Armenian Genocide
“We cannot deny history out of fear of sanctions. Our country houses the capital of international law after all, so we must not be afraid to do the right thing here too,” Voordewind said to Trouw, a Dutch publication on Friday.
The relationship between the Netherlands and Turkey is already tense, since the Netherlands refused Turkish ministers access to the country to campaign for a referendum that gave Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan more power. Recently talks to repair this relationship broke down, and the Netherlands officially recalled the Dutch ambassador to the country.
Dutch Minister of Foreign affairs Sigrid Kaag told NOS, a Dutch television network, that she respects and appreciates the Tweede Kamer’s “enthusiasm” to recognize the Armenian genocide, but will not comment on the government’s stance on the issue until she’s debated the matter with parliament next week.
Kaag would not say whether a member of the government will attend the commemoration in April. But sources in The Hague told NOS that someone will be there.
Joël Voordewind said in a tweet earlier today that “the House of Representatives will recognize the Armenian genocide and this year the commemoration in Armenia will be attended at the government level.
” Turkey will not be so happy with what has been said. But in the past the Germans had to deal with this issue in the same way,” the Netherlands defense minister Ank Bijleveld was quoted as saying.
Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Ara Babloyan proposed Hrays Tovmasyan’s candidacy for the position of the member of the Constitutional Court.
On February 16 Hrayr Tovmasyan, chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on State and Legal Affairs and Protection of Human Rights, submitted an application for resignation to the Speaker of the Parliament.