3320) 2011 Website Visitors Survey Preliminary Report

29 Oct 2011 Update Answers And Options Were Optional, So Not All Participants Answered Every Question

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How often do you visit Armenians-1915.blogspot.com ?

Several times a week      48%  
Once a week      15%  
Several times a month      8%  
Once a month or less often   5%  
This is my first visit      24% 

How did you first hear about Armenians-1915.blogspot.com ?

 Search engine  58%  
 Another website  7%  
 Friend           21%  
 Dont know/dont remember 13% 

Will You:

1.Return to Armenians-1915.blogspot.com again? Yes 100%
2.Recommend Armenians-1915.blogspot.com to your friends? Yes 100%

What is your current occupation?

Retired         29%  
Not Employed 18%  
Other (Please Type Your Current Occupation In) 53% 
Some Typed In Responses:
(Sales Marketing, Researcher, Politician, Architect, 
Medical Doctor, Academician, Civil Servant, Journalist,
 Legal, Student, Chemist, Automobile Tec.)

What is your gender?

Male 76%  
Female 24% 

What is your age group?

18-35 14%  
36-45 21%  
46-55 39%  
56-65  7%  
65+ 19% 

What is your level of education?

High School  7%  
College/Uni 42%  
Postgraduate 51%

Country of Residence At Present: (Not All participants Answered)

USA, Armenia,  UK, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, France, The Netherlands,  
United Arab Emirates, Austria, Russia, Australia, Switzerland,
 Canada, Italy, Ireland, Mexico 

What specific features influenced you to continue using this website? (Not All participants Answered)

Scholarship, Honesty, Objectivity, Downloading Pdf Books, 
History, Almost Everything, Editorial Content Search, Learning
 More About History, Digging In Lost Truth The Details, 
The Truth And The History, Convincingly Written With Proof,
 My Research, Maps, The Approach Is Scientific And More 
Refined Than Most Other Sites, I Got A Lot Of Real Information
 Rather Than Repetition Of Adverbs And Adjectives, Openness, 
Diversity, Informative, Original Documents, 
Comprehensive Resources, Intellectual Honesty and Fairness,
Information Nowhere Else To Find (Unique), Truth 

What Specific Areas About This Site That You Like To See Improved? (Not All participants Answered)

Sometimes Materials Are Hard To Download, Articles 
About Relation Between Both Inside And Out Of Armenia Youth,
 Focus On Real Mentality Of Armenians With Regards To Genocide,
 Don't Know If There Is A List Of Contents; If There Is Not, 
There Should Be A List Of Contents Describes All The References 
Contained Therein, Historical Photos, Classification Of 
Documents To Ease Research For Layman. It is a very valuable 
encyclopedia; however it is hard to follow every valuable topic,
 in spite of that the 10 important topics are continually presented. 
Perhaps an index and a contents section made up   of chapters 
with headings and subheadings may be more helpful for the reader,
Contents' List Searchable By Name, Date, Event, Other
Cats Are Too Much. Minimize It,
You Are Doing God Job. Keep Going

What specific changes or additional specific features you suggest for this website? (Not All participants Answered)

Academic Studies As Phd, Ottoman Studies And Pdf Ottoman 
Document,  Havent Seen Anything That Beats You, Information
 About The Current Status Of The Talks Between The Republic 
Of Turkey And The Armenian Governments Would Be Very Useful
 To Know, A Section For Beginners, feasibility to transform 
this Internet source to an electronic journal. If not all,
 an annual index and a contents section under main headings 
or chapters are mandatory in my opinion, More Videos, Artifacts, Visuals,
Size Of Letters/Words Too Small/Difficult To Read,
It Is Not Attractive For People Look. Hard To Find Information.  

Only 12 % Of The People Visited The Survey Page Completed The Survey So Far

We'll Keep The Survey Open For New Participants :

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3319) I Hear More Interesting Views From Average Armenians Than Intellectuals / Memory & Politics Of Construction Of Armenian Homeland

Memory And The Politics Of Construction Of The Armenian Homeland

“There Is No Place Like Home”: Functional Content Analysis Of The Birthright
Armenia Travelogues

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Turkish PhD Student – “I hear more interesting views from average Armenians than the intellectuals”
Hrant Gadarigian

Sep 26, 2011
An interview with Turgut Kerem Tuncel, PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Trento (Italy).

Mr. Tuncel, native of Turkey, is in Armenia to do research for his thesis entitled “Mayr Hayastan, Im Hayrenik; The memory and politics of the construction of the Armenian homeland”.

What prompted you to do your thesis on the Armenian experience?

Well, it all came out of my initial interest in Jewish studies and anti-Semitism. Then I decided to make a comparative study of the survival strategies of the Jewish and Armenian communities in Turkey. Then, I started to focus on the Armenian community there and the concept of the “diaspora” . .

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3318) Hrant Dink’s “Heirs” Should Be More Coherent

Maxime Gauin
JTW Columnist
22 September 2011

The “friends of Hrant Dink” sent a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The text, as quoted in the Hürriyet Daily News on September 16, 2011, alleges:

“Our search for justice has been left null and void as [our efforts] approach their fifth year. The state in its entirety that we have petitioned saw itself as being close to the murderer.”

The fact that the assassin, Ogün Samast, was quickly arrested and sentenced to more than 20 years in jail seems irrelevant to the authors of this letter. The still unresolved cases of political assassinations in Turkey and in other countries, including old democracies like France, apparently are not very interesting to them, even as contexts leading to prudence in their wording and level of allegations.

Such an excessive statement could be attributed, by an uninformed observer, to the misleading pain of people who have lost a friend because of a terrorist attack. Unfortunately, in looking more closely, quite a different picture emerges . .

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3317) United States & Turkey Settlement Of Claims (1934) Agreement

October 25, 1934

467.11/554a

The Secretary of State to the Charge in Turkey (Shaw)
No. 93 Washington, April 4, 1933

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3316) Can Armenians Be Traced To The Legend Of Noah’s Ark On Mount Ararat ?

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Updated 10th Sep 2011

Into the Stone Age With a Scalpel: A Dig With Clues on Early Urban Life

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In view of different claims of land ownership in this part of Caucasus, which some Armenians trace to the legend of Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat, let us see first, how much validity these tales hold from standpoint of scholarship vs. divinity.




If we are to believe the teachings of all the holy books, we must conclude that Adam was made of mud and our first grand-grandfather Abraham was the first human from whom we are all born. I am still unclear if, humankind started with Abraham or with the “Children of Noah”! Anyway, the period of time all books refer to is the last Ice Age, which means that we are speaking of only 10,000 - 8,000 years B.C. This means, that if we can prove that humans lived before Abraham or Noah (10,000- 8,000 years B.C.) then, the whole theory of “creation” and “celestial rights of ownership of land” collapses into . .

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3315) Hampig Sassounian: An Archetypal Example of Contemporary Armenian Terrorism

By Maxime Gauin
JTW Columnist
6 September 2011



The congress of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation of 1972, organized in Vienna, Austria, decided the return to terrorist methods and the creation of a terrorist branch, the so-called “Justice Commandos Against Armenian Terrorism,” later renamed the “Armenian Revolutionary Army.” Among the main targets of the JCAG/ARA were Turkish diplomats, with a preference for ambassadors and consul generals. Initially, the assassinations were carried out with exceptional professionalism, as if the JCAG/ARA were actively assisted by a secret service of a state, for instance the Greek KYP [Minassian 2002, pp. 22-23, 28-29, 32-34 and 44-45]. After 1979, the terrorists were more frequently amateurs, and thus arrested in several cases. . .

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3314) Armenian Genocide Resources Center And 6 Year

The blog of Armenian Genocide Resource Center is celebrating its 6th anniversary. I thought about the meaning of this anniversary and assessed whether having reached the 6th year of this blog was something that we should madly be happy about. I seriously looked for an answer to this question in my mind but since I have not thought about this issue before I could not come up with an immediate answer. Then I realized that although giving an answer to this question seemed easy at first, philosophically it was not that easy. The reason for this was the fact that this blog included a significant work based on archiving and so its nature was quite important.

The answer to my question would be very easy if the creators of this blog, Murat, Seda & Lara, would only try to prove or disprove the so called genocide with only a few visual aids and some baseless documents. However this blog they prepared indeed had a very different nature. The sort of significant effort and work to prepare such a blog was making it difficult for me to answer how enthusiastically we should be celebrating the 6th anniversary of this blog. Under normal circumstances, having reached the 6th year of this blog would be very pleasing. However this blog :

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3313) Protestant Diplomacy & The Near East: Missionary Influence On American Policy, 1810-1927

University of Minnesota Press 1971

For understand of the Middle East today, it is essential to know something of the historical background of that region, traditionally known as the Near East. In tracing the influence of American Protestant missionary activities on American foreign policy and diplomacy in the Near East, Professor Grabill contributes significantly to an understanding of contemporary affairs. It becomes clear, in this account, that missionaries and philanthropists were the most influential force in the United States relations with the Near East through the First World War and its aftermath. An important turning point in the history occurred in 1915 when officials of the Ottoman Empire massacred or deported several hundred thousand Turkish Armenians, among whom were the principal constituents of the American missionaries. This prompted the mission groups to shift their emphasis from evangelism and education to the development of the second largest relief organization in the United States history )eventually called Near East Relief). Through powerful lobbying, the missionaries got their government to consider seriously a protectorate over Armenia or all of Asia Minor. Despite their political failure, the religionists succeeded as cultural frontiersmen through their colleges, such as the American University of Beirut, and their technical assistance programs, which showed the way for the Fulbright, foreign aid, and Peace Corps programs. The archives of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (Congregrational) and the Presbyterian Board of Missions provided rich source material for this book. The illustrations include photographs and maps. . . .

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3312) Forty-Four Months In Germany & Turkey, Feb 1915 To Oct 1918, Record Of Personal Impressions

By Har Dayal,

PREFACE

The author of the following pages has been well known for the last ten years as one of the most active leaders of the Indian revolutionary party.* Born of a Kayasth family in Delhi in 1884, he was educated in . . . . .

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3311) Smoke, Mirrors And The Joker In The Pack: On Transitioning To Democracy And The Rule Of Law In Post-Soviet Armenia

by Karen E. Bravo, 2007


I. INTRODUCTION..
A. Transitioning From “Them” to “Us”.
B. Armenia’s Transition to Democracy...

II. ARMENIA AFTER THE U.S.S.R.
A. Geography and History of Armenia
B. Post-Soviet Political Developments; Conflicts &
Consequences...
C. Political Leaders and Assassins.
D. Apparent Progress.

III. DEMOCRACY IN ACTION? ARMENIA’S POST-SOVIET ELECTIONS.
A. Democracy and Elections.. . .

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3310) Germany Turkey & Armenia, 1917

A selection of documentary evidence relating to the Armenian atrocities from German and other sources

A. The Invasion Of Persia
1. Letters From German Missionaries In North-West Persia

B. The Six Armenian Vilayets
2. Van After The Turkish Retreat
3. Moush. Statement By A German Eye- Witness
4. Erzindjan. Statement By Two Danish Red Cross Nurses, Formerly In The Service Of The German Mihtary Mis-
Sion At Erzeroum
5. Statement Made By A Danish Red Cross Nurse
6. Malatia. Statement By A German Eye- Witness

C. Ciliclv And Northern Syrlv
7. Exiles From Zeitoun. Diary Of A Foreign Resident, Communicated By A Swiss Gentleman
8. Information Regarding Events In Armenia Published In Two Periodicals Issued By German Missionary S(X'ieties
9. Extracts From The Records Of A German Who Died In Turkey
10. Narrative Of A German Official Of The Bagdad Railway
11. The Amanus Passes. Statements By Two Swiss Ladies, Resident In Turkey

D. Aleppo
12. "A Word To The Accredited Representatives Of The German People " By Dr. Martin Niepage, Teacher In The German Technical School At Aleppo
13. Message Dated 17th February, 1916, From A German Lady (Fraulein O.)

E. The Places Of Exile
14. Der-El-Zor. Letter From A German Lady Missionary
15. Exiles From The Euphrates: Report From Fraulein O. ..

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