3334) Criminalization Of Thinking Might Be An Act Of Criminalization Of Freedom Of Speech . . .

Updated 25th Jan 2012

• Ten Suggestions For Turkey To Face Its Own History By Hayk Demoyan
• US Next In Line -Armenian Genocide in the US Capital-
• Now, The Armenians Are Making Us Walk The ‘Deportation March’
• Turkey Prefers Fistfight To Legal Battle With France
• French Senate Approves Bill Criminalizing 'Genocide' Rejection
• France-Turkey: What Went Wrong? by Maxime Gauin
• Mr Sarkozy's European Travesty by Sukru Server Aya
• On the Criminalization of the Denial of Genocides by Ara Papian
• ASALA's Day in the French National Assembly by Maxime Gauin
• Resisting Nicolas Sarkozy by Maxime Gauin
• The French Law: The First Stage by Ömer Engin LÜTEM
• Crisis With France And Armenian Diaspora Activities In The Light Of 2015 by Aslan Yavuz Sir
• France-Turkey: Perpetual Crisis 20 December 2011, by Ömer Engin LÜTEM
• French Historian Maxime Gauin: 'Mr. Sarkozy is Making a Miscalculation' By Nihal Cizmecioglu
• "Your Excellency, President of the Senate of the Republic of France, by Vahe Avetian
• Spit On Sarkozy's Face And Say He Was Trying To Score Political Gains Through . .
• Break Or Save Franco-Turkish Relations?
• Alain Juppé Showed the Right Way to Solve the Armenian Question

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3333) Video: Movsesian v. Versicherung AG: Armenian Insurance Case In CA

Case Number: 07-56722
Case Panel: KOZINSKI, SCHROEDER, REINHARDT, THOMAS, SILVERMAN, GRABER, McKEOWN, FISHER, PAEZ, RAWLINSON, IKUTA
San Francisco, CA 12/14/2011

I have watched with interest, but have serious concerns about the neutrality of the court and their knowledge of basic truths, before getting tangled [whether the District Court of California, should or not use the term of "Armenian Genocide"] simply because this would "affect the political relations between Turkey and USA". Regardless of the impressive setting and solemn procedures, the absence of the following basic facts, and that no one informed them, creates the impression of a Kangaroo if not a Lynching Court, because:

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3332) A Monument To The 1918 Battle Of Bash Aparan

Updated 9 Dec 2011

A monument to the 1918 Battle of Bash Aparan[1], at which the Armenians repelled a force of Ottoman soldiers (Aparan, Armenia, built 1979)

Photograph: Frédéric Chaubin. 

[1] The Battle of Bash Abaran (Armenian: Բաշ Աբարանի ճակատամարտ Bash Abarani chakatamart, Turkish: Baş-Abaran Muharebesi) was a battle of Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place in the vicinity of Bash Abaran, in 1918. 

The Ottoman divisions attacked on May 21, but after three days of fierce combat the Armenians remained firm and the Ottoman regiments retreated in defeat . . .

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3331) Victims Of One Vile Holocaust Must Recognise Another

by Sassoon Grigorian

27 Nov 2011, thepunch.com.au

Sassoon Grigorian was senior adviser to a former NSW Premier and worked in the NSW Government for nearly a decade. Sassoon worked for the Sydney Olympic Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) in the lead up to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and was senior consultant for Australia’s largest public affairs firm.

Sassoon is Board member of the Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA) and was a speaker at the Lowy Institute’s 2009 New Voices conference.


Australian Armenian genocide survivor Thaddaes 'Matthew' Panikan pictured in an interview at his Marrickville home in Sydney last year. Picture: Alan Pryke

For the first time, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recip Tayipp Erdogan, has apologised for the killings of 14,000 people in Dersim - a town in south-eastern part of the country now known as Tunceli - between 1936 and 1939.

The apology came after a war of words between Erdogan and the leader of the main opposition party. Turkey has finally realised that it will not be able to end the Kurdish rebel war through military measures alone.

Why is this important? Well this is not Turkey’s only historical dilemma, and many will be wondering if this could be applied to other minorities.

A couple of months ago, Turkey decided to expel its Israeli Ambassador following the interception of a flotilla en route to Gaza. Meanwhile the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, is scheduled to consider the issue of the Armenian genocide.

The State of Israel, created after the Holocaust, remarkably . . .

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