3581) Buenos, Naidoo, Gauin, Salt, Kirlikovali, Sassounian, Aya, Walsh, Demirmen, Cheterian - 01Dec2015

1. Video: Tal Buenos Interview on Turkey-Armenia 100th Anniversary , Anand Naidoo
2. Russia Using the ‘Armenian Card’ , Turgut Kerem Tuncel
3. Robert Fisk, Between Francophobia And Turkophobia ,Maxime Gauin
4. ECHR Confirms Freedom Of Expression In Armenian Case , Jeremy Salt
5. The New Revenge Of Law On Politics , Maxime Gauin
6. ECHR Grand Chamber Verdict Of October 15, 2015 : Pros & Cons , Ergun Kirlikovali,
7. Top European Court’s Decision Should Make Pope Francis Blush, Ferruh Demirmen
8. The Puppet Pope , Tal Buenos
9. To Ban Genocide Denial, Court Incites Armenians to Commit Violence, Harut Sassounian
10. Counter Comments for Harut Sassunian by Sukru Server Aya
11. The European Court of Human Rights Violates My Rights , Vicken Cheterian
12. Cheterian on EHCR human rights Response by Sukru Aya
13. Amal And The Armenians: The Power To Attract, Tal Buenos
14. Dadrian: An Armenian Name In An American Game , Tal Buenos
15. The Neocolonialist Tactics Of The New York Times, Tal Buenos
16. Were The Armenians ‘Über-Jews’? By Dr Pat Walsh
17. Our “Genocidal” Allies (Again) By Dr Pat Walsh
18. James Bryce – A Fatal Philanthropist Dr Pat Walsh
19. Armenian Spin Machine: Peddling a Humiliating Defeat as Victory, Ferruh Demirmen

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3555) May 2015 Media Scanner

1. Canada, Turkey and the Armenians
2. Relabeling: How to Diminish Armenian-Turkish Tensions
3. Armenian Lobby Bribed The Vatican Bank?
4. On the centenary of the Armenian genocide, eight writers from Turkey post this letter to their fellow Armenians
5. Barsamian: A Century Is a Long Time. It Is and It Isn’t
6. There Is No Peace without Justice
7. Two Prominent Istanbul-Armenians: Two Widely Divergent Views of 1915
8. Vatican and the Armenians
9. Emeksiz Sisters of Istanbul: “The Armenians call us Turks, and the Turks call us Armenians”
10. Archbishop Aram Ateshian: 'Women From Armenia Come To Istanbul, Marry Turks, And Cover Their Heads'
11. Syrian-Armenian Singer Lena Shamamian: “The identity of my voice is Anatolian”

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3553) Comparing US-Armenian And Russian-Armenian Relations / Moscow Chooses Not To Ignore Or Forget The Armenian Genocide

Comparing US-Armenian And Russian-Armenian Relations

Moscow Chooses Not To Ignore Or Forget The Armenian Genocide

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3533) US Government Has Given Turkey A False Sense Of Cooperation On The Genocide Accusations For Years - How the US government ‘nudges’ its Armenians

Soft Power, Samantha Power And Soft Intellectuals
Tal Buenos*

While using the Armenian issue as a political leverage against Turkey, the U.S. government has given Turkey a false sense of cooperation on the genocide accusations for years

Power considerations explain the lingering genocide accusation campaign against Turkey. In international relations, power means the ability to get another state to do what it otherwise would not do. From the perspective of the U.S., how does it try to get Turkey to do things that Turkey would otherwise not do? The fact that the U.S. and Turkey have been enjoying mutually beneficial military and economic cooperation has two clear meanings. One, it would not be rational for the U.S. to threaten Turkey through military action or economic sanctions and two, there is a strong incentive for the U.S. to find ways to maintain this high level of cooperation either through obvious rewards or through a semblance of them.. . .

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3530) Armenian Genocide, Still A Political Hot Potato, Is About To Land At The Eurovision Song Contest

Do not be fooled by the song and dance; the Eurovision Song Contest really is about international politics.

This year’s edition of Europe’s top kitsch-fest, which will be held in Vienna May 19-23, had already promised plenty of intrigue, with Ukraine withdrawing from the contest, Russia organizing a competing event (while still going for a Eurovision win), and the decidedly non-European nation of Australia planning to make its contest debut. . . .

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3510) "Genocide Denier Attacks Shark in Australia"

I am not a big-time barrister in London, I am not even a recording artist. This is not a gig for me. I am committed to studying facts. I am finding them.

This is my first time here in Australia.

Upon arrival yesterday, I heard some stories about sharks.

Considering the media here, I imagined how interesting it would be for a headline to read “Genocide denier attacks shark,” and

in the story the “genocide denier” would be quoted as saying “what shark?”

Israeli scholar of international politics, Tal Buenos, has taken aim at celebrity barrister, Geoffrey Robertson QC, and other media personalities who have jumped on the genocide “recognition” bandwagon.

Tal, in a recent speech over lunch to NSW Parliamentarians, in the Parliament House, called into question the accusation of genocide and denial against Turks. In a wide ranging, and well researched presentation, Tal also debunked the comparisons made between the Armenian experience and the Holocaust, and pointed at the politicisation of history that is inherent to such comparison.

The term “denier” is part of an attempt to silence any dissent on this topic, and to delegitimise any scholarly work on the topic that does not conform to the established orthodoxy. Tal drew a clear distinction between those who question whether the events of 1915-1916 could be called a genocide, and the very real menace of Holocaust denialism. Unlike Holocaust deniers – denialists in the true sense of the word – the Turkish Government is not denying the factual events.

Tal studies how the term genocide – its origin and current misuse – is tied with political purpose. Contrary to accepted wisdom, he asserts that promoting the events of 1915-1916 as a case of genocide is in fact a political game, aimed at keeping pressure on the Turkish Government.

Tal also canvassed the material facts of the events themselves. He presented a fresh, original view of what has become, at times, a tired and sterile debate.

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3497) A Hundred Years Of Solitude: How Will The "Armenian Question" Develop In The 21st Century?

Rizvan HUSEYNOV

This year the world community is preparing to mark the centenary of the First World War (1914-18), one of the bloodiest clashes between the leading empires which radically altered the geopolitical map and the socio-political structure of Eurasia. The bloodiest clashes in this war took place in Asia Minor, the Black Sea region and the South Caucasus, in the struggle for which the countries of Europe and Russia met head-on with Ottoman Turkey. One of the watchwords that Russia and the West used to base their intervention in the region was "to save Christianity".

It would not be wrong to say that the "Armenian question" played quite an important role in the military-political games of the West and Russia against Ottoman Turkey and the Muslim population of Asia Minor and the South Caucasus. During the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century the European empires and Russia generally made active use of the Armenian factor as an ideological tool to promote their own interests in these regions. To back up their claims these empires created and set in motion a hastily concocted story about ancient Armenian history, declaring its heirs to be the present-day Armenians led by the Armenian Church. On fairly dubious and anti-scientific theses a false conception was created that 1,000 - 2,000 years ago various state formations existed in Asia Minor which were wiped out, and "justice" should now be restored, turning history back a couple of thousand years. This thesis, which is absurd from the point of view of logic, was one of the reasons for the fierce clashes in Asia Minor and in the South Caucasus, as a result of which hundreds of thousands of innocent people were killed. . . .

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3495) Orbeli's Mystery Unearthed - Azerbaijan Has Found A Mine Planted Under The System Of Armenian Falsifications

When a department head at the Azerbaijani Presidential Administration, Fuad Axundov, said that he had found in the archives of St. Petersburg the book "Inscriptions and Gandzasar and Havotsptuk" by the Russian Soviet historian I. Orbeli, it caused great repercussions in the historical circles of our region. After all, it was a book, the entire edition of which was believed to have been destroyed in 1919, and the author of this work later stopped dealing with this subject and became a prominent scientist in a completely different field. . . .

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3493) Oleg Kuznetsov: "Armenia - A Tool In Someone Else's Geopolitics"

четверг, 24 июля 2014 г.

... It has been so always, at least for the past 150 years and so will it be now. Armenians have traditionally been used by Atlanticists such as the UK, the USA and France for the purpose of destroying continental empires. Persia is a case in point and so is the Ottoman Empire as well as the USSR.

Interview with well-known Russian historian and political analyst Oleg Kuznetsov

Author: Rizvan HUSEYNOV . . .

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3412) Historical Prism - 1919 Atrocities Of Armenians Through The Eyes Of A British Diplomat

23.10.2013

In early 1919, the UK government recognized its further presence in the South Caucasus financially and politically impractical. In early April, in Paris, the Supreme Council of the Entente took the decision to withdraw the British troops from the region.

On August 28, 1919 British troops were withdrawn from the South Caucasus, leaving a small garrison deployed in Batumi to prevent the immediate dispute between General Denikin, Georgia, and Turkey on the ownership of the port.

At the same time, realizing that there existed forces that could cause a fall of the young republics at any time, the British government sent a diplomatic mission to Tbilisi led by Oliver Wardrop, which arrived there in August 1919. The British ambassador was instructed to insure British interests, to provide moral support and advice to governments of the republics — Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia without the involvement of the Government of His Majesty in any form of extended liability. He was also entrusted with prevention of enmity between the countries of the South Caucasus, as well as between the latter and Denikin. . .

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3410) Glorification Of Armenian Terrorism, Once Again

Lisbon Operation Was A Blood Scattered For Justice: Estimates Brother Of Died Simon Yahniyan

GYUMRI, JULY 25, ARMENPRESS: In order to capture the world’s attention to Armenian genocide thirty years ago on July 27, 1983 five members of Armenian Revolutionary Army Vache Taghlyan, Sedrak Ajemyan, Simon Yahniyan, Ara Krjyan and Sargis Abrahamyan entered Turkish embassy in Lebanon. From the shot Turkish soldier 21 years old Simon Yahniyan was killed and the other four managed to enter the territory of the embassy and implement two blasts. Though many countries began speaking about genocide after this event but after several years many people still distort the details of martyrdom of Armenian young people. “Armenpress” spoke about the operation with the brother Simon Yahniyan Sareh Yahniyan who lives in Gyumri for already ten years.

*- Today you live in Gyumri though you were born in Beirut. Why you did you decide to move to Armenia?* . . .

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3403) Nagorno-Karabakh - A Forgotten Conflict (2 Research Papers)

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1) Nagorno-Karabakh - A Forgotten Conflict - An Introduction To The Special Issue by Umut Uzer And Adil Baguirov
2) Nagorno-Karabakh: Competing Legal, Historic And Economic Claims In Political, Academic And Media Discourses by Adil Baguirov

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1)Nagorno-Karabakh - A Forgotten Conflict - An Introduction To The Special Issue
by Umut Uzer And Adil Baguirov


Abstract

In the general area of Southern Caucasus, the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is among the frozen disputes in the region, the others being South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which are nominally independent states, however de facto occupied by Russia. Pre-sently there is a cold peace in all these regions with the potential to turn into armed con-flict. The fact that the three historically significant countries in the region, namely Russia, Iran and Turkey are very much interested in Southern Caucasus can make any clashes in the region turn into a regional war with wide ranging repercussions.

This state of affairs makes the Caucasus a highly sensitive area of the world for war and peace. Focusing on the NK conflict with its historic, political, security, ethnic and anthropological dimensions, the collection of nine scholarly papers in this special issue of JMMA make serious contribution to the study of world politics in general and regional issues in particular which involve major international players and global security policies as being played out in the Southern Caucasus . . .

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3368) Interview With François Georgeon: Revelation A Shameless Manipulation From Hachette

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1. Interview With François Georgeon: Revelation A Shameless Manipulation From Hachette
2. The overlap of two realities: the martyrdom of muhacir and massacres of Armenians in Anatolia
3. "Armenian genocide" thesis about the contradictory presence
4. Interview with Fuat Dündar, History, No. 341, April 2009
5. Interview with Fuat Dundar: Comments By Sukru Server Aya, 14 September 2012

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These days, following private discussions about the two pages dealing with the Armenian "genocide" in the new textbooks (especially those of Hachette), this document has been sent. We discovered, read (with the greatest attention) and archived: it is indeed overwhelming for some "teachers" clearly unethical. Then, not knowing what to do in the immediate future, we said that we may publish it here. For fear of losing ourselves in developments unclear, we only bolded the passages that seem most important and serious contradiction with the contents of the screenshot below.

Collections of History, No. 45, October 2009, p. 52-61:

Chronicle of a collapse

The Treaty of Sèvres in 1920, after the First World War, leaving the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia State rump Northwest ... How did we get here? . . .

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3364) Infuence of Ethnic Lobbying on US Foreign Policy

by Rafiga Gurbanzade,
4 August 2012

Lobbying is generally defined as the process of seeking to influence a government and its institutions to execute policies that serve interests of a group of individuals. The Woodstock Theological Center defines lobbying as a “deliberate attempt to influence political decision through various forms of advocacy directed at policymakers on behalf of another person, organization or group” (58). The earliest instances of lobbying date back to ancient Greece and Rome, where lobbyists sought to influence senators and plebs for or against specific issues (Zetter, 6). Special interests protected by lobbying may vary from businesses and politicians to foreign governments and ethnic groups. Ethnic lobbying may advocate interests of a distinct group in the host country or may seek to influence foreign policy of the host country towards the country of origin or third countries. . . .

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3355) The Filiations of Taner Akcam / Some Examples Of The Method Used By Taner Akcam

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The Filiations of Taner Akcam by Attala AKIN

Some Examples Of The Method Used By Taner Akcam by Maxime Gauin

Comments By Sukru Aya & League of Nations Sourced – REPLY on HOLOCAUST Charges

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Unlike his great-grand-son Taner, Communist leader of 70 years, the Armenian Agop does not believe in Marxism or communism ...

We (Turkey Info News - www.turquie-news.com) invite you to discover the translation of an article that illuminates much about the profile of Taner Akcam. True "historian mercenary", Taner Akcam is presented by Armenian fanatics as . .

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3348) ASALA: We All Believed In One Idea: Party

1. ASALA: We All Believed In One Idea: Party
   Interview with "The interlocutor of Armenia," Commander Group "Yeghia Keshishian" Vazgen Sislyan
2. ASALA - Reckoning
3. ASALA STORY
4. Orly Group
5. Operation VAN
6. Chronology of ASALA
7. Chronology of the "Group of 3 October"
8. Chronology of the "Group June 9"
9. Chronology of the "Group of 24 September"
10. Chronology of the "Group of Orly"
11. Armenian Revolutionary Army (ARA)
    Manifesto I. 1983
    Manifesto II
12. Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide (JCAG)
13. Monte "Avo" Melkonian (1957-1993)
14. Strategic Implications Of The Armenian Genocide Of 1915

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Related Post: ASALA's Day in the French National Assembly

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"The fact that the French Senate recently passed a bill criminalizing denial of Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, and I take as a result of the armed struggle of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) and the blood shed by our colleagues," - said in an interview with "The interlocutor of Armenia," the commander group "Yeghia Keshishian" Vazgen Sislyan.

- A little more than thirty years ago, your group has been carried out campaign "Van" to capture the Turkish consulate in Paris. In the last days of January 1984 the trial took place over you and the rest of this campaign, which, as noted when journalists from the "trial of the Armenians" became a "Court of the Armenians."
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3344) Armenian-Speaking Muslims Of Hamshen in Turkey: Who Are They?

By Vahan Ishkhanyan / © 2012 Hetq online

“I feel uncomfortable conversing through a translator. We can speak that language fairly well, but sadly we’ve been subjected to assimilation and various pressures. That’s why we have difficulty understanding each other,” says Yilmaz Topaloglu, the former mayor of Hopa.

The language he refers to is Armenian. Yilmaz wouldn’t say such a thing to anyone else in the world except for an Armenian who speaks it - “I feel uncomfortable conversing through a translator.”

So here we are; two individuals who speak the same language but cannot understand each another. I am an Armenian from Armenia who has come to Turkey to conduct research about those Muslim inhabitants who speak Armenian . .



Click Here For The Direct Link To The Full Page SlideShow

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3334) French Senate Bill On Criminalizing 'Genocide'

Armenians in Yerevan thank the French Ambassador to Armenia for the French Senate's decision to criminalize Genocide Denial. Includes video from the celebration Monday Night in Paris.

1. The Revenge Of Law On Politics By Maxime Gauin
2. Decision Of The French Constitutional Council
3. Nicolas Sarkozy, Victim of Himself, By Maxime Gauin, USAK, 14 Feb 2012
4. French Historian Gauin: "The Decision Will Be Blow to Armenian Nationalism in France"
5. France-Turkey: The Night Will End by Maxime Gauin*
6. Ten Suggestions For Turkey To Face Its Own History By Hayk Demoyan
7. US Next In Line -Armenian Genocide in the US Capital-
8. Now, The Armenians Are Making Us Walk The ‘Deportation March’
9. Turkey Prefers Fistfight To Legal Battle With France
10. French Senate Approves Bill Criminalizing 'Genocide' Rejection
11. France-Turkey: What Went Wrong? by Maxime Gauin
12. Mr Sarkozy's European Travesty by Sukru Server Aya
13. On the Criminalization of the Denial of Genocides by Ara Papian
14. ASALA's Day in the French National Assembly by Maxime Gauin
15. Resisting Nicolas Sarkozy by Maxime Gauin
16. The French Law: The First Stage by Ömer Engin LÜTEM
17. Crisis With France And Armenian Diaspora Activities In The Light Of 2015 by Aslan Yavuz Sir
18. France-Turkey: Perpetual Crisis 20 December 2011, by Ömer Engin LÜTEM
19. French Historian Maxime Gauin: 'Mr. Sarkozy is Making a Miscalculation' By Nihal Cizmecioglu
20. Spit On Sarkozy's Face And Say He Was Trying To Score Political Gains Through . .
21. Break Or Save Franco-Turkish Relations?
22. Alain Juppé Showed the Right Way to Solve the Armenian Question

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3329) Can Turks And Armenians Be Agreed On Genocide Claim?

by Faruk Arslan *

I can not find a clear answer to that question in my mind: Each nation and each community who speaks a different language may establish a state, should they do? In the past, state-building experience poor Kurds and Armenians were the ones whose ideal of an independent state, has to be constantly postponed. Armenians, in 1991, Armenia got this dream with a dead birth.

Kurdistan’s birth is delaying because in the process of pregnancy it had a gestation period that is full of anomalies. Thus, it is inevitable the baby will be born deformed; it will be trouble for its guardian and also his neighbour! Head nurse at the birth of Kurdistan, who had to flee from Iraq, the United States, midwife, the financier, mentors Israel and Germany; the child not crippled but was born dead.

Anyway, let’s leave the Kurds alone with their . . .

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3324) Video: Sarkozy In Armenia

29 October 2011 Update
Sarkozy in the Caucasus By Kamer Kasim



By Ömer Engin LÜTEM
It has been a surprise for the Armenians as much as for the Turks when French President Nicolas Sarkozy, during his visit to Armenia on 6-7 October, called on Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide allegations and indicated that if not, France would adopt the draft resolution on punishment of genocide denial. Thus, despite the fact that France had always been a supporter of the Armenian theses all along, no French statesman had gone this far and no one had particularly called on Turkey and assigned it a certain date to accept the Armenian genocide claims. . . .

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