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| May 7 /Armenialiberty.org/ Armenia's religious leader on Wednesday used the pulpit of the Vatican to condemn the 1915 killing of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians by Ottoman Turks, saying the whole world should recognize it as a genocide.
"We Armenians are a people who have survived genocide, and we know well the value of love, brotherhood, friendship and a secure life," Catholicos Garegin II said in a public address during Pope Benedict's general audience in St Peter's Square. |  Full Story |
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| Yerevan, April 21 /Panarmenian.net/ A torch procession that has already become a tradition will be held in Yerevan under the slogan "My name is struggle, my death is victory" to commemorate victims of the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.
The procession will start at Liberty Square on April 23 at 8.00 p.m. and will finish at Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex, reports the Press Center of the Youth Wing of ARF Dashnaktsutyun and Nikol Aghbalyan student union. | | Full Story |
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| April 15 /Panarmenian.net/ Every year on April 24, marking the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Young Turks in 1915-1923, the Union of Armenians of Russia (UAR) organizes a rally at the Turkish Embassy in Moscow.
Levon Mukunyan, head of the Youth Association of SAR Moscow Organization told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that Moscow mayor's office works to prevent the action this year.
"We petitioned for authorization. However, no response has come yet," he said.
Meanwhile, as PanARMENIAN.Net came to know from a source in Moscow, the Turkish Embassy is giving a reception on April 24, 2008. | | Full Story |
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| April 14 /Panarmenian.net/ This year the Armenian community in Berlin is organizing a program for the day of commemoration of the Armenian Genocide victims. The commemorative address will be given this year by the Vice President of the German Bundestag, Dr. Susanne Kastner, and Rabbi Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama, the director of the documentation center for the history of national socialism, Topography of Terror Foundation, as well as by the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia, I.E. Karine Ghazinian, the Armenian community of Berlin told PanARMENIAN.Net
The Berlin commemoration event will be musically accompanied by the internationally renowned pianist Vardan Mamikonian. | | Full Story |
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| Los Angeles, April 7 /Armenians Today/ On April 22 the Strassler Center of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies will introduce a lecture titled "Should we remember. Armenian Genocide as Pretotype". The lecture will be given by Richard Hovhannisian, who is a professor of the Department of the History of Armenia and Near East in the University of California in Los Angeles. | | Full Story |
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| /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On March 26, 2008, Israel's Knesset arrived at a decision to discuss the Armenian Genocide issue. As reported by Hay Dat Jerusalem office, the issue is likely to be considered by the parliamentary committee on education.
On March 14, 2007, the initiative was taken by member of Knesset Chaim Oron, the brother of Jerusalem University professor Yair Oron specializing in the Armenian Genocide issue. The motion was supported by 11 deputies. | | Full Story |
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| March 21 /Armenian Today/ This April 24 marks the 93rd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. This year the Armenian Genocide United Commemoration Committee has decided to organize a pilgrimage to the Armenian Martyrs Memorial Monument at Bicknell Park in Montebello, California. Each participant will be given a chance to place a flower in memory of the victims, and join our brothers and sisters in the homeland, who traditionally make the same pilgrimage to the Tsitsernakaberd Martyrs Memorial Complex. | | Full Story |
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 February 26, 2008, New York, NY – The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) and Sony BMG Entertainment hosted an evening reception with community activists and human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Facing History and Ourselves to promote the DVD release of "Screamers," the award-winning, documentary detailing the history of modern-day genocide from the Armenian Genocide in 1915 and the Holocaust era to the Rwandan massacres on the ongoing Darfur Genocide.
"Screamers theatrical release in the last year raised the profile of genocide recognition in America and around the world. | | Full Story |
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 January 31, 2008, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Genocide monument in Cardiff was desecrated on January 27 morning, just before the ceremony in commemoration of Holocaust victims and slain Agos editor Hrant Dink, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.
The ornate Armenian Cross on the monument was smashed by unknown persons with a hammer, which was left at the scene of the crime. | | Full Story |
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January 22, 2008, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Presidential candidate Barack Obama shared with the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) a strongly worded statement today calling for Congressional passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106 & S.Res.106), and pledging that, as president, he will recognize the Armenian Genocide.
"America deserves a leader who speaks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide and responds forcefully to all genocides. I intend to be that President," Sen. Barack Obama said. | | Full Story |
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/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Genocide Resolution (H. Res. 106) may be put on a vote in the plenary session of the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2008, Democrat Brad Sherman declared after a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Turkish media reports.
"The bill will be brought to a vote, when we have the support of the necessary number of Congressmen.
"Possibly, the voting will take place in January 2008," Sherman said.
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| November 27, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ At the Armenian Assembly of America's 35th Anniversary Banquet in Beverly Hills, California, on November 3, a video and a brochure issued simultaneously unveiled the architecture and exhibit designs for the renamed Armenian Genocide Museum of America. The current plans for the facility call for a 50,000 square foot complex with room to expand in the future. | | Full Story |
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 November 27, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Foundation for the Struggle Against Baseless Allegations of Genocide (ASIMED) has begun an e-mail campaign to dissuade actor Mel Gibson from playing a role in a film about the Armenian Genocide during World War I.
The president of ASIMED and faculty member at Ataturk University's history department, Professor Savas Egilmez, said that the Armenian Diaspora had assigned $100 million to Hollywood film production companies to encourage shooting of such a film. "Some Hollywood companies are preparing to shoot a film supporting the Armenian view. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, November 1, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Genocide resolution reminded the international community about the "Armenian factor" and this is a positive result, Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of the Oriental Studies, told a news conference in Yerevan.
The Armenian interests coincided with the interests of the United States in this case, according to him.
"The authors of the resolution took action proceeding from interests of a power that advocates human rights while the Bush administration exercised the habit of operating with political categories. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, November 1, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Turkey has restrained its diplomatic stride toward the European Union recently," Ruben Safrastyan, Director of the Institute of the Oriental Studies, told a news conference in Yerevan.
Turkey longs for domination in the Middle East but not in Europe, according to him. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, October 31, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Extradition of Ramil Safarov, the murderer of Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan, is inadmissible for Armenia," Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said at a meeting with his Hungarian counterpart Kinga Goncz.
Mr Oskanian thanked the Hungarian justice for a fair verdict to the murderer, the RA MFA press office reported. | | Full Story |
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October 26, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The four leading Democratic sponsors of the Armenian Genocide Resolution (H.Res.106) have called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to adopt a revised schedule for the consideration of this human rights legislation by the House of Representatives, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). | | Full Story |
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 October 25 /Armenialiberty.org/ Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged U.S. lawmakers Wednesday to drop an Armenian genocide resolution, warning of the strategic fallout on sensitive ties with Turkey.
"This is a very delicate time with Turkey," she told the House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee, which voted two weeks ago to label the Ottoman Empire's World War I massacre of Armenians as genocide. | | Full Story |
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 October 18, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ U.S. Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and George Radanovich (R-CA), lead sponsors of the Armenian Genocide Resolution; Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), co-chairmen of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues; and Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Ed Royce (R-CA), senior members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs highlighted the importance of recognizing the murder of a million and a half Armenians between 1915-1923 as Genocide, Sean Oblack, Press Secretary for Congressman Adam Schiff, told PanARMENIAN.Net. | | Full Story |
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 October 17 /Reuters, Armenialiberty.org/ The future of a U.S. House resolution calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks genocide appeared in doubt on Wednesday after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said whether it would come to the floor for a vote "remains to be seen."
Support for the resolution has eroded sharply since it was passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week. | | Full Story |
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 October 15 /Armenialiberty.org/ U.S. President George W. Bush has no plan to intervene with the top House of Representatives lawmaker to urge her not to bring to a vote a planned resolution to declare World-War I-era mass killings of Armenians a genocide, a spokesman said Monday.
The Bush administration has been lobbying intensely to persuade lawmakers to reject the resolution, which Bush believes would harm relations with Turkey. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, October 9 /PanARMENIAN.Net/. "The Administration opposes House Resolution 106," Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Daniel Fried said at a briefing in the U.S. Department of State. "And we think it would do grave harm, both to U.S.-Turkish relations and to U.S. interests. It would hurt our forces deployed in Iraq, which rely on passage through Turkey. It would do far greater harm than good. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, October 5, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "This has nothing to do with the current government or the Turkish public. This is for the tragic effort of Armenians, who we believe have experienced genocide. If we do not want to experience or witness such events again, we need to remember the dates of these events and we need to have them condemned worldwide," he said, Sabah reports. | | Full Story |
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 October 4, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/. When Darfur becomes shorthand for hopelessness, we in the small corners of the world realize that power has become a substitute for responsibility," Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in his address to the UN General Assembly.
"The ubiquitous language of human rights cannot compensate for political will. Genocide must be prevented, not commemorated. Generation after generation, we find new names for man's appalling tolerance for what we think are inhuman machinations, new names for the places of horror, slaughter, massacre, indiscriminate killing of all those who have belonged to a segment, a category, an ethnic group, a race or a religion. | | Full Story |
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 October 3, By Desmond Butler, The Associated Press
A measure to declare that the World War I-era killings of Armenians was genocide is expected to advance in the U.S. Congress next week, despite opposition from the Bush administration and Turkey's warning that its relations with Washington could be badly damaged.
Similar measures have been debated in Congress for decades, but have repeatedly been thwarted amid concerns about damaging relations with Turkey, an important NATO ally. | | Full Story |
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September 20, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ In a sign of the growing momentum toward the adoption of Congressional legislation recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and newly elected Representative Laura Richardson (D-CA), this week, added their names as cosponsors of this human rights legislation, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
"Armenians in Washington, California and around the nation are encouraged to see Senator Murray and Representative Richardson - both first-time supporters of federal legislation commemorating the Armenian Genocide - join the growing Congressional majority in support of the recognition of this crime against humanity," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA. | | Full Story |
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 September 10, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ In a meeting with the Armenian National Committee of Australia earlier this week, Federal Labor Candidate for Bennelong, Ms. Maxine McKew declared she would "unequivocally and publicly" support the recognition of the Armenian Genocide if elected to government in the upcoming federal elections. "It was my position while working in the media and remains my position today," said the former ABC journalist who will challenge Prime Minister John Howard for the Armenian populated seat of Bennelong in the 2007 Federal election. | | Full Story |
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| August 09 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Justice Ministry has prolonged the terms of assistance in fulfilling application forms for the heirs of those insured by AXA till December 20, the Ministry's Spokesman Lana Msheyan said. "The Ministry launched the assistance program July 20 and expected to accomplish it till September 20. To date, lawyers have filed 800 applications," she said.
Only the people whose ancestors are included in the AXA lists are eligible to submit applications. The lists are posted www.armenianinsurancesettlementaxa.com web site. You can also call +37410 58 30 23 to get information.
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 September 3, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Jewish Bar Association of the U.S. has held a survey on the American Jewish community's attitude about the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. | | Full Story |
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| August 20, /Associated Press/ A U.S. Jewish group has fired its New England regional director after he said he wants the organization to recognize the World War I killing of Armenians as genocide, according to a published report Saturday.
The Anti-Defamation League, primarily known for fighting anti-Semitism, fired Andrew Tarsy on Friday, the Boston Globe reported. Tarsy told the newspaper that the organization's stance is "morally indefensible." | | Full Story |
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| August 15 /Azg/ By H. Chaqrian - The article's title refers to Richard Gepart, who after being elected to US Congress fourteen times, retired in 2005 and established the DLA Riper lobbying organization. "Washington Post" received this information from Sylvia Parson, the wife of director of Houston Genocide Museum William Parson.
Mrs. Parson noted that, unlike other pensioners, 66-year old Gepart has built a new house for himself and declared he is starting a new career, as returning to politics would be a serious mistake. This statement Mrs. Parson in her letters explains with the following words: Turkey $100 thousand monthly to Gepart for hampering the adoption of the Armenian Resolution, therefore his decision about returning into politics must not seem surprising. | | Full Story |
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| August 07, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Having successfully lobbied to block the administration's nominee as envoy to Armenia, the Armenian-American community has become more self-confident in fighting for its rights at the highest levels of the U.S. government. All those Armenian-Americans who were reluctant to join in this effort, thinking that 'you can't fight City Hall', should now be convinced that the community can win such battles, just as it won against TIME magazine, PBS, and the Los Angeles Times," editor-in-chief of The California Courier Harout Sassounian says. | | Full Story |
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 July 17, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On July 23 the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) holds a second National campaign entitled "Call for Justice", which aims at supporting the Armenian Genocide Resolution, H. Res. 106. "Building on the success of our first national call in day in helping us top the 218 mark, this second round of nation-wide grassroots activism aims to have this anti-genocide measure brought to the House floor for a vote at the first opportunity," said Aram Hamparian, Executive Director of the ANCA. | | Full Story |
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 July 13, 2007, ArmeniaLiberty.org, By Aram Vanetsian in Los Angeles - The Armenian community in the United States has secured the backing of most members of the U.S. House of Representatives for a resolution that refers to the 1915 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey as genocide.
In what the two leading Armenian-American lobbying groups consider an important "milestone," the number of U.S. lawmaker co-sponsoring the draft legislation reached 219 on Wednesday, significantly boosting chances for its passage by the 435-member House.
That number includes a member of the U.S. Congress who died recently and another congressman who has resigned from its lower house. | | Full Story |
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 July 11, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Another important milestone on the way to UK Recognition of the Armenian Genocide was passed today. MP Glenda Jackson became the 150th Member of the UK Parliament to sign the Early Day Motion 357, recognizing Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net.
This motion, submitted by MP Bob Spink, has put the Armenian Genocide issue at the forefront of international issues in which MPs have shown concern. Including other MPs who signed the Genocide Motion in previous years but were unable to do so this year for parliamentary technical reasons, the total number now approaches 200. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, June 28, Noyan Tapan. Greek President Karolos Papoulias, at the June 27 meeting with students, lecturers and professors of Yerevan State University stated that those who suffered should be indulgent, of course, if those using violence are inclined to forget and to admit their fault. He obviously meant the Armenian Genocide and similar problems. The Greek President said that political and personal courage is needed for that. He gave the example of Germany, which had recognized the Jewish Holocaust. He said that "we should not remain the hostage of history, neither we should delete history." | | Full Story |
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 June 21, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian Genocide Resolution, H.Res.106, continued to gain momentum toward passage with the total number of Members cosponsoring the human rights measure clearing the 200 mark, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). Representatives from Georgia, Hawaii, Mississippi and New York were the latest additions, bringing the overall cosponsor total to 202. | | Full Story |
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| June 6 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ June 5 the Chilean government unanimously made a decision to condemn the Armenian Genocide. The draft project was submitted by Socialist Party member Ricardo Nunies Munios. The documents reads, in part, "April 24, 1915 the Turkish government arrested and killed the leaders of the Armenian people in Constantinople and thus initiated the policy of extermination of the Armenian nation. In 1915-1923 some 1.5 million of Armenians who lived on their lands during centuries. This extermination is named the first ethnic cleansing of the 20th century. The Armenian Genocide was recognized by the UN subcommittee on discrimination and protection of national minorities in 1985. Considering these facts the Senate of Chile decreed to recognize the Armenian Genocide and condemn it. It also called to the Chilean government to join the UN resolution of 1985." | | Full Story |
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 June 04 /Panarmenian.net/ "Many Turks could not believe that the Armenian Genocide really took place. During formation of the Republic all kept silent and wished to forget what had happened, Turkish writer, musician and MP Zulfu Livaneli said.
"Armenians' tragedy is a part of a greater debate Turks had to start to discern the truth. | | Full Story |
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| May 31 /Azg/ On an event, organized by the New Jersey office of "Hay Dat" and the Genocide Studies Center of Rumaps College, famous Turkish historian and writer Tancer Akcam held a speech about Turkish Nationalism. Over 300 students as well as head of Tufenkian Foundation's Karabakh program Andranik Gasparian were present to the event.
Taner Akcam, studying Ottoman and other sources, represents the genocide in context with Turkish nationalism and governmental programs of ethnic clearings. Being born in Ardahan (Turkey), 1953, he was very early interested in political science. In 1976 he was arrested as an editor of a political youth's journal and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment. | | Full Story |
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| May 21, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/. A bill penalizing the Armenian Genocide denial may be introduced in the Dutch parliament again by initiative of a Christian Union member. The legislation also calls for criminal punishment for denial of the Holocaust and Rwandan Genocide. | | Full Story |
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May 8, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ An account of the Armenian Genocide written by Taner Akcam, a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota won a Minnesota Book Award this weekend.
Taner Akcam was honored for writing "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility."
Judges called it a "pioneering work" and "scrupulous account of Turkish responsibility for the killing of 1.5 million Armenians" and praised Akcam and his publisher, Metropolitan Books, for "challenging the country's 90-plus-year denial of intentional genocide." | | Full Story |
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May 2, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The policy of establishing relations with Turkey without any preconditions makes sense for Armenia and gives it the diplomatic high ground. Improvement in Turkish-Armenian relations is going to need a deeper basis in civil society, and the establishment of diplomatic relations not only helps in official relations but also in fostering civil society contacts," Van Krikorian, Co-chair of the Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission (TARC) said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net.
"Turkey has at various times put forward different conditions and changed those conditions as well as the emphasis on different conditions. At some points it has emphasized the need for Azerbaijan's consent to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia and at other points it has raised issues of border recognition and dropping discussion of the Armenian genocide as conditions. | | Full Story |
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| April 26 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "We are well aware of the pressure and the threats by Turkey in the Armenian Genocide issue," Executive Director of the Armenian National Committee of Canada (ANCC) Aris Babikian stated to the PanARMENIAN.Net journalist. "Fortunately Prime Minister of Canada does not cave in Turkey's blackmail. He stood firm to his principled stand vis-a-vis the Armenian Genocide issue," Babikian underlined. In his annual address in connection with the 92nd anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Harper reminded the both chambers of the Canadian Parliament have adopted a resolution that recognizes the first genocide of the 20th century. | | Full Story |
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 April 24, 2007, ArmeniaLiberty.org, By Ruzanna Khachatrian and Hovannes Shoghikian - Tens of thousands of people silently marched in Yerevan on Tuesday in an annual remembrance of some 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
The day marked the 92nd anniversary of the start of the 1915-1918 mass killings and deportations that affected virtually the entire Armenian population of the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Nearly two dozen countries, among them France, Canada and Russia, have recognized the massacres as the first genocide of the 20th century. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, April 24, Armenpress: Hundreds of thousands of Armenians from Armenia proper and its vast Diaspora struggled today against an unexpected snowfall to go uphill to the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan to remember 1.5 million of their ancestors killed brutally at the orders of the government of Turkey from 1915-1923.
President Robert Kocharian, Prime Minister Serzh Sarkisian, Parliament Chairman Tigran Torosian, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and other top government officials and senior clergy were the first to remember the victims by visiting the Memorial and laying flowers to it. The heads of foreign diplomatic missions in Yerevan were the next to lay wreathes at the Memorial. | | Full Story |
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| April 20, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Chicago City Council adopted a resolution, according to which April 24 is being proclaimed as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley has undersigned the resolution, the PanARMENIAN.Net journalist was told in the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA). In 2005 the American State of Illinois became 11th in number to include facts of genocide in curriculum of schools and colleges of the state. Currently 12 of 19 Congressmen from Illinois express their support for H. Res. 106, which recognizes the Armenian Genocide. | | Full Story |
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| Yerevan, April 20. /Arka/. Armenian National Institute's press office told ARKA News Agency on Thursday that 53 Nobel laureates have addressed Turkey and Armenia urging them to display tolerance.
According to the report, the laureates called on Armenians and Turks to start developing cooperation between the two countries.
Nobel Prize Winner Eli Vizel, this address initiator, called Armenian Genocide "Holocaust Ahead of Holocaust". | | Full Story |
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 April 19, 2007, /PanArmenian.Net/ Senator Harry Reid and U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton expressed their support for the H. Res. 106, which recognizes the Armenian Genocide, the PanArmenian.Net journalist was told in the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
"We're very gratified that two prominent national leaders - Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid - agreed today to join with a growing number of their Senate colleagues in supporting the passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution. | | Full Story |
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| Montebello, April 18, /Noyan Tapan - Armenians Today/ The other day Montebello Mayor's Council adopted a declaration, according to which the 40th anniversary of decision of Mayor's Office on building a memorial to the victims of Armenian Genocide will be marked. According to that decision, dozens of years ago the memorial was built and placed at the Bignell public park.
During the solemn ceremony, at which more than a hundred members of Armenian community of Montebello, representatives of ARFD party, clergymen and pupils of Mesropian national college were present, Mayor Norma Lopez-Reid read the declaration and handed it to representative of memorial's council, Michael Minasian. | | Full Story |
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 April 10, 2007, /PanArmenian.Net/ The Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) sharply condemned the Turkish government for blocking the opening of a United Nations exhibit on the Rwanda Genocide due to an indirect mention of the Armenian Genocide in one of the exhibit's display panels, the ANCA reports.
"Sadly, this is only the most recent example of how Turkey's campaign to deny the Armenian Genocide perpetuates the cycle of genocide - making the world a more dangerous place and future genocides more likely," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian. | | Full Story |
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| Aprli 04, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Various Armenian associations in Spain large of approximately 50 000 people, constituted in a federation to unify the criteria of intervention in the Spanish society. Independent French journalist Jean Eckian told PanARMENIAN.Net among the principal objectives of the new entity, it is envisioned to create a work group taking in consideration the defense of its rights. | | Full Story |
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Istanbul, April 6, Noyan Tapan - Armenians Today. The newspaper "New York Times" (US) made a correction in an article published in its March 29 issue.
In the article "Resolution on the Armenian Genocide Angers Turkey" by Brian Nolte and Shebnem Arsu (Istanbul), the genocide committed in 1915 is presented as "massacres" of Armenians. | | Full Story |
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| London, March 27, Noyan Tapan - Armenians Today. "Turkey's membership to the European Union will help democrates of that country to implement reforms and overcome denial in a state which disproves the Armenian Genocide. Membership of Ankara to the EU will assist recognition of the Armenian Genocide." Segolene Royal, the French Socialist Party's candidate for the President wrote about it in her new book from which Financial Times reprinted parts in its March 26 issue. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, March 20, Armenpress: The Genocide Museum in Yerevan, which is run by the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, will have a display of new documents and other evidence of the brutal murder of 1.5 million Armenians by the government of Turkey in the last years of the Ottoman Empire.
The display will open on April 20, 4 days ahead of April 24, when Armenians worldwide will mark the 92-nd anniversary of this crime.
Hayk Demoyan, a young historian, who was appointed the Museum's director recently, said they will be working in the next five years to prepare what he called ' a super new exhibition of facts and evidence of the first genocide in the past century." | | Full Story |
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| March 19, 2007, /PanArmenian.Net/ The U.S. administration prepared a report and submitted it to the members of the House of Representatives. The report gave the message, "if the Armenian Genocide resolution is passed, it will have severe damages to the U.S.," says Cumhuriyet Turkish newspaper. The report said, in part, "Turkey is the partner of JSF project, the new generation war plane. Turkey will buy 106 planes, and the project is worth 10 billion USD. Turkey will purchase 30 new F-16 war jets in return for 1.65 billion USD. More than 200 F-16s are being renovated in return for 1.6 billion USD. | | Full Story |
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 March 15, 2007, ArmeniaLiberty.org / AP, AFP - A senior U.S. State Department issued a forceful appeal Thursday for Congress to reject a proposed resolution defining as genocide the mass killings of Armenians in the closing days of the Ottoman Empire.
Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried said Turkish officials have informed the United States that approval of the resolution could lead to shutdown of the U.S. base at Incirlik or a restriction on U.S. overflight rights granted by Turkey.
Fried said the United States also has been informed that the Turkish Parliament would respond with "extreme emotion" if the Armenian resolution were approved. | | Full Story |
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 March 12, 2007, ArmeniaLiberty.org / Reuters, AFP - A Swiss court found a Turkish politician guilty on Friday of denying that mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide, the first such conviction under Swiss law.
Dogu Perincek, head of the leftist-nationalist Turkish Workers' Party, called the branding of the killings as genocide "an international lie" during a speech in the Swiss city of Lausanne in July 2005.
Judge Pierre-Henri Winzap sentenced him at the Lausanne criminal court to a 90-day suspended jail term and fined him 3,000 Swiss francs ($2,461), in line with the prosecutor's request, Swiss news agency ATS reported. | | Full Story |
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 Mar. 9, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Swiss prosecutors called on the police court to fine Turkish Workers' Party leader Dogu Perincek with $2450 for the denial of the Armenian Genocide. Perincek is accused of violation of the law banning genocide denial.
Two years ago Perincek called the Armenian Genocide "an international lie." Furthermore, he repeated the statement in the court. | | Full Story |
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| Ankara, Mar. 7, 2007 /Noyan Tapan - Armenians Today/ Turkish State Minister of Trade Kursad Tuzmen asked Israeli businessmen for help in the issue of hampering adoption of the resolution on recognition of Armenian Genocide in U.S. Congress. "Now we expect your support in this issue," the Turkish Minister declared at the seminar under the title "Turkish-Israeli Economic and Trade Cooperation."
According to the New Anatolian Turkish newspaper, Tuzmen said that relations between his country and Israel come not only from early past. | | Full Story |
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| Mar. 6, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Bill Gates has not signed any letter on behalf of 100 American businessmen to the U.S. President George Bush calling him upon to put pressure on Congress to not recognize the Armenian Genocide, the head of Microsoft Armenian branch Grigor Barseghyan told the PanARMENIAN.Net journalist. "Microsoft Corporation and its chairman, Bill Gates, were not aware that any such letter existed and cannot comment as to its contents, origin, purpose or signatories," Grigor Barseghyan stated. | | Full Story |
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| Mar. 5, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkish nationalist, leader of the Turkish Labor Party Dogu Perincek will stand trial in Switzerland. The legal proceedings launched over violation of Swiss anti-racist law on the Armenian Genocide denial may cause tension in the Swiss-Turkish relations. The news has already made a stir in Turkey, where nationalists, specifically members of the Talaat-pasha committee claim "it's a process against Turkey." Representatives of the Armenian Association of Switzerland said this trial may become a kind of "premiere". | | Full Story |
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| Mar. 5, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian National Committee of America and the Genocide Intervention Network are calling out to all activists to make a commitment to travel to Washington, DC on March 22nd and 23rd to lobby on Capitol Hill to help End the Cycle of Genocide. The event is expected to attract hundreds of young activists from throughout the nation, who will meet with their Congressman and Senators, network with youth activists from other organizations, and learn key tactics they need to be an effective lobbyist, reports the ANCA. | | Full Story |
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| Ankara, Mar. 1, 2007 /Noyan Tapan - Armenians Today/ The Grand National Assembly of Turkey published booklets and books which will be given to 550 American legislators to prevent discussion of the resolution concerning the Armenian Genocide recognition at the U.S. Congress House of Representatives and to propagate official position of Ankara in that issue.
The second delegation of the Turkish Parliament leaving for Washington on March 11 will undertake that "mission." The first delegation left on February 26. | | Full Story |
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| Mar. 1, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ A Turkish parliamentary delegation currently in Washington met with Matthew Bryza, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. The delegation is in the United States to discourage passage of the 1915 Armenian Genocide resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives. Bryza told the Turkish deputies that the Bush administration was opposed to the resolution. The delegation of deputies includes MPs both from the ruling Justice and Development Party and the main opposition Republican People's Party, Star reports. | | Full Story |
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| Ankara, Feb. 27, 2007 /Noyan Tapan - Armenians Today/ Vahit Erdem, deputy of Justice and Development ruling Turkish party, Chairman of Turkish delegation at NATO Parliamentary Assembly, sent a letter to members of U.S. Congress House of Representatives, in which he calls for counteracting to the resolution on recognition of Armenian Genocide introduced in January. "If the Congress adopts the Armenian resolution, the relations between the two allied countries will be seriously damaged. The Congress will make a big mistake if instead of giving a historical estimation it makes political reasoning as a number of European parliaments have done." | | Full Story |
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 Feb. 26, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ 100 American leading entrepreneurs including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett addressed a letter to President Bush calling on him not to recognize the Armenian Genocide. The letter says, in part, that recognition of the Armenian Genocide may turn out a calamity for the United States and trade relations with Turkey will be damaged badly. Besides, the authors of the letter are convinced that the Genocide recognition will hamper reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia, Turkish media reports. | | Full Story |
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| Feb. 23, 2007 /Azg/ "Sabah" newspaper February 21 reported that director of the "Komitas" Historical Institute, London, Ara Sarafian, answered the call of the Turkish Historical Science Union Yusuf Halacoglu to "study together the Armenian allegations of genocide".
Before referring to the Turkish newspaper's report, it should be reminded about Halacoglu's earlier suggestion of joint study of the Mtsbin (ancient Nicibin) cave burial, discovered by Swedish historian David Gunt. Professor Gunt came to conclusion that the skeletons found in the cave belong to Armenians and Assyrians massacred in 1915 and submitted the issue to the Parliament of Sweden. | | Full Story |
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| Feb. 22, 2007 /Azg/ Azg had earlier related an editorial publication by "The Washington Times" that the Armenian and Greek lobbies have much more power in the USA than the pro-Turkish politicians. "The Washington Times" also adds that the historical and political controversies between those groups negatively influence US Government's policy of partnership with Turkey. At present the cornerstone of the contradictions is the project of Resolution on the Armenian Genocide submitted to the US Congress. Also it should be taken into consideration that President Bush's cabinet is an advocate of the neo-conservators, which are controlled by Israel. | | Full Story |
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 Feb. 21, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The former head of the Turkish-American Foundation Assembly (ATAA), Ercument Kilic, has warned that Turkey could face heavy recompensation payments to Armenia in coming years. Asserting that "Armenia's aim in backing bills calling for the official recognition of the Armenian Genocide was to receive monetary recompensation", Kilic noted that certain American insurance firms had already begun to pay out recompensation to Armenians and that these payments would continue, reports Hurriyet newspaper. | | Full Story |
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 Feb. 20, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ One month after 'Agos' weekly Editor-in-Chief Hrant Dink's murder Turkish Historian Taner Akcam publishes his book "A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility". During the discussions of the book Professor Akcam talked about the 1915 Armenian Genocide that claimed the lives of over one million Armenians. | | Full Story |
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| Feb. 19, 2007 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On February 24 a number of lectures will be held at the North Park University in Chicago titled "Genocides of XX and XXI centuries". At the lectures experts will discuss the "The Concept of Genocide" based on Holocaust the Armenian Genocide, genocide of Assyrians, as well as genocides in Rwanda and Darfur (Sudan), Evangelical Covenant Church of Illinois reports. | | Full Story |
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 February 17, 2007, Los Angeles, CA, ANCA - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, joined by over three dozen students from Alex Pilibos High School in Hollywood, hosted a press conference on February 14th where he energetically called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Armenian Genocide resolution. The Armenian Genocide resolution (H.Res. 106) is currently pending before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which is Chaired by California Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA). The Mayor's press conference with the ANCA-WR was covered by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, National Public Radio, the Associated Press and local network television stations. | | Full Story |
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 February 15, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Stony silence reigned in the Berlinale cinema hall after the premier of Taviani brothers' film Skylark's Farm about the Armenian Genocide. At a briefing that followed the screening the directing brothers once again noted the necessity of acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide by Turkey, reports Yerkir-Media TV Channel.
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's film "Masseria delle Allodole" (Skylark's Farm) shot on the basis of Antonia Arslan's novel will be screened at the 57th festival film in Berlin (Germany) on February 8, 2007. | | Full Story |
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 February 14, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ "I have served as Turkish ambassador to the U.S. for ten years and therefore, I am well informed of the situation. The strongest lobby in Washington is the U.S. government," stated Sukru Elekdag, former head of Foreign Ministry Executive Office, Deputy of CHP (Republic and People Party), and former Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. He said the George Bush administration is able to block the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
"If President Bush writes to the chairman of the House of Representatives that 'Turkey is our strategic ally, so America's national interests make it necessary to cooperate with the ally. | | Full Story |
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 Yerevan, February 9, Armenpress: Deputy foreign minister Arman Kirakosian said the official Yerevan is not able to intervene and lobby the adoption of an Armenian genocide resolution by U.S. Congress, but nevertheless he said Armenia welcomes and supports Armenian Diaspora organizations' efforts in the USA and elsewhere to press for international acknowledgment of the first genocide of the 20-the century.Speaking to a news conference Kirakosian warned against optimistic expectations that adoption of the resolution by the USA would automatically entail its adoption by Turkey. Kirakosian said USA acknowledgment of the genocide would be a very important move, but reminded that similar resolutions have been introduced to Congress since 1980-s but none was approved. | | Full Story |
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 February 8, 2007, /PanARMENIAN.Net/ With Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul in the US capital Washington, DC for official visits, it has been a noticeable gap in his schedule that he has not been able to meet with the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
The Turkish Hurriyet reports that Pelosi, who has voiced her support for the same Armenian Genocide bill on which Gul is trying to work against, rejected a request from the Turkish Foreign Ministry for a meeting with Gul, with claims that her schedule during Gul's visit to the U.S. capital would be too busy to fit him in. | | Full Story |
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February 7, 2007, ArmeniaLiberty.org, Associated Press, By Desmond Butler - Turkey's foreign minister warned the U.S. Congress that passing a resolution condemning as genocide the early 20th century killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians would harm relations with his country.
"Adoption of even a nonbinding resolution in either chamber would seriously harm our bilateral relations," Abdullah Gul said Tuesday as he wrapped up a trip to Washington.
Gul, speaking after meeting with top U.S. officials, described the possible resolution as an irritant to otherwise close cooperation with the United States on vital issues including bringing political stability to Iraq, preventing nuclear proliferation and connecting Asian energy supplies with European markets. | | Full Story |
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 February 06, 2007, ArmeniaLiberty.org / Associated Press - U.S. officials will reassure the Turkish foreign minister, currently visiting Washington, that they will try to quash a proposed resolution in Congress condemning as genocide the early 20th century killings of Armenians.
In talks with Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, U.S. officials also will discuss Turkish worries that the United States is not doing enough to prevent Kurdish rebels from operating in Northern Iraq.
The meetings come at a tense moment for relations between the United States and Turkey, a moderate Muslim democracy and NATO ally crucial to U.S. operations in Iraq. | | Full Story |
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| Washington, DC, January 31, 2007 - The Armenian Assembly today welcomed the introduction of a congressional resolution that would reaffirm the Armenian Genocide. The legislation (H. Res. 106) was introduced in the House of Representatives bylongtime Armenian issues supporters Reps. Adam Schiff (D-CA), GeorgeRadanovich (R-CA) and Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues Co-ChairmenFrank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Joe Knollenberg (R-MI), together withCongressmen Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI). | | Full Story |
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| /PanArmenian.Net/ "The United Nations recently adopted a resolution condemning the denial of the Holocaust. The move was timed to coincide with the eve of the International Commemoration Day for Holocaust Victims on January 27, a date which marks the 1945 liberation of prisoners at the Auschwitz death camp of Nazi Germany. This UN action is significant, of course, but what is most significant for me was the lack of any mention or even consideration of the Armenian Genocide," Richard Giragosian, expert of the Armenian International Police Research Group (AIPRG) told a PanArmenian.Net reporter. "And where was the Armenian Ambassador to the United Nations? Why was not he speaking out, especially with the world's attention on the murder of Hrant Dink, and as the Armenian diplomat at the UN in New York, why did he not raise the issue and remind the UN of the Armenian Genocide?" he said. | | Full Story |
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 January 25, 2007, /PanArmenian.Net/ "Nothing much has changed, it seems. They were killed both in 1915 and in 2007," Turkish writer and journalist Ahmet Altan says in his "1915-2007" article, which was published in "Gazetem.net" site just the other days. Independent French journalist Jean Eckian retold the PanARMENIAN.Net corespondent Ahmet Altan's article. "They killed us, and we killed them back. What are we going to say about the murder of Hrant then? That "Hrant killed us, and we killed Hrant back?" Now that is not what we say, is it? We say "traitors killed Hrant." We do not see the murderers of Hrant as one of "us." | | Full Story |
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| Paris, January 18, Armenpress: A council coordinating the activity of French Armenian associations held a big rally yesterday in Paris in support of a bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian genocide. | | Full Story |
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 January 17, 2007, /PanArmenian.Net/ Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois jumped into the 2008 White House race on Tuesday, promising to "change our politics" with a campaign that could make him the first black president in U.S. history, reports Reuters. Obama, a freshman senator and rising party star, formed an exploratory committee to begin raising money and hiring staff to campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination to succeed Republican President George W. Bush. He plans a formal campaign announcement in his home state of Illinois on February 10. | | Full Story |
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