3038) “Armenia-Diaspora Relations: 20 Years since Independence”, Raffi K. Hovannisian

Luncheon Keynote AddressUnofficial Transcript Raffi K. HovannisianFirst Foreign Minister of ArmeniaFounder, Heritage PartyMarch 1, 2010Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC . . . It is an honor to be back at Georgetown University, a very important university in a very important capital city, which has always played its pivotal role throughout the modern history of the Republic of Armenia and the Armenian people. And as a graduate of the Georgetown...

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3037) Armenian Fabrications : Can You Believe This ?

. . "Concerned People To Set The Record Straight" Group has been working on a series of brochures that bring to public view all the deceptions/distortions/fabrications that the Turkish people have been subjected to by some Armenian organizations for a long time in their unfounded claim of a genocide. If there had been one, it certainly would have been determined by now after close to a century of such allegations. Specifically, in the absence...

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3036) Turkish Armenian Community Says No Need To Rake Up The Past

27 March 2010The leader of Armenian community in Turkey, who was received by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, described the incidents of 1915 as “mutual affliction of close friends who were made hostile to each other,” saying, “there was no need to rake up the past.”Following his meeting with Erdogan in Ankara, Bedros Sirinoglu said, " my grandfather died during the incidents of 1915. But there is no need to rake up the past and call...

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3035) Boxes Of Rifles, Ammunition & Dynamite in Armenian Church" Feb13-31Jan1908-St.Petersburg Telegraph Agency

Russian to English translationFebruary 13 (31 January) 1908 Russian Word(From "St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency")VIENNA, 30, I. In «Korrespondenz Bureau» reported from Istanbul: . . "From bathtub telegraphed that the local Armenian church showed a significant number of boxes of rifles, ammunition and dynamite. When the soldiers carried off the boxes, they were attacked by Armenian revolutionaries. There was a fierce battle, during which the soldiers...

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3034) Future Glorious Armenia Should Not Be Limited To Turkish Land, But Must Cover Themselves & Russian Land" Nov11-29Oct-1903-Moscow-Paper

November 11 (29 October) 1903 Moscow Paper <...> Can not be the slightest doubt the political nature of the Tiflis assassination. It stands in connection with an irresistible contemporary Armenian movement. Restore the old Armenian kingdom - this was a confused idea, which overtake . . the head and the heart of the Armenian politicians. Rise in Turkish Armenia, accompanied by riot and bloodshed, sent precisely to the political objective,...

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3033) We Have A Message From Swedish Parliament Translators

--- Original Message ---Subject: Swedish Parliament's Translation Of Its Motion On The Armenian GenocideDate: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 From: Hugh Rodwell at riksdagen dot seTo: NewsRush at gmail dot comHi,We thought you might be interested in our authorized translation of the motion approved by the Swedish Parliament to recognize as genocide the 1915 massacres of Armenians and other orthodox Christian communities in Turkey.The commendably rapid translation...

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3032) Halacoglu Is Responding to Taner Akcam

by TruckTurkeyTARAF 29th of May,2008 - [Click for Turkish] Yusuf Halacoglu RespondingDikran M. KHALIGIAN from Armenian National Committee indicated in a . . . documentary filmed in 2003 that the archives of Dashnak Sutyun were being prepared to be opened and that Dashnak Sutyun was in the process of presenting the archives to 3rd parties. He also indicated that the access to the archives was limited up until that time and permits were required...

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3031) Dispatches ( I-V) from Turkey By Khatchig Mouradian

Re-Entering the River: Dispatches from Turkey (Part I)ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)—I am in Turkey again.Let me rephrase that: I am in the Turkey of March 2010. Because, much like Heraclitus’s river, you can’t enter the same Turkey twice.This is a country that is in constant change—change for the better and change for the worse, depending on when your toes touched the water . . And this makes commentary on Turkey quite difficult and challenging. No matter...

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