Update: The link has been removed.

Dear Google,

I am disgusted to see that http://www.talatpasaharekati.org/ is listed as a “Sponsored Link” at Google. While Googling “talaat pasha,” the link is shown under “Sponsored Links.”

The Turkish website you are advertising belongs to some nationalist Turks ("Talaat Movement"), who are planning to honor Talaat pasha, the main organizer of the Armenian Genocide, in Berlin this month.

from the hatesite

I am not sure whether it is Google’s policy to advertise hatesites and offend the memory of over one million people who were killed by Talaat Pasha (who is usually referred to as the Turkish Hitler), so I hope that it is lack of knowledge of Turkish language that has led Google to advertise the sponsored link.

I very much hope that the “sponsored link” will be immediately removed from Google and followed by a letter of apology.

Kindest regards after the removal of the link,

Simon Maghakyan
Littleton, Colorado

11 March 2006

Spring is a genocidal season: April 24 (Armenian Genocide started), April (Rwandan Genocide started), etc.

The same spring, nevertheless, has killed genocide perpetrators. It is assumed that Hitler, the perpetrator of the Jewish Holocaust, was killed himself on 30 April 1945; the main organizer of the Armenian Genocide, Talaat pasha, was shot to death on 15 March 1920.

And on 11 March 2006, as BBC reports, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, perpetrator of genocide against Bosnian Muslims, was found dead in the detention center at The Hague tribunal.

from http://members.surfeu.at

Some people are sorry that Milosevic did not face the trial to be put on justice, but this natural (or even unnatural) way of justice pleases me.

Rest in Hell, Milosevic, with Talaat and with Hitler.

Another funny Armenian cartoon comes from http://www.hayasapictures.com. This time it is Harut performing rap. I received the link from California Courier publisher Harut Sassounian, but I am not sure whether the rapper has something to do with him!

Check it out.

As I mentioned before, nationalist Turks will be “honoring” the main organizer of the Armenian genocide, Talaat, in March of 2006 in Berlin.

The “Talaat movement” will be confronted by counter-demonstrators in Berlin, headed by German human rights activist Tessa Hoffman. Demonstrations will be held in other countries to protest Talaat being honored.

Below are several posters promoting the counter demonstrations in France to the Talaat pasha demonstration planned in Berlin.
Received through ArmWorkshop from Prof. Fatma Gocek.

[© 2006 – Seta Papazian/Collectif VAN –
[email protected]]

I have been tough lately while exposing Azerbaijani and Turkish nationalism. Now the turn is for Armenian stupiditism.

Look at the photo below. This is from October 2005 and shows the symbol of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) – the famous monument of “We Are Our Mountains,” or as otherwise known,“Grandma and Grandpa.”

From "The Advocate," Armenian Assembly of America, January 2006

What is wrong with “Grandma and Grandpa?” Well, as can be seen in the photo, is has been vandalized by some attempts of “graffiti.” Now one will say that these vandals are just a group of retards and that this is nothing to compare with state-planned cultural destruction. I agree. But the fact that Nagorno Karabakh does not take care of its national symbol makes me worry.

Closer look to some of the vandalisms

In March of 2006, a group of Azerbaijanis (the profession is purposely unspecified) talked about Armenian-Azerbaijani relationships and gave some insights about the Azerbaijani hatred against Armenians.

The reporters, however, did not mention about this Armenian-named Azerbaijani spy, Robert Arakelov. Arakelov's photo is available on almost every anti-Armenian website as a "proof" of Azerbaijani tolerance. Viva Azerbaijani government! You tolerate your employees!

Talking about the December 2005 Azerbaijani destruction of the ancient Armenian cemetery in Julfa, Ilham Gavazade (name changed) said that Azerbaijan is being requested to let international representatives to visit Julfa to check the information, but Azerbaijan is doing everything not to let it happen. Apparently, the Azerbaijani administration is very well aware that they themselves were the perpetrators of the vandalism.

Coming to the note that “there are 30,000 Armenians living in Azerbaijan,” one of the Azerbaijanis said that it is a government propaganda to show how tolerant Azerbaijan is. There are a few ethnic Armenians, but, according to them, non of them can acknowledge their identity. There is a rumor that one Armenian family lives in Baku, but they have not been located.

Ilham Gavazade went on to tell a recent story about one of the “Armenians” of Baku. A Russian woman, whose biological father was an Armenian, once needed to obtain a document from the local government. She went to the needed agency, and while digging up her documents the bureaucrat found a paper that showed her biological father was an Armenian (most Armenian last names are easy to identify with the yan or ian ending).

“But I am not an Armenian! I never even met my father,” explained the terrified Russian woman. The answer was that she would get into a huge trouble if others found out about her identity. What happened next? The woman, according to what Gavazade told, ATE THE ARCHIVAL DOCUMENT that said her father was an Armenian. This reminds of a recent trial where an Azerbaijani journalist was convicted for calling an educational figure “an Armenian.”

Don’t eat papers; they are no good for health.

Do you remember the 6 March 2006 Azerbaijani “Map Correction Campaign” entry? Well, it had some “success.” Naïve “us”!

I have to say that I hate the “information war” between Azerbaijanis and Armenians, and am not by any means trying to “contribute” to it. But I am indeed watching the “information war,” especially when it is done by Azerbaijanis, since, perhaps because of loosing the war, they are the “main” players in the game.

So what they succeeded in?

Well, read the letter below sent to the “campaigners.”

Dear all,

Please note that the map included in the first version of my Briefing
note on the 'frozen conflicts' in the South Caucasus on which you have
written or received e-mails has been removed from this note and
replaced by the attached map. Due to technical problems, the deletion
of the document from the internet was delayed from Thursday evening
(Belgian time) last week until Monday morning this week. The note with
the new map can be found at
http://www.europarl.eu.int/committees/afet_home_en.htm.

I agree that the map earlier used was a bad one, because it allowed
misinterpretations. It is, however, wise not to blow things up and out
of proportion.

As regards the significance of the inclusion of this map in the note,
let me draw your attention to the following.

My briefing note is nothing more than a briefing note. It is certainly
not a political document through which the European Parliament (EP),
its Foreign Affairs Committee or any other political body expresses its
views. To prevent any misinterpretation, there is a disclaimer on page
2 of the note.

The map highlighted the borders of Armenia as well as those of
Nagorno-Karabakh. While clearly indicating that Nakhichevan forms part
of Azerbaijan, it did not make any statement on to which state
Nagorno-Karabakh belongs. But the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh were
highlighted in the same way as those of Armenia – which they clearly
should not have been.

The position of the EU, including the EP, is well-known and has not
changed. It was not in any way contradicted or called into question by
the text of the note. Moreover, to my knowledge, there is no sign
whatsoever that the map would have given any reader of the note any
erroneous idea about the EU and EP position.

Needless to say, the bad map will not re-appear in any document I
produce and if need be, I will strongly discourage colleagues from
using maps which like that one can be misinterpreted.

Could I ask you to forward this e-mail, or at least the information
that the map has been replaced and no longer appears on the EP website,
to all those to whom you've earlier sent messages about the campaign?

Best regards,

Dag Sourander

Dag Sourander
administrator
EP Policy Dept/External Relations
ATR 9 K 58
B-1047 Brussels
Belgium
tel +32 2 284 65 92
fax +32 2 283 14 01
[email protected]

As Azerbaijani American Gulbaniz Mammadova informs, a group of Turks and Azerbaijanis said good-bye to Armenian protestors on 28 February 2006 by “loudly playing funeral march for them.”

Several dozen Armenian-Americans, including children, protested the 1988 ethnic murders in the Azerbaijani city Sumgait and the recent cultural cleansing in Julfa by holding a peaceful demonstration at the Azerbaijani Embassy in Washington D.C. on 28 February 2006.

The Armenian protest was “counter-demonstrated” by a few Azerbaijanis and Turks, according to Mammadova.

Photos of the demonstration and counter-demonstration, taken by Azerbaijanis, reveal some interesting insights. As can be seen in the photo below, the anti-Armenian posters were long waiting for “counter-demonstrators” at the Azerbaijani Embassy before the Azerbaijanis and the Turks arrived!

But this fact only is not sufficient enough to say that the anti-Armenian “welcoming” was organized by the Azerbaijani Embassy. Nevertheless, look at the photo below.

I highlighted the trademarks of the poster-backs. As you can see, they are all the same. Prepared by one group, if not by one person. Again, this photo was taken by the demonstrators themselves, not realizing that they would be revealing the “secret” that the anti-Armenian demonstration was carefully planned by the Azerbaijani Embassy.

The photo below shows that some of the demonstrators carried the Azerbaijani flag downwards. How ironic…

But not as much ironic as the fact that people who cry about “Armenian savagery and murder” sing a funeral song for those whom they call murderers, terrorists, occupiers, liars and whatever other bad words they can come with.

As California Courier publisher Harut Sassounian informs in his 9 March 2006 column, “Knowledgeable U.S. sources in Washington have confirmed to this writer that [U.S.] Amb. Evans was being recalled [from Armenia] because of his candid remarks on the Armenian Genocide.”

Ambassador Evans, from www.state.gov

Ever since last year, when John Evans, the U.S. Ambassador to Armenia, during a tour of the Armenian American community, broke rank with his superiors and publicly acknowledged the Armenian Genocide, there have been persistent stories circulating about his possible recall.

Last year, during a public gathering at the University of California at Berkeley, Amb. Evans courageously said: "I will today call it the Armenian Genocide…. I informed myself in depth about it. I think we, the US government, owe you, our fellow citizens, a more frank and honest way of discussing this problem. Today, as someone who has studied it … there’s no doubt in my mind [as to] what happened…. I think it is unbecoming of us, as Americans, to play word games here. I believe in calling things by their name." Referring to the Armenian Genocide as "the first genocide of the 20th century," he said: "I pledge to you, we are going to do a better job at addressing this issue." Amb. Evans also disclosed that he had consulted with a legal advisor at the State Department who had confirmed that the events of 1915 were "genocide by definition."

Within days of making these statements and after complaints from Turkish and Azeri officials to the State Department, Amb. Evans was ordered by his superiors to issue "a clarification" in which he said that "misunderstandings" might have arisen as a result of his earlier comments. He said that he had used the term "genocide" in his "personal capacity."

source: http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg139738.html

Azerbaijani nationalists have started yet another “map correction campaign” by writing angry e-mails to the European Parliament for publishing a map with Nagorno Karabakh listed as an independent country.

What’s hilarious about the campaign is that it has started by a person who is supposed to be a scholar, assuming from his title, Javid Huseynov, PhD Candidate at the University of California Irvine. Mr. Huseynov, in a mass e-mail to Southern California Azerbaijanis, instructs to “just copy and paste my letter,
replace my name with yours and email your letter to [email protected].”

This map made PhD candidate Javid Huseynov to start a “map correction campaign” against the European Parliament. Perhaps, European Parliament’s strong condemnation of Azerbaijani destruction against Armenian heritage has made Mr. Huseynov that angry.

UCI PhD Candidate Huseynov writes in the early March 2006 e-mail, “For some reason, the geographical boundaries of Armenia and the Armenian-occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan are specifically highlighted as international boundaries. This is a violation of international law, since Nagorno-Karabakh is recognized as an integral part of Azerbaijan by the UN, European Union, Council of Europe, United States, Russia, and all other international organizations and states.”

Huseynov concludes the letter by stating that the European Parliament violated international law by publishing a map with Nagorno Karabakh, “It's not acceptable for such highly respected organization as European Parliament to violate the international law, which it claims to respect.”

Apparently, whatever does not please Azerbaijani nationalists is a violation of international law! In any case, “map correction campaign” has succeeded once, when the New York Times published a “correction” that Nagorno Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan.