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Simon Maghakyan on 17 Jan 2008
Azerbaijan’s authoritarian president Ilham Aliyev’s recent statement that neighboring Armenia can’t give anything to the world “from the political, economic, transport or cultural points of view” has attracted little attention.
That’s because there is nothing new in a racist statement coming from official Azerbaijan that says Armenia has no cultural contributions to the world. In fact, Aliyev’s regime has done everything possible to prove that point: in December of 2005, the largest Armenian archaeological site in the world – the medieval cemetery of Djulfa – was reduced to dust by a contingent of Azerbaijan’s army. President Aliyev says the destruction never happened because there had never been any Armenia cultural monument in Djulfa in the first place.
And although the deliberate demolition of Djulfa has not attracted much concern from the international community – some suggest the oil factor – there is now a growing concern about Azerbaijan’s ambitions of “uniting Turkic countries” which is usually followed by statements against Armenia and primarily seeks a common identity with the Republic of Turkey.
Mathew Bryza, the Assistant U.S. Secretary of State, has said at a recent conference that “[t]he slogan ‘one nation, two states’ reigning in Turkey and Azerbaijan should be changed. “ Although Bryza’s statement at face is a reference to stopping the common hate toward Armenia it comes amid apparent concerns for growing Pan-Turkism in Eurasia and so creation of a “racial” and possibly Islamic unity.
A recent article in the Eurasia Daily Monitor, titled “The Rebirth of Pan-Turkism?” states:
As the USSR recedes further into history, the post-Soviet Turkic nations of the Caucasus and Central Asia are rediscovering their linguistic and cultural affinities with Turkey, and activists are promoting closer cultural, economic, and political ties.
Among the states of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan, the pan-Turkic sentiment is most pronounced in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s most ardent support of closer Turkic ties is Nizami Jafarov, director of Baku’s Ataturk Center, a corresponding member of Azerbaijan’s Academy of Science, and head of the Azerbaijani Permanent Parliamentary Commission on the Culture of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Jafarov’s latest project is setting up a new Turkish language TV channel in Azerbaijan to broadcast to the Turkish-speaking world and foster further integration in the Turkic world. “It is possible to say that this idea has become a reality,” Jafarov said during a recent interview. “The issues of the opportunities, main topics, and language of this TV channel have been defined after long discussions. No one is against the creation of such a channel.” According to Jafarov, the only thing currently lacking is money. “ The issue will be fully elaborated after one of the Turkic countries or any international company undertakes the financing of the TV channel,” but he added optimistically, “I think the issue of the channel opening will be settled this year.”
The concern for Pan-Turkism is not the cultural integration of countries with somewhat closer heritage but old ambitions for a Pan-Turkic “empire” that some scholars believe was the ideology behind eliminating the Armenian people from the Ottoman Empire.
Jafarov is also chairman of the Turkish-Azerbaijani Parliamentary Friendship Group, which has been promoting the idea of closer Turkish-Azeri relations for some time. In 2006 Jafarov maintained, the idea of a Parliamentary Assembly of Turkish States began to gain serious traction, commenting, “Azerbaijan’s suggestion of establishing a Parliamentary Assembly of Turkish States has been approved by all. The format of the Assembly is to be discussed. Creation of this assembly is inevitable. The ongoing processes in the world make it necessary to set up an organization of Turkish states at least on parliament level” (Today.az, February 28, 2006). As envisaged, the Turkish States’ Parliamentary Assembly would consist of delegates from Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan.
Although the article fails to directly mention the “role” of Armenia in the Pan-Turkic ambition – that is Armenia would need to be physically annihilated because it is the only country that geographically seperates the Turkic nations – it does reference the anti-Armenian rhetoric of the Pan-Turkic agenda:
An important element of Jafarov’s plan was Armenia’s reaction to such an assembly. The following month Jafarov said, “The Armenian media writes that Turk nations will create a Turanian State and claims that and this state will be against Armenians… The establishment of such an assembly is important for the maintenance of harmony in the world and is not in contradiction with the norms and principles of international law. On the other hand, Armenians are far fewer in number than Turks. There are 100 million Turks in the world and only about 10 million Armenians. Despite this we will discuss the ‘Armenian issue’ after the formation of the Assembly.”
Azerbaijan’s successful destruction of Armenian cultural heritage and an unprecended hate campaign – partially because of losing a recent war to Armenia – toward the people who, even after the Armenian Genocide – stand on the way of Pan-Turkism – has led to convinctions on the part of Azerbaijan’s officials that they should become the leader of the Turkic world:
But the concept has already brushed up against political reality, with both Turkey and Azerbaijan claiming credit for the concept and eventual leadership of the organization. For the Azeris, the recent Congress solidified Azerbaijan’s leadership. According to Nazim Ibrahimov, head of the State Committee on Work with Azerbaijanis Living Abroad, “This congress, which was held on the initiative of President Ilham Aliyev, brought new tone to the Turkish world. In the worldwide Turkish diaspora all Turks are speaking about the congress in Baku. They consider the Azerbaijani President as a new leader of Turkish world” (APA, December 30).
While Azerbaijan’s immense oil wealth gives it a rising presence in the Turkic world, it remains to be seen if that will translate into substantial political power in the Inter-Parliamentary Council and Advisory Council, proposed by Turkey, and whether the heads of the five former Soviet Turkic states will, in fact, be ready to surrender any national sovereignty to such a body. If Azerbaijan and Turkey cannot even agree regarding who provided the impetus for the idea, further integration of the Turkish-speaking world still seems a distant goal.
Armenia’s good relationship with some of the Central Asian “Turkic” countries may also be a factor to the thwart of the political aspect of the Pan-Turkist ambition. Armenian culture is widely spread in many of these former Soviet Union countries and most would disagree with Aliyev’s racist statement that Armenia culturally offers nothing to the world. Moreover, Armenians and Azeris are genetically more related than Azeris and their “Turkic brothers” in Central Asia so hopes for Pan-Turkist racial unity are embedded in myths and prejudice.
Nonetheless, Azerbaijan’s ambitions for greater rule and influence are alarming, as the State Department has finally noticed, even if no one – including Turkey – refuse to participate in the Pan-Turkist agenda. Azerbaijan’s militarization needs to be put to an end. And that must start with activating Section 907 of the Freedom of Support Act.
Simon Maghakyan on 16 Jan 2008
The traveling Olympic torch for Darfur – a symbolic gesture asking the Chinese government to press the Sudanese regime in order to stop the genocide in Darfur – has been denied a ceremony in Cambodia amid apparent fears by the leadership of the Asian country to not anger China.
The same concern was not voiced in other countries that experienced genocide – Rwanda, Armenia, Germany and Bosnia – where the torch was taken to before traveling to Cambodia.
According to Australia’s Courier Mail:
ACTOR Mia Farrow has been barred from holding a ceremony at a notorious Khmer Rouge prison as part of a campaign to pressure China to end abuses in Darfur, a Cambodian official said.
The American actor has started an Olympic-style torch relay through countries that have suffered genocides to draw attention to China’s close ties with Sudan, as Beijing prepares to host the Games in August.
The campaign aims to push Beijing to pressure Sudan into ending the violence in Darfur, where the United Nations estimates that at least 200,000 people have died in five years of war, famine and disease.
Her group, Dream for Darfur, had planned to hold a ceremony on Sunday outside the Khmer Rouge’s former prison, Tuol Sleng, which is now a genocide museum.
But interior ministry spokesman Khieu Sopheak said the event would not be allowed.
“The Olympic Games are not a political issue. Therefore, we won’t allow any rally to light a torch,” he said.
“We will not support the activity. We will not allow them to politicise the Olympic Games,” he said, warning the group could face prosecution if they try to go ahead.
Farrow’s group said the ceremony aimed to call attention to the constructive role that China could play in the Darfur crisis.
“The symbolic Olympic torch relay is urging the Chinese Government, as both Olympic host and Sudan’s strongest political and economic partner, to use its special influence with the Sudanese Government,” the group said in a statement.
In the run-up to the Beijing Olympics, China – which is by far the largest foreign investor in Sudan and absorbs almost two-thirds of its oil output – has been under mounting pressure to use its clout on Khartoum.
Cambodia would be the sixth stop for the group’s relay, which began in Chad near the Sudanese border and continued to Rwanda, Armenia, Germany and Bosnia.
Simon Maghakyan on 16 Jan 2008
The Amnesty International has released a report on discrimination of Jehova’s Witnesses in the Republic of Armenia. The report proclaims all imprisoned members – who avoid military service – of the controversial religious group “prisoners of conscience.”
According to the report, “Jehovah’s Witnesses have been active in Armenia since 1975. ”
Although the organization is unjustly seen as a an enemy in Armenia, my own concern about the group extends to the treatment of their own children – especially their health and in particular the refusal of blood transfusion.
I have also heard allegations of a group suicide by teenage orphans in Armenia after becoming members of the controversial group.
On one hand, I have to agree with the Amnesty International report that there is discrimination in Armenia against the organization. Within the past year, for instance, Armenian newspapers have reported few, if any, cases of persecution toward members of Jehovah’s Witnesses. And the biased tone used in describing the religious organization by much of the Armenian media suggests that persecutions would hardly be noticed and/or reported in the first place. In particular, the religious organization is continuously referred to as a “sect” with a blatant negative connotation in the Armenian language and culture. Popular daily newspapers in the Republic of Armenia often refer to Jehovah’s Witnesses as a “sect” and “totalitarian” resonating with many derogatory terms popularly used in Armenia to refer to religious minorities. A recent Azg article (in Armenian), for one example, says that “sects shake the foundation of the state” and quotes a journalist accusing a freedom of expression activist for not having a “list” of individuals who were allegedly psychologically devastated after joining Jehovah’s Witnesses.
On the other hand, I also have serious concerns about the organization’s treatment of its own members and the tactic of recruiting minors and especially from oppressed economic backgrounds. And what is the most ironic is the organization’s call for “freedom of expression” while at the same time they consider their own critical members as agents of the evil and call those who leave the group, “liars.”
Simon Maghakyan on 16 Jan 2008
In addition to many events in Turkey to commemorate the first anniversary of the assassination of Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink, world famous Indian feminist Arundhati Roy and author of “The God of Small Things” will honor Dink’s memory with a talk on freedom of expression:
Bogazici University
Department of History
and
Department of Political Science and International Relations
present
2008 Hrant Dink Memorial Lecture
on
Freedom of Expression and Human Rights
Arundhati Roy
Listening to Grasshoppers
January 18, 2008, 15:00, Albert Long Hall (BTS), South Campus
The talk will be presented in English
Last year I read Roy’s famous book, The God of Small Things. Here is some parts of a short reflection that I wrote for a class on Roy’s book:
The story of India’s Dalits – the outgroup “untouchables” – and their fight against the discrimination against them, the delegitimization and dehumanization they face on a daily basis.
Women’s choice of their loved ones in the novel show societal norms and prejudices. While it is “ok” (and actually an honor) for one of the heroes of the book, Rahel, to marry an American man, Ammu is not supposed to meet with Veluha – a Dalit -because it is “wrong” to touch the untouchables. I remember learning about Dalits first time. It was last year in a South Asian politics course and I was totally shocked. I thought slavery as dehumanization was the highest level of continues societal oppression against a collectivity, but I came to realize the horrors of injustice in India. I remember reading an article from India’s Frontline newspaper a few months ago about an “occupation” legally banned in India – “manual scavenging.” The article brought example of specific “professionals” in the field and described their humiliating way of life. One Dalit woman even simply married a man in a busy neighborhood just because “manual scavenging” would be more needed in the area. In just one Indian suburb, about 100 families were in that “business.” I really had trouble understanding and visualizing what “manual scavenging” meant. Then I remember the article explaining “it” in these exact words: “people lifting human excreta with their hands and carrying the load on their heads, hips or shoulders. If they are lucky, they get to use a wagon.” I had some trouble understanding the article at first. The above description was technically not difficult to understand, but certainly difficult to imagine. No wonder the phrase “untouchables.” My conscience was fundamentally shocked after reading that article. And the most saddening aspect of the “job” was that it was a “family business,” that children were born into it and there was little chance for an escape.
The identity of Dalits has interested me more when I started researching India’s Christian communities. Apparently, many of India’s “new” Christians are Dalits who convert to Jesus’ faith to escape the Dalit identity, because there is no way for them to escape it as Hindus during their lifetimes. I recall reading about mass conversions to Christianity and Buddhism when entire villagers would travel miles just to change their religion. Islam used to be the alternative of escaping the Dalit identity, but after the partition Muslim became the enemy and a Dalit would rather remain an untouchable Hindu than a Muslim in India. This shows the degree of desperateness of these children of God, as Gandhi called them. There is no acculturation and integration for them, but a mere possibility – if any – for assimilation to escape their identity.
Children of God? It reminds me of something – The God of Small Things. Could the “small things” be the Dalits who had been marginalized for hundreds of years? I am not positive that the author was making direct reference to Gandhi’s phrase, but I think she may have found inspiration in India’s founder’s words. I also find inspiration in Gandhi’s words, as much as I see hope, resistance and fight in a few simple words – the God of Small Things.
I think the title shows the extent of power that an ordinary person can have in changing the world (note the connection to Hrant Dink). By dating a Dalit, Ammu was challenging the unjust system that is so rooted in India’s society. And what Ammu was doing was a “small thing,” but it was an individual resistance against the dehumanization of millions of innocent people. And God, I think, was the divine approval for the righteous act of Ammu’s “small thing;” the message that small people can make difference with small things and that the “untouchables” are not going to become “touchables” overnight without fight, challenge and resistance.
Simon Maghakyan on 15 Jan 2008
“We would like to ask you to vote for Serzh Sargsyan – the life is getting better and he is nice.”
The head of the Hanrapetakan (Republican) Hospital in Yerevan told a patient who happens to be my friend and an avid reader of this blog. Serzh Sargsyan is Armenia’s prime minister; the candidate that most people think will become Armenia’s next president at any price: and apparently at the price of pushing government doctors to advocate for him during treatment of patients.
After my friend told the Hanrapetakan Hosptial doctor that he wasn’t seeing her to get political advise, his next appointment wasn’t as smooth as the previous ones. The doctor was quite angry at him during the next visit.
“Another story happened in a local periodical office,” tells my friend from Yerevan. “The head of the office
asked me whether if i was going to vote for Serzh Sargsyan and I said no, I will vote for anyone but him… The boss was ready to eat me for my comment.”
And that’s not all. He says that he can’t even write everything he thinks to me because Internet communication is being monitored in Armenia. “I can’t express my true opinion without worrying about my future.”
And this comes from someone who has repatriated to Armenia after having left it as a child. From someone who does more for Armenia – like most citizens – than Serzh Sargsyans or Levon Ter Petrosyans.
My friend’s letter gave me one feeling – to want to move to Armenia. Why? Because there is so much that needs to be changed there.
Simon Maghakyan on 15 Jan 2008
Two years and a month after the destruction of Djulfa, we are announcing the Djulfa Virtual Memorial and Museum. Here is the first official press release with special thanks to Armen Hovhannisyan from www.Hayastan.com:
Aimed at spreading awareness about cultural cleansing in the Republic of Azerbaijan, a project to document the deliberate destruction of the world’s largest medieval Armenian archaeological site has been launched online.
The Djulfa Virtual Memorial and Museum (www.djulfa.com), announced in January of 2008, claims to be the foremost online resource on the medieval cemetery in old Djulfa (Jugha in Armenian), which was reduced to dust in December of 2005 by a contingent of Azerbaijan’s army. The destruction, videotaped by a film crew at the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, and condemned by the European Parliament, has been denied as “slanderous information” by officials in Azerbaijan.
The newly launched project includes film and reference material on the history and destruction of the Djulfa cemetery. The Photo section features a number of previously unpublished images of the cemetery taken by French-Lithuanian art critique Jurgis Baltrusaitis, who visited the site in 1928. A publication co-authored by Baltrusaitis has also been digitalized and posted on the website.
The Djulfa Virtual Memorial and Museum is maintained by volunteer staff and an advisory board. Learn about the annihilated sacred stones at www.djulfa.com.
Simon Maghakyan on 14 Jan 2008
On Sunday, Jan 20, 2008, there will be a Badarak and Hoki Hankist at St. Vartan Armenian Cathedral in NYC which will be followed by a madagh and then a presentation whose featured speaker will be Carla Garapedian, Director of “Screamers.”
Badarak will start at 10:30 a.m. at St Vartan Armenian Cathedral with madagh starting around 12:30 and the presentation to begin in Kavookjian Hall at 2 p.m.
The address for St. Vartan complex is 630 Second Avenue NY, NY 10016.
For further information please call 212.686.0710 and ask for Artur Petrosyan or Rachel Goshgarian.
Simon Maghakyan on 14 Jan 2008
According to the Blog Readability Test the reading level of Blogian is genius. So, congratulations, if you are an avid reader of this blog.
And, now on, you can attach the following statement to all of your outgoing e-mails:
Simon Maghakyan on 14 Jan 2008
“One cannot accomplish anything without questioning first how an assassin was created from such a baby,” said murdered Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s mourning wife about the teenage boy who killed her husband on January 19, 2007.
Mrs. Dink’s call to illuminate the darkness that created a murderer from a child has inspired Turkish-Norwegian designer Firuz Kutal to draw the cartoon below showing a man with black gasses (aka the nationalist Turkish apparatus) monitoring a photo stand of Hrant Dink being killed.
The murderer, the cartoon suggests, could have been any teenager brainwashed by ultra-nationalist adults. If you look closely, the murderer is making the “Grey Wolves sign” with his left hand, a gesture of fascist Turks who also use the sign in rallies denying the Armenian Genocide. Just like the Turkish kids in this photo from a fascist website:
If you think that the “Grey Wolf” babies are only brainwashed Turkish teenagers, you are mistaken. The babies are being abused since a very young age.
“Abuse” is thought to be physical, but look at these photos:
  (source)
These two little boys are “paying tribute” to the Enver Pasha memorial in Turkey. In case you don’t know who Enver is – he was one of the organizers of the Armenian Genocide. And these two are just one of hundreds of photos of abused kids that Turkish fascists don’t mind posting on their websites.
Here is another one:
And another:
And this baby:
And these kids at a “hero’s” grave:
And… kids of nationalist Turks with real guns.
  
Once Turkish columnist Gökhan Özgün said a YouTube video honoring Hrant Dink’s assassination was worse than child pornography. At that time I was puzzled with Özgün’s words. But after seeing the photos above I think I know what he felt.
Simon Maghakyan on 14 Jan 2008
This Saturday, January 19, 2008, is the first anniversary of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink’s assasination.
The main commemoration will take place in front of the Armenian newspaper Agos in Istanbul where Dink was shot to death.
We will gather in front of AGOS to commemorate our beloved friend, Hrant Dink.
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 15.00 (3:00 p.m.)
Place: in front of AGOS Newspaper (Halaskargazi cad. Sebat apt 192 Harbiye, Istanbul)
Other commemorations in Turkey will be:
The works of Hrant Dink come into life with the voices of Memet Ali Alabora, Okan Bayulgen, Haluk Bilginer, Yetkin Dikinciler, Halil Ergun, Pakrat Estukyan, Arsen Gurzap, Banu Guven, Nejat Işler, Tuncel Kurtiz, Fikret Kuskan, Omer Madra, Lale Mansur, Meral Okay, Dolunay Soysert, Nur Surer, Cetin Tekindor, Deniz Turkali and Serra Yilmaz.
Date: 4 – 20 Jan 2008
Time: Tu-Wed-Th: 14.00-20.30, Fri-Sat-Su:14.00 – 22.00
Place: Apartment Project (Seh Bender Sok. No:4, Tunel, Beyoglu, Istanbul – across Babylon Night Club)
Speakers:
Aydin Engin, Bahri Belen, Tatyos Bebek, Yuksel Taskin
Music:
Dostlar Choir, Suren Asaduryan, Birol Topaloglu, Fadime Torun
Short Film:
Kirlangicin Yuvasi (Swallow’s Nest)
Date: 13 Jan 2008
Time: 19.00 – 22.00
Place: Yunus Emre Cultural Centre (Ataköy 9. Kisim, Bakirkoy, Istanbul)
With the participation of artists from Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Estonia and Turkey, including Basar Coskun’s work “White Beret”
Date: 19 Jan – 3 Feb 2008
Opening: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 20:00 – D2GG audio-visual performance
Place: KargART Kadıkoy (Caferaga Mah. Kadife Sok. No:16 Kadıkoy, Istanbul)
http://www.kargart.org
We will remember Hrant with songs and films.
Participants:
45’lik sarkilar, Aynur, Bartev, Bennu Yildirimlar, Birol Topaloglu, BGST Danscilari, Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi, Dostlar Korosu, Erkan Ogur, Hayko Cepkin, Ismail Hakki Demircioglu, Kardes Turkuler, Lale Mansur, Lusavoric Korosu, Mahir Gunsiray, Metin & Kemal Kahraman, Michael Ellison, Nisan Sirinyan, Sahakyan Korosu, Sayat Nova Korosu, Tiyatro Bogazici, Zeynep Tanbay…
Tickets can be obtained from Beyaz Adam Bookstores in Pangalti and Bakirkoy. (www.beyazadam.com)
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 20.00
Place: Lutfi Kirdar Convention Center (Harbiye, Istanbul)
Date: 19 Jan – 9 Feb 2008
Place: Hafriyat Karakoy (Necatibey Cad. 79, Karakoy, Istanbul)
Date: 20 Jan 2008
Time: 13.00
Place: Balikli Armenian Cemetery, Silivrikapi, Istanbul
Ashura, the tenth day of the month of Moharrem of the Islamic calendar, bears significant meaning in three divine religions. Our ashura, however, is a condolence to “others” that has been wiped out through centuries. Ashura, as old as the history of the humanity, tells the stories of the people who had been scattered around, forcefully displaced in the name of creating a “homogenious” society in Anatolia and their languages, religions, the roads of exile and the songs of exiles by songs in 12 different languages.
Date: 22 Jan 2008
Time: 20.30
Place: Garaj Istanbul (Galatasaray, Istanbul)
http://www.garajistanbul.com
Three different stories on freedom of expression of people and cultures: Kamber Ates who cannot talk with his mother in his mother tongue; women who have to hide that they are Armenians even from their children and husbands; life of Roma people whose tragic stories of displacement are presented “totally different”…
Entrance is free
Date: 27 Jan 2008
Time: 17.00
Place: Getronagan Lisesinden Yetişenler Derneği, Prof. Celil Öker Sok. No:2, Harbiye, Istanbul
http://www.bgst.org/tb/pro.asp?id=15&bn=1
Commemorations outside of Turkey:
Speakers:
Erdal Doğan (Lawyer of the Malatya case); Mahmut Şakar (MAF-DAD); Prof. Dr. Norman Paech (Die Linke); Dr. Gerayer Koutcharian (Arbeitsgruppe Anerkennung e.V.)
Date: 17 Jan 2008
Time: 18.30
Place: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin)
In memory of Hrant Dink
Date:18 Jan – 1 Feb 2008
Place: Elele Cultural Centre (8 rue Martel, 75010 Paris)
http://elele.info
Av.Erdal Dogan, Hrant Dink’s lawyer
Selahattin Demirtas, DTP Group Deputy Chair
Masis Kurkcugil, Writer
Rober Koptas, Columnist of AGOS
Ozcan Temur, DEKOP-A Representative
Canan Topcu, Moderation
Date: 18 Jan 2008
Time: 18.00
Place: Westbahnhof (Kasseler Str. 7, 60486 Frankfurt
Wreath-laying ceremony in front of the Armenian Memorial Monuments. Following the ceremony, a solemn mass of requiem will take place.
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 11.00
Place: Bicknell Park (850 Via San Clemente, Montebello Ca, 90640)
Hrant Dink tells the story of the Tuzla Armenian Orphanage.
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 19.30
Place: The Unitarian Church (30 Cleary Avenue, Ottawa, Tel: 613-725-1066)
Vigil in front of the Turkish Consulate
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Place: Heerstraße 21, 14052 Berlin
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 19.00 – 21.00
Place: Rathaus Schöneberg, John F. Kennedy-Platz, 10825 Berlin-Schöneberg
1) Prayers from the Canon of Westminster Abbey
2) Short speeches from friends
3) Reading on portion of Hrant’s work
4) Release of dove in memory of Hrant
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 13.00
Place: at the Monument to the Innocents outside Westminster Abbey
We commemorate Hrant Dink to Defend Brotherhood, Peace and Living Together and to fight against Nationalism, Racism and War
Speakers:
Masis Kurkcugil, Founding member of ODP, writer
Rober Koptas, AGOS writer
Cinevision
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 16.00
Place: Deutsch-Italienische Gesamtschule, Institut Italo Svevo (Gladbacher Wall 5, 50670 Köln)
Hrant Dink’s life in instances from his youth, family, political life, January 19th and after.
Date: 19 – 25 Jan 2008
Opening: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 17.00
Place: Paulkirche, Frankfurt
Date: 19 Jan 2008
Time: 14.00 – 16.00
Place: Berlin Kreuzberg (Kottbusser Tor)
[email protected]
Date: 20 Jan 2008
Time: 15.00
Place: 178 Berlin-Mitte, Berliner Dom, Am Lustgarten, Berlin
We commemorate Hrant Dink to Defend Brotherhood, Peace and Living Together and to fight against Nationalism, Racism and War
Speakers :
Ufuk Uras, ODP President, MP
Masis Kurkcugil, Writer
Rober Koptas, AGOS Newspaper
Aydin Engin, AGOS Newspaper Columnist
Cinevision
Grup Lilith: Songs from Anatolia
Date: 20 Jan 2008
Time: 15.30
Place: Werkstatt der Kulturen (Wissmannstraşe 32, 12049 Berlin U-Bhf. Hermannplatz)
Speeches, Music and documentary screening (Swallow’s Nest) to commemorate Hrant Dink.
Opening Remarks:
Simon Acilacoglu, President, Org.of Istanbul Armenians
Speakers:
Stephen Kurkjian, Pulitzer Prize Winning Investigative Reporter
Dr. Taner Akcam, Dept.of History, Uni. of Minnesota
Date: 25 Jan 2008
Time: 19.00
Place: Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America (3325 North Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504)
http://www.oia.net/calendar/eventdetails.asp?e=337
1) Screening TV discussion programs of Hrant Dink
2) Evaluation of the cases and the situation in Turkey:
Fethiye cetin, Lawyer of the Dink family
Prof. Baskin Oran, lecturer, writer
Aris Nalci, Editor in Chief, AGOS
3) Round Table: What can the Armenians and Turks in France can do together and how?
Date: 26 Jan 2008
Time: 15.00 – 21.00
Place: Paris Greater Municipality
[email protected]
We commemorate Hrant Dink to Defend Brotherhood, Peace and Living Together and to fight against Nationalism, Racism and War
Speakers:
Masis Kurkcugil, Founding member of ODP, writer
Rober Koptas, AGOS writer
Cinevision
Date: 27 Jan 2008
Time: 14.00
Place: IBZ – Internationales Begegnungszentrum (Teutoburger Str. 106, 33607 Bielefeld)
The source for the above events is http://www.hranticinadaleticin.com/en/invite.html.
I would suspect that Hrant Dink’s commemoration in Armenia will take place at 3:00 p.m. at the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on Saturday, January 19, 2008. And if no one has thought of organizing this yet I ask my fellow bloggers in Armenia to do so.
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