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GIBRAHAYER e-magazineARMENIA FACE CYPRUS IN FOOTBALL CUP TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN NICOSIA
Gibrahayer 28 February, 2006. The Armenian national football team is facing Cyprus in the 10th international football tournament, a match that will take place at GSP Stadium today (Wednesday) at 5:00 pm. Cyprus and Armenia, playing in Group B, lost yesterday respectively to Slovenia (1-0) and Romania (2-0) yesterday, and will be playing for positions three and four of their Group.
Armenia's match against Cyprus is expected to attract big numbers of attendance from members of the Armenian community of Cyprus, turning the football match into a family outing.
While Cyprus and Armenia are in Group B, Group A comprise of the National teams of Finland, Kazakhstan, Byelorussia and Greece.
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TURKS DENY PLAN TO RETURN ARMENIAN MONASTERY
By Simon Bahceli Cyprus Mail, Cyprus Feb 24 2006 Rumours the Turkish Cypriot authorities are about to return the Sourp Magar monastery in the north to its Armenian owners were refuted yesterday by Turkish Cypriot `foreign ministry' adviser Kudret Akay.
`We have contacts with the Armenian community in Cyprus and are considering allowing them to use the monastery on religious days,' Akay told the Cyprus Mail. He denied that the building would be handed over to the Armenian community, but said they would likely be consulted over repairs due to take place on the building on the northern slope of the Pentataktylos mountains.
Rumours of the handover first appeared in Istanbul-based Armenian weekly Agos, which reported earlier this week that Turkish businessman Ulus Sonmezler was planning to sue the Turkish Cypriot authorities because it had annulled a 49-year lease he signed on the building in 1997.
Sonmezler said he believed his contract was annulled because the Sourp Magar monastery was included in a list of historical buildings the north was planning to hand over to the Republic of Cyprus. Akay, however, denied the existence of such a list.
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GIBRAHAYER e-magazineDASHNAKTSOUTIUN URGES ARMENIANS WORLDWIDE TO PROTEST AZERBAIJAN'S BARBARIC POLICY
YEREVAN (Armenpress) - In order to protest against Azerbaijan's criminal policy of cultural destruction and elimination, and to demand action from the whole world, the ARF Dashnaktsoutiun Bureau has declared February 28 "Day of Protest against the Criminal Policy of Azerbaijan." Azerbaijan's latest such act of barbarism was the destruction of an old Armenian cemetery in Old Julfa, Nakhichevan.
The ARF Bureau said it has chosen February 28 as the day of protest because it marks the anniversary of the massacres of Armenians by Azeris in Sumgait, an industrial town on the Caspian Sea shore.
On February 28, throughout the world, protests, demonstrations, and other events will be organized in front of Azeri diplomatic organizations and corresponding international organizations. Armenians and non-Armenians alike are urged to participate in calling the world's attention to Azerbaijan's nearly century-long policy of destroying Armenian culture and heritage.
In Armenia, thousands of Armenians gathered at Yerevan's Republic Square on Tuesday to protest against the anti-Armenians policies of Azerbaijan. The participants adopted a statement addressed to the international community, while answering to the call of all political forces in France, 1000 Armenians gathered on Tuesday in Paris (photo above sent by Jean Eckian) a hundred meters of the embassy of Azerbaijan to protest against the recent destruction of the Katchkars of Armenian cemetery of Djougha (Nakhitchevan) by the Azeri army.
On the podium, drawn up to the foot of the Eiffel Tower, several speakers of the Armenian organizations and representatives of French National Parliament condemned the latest barbarity of the Azeri army.



tatiana's corner by Tatiana Ferahian
'Tatiana is on a leave of absence'
news in brief
• It only takes a minute, check out this petition. www.PetitionOnline.com/pbspanel
• Bulgaria's ATAKA parliamentary faction presented a proposal to recognize the Armenian genocide to the Bulgarian parliament. The proposal titled, "Recognition of the Armenian Genocide Committed between 1915-1922 in the Ottoman Empire," was prepared by the head of ATAKA party Wollen Siderov and signed by 12 members of parliament. The speaker of the Bulgarian parliament has already sent the proposal to two parliamentary commissions for discussion
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• Mountainous Karabagh Republic (NKR) Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian told journalists in Stepanakert that NKR should take part in talks about the Karabagh settlement. He said that if NKR is not included in talks, once agreement is reached the parties will have to start talks with NKR from the beginning.
• EU HR Javier Solana welcomes the appointment of Peter Semneby as EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus: http://ue.eu.int/uedocs/cms_Data/docs/pressdata/en/declarations/88470.pdf
• Speaking on relations between Turkey and Armenia, Turkey's Consul General Engin Ansay maintained that an open dialogue needs to take place now if the countries want to coexist peacefully. After attempting to shy away from the subject, Ansay said he was hopeful that the countries would take the first steps toward addressing the Armenian genocide, the central issue of their nearly 100-year conflict. Even if peace talks begin, wounds may not be healed for a long time, Ansay said.
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Dear Simon,
There is a forum that Armenian Nationalists discuss several topics relating to our motherland, and one of the recent topics is about the Danish cartoons. The particular thread though was created by posting a cartoon about the Armenian Genocide, something that has been denied for nearly a century, yet no one wants to pay attention to it, or apologise to our nation. Something the Danish government has done almost immediately.
I have attached the specific cartoon, and me, and the rest of the Armenian Nationalist Forum members would like you to add it your next Gibrahayer Newsletter.
Thank you for your time.
Garabed Meguerdijian

http://s4.invisionfree.com/Armenian_Diaspora/index.php?showtopic=904&st=0&#entry1090703
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Dear fellow Armenian,
You had posted many photos on www.photo-armneia.com previously. That site was hacked several times during the last year, making it completely useless. I have just created a new and improved site called www.photoarmenia.com (without the dash in the middle). Hopefully hackers won't be able to penetrate the site and destroy it again.
I do apologize for this, but I do invite you to register on the site and start uploading your photos again.
Let the hackers know they cannot stop Armenians by destroying sites.
Thank you
Albert
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• Having won in 5 out of 8 bouts, the Armenian Greco-Roman wrestlers defeated the French team. The Armenian national team received the invitation from French wrestlers following the victory in an international competition with participation of 14 countries. Nearly a thousand spectators hailed in the standing position the victory of Armenian sportsmen. The national anthem of Armenia was performed, and it was announced that 2006-2007 is declared Year of Armenia. After the conclusion of the sports event, the Armenian Ambassador to France Eduard Nalbanian held a reception in honour of the Armenian team.
• Chess Master of Armenia, 2005 Chess Cup Holder Levon Aronyan won Azeri Teymur Rajabov in the first round of the international Linares chess tournament that started in Morelia city of Mexico. This morning Levon Aronyan lost in the match against Vasili Ivanchuk of Ukraine.
8 best chess players, including world champion Veselin Topalov, are participating in the Linares tournament.
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OLD ARMENIA'S NEW ARTIST
Fast and furious, Artour OSHAKANTSI is probably the most powerful post - modernist painter of Independent Armenia. While his academic roots were fed by the figurative rigidities of the Socialist Realism in Soviet Armenia. Oshakantsi's generation of angry young men drew comfort and inspiration from the mild abstract expressionism of the much decorated Martiross SARIAN, who seems to have remained the only Great Master of Soviet painting officially sanctioned to be mildly abstract during the worst times of camp Stalinist monumental masonry.
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editorial
PROTEST AGAINST GENOCIDE DENIAL
Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier

The controversy over the planned airing by PBS of an offensive panel discussion on the Armenian
Genocide has become a major national and international issue. Here are the key developments of the past few days:
• The Washington Post published on Feb. 16, a lengthy article titled: "PBS Panel on Armenian Genocide Stirs Protest." The article reported that more than 6,000 people (as of Feb. 16) had signed an online petition demanding the cancellation of the panel discussion, "making it one of the largest organized protests of a PBS program." Subsequently, the Los Angeles Times and several other newspapers reprinted the Washington Post article.
• The AFP (French Press Agency) wire service carried on Feb. 17 a major story titled: "Armenian-Americans Outraged by Panel Discussion on Genocide."
• The Broadcasting & Cable magazine published on Feb. 16 an article titled: "PBS Gets Complaints about Genocide Panel." It stated that, as of last week, PBS had received 163 e-mails complaining about the panel discussion.
• The Turkish newspaper Millyet covered the PBS controversy in its Feb. 17 issue.
• The Armenian National Committee of America issued a press release on Feb. 15 calling on PBS to cancel the panel discussion and "not to provide national television platform for Armenian Genocide deniers." In addition, in a letter addressed to Jacoba Atlas, Senior Vice President of PBS Programming, the ANCA requested a meeting with her to discuss the Armenian community's concerns.
• The online petition urging PBS to cancel the panel discussion, which was established on Feb. 9, has now been signed by well over 10,000 people!
• The Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), a coalition of more than 60 Turkish organizations, issued its own copycat petition, mimicking the Armenian one. It claims to have more than 8,000 names, a large percentage of which are fake! Even Elvis is listed as having signed the Turkish petition!
• Professors Taner Akcam and Peter Balakian, who participated in the pre-taped panel discussion supporting the facts of the Armenian Genocide, wrote lengthy reports last week explaining that they were basically blackmailed by Jacoba Atlas who told them that without the panel discussion, PBS would not air the Armenian Genocide documentary. Saying that he was "backed into a corner" by PBS, Balakian urged viewers to ask the PBS stations "not to run the post-show."
• Lea Sloan, the Vice President of Media Relations at PBS, provided in writing on Feb. 17 the following official reaction to my two previous columns: "PBS, like most historians, news organizations and world courts, accepts that the genocide took place. That is why we scheduled the documentary to air and that is what the film's title asserts. The intent of the panel is to explore the question of how historians can come to such divergent conclusions about these events."
• In a similar reaction, the Washington Post quoted Jacoba Atlas as saying, "while we believe [the genocide] is settled history ... you still get dissenters .... This remains a contentious piece of history. There are just questions around it." Both Sloan and Atlas are contradicting themselves by first saying that the Armenian Genocide is recognized by "most historians, news organizations and world courts," and that it is "settled history," and then turning around and calling it "a contentious piece of history." This makes no sense, whatsoever!
Given the fact that PBS is still planning to go ahead and air this offensive panel discussion, I suggest the following immediate steps:
• Please sign the online petition: www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?pbspanel and forward it to as many people as possible. More than 10,000 people have already signed it.
• Send e-mails to Jacoba Atlas at Jatlas@pbs.org urging her not to provide air time to genocide deniers.
• Ask Armenian organizations to urge their members to sign the petition and send e-mails to Jacoba Atlas.
• Ask your Member of Congress to send a letter to PBS demanding that the panel discussion be cancelled.
• Ask the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues (close to 150 members of Congress) to send a collective statement to PBS opposing its planned airing of the panel discussion.
Since the individual PBS stations are the ones that decide whether to air the panel discussion or not, contact your local PBS station and urge them not to broadcast the post-show. To find your local PBS station, go to www.pbs.org/stationfinder, enter your zip code and click next. When you see the logo of your local station, click next again. This would give you the phone/fax numbers as well as mail and e-mail addresses of your local station.
And if you would like more motivation, please check out this link www.petitiononline.com/turkside/petition.html where you have turks petitioning PBS to have panelists discrediting the Armenian Genocide. Please view some of the Turkish comments written and you'll understand how important this issue is.
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ZARUHI PREPARING FOR TOURNAMENTS IN TUNISIA, U.K AND TURKEY
With the 12 qualification and five main draw victories behind her, Zaruhi Harutyunyan is looking ahead to climb ever higher in the ITF tennis rankings by participating in the Junior tournaments in Tunisia, England and Turkey. With her current ranking at 575 she will be aiming for a year end position in the top 150 to enable her to participate in Grand Slam tournaments.
Let us all participate in this effort at its infancy, so that we can all enjoy the joy of victory and national pride when it comes.
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• 2nd - 30th March 2006 - Painting Exhibition by Vartan Tashdjian at Rotunda Gallery Bangkok with the opening reception being held on Thursday 2nd March from 7:00 pm onwards. The cocktail reception will be opened by Linda Der Kevorkian, wife of the late Armenian Honorary Consul to Thailand, Bob Der Kevorkian. There will be a meet-the-artist event on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th March from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
• Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 March 2006 The Knar Dance Ensemble of the Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Association of Beirut will be arriving in Cyprus and will give two performances in Larnaca. Details to follow.
• Saturday 18 March 2006 After the performance of the Knar Dance Ensemble a dinner dance has been organised in Larnaca. For details please contact Adour Karageulian on 99880226.
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Djoulfa: Proteste dei Armeni della Francia

Parigi, Francia, fev 28,.2006
Jean ECKIAN (www.inhomage.com)

All'appello delle tre parti politiche armeno, FRA Dachnaktsoutioun, ADL
Ramgavar, PSD Hentchak, con il sostegno del CCAF, il 1000 persone francese
d'origine armena si è riunito, martedì, ad un centinaio di metri di
all'ambasciata di Azerbaigian a Parigi, alle 19, per protestare contro la
recente distruzione delle KACHKARS del cimitero armeno di Djoulfa
(Nakhitchevan) da parte dell'esercito azérie. I armeni richiedono alla
Comunità internazionale di condannare questo crimine culturale commesso su
un tesoro inestimabile del patrimonio mondiale. Sul podium, elaborato al
piede del giro eiffel, molti oratori delle organizzazioni arméniennes e
rappresentanti d'assemblea nazionale francese si sono succeduti accusando il
crimine di Azrbaidjan. Il Presidente del CCAF, Alexis Govciyan, ha
solennemente chiesto il perdono di Bakou.Il Parlamento europeo ha condannato
fermamente quest'atto barbaro, con 85 voti contro 5 (fev 17,.2006), e
dovrebbe inviare una missione d'indagine nella zona archeologica di Djoulfa
alla primavera prossima.



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GIBRAHAYER e-magazineARTSAKH TALKS
_ NO DEAL _
(BBC/RFE/RL)- Two days of talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan over a draft of the Karabagh conflict settlement have ended without agreement, US mediator Steven Mann said.
France hosted the high-profile talks between Armenia's Robert Kocharian and Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev.
The talks at Rambouillet chateau followed mediation by France, the United States, and Russia.
French President Jacques Chirac held separate talks with the Armenian and Azeri leaders before they met face-to-face on Friday.
Mann said he and the other two co-chairs--Bernard Fassier of France and Yury Merzlyakov of Russia--will travel to Brussels on Monday to brief the OSCE's current chairman-in-office, Belgian Foreign Minister Karel de Gucht, on the failed discussions. They will then meet in Washington in early March to decide "in which direction we should move," added Mann.
According to RFE/RL, the two parties could not reach an agreement over two key points relating to Karabagh's future status and a time-frame for Armenian withdrawal from Kelbajar, a mountainous district sandwiched between Karabagh and Armenia proper.
Azeri Prime Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said, however, that agreement was reached on seven other unspecified points of the framework accord.
A key issue between the two sides is the holding of a referendum by the territory's population, as a matter of self-determination. Karabagh's administration has said it will not accept any deal reached without its direct
participation.
The idea of holding such a referendum in Karabagh was at the heart of the peace formula discussed by the conflicting parties over the past year, and the Azeri side reportedly accepted it in principle.
But the scope for compromise is severely limited by public opinion in both countries, which firmly opposes any concessions.
Nevertheless, a senior US State Department official said on Thursday that the Rambouillet talks amounted to "the most important meeting in at least five years regarding this conflict."
Kocharian's spokesman, Victor Soghomonian said: "There is an agreement to continue negotiations, which is positive in itself."
The next few weeks should clarify whether the mediators can salvage the formula currently under discussion or if they will have to restart the peace process from the beginning.
(Picture sent by Sebouh Kassparian of Salonika - Traffic in the snow - February in Yerevan 2006)

ARTSAKH ISSUE SOLVED, SAYS DASHNAKTSOUTIUN PARLIAMENT HEAD
“The Armenian people have solved the Karabakh problem. Nagorno Karabakh was liberated and its security was guaranteed,” said head of ARF Dashnaktsoutiun’s parliament fraction Levon Mkrtchian. “At this stage, Armenia is trying for its de jure recognition,” he remarked stressing that for Armenia the variant of solving the problem by Nagorno Karabakh rejoining Azerbaijan is inadmissible.
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TURKS TO RETURN MAGARAVANK IN CYPRUS TO ARMENIANS ?
By Hakob Chakrian AZG - 14/02/2006 - Istanbul-base Armenian weekly Agos informs that the Turks are going to return Magaravank monastery in occupied northern Cyprus to Armenians. The monastery founded in 5th century was leased for 49 years by Turkish businessman Dervish Ulus Syonmezler in 1997.
Agos weekly had a phone conversation with the Turkish businessman to check out the information. "The Department of Historic Monuments and Museums of Northern Cyprus has annulled the agreement. I think Magaravank was included in the list of mansions awaiting return to southern Cyprus. For that reason the authorities of the Turkish sector annulled the agreement signed for 49 years. I certainly will sue them. But even if I win, I doubt they will hand the mansion over to me. Apparently the Turkish authorities of Northern Cyprus have decided to return the mansion to its true owners - the Cypriot Armenians."
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YOUTH ALERT !
The Slovakian youth union is organizing a youth gathering in Stara Tura, north Slovakia, from the 5th till 11th March. Countries that will particiapte include Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary and Slovakia. A 6 member delegation is also invited from Cyprus. The programme includes skiing, touring, visiting historical places with optional trips to Poland or Chech republic. 70% of the travel and lodging costs will be refunded. The age limit for participants is 28. Cypriot citizens who are interested in participating should contact Hagop Manougian 99442886 or send an email to hagop@hotmail.com



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news in brief
• The European Parliament on February 16 overwhelmingly adopted a resolution condemning the Azerbaijani government's destruction of the Armenian cemetery in Djulfa, a unique archaeological treasure located in Nakhichevan republic administered by Azerbaijan. As reported by the ARF Dashnaktsoutiun press service the issue, brought to the Parliament’s attention by the European Armenian Federation’s efforts, resulted in a resolution approved by a vote of 85 to 5. Cyprus Euro MP Ioannis Kassoulides was one of the MPs that initiated and actively lobbied for the resolution.
• The Lincy Foundation has allocated $400,000 to the Western Prelacy for spiritual and educational projects of the Holy See of Cilicia and also to aid needy Armenian families in Lebanon. This donation was made in response to a request from His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia. The first instalment of $100,000 has already been received.
• In an interview to the Turkish daily Radical, Hrant Dink, the chief editor of Istanbul-based bilingual
(Turkish and Armenian) weekly Agos said now was time for Turkey to start examining its past in order to learn the truth about what had happened to Armenians in 1915 and several years later.
• While visiting Armenia, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki compared US policy to attacking American football team on Tuesday, saying that Iran preferred the "tranquil reflection" characteristic of chess. "The Americans love American football, in which the main principle is attack. During the game they beat each other or the referee. But we prefer chess. We love to play and take decisions through tranquil
reflection," Mottaki said.
• Representatives of political parties, non-governmental organizations, analysts and Javakhk Armenians took part in a conference titled “Challenges of Javakhk in the 21st Century” held in Yerevan on Tuesday and organized by Nikol Aghbalian Student Union of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnaktsoutiun. Ishkhan Saghatelian of the Union said the Armenian youth should not stay indifferent in the face of the Georgian authorities’ policy to empty Javakhk of Armenians.
• A panel-discussion about the Armenian genocide to be aired on US television has prompted protests among Armenian Americans outraged by the presence of two genocide deniers on the program. The panel discussion is to be aired by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on April 17 following a one-hour documentary -- "The Armenian Genocide" by Andrew Goldberg -- which describes the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by the Turks in the final years of the Ottoman Empire. The four panelists invited to discuss the issue include Justin McCarthy, a University of Louisville professor, and Omer Turan, a Turkish historian. Both men question whether the 1915 mass killings could be classified as genocide. PBS said it had invited the two scholars in a bid to offer an alternative viewpoint and encourage discussion.
• The National Democratic Party of Azerbaijan has declared Azeri officer Ramil Safarov the man if the Year. To remind, February 19, 2004 Armenian Armed Forces lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, who while was taking an English course within the NATO Partnership for Peace program was brutally hacked to death by Azeri officer Ramil Safarov.
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What Island Are You From? CYPRUS? Regretfully, once again you “sliped-up’. For a fact this letter to the editor most likely will not make it into your newsletter; nevertheless if only you and your staff read it, it would be a personal contentment.
I thought I had missed an issue. Went to the archives no so fate.
ON February the 3rd, a rather significant DAY; compared to any trivial tennis news and most importantly for ALL Armenians worldwide and particularly for CYPRUS: MELKONIAN SCHOOL WINS A COURT INJUNCTION and you open your newsletter with headline of the SYSTEM OF A DOWN WINS GRAMMY?????
Sorry to mention but your Gibrahayer-e-magazin’s journalistic escapades/SYSTEM IS DEFINITELY DOWN…
This is not journalism it is merely your personal JOURNEY of glorification and self- preservation more worthy of a soapbox platform rather than the Internet.
Please remove my address from your subscription list; I can get my tennis news from other sources.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Vasken Saghbazarian, Los Angeles, Ca.

Dear Vasken,
As I recall you had threatened to unsubscribe once before, but I am glad you are still reading Gibrahayer e-magazine and I hope you continue doing so.
What drives you (and so many other readers in the past) into thinking that I will not post your emails... I will never know...
Your comments about Melkonian are unfair, to use a mild term. I have had a permanent section on Melkonian in EVERY issue of Gibrahayer and the last issue was probably the only one that I replaced it with a section on Zaruhi Harutyunyan and her successes in Asia.
Gibrahayer received The Melkonian Alumni press release on Thursday (five days ago)16 February, 2006.
Massis Der Partogh gave an interview about the injunction on Sigma TV and Astra radio station, after last week's Gibrahayer issue while Cyprus Mail ( www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=24424&cat_id=1 posted in this week's Gibrahayer's Melkonian section further down) and the Cyprus Weekly printed the news this weekend.
Here is a copy of the email from Alumni representative Massis Der Partogh.
Simon Aynedjian

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Masis Der Parthogh [mailto:masis@financialmirror.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:44 AM
Subject: RE: Melkonian - dikastiki apophasi
yo, yeghpayr,
attached is the version Cy Weekly is using tomorrow (as promised by Georges) and the Cy Mail (Jean), marked CW and CM. Perhaps you can wait until they are published tomorrow morning and I can confirm them.
Also, I have attached press release sent to all Greek newspapers. Phileleftheros already used parts of it (paper is available online PDF, if you can grab it from there). I spoke to Radio Astra this morning, and CyBC English programme Monday night. so much for now
Masis
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• For the Euro 2008 Football Championships the national teams of Armenia and Azerbaijan will compete first in Baku on September 8, 2007, and then in Yerevan, four days later. The teams of Armenia, Portugal, Poland, Serbia-Montenegro, Belgium, Finland, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan are placed in Group 1 and the first game of the Armenian side is against the national side of Belgium in Yerevan on September 9, 2006.
• Armenia also took part in the 20th Winter Olympic Games of Turin. Skiers Hovhannes Sargsian and Edmond Khachatrian participated in the team speed race competitions and came last while Armenian ice dancers Anastasiya Grebyonkina and Vazgen Azroyan came 22nd from 24 participants.
• Cypriot Futsal champions AGBU Ararat's five year winning streak was halted by arch rivals Parnassos who won the 2005-06 Cyprus championship.
at melkonian this week
NICOSIA COURT INJUNCTION FREEZES MELKONIAN SALE
The Cyprus Mail - Saturday 18, 2006 The campaign to save the historical Melkonian school got a timely boost from the Nicosia District Court that has ruled in favour of a permanent injunction order on the property.
The outcome of the proceedings in the Cyprus Courts is independent of another action filed in the California Federal Courts seeking to force the US-based AGBU, administrators of the Melkonian Educational Institute, to overturn its decision to close the high school in Nicosia.
The injunction application filed on August 23, 2005, sought an order “prohibiting the defendants (AGBU) from selling, charging, alienating, or changing in any way the use of the immovable property, and/or any part of it, or from using the immovable property for any purpose other the premises of the Melkonian School.”
According to a statement issued by lawyers Christina Sarris, Alecos Markides and Costas Velaris representing the Patriarch of Istanbul, Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan, who claims sole inheritance as original trustee of the 1926 document establishing the school, “the injunction was issued and served immediately on the defendants.”
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GIBRAHAYER e-magazineTHE POINT OF VIEW OF THE AGBU
A representative of the AGBU talked to Gibrahayer and stated that the court decision is not an important one as it only delays procedures pending the decision of the main court action regarding the outcome of the ownership of Melkonian. He cautioned the community that circles behind the injunction crusade were giving false hopes to the community and although the decision of the AGBU was regretful and painful, it is a decision that will change very little.
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ZARUHI PREPARING FOR TOURNAMENTS IN TUNISIA AND ENGLAND
With the 12 qualification and five main draw victories behind her, Zaruhi Harutyunyan is looking ahead to climb ever higher in the ITF tennis rankings by participating in the Junior tournaments in Tunisia and England. With her current ranking at 575 she will be aiming for a year end position in the top 100 to enable her to participate in Grand Slam tournaments.
Let us all participate in this effort at its infancy, so that we can all enjoy the joy of victory and national pride when it comes.
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• GIBRAHAYER e-magazineFriday 24 February, 2006 at 8:00 pm Classical song recital at Kasteliotissa Hall - Paphos Gate in Nicosia by Maral Vorsganian, (soprano), accompanied on the piano by Lelia Khatchatourian organised by the Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Association Oshagan Cyprus Chapter. Entrance 5.00 cyp.
• 2nd - 30th March 2006 - Painting Exhibition by Vartan Tashdjian at Rotunda Gallery Bangkok with the opening reception being held on Thursday 2nd March from 7:00 pm onwards. The cocktail reception will be opened by Linda Der Kevorkian, wife of the late Armenian Honorary Consul to Thailand, Bob Der Kevorkian. There will be a meet-the-artist event on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th March from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
• Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 March 2006 The Knar Dance Ensemble of the Hamazkayin Cultural and Educational Association of Beirut will be arriving in Cyprus and will give two performances in Larnaca. Details to follow.
• Saturday 18 March 2006 After the performance of the Knar Dance Ensemble a dinner dance has been organised in Larnaca. For details please contact Adour Karageulian on 99880226.
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In seguito alle proteste e petizioni di associazioni armene e congress-men americani è stata cancellata la discussione che si sarebbe tenuta in presenza di negazionisti turchi ed americani al termine del documentario sul genocidio della CBS, previsto per il 17 Aprile.







Wednesday 1, March 2006




U.S. TV Decides Not To Air Armenian Genocide Discussion

The Associated Press

A public broadcasting station in the United States has decided not to air a panel discussion that includes speakers who say that the killing of more than 1 million Armenians in the 20th century was not genocide.

The taped discussion, which was scheduled to run April 17 on WNET-TV in New York, was criticized by elected officials and Armenian-American community leaders, who called it an insult.

But a spokeswoman for the PBS affiliate said Tuesday's decision had nothing to do with politics. "It was an editorial decision," said Stella Giammasi, vice president and director of communications at WNET, Channel 13.

The program was to follow a new documentary, "Armenian Genocide," which features interviews with Kurdish and Turkish citizens speaking about their families' experiences during the period and will air as scheduled. After screening the discussion, Giammasi said, WNET officials determined it "did not add anything to the documentary." A PBS spokeswoman said it was up to its 348 affiliates to decide whether to carry a show.

Democratic U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, who joined a protest outside WNET's office in Manhattan on Saturday, applauded the move. "They made a decision here that protects (the station's) reputation and doesn't tarnish it," he said.

The panel included historian Justin McCarthy of the University of Louisville in Kentucky who classified the killings as a "mutual genocide" on the part of both Armenians and Turks. He called the decision not to air the panel "politically motivated cowardice." "Scholars should debate all issues," he said.

Omer Turan, who teaches history at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey, was also on the panel and said he believed many innocent people on both sides died. "However, I cannot accept to name it as Armenian genocide," he said in an e-mail.

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