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ARMENIA WIN WORLD CHESS OLYMPIAD
On the final day of play in the Turin World Chess Olympiad, Armenia drew 2-2 with Hungary to clinch gold with 36 points followed by China with 34 and the United States with 33 points. The Ukrainian women drew all boards with Armenia to top the women`s division with 29.5 points followed by Russia with 28 and China with 27.5 points.
more at the following links:
Final standings at:www1.chessolympiad-torino2006.org/sungam/infoturni/men_rank_13.htm
www.chessolympiad-torino2006.org/sezioneesterna/elenconews.php?data=2006-06-04GIBRAHAYER e-magazine


















500 ATTEND 88TH ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ARMENIAN REPUBLIC IN CYPRUS
(Gibrahayer June 3, 2006) 500 community members attended the 88th anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian republic in Cyprus, in an event that was also attended by 50 orphans from Artsakh, who gave a colourful presence to the celebrations.
After the opening remarks, master of ceremonies Harout Der Bedrossian invited keynote speaker, Lebanese Armenian intellectual unger Sarkis Giragossian who drew the importance of the creation of Armenian statehood in 1918.
The evening continued with Armenian cultural program including live music by singer Hovig Manoushian and the resident band of Haig Mahdessian and David Simonian, as well as recitation by Hasmig Malian.
Due to unforeseen commitments, Artsakh FM Georgy Petrosyan was unable to attend. Instead, Artsakh Parliament Lyudmila Parseghian addressed the gathering, bringing to the independence gathering the voice of liberated Artsakh.
Images of the event in next week's issue.

tatiana's corner by Tatiana Ferahian

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news in brief
An Armenian soldier was killed in cross-border fire from Azerbaijan. The soldier, who died from his injuries on his way to hospital, was shot late on Saturday.
Armenian President Robert Kocharian, Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, Catholicos Karekin II, Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharian, and other officials and diplomats visited the Sardarabad memorial on May 28 - the 88th anniversary of the establishment of the Armenian Republic - to pay tribute to the liberation fighters who gave their lives during the famous battles for independence.
At the official initiation ceremony Saturday, twenty-one youths joined the ranks of ARF Dashnaktsoutiun by taking the oath. The new members took the oath at the Homenetmen Ararat Center in Glendale in front of about 100 ARF members. The "Gnkahayr" of the ceremony was Professor Rubina Peroomian, who led the oath-taking ceremony and initiated the new members.
President Bush will ask the US Senate to endorse his nomination of Richard E. Hoagland as the new US Ambassador to Armenia to replace outgoing Amb. John Evans.
Greek PM Costas Karamanlis condemned Turkey for its part in a crash involving Turkish and Greek fighter jets over the Aegean and said such incidents did not tally with Ankara's ambition to join the European Union.
Russian search teams recovered the second flight recorder from the Armavia disaster. It was lifted by a diving apparatus from a depth of 500 meters.
Secret talks between Turkey and Armenia, launched after PM Erdogan wrote a letter to Armenian Kocharian, have failed to make any headway coming out of their third round. A part of the third session of secret talks was held on the sidelines of the Turkey-EU Troika meeting in Vienna, Austria last March.
A 19 year-old Armenian boy, Arthur Sardarian, was killed on May 25 in a train bound from Moscow to the town of Pushkin, where his family of Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan lived. This was the second killing of an Armenian youth in one month. In late April a 17-year-old Armenian native Vigen Abramyants, a Moscow university student, was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of skinheads on a Metro platform. He died on the spot.
Gibrahay Youth monthly competition has started. More details www.gibrahayyouth.com
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Dear Vazken (if I may call you that),
I was trying to finalise a tender, when I heard the beep of the arrival of a message in my in - box: the GIBRAHAYER e-magazine), and reading through it, I also read your message. May I kindly reply to some of the points raised? (Your comments in black, mine in blue)

Getting 53% of the vote, however, is hardly a triumph and betrays a very divided community. I wonder if you felt the same way the past 25 years, because the percentage of the vote that went to the 'other side' has always been the same. Was it not dividing and betraying the community back then?

The criticism you have consistently heaped on Atamian seems utterly unfair as he did not even have eight months to prove himself. Dr. Atamian's term did not begin eight months ago. He has been practically involved in these issues for as long as I can remember (being in the hokapartsutiun of both MELKONIAN and NAREG for years). He was very well acquainted with all the doors and windows and key people. However, he gave one promise to us, which everybody knew was IMPOSSIBLE to materialise: the re-opening of MELKONIAN. Dr. Atamian is a loved and highly respected person in our community, and is a dear friend to my family, too. I hope he realises in the long run, that he was on the wrong side. You should understand that nobody had or has nothing personal against him. But since, he was representing the 'other side', obviously his name was to be dragged through the panels and not Yiannis or Costis.

Where this newsletter stoops even lower is in the rabid criticism and dismissal of the Kalaydjian brothers' tenure as MPs. Are you really serious when you condemn their years as 'lost years' after two decades of selfless service to your community? You are right, there must be something good they did over the past 25 years, besides actively contributing to the closure of MELKONIAN, especially the past 15 years.... , and besides the creation of a BERLIN wall within the community.

Surely they must have done something right! Is the only criterion for criticism in this newsletter the fact that they were not Tashnags? Excuse me? I think you are asking the question the other way round.

I am very interested to see how Mahdessian will fare over the next few years. The signs are not hopeful. How could one living thousands of miles away from this country and its daily problems know whether the signs are hopeful or not. You should go through the daily routine with it all, to be able to bring out such a conclusion. It took me 15 years to decide!!

Emptying rubbish bins on Dr. Atamian's car or placing black wreaths on his front door tell heaps about the level of some supporters of the Mahdessian camp. Pretty sad particularly in a community of 2000 souls. Let's get serious please.

Judging from your coverage of the elections I don't have high hopes for this community or any improvement in editorial standards and the promotion of balanced reporting of this newsletter. You may only acquire the standards of your hopes by interacting with the people involved, and not from the publishing attitude of an editor. In conclusion, it is very sad to know that people are feeling this way about our community. We wanted and brought about change. I am a mother of two and naturally have great fears towards the future of my children. With the reign of the previous party, for me there 'was no future'. My husband and I even discussed 'moving to London'. But now, now that we have finally managed to open those rusty doors, which were kept closed to the members of our community all these years, now that we know our voices are being heard, we are staying where we are, and are going to contribute to the wellbeing of our community any way we can . I hope you will keep on monitoring to witness it all!

Entertainment over !
Garine Gostanian (Angel Poo) - NICOSIA

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In reply to Mr Vazken-Khachig Davidian,
After carefully reading your message I was compelled to send a few well chosen comments
In your message you mention how every week you are entertained by this newsletter for the wrong reasons and yet you have entertained us just this once ....unfair !
Your message wreaks of prejudice. One might even wonder as to where exactly you have collected your facts in order to form the opinions that you have. When was the last time you were involved with the Cypriot Armenian community affairs? or when was the last time you were in Cyprus in an active capacity for that matter?
You have been ill informed Mr Davidian, you listened to one side without the desire to hear the other. Second hand news are more often then not heavily contaminated with the opinion of others one must see for themselves first before passing comment publicly .
Criticism without any constructive suggestion is nothing more then mindless vandalism.
The great majority is of the opinion that there is some kind of antagonism against Dr. Atamyan the truth is far from it, he is well respected from both sides, had it not been for his popular character and charm the election win would have been a child's play, there never were any ill feelings towards the Doctor and never will be either, the same can not however be said about his sergeants that ensured him a gallant second place. The Doctor did not loose, the organisation did.
The few recalcitrants such as yourself may well do better getting their facts strait prior to leaving their hollows. You were not here; so my question to you is: How do you know the whys and hows? How can you form these opinions from such a distance? Or are they just a few cheap shots coming from someone who is smoldering in his own heat. Why the intense prejudice? Time to leave the sour grapes and place your humble pie in the microwave in readiness.
And Mr.Tavitian ...oh !! sorry That should have been "Davidian" the next time are passing through the neighborhood....... keep going.

A.Haroutunian - United Nations - Radio Telecommunications

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Dear Simon,
By the name of the provisional plenipotentiary authority of western Armenia and by my name as the president, I congratulate not you only, but all Armenians around the globe for the victory of Vartkes Mahdessian. We hope in very near future will celebrate the independence of western Armenia.
Viva Armenians - respectfully` - Michael Sosikian
Simon Hi,
This is Sarkis Demirdjian.
In reply to Ken Fosters e-letter and your answer I NEVER remember U and your wife were waving Cypriot flags in any celebrations!
Dear Simon,
I just read the article by the Turkish journalist about the Eurovision Song Contest and thought it was very entertaining. I was wondering what the Turks thought of their 10 point vote to Armenia, which we thank them for from the bottom of our hearts. We must agree with him that the voting system is “sometimes” political and it might have come from Armenians living in Turkey, but I have one question which might help him understand the third or real reason for his country’s approval of our song. Why does he call his people lazy when he was sleeping throughout the contest? If he had watched it, he would know that we deserved even 12 points, but may be Turkey was too embarrassed to announce that on Live TV.
P.S. I did not even want to get into the history part, if we are brainwashed, he certainly is clueless….
Best Regards,
Natasha Tavoukjian
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Dear Simon, here are a couple of pictures of the "Giligia" ship entering London, on the Thames. My daughter who lives there emailed them to me and since you had mentioned it in your recent newsletter I thought that it might be of interest to you or your readers. Sincerely Daisy Kazandjian-Mosditchian
click here for images
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Shad Sireli Simon,
I read Gibrahayer with great admiration. You are doing a great job!
Dear Simon, is it possible to have some pictures of the Armenian ship Kilikia in following issues? I am sure every Armenian will be interested and will appreciate just to see the pictures of an Armenian ship! and be proud of it.
Respectfully - Rita Gragossian - New York
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Here is a story from Carlos http://lovetolivefor.eponym.com/blog entitled "A Passport... or a Way to Heaven"

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GIBRAHAYER e-magazineMP VARTKES
MAHDESSIAN RECEIVED BY CATHOLICOS ARAM I
On Monday June 5, 2006 His Holiness Aram I received the newly elected representative of the Armenian community in the Cyprus Parliament Vartkes Mahdessian, who was accompanied by Catholicosal Vicar to Cyprus Archbishop Varoujan Hergelian. www.cathcil.org/v04/doc/visitscath.htm#22
In his first visit to Lebanon, MP Mahdessian also paid a visit to the Aztag Daily. The relative news item can be viewed on the third page of www.aztagdaily.com
We will publish his interview next week.

from The Melkonian Cyprus Alumni News Desk
Sireli Melkoniantsi yeghpayrner yev paregamner,
We are distributing the attached announcement as a result of a lot of false reports and malicious rumours. We would appreciate it if you could publish the announcement in your next editions.
Sirov - Masis der Parthogh

Hands off the Melkonian!
The Melkonian Alumni Association of Cyprus is obliged once again to issue an announcement as it continues to be the target of false reports and malicious rumours circulated by certain parasites in Cyprus and elsewhere who have a vested interest in keeping the Melkonian Educational Institute closed with a view to disposing of the Melkonian estate and other assets.
We reiterate our commitment to the struggle to help save the Melkonian and reopen the historic school in its present location as the only boarding high-school in the Western-Armenian speaking world.
We did not join the struggle by choice, but were forced into it following the treacherous action of a handful of people at the helm of the AGBU who sought to close the school in the name of "azkabahbanoum" and wipe out the education prospects of future generations.
more at: http://gibrahayer.cyprusnewsletter.com/index.htm?p=3

AGBU and 06/06/06 - watch the beginning of the horror movie www.savemelkonian.org/Diary/index%20Diary.htm
sports Armenian Argentine David Nalbandian triumphed 6-3 6-3 2-6 6-4 over No.6 seed Nikolay Davydenko of Russia in two hours and 46 minutes. Nalbandian takes on top-ranked Roger Federer in the semi finals. Complete story click here
Freestyle wrestler of Armenia Narek Sanoyan won Gold at the International Youth
Freestyle Wrestling Tournament held in Marmara, Turkey. Hayk Manukyan took silver.
(www.tennisnet.com.cy) Simon Aynedjian won the +35 singles Masters event of the SAAB sponsored Field Club Pancyprian Open Championship the finals of which was played on Wednesday May 31, defeating second seed Marios Petrou 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in two hours and 40 minutes. Cyprus rankings at www.cyprustennis.com/f_rankings.htm

latest on Zaruhi Harutyunyan
GIBRAHAYER e-magazineFROM 1,245 TO 296, IN FIVE MONTHS
(Gibrahayer - Nicosia May 28, 2006) The International Tennis Federation has announced that back-to-back Bolis Champion Zaruhi Harutyunyan, has climbed from 1245 to 296 in less than five months. As the biggest and the quickest climber on the ITF tour Harutyunyan will now try to break the top 100 positions, to become eligible to play Grand Slam events (Wimbledon, Roland Garos, US Open and Australian).
I was specially moved by an email that I received from an old friend of mine from London - Raffi Geotcherian - who as soon as the new rankings were announced, sent me an email informing me and beating me to the news. I am glad readers are eagerly following Zaruhi's progress.
May God bless her and give her an injury-free career.Visit Zaruhi Harutyunyan's new rankings at the ITF site at: www.itftennis.com/juniors/rankings/index.asp

PICTURE ABOVE: The Queens Club get-together was attended by London tennis enthusiasts, including The Kurkjians, Bedrossians, Cherchians,Stephans, Keoshgerians,Mkrtichians and various others who did not stay for the photo-shoot. Zaruhi hit a lot of balls with everyone and the event was followed by drinks and a chat in the lounge bar


CONTRIBUTE TO ZARUHI HARUTYUNYAN'S WORLD TOUR
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gibrahayer calendar
Wednesday 7 June at 7:30 pm Opening of Exhibition of Mosaics at the Cultural Center of Famagusta Gate. Duration from 7-11 June. Visiting hours from 10:00-13:00 & 17:00 - 20:00 - Tel: 22437343
End of June - Opening of the newly constructed second floor of the Kalaydjian Rest Home by H.E. The President of the Republic Tassos Papadopoulos, on Wednesday 28 June, at 7:00 pm. Open cocktail reception to follow.
Sunday 16-30 July - Hamazkayin Forum - Yerevan - Armenia. All youth who want to participate from Cyprus, please contact Raffi Mahdessian on 99-441588. Visit the Hamazkayin Forum site at: www.hamazkayin.com/html/forum_2006.html

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