Amidst the memorials to other genocides in this chilly and rainy month, we pause on April 24 to remember the 1915 genocide of a million and half Armenians. We are also historical witnesses to the hundreds of thousands of other ethnic and religious minorities killed in the Ottoman Empire. Accordingly, we remember the Greek, Assyrian and other victims. The state-sponsored Young Turk mass deportations and killings were part of a long historical pattern of inequality, injustice, prejudice, discrimination, repression and massacres by an authoritarian regime. It should be noted that the Turkish leadership’s ethnic and religious persecution predated and postdated 1915.
According to the pastor, the Azerbaijani military servicemen first threatened him with their weapons, and then two of them pulled him and tried to take him to move to the trench in the direction of the Azerbaijani position by force. During all this time, Azerbaijani constantly cursed and threatened the pastor.
168.am’s correspondent sat down for an interview with Member of the German Bundestag (Christian Democratic Union), Vice-Chair of the Germany-South Caucasus Parliamentary Friendship Group and President of the German-Armenian Forum Albert Weiler.
Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.
We remember our ancestors’ bleak and bloody days more than a century ago. All the while, we pursue plans for our children’s future lives and a better tomorrow.
Turkey, as a major investor in Azerbaijan, will definitely demand its share from that country for the large-scale assistance offered during the second war against Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), a Yerevan-based political analyst said today, warning of the possible impact on the regional context.
In November 2020 Armenian human rights advocate Ms. Anna Astvatsaturian Turcotte, who is a former refugee from Baku and lives in the United States of America, informed the Human Rights Defender about an important Initiative spearheaded by her and her Foundation (www.Astvatsaturian.org).
The Republican Party of Armenia, concerned about the provocative visit that the capitulator (the capitulator has accreted into the seat of the Prime Minister) paid to Syunik Province and the unbridled repressions of the law-enforcement authorities against the heads and residents of a number of communities of Syunik Province that followed, strictly condemns any manifestation of the ongoing terror, political persecutions and flagrant violations of fundamental rights and freedoms and demands the immediate release of all the detainees.
Second part of the interview with Philip Lynch, Independent Board Member at Ameriabank.
United States President Joe Biden is preparing to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide on April 24, the New York Times reported citing “officials familiar with the internal debate.”
