At the Freedom Square in Yerevan,
The closing ceremony of the 7th Pan-Armenian Games was held Saturday at Freedom Square in Yerevan.
The event was attended by the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian parliament speaker Ararat Mirzoyan, and Armenian Deputy PM Tigran Avinyan.
The Olympic flag was lowered by Olympic champions Hrachya Petikyan and Israel Militosyan. Continue reading
The coup against the government of Archbishop Makarios followed with the invasion of Turkish troops in Cyprus and occupation of its northern part in 1974 are links of a single chain of the conspiracy, that needs to be apprehended.
So, as the ideological heir to the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, like any ex-empire, tends to restore the bygone majesty and geopolitical position in the world, its supreme goal being “the Great Turan”. Continue reading
Maps of the state of Armenia. Հայաստան պետության քարտեզները: Карты государства Армения.
The idea of the reality of the re-creation of Western Armenia as a state arose in the early 1990s, in the ranks of the defenders of Artsakh. One of the main inspirers of the idea of the revival was the founder of the Liberation Army Leonid Azgaldyan (23.11.1942 Tiflis – 21.06.1992 Martakert). The idea found a response in the ranks of the fighters and intellectuals, who before the war were members of various compatriots of Western Armenia and non-Party patriotic unions. Continue reading
(Below mentioned Statement is a short version of the statement in English applied to the United Nations on August 7, 2019. The original is the full version in Armenian)
To the United Nations
S T A T E M E N T
On demarcation of the border between the State of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan Continue reading
The solemn opening ceremony of the 7th Pan-Armenian Summer Games has kicked off at the Stepan Shahumyan Republican Stadium in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and will end in three hours.
The event has gathered the delegations of 145 cities. Continue reading
a non-official translation in English
Dear Ms. Odre Azule!
Allow me to express my deep respect to you and once again confirm that the Republic of Western Armenia (Armenia), having recognized and ratified the UNESCO Charter on March 20, 2018, fully accepts its provisions and goals declared by the organization – promoting peace and
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Letters referring to a decision to “annihilate” all Armenians are the authentic work of Bahaettin Shakir, one of the architects of the Armenian Genocide, according to signature analysis carried out by a leading Turkish historian, published in the Journal of Genocide Research.
The Armenian Genocide, the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, was carried out during and after World War I. While present day Turkey accepts that many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire were killed in clashes with Ottoman forces during the war, it continues to contest the 1.5 million figure and denies that the killings were systematically orchestrated and constitute a genocide. This denial – which continues despite the UN demanding in a recent Joint Allegation Letter that the Turkish government investigate the treatment of Armenians from 1915 to 1923, establish the truth and make reparations – has hinged on the patchy archival record.
The first letter studied by Prof. Akçam states that the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) “has decided to annihilate all of Armenians living within Turkey, not to allow a single one to remain, and has given the government broad authority in this regard”. The second letter reiterates this message. Previously, the letters’ authenticity was questioned but, according to Prof. Akçam, signature comparison indicates they were authored by Shakir who, as head of the para-military Special Organization, helped to plan and carry out the genocide.
“These letters indicate there was an actual, conscious decision taken to annihilate the empire’s Armenian population and that it was taken before 3 March 1915,” says Prof. Akçam. “Moreover, there were other related decisions which preceded this final one, as a series of documents we discovered in the Ottoman Archives shows.”
These documents suggest that initial decisions to eliminate groups of Armenians were not taken by the Central Committee of the CUP and/or by central government, but by governors in the provinces of Van and Bitlis.
“In their communications – both with Istanbul and with one another – the governors did not see the need to use vague language or euphemisms in referring to the annihilation of the Armenians, but spoke of it openly, even offering a number of tangible ideas regarding how such an extermination could or should be carried out,” says Prof. Akçam.
Policy decisions regarding the elimination of Armenians, while initially made at the regional level, would eventually serve to pressure the central government in Istanbul to adopt a more radical overall policy, he concludes.
