Gulan Avci genocide speech

MP Gulan Avci (Liberal People's Party) of Kurdish origin speaks at the Armenian Genocide memorial in Stockholm, Sweden on the 24th april 2010.

Kurdish & Armenian demonstration in LA

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Turkey should apologize from Armenians and Kurds

Turkey’s “Peace and Democracy” (BDP) deputy Nezir Karabas (Bitlis) told a press conference that Turkey should apologize from Armenia and the Kurdish people, according to Vatan.

Karabas recalled the passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution by the US House Foreign Relations Committee and the operation carried out towards the Kurdistan Worker’s Party in Belgium, saying: “We signify the approval of the Resolution in the US. Openly discussing the past events, Turkey needs to apologize from the Kurds and Armenians on behalf of those who carried these out.”

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The Opposite of Silence

The United Human Rights Council (UHRC) will be hosting its 2nd annual “Opposite of Silence” night of education, activism and art.


This year the program will be spotlighting the injustices of the Turkish government and Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code.

Join us as we honor activists such as Hrant Dink, Eren Keskin, Ayse Gunaysu, Akin Birdal and Leyla Zana. They are just a few of the brave individuals who have been targeted their work for Kurdish human rights, Armenian Genocide recognition, freedom of speech and equality.

Special guest speaker Kani Xulam of the American Kurdish Information Network. (www.Kurdistan.org)

Slam poetry by Armen Soudjian.

Musical performances by Payla Kevorkian and Raffi Semerdjian.

Art by:

Ani Ishkhanian
Cynthia Kossayan
Gayaneh Novshadian.


The UHRC is an initiative of Armenian Youth Federation.

January 15, 2010

8:00pm - 10:15pm

211 West Chestnut St. Glendale, CA 91204

Astarjian: Our Friends, Our Foes: The Kurds

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Hrant Dink Day in the UK Parliament

The Hrant Dink Society

c/o The Temple of Peace, Cardiff, Wales

invites you on

Hrant Dink Day, 19th January 2010, in the UK Parliament

to a series of meetings:

"What is really going on in Turkey?"

Speakers include Ragip Zarakolu, one of the founders of the Turkish Human Rights Association and publisher, prosecuted 40 times, most recently for publishing a novel

1 "Problems of the 'Other' and of 'Minorities' in Turkey" (Ragip Zarakolu, Desmond Fernandes and Arzu Pesman - Kurdish Federation-FEDBIR), "Hrant Dink's Vision" (Ragip Zarakolu) and "Rediscovering Turkish Armenia" (Vardan Tadevossian), followed by a discussion - in Committee Room 16 at 5 p.m.

Sponsor : Nia Griffith MP

2 The lessons of Holocaust, Genocide and current problems of Ethnic Cleansing - in Committee Room 16 at 6 p.m. Sponsor: Dr Bob Spink MP

Khatchatur I. Pilikian on "Holocaust and Genocide"

Ruth Barnett on "The shared Jewish and Armenian experience"

Saad Tokatly on Iraqi Christians and Other minorities

The meeting will also be used to Promote EDM 287 by Dr Bob Spink on the Holocaust and Andrew Dismore's Presentation Bill to introduce a national day to learn about and remember the Armenian genocide, to be read a Second time on Friday 30 April 2010 (Bill 42).

3 Meeting in the House of Lords (Committee Room 3A at 7 p.m.) - Launch of 'Friends of Belge Press' and 'The Current Human Rights Situation in Turkey'

Sponsor: Baroness Finlay of Llandaff

Speakers: Ragip Zarakolu, Desmond Fernandes and Haci Ozdemir (International Committee Against Disappearances - British Section).

Narod, Armenian-Kurdish artist.

Narod is an artist of Armenian-Kurdish descent. She is originally from Wan-region and the pictures below are from one of her performances.

Armenians and Kurds: a historic parallel

"I see a very strong correlation not only regarding the solution but also regarding the origins of the Kurdish and Armenian issues," said Taner Akçam in a recent interview with the British blog "Changing Turkey in a Changing World." The interview appeared in the Armenian Weekly for Nov. 29.

Kurdish Armenian conference in Brussel

Information in Kurdish:

Li buroya Kurdî ya Brukselê konferansek bi wate: KURD DI WÊJEYA (EDEBIYAT) ERMENÎ DE Li Buroya Kurdî ya Brukselê konferansek pir bi wate tê dayin. Mijara konferansê ”Kurd di wêjeya ermenî de” ye. Yektan TÜRKYILMAZ bi giranî dê li ser salên di navbêra 1878 – 1915 de kur bibe. Konferans ji raya giştî re vekirî ye.

Mêjûyê konferansê: Yekşem, 27.12.2009, katjimêr (saet) 16.oo e. Navnîşana buroyê wisa ye: BUROYA KURDÎ, Quai aux Pierres de Taille 11 (Arduinkaai 11), 1000 Bruxelles.

False statement by Andrey Areshev

Armenian relations are undergoing negative transformations, according to Andrey Areshev, deputy director of
Strategic Culture Foundation.

Areshev claim that `anti-Armenian publications in Kurdish media are met more frequently. It's an alarming tendency, Which Should be prevented '.
This is not true, Kurdish media, express themselves very rarely negative about minorities in Kurdistan or Armenia as a neighbor.

There is the current situation is not a single Kurdish media channel that denies the genocide or who tried to disparage the Armenians.
As a Mather of fact it has several Kurdish newspapers an open and formal policy that does not diminish or deny the genocide that took place in 1915 against the Armenians in which Kurdish groups also were involved as perpetrators.
One example is the Kurdish Herald, which has it written into their policies and guidelines that they dont publish materials includin 'denial of the Armenian Genocide, including using attributes that lessen the significance of the event " [SOURCE]

Read more about the Kurdish media here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_recognition_of_the_Armenian_genocide

Areshev's statement is unfortunate and not true, what he is trying to achieve so he should do so by telling the truth.

Armenian And Kurdish Ads On Turkish TV

To increase the income gained from the ads, the Turkish State TV (TRT) undertook new steps. According to the Turkish daily "Sabah", an ad in Kurdish will be broadcast on TRT 6, as "Veritas Medya", managing the ad business in the Turkish TRT, considers it necessary.  The ads in different languages and dialects are allowed to be on TRT since 1 January. According to this, Kurdish, Armenian, Arabic and ads in other languages are possible to be broadcast only when a corresponding program in that language is on.

Sîdar Yigit about Tîgran

Aram Tigran, the famous Kurdish singer of Armenian origin, have been rushed to the hospital and there is almost no information on Tigrans condition.

His family were survivors of the Armenian Genocide and he is considered among the best of contemporary Kurdish singers and musicians.

Sîdar Yigit (Netkurd.org) wrote something on Aram Tigran and the Armenian-Kurdish friendship.

(Netkurd.org - Wêran ez im. Malam xerab!)

Twitter activism

Haytoug magazine about Kurds and Armenians

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ARMENIA -GHARZEN VILLAGE & KURDISTAN MOUNTAINS - engraving from 1876