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| Wishing you a pleasant summer |
 On behalf of the team of volunteers of Gibrahayer e-magazine, participating in the effort to bringing news out of Cyprus to thousands of subscribers world-wide, we would like to wish you a pleasant summer and enjoyable holidays.
After a ten-year journey, we look forward to the years to come, and hope that we will continue receiving the support from our subscribers, who have actively participated in the final "product" that reaches your Inbox, every week.
We wish you and your families health and happiness from Nashville to Beijing, from Mogadishu to Taipei, Khapan to Martuni, from Montevideo to Baku and Trabzon to Morphou.
We wish you all the best and look forward to re-connecting with you in September 2009.
Gibrahayer e-magazine - Wednesday June 24 |
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MP VARTKES MAHDESSIAN MEETS COMMUNITY
YOUNGSTERS JOINING THE CYPRUS ARMY
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Gibrahayer - Nicosia 24 June, 2009 - Last week MP Vartkes Mahdessian invited the young men of our community who will be joining the Cyprus army this July, at a special meeting at his office. Seven of them and their parents turned up to listen to Colonel Simos Merkourios who gave extensive details about army life. Also participating in the meeting was one of the first Armenian Cypriots who joined the Cyprus army last year - Armen Armenagian - who shared his experiences with the new recruits.
At the end of the meeting, Armenian MP Vartkes Mahdessian wished them a safe service. |
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ARMENIAN GOLGOTHA - Vartkes Sinanian
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| I was a little boy living in Nicosia, the capital of the Island of Cyprus. Hagop Oshagan, the famous Armenian novelist and literary critic was a close friend of my father and was a frequent visitor to our house. At that time Oshagan was working on his novel "Remnants" which was based on the Armenian deportations and massacres in the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Oshagan wanted to include my mother's ordeal during the Smyrna holocaust in his novel but my mother tearfully resisted his pleas. At one point Oshagan turning to my father remarked that the enormity of the crime perpetrated by the Turks was so overwhelming that he doubted if ever anyone would have the courage to attempt to depict that catastrophe of such magnitude with all its disastrous consequences. |
 Gregoris Balakian's "Armenian Golgotha" translated from the original Armenian to English by his grand nephew Peter Balakian with Aris Sevag comes as the closest documentation of that darkest period in our people's history. It opens a window into a disturbing country during World War I when the world was oblivious of the tragedy unfolding in the Ottoman Turkish Empire. It is also a strong reminder of a terribly frightening chapter of our bloody history. The memoir is a comprehensive account of the killing fields and the bloodbath that followed as |
well as the systematic ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population as seen and miraculously endured by a victim who was arrested and exiled on that dreadful night of April 24, 1915, in Constantinople along with hundreds of intellectuals and clergy. Among those well-known intellectuals who were arrested that fateful night were Krikor Zohrab, Vartkes, Daniel Varoujan and Siamanto who were later murdered. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were wiped out - Anatolia became a nightmare landscape littered with human skulls and limbs of men, women and children. This diabolical plan was the work of the Interior Minister Talaat and his henchmen Enver, Jemal and Behaeddin Shakir. The once prosperous and vibrant Armenian population of the towns and villages were deported to Der Zor "that graveyard without tombstones "in the north of Syria." The Ittihad government had caught us in one net in a single night" he writes "We move towards our graves, nameless and unknown to be buried forever."
The author of the book Gregoris Balakian was born in 1876. He was one of the outstanding clergymen of his generation. Educated at Sanasarian College in Erzerum he later went to Germany for higher studies. He was ordained a priest and served as an emissary of the Holy See in Europe. After surviving the Armenian Genocide he was elected prelate of Marseilles in the south of France until his death in 1934. His escape through the killing fields in disguise as a German is a suspenseful narrative which he wrote as a fugitive in a vineyard in Cilicia.
Unfortunately the Armenian leadership considered the Ittihad government as their ideological comrades who had come with the ultimate aim of democratising the entire country. They were unaware of the murderous plan which was unfolding around them. Writing about Khachadour Maloumian (Agnouni) the political leader who was one of the early victims he writes "The unfortunate Agnouni being idealistic and honourable man, could not comprehend how Talaat could plot against him cynically - the same Talaat whom he had sheltered in order to save Talaat's life while risking his own during the counter revolution". Yet another incident which comes to our mind is the case of the prominent member of the Turkish Parliament Krikor Zohrab who expressed disbelief about Talaat's hand in his arrest. Zohrab was at Talaat's home the night before his arrest playing cards with him and to Zohrab's astonishment Talaat had kissed him goodnight before departing. Even when the death's shadow was chasing them they were naive of the danger lurking around them. Talaat had issued an order which precisely said "It is necessary to eradicate the Armenians. For if 1,000 Armenians are left alive by some misfortune before long they will become 100,000 and again they will be trouble for the Turkish government." Talaat had a mission to accomplish in most heinous way.
Balakian is witness of the hundreds of thousands of his countrymen sent by carts and by foot to the scorching Syrian desert to be raped, decapitated and die from hunger and thirst. He writes "Hundreds of chetes (irregulars V.S.) attacked from all sides, cutting and hacking off legs and arms with axes and hatchets, ripping them off partly or entirely and crushing heads with rocks. Then the bodies were thrown half alive, or in the throes of death into prepared ditches and covered with lime. Those were partly sticking out of the dirt and the lime made the heavenly arches resound with their cries of agony; more dirt was poured on them until they were buried alive." It is the horrific story of blood and tears, death and mourning all over. It is mind-numbing in its brutality and savagery. It reminds us of Dante Alighieri's classic "Inferno" - the journey through different levels of hell encountering all forms of chaos in each, which precisely reflects our people's Golgotha. In "Inferno" though the sinner reaps what he saws while in our case the "open wound" is left unhealed.
"Armenian Golgotha" is a memoir of horror and endurance. About a century later our grief and outrage have not diminished and we are so traumatised that the past is still very present in our lives. It reveals the enduring power of the Armenian people and its faith in resurrection even under critical circumstances. It is also the ultimate rebuke to those who deny the Armenian Genocide. |
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THE ARMENIANS OF CYPRUS - By Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra
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 Dear Simon,
Please find attached the PDF version of the book, and below the link to download the book "The Armenians of Cyprus" written by myself and published by the Kalaydjian Foundation in May 2009.
http://rapidshare.com/files/243608449/The_Armenians_of_Cyprus.pdf
I've also created a video using a collection of pictures about the Armenian Cypriot community. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKs4NVpBYtQ
I hope you enjoy watching it!
Please feel more than free to share it with others!
Cherm parevnerov - Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra - Nicosia |
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THE BLUE BOOK: TURKISH VERSION LAUNCHED
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On Monday 22nd June 2009 , the TURKISH VERSION of the book "Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916" (commonly known as the "Blue Book") was launched in the House of Lords of the British Parliament by its Sponsor (Lord Avebury) and its Author (Ara Sarafian), during a Press Conference for the Turkish Media. The event was extensively reported by the "Hurriyet" Newspaper.
The "Blue Book" originally written in 1915 and commissioned by the British Government to the Historian Arnold Toynbee, has been sponsored by Lord Avebury, reviewed, researched and re-written by Ara Sarafian, published by Gomidas and recently, translated into Turkish.
Lord Avebury (Vice-Chairman of the British-Armenian All-Party Parliamentary Group) and Ara Sarafian (Member of the Advisory Board of the BAAPPG) will travel to Ankara and the Turkish Version of the Blue Book will be launched in Ankara on Friday 26th June 2009 in the Turkish Grand National Committee (the Turkish Parliament).
This Turkish translation follows the Turkish Parliament's 2005 petition to the British Parliament, labelling this work "a war propaganda publication". British Parliamentarians discussed the Turkish petition and rejected it in 2006, inviting their Turkish colleagues to a meeting to discuss their differences. Turkish Parliamentarians refused the meeting.
The Turkish edition of the "Blue Book" includes an introduction by Lord Avebury.
For further information please contact bluebook@gomidas.org |
| Letters to the Editor |
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Dear Friends,
At last a movie about an Armenian ! Al Pacino will star in an HBO movie about Dr.Jack Kevorkian The movie is based on a book about Dr.Kevorkian "Between the Dying and the Dead" by Harry Wylie and Neal Nicol, longtime friends of the "Doctor of Death". The director is Barry Levinson.
Vartkes Sinanian
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Dear Editor,
I would like to comment on the letter of Sevag Gurunlian. This is simply Anti-Armenian . All 6 MP’s are Armenian whether we like it or not.
The fact that two MP’s from Tashnagtsoutioun were elected does not mean that the Armenians failed, by gaining 6 seats! We won and we kept our rightful share of MP’s.
It hurts that the majority Armenian party got only two seats, but this does not mean that the rest of the Armenian MP’s will be stripped of their Armenianship!. Let us respect each other and not come up with statements like, quote: “MP’s like Hagop Pakradouni and Arthur Nazarian , is more than enough” unquote: I do not see any reason why a true Armenian could come up with such phrases... This is unacceptable and shameful.
Chahe Bardakjian - 1968 Melkonian Graduate
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Dear Simon,
I want to thank you and your co employees for distributing such a well organised and informative magazine.
It would be nice if you have a feature that readers could contribute by using credit cards.
Keep up the good work.
Every minute of your life is important.
Regards,
Simon Papukyan - Glendale, California, USA |
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HOM'S LADIES NIGHT OUT AFTER THEIR GENERAL MEETING
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 Israel's New Ambassador to the United States calls Armenian Killings "Genocide"
June 25, 2009
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier
Israel's new Ambassador to the United States, Michael B. Oren, is a firm believer in the veracity of the Armenian Genocide, despite his government s denialist position on this issue. |
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GIBRAHAYER CALENDAR
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- Wednesday 24 June 2009 from 5.30pm - 7.30pm - Traditional reception to all Armenian graduates on the island at the residence of the Armenian MP Vartkes Mahdessian.
- Wednesday 24 June at 8:30pm – KEBAB and TOMBOLA night – organised by the AYMA committee at the club premises.
- Saturday 27 June from 8.30 pm - POOL PARTY at Champs Elysees Nicosia. Organised by the Armenian Representative's Youth Committee.
- Sunday 28 June - Lernakenatsoutiun organised by Nor Serount at Leivadia tou Pasha (2) in Troodos. Participation fee 10 euros.
- Saturday July 4 at 8:30 pm - Dinner Party organised at AYMA, by the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF). For more details please call 99445018.
- Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 05:00 pm - Armenian Evangelical Church service at 20 Gladstonos street, Nicosia. Speaker: Hrayr Jebejian. All are welcome.
- July 15 - August 2 - HOM (Armenian Relief Society) Khalkidhiki Summer Camp for Armenian Youth. Participation for ages: 10-16 years. Armenian Cypriot participants please contact Louise Aynedjian on Mob_99533684. You may download the registration form here, and email it to aynedjian.louise@gmail.com
- August - AYF Summer Camp. Details to follow.
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Gibrahayer Calendar every week
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- Every Saturday at 6:00 pm at AYMA - Weekly meetings of Azadamard Junior Badanegan (8-13 year olds). An educational and fun environment for the younger generation of our community. Games, trips, parties and lots of fun in a family environment. For more information contact Kevork Keoshgerian on tel_99817806
- Every Saturday at 7:00 pm at AYMA - Weekly meetings of Azadamard Senior Badanegan (13-17 year olds). For more information contact Kevork Keoshgerian on tel_99817806
- Every Sunday at 7:30 pm at AYMA - Weekly meetings of AYF Koyamard Branch (17-30 year olds).
- Every Wednesday at 7:00 pm - Community gathering at The Armenian Club of Larnaca, followed by dinner.
- Every Friday and Saturday evening - Marie-Louise Kouyoumdjian sings at ENALLAX with the resident Band.
- Every Saturday at 5:00 pm at Sourp Asdvadzadzin Church in Nicosia - Giragamoudki Jamerkoutioun (Vespers)
- Every Sunday at 8:45 am at Sourp Asdvadzadzin Church in Nicosia - Jamerkoutioun (Matins)
- Every Sunday at 9:30 am Sourp Asdvadzadzin Church in Nicosia - Sourp Badarak (Divine Liturgy)
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