Erdogan-Hurriyet Interview:
"We have begun with the British. We have spoken with the opposition
leaders - - - they are being very understanding"
Archbishop Y. Gizirian visits London
Armenian Jews celebrate Purim in Yerevan
OSCE Report on Mountainous Karabagh Strikes down Azeri Allegations of Resettlement Pastor shocks Turkish TV viewers by bold remarks on Genocide
'Early Day Motion' tabled in Parliament (EDM642) Ancient Armenian Church in danger of collapse
U.S. Ambassador to Armenia acknowledges Genocide Armenian Genocide and Jewish Holocaust Commemorated in Wales
TURKISH PUBLISHER CHARGED FOR PUBLISHING BOOK BY ARMENIAN AUTHOR
We have received from the European Armenian Federation for Justice & Democracy an Newsletter named FOCUS in PDF file format. To read
please click the link below to open the file. The main articles are:
1) Legal proceedings against Publisher Ragip Zarakolu in Turkey for publishing George Jerjian's book
"History will free us all -Turkish Armenian conciliation"
2) Sons of the Armenian Nation who forcibly "turned into" Turks and Kurds
3) Azerbaijan among "mostly un-free countries" An American report
4) Turkey must face the truth
CLICK THIS LINK TO OPEN PDF FILE (Adobe Acrobat required) 
TALK GIVEN BY EMINENT GERMAN HISTORIAN - DR. TESSA HOFMANN
On Thursday, 20 January 2005, the London-based CRAG (Campaign for Recognition of the Armenian Genocide)
organised a lecture by Dr Tessa Hofmann - pictured here with Dr H Hagopian, executive Director of CRAG and centre
Mr R. Sarkissian, Chairman - on the theme Europe, Turkey and The Armenian Genocide . The lecture took place at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London.
Well over ninety people attended the special event, many of them academicians and students from the University of London itself, as well as friends of CRAG. The lecture was followed by a Question
& Answer session, and Dr Hofmann's full paper will be posted on the ACCC and CRAG websites shortly.
In her presentation, Dr Tessa Hofmann spoke about the impact of the Armenian Genocide upon
Armenian diasporan communities and then extrapolated the history of the genocide with the current application by Turkey to join the European Union.
Dr Hofmann is a prominent German historian and academic from the Free University in Berlin who
has researched extensively on the Armenian Genocide, and has worked closely with the EU institutions. Dr Hofmann is also a volunteer Human
Rights activist with several honours as well as an extensive portfolio of publications.
CLICK HERE TO READ FULL TEXT OF DR HOFMANN'S TALK (PDF Format)
Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone speaks of Armenian Genocide
on BBC Television
On Thursday 27th January, 2005,
as part of the highly popular and prestiguous weekly BBC1 television programme 'Question Time' (10:35 pm-11:35 pm), David Dimbleby, Chair of the programme invited a studio audience to put their
questions to a panel that also comprised the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone.
During a discussion of the Jewish Holocaust, Mayor Ken Livingstone addressed the issue of the importance of history
and declared how Hitler, embarking upon the Holocaust, had stated, "Who now remembers the Armenians". The
Mayor the also added that the Armenians were victims of the 20th Century's first genocide.
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM CRAG
JACQUES TOUBON ASKS THE TURKISH DEPUTIES TO RECOGNISE THE ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE.
--On raising the question of genocide in the framework of the EU-Turkey
inter-parliamentary delegation, the European deputy provoked a violent
reaction form the Turkish officials.
--His remarks were outrageously deformed by the Turkish press
Brussels, Belgium - In Strasbourg, on Thursday 24th February, Mr Jacques
Toubon (PPE, France) raised the "unquestionable reality" of the Armenian
Genocide during the 53rd reunion of the EU-Turkey inter-parliamentary
delegation, of which he is the vice-president. During his talk, Mr Toubon
indicated to his Turkish counterparts that the recognition of this genocide
constituted an "important element for Europe" and of its "common values".
In particular he highlighted the numerous recognitions of the genocide by
member countries of the European Union, and the most recent by the
Netherlands, which took place on 21st December, 2004, just after the
European Summit in Brussels.
His statements provoked the rage of the Turkish officials participating in
the meeting, and particularly Mr Sukru Elekdag (CHP- Kemalist Party), former
ambassador to the United States and Mr Oguz Demiralp, Turkey's permanent
representative to the European Union.
Mr Toubon then went on to say that the European Parliament, since 1987, had
on numerous occasions recognised the reality of the genocide and since then,
continually asked Turkey to do the same. He explained that "by refusing to
ratify the Treaty of Sevres of 1920, Turkey did not want to recognise this
genocide" which could be explained in the political context of that time,
but "90 years later, Turkey must change" and adopt European values while
recognising this historic reality.
The Turkish press, the Anatoly official agency, spear headed by the Turkish
Daily News, the same day, misconstrued the remarks of Mr Toubon, alleging
that he had asked Turkey to ratify the Treaty of Sevres. This treaty, signed
notably by the first Armenian Republic and by the Ottoman Empire (as well as
UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Czechoslovakia, now members of EU)
constituted the reparation for the wrongs of the genocide but was never
ratified by Ankara, while the later Treaty of Lausanne, eluded the question.
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