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Judgement at Istanbul JANUARY 21, 2012 THE ARMENIAN Mirror -Spe ctator NOW IN ITS 80TH YEAR Volume LXXXII, NO. 28, Issue 4222 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Imprisoned Zarakolu Calls upon Turkey to Recognize Genocide ANKARA (news.am) — Ragip Zarakolu, the Turkish Human Rights defender and director of Belge Publishing House, who is imprisoned on charges of helping Kurdish separatists, forwarded, through his attorney, a petition to the Turkish parliament, ask - ing the latter to recognize the Armenian Genocide. In his letter, Zarakolu noted that the 100th anniversary of the Genocide is approaching, yet the policy of denial is continuing and that the concept of “if necessary, we will do it again” is being reflect - ed. “Yes, Turkey must face its history. This is not only an obligation before the martyrs, but also a duty for the public . A fundamental apology is very important for 1915. Its place must be the parlia - ment of Turkey. It will not debase Turkey, but rather strengthen and elevate it,” according to Hrant Dink’s widow, Rakel, with supporters outside the courthouse. ( photo) Today’s Zaman Demokrathaber website of Turkey. “At this time, when the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Genocide is approaching, the Republic of Turkey must apologize to the martyrs and its citi - Turkish Court Jails Man behind Dink Murder zens alike,” according to Zarakolu’s letter. Belge Publishing House has published numerous Yasin Hayal, Accused Mastermind, books on the Armenian Genocide and Zarakolu vis - Sentenced to Life in Prison ited Armenia in February 2011 to pick up a state award. ISTANBUL (Guardian) — A court in Istanbul has sentenced a man to life in prison for masterminding the killing of a leading Armenian journalist, but Bulgaria’s Parliament cleared all 19 suspects in the five-year-old case of act - Defeats Resolution on ing under the orders of a terrorist organization. Hrant Dink, founder and editor-in-chief of the bilin - Armenian Genocide gual Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos and despised by hardline Turkish nationalists, was shot SOFIA (Sofia Echo) — The latest attempt by on January19, 2007 in front of his office in Istanbul, Bulgarian ultra-nationalist party Ataka to ask the in a case that highlighted the threat faced by country’s parliament to recognize the Armenian Armenians in Turkey. Yasin Hayal was convicted of masterminding Dink’s assassination. Genocide was defeated on January 11. see DINK, page 20 The municipalities of a number of Bulgarian cities, among them Plovdiv, Varna, Bourgas and Stara Zagora, have approved resolutions recogniz - ing the Armenian Genocide but over the years; sim - ilar resolutions in parliament have failed. France to Host Rally in Support of Genocide Bill Volen Siderov, leader of Ataka, a party whose platform includes an overall anti-Turkish stance PARIS (PanARMENIAN.Net, AFP) — The rally on January 23 to support the bill for a law that reinforces the view of against the background of the centuries of Coordination Council of Armenian penalizing Armenian Genocide denial. Turkey’s Ottoman-era massacre of Ottoman rule of Bulgaria, said that it was natural Organizations of France (CCAF) urged all On December 22, 2011, the French Armenians as genocide. for a “patriotic party” such as his to recognize the French people upholding principles of National Assembly passed a bill criminalizing In a letter to Francois Hollande, the Armenian Genocide. “To hide certain aspects of his - democracy and humanity to join a peaceful public denial of the Armenian Genocide. If social democratic Republican People’s tory because they are not good for you as a coun - passed and signed into law by the Senate, Party (CHP) denounced the French bill, try is, to me, demagoguery,” Siderov said. the bill would impose a 45,000-euro fine and which would outlaw denial that the 1915- He said that Ataka’s resolution was not an a year in prison for anyone in France who 17 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman attempt to politicize the issue but was a proposal denies this crime against humanity commit - Turk forces amounted to genocide. based on reason, the necessity to recognize ted by the Ottoman Empire. Hollande is the Socialist Party’s con - unpleasant moments in history. The Genocide bill will be debated at tender in the French presidential elections The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), French Senate on January 23. later this year. a minority party led and supported in the main by Meanwhile, Turkey’s main opposition “If the French parliament insists on vot - Bulgarians of Turkish ethnicity, objected strongly party said Friday it had appealed to ing through anti-Turk and unconstitutional to parliament being asked to deal with the issue. France’s socialist leader over French plans see FRANCE, page 5 It was not the function of parliament to decide historical truth, senior MRF Member of Parliament Lyutvi Mestan said. West Coast ADL District Committee and Tekeyan Cultural Association Drop Lawsuits INSI DE WATERTOWN, Mass. — Several contentious issues between the West Coast ADL District Committee and Tekeyan Cultural Association, Inc. Central Board had result - Gevork Vardanian ed in the two sides taking their issues to court. However, the parties met on December 16, 2011 to resolve their differences. The Judgement court cases were dropped on Wednesday, January 18, 2012, when a settlement Legendary Soviet agreement was signed to the satisfaction of both sides, marking the beginning of At Istanbul cooperative relations. Here below we publish the official joint communiqué regard - WWII Spy Gevork ing the issue: Communiqué page 12 Vardanian Dies at 87 The ADL US Western District Committee and Tekeyan Cultural Association, Inc., MOSCOW (Agence France Presse) US and Canada Central Board representatives held negotiations on Wednesday, — One of the legendary Soviet agents January 11, 2012, at the TCA Beshgeturian Center in Altadena, Calif., and agreed to drop all legal actions and continue their cooperative relations. of World War II, who infiltrated a INDEX British spy school and protected the ADL US Western District Committee “Big Three” in the Tehran conference, Arts and Living . 12 Tekeyan Cultural Association, Inc. Central Board of US and Canada Armenia . 2, 3 died at age 87 of cancer here on January 11, 2012 Community News. 6 January 10, Russia’s intelligence ser - Altadena, Calif. Editorial . 17 vice said Wednesday. George, Mandossian, Tekeyan, Cultural Association, Inc. International . 4, 5 see VARDANIAN, page 8 Hagop Nazarian, ADL Western District Committee 2 S ATURDAY , J ANUARY 21, 2012 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Environmentalists Protest at Armenian Mining Site YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — More than 200 environmen - tal activists and their sup - Jazzman Aksel Bakunts porters have marched to a Dies forest in northern Armenia to protest its transforma - YEREVAN (Tert.am) — On January 13, the Honored tion into an open-pit mine Artist of Armenia, jazzman and founder of Yerevan that they say would severe - State College of Jazz and Variety Art Aksel ly damage the environment Bakunts died in Yerevan, at the age of 65. The country’s leading A state commission headed by Armenian Minister environment-protection of Culture Hasmik Poghosyan has been set up to groups have for years been arrange an official funeral. campaigning against plans by the Armenian Copper Program (ACP) mining Ombudsman of Armenia company to develop a mas - Expresses Concern with sive copper and molybde - num deposit under the Death of Soldier Teghut Forest. It is estimated to contain YEREVAN (arminfo) — This week, ombudsman of 1.6 million tons of copper Environmental activists on January 15 protested plans to transform Armenia’s Teghut Forest into Armenia, Karen Andreasyan, expressed his condo- and about 100,000 tons of the site of a massive mining project. lence to the relatives and friends of conscript sol- molybdenum. dier Hayk Khachatryan, who died on December 30, If implemented, the pro - 2011. He also expressed his serious concern over ject will lead to the destruction of some deployed to block the demonstrators “They have appropriated people’s the tragic incidents in the army, the press service 128,000 trees. Critics say that would from advancing deeper into the pro - wealth and are now doing what they of the Human Rights Defender’s Office reported. wreak havoc on Armenia’s green areas posed mining site. want,” one man said of the ACP owners. Andreasyan abstained from any comments on the that have already shrunk since the The protesters were also confronted “They make people work for only incident not to disturb the preliminary investiga- 1990s. by a large group of local residents who 60,000 ($160) drams a month. People tion. However, given that Khachatryan’s relatives The ACP has pledged to offset the work for APC. The latter angrily dis - work because they have no other expressed their discontent with the delayed medical damage by planting new trees in the missed environmentalist warnings that choice.” assistance to the soldier, Andreasyan called on the area and creating more than 1,000 new open-pit mining would severely pollute Meanwhile the ACP’s holding compa - military servicemen and their relatives to inform jobs. the air, water, and land. ny, the Vallex Group, accused the pro - about the problems, incidents and complaints as Despite the uproar, the government “You guys don’t know the plight of testers of illegally trespassing on its soon as possible by dialing the hotline number 1- gave the green light to the controversial the people here,” one man told the pro - property and disrupting ACP opera - 16. The ombudsman thinks that the well-timed call project in 2008. Ecologists say about testers. “They were desperate for a liv - tions.
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