JANUARY 18, 2014 MirTHErARoMENr IAN -Spe ctator Volume LXXXIV, NO. 26, Issue 4320 $ 2.00 NEWS IN BRIEF The First English Language Armenian Weekly in the United States Since 1932 Jailed PKK Leader Suspects in Hrant Honors Dink Memory German Wartime Documents ISTANBUL (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Abdullah Dink Murder Case Oçalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Shed Light on Genocide Party (PKK), honored the memory of Hrant Dink, Released Two who was killed seven years ago in an ultranational - TORONTO — The Zoryan ist plot, Hurriyet Daily News reports. Days after Arrest Institute announced recently “I greet the memory and the struggle of the pre - that the long-awaited English cious child of the Armenian people, our brother ISTANBUL (Hurriyet) — Two suspects in edition of The Armenian Hrant,” Oçalan said in a message which was con - the Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Genocide: Evidence from the veyed to the public on January 11 following a visit Dink murder case, who were arrested in German Foreign Office Archives, to Imrali Island by two deputy parliamentary group Trabzon two days ago, were released on 1915-1916 , compiled and edited chairs of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), January 9 after interrogation. by Wolfgang Gust, has been and the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) deputy. Zeynel Abidin Yavuz and Osman Hayal released by Berghahn Books. It “I hope to address our Armenian citizens with a were considered key suspects, and arrest contains hundreds of comprehensive letter and have it ready for the orders for them were issued after they failed telegrams, letters and reports anniversary of the massacre of Hrant,” Oçalan said. to attend an initial hearing. from German consular officials Dink, the editor-in-chief of Agos , which has been Yavuz is said to have been the first trigger - in the Ottoman Empire to the the voice of the small Armenian community in man chosen to murder Dink while Hayal’s Foreign Office in Berlin which Istanbul for several years, was shot dead by Ogün brother, Yasin Hayal, has been charged with describe in graphic and shock - Samast in front of his office in Istanbul on January being the instigator of the assassination. ing detail the unfolding geno - 19, 2007. The Supreme cide of the Armenians. The Court of Appeals had documents provide unequivo - Azeri President overturned the cal evidence of the genocidal acquittals of top sus - intent of the Young Turks and Criticizes OSCE pects, including the German government’s Yasin Hayal. Hayal official acquiescence and Minsk Group and other 18 sus - complicity. BAKU (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Azerbaijani pects, including Just one exchange in the President Ilham Aliyev criticized the Organization Erhan Tuncel and book between the German Ambas- for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ersin Yolcu, are set sador in Constantinople and the German Chancellor follows: Hrant Dink Minsk Group for its “inactivity in resolving the to stand again in the The German ambas - Nagorno Karabagh [Artsakh] conflict.” retrial, which sador in Constantinople, According to Azeri media reports, Aliyev told his resumed on September 17, 2013. Count Paul Wolff- Gust Says Translation government that “Azerbaijan hopes for positive The sudden release of the suspects short - Metternich, wrote to the changes in the negotiation process that saw no ly after their arrest comes 10 days ahead of Will Reach more Scholars Imperial Chancellor, breakthrough during 2013,” although admitting the 7th anniversary of Dink’s murder. Theobald von Bethmann “some revival at the end of the year.” The renowned editor-in-chief of Agos, Hollweg, in Berlin on “Azerbaijan demonstrates a constructive position which has been the voice of the small December 7, 1915: By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach and I hope that the international mediators will Armenian community in Istanbul for sever - “…Our displeasure over Special to the Mirror-Spectator show more activity to achieve a settlement,” he al decades, was shot dead by Ogün Samast the persecution of the said. in front of his office in Istanbul on Jan. 19, Armenians HAMBURG — Who was Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian 2007. Samast was sentenced to over 22 should be clearly responsible for the Armenian earlier this week confirmed talks with his years in jail for the murder. expressed in our Genocide? The ready answer is Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov and Lawyers representing the Dink family press and an end the Young Turk leadership, and OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs in Paris in the sec - have repeatedly expressed their dismay over be put to our that is on the mark. But there is ond half of January. the way the investigations and the trial gushing over the more to the story. The Genocide Meanwhile, Trend news agency said that the were conducted. Turks. Whatever took place in the context of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs, ambassadors Igor One of the lawyers, Fethiye Çetin, said they are accom - First World War, whose cente - Popov of Russia, James Warlick of the United last September that the current stage was plishing is due to nary is being commemorated States and Jacques Fore of France, will next week “far behind the starting point,” as the our doing; those this year, a war which saw meet with the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss indictment of the retrial will review whether are our officers, Ottoman Turkey allied with Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter to discuss the a “terrorist organization” plotted the mur - our cannons, our Imperial Germany. It stands to Karabagh conflict settlement. der, a point that was simply assumed in the Wolfgang money… In order to reason that documentary mate - The Co-chairs met with Aliyev on December 15 in first trial. Gust achieve any success in the rial from official German Baku and with Armenian President Serge Sargisian Çetin argued in a recently-published book Armenian question, we sources can provide special on December 16 in Yerevan. They travelled to that the order to kill was given by the will have to inspire fear in insight into the actual campaign of deporta - Nagorno Karabagh on December 17. Turkish National Intelligence Organization the Turkish government tions and mass murder, because, as allies, the In Stepanakert, NKR President Bako Sahakyan (MIT) via an encrypted message. regarding the conse - see GUST, page 16 stressed Artsakh’s participation in the negotiations The group “Friends of Dink,” which is quences. If, for military and halt of Azerbaijan’s destructive and aggressive made up of journalists, relatives, friends see BOOK, page 16 and other intellectuals, also accuse the policy as key conditions in the process. state of being responsible for the murder. Armenians Mourn INSI DE Loss of Musical Talents Rebel In December 2013 and January 2014, the Armenian community lost two treasured musicians, Prof. Vahé H. Composer Berberian and Aram Gharabekian. Berberian, right, died at age 83, Page 10 while Gharabekian died at age 58. Berberian, the son of the great com - poser Hampartzoum Berberian, made his own mark as a first-rate professor. INDEX Gharabekian, born in Iran and edu - Arts and Living . 11 cated in the US and Germany, was con - Armenia . 2 ductor of Armenia’s National Chamber Community News. 5 Orchestra. Editorial . 14 See their obituaries on page 6, with International . 3,4 an additional tribute to Gharabekian on page 2. 2 S ATURDAY , J ANUARY 18, 2014 T HE A RMENIAN M IRROR -S PECTATOR ARMENIA News From Armenia Remembering Aram Gharabekian He ‘Set the Bar at a New Level and Cleared it’ Wolfsburg Willing to Pay 7.5 million Euros for held between July 30, 2009, and hall was packed, it was a huge success. By Gohar Abrahamyan September 21, in Yerevan, featuring a The following day we continued our tour Yura Movsisyan diversity of genres. This was an unprece - to Tel Aviv,” the famous singer recalled, dented event in the independent adding that the concert had to be held YEREVAN (Armenpress) — The German soccer YEREVAN (ArmeniaNow) — Great Armenia, aimed at “creating a tradition despite the unrest in Tel Aviv. (football) team Wolfsburg is willing to pay 7.5 mil- conductor, talented musician, unique which would, first of all, reaffirm the “We got to our hotel, where there lion euros for the transfer of the forward of the personality, wonderful friend, caring and eternal renewal of Yerevan’s cultural were notices in our rooms warning Armenian National Football Team and Spartak loving – this is how prominent spirit.” Open Music fest was hailed as a about possible shelling and giving Moscow Yura Movsisyan. Armenian conductor Aram Gharabekian unique platform for artistic collabora - instructions to run and hide in the hotel The German Newswalk website reported the is remembered among friends and col - tion and extraordinary performances of shelter as soon as a bomb alarm would Armenian footballer can move to Wolfsburg. leagues, mourning his loss and having a newly commissioned works. be heard, which happened frequently “Currently the striker shows a very good perfor- hard time speaking about him in past Gharabekian used to say that the fes - and every time he would come knock at mance in the Russian Premier League,” Newswalk tense. tival’s goal was to prepare the next gen - my door and rush me out. Once I was noted. Armenian family of parents Sergey “He stood out for his great desire to eration of great musicians in Armenia, really scared and was trying to hide, but Movsisyan and Aida Sahakyan and brothers Movses perform Armenian music; it was due to and Hovhannes. Yura has no memories of his home. him that I got to create numerous All he recalls is his family left in “late 1991 or early pieces. A great number of composers’ 1992” because of what Yura remembers as “Killing creations were staged with his support.