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TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER WHO ACKNOWLEDGED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PRIZE
- Several Swedish MPs have applied to the Nobel Peace Committee with the proposal to give the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to famous Turkish human rights defender Ragip Zarakolu.
As the Turkish Evrensel website informs, the Swedish MPs mentioned in their proposal that Zarakolu published materials on the Armenian Genocide and the Kurdish issue which are taboos in Turkey. He has been sentenced for that publications several times.
One month ago Zarakolu has sent a letter to the Turkish parliament calling them to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide.
"Yes, Turkey must face its history. It is not only an obligation towards the victims but also a duty for securing healthy way of thinking for the society. The acknowledgement of the genocide will not belittle Turkey but will strengthen it," Zarakolu wrote.
Ragip Zarakolu is a known human rights defender and publisher in Turkey. Many materials on the Armenian Genocide have been published in his Belge publishing house. On February in 2011 Zarakolu visited Armenia.
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Headlines for February 03, 2012RUSSIA WILL STAY FOCUSED ON KARABAKH RESOLUTION UNDER PUTIN - US EXPERT
Russia will stay focused on Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution under the presidency of Vladimir Putin, said the expert at the Strategic Studies Institute (US Army War College), Dr. Stephen Blank. According ...TURKISH HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER WHO ACKNOWLEDGED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOMINATED FOR NOBEL PRIZE
Several Swedish MPs have applied to the Nobel Peace Committee with the proposal to give the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to famous Turkish human rights defender Ragip Zarakolu.
As the Turkish Evrensel website ...IRAN IS WINNING TIME AND DEVELOPS NUCLEAR WEAPON - RUSSIAN EXPERT
Currently Iran is winning time in order to delay the attack on it and then letting to know that it is almost ready to start negotiations with the West, President of the Middle East Institute Yevgeny Satanovsky ...ARMENIAN GENERAL BREEDS FERRET AND TURKEY
Head of Yerkrapah Volunteers Union, General Manvel Grigoryan has bought land in Armenia's Armavir region and has turned it into a reservation, the consultant of Manvel Grigoryan Vardan Vardanyan told ...IN DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES PROPORTIONAL LISTS ARE PREPARED BY VOTERS, IN ARMENIA - BY PARTY LEADERS
YEREVAN. - Armenia's proportional electoral system is different from other democratic counties' systems, expert on political and electoral systems Armen Badalyan told the reporter of Armenian News-NEWS.am.
He ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER ASSIGNS BROTHER-IN-LAW AS HIS ASSISTANT
YEREVAN. - Armenian Parliament Speaker Samvel Nikoyan has appointed his brother-in-law Rafael Abovyan as his assistant, sources in the Armenian Republican Party's (RPA) inform. According to the sources, ...ARMENIA'S FORMER PARLIAMENT SPEAKER TO HOLD RULING PARTY'S CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS SESSION? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The ruling coalition's Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will convene, on Friday, a campaign headquarters session, moderated by Hovik Abrahamyan, the headquarters chief and former National ...HOW MANY TELEVISION COMPANIES DOES ARMENIAN REGIONAL GOVERNOR HAVE? - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - In his 2011 report, Armen Ghularyan, Governor of Armenia's Tavush Region, reflected on the activities carried out in the Region in the year past, Aravot daily writes.
"Presenting the current ...GEORGIA REGISTERS THE COLDEST WINTER OVER LAST 15 YEARS
The unusual frosts were registered in the cities and regions of Georgia on the night of February 3. The temperature dropped to -10-13° C in Tbilisi, while -15-20° C in the mountain regions.
It ...ARMENIA'S ALL INTERSTATE ROADS ARE OPEN
YEREVAN. - Armenia's all interstate highways are open as of Friday 8 a.m.
But the Gyumri-Akhuryan, Gyumri-Ashotsk, and Gyumri-Spitak Highways, and Selim Mountain Pass are difficult to drive as a result ...ARMENIAN YOUTH IS KIDNAPPED IN ALEPPO - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The Armenian community of Syria has found itself in a difficult situation because of the clashes in the country, Yerkir daily writes.
"Our Syrian-Armenian community sources inform that an ...FORMER ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT SPEAKER'S SECURITY CHIEF IMPORTS USED TIRES - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - Former Armenian Parliament Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan's security chief Bagrat, who is known by his first name only, imports used tires to Armenia, Zhoghovurd daily writes, referring to its well-informed ...ARMENIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER HEADS TO BELGIUM
YEREVAN. - An Armenian delegation, led by Defense Minister Seyran Ohanyan, is on a visit to Belgium, from Thursday to Saturday.
Ohanyan will attend, at NATO Headquarters, the sessions of the defense ...IN TURKEY, LIFE OF AN ARMENIAN IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS MCDONALD'S - TURKISH MP
ANKARA. - During the Turkish parliament's hearings on the proposal for fight against the financing of terrorism, the Kurdish "Peace and Democracy Party" (BDP) MP Sirri Sureyya Onder reflected on the court ...IRAN LAUNCHES NEW SATELLITE
Iran successfully launched its Navid-e Elmo-o Sanat satellite into orbit on Friday morning.
Head of the Iranian Space Agency Hamid Fazeli told local Press TV channel, that the altitude of Navid would ...ARMENIA'S PARLIAMENT HAS NEW PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT CHIEF
YEREVAN. - Armenpress News Agency's former Director Hrayr Zoryan is appointed Armenian National Assembly (NA) Public Relations Department Chief, the informed sources reported to Armenian News-NEWS.am. ...NO SNOWFALL EXPECTED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Clear skies and no snowfall are expected for Armenia, and the air temperature will not change significantly, Hydrometeorology Center's Forecasting Department Head Gagik Surenyan told Armenian ...64-YEAR-OLD MAN FOUND DEAD IN YEREVAN APARTMENT
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received a distress call, on Thursday, informing that a capital Yerevan apartment resident was not answering to the telephone calls and the doorbell, and that a rescue ...SNOWSTORM STILL WREAKS HAVOC AT ARMENIA'S ROADS
YEREVAN. - Armenia's Rescue Service received a distress, on Thursday, informing that as a result of a blizzard in the vicinity of Torosgyugh village, in Shirak Region, close to twenty vehicles had piled ...YEREVAN TO HOST SPECIAL CHINESE CONCERT
YEREVAN. - A special Chinese concert will be held in Armenia, on February 13, at capital Yerevan's Aram Khachatryan Concert Hall.
Within the framework of the 20th anniversary of the Armenian-Chinese diplomatic ...WANTED UZBEK WOMAN IS DETAINED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Officers from Armenia's Police Force took under custody, on Thursday from a capital Yerevan apartment, Uzbekistan citizen Oksanna Makovozi, 38.
She was wanted on charges of giving false information, ...CITIZEN LEAVES WEAPON NEAR CHURCH IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - An Armenian called police and informed he leaves a weapon near church on Thursday.
Police found a pistol at the scene, police press service informs. The weapon is sent for the expertise and ...ROBBERY GANG DETAINED IN ARMENIA'S ARARAT REGION
ARARAT. - Criminal gang accused of series of robberies in Armenia's Ararat Region villages is detained.
A citizen turned to police saying he was robbed out of AMD 250,000 ($660) on Wednesday, police press ...CONGRESSMEN MEET WITH GEORGIA'S SAAKASHVILI TO DISCUSS JAVAKHK ISSUES
Congressmen Adam Schiff, lead sponsor of the Armenian Genocide resolution, and Howard Berman met with Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, Thursday to discuss the bilateral relationship between U.S. ...EU ACHIEVED LITTLE PROGRESS TOWARDS RESOLVING KARABAKH CONFLICT - REPORT
The European council on foreign relations issued European Foreign Policy Scorecard assessing the EU's performance on the global stage across all 27 states.
The report says despite relatively unity, the ...CITIZENS DISARMED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - A citizen turned to police in Armenia on Thursday and informed that he has left weapons on the railroad. Law enforcement agents arrived at the scene and found the weapons, police press service ...GUEST STEALS MONEY FROM CUPBOARD
YEREVAN. - Edita H., 26, reported to the Armenian Police on Thursday informing that Vahik D., who had been hosted in the house in the beginning of January has stolen $500 and AMD 20 thousand from the ...INCUMBENT PRESIDENT SHOULD HEAD REPUBLICAN PARTY'S LIST - ARMENIAN MP
YEREVAN.- Incumbent President Serzh Sargsyan should head the proportional list of the candidates from Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), said RPA member Hovhannes Sahakyan.The MP said the list would be ...ARMENIA'S FORMER FM IS READY TO COOPERATE WITH FELLOW FORMER FM
YEREVAN. - Armenia's parliamentary opposition Heritage Party leader, and former FM, Raffi Hovannisian is not against collaborating with another former FM, Vartan Oskanian, in fighting against election ...ARMENIAN PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION PARTY TO HOLD CONGRESS ON MARCH 2
YEREVAN. - Armenia's parliamentary opposition Heritage Party will convene its congress on March 2, 2012, during which participation in the electoral processes will be discussed, Heritage's leader Raffi ...90 ARMENIAN CITIZENS STUCK IN GEORGIA'S HIGH-MOUNTAIN REGION
Ninety citizens of Armenia got stuck in the neighboring Georgia because of avalanche threat in high-mountain Kazbegi region
Local authorities said it is still unclear when the road would be cleaned. Thirty ...SCHOOLBOY RAN OVER IN ARMENIA
...CARELESS TEENAGE BURNED TRAILER IN ARMENIA
IJEVAN. - A trailer was burned as a result of teenage carelessness.
Ijevan police received a call that a trailer burned. However, it cleared out on Thursday that the fire broke out by a teenage Albert ...ARMENIAN RULING PARTY TO PARTICIPATE IN ELECTIONS FOR ABSOLUTE MAJORITARIAN SEATS
YEREVAN. - Ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) will participate in the elections aiming to receive the absolute majoritarian seats at the Parliament, RPA spokesperson Gagik Melikyan said at a press ...WE DO NOT HAVE OIL, BUT WE DO HAVE MORE PRECIOUS RESOURCES - ARMENIAN PM
YEREVAN. - Armenia's PM Tigran Sargsyan received Jonathan James Aves and Catherine Jane Leach, Great Britain's newly appointed ambassadors to Armenia. They discussed Armenian-British relations.
Sargsyan ...JOURNALIST ARRESTED IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Armenian oppositional Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper editor Hayk Gevorgyan is arrested on Friday.
According to Armenian News-NEWS.am sources, several people approached Gevorgyan, ...GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA DISSATISFIED WITH LOCAL MEDIA
YEREVAN.- German Ambassador to Armenia is not satisfied with the work of the Armenian media.
"It is important for every journalist to have courage and not hide behind his chief editor's back," Hans-Jochen ...GIRL WEIGHING ABOUT 7 KG BORN IN KAZAKHSTAN
A baby-girl weghing about 7kg was born in Kazakhstan. The little giant was born in the Kokshetau hospital.
According to the doctors, kids with such weight are rare events and it was the first case in ...WE ARE STUDYING ARMENIA'S GASOLINE MARKET - ECONOMIC COMPETITION COMMISSION
YEREVAN. - Proceedings are not launched in connection with the increase in Armenia's gasoline prices, but studies are being conducted, Armenian State Commission for the Protection of Economic Competition ...THERE IS NO CHILD PROSTITUTION IN ARMENIA - POLICE FORCE
YEREVAN. - In 2011, 54 cases of sexual violence against minors were recorded in Armenia, Police Force representative, Police Colonel Nelli Duryan stated during a press conference on Friday.
Also, she ...RULING PARTY MP CONFIDENT CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL WOULD APPROVE GENOCIDE BILL
YEREVAN.- Armenian ruling party MP considers the French Constitutional Council will approve the bill criminalizing the genocide denial.
Gagik Melikyan, secretary of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, ...ARMENIAN MP CRITICIZED IN OWN PARTY, WHILE PRAISED BY OPPONENTS
YEREVAN. - Instead of the skirmish between Ruling Republican Armenia (RPA) party and ruling coalition member Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP), RPA sees an elective process with competition, where any political ...ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS ON NATURAL JUICE INGREDIENTS UNDERWAY IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN. - Administrative proceedings instituted on natural juice ingredients is not yet over, head of the State Commission for Protection of Economic Competition Artak Shaboyan said at a briefing on ...SIXTY PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF COLD WEATHER IN RUSSIA
Sixty-four people died as a result of freezing weather in Russia this January, said Deputy Health Minister Maxim Topilin. 1,400 people have applied for medical aid.
Twenty-eight people died from frostbit ...ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING FOR ARMENIA'S JUVENILE DELINQUENTS IS PREFERABLE THAN IMPRISONMENT - POLICE FORCE REPRESENTATIVE
YEREVAN. - Armenia's law enforcement agencies and the courts wish to set up alternative sentencing for young offenders, Police Force representative, Police Colonel Nelli Duryan stated during a press conference ...PROFESSIONS POPULAR IN DEMAND IN ARMENIA - SURVEY
YEREVAN. - Baker Tilly Armenia Company run survey on Study in Economic Spheres last year aiming to assess development possibilities in various spheres of economy based on GDP and fixing specialties, which ...ARMENIAN POLICE EQUALS EMO MOVEMENT TO CADGING
YEREVAN. - The Emo subculture is not a crime all in all but it still contains risks, Deputy Head of the Third Division of Armenian Police Criminal Investigation Service, Colonel Nelly Duryan told during ...YEREVAN, TBILISI HAVE POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPING RELATIONS - YEREVAN MAYOR
YEREVAN. - Yerevan and Tbilisi have a huge potential for developing partnership relations, Armenian capital Yerevan's Mayor Taron Margaryan said during his meeting, on Friday, with the Georgian Ambassador, ...I AM MORE ARMENIAN THAN BRAZILIAN - MARCOS PIZZELLI
Armenian national team's midfielder Marcos Pizzelli says he feels himself more Armenian than Brazilian.
In his interview with Russian Sport Expressnewspaper, Pizzelli who is playing for Russian Kuban ...US CENTRAL COMMAND MARKS 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIA'S ARMED FORCES
A celebratory event, devoted to the 20th anniversary of Armenia's Armed Forces, was held Wednesday at the US Central Command. The event brought together high-ranking officers and civilian officials from ...TURKEY FAILED IN ANTI-SYRIAN CAMPAIGN - ARMENIAN TURKOLOGIST
YEREVAN. - Turkey, which was active in trying to assume a determining role in the events that started in Syria, is disillusioned, turkologist Andranik Ispiryan stated during a press conference on Friday. ...THREE DAY LAW SCHOOL TO BE OPENED IN ARMENIAN UNIVERSITY
YEREVAN. - The opening ceremony of 'Strengthening Judiciary and the problems of modern times' international three day winter school will open in Yerevan State University's Judicial Faculty on February ...GERMANY WILL CONTINUE ASSISTING ARMENIA - GERMAN AMBASSADOR
The Government of Germany will continue assisting Armenia in carrying out its legal and economic reforms, German Ambassador to Armenia, Hans-Jochen Schmidt said during a seminar, being held in Aghveran ...ARMENIA IS COUNTRY OF OPTIMISTS - GALLUP
Most of the inhabitants of the Earth (53 per cent) consider themselves happy and they are 4 time more than the unhappy ones (13 percent). Such are the survey results of sociologists. The annual international ...ARMENIAN JOURNALIST'S ARREST ILLEGAL, MEAN AND PERSONAL REVENGE - NEWSPAPER
YEREVAN. - The Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper releases a statement on the same newspaper journalist and editor Hayk Gevorgyan's arrest on Friday.
"Armenian famous journalist, responsible ...THOSE WHO ARREST ARMENIAN JOURNALIST OBVIOUSLY UNDER DRUGS - EDITOR (VIDEO)
YEREVAN. - The man releasing arrest order for Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) newspaper journalist Hayk Gevorgyan was obviously under drugs, newspaper's Editor-in-Chies Nikol Pashinyan told commenting ...PEDOPHILE BUSINESSMAN'S VERDICT IS UNCHANGEABLE - HIS NEXT STEP IS TO APPEAL TO COURT OF APPEALS
The hearings of the case of head of Akhtala Metal Prince mining plant Serob Ter-Poghosyan's appeal, who was sentenced for pedophilia, was heard in the Court of Appeal on Friday. The court denied his appeal ...FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL TO DECIDE ON BILL CRIMINALIZING GENOCIDES IN ONE MONTH
PARIS. - French Constitutional Council will cast a verdict on bill criminalizing denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, in early spring.
More possible dates are Feb. 29 or March 1, Turkish ...THOUSANDS HECTARES OF FOREST HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN ARMENIA'S FOREST FUND
YEREVAN. - After the investigations it came out that around 23 thousand hectares of forest was not included in Armenia's Forest Fund, was reported during the consultation with regional governors hosted ...ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DISCUSSES UPCOMING RALLY AND MAJORITARIAN SYSTEM
YEREVAN. - Off parliamentary opposition Armenian National Congress (ANC) held consultations of regional offices' heads on Friday, run by the ANC coordinator Levon Zurabyan.
ANC discussed preparation works ...POLICE CLAIMS LEGALITY OF ARRESTING ARMENIAN JOURNALIST
YEREVAN. - Armenian police claims that the arrest of Haykakan Zhamanak (Armenian Times) journalist Hayk Gevorgyan was legal.
According to the chief of Investigation Police Department Armen Ayvazyan, Gevorgyan ...ARMENIAN SERVICEMEN DEADLY INJURED ON KARABAKH-AZERBAIJANI CONTACT LINE
STEPANAKERT. - An Armenian serviceman was deadly injured in Jabrail military unit in Nagorno-Karabakh on Friday, Armenian News-NEWS.am source reports.
Head of the Karabakh MOD PR department Senor Hasratyan ...OVER 133 QUESTIONS IN UPCOMING FOUR-DAY SITTING AGENDA OF ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT
YEREVAN. - Armenian Parliament held working consultations on Friday, run by the Speaker Samvel Nikoyan, parliamentary press service informs Armenian News-NEWS.am.
The parliament discussed the eleventh ...CAR ACCIDENT OCCURS ON ARMENIAN ROAD
YEREVAN. - Armenia's rescue service received information at 20.07 p.m. on Thursday that a car accident occurred on Yerevan-Meghri road in Armenia.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am received information from Armenian ...
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