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  • Lecture about the Genocide in the Sanjak

    PRESS RELEASE
    ARPA Institute
    18106 Miranda St. Tarzana, CA 91356
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    Contact: Hagop Panossian
    Tel: (818) 586-9660
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.arpainstitute.org/

    ARPA Institute presents the Lecture/Seminar:
    "The Genocide, Implemented in the Sanjak and the
    Souternmost Parts of Celicia by the Turks,"
    by Dr. Hagop Cholakian, on Friday, March 7th,
    2008 at 7:30 PM at the
    Merdinian School auditorium.

    The Address is 13330 Riverside Dr., Sherman Oaks, CA
    91403. Directions: on the 101 FWY exit on Woodman,
    go north and turn right on Riverside Dr.

    Abstract: The far southeastern regions of the Armenian
    Highlands extend from Antioch to `Jehser Shoughour',
    encompassing the Mussa Dagh, Kessab, Beylan, Latakia,
    and the valley of `Rouj', currently in Syria. All
    Armenian inhabitants of these regions received the
    order for deportation from the Ottoman Government and
    were driven by force to the Syrian deserts and other
    inhospitable places. The majority of the Mussa Dagh
    population puts up a resistance by setting base on the
    mountain top and fighting the enemy for over fourty
    days, thus earning the international reputation
    through the famous novel of Frantz Werfel, `The Fourty
    Days of Mussa Dagh'. A small part of the people of
    Mussa Dagh decide to join the deportations, as do the
    rest of the Armenian population in all the other towns
    and villages in the region, resulting in their tragic
    extermination. The only two towns of Kneh and
    Yacoubieh were not deported. In 1919-1920, those who,
    somehow, survived returned to their lands, however,
    quite a few of the villages and towns never recovered
    and lost their whole population.

    Hagop Cholakian: was born in 1947 in the town of
    Kaladouran in Kessab. He has attended the local
    schools and then continued his secondary education in
    the Armenian Evangelical School in Anjar, Lebanon. He
    has earned his Ph.D. in Philology (Panasiroutyoun)
    >From the Yerevan State University. He has served as a
    teacher in Anjar, Beirut, and since 1976 in the Karen
    Yeppeh School in Aleppo, he also teaches Armenology in
    the Hamazkayin `Jemaran', in Aleppo. He has written
    Armenian language textbooks for secondary students and
    has numerous publications, such as the `Dialect of
    Kessab', `The Kessab Folklore', and historical books,
    such as `Kessab', `The Armenians of the Rouj Valley',
    etc.

    For Information Please call Dr. Hagop Panossian at
    (818)586-9660 or e-mail at [email protected]
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