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  • Gomidas Inst. to Commemorate Armenian Genocide in Diyarbekir and Ist

    GOMIDAS INSTITUTE
    42 Blythe Rd.
    London W14 0HA
    United Kigdom
    Tel: 00 (44) (20) 7603 7242
    Email: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.gomidas.org/

    PRESS RELEASE
    16 April 2013


    Director of Gomidas Institute to Commemorate Armenian Genocide in
    Diyarbekir and Istanbul


    Gomidas Institute will be active in Turkey to commemorate the Armenian
    Genocide of 1915. This involvement reflects the Institute's continuing
    work in Turkey since 1991.

    23 April, 2013. Ara Sarafian will visit Diyarbekir, where he will pay
    homage to the victims of 1915 at Sourp Giragos, Virgin Mary, and Mar
    Petyun churches. He will meet local officials in the city, including
    the Mayor Osman Baydemir, and participate in a commemorative event at
    Ongözlü Köprüsü, Diyarbakir, the city's ancient bridge over the
    Tigris. This was the location where over 630 Armenian community
    leaders were sent to their deaths in 1915, followed by the destruction
    of their communities.

    24 April, 2013. 11 a.m. Sarafian, accompanied by the representatives
    of the Human Rights Association of Turkey, will visit the grave of Ali
    Faik Ozansoy at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery, Esentepe Mh., 34394
    Å=9EiÅ=9Fli/Istanbul. Ali Faik Ozansoy was the Mutasarrıf of Kutahya
    who refused to deport the Armenian population of his province in
    1915. Sarafian will pay tribute to Ozansoy and other righteous Ottoman
    officials who opposed the persecution of Armenians.

    At 12:30 p.m. Sarafian will participate at the main commemorative
    event organised by the Turkish Human Rights Association (IHD) in
    Istanbul. The commemoration will take place at the Turkish and Islamic
    Arts Museum, Atmeydanı Caddesi 46 Sultanahmet/Istanbul. This was the
    city's central prison in 1915 and Armenian intellectuals who were
    arrested on 24 April 1915 were held there before being sent into the
    interior of the Empire. This year's commemoration is particularly
    important because it will give voice to the Seyfo - the destruction of
    Assyrian communities in upper Mesopotamia in 1915.


    After this commemorative event, Sarafian will join the IHD delegation
    visiting the Armenian Cemetery in Å=9EiÅ=9Fli to pay tribute to the
    memory of Sevag Å=9Eahin Balıkçı, the Armenian private shot dead
    while doing his military service in Diyarbekir on 24th April
    2011. Sarafian will then visit the photo exhibition, "Before 1915:
    Assyrian Life in the Ottoman Empire,' at IHD Main Office, Ã=87ukurlu
    Ã=87eÅ=9Fme Sokak, Bayman Ap. No: 10/1, Taksim/Istanbul.

    For more information visit www.gomidas.org or email [email protected]
    or join our mailing list.

    * Ara Sarafian is a historian specialising in late Ottoman and modern
    Armenian history. He is the director of the Gomidas Institute - an
    independent academic institution dedicated to modern Armenian Studies
    and research.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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