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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION TO TAKE PLACE IN DIYARBAKIR
15:54, 03 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
An Armenian Genocide commemoration event will take place in Diyarbakir
on April 24. The commemoration will be held at the Surp Giragos
Armenian Church, the Armenian Weekly reports.
"Diyarbakir is the location where--one hundred years after the
genocide--the grandchildren of forcefully Islamized Armenians showed
the courage and determination to reveal their true roots. All this
happened after the reconstruction of the Surp Giragos Church, and
was encouraged by the organized Armenian language classes and trips
to Armenia," Raffi Bedrosyan, a Toronto-based civil engineer and a
concert pianist, told the Armenian Weekly. Bedrosyan will perform a
concert of works by Armenian composers at the commemoration event.
"It means a lot to me to celebrate, not commemorate, the rebirth of
these new Armenians with a concert right where the whole movement
started; in the beautiful Surp Giragos Church," said Bedrosyan.
Bedrosyan was also involved in organizing the Surp Giragos Church
reconstruction project, and in promoting the significance of this
historic project worldwide. In September 2012, he gave the first
Armenian piano concert in the Surp Giragos Church since 1915.
"Diyarbakir was one of the bloodiest sites of the Armenian Genocide.
About 97 percent of the Armenian population of the province disappeared
in 1915, so it means a lot to me to be there commemorating the victims
of the genocide with the music of Komitas and [Aram] Khatchaturian,"
said Bedrosyan.
For the past several years, proceeds from Bedrosyan's concerts and two
CDs have been donated to the construction of school, highway, water,
and gas distribution projects in Armenia and Karabagh--projects in
which he has also participated as a volunteer engineer.
The event, which is organized by the Diyarbakir Surp Giragos Armenian
Church Foundation, the Gomidas Institute of London, and Human Rights
Association of Diyarbakir, will include a candle lighting ceremony
to remember the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Last year, hundreds gathered at the Surp Giragos Armenian Church to
commemorate the Armenian and Assyrian Genocides, with the participation
of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor Fırat Anlı and
former mayor of Sur Municipality Abdullah DemirbaÅ~_. The first
genocide commemoration event took place in Diyarbakir in 2013.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/04/03/armenian-genocide-commemoration-to-take-place-in-diyarbakir/
http://armenianweekly.com/2015/04/02/commemoration-diyarbakir/
15:54, 03 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
An Armenian Genocide commemoration event will take place in Diyarbakir
on April 24. The commemoration will be held at the Surp Giragos
Armenian Church, the Armenian Weekly reports.
"Diyarbakir is the location where--one hundred years after the
genocide--the grandchildren of forcefully Islamized Armenians showed
the courage and determination to reveal their true roots. All this
happened after the reconstruction of the Surp Giragos Church, and
was encouraged by the organized Armenian language classes and trips
to Armenia," Raffi Bedrosyan, a Toronto-based civil engineer and a
concert pianist, told the Armenian Weekly. Bedrosyan will perform a
concert of works by Armenian composers at the commemoration event.
"It means a lot to me to celebrate, not commemorate, the rebirth of
these new Armenians with a concert right where the whole movement
started; in the beautiful Surp Giragos Church," said Bedrosyan.
Bedrosyan was also involved in organizing the Surp Giragos Church
reconstruction project, and in promoting the significance of this
historic project worldwide. In September 2012, he gave the first
Armenian piano concert in the Surp Giragos Church since 1915.
"Diyarbakir was one of the bloodiest sites of the Armenian Genocide.
About 97 percent of the Armenian population of the province disappeared
in 1915, so it means a lot to me to be there commemorating the victims
of the genocide with the music of Komitas and [Aram] Khatchaturian,"
said Bedrosyan.
For the past several years, proceeds from Bedrosyan's concerts and two
CDs have been donated to the construction of school, highway, water,
and gas distribution projects in Armenia and Karabagh--projects in
which he has also participated as a volunteer engineer.
The event, which is organized by the Diyarbakir Surp Giragos Armenian
Church Foundation, the Gomidas Institute of London, and Human Rights
Association of Diyarbakir, will include a candle lighting ceremony
to remember the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Last year, hundreds gathered at the Surp Giragos Armenian Church to
commemorate the Armenian and Assyrian Genocides, with the participation
of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality co-mayor Fırat Anlı and
former mayor of Sur Municipality Abdullah DemirbaÅ~_. The first
genocide commemoration event took place in Diyarbakir in 2013.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2015/04/03/armenian-genocide-commemoration-to-take-place-in-diyarbakir/
http://armenianweekly.com/2015/04/02/commemoration-diyarbakir/