Sassun

Hmm interesting, I have never had it any other way except chicken meat. My mom's the best cook.

They were Zoroastrans. Zratashdagan. Shooting the messenger is always a wrong thing.

Arpa as they say, live and let live! By allowing for dual citizenship no one is forcing you to join the army or fight on the Azerbaijani border! If you like the way it is now, you don't have to acquire citizenship! Nobody will hold a gun to your head and make you do it. That's the beauty of it all. Why prevent others from obtaining it?

Actually the Jewish model does not include waiver of military service requirement, and IMO it should not be waived anyway for anyone who wishes to become a citizen. You want to get full citizenship because you want to have the same rights as those who have citizenship now. But people must realize that with rights also come responsibilities. That includes residency status, which is what the Jewish model is all about. A Jew can get Israeli citizenship by immigrating rather than applying at an Israeli embassy... Anyway I doubt the Jewish model could apply to Armenia/Armenians, Armenians don't have that kind of dedication and commitment... Or maybe they don't because they cannot get dual citizenship. Who knows, it could be that not so many Jews would've moved to Isael had they not been allowed to keep their American passport for example. Yeah, the current policy by the Armenian government is nothing short of hitting oneself in the foot. Well I know that I would move there if they do the dual citizenship thing. I mean, who wants to give up on the precious Lebanese passport?

Please keep in mind that other than the Shi'ite element there is also the national element/interest, and for Iran it is also a "problem" of its Azeri minority, which would (it fears) be encouraged to secede by fresh fighting over Karabakh/Artsakh, given the rise of nationalist feelings and consciousness, and also the fact that this could be used by Iran's #1 enemy at the moment, USA...

By the way, there is a book in Armenian on Haini, the only that I know of, though not comprehensive by any means. It doesn't have, for example, any info or pics of my family. The book is mostly oriented towards the Protestant/Evangelical Armenians of Haini... But still an interesting read (I own it). I saw pics of Haini for the first time in my life (after looooong searches) a couple of months ago. Until then I had been searching for Haini and didn't get much, but then I looked up Hani, and was directed to the municipality page. It's a small town now. The page is in Turkish so I can't understand most of the stuff on there.

Haini is known as Hani now, and today is part of the Diyarbakir province. It is situationed north and a bit east of Diyarbakir (Dikranagerd). If you've heard of a village called Liçe, it's just west of it. OK, here goes a map: http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/BChronicler/map.jpg

My father’s mother’s father: Sassun My father’s mother’s mother: Haini My father’s father’s mother & father: Haini My mother’s father’s father: Haini My mother’s father’s mother: Bolis/Constantinople My mother’s mother’s father: Gesaria My mother’s mother’s mother: Tekirdagh aka Rhaedestus/Rodosto