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In Clash with Police Paylan Blocks Dink’s Son Arrest ISTANBUL—Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament representing the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) on Saturday found himself on the front-lines of a clash between peaceful protesters and police and himself was attacked and dragged by law enforcement when he tried to prevent the police from arresting Hrant Dink’s son, Arat who had also joined the protest. The event was a gathering of families and friends of those who disappeared in police custody known as the “Saturday Mothers.” The group comprised of mainly Kurds and Alevis, has been gathering at a park near Taksim Square in Istanbul for 700 consecutive Saturdays.

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https://allinnet.info/interesting/united-kingdom-is-in-debt-to-armenia/ United Kingdom Is In Debt To Armenia Armenian geologist Suren Ayvazyan was certain that United Kingdom owed Armenia billion in unknown currency. According to some information and him particularly, in 1378 the king of Armenian Kingdom Cilicia Leo V (Levon V, occasionally Levon VI) transferred the treasury of the kingdom to the King of England Edward III for safekeeping. Two monarchs signed an agreement according to which England was obliged to return the treasury as soon as Armenia regained its independent statehood. Ayvazyan considered that for at least 600 years England and then United Kingdom have in any possible way prevented the recovery of Armenian sovereignty to avoid the repayment of kept wealth. Professor then argued the reason of the choice of England’s king as the keeper of Armenian fortune. Based on his researches in fields of archeology, linguistics and history Ayvazyan concluded that Celtic Britons moved to British Isles from area named Angl-tun in the province Sophene of Armenian Kingdom in 15th-10th centuries BC. Angl-tun was located in hard-to-reach mountain regions and was used as a storage for the wealth of Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. In his works Ayvazyan refers not only to Armenian but English sources as well. In 2001 Suren Ayvazyan expressed his ideas and demands in a letter to the Queen of the United Kingdom Elizabeth II. He hoped as well that the descendant of the Lusignan dynasty Louie Lusinyan, who lived in London at that moment, would also be interested in the retrieval of Armenian wealth. If the contract between monarchs existed and survived to the present day, Armenian side will have to face some juridical problems in the regard of retrieval of the treasury. A significant task would be to show the connection between Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia and today’s Republic of Armenia for the latter to be proven to be the actual assignee of the kingdom. To tell the truth, even in that case it would be quite difficult to recover those resources as it would surely be disadvantageous for the government of the United Kingdom. The treasury must have really come in handy to them as some “free” resources, and it probably won’t be given back so easily. Source: kommersant.ru

8000-Year Old Settlement Excavated at Aknashen https://allinnet.info/archeology/8000-year-old-settlement-excavated-at-akhashen/?fbclid=IwAR3Lq2CAdVgV7EJrCu57PBSIuL7V6VlqRmCVYY4jXv3I7LewXMIa1CYV_eY Armenian archaeologists unearthed an ancient, 8000-year old settlement near the Aknashen city in the Ararat Valley. It dates back at the beginning of the human civilization. “Prior to this period, everything known mostly relates to cave shelters and temporary dwellings. But here, we deal with a sedentary settlement, which is remarkable for its first attempts of construction and ceramic production,” said Ruben Badalyan, the head of the expedition. In Aknashen, the archaeologists found a plethora of artifacts. Among poor-condition human remains, they unearthed jewelry, ceramics, clothes, and tools, which provided the researchers with invaluable data on the lifestyle of the people, who have probably been the first to discover civilization. “It could be concluded that the humans living in that territory had some sense of aesthetic beauty. They adorned themselves, their clothes, and tools. And there is evidence that they used make-up,” said Badalyan. During the past years, several expeditions have already presented the archaeologists with monuments dating at the 7th and 6th millennium BC.

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190603-the-surprising-story-of-the-basque-language?fbclid=IwAR2Ul2TQRKWQSQCDVyQNm-oN4yx4YbJrM5o3mfTa4mCtSFaFqOh-1Qgxzbo\ Though the Basque and Armenian languages share no superficial resemblances, they do share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements. By Justin Calderon 4 June 2019 A few steps from the entrance to the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, one of San Sebastian’s most visible landmarks with its sky-piercing gothic spire, lies a simple, two-faced earthen slab. In this corner of Spain’s Basque Country, it seems out of place: carved on one side with an Apostolic cross and on the other with a mysterious-looking, non-Latin alphabet. The letters are certainly not Euskara, also known as Basque, an enigmatic European language famous for the absence of any clear links to living linguistic relatives. Rather, this Armenian khachkar (a cross-bearing memorial stele) was placed in central San Sebastian in 2017 by the city’s modern Armenian community to commemorate the centennial of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, which the Basque Country parliament is one of five parliaments in Spain to officially recognise. There is a surprising reason for the camaraderie between these two small and distant ethnic groups that are from opposite sides of Europe. Though their languages indicate no superficial resemblance – even the scripts look comparatively alien to one another – they share a baffling litany of words and grammatical elements that are acknowledged by both Armenian and Basque scholars. In San Sebastian, Spain, a khachkar symbolises close ties between the Basque and Armenian communities (Credit: Credit: Justin Calderón) In San Sebastian, Spain, a khachkar symbolises close ties between the Basque and Armenian communities (Credit: Justin Calderón) When I first saw the Armenian khachkar, I had just arrived from Biarritz in French Basque Country, where the Association AgurArménie (Armenian-Basque association) similarly trumpets a strong friendship between the two ostensibly distinct groups. What’s more, as I clumsily rolled past the memorial with suitcase in hand, I noted that San Sebastian’s khachkar looked familiar. In the Basque Museum in Bayonne, a short distance inland from Biarritz, I’d seen medieval Basque funerary steles that bore artistic motifs with striking similarities to the one in San Sebastian. You may also be interested in: • The language the French forbade • Switzerland’s ‘secret’ fifth language • The French region with a new currency Was this just coincidence? Many Armenians believe these similarities are not. Contrary to the popular belief that Basques are a cultural island, the Armenia-origin theory claims linguistic, toponymic, mythological and even DNA links between Armenians and Basques. Though this theory goes back centuries, it was most recently reinvigorated by Armenian linguist Vahan Sargsyan, who published numerous books and studies on the subject, including a first-ever Armenian-Basque dictionary in 2001. It’s a topic not without controversy. The dominantly upheld theory by many Basques, including on their government tourism site, is that their ethno-linguistic origin is isolated. This means their language and DNA are unique – and is thought to derive directly from hunter-gathers who came to this area long before Neolithic farming entered the region 7,500 years ago. However, in 2015, DNA testing by population geneticist Mattias Jakobsson of Uppsala University in Sweden put a dent into this theory when his team found strong DNA matches between skeletons of Neolithic Iberian farmers, which date to 5,500 to 3,500 years ago, and modern day Basques, according to Science Magazine. But the discovery hasn’t brought closure. The researchers also conceded that they couldn’t “entirely rule out the possibility that Basque still has its origins in a hunter-gatherer language that was retained and carried along as farming spread throughout Iberia” – which leaves the mystery unsolved. The Armenia-origin theory claims linguistic, toponymic, mythological and even DNA links between Armenians and Basques (Credit: Credit: David Kilpatrick/Alamy) The Armenia-origin theory claims linguistic, toponymic, mythological and even DNA links between Armenians and Basques (Credit: David Kilpatrick/Alamy) What makes the Armenian-Basque theory intriguing is that it has long been supported by linguistic research, first in an article by British Basque linguist Edward Spencer Dodgson in 1884, and then by studies from German philologist Joseph Karst in 1928, who discovered more than 300 Basque-Armenian lexical, grammatical and phonetic matches, including tegi (place), and zat (separate in Basque)/zati (separate in Armenian). More contemporarily, Sargsyan’s collaborative work in 1998 with Armenian and Basque linguists identified almost 600-shared parallel words between the two languages, which Sargsyan suggested were introduced through metallurgy and farming via an ancient migration of Armenians to this area. “It’s no accident that the Armenian and Basque languages have a number of almost identical words relating to agriculture,” he wrote in a 2006 article in Yerevan Magazine, referring to the shared words ardi (sheep), urti (water-bearing) and gari (millet in Euskara; barley in Armenian). I was curious to test out the Armenian-Basque lexicon to see if it was mutually intelligible, so I set out to question Euskara speakers on both sides of the Spanish-French border. The Armenian and Basque languages share a large number of words related to agriculture (Credit: Credit: Ainara Garcia/Alamy) The Armenian and Basque languages share a large number of words related to agriculture (Credit: Ainara Garcia/Alamy) From Bayonne to Bilbao, the Basque region, as seen from several train seats, is a land of brilliant greenery that traverses thick beds of grass and misty mountaintops. It is this land that provided for early Basque pastoralists, and its long coastline for fishermen, both of which are traditions still upheld strongly today. While 90% of Spaniards live in big cities, making the country one of the most depopulated in Europe, contrarily the majority of the Spanish Basque Country’s more than two million people still live a rural or suburban lifestyle. This strong anchor to village life has created numerous dialects, and in Basque public schools and institutions, a standardised Euskara, called batua, is employed. I showed Manex Otegi, a San Sebastian native I met through my holiday rental, a list of 26 shared Armenian-Basque words from Sargsyan’s compilation. “It is Basque, but it’s a bit weird; it seems to be really old,” he said, referring to the list. “Only six words on this list are batua,” he added, pointing out the Armenian-Basque words zati (separate) and txar (evil). “I’m not sure where they [others] come from and I guess that the ones that I’m not familiar with is because they are very old and maybe have been lost because the lack of use over the years and small population.” I repeated the same questioning with some Armenian friends in Bayonne, who recognised just one word on the list, the word for sheep (ardi), as an antiquated Armenian word. The majority of the Spanish Basque Country’s population still lives a rural or suburban lifestyle (Credit: Credit: Hemis/Alamy) While 90% of Spaniards live in big cities, the majority of the Spanish Basque Country’s population still lives a rural or suburban lifestyle (Credit: Hemis/Alamy) Gauging from conversations on trains and pintxo bars, and later with academics, it seems most shared Armenian-Basque words are obsolete and no longer part of either modern language. Unfortunately, there are no known living speakers fluent in both languages, and Sargsyan, who was self-taught in Euskara, passed away after a sudden heart attack in 2011 at the age of 54. According to his daughter Arevik, he left behind hundreds of flash cards of additional shared words, which have yet to be published. But how did two isolated ethno-linguistic cultures share so many words with one another? Multiple academics – both Armenian and Basque – including Basque linguist Charles Videgain, kept pointing me to Bilbao, where the Euskaltzaindia (Royal Academy of the Basque Language) is located, to speak with the preeminent minds on the history of the Basque language. A strong anchor to village life in Basque Country has created numerous dialects (Credit: Credit: Jerónimo Alba/Alamy) A strong anchor to village life in Basque Country has created numerous dialects (Credit: Jerónimo Alba/Alamy) In Bilbao, however, every scholar I spoke with officially rejected any link between Basques and peoples from the Caucasus (including Armenians or Georgians). Xabier Kintana, head director at the Euskaltzaindia, told me that Sargsyan’s list of shared Armenian-Basque words “are taken very randomly from the different modern dialects of the Basque language” and “are surely old loans of Latin, Celtic and other languages, in their time neighbours of the Basque, which invalidates their comparison.” He insisted that in order for such a study to successfully find a shared origin, comparisons would need to be made between the ancient forms of both languages. This would strip away borrowings from other languages, both in the Basque case (Latin, Iberian, Celtiberian, etc) and Armenian (Arabic, Turkish, Syriac, etc). However, comparing ancient languages depends on often very tiny sample sizes from archaeological digs, meaning getting a complete picture is often impossible. Even if a language connection is found, ultimately solid physical evidence linking the two peoples is absent. “The only relationship between these peoples is the similarity of some words,” Basque archaeologist Mertxe Urteaga told me. “There is no [archaeological] proof of the Armenian presence in the Basque Country and Navarra.” Mertxe Urteaga: “There is no archaeological proof of the Armenian presence in the Basque Country” (Credit: Credit: Hemis/Alamy) Mertxe Urteaga: “There is no archaeological proof of the Armenian presence in the Basque Country” (Credit: Hemis/Alamy) That left me back where I started, unable to find proof of a link between the two ethnic groups, yet still not convinced that two languages sharing hundreds of words could be pure coincidence. For now, it seems that Basque’s genesis story remains one of Europe’s greatest enigmas; a rare treasure of discovery in a world already largely charted, waiting for someone to finally crack it open.

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TYT Takes Belated Baby Step BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This is one of those good/bad news situations. The online talk show (formerly a radio program) named “The Young Turks” (henceforth TYT to save ink and pixels) hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian has belatedly come clean regarding the Armenian Genocide. You can hear it yourself on this May 13th YouTube posting. The program is ideologically left wing The main host, Uygur, had been on the record as a denialist since at least his college days when he published his views. As recently as February 2012, he was still on the same track when avoided straightforwardly recognize the Genocide when he spoke at the California Democratic Party convention. Based on the comments made by Kasparian on the YouTube video clip, this was not the first time that TYT had recognized the Genocide. If this is so, I’m disappointed not to have learned of it sooner. But then, I was certainly not going to watch, and thus support, a show hosted by a Turk who was a denialist and an Armenian who willingly worked beside and with that Turkish denialist. So far, so good, right? It’s great that a somewhat popular media personality, and a Turk at that, stopped his denial of the Genocide. But it’s not that straightforward. First, he introduced the topic of properly recognizing the Armenian Genocide. But it was only a teaser. He wanted to debunk rumors spreading online about TYT that he described as “wildly inaccurate” – and I have to say they are! Supposedly, TYT is controlled by Qatar (stemming form an advertising deal they had a few years ago); that TYT is owned by George Soros (stemming from TYT belonging to a grouping of media outlets, some others of which had gotten Soros funding), and that Uygur was secretly a Republican (because he had gotten a loan, since repaid, from Buddy Roemer, a Louisiana governor who switched parties from Democratic to Republican). Remember, TYT is a left-wing program! Why is all this relevant? Notice what Uygur did, he pushed a hot issue on which he has been excoriably wrong, to the back burner. Sure, his acceptance of the reality of the Genocide was emphatic, citing seven (if I didn’t miscount) examples of ridiculous lines of Turkish denial and other aspects of utterly false Turkish “history” he had been taught.. His explanation of why he had been a denier (basically, his Turkish upbringing and childhood schooling) even makes a lot of sense. But it wasn’t front-and-center. After Uygur is done, Kasparian chimes in with a sob-story of how right wingers have used her ascribed denial of the Genocide for political gain. Then she complains that this has led to serious threats against her and her family, given that she lives in Los Angeles. While that’s not a pleasant position to be put in, her assertion that it is ridiculous to be labeled a denier when she is an Armenian rings hollow. The old saying – “Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas” comes to mind. For years she worked with an unrepentant Genocide denier. Isn’t it reasonable for people to associate the same vileness with her? All of which brings us to the most important point. Great, a denialist Turk has come around. Maybe the up-to-now-Quisling Armenian even helped make that happen. Also nice. But what about the name of the program? The Young Turks. If Uygur and Kasparian expect ot be taken seriously, if they expect us to really believe that this isn’t a sham, that the pressure from progressive circles finally became too much, then THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM HAS TO CHANGE! It is utterly unacceptable to continue to sanitize a group of Genocide perpetrators, the Young Turks of the 19-20th centuries. The excuse is, you might recall, that initially, since the Young Turks were trying to reform the Ottoman Empire, their name became a synonym for people trying to make positive changes. Well, we saw how that turned out. History has spoken and the use of “Young Turk” in a positive sense can only mean one thing, a whitewash. So let’s flood Uygur and Kasparian with e-mail, tweets, Facebook messages, old-time letters, and any other means you can think of calling upon them to dump that disgusting name into the incinerator (not just the dustbin) of history! http://asbarez.com/181062/tyt-takes-belated-baby-step/?fbclid=IwAR21Lh0V52eMHMIheN3-pxIiDISdbgNYz3PoYgkAC7I0W08boOvLMvgyLfE

GOOD NEWS: Another store-front in Turkey's DC genocide-denial industry is closing down. Want proof? Here's the smoking gun: https://pen.org/professional-ethics-and-the-denial-of-arme…/ Lock-in US recognition and remembrance of the Armenian Genocide: www.anca.org/genocide

i miss home... just cup of water & look at Ararat would be great at this moment

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will Los Angeles be like this in 200 years ?

https://armenpress.am/eng/news/975878.html?fbclid=IwAR3ugxrnpbgf1SKmCcH5t7uJMDOqFF3KsVCMBl0ygWpZ2YNcB2taG6LDj9o First ever Armenian made TVs to hit market soon in monumental and historic industrial leap YEREVAN, MAY 23, ARMENPRESS. In a few days, a monumental and historic milestone will be recorded in the Armenian tech industry. The first ever Armenian-made TVs will hit the market as the joint Armenian-Lebanese-Syrian International Manufacturing Group (IMG) is introducing its ADAMIAN flat-screen televisions sets. IMG CEO Ramy Judy told reporters in the company’s assembly plant in Armenia’s Merdzavan that in a few days the TVs will be available in major stores across the country. “We are currently assembling 100-150 sets a day,” he said. According to the CEO, despite the factory’s inauguration having taken place in December of 2018, they began production only in May, since they were awaiting a governmental customs privilege for imports. “We were waiting for the government’s issuance of customs privileges, because the price that we promised couldn’t have been provided if we were to pay customs duties. The government granted the privilege in April,” Judy said. Now, the home appliances manufacturer is importing equipment and the TVs are assembled in Armenia. But IMG seeks further development. In one and a half months, the company will start assembling air conditioners, and then also washing machines, refrigerators. The Armenian-made ACs, fridges and washing machines will be marketed under the AIO brand. The Armenian-made home appliances will also be exported. The market price and technical characteristics of the TVs was not immediately available.

turkish American Cenk Uygur who runs a show called The Young Turks now Admit that Armenian Genocide did happen he was wrong https://gagrule.net/breaking-news-turkish-american-cenk-uygur-admit-that-armenian-genocide-did-happen-video/?fbclid=IwAR02JVu9yfmttFzk9KQgL-rvIpboeVz659nSsojHUTvXvxFbBcVHyHw2aB0

Անդրեի «Հայաստանս» երգը՝ նվիրված Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հիշատակին Երգիչ Անդրեն այսօր իր հետեւորդներին ներկայացրել է իր «Հայաստանս» երգը, որը նվիրել է Հայոց ցեղասպանության զոհերի հիշատակին: Երգի հեղինակը Սուրեն Կնյազյանն է, գործիքավորումը կատարել է Նիկ Էգիբյանը, պրոդյուսեր՝ Անուշ Հովնանյան: Instagram-ում տեղադրված հոլովակի ներքո երգիչը գրել է. «Ճանաչել, որ դատապարտվի, դատապարտել, որ այլեւս երբեք աշխարհի ոչ մի անկյունում չկրկնվի... Հայաստանս ու հայս չկոտրվեցին երբեք, որ արդարություն հաստատեն աշխարհում, որ վրեժխնդիր լինեն հավերժ գոյությամբ... «Հայաստանս» երգը հենց նման հայի ու նման հայրենիքի մասին է»: Անդրեն օգտագործել է նաեւ «1915», «Հայոց ցեղասպանություն» եւ «այլեւս երբեք» հեշթեգերը: news.am