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QUAKE HITS ARMENIA'S NORTH Armenian national seismic service said an earthquake of 6 point on Richter scale hit Armenia's north today. The tremor occurred at 5.53. am, local time, with epicenter 10 km off Ashotsk village in the northern Armenia. Tremors were felt in Gyumri, Vanadzor, Stepanavan and in the capital Yerevan, where it was 3.5 point on Richter scale. No damages and casualties were reported. © Copyright AZG

EX-PRESIDENT ATTENDS FUNERAL OF HIS FORMER MINISTER’S MOTHER Armenian ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian, former parliament speaker Babken Ararktsian, his deputy Ara Sahakian, leaders of Nor Ughi and 21-st Century parties Ashot Bleyan and David Shahnazarian, traveled on Monday, February 4, to the village of Koti in the province of Tavouss to participate in the funeral of Nina Siradeghian, the mother of the fugitive former interior minister Vano Siradeghian, who fled the country after the parliament allowed his prosecution. Siradeghian was accused of ordering a series of high-profile contract assassinations while in office in early nineties. His mother was 85 years old. © Copyright AZG

5M EARTHQUAKE IN ARMENIA 04.02.2002 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today 5:50 am local time earthquake was recorded in Armenia. According to the National seismic protection service data, the earthquake epicenter was 10 kilometers away from Ashotsk town. The earthquake magnitude in the epicenter was 5. No one was killed and there are not any damaged buildings. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

ARMENIANS OF AMERICA AGAINST US SELLING WARSHIPS TO TURKEY 05.02.2002 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian National Committee of America has joined the protest of the American Hellenistic Institute against US selling two warships to Turkey. The organizations addressed Congress demanding to refuse the deal. In the words of ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian, selling warships to Turkey may break the stability and create tension in the Near East and the Caucasus. "Build-up of military power by Turkey imposes threats to Armenia, Greece and Cyprus. Armenia cannot be sure of its security having an extremely armed neighbor," – Hamparian considers. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

FORMER MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS VANO SIRADEGHIAN WANTED BY INTERNATIONAL POLICE DID NOT APPEAR AT HIS MOTHER'S FUNERAL 05.02.2002 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Mother of former Armenian Minister of Internal Affairs, former leader of "Armenian National Movement" party Vano Siradeghian died February 2. Yesterday she was buried in her hometown of Noyemberian. The son was not present at the funeral. As it is known Siradeghian is under international search. He is accused of organizing a number of very grave crimes. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

Fade yes fade he is not a turk he is a azery, or at list his in azerbaijan, he/she has used your nick 9 times in last 48hr. he has used MJ nick name 5 times, he has used Thorny Roses nick name many times over, he even used my nick name to post3 times. even used an Armenian names to answer to his/her own comments. I have been collecting his info for the last 7 days, I could of bann him but some of the other users of this forum and the visitors of the web site would be band to. if I can not find a different solution to this, I will only have 2 chooses, to Bann his/her IP or continually delete staff in our guestbook.

Arpa jan Thank you - I guess it's time for Sheram to teal us the story, on how he got this name or Nick name MOvses

yes Arturian it is the real Tigran II coin - but it's way to much, you can get one in Armenian in A++ condition for the same $$.

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Thanks Vart jan, i will se if i can find more info on him. Movses

turkish-mafia Email: turkish_general@yahoo.com posted February 3, 2002 03:06 PT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We will unite all the turkish tribes and march towards mongolia crushing the enemy along the way.It will be the turkish version of hitlers mastermind operation one of my favourite wars operation barbarossa.First along with the azeris we attack armenia and goergia and then take out iran and obtain oil for our war machine we shall create the turkish version of hitlers ss unit so we can wipe out the nonturks.After we take these 3 countries we reunite with our other turkish brothers chechnya dagestan etc. and then the greatest millitary attack in history will begin eclipsing operation barbarossa.We shall call our operation OPERATION TURKISTAN we shall send allour soldiers to fight the russians and wipe them from the face of this earth.We shall attack the ukraine to obtain wheat for our army and our army shall march into mongolia victoriously and from ther with the help of the pakistanis we attack india and rid the world of hinduism and after the turkish flag is in new delhi from mogolia kazakistan ozbekistan mongolia and our new base in india we attack one of our greatest enemies in history china we shall massacre every chinese that opposes us and not make the fatal mistake our mongolian forefathers did and have mercy on them.No mercy no mercy no mercy should be our battle cry FOR WE ARE THE TURKISH RACE THE MASTER RACE.

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Seven Athletes To Represent Armenia At Salt Lake City Olympics YEREVAN (Noyan Tapan)—Armenia will be represented by seven athletes at the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City Utah. The athletes are skiers Aram Gajiyan and Margarit Nikolian; alpine skiers Arsen Haroutiunian and Vanessa Rakejian (she lives in France); the bobsled team-Daniel Janjikian and Jorgos Alexandru (both from the US); and figure-skater Yulia Lebedeva. Alexandru might be replaced by Paul Vardanian from the US. The athletes from Armenia will be led by Chairman of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia Ishkhan Zakarian. Armenia's state flag at the opening ceremony will be carried by alpine skier Arsen Haroutiunian.

Turkey Prosecutes Chomsky Publisher For Essay On Kurds By Robert Fisk From The Independent Noam Chomsky, one of America's greatest philosophers and linguists, has become the target of Turkey's chief of "terrorism prosecution." Scarcely two months after the European Union praised Turkey for passing new laws protecting freedom of expression, the authorities in Ankara are using anti-terrorism legislation to prosecute Chomsky's Turkish publisher. Fatih Tas of the Aram Publishing House faces a year in prison for daring to print "American Interventionism," a collection of Chomsky's recent essays including harsh criticism of Turkey's treatment of its Kurdish minority. Chomsky, a linguistics professor at Harvard, is planning to fly to Turkey for Tas's first court appearance on February 13 and has already written to the offices of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, pointing out that amendments to Turkish law were supposed to have provided greater freedom of expression, not less. Chomsky plans to visit the Turkish city of Diyarbakir to meet Kurdish "activists" and it will be a test of Turkey's freedoms to see if he is allowed to visit the area. In one of his essays, originally a university lecture, he says that "the Kurds have been miserably oppressed throughout the whole history of the modern Turkish state...In 1984, the Turkish government launched a major war in the south-east against the Kurdish population...The end result was pretty awesome: tens of thousands of people killed, two to three million refugees, massive ethnic cleansing with some 3,500 villages destroyed." This, according to the Turks, constitutes an incitement to violence. Chomsky was suitably outraged, regarding the trial as part of a much broader wave of repression directed against Kurds appealing for greater use of the Kurdish language. Bekir Rayif Aldemyr, Turkey's chief prosecutor, claims that the Chomsky essay "propagates separatism". A spiky, inexhaustible academic of Jewish origin who has been an inveterate critic of Israel and especially of the United States, Chomsky's condemnation of Turkey's treatment of the Kurds - and of the vast arms shipments made to Turkey by the United States - was bound to enrage Ankara. Chomsky describes the prosecution as "a very severe attack on the most elementary human and civil rights". The EU, so impressed by those changes in Turkish law last November, has remained silent

Alleged Turkish Spy Had Senior Job In Armenian Government YEREVAN (RFE/RL)—The man arrested last week on suspicion of spying for Turkey was the Armenian foreign ministry's chief expert on Turkey in the 1990s and later had to sell goods in a Yerevan market to support his family, it emerged on Friday. Murad Bojolian, who Armenian security officials allege gathered "military, economic and political information" for Turkish intelligence, is also said to have been a freelance contributor to a leading Turkish newspaper. The Armenian ministry of national security refused to identify the suspect when it announced the news of his arrest on Thursday. Bojolian's name was first disclosed by the Yerevan daily "Azg" the next day. His wife confirmed the accuracy of the information. "My husband is not guilty of anything," Lyudmila Bojolian told RFE/RL. "This case was fabricated. Murad never hid anything from anyone." Bojolian's defense counsel, Ruben Balabanian, said he had his first encounter with the accused Friday morning and found him in good health. Balabanian would not say whether or not his client has pleaded guilty to the charges of high treason which can lead death sentence or a minimum term of 10 years in prison. Nor would he disclose the circumstances of Bojolian's arrest on January 26. It is also not clear whether Bojolian has already appeared in court. Under Armenian law, a suspect can not be held in custody for more than 72 hours without the court's approval. Unofficial sources said Bojolian was snatched from a bus by national security agents near the Georgian border as he headed for Turkey to buy goods for his market stall in one of Yerevan's largest retail markets. Bojolian, who holds a doctoral degree in Oriental Studies from a Russian university, had to sell cheap clothing to make a modest living in recent years, according to his acquaintances. "This is not the kind of job usually given to spies," said one of his former longtime colleagues, casting doubt on the credibility of the official allegations. "What kind of secret information would he be able to collect there?" "The news was an unpleasant surprise for me," he added. The national security ministry continued to decline a comment on Friday and it remained unclear what the accusations stem from. Lawyer Balabanian charged that the former Armenia branch of the Soviet-era KGB has already violated his client's presumption of innocence by presenting his being a Turkish spy as a proven fact. Born in eastern Turkey in 1950, Bojolian immigrated to Soviet Armenia in the mid-1960s together with his family. He engaged in post-graduate studies in Moscow after graduating from Yerevan State University. Bojolian was one of Armenia's few experts on Turkish affairs when he became head of the Turkey desk of the newly independent country's foreign ministry in the early 1990s. At one point he also worked as a personal interpreter of then president Levon Ter-Petrossian. Bojolian is known as a strong advocate of the normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey. Speaking to an RFE/RL correspondent in November 2000, he presented himself as a co-chairman of the Turkey-Armenia Business Council (TABC), a private association promoting closer commercial links between the two nations. However, the TABC's current Armenian co-chairman, Arsen Ghazarian, insisted on Friday that Bojolian has never held that post. He said Bojolian was affiliated with the group in 1996-97 and was only responsible for logistical matters. "I haven't seen or heard from him for the last three years," Ghazarian told RFE/RL. According to the editor of Istanbul's Armenian language "Marmara" newspaper, Bojolian is well known among Turkey's political, business and media circles that have had contacts with Armenia. Robert Hattejian said Bojolian often accompanied visiting Turkish delegations and his articles have occasionally appeared in the Turkish press. Ferai Tinc, a correspondent for the mass-circulation Turkish daily "Hurriyet," said in an RFE/RL interview in Yerevan on January 11 that Bojolian is the paper's freelance contributor in the Armenian capital.

AZERBAIJAN USES STRUGGLE AGAINST TERRORISM IN ITS OWN POLITICAL INTERESTS, VARDAN OSKANYAN SAID FEBRUARY 2. Azerbaijan uses the struggle against terrorism in its own political interests, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said during a discussion of prospects of development of Central Asia and the Caucasus at the International Economic Forum in New York. The Armenian foreign minister said using the struggle against terrorism properly, the establishment of stability and cooperation in the region will become quite possible. While Azerbaijan creates tension in the region manipulating the international situation. Participating in the discussion were also Azeri President Heidar Aliev, Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Adeli, Afghan Foreign Minister Abudllakh Abdullakh and Mongol Prime Minister Nambad Ekhbayar.

WHO IS THAT ARMENIAN DETAINED ON CHARGES OF SPYING FOR TURKEY The daily Azg reported on Thursday that Armenia's National Security Ministry said an Armenian national had been detained and charged with spying for Turkey. The ministry said he had been detained on January 26 and charged with treason in the form of spying for Turkey's MIT intelligence agency. It said he had turned over political, military and economic information. According to the daily Azg information the detained man was a well known expert on Turkish affairs and translator Murad Bojolian. Many readers of the newspaper asked for additional information about the details of Bojolian’s arrest. We would like to say that the information about his detention is incomplete, he was arrested by members of special ALPHA group when traveling to Georgia by bus. He was detained at Armenian-Georgian border and transformed immediately to Yerevan. According to his assurances, he was going to travel to Turkey to bring clothes from there to sell in Yerevan market. He had been engaged in that business for the last two years. However, the name of Murad Bojolian is known too diplomatic and journalist communities. He was born in 1950 or 1951 in Turkey’s Sebastia. In mid-60-s his family emigrated to Armenia. He graduated from secondary school in the Armenian Gyumri, in 1967 was admitted to Yerevan State University’s Oriental Studies Department, and after graduating from it he started working at the National Academy of Sciences-affiliated Institute of Oriental Studies. He then continued his education at Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies where he defended his thesis. He is the author to several studies and works. In 1990 he started working for Armenian foreign affairs ministry and was for a short period of time head of Turkey’s division. In 1994-1995 he contributed stories to the daily Azg about Turkey. He also contributed for the daily Hayastani Hanrapetutiun and also ran for short period of time Turkish programs on National radio. In 1995 he worked in the staff of ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian, was his personal translator and participated in many intergovernmental meetings. He traveled many times to Turkey with Armenian delegations, where he established closed contacts with Turkish officials. He was the reporter of Turkish TV-6 channel in Armenia. He was also a close friend to the late Telman Ter-Petrosian, the brother of ex-president Levon Ter-Petrosian and accompanied him to Turkey. In the recent two years he was engaged in the so-called suitcase trade. According to his friends, his material conditions were not at all good. © Copyright AZG

DAYS DEDICATED TO KARABAGH TO BE HELD IN EUROPE Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe links Armenian Diaspora Many people know the name of Toros Saghrian, the secretary-general of the Forum of Armenian Associations in Europe. His parents escaped Armenian Genocide and settled in Beirut, where Toros was born. Toros Saghrian graduated from Beirut’s American University and moved to live in Switzerland where he established a jewelry company. He is one of the founders of Yerevan’s jewelry company, and is currently its director. He also set up the Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe, and is planning to organize days dedicated to Karabagh in Europe in May. Talking about the motives of the Forum’s creation, Mr. Saghrian said that each European country has an Armenian community, which conduct activity in different spheres of life but were isolated from each other. The creation of the forum enabled the Armenian communities to communicate with each other and cooperate in different spheres. According to Saghrian the Armenian Diaspora has a very powerful potential, and it would be a mistake to use it separately. Armenia has big problems and for solving them the Diaspora must act jointly and with full strength. Saghrian said that they established close relations not only with Central European countries’ Armenian communities, but also with communities of Russia, Norway, Greece and Italy. The forum’s task is to collect ideas, thoughts and of course practice of the Diaspora and try to direct it for the benefit of Armenia and Karabagh. Also enabling Diaspora Armenians to communicate with each other, discuss different topics and come to conclusions creates grounds for efficient joint work. The forum was established in 1988, when representatives of Armenian communities from Switzerland, France, Russia, Hungary, Denmark, Italy, Belgium and Great Britain came together in Geneva and agreed to cooperate within this framework. In two years the number of the cooperating countries reached 18. This kind of cooperation is a good example for the Armenian communities of Latin America and Northern America where strong Armenian communities exists, but their potential is not used fully because of absence of a similar coordinating body. Mr. Saghrian believes that just like many countries of the world which try to unite and form alliances for achieving good results, the Diaspora Armenians also should act together. The Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe cooperates mainly in five spheres- trade, law, education, mass media and politics. In the trade sphere the forum set up an Armenian Business Forum, via which the Diaspora Armenians of Europe cooperate, gather and share their programs and opinions- in the name of general development. At the end of this year the forum of Armenian lawyers will be held, where more than 40 lawyers from 12 European countries will gather. They will discuss human rights issues that can be of benefit for Armenia, as well as ways of promoting the development of Armenian communities in European countries. Mr. Saghrian said that special attention will be paid at the education of Diaspora Armenians, adding that many of them do not know Armenian and that the forum’s department dealing with educational issues will try to do everything possible for correcting this shortcoming. Saghrian also stressed the necessity of activating the Diaspora-Armenian press for improving the awareness of Armenian community members about the events and undertakings of their compatriots. The central office of the forum is located in Geneva, and it has its branch in Yerevan. The forum cooperates closely with Armenian embassies in Europe, as well as the Armenian authorities. The Forum of Armenian Associations of Europe is planning to organize days dedicated to Karabagh in different European countries in May. Mr. Saghrian said that they signed a three-side agreement with Karabaghi prime minister Anushavan Danielian and ‘Hayastan’ Pan-Armenian Fund for celebrating the Karabagh day in Europe, which is decided to be marked on the day of Shushi’s liberation- 9-th of May. On that day many festivities and events will be organized in Armenian communities, and the Karabaghi authorities will support the forum in the initiative. According to Saghrian they are also doing their best to ‘break the ice’ and persuade foreign investors to launch businesses in Karabagh. © Copyright AZG

HOVANNISIAN PASSES BATON TO PROFESSOR SIMPSON The Armenian National Institute's (ANI) Academic Council shaped its 2002 agenda in December during its annual meeting in Washington, DC, highlighting a year in which ANI marked its fifth anniversary and completed a major phase of retrieval of archival evidence of the Armenian Genocide from around the world. ANI will now turn its attention to examining its collections and developing publications designed to reach a wider audience, a press release by ANI said. Dr. Richard Hovannisian, long-time Academic Council Chairman and a noted authority on the Armenian Genocide stepped down, passing the baton to Council member American University Professor Chris Simpson. With his expertise in the field of electronic communications, Simpson will lead the Council as it focuses its attention on developing new technology to make ANI's archival documentation accessible to scholars researching the Armenian Genocide. Among ANI highlights for 2001 was the retrieval of a major collection of some 6,000 documents from Armenia and the establishment of the online capability to effectively search the new database. Research was also initiated in the Vatican archives. In conjunction with its archival documentation, ANI is also collecting photographic records. ANI's Legal Department continued to expand its legal research and analysis by reviewing and examining a large number of archival materials, some containing Ottoman and Turkish laws, providing evidence of a well-organized plan to seize and confiscate Armenian assets. ANI remains committed to the full-time study, research and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide through its legal research and analysis, promotion of scholarship, outreach, fundamental research and documentation, education and publication programs. Simpson is a professor of journalism and public affairs at American University's School of Communications in Washington. He is the author of four books concerning genocide, international human rights law and national security as well as numerous articles in journals and professional publications. The Armenian National Institute, founded in 1997, is dedicated to the study, research, and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide. © Copyright AZG

ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE FOR TURKEY MURAD BODJOLIAN HEADED TURKEY DEPARTMENT OF ARMENIA MFA RECENTLY 02.02.2002 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Arrested January 26 and accused of parricide for Turkey Murad Bodjolian has met with his lawyer Ruben Balabanian. According to the lawyer, Bodjolian looked quite well but Balabanian could not answer if the charge was brought against his client at that moment and if his client pleaded not guilty. It should be reminded that Bodjolian is charged according to 59 article of the Criminal code that stipulates capital punishment or 10-15 year sentence for «parricide by espionage». As «Arminfo» reports with a reference to «Liberty» radio station, Bodjolian is quite a famous figure. He was born in Turkey. He and his family immigrated to Armenia. He graduated from Yerevan State University, department of oriental studies. He worked for the Institute of oriental languages of the National Academy of science of Armenia and started his work in MFA in early 90-ies. He worked as a translator for the first president Levon Ter-Petrosian's administration. According to his colleagues, he had quite a soft position towards Turkey, he was a supporter of that the strict questions for Turkey were not raised and there were not strict articles having anti-Turkish nature. The people who know Bodjolian note that he has lived in very difficult conditions for last three years. He was engaged in trade: he sold goods imported from Turkey. It is rumored that Bodjolyan was arrested at the Armenian-Georgian border, on the bus leaving for Turkey. Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

AZERBAIJANI PARLIAMENT INTENDS TO EVALUATE 1988 SUMGAIT EVENTS 02.02.2002 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ As «Turan» Baku agency informs, Azerbaijan's milli mejlis will hold a special meeting «to consider and to evaluate the 1988 Sumgait events» till February 20. It is noted that representatives of the ministry of national security of Azerbaijan will be invited to participate in the meeting. Deputy Fazail Agamali suggested holding the meeting on the occasion of the 10 anniversary of the tragedy in Khodjali. In the reference on the events in February 1988 of «Turan » agency is stated the following: «26 citizens of Armenian origin were killed during the mass disorders in Sumgait. Scores of people were wounded, hundreds of flats were robbed and burnt. When sub-units of the Soviet Army were entering the city, 10 Azeri were killed». Reproduction in full or in part is prohibited without reference to "PanARMENIAN.Net"

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