Comedistan

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Here we go again!

 

A NEW "GAS" BY TURKISH HISTORIAN

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Yusuf Halacoglu, Head of the Turkish Historical Society (TTK),-

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Haberler reported that, speaking of the proposals concerning the

reforms implemented in Turkey since the 19th century, as well as of

the Kurdish problem, Halacoglu claimed that the Kurdistan Workers'

Party, which is considered a terrorist organization in Turkey, is

not at all a Kurdish organization, as 80% of its members are Armenians.

That hachogh-oglu needs his “head” cut off. This is reminiscent of the times, at the height of the Kurdish insurrection they were looking inside the pants of the dead to determine if they were muslim or (uncut)Armenians.

I remember one time when Kojak was “interviewing” a suspect accused of rape, he “promised” to have a blind Rabbi to perform a “minor” surgery on him.

"historian"? Now that that kakajoglu is unemployer heshould take over the "hysterical comedy club" as he does not know the difference betwen "history" and "hysteria".

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Cherchez La Femme!!!??

Yes, yes we know that “immodest dress” causes erec.. I mean eruptions…

The cliché was first told by;

The expression was coined by Alexandre Dumas (père) in the novel The Mohicans of Paris, 1864, in the form of 'cherchons la femme'. In John Latey's 1878 English translation, Dumas' detective, Monsieur Jackal, concludes that a woman must have been involved in the crime being investigated

Was he listening to “La Donna E Mobile” at the time?

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Throughout history, supernatural causes have often been used to explain the occurence of natural disasters. These days, however, religious figures and political pundits seem to be grabbing at straws. Take the following example:

An Iranian cleric, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, was quoted by Iranian media today connecting the frequency of earthquakes with the aggregate modesty of Iranian women's garb. According to Sedighi, flirting with men, wearing a tight shirt or neglecting your head scarf is the principal cause behind tectonic shifts. "Many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes." I think he may have just stumbled upon the perfect evil plot for the next James Bond movie.

Then again, he doesn't look so nutty when you compare him to Rush Limbaugh's comment that the volcanic eruption in Iceland is God's reaction to the passage of healthcare reform. On the bright side, now that we know that God punishes Europe for our satanic legislation, we can pass all the reform we like... God sure does work in mysterious ways.

Yes, yes we know- "God works in mysterious ways"? Did they not know how to spell "masturbatory"??

Edited April 21, 2010 by Arpa

[Zartonk]

Someone convert the planet to the righteous path...

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Noah-noah, Moogoogaipan.

Hrrumphum!!

Drum roll please!!!

Yeah right! Did they finds Noah’s elephant dung laced sandals too! How much soy sauce did those Chinese “archeologists” imbibe? Did those Chinese “archeologists” bring their own lunch, a takeout order of Moo GooGaipan” http://z.about.com/d/chinesefood/1/0/1/5/moogoogaipan.jpg

or did they bring pictures of googoogaga, bugabuga ?

I meant Budha-budha

http://www.fotosearch.com/bigcomp.asp?path=IMP/IMP164/INGDMYFS0873.jpg

http://www.asbarez.com/79891/evangelists-claim-to-have-found-noahs-ark-on-ararat/

Can you see the Home Depot logo?

Where did he get the electric power from? Sat in Armenian, amber in English, electron in Greek and kahriba/tasbah in Arabic.

http://www.thesmithsshop.com/T_up_copal_amber_on_Navajo_rug.jpg

http://www.asbarez.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/alg_the-ark.jpg

IGDIR, Turkey (AF)–A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said on Monday they believe they may have found Noah’s Ark – 4000 meters up Mount Ararat.

The team say they recovered wooden specimens from a structure on Mount Ararat, located in eastern Turkey, that carbon dating proved was 4800 years old, around the same time the ark is said to have been afloat.

“It’s not 100 percent that it is Noah’s Ark but we think it is 99.9 percent that this is it,” said Yeung Wing-cheung, a Hong Kong documentary filmmaker and member of the 15-strong team from Noah’s Ark Ministries International.

The structure had several compartments, some with wooden beams, which were believed to house animals, he said.

The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds that one had never been found above 3500m in the vicinity, Yeung said.

Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major archaeological dig is conducted, Yeung added.

The biblical story says God decided to flood the earth after seeing how corrupt it had become and told Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal species.

After the flood waters receded, the Bible says, the ark came to rest on a mountain. Many believe that Mount Ararat, the highest point in the region, is where the ark and her inhabitants came aground. Mount Ararat and much of eastern Turkey are the historic homelands of the Armenian people. They were occupied and annexed by Turkey following the Armenian Genocide and World War

Edit. What the heck does "Chinese and furkish evengelical" mean? DUHH!!!

Edited April 27, 2010 by Arpa

[Zartonk]

A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers

 

ABORT ABORT ABORT

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Prime time comedians must be having a ball.

Above we asked where noah got the electricity for his power tools.

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/images/house/do-it-yourself/carpentry-drilling-tools/electric-drill.jpg

http://www.charlesandhudson.com/archives/delta-table-saw.jpg

Here is the answer.

Power plant;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHu8LAWSKxU

Methane factory;

http://comps.fotosearch.com/bigcomps/BNS/BNS415/bn329055.jpg

Where are our house comedians?

Where was that picture taken at “Koh I Nuh”* in Hunan?

What is the name of that “Chinese evangelical” arKeologist/kharteologist**?

Chun King Chow Mein, or Chop Suey? No, no it is "for chin turkey"? fortune cookie.

http://oopsiegal.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/fortune-cookie.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3629/3368184371_e924e0e430.jpg

A picture of my "ark" with some of the pasengers;

http://www.fotosearch.com/bigcomp.asp?path=PLB/PLB002/PLS-00004740-001.jpg

*Koh I Nuh means mountain of noah in Persian/Sumerian.

Koh-i-Nuh (Mountain of Noah): Persian: کوه نوح (Koh-i-Nuh) , also influenced by the flood story, this time via the Islamic view of Noah

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/07/060705-noahs-ark.html

 

** One of our professors who happened to be Armenian had favorite term “kharteology” to describe “scineces” of the kind. Some may have known him as LK.

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Here are some fun facts.

Noah's Ark Jokes

 

 

Q. Which animal on Noah's Ark had the highest level of intelligence?

A. The giraffe.

 

Q. Why did Noah have to punish and discipline the chickens on the Ark?

A. Because they were using "fowl" language.

 

Q. On the Ark, Noah probably got milk from the cows. What did he get from the ducks?

A. Quackers.

 

Q. When was the first meat mentioned in the Bible?

A. When Noah took Ham into the ark.

 

Q: Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?

A: Noah - he was floating his stock while everyone else was in liquidation.

 

Q: What kind of lights were on the ark?

A: Floodlights.

 

Q: Did all the animals on the ark come in pairs?

A: No the worms came in apples.

 

Q: Why didn't Noah go fishing?

A: He only had two worms!

 

Q: How do we know that they played cards in the ark?

A: Because Noah sat on the deck.

 

Q: What animal could Noah not trust?

A: The Cheetah.

 

Q: What money did Noah carry into the ark?

A: Bucks and doe.

 

Q: Why were the horses aboard the ark Pessimistic?

A: They were always saying neigh.

 

Alice: Grandma, were you on Noah's ark?

Grandma: No.

Alice: then how did you survive the flood?

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And more;

http://www.yuksrus.com/religion_noah.html

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Noah-noah, Moogoogaipan.

Hrrumphum!!

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Edit. What the heck does "Chinese and furkish evengelical" mean? DUHH!!!

This is funny.

Is a “Chinese and fukish evangelical” like saying furkish Frater(birader)**, Methodist mehmet, Baptist bahai, muslim jehovan, protestant catholic, shiite Apostolic, atheist Christian, voodoo budhist, papaz Pope,ayatollah Catholicos, Sharakan reciting shaman, lamenting Lama?

You think those “furkish evangelical fraters” are the exception?

My Marashtsi ancestors used terms like “patiriler” and “fraterlik/biraderlik” to mean the “pater/father” and

“pater/patir” means father and “frater/firater”- brother.

They also called them “franchiskos”

http://magickfare.com/zencart/images/EMC952.JPG

At one time in Aleppo there was an offshoot “denomination” of thye Evangelical Church who called themselves “yeghbayrutiun/biraderlik/brotherhood” whose “prophet” Abraham Seferian, every time he posed for a photograph, even if it was an above the neck passport picture would have the open Bible on his lap. When his daughter would comment “bayts Hayrik, sa piti chi tesnvi” he would answer "hog che aghjik@s, Astvats k@ tesne".

We will talk about “patiriler/hayr” and “biraderler/yeghbayr” under another topic

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[Louise Kiffer]

Don't you think Noah's Ark mania interests Turkey as it will attract more tourists.

As T.P.Barnum said: Every second another sucker is born.

 

There was un article in woldnetdaily in 2006 about researchers taking closer look of an "Ararat anomaly".

And "CIA releases "Noah's Ark" documents !

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Each year, hundreds of American evangelicals visit "Turkey" to find the ark. Bible-based bullcrap is big business.

[Arpa]

Don't you think Noah's Ark mania interests Turkey as it will attract more tourists.

As T.P.Barnum said: Every second another sucker is born.

http://www.babyminestore.com/images/passafire1.jpg

Yes Louise, you said a "mouthful" about "suckers".

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One commentator on ABC News made a TIC comment among others- Where did Noah hide the Forty day dung. Not to forget all that turkey chicken droppings?

Here it is cuckoo kaka;

http://chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

Here he is;

http://www.vanwijst.com/games/besieged/dung_shoveling_big.gif

Cowchips Yezan Trik Atar;

http://www.beavercowchipnews.com/Tilden%20EMT%20draws%20cow%20chip%20web.jpg

Oh yes we know. He burned them to fuel off his electrical generator

http://www.bioenergylists.org/stovesdoc/apro/dung/Aprodung.htm

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Here are some fun facts.

Noah's Ark Jokes

 

 

Q. Which animal on Noah's Ark had the highest level of intelligence?

A. The giraffe.

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Q. Why did Noah have to punish and discipline the And more;

http://www.yuksrus.com/religion_noah.html

An absolute genius. I wish I had written the above.

Alright you guys. Put on your "funny hats" on and let us see how we can add to the comedy.

To begin.

It is fabled that Noah sent a crow first who did not return (I think it was furkish crow), then he sent a dove which returned with an olive branch. I think the bird Noah sent out was "partridge/kakav".

Noy@ kakav, menq keranq:

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[Sip]

Haha .. Arpa on a roll

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Burqa burqa- booga booga

http://media.photobucket.com/image/burka/ghoudurix/burka.jpg?o=16

http://www.all4humor.com/picture/funny-pictures/burka-swimsuit.html

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http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2010/04/30/belgia/

Belgian parliament approved banning of burqa

The lower house of the Belgian parliament approved a draft law Thursday banning the wearing of burqa in public and other types of Islamic veils, the Belga news agency reported.

However, the law criminalising Muslim women who hide their faces in public is unlikely to enter into force soon, as it still has to be approved by the upper house of parliament, the senate.

Progress of the bill would also be wiped out if the political crisis gripping the country would lead to parliament being dissolved - an inevitable option, according to all political commentators.

Belgium has come the furthest amongst EU countries in its attempts to ban burqas, full-length garments which obscure a woman's face completely, as well as hiqabs, which are face veils, usually black, that expose only a woman's eyes, covering everything else

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Յովհաննէս, խնդրեմ օգնիր ինձ: Ինչ է կապը? Ինչ է այդ բառին արմատական իմաստը? Միթէ սա “barak(at)” blessing/օրհնանք” ի հետ կապ ունի ?

Մենք գիտենք որ Արաբերէն “burkan/volcano” նշանակի հրաբուխ.

Միթէ սխալւում եմ որ այդ ծխելիքի գոծիքը argileh/nargileh նաեւ կոչուի “burqa/barqa/ibriq/ջրաման”?

http://files.turbosquid.com/Preview/Content_2009_07_13__18_24_02/nargile.jpg412acc8d-4e88-42ce-8732-841c5782cde0Large.jpg

Ես լսած եմ որ կարգ մը թրքախօս Հայեր «իբրիխ/յըբրըխ» բառ գործ ածեն իբր անարգանք: Նման Արբ. «քէլէ» կամ թրք «շափշախ»: Այո, գիտեմ որ այդ վերջինները փոխաբերակ են «միզաման/քաքամանի» ի:

[Johannes]

"Burqa" բառը արաբական տառերով գրեցի, տարբեր ձեւերով, դրի գուգլին, եւ գտայ զգեստի հետ կապ չունեցող բաներ:

 

Բուրքա بركة բակում փոքր ջրաւազան՝ յաճախ շատրուանով, փոքր լիճ

 

Բարաքէ بركة  «բարաքաթ», բարիք, առատութիւն, լիութիւն, բերք եւ նման բաներ:

 

 

Բելգիայի իսլամները մաւրիտանական երկիրներից են գաղթել, ընդհանրապէս, ու երեւի թէ նրանց տեղական արաբերէն բարբառով աւանդական զգեստի անուն է:

 

 

Լուրը հայկական հեռատեսիլից եմ լսել, որում գործածուեց «փարաջա» բառը:

 

 

Մասնագիտացած չեմ մահմեդական կանանց հագուկապի ասպարէզում: Գիտենայի միջազգային հնչեղութիւն է ունենալու, անպայման կուսումնասիրէի ազատ ժամերուս:

 

 

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A burqa (Arabic pronunciation: [ˈbʊrqa]; also transliterated burkha, burka or burqua from Arabic: برقع‎ burqu‘ ) is an enveloping outer garment worn by women in some Islamic traditions for the purpose of hiding a female's body when out in public. It is worn over the usual daily clothing

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Who knew that there were so many furks in Sidney!!

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http://www.panorama.am/en/society/2010/06/05/hamerg/

 

 

Concert for dogs in Sydney

Sydney Opera House was transformed into the world's most iconic kennel - when it staged a concert for dogs.

 

American musician Lou Reed, founder of Velvet Underground band, and his wife, performance artist Laurie Anderson, initiated an "inter-species social gathering"—otherwise known as a concert for dogs.

 

The one off concert featured music in such a high pitch that only dogs will be able to hear it.

 

The 20-minute outdoor show took place on the world-famous building's northern foyer, according to foreign media reports.

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Arpa, let's not insult the pups...

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:jerry: :

Look who’s fast becoming the prime candidate for the comedian of the millennium award. Will someone please tell this stand-up comic to sit down?!!

And, this is a "president" of a non-country? He should be reelacted as the "president" of sewer engineers.

If he is such a comedic “historian” he should also show us his linguistic gymnastics and tell us what the hell mean “azeri” , where did they come from? and “albanian”, where did they go? In his ba-koun? See what “koun” means in Persian.

This is not the first time these buffoons have brought this up.

http://www.perfessorbill.com/covers/buffoon.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/117/289478391_23fe353c45.jpg

Btw, buffoon/ boffo rhymes with Bozo http://ciadoriso.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/040527_bozo1_vmed_7awidec.jpg

http://www.armenianow.com/commentary/analysis/23732/azerbaijan_makes_territorial_claims_armenia

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Analysis | 17.06.10 | 16:53

New territorial claims?: Baku starts “exporting” idea on Yerevan’s belonging to Azerbaijan

 

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Azeri president Aliev is laying claims to “Azerbaijani belonging” of the Armenian capital Yerevan.

By Aris Ghazinyan

ArmeniaNow reporter

A trilateral meeting between the presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia is planned in St. Petersburg as part of a June 17-19 economic forum in the Russian city.

The main peculiarity of this meeting is, however, that it will be held in an atmosphere when under pressure from Azerbaijani leadership the Azeri society is laying claims to “Azerbaijani belonging” of the Armenian capital Yerevan.

In April year Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated in Estonian capital Tallinn:

“The Armenian state was established on historically Azeri lands. It is common knowledge. Immediately after proclaiming its independence in 1918 the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan made a decision to give Irevan to Armenia as their capital.” Aliyev has made such statements repeatedly over the past few years. At one of the forums of the leaders of Azerbaijani and Turkish Diaspora organizations Aliyev stated: “In 1918 an Armenian state was created on Azeri lands which we let this state have Irevan, one of the major cultural centers of Azerbaijan, as its capital.” And here’s the quote from another speech of the Azeri president: “In 1918, when the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan was formed, it granted the city of Irevan to Armenia. The Irivan khanate is a primordial Azerbaijani land. I want to repeat it: Armenians had come to this region as guests…” In April 2008, a question was raised in the Azerbaijani parliament to rename one of the Azeri capital Baku’s boulevards “Irevan Avenue”. “Irevan is one of the ancient cities of Azerbaijan. And President Ilham Aliyev during his meeting with citizens stressed the need for recovering the ancient Azerbaijani city Irevan,” said Azeri lawmaker Musa Guliyev representing the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan party during a meeting in parliament. The process of laying claims to Yerevan started still under Heydar Aliyev, the former president and father of today’s president held as national hero in Azerbaijan. (Heydar Aliyev died in late 2003, with Aliyev Jr. “inheriting” the presidency). For example, on February 2, 1999 the Bakinskiy Rabochiy (Baku Worker) newspaper published Aliyev’s appeal to the historians: “We must create such works so that they are constantly and in a coherent form prove the affiliation of lands on which Armenia is situated today to Azerbaijan. We must do it. We must open the way for future generations.” Nevertheless, it is this year that has marked a new stage in “Yerevan’s misappropriation.” While in previous years the target of this thesis was the “domestic consumer”, then beginning in the spring of 2010 this thesis has been “for export”. And the evidence of this became the speech of Ilham Aliyev in Tallinn and the presentation of the book “Irivan Khanate” in Azerbaijan. Deputy chairman of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party Ali Ahmedov stressed during the book launch that it “confirms in due manner the statement of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev that the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, is Azerbaijani territory, and is a reply to his appeal not to forget about the lost Azerbaijani lands.” It is under such conditions that a new meeting between the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan is being held in St. Petersburg. One should take a very biased position not to notice what is obvious: the Karabakh problem is just a new stage of the old project aimed at eliminating the Armenian presence in the region. And the target of this new stage is not Nagorno-Karabakh, but Yerevan as the capital of the Armenian State.

Source URL: http://www.armenianow.com/commentary/analysis/23732/azerbaijan_makes_territorial_claims_armenia

Edited June 17, 2010 by Arpa

[Arpa]

Just as promised, we will bring here all coemdians regardless of their ethnic orgin. Armenian "comedians" are no exception.

http://news.am/eng/news/22371.html

And as we speak about "comedians" look what what our own "comedian" aka "diplomat" says.

Can we have real "diplomats" who can read beyond the kindergarten "tsapik taspik tsirani"?

Sorry Mr. Edward nalbandoghlu, those furks cannot read russky. Neither can I. Where were you all those three years when those non-preconditions were being written? Were you imbibing Armenian Cognac, furkish arak or russky vodka? Were you watching those harem girls do the "goebek havasi"/portakhagh/belly dance in antalya?

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WHAT A NINCONPOOP THAT NALBANDOGHLU!

Now he tells us. Where did he learn how to read? Can he read in any other language except russky? Where was he, and his “boss” all those three years of secret “diplomatic dialog” Did he read that so called proctocol, did he understand even one word of it before he put his X on the dotted lines, since, it seems he cannot read? Was he one of the delegates at Kars when everybody placed their X’s on the dotted line without understanding even a word of it? With “dlplomats” of his kind who needs “dipolar/bipolar” imbeciles? He should go back to the kindergarten and learn how to read. We already spoke about “ուրիշի պարանով հոր իջնել”/Going down the well with a borrowed alien rope”.

Johannes, do you know the song “dakhl a’younek hakkineh” where it says “wassaltinah nusf ul beer , wa katta’ti elhable feenah“? (You lowered us half the way , the cut the rope). Those other people have a saying that goes “If I could have gavur’s/Armenian’s last thought”!!!!

 

Be my guest. Pick any Q&A from below and tell us about “non-preconditions“.

Ratification and implementation of agreements without preconditions: RA FM

 

June 15, 2010 | 12:03

NEWS.am posts the full text of RA Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian’s interview with Austrian “Profile” journal.

Q.: Mr. Foreign Minister, the region here has been facing major changes during the last years: Iran is exerting more and more influence, Turkey is trying to establish itself as regional powerbroker, Armenia as a small country is caught in the middle: Do you worry for the future?

A.: Armenia is not a small country. There is not only this small piece of land here in the region, but a hundred other Armenians all over the world – everywhere, Armenians live, their communities have created small Armenians which create a unity all over the world.

Q.: But still your direct neighbors are bigger and sometimes more aggressive countries.

A.: There were things to worry during our history. We strive for stability and security in our region, but it doesn’t depend only on us. We are trying to have normal relations with all our neighbors and that’s why we initiated the process of normalization with Turkey. We have good relations with Iran, we have good relations with Georgia and we are trying to settle the conflict between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan to have normal relations with Azerbaijan as well.

Q.: At the moment the world is looking with concern on the nuclear program of Iran-don’t you consider this a threat to Armenia as well?

A.: We are following the developments of this issue attentively. We hope that Iran and the international community will come to a solution with joint efforts.

Q.: Recently it seemed that there had been a major breakthrough in the relationship between Armenia and Turkey-meanwhile, the rapprochement is stalled again. Do you see a chance for a new dynamic in the near future?

A.: The Armenian-Turkish relations were in a deadlock, when the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan invited his Turkish counterpart President Gul to Armenia. This visionary initiative, which met a positive response by the Turkish President, allowed us to start the process and after several months of hard negotiations, we made a significant step towards normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations by signing the two Protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations, having the common border opened and development of bilateral relations, in Zurich last year.

Q.: And ratification is suspended. Why?

A.: Moment, please. After the signing of the Protocols, Armenia has started the ratification process having gone through several procedures, the decision of the Constitutional Court, a month in advance of the statutory deadline announcing the Protocols in line with the country’s basic law. In early February the President of Armenia announced in his speech at Chatham House in London that the Armenian parliament, where the President enjoys comfortable majority, will ratify the Protocols as soon as Turkey does.

The Turkish side, having easier ratification procedures has taken practically no steps for that purpose, except from sending the Protocols to the Parliament, and has effectively blocked the ratification process for 9 months now.

Q.: Do you see rapprochement go ahead soon?

A.: Armenian approach fully coincides with the position of the international community- ratification and implementation of the agreements without preconditions and within a reasonable timeframe. With this common understanding we have started, conducted this process and came to the agreements. And in the protocols there are no preconditions.

We hope that the process is not dead, but suspended. And as it was said very clearly we will be ready to move forward if there is again a partner in Turkey ready to move forward with the normalization without any preconditions.

Q.: Turkey on his part claims that Armenia is blocking the rapprochement: Who is responsible then?

A.: Turkey is trying to find baseless reasons for protracting the process, independent of its logic. At what point Armenia blocked normalization? No one could point out. All the Armenian steps on normalization process were commended by the whole international community. Even the decision on suspension of the ratification process was met by understanding and applauded.

Q.: According to media reports, the most important reason for the suspension of the negotiations with Turkey is the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Does this mean that the rapprochement in the question of genocide is already more advanced than in the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh?

A.: The main and only reason for the suspension of the process is resumption of the Turkish attempt to link the normalization of relations with other issues. After the signing of the protocols, Turkey backtracked and started again to speak in the language of preconditions, for instance attempting to link the Armenian-Turkish normalization process to Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution. Not only Armenia, but also the mediators, supporters of this process, the whole international community, have publicly made it clear that Nagorno-Karabakh conflict resolution has no linkage to the Armenian-Turkish normalization process. And that such a linkage could damage both processes.

Q.: Has there also been domestical pressure by the ANC responsible for the abandonment of the negotiations?

A.: Discontent by many Armenians, not only in Armenia, but also in Diaspora is motivated by the lack of confidence towards Turkey’s good faith.

And the reason for suspension is conditioned by the fact that Turkey today is unable to respect reached agreements, its commitments and given words.

Q.: For some time, Turkey seemed to be open for the normalization of the relations, but then it sharply changed its attitude. Do you have an explanation why Erdogan did that?

A.: I couldn’t say that nobody knows why. I could only say that almost nobody understands.

Q.: Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has threatened very clearly to expulse hundred thousands of Armenians. Does this evoke remembrance of the death marches in the year 1915?

A.: Such kinds of remarks by a Turkish leader speak for themselves. That means and it’s regrettable that some leaders in modern Turkey haven’t given up the Ottoman period discriminatory and racist approaches.

Of course, this particular statement was a shock for everyone and not only in Armenia. The Armenian Genocide started with exactly such statements in 1914-1915. Later in the end of the 20th century massacres and deportations of the Armenian population of Azerbaijan were accompanied by such kind of racist statements.

Q.: Why is it so important for Armenia that Turkey accepts the expression „genocide“?

A.: From the very beginning of this process we have told our Turkish counterparts that in no way Armenia will question the fact of the Armenian Genocide or the importance of its international recognition. We see the recognition and condemnation of the first Genocide in the twentieth century not only as a tribute to memory of its victims, but also as an important tool to prevent further genocides.

Q.: You are an optimist. You think future genocides will be prevented?

A.: You probably know, that Rafael Lemkin the author of the term “Genocide” invoked the

Armenian Genocide as an explanation for his wording on the crime against humanity. Although it is very hard for us, but we did not put the Armenian Genocide recognition by Turkey as a precondition for normalization of our relations. Turkey should reconcile with its own past to be able to build its future. Nelson Mandela once said. “True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past”.

At the same time, I have to mention that inside Turkey there are certain processes and movements calling for the Genocide Recognition. Right after we initiated the normalization process, several Turkish intellectuals started an internet campaign, which was called “Apology campaign”. Just in few weeks 35.000 people signed that petition. For the first time in 95 years, this year on April 24, Armenian genocide was commemorated at Istanbul’s Taksim square. I hope one day Turkey will recognize the Armenian Genocide. And that is important for Turkey itself. Many in Turkey are beginning to understand this and no one has any doubts almost about it outside of Turkey.

Q.: The fact that Turkey refuses to do so may be connected with fears of demands for compensation and even territorial claims: What does Armenia call for besides the acceptance of Turkey’s liability for a genocide?

A.: Since its independence, Armenia has never made any statements on territorial claims. It is

unfortunate that certain Turkish political forces are using such arguments in order to create fear in the Turkish society.

Q.: And demands for financial reparation?

A. This is a very hypothetical question. There are descendants of Armenians all over the world who lost their properties back then. They could have juridical ways to proceed with their demands with or without recognition. This is a very normal in a civilized and modern world. So where is the problem?

Q.: President Serzh Sargsyan told the German newsweekly „Der Spiegel“, a joint historian commission would only make sense if Turkey would admit it’s guilt for the genocide: Ain’t this an unacceptable demand for a process intended to explore what exactly happened?

A.: The fact of the Armenian Genocide cannot be questioned. We told this to our Turkish colleagues right at the very beginning of this process. We agreed to establish sub-commissions within an intergovernmental commission on the development of bilateral relations, and one of the sub-commissions will have a goal-to restore confidence between two nations, but of course not at the expense of putting the Armenian Genocide under question. You couldn’t reach the goal of restoring the confidence between nations by putting the Armenian Genocide under question.

Q.: Are you pleased by the fact, that four years ago the National Assembly of France has adopted a law that penalizes the renouncement of genocide against the Armenians? What is the sense of adopting such kind of laws in countries that have nothing to do with the genocide?

A.: It is the same as is the case of adoption of laws and bills on Holocaust by countries that have nothing to do with it. We still remember the chilling words of Hitler: "Go, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers the Armenians?"

Genocide is a crime against humanity. As such it concerns humanity as a whole, and not only the people that was its victim.

Q.: Germany still refuses to use the expression „genocide“ in it’s official wording about the incidents of 1915-although it bears joint responsibility for the massacres by looking the other way and being dormant. What does Armenia expect of Germany?

A.: In the German Bundestag's resolution entitled «Commemorating the expulsion and massacre of the Armenians in 1915» adopted exactly five years ago, we can read the following

“Bundestag deplores the inglorious role played by the German Reich which, in spite of a wealth of information on the organized expulsion and annihilation of Armenians, has made no attempt to intervene and stop these atrocities”.

I believe that this wording speaks for itself. Every time the German leaders visiting Yad Vashem Memorial and paying tribute to victims of Holocoust are gaining the sympathy and veneration of the world community for that gesture. Germany has reconciled with its own past and we hope that Germany will serve as an example to Turkey to accomplish the same.

Q.: The Austrian foreign minister will be visiting Armenia soon. What are the issues to be discussed at this meeting?

A.: There are many of them. There is not too much accomplished in our bilateral relations. So this is a very good occasions to push them and develop new opportunities.

Q.: How does it come that the bilateral relations are weak?

A.: We couldn’t say that they are weak, but we have bi potential to be explored. So the visit of Minister Michael Spendeleggerger could be a good impulse to develop and enhance our relations.

Edited June 17, 2010 by Arpa

[Arpa]

Comedistan? NOT FUNNY

Chriistmas at a Chinese restaurant?

She thought it was funny, just like many commentators do. I wish I could see the “humor”.

Ridiculing the most sacred day of all Christendom!! And she will become a member of the Supreme Court?

How stupified/hryayized has America become !!!??

Are there any more Christians left in America, be they Protestant Catholic or Apostolic.

That “keleva” ! I f you don’t know what that means consider the Arabic word “kelb”. Maybe some day we will have real judges rather than "comedians".

http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0610/Kagan_I_spent_Christmas_at_Chinese_restaurant.html?showall

Edited July 1, 2010 by Arpa

[Armenak]

Have you become a born again Christian?

[Arpa]

Have you become a born again Christian?

Why would I be a "born again"? Is it not enough that I was born ONCE as a Christian. Let those who were not be born again.

Edited July 1, 2010 by Arpa

[Arpa]

I moved this from here, since it better fits Comedistan

http://hyeforum.com/index.php?showtopic=11844&pid=177991&st=40entry177991

 

:goof:He-Jab She-Jab we all Jab, be it left jab , right jab or Jabberwocky

http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/jabber/jabberwocky.html

 

 

http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2003/images/jabberwocky_2003.jpg

 

 

A good picture of “hijab”, Note where “hair” is shown

 

 

http://www.unitedmask.com/masks/images/mask_nosespecsfly.JPG

 

Is this how those harem dancers are dressed?

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/48351000/jpg/_48351357_poassportap.jpg

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10611398

 

or this? See the hijab? Note the "hair"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJNHfmETiVk&feature=related

http://www.bbc.co.uk...1398?print=true

This post has been edited by Arpa: Today, 09:31 AM

Edited July 15, 2010 by Arpa