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We have recently completed our quest for designing and publishing

art posters dedicated to the Armenian Genocide in year 2002.

They are part of the project which aim is to educate the general public

on the Armenian Genocide through art posters designed by politically

consious artists from Netherlands, France, Armenia, Canada and United States.

The publishing is made possible by Zakarian family from Los Angeles.

Posters are also being published in Los Angeles, California and will be deseminated

through the Armenian communities and Universities through the US,

for more information in USA, please consult info@ArmeniaGuide.com

 

Currently the project is being filmed as part of the future documentary on

"Armenia- Virtual Homeland" by a Dutch filmmaker Maartje Nevejan.

More information on http://ArmenianGenocidePosters.org/html/filming.html

 

Find below direct links to the published posters:

 

"Time is the Fire in which We Burn" by Rouben Malayan

http://ArmenianGenocidePosters.org/images/...efire-final.jpg

 

"Denial is Killing Them Twice" by Walter Jansen (Holland) and Rouben Malayan

http://ArmenianGenocidePosters.org/images/...illingtwice.jpg

 

"Hand in Desert" by Vanig Torikian (USA)

http://ArmenianGenocidePosters.org/images/...ts/torikian.gif

 

"Ottoman History" by Yervant Herian (France)

http://ArmenianGenocidePosters.org/images/...rvantherian.jpg

(in turkish)

 

"Still Waiting for a Fair Trial" by Rouben Malayan

http://ArmenianGenocidePosters.org/images/...tillwaiting.jpg

 

To acquire posters in Europe contact info@ArmenianGenocidePosters.org

More information will follow soon.

 

Rouben Malayan

Project Founder

 

[ April 13, 2002, 06:25 AM: Message edited by: Rouben Malayan ]

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Posting a political statement

Resident hosts Armenian Genocide poster contest to educate the public.

 

By Karen S. Kim

GLENDALE -- Glendale resident A.J. Zakarian has 4,000 posters emblazoned with phrases like "Still waiting for a fair trial" and "Complete the Ottoman Empire history, recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915" stored in canisters at his house.

 

The posters were designed by winners of an international Armenian Genocide poster contest that Zakarian hosted this year to commemorate the tragedy's 87th anniversary Wednesday.

 

"I definitely feel that these posters will make an impact and will make people more aware and more compassionate for what happened," Zakarian, 28, said. "A picture is worth a thousand words." One of the winning posters depicts a set of Ottoman Empire history books missing its 1915 volume, while another shows a genocide survivor with a pained expression.

 

About 1.5 million Armenians are believed to have been killed by Ottoman forces in 1915. The Turkish government denies that the killings were a genocide, and the U.S. government does not recognize it.

 

Zakarian, who runs www.ArmeniaGuide.com, began asking for poster design submissions a year ago on a new Web site, www.armeniangenocideposters.org. Twelve participants from the United States, Armenia, Canada and Europe submitted 31 poster designs, and visitors to the Web site voted for their favorites, Zakarian said.

 

Zakarian then printed the four top vote-getters to give to 300 selected organizations, including local libraries, schools and museums. The organizations were asked to hang the designs in memory of the Armenian Genocide.

 

Retail shops along the route where Armenian students will march Wednesday in Los Angeles also will be asked to hang the winning posters. The leftover posters will be mounted on wooden sticks and held by marching youths.

 

The cost of producing the posters, about 70 cents apiece, is being paid by Zakarian's family.

 

"If I'm not helping, that means I don't care. This is my way of helping," he said. "I'm helping a cause that needs to be recognized, because history cannot be denied."

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ruben isk inchu eq paterin paqtsrel ???

 

mez mot iyn shat geretsik dzevov ogtagortsvets, plakatneri, trafaretneri dzevov, yev yerb havaq@ verjatsav mardiq irents het tun eyin tanum, porotsum mi hat gtsats cheyir tesni.

 

imijiylots shat geretsik er kazmakerpvats, yes iyspes der cheyi tesel los angelosum, MIyatsyal Hye Usanorneri kormits. shat aveli lav qan naxkin tarinerum yerb AYF/n er anum.

 

n@karner@ iys 2 or@ webi v@ra k@dnem.

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Reformatorisch Dagblad

Thursday April 25 2002

 

AMSTERDAM - Armenians hung hundreds of posters yesterday in different places in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Los Angeles and Toronto that have to keep alive the memory of the genocide that the Turks committed in 1915 on the Christian Armenians. In that genocide, which is commemorated annually on April 24, an estimated

1.5 million people died. Here a Muslim walks passed a billboard on Waterlooplein (Amsterdam).

 

The poster-action is an initiative by the Armenian artist Rouben Malayan. On one of the posters the face of a 90-year-old woman is

portrayed: a survivor of the genocide, living in Breda. Many posters were already damaged or torn off by Turks yesterday afternoon.

 

[PHOTO by R. Malayan: Billboards on Waterlooplein]

 

http://www.armeniangenocideposters.org/images/ACTION.APRIL24.2002/waterlooplein-postersApril24.2002%20-man.jpg

 

[ April 29, 2002, 03:41 AM: Message edited by: Rouben Malayan ]

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Haskanali e .

 

mez mot 8-10 tarber havaqner kayin verchin 2 orerin, qarkap enyi @enkel chgiteyi vor mekin gnam. bayst te norits em asum yerekva havaquytner@ hoyakap eyin kazmakerpvats, menak te shqert@ skselu pes andzrev sksvets, yev shqerti avartvelu pes andzrev@ kangnets, Heretikosnei gortsa xerj yerexeq@ dzerqov grvats plakatner uneyin amborjutyamb t@rchvel / avirvel eyin.

mi qani hoyakap n@karner unem vor iskapes shat lav durs yekav.

es 2 or@ tsuyts k@tam / mi hat es sumgayiti web pag@ verchatsnem.

 

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Movses jan shat merci, miguze karoxanas inz fotoner@ uxarkel voronz vra mer posterner@ erevum en? Copyright@ es vran kdnem, ete du jamanak chunes zbaxvelu.. uxaki shat hetakrkir e tesnel ev zuzadrel vor mardik tesnen.. lav araijm, Rouben
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An interview with the old woman on the poster:

 

http://www.armeniangenocideposters.org/images/posters/stillwaiting.jpg

 

After the genocide / Trouw (Dutch newspaper) April 24 2002

 

As a two-year-old girl, bouncing in a mule's saddlebag, Hayganas Cordikoglu

survived one of the massacres on Armenians in 1915. Today she is in Assen at

the annual commemoration, her head full of stories about her family.

 

Armenians

--------------

Eildert Mulder

 

"If I hadn't experienced it myself, I wouldn't believe it either," Hayganas

Cordikoglu says. She is 89 and one of the very few who survived the Armenian

atrocities of 1915 in Eastern Turkey and who are still alive. She was two at

the time and was called Cordikyan, Cordikoglu is a later turkification by

the authorities.

 

Today she will attend the annual commemoration of the genocide in Assen,

where Armenians unveiled a monument a year ago. Angering nationalist Turkish

organizations, who want to move Assen City Hall to reject it. Because the

massacre on Armenians is a taboo in Turkey. Newspapers talk about the

"so-called genocide". Since that year of disaster 1915 Armenian and Turkish

historians have been at each other's throats. They agree on one thing: the

Armenians formed one of the four large communities that lived in Eastern

Turkey before World War I: the Kurds, the Greeks, the Armenians and the

Turks. Halfway the 20s the die was cast and the ethnic map looks the way it

does today. The Christian Armenians and Greeks have disappeared.

 

Armenian and Turkish historians argue about the big numbers, the bookkeeping

of the dead, the political backgrounds, the accusation of Armenian betrayal

during World War I. The Turks kept less accurate records of their crimes

than the Nazis later. Therefore the memory of 1915 mainly lives on in family

sagas. Whoever listens to Hayganas's story must be sturdy. Her granddaughter

says: "The Turkish denials actually sound quite strong. Our stories

sometimes seem unreal to us."

 

A European dressed man with a fez on his head and a large moustache looks

down on us from the mantelpiece. It's Hayganas's maternal grandfather. Next

to him is his son. He studied in the city of Sivas in central Turkey in

1915. The last sign of life was a letter saying that they were planning on

killing all of them and whether father could send some money, then perhaps

he could still save himself.

 

Grandpa himself was sent to prison because he was suspected of being a

member of the militant Armenian 'committees'. Hayganas still gets frustrated

87 years after the deed over so much stupidity. "That man was too afraid for

that, he didn't even dare kill a chicken", she says angrily. And that's a

reoccurring pattern in this family saga, the scared grandpa and the dominant

grandma, a daredevil, who always wants to persevere her will. Sometimes for

the good but sometimes for the bad, because sometimes she was also wrong.

 

This type of general human pattern supports the credibility of Hayganas's

story. Not all Turks are villains for her, not all Armenians saints. Since

she couldn't get an education in those restless years she remained

illiterate. Her memories cannot have been influenced by what she read later.

According to her granddaughter Hayganas's stories coincide well with those

of her deceased husband, who was ten years older. After he became blind the

memories began to flood his head like a movie.

 

Hayganas's description of her village reminds one of the way Palestinians

talk about their lost paradises in what is now Israel. The village, Zemara,

is still there. Many descendants of Turks from Greece, who arrived there in

the 20s, live there now, in exchange for the Asia Minor Greeks who migrated

to Greece.

 

When Hayganas was born into the world in 1913 there wasn't a road to the

village yet. It was only accessible through mountain paths. Her father had a

type of transportation company with eight mules. Next to land there were

also all kinds of fruit trees. At the ancient fort on a hill, dedicated to

Saint Sarkis, children dug in the ground for old, Armenian coins. You could

light candles there and there was a little church. At school children

learned French. The village was predominantly Armenian, but Turks also lived

there. It was in the neighborhood of the city Erzincan. Hayganas's memories

of the village date from a later age, after their return. By some whim of

fate her and her family did not end up in the Syrian city Deir El-Zor at the

Euphrates. Many Armenians died in Deir El-Zor, also on the way there.

 

Hayganas's oldest memory is the death of her paternal grandma. She couldn't

follow the pace of the marches. Together with other elderly the soldiers

killed her. She quickly called out all the names of her grandchildren. Later

Hayganas was in doubt, she asked others whether her memories made sense,

they confirmed the story. Grandpa also left life here.

 

The deportation progressed in phases. First the population was to hand in

weapons. Then they picked up young men, not all, since some of them hid in

the mountains. Phase three: those left, women, children and elderly, were to

prepare for the march. Out of them as well an amount survived. In Kurdish

villages they were given protection by families with whom they'd had a kivra

relationship, a type of alliance. Many Kurdish children had Armenian

godparents at their circumcision. Reciprocally many Armenian children had

Kurdish godparents at their baptism. Thus were the local relationships,

until the decision at a high level was made for genocide.

 

Hayganas does bring a nuance into the charming image. She keeps repeating

that the Armenians had excellent relations with the Alevis, liberal

outsiders of the Islam. Most Alevis are Turks, but there are also Kurdish

Alevis. With the latter Armenians had kivra-relationships. Concerning the

majority of Kurds, orthodox Sunnite Muslims, Hayganas is negative. "They

were against us, just like the Sunni Turks."

 

The kivra-protection turned out weak. Kurdish families may have even

defended the Armenians to death. Disappointing was the attitude of their

fellow Turkish villagers. Hayganas is convinced that they were the ones who

told the army in which Kurdish families they were hiding. The soldiers

threatened to treat the families in the same way as the Armenians so that

they resolved an awful dilemma for their Kurdish protecters by silently

leaving in the middle of the night, back to Zemara.

 

The procession went on the road under guidance of the military from the

village. They had to take care of their own provisions. They tried to

survive on a minimum amount of food. Hayganas sat with her little sister on

the right side of the mule's saddlebag, three cousins were on the other

side. When the procession reached the town where grandpa was imprisoned, a

few miracles saved Hayganas's life. Grandma asked the prison successfully to

free her husband. "We're all going to die anyway, let him go," she pleaded.

And then the next miracle happened. A man on a horse loudly called out

grandpa's name. Grandpa was hiding under a blanket, but grandma brought the

horseman over to him. The man had brought along an escort who was a high

Turkish relation of grandpa.

 

Grandpa could take sixty people with him. A heartbreaking struggle burst

over the question as to who should come and who shouldn't. But the fortunate

did not reach their Turkish benefactor. When they reached a Turkish village,

Denizli, the inhabitants stopped them. The village could use new blood.

Young men picked out an Armenian bride and the other Armenians were set to

work. Grandpa, a man of distinction, plodded as a miller for a notable

villager in exchange for protection. And the latter was earnest. When the

notable's sons cajoled the Armenians into giving money and jewellery by

threatening with soldiers, grandma made her complaint loudly. After which

the Turkish mother threatened to curse the milk with which she had fed her

treacherous offspring.

 

Then grandma made the wrong guess. She wanted to return to Aemara; according

to messages it was safe there. Grandpa stayed in Denizli. Hayganas's mother

was pregnant. The village received them with open arms. Hayganas's father

was then hidden in the mountains. A cold foot is her last and only memory of

him. They were lying on the ground sleeping when she felt it, the secret

visit of her father at night.

 

A short while later mother died and a Turkish acquaintance shot father in

the mountains. And then all of a sudden there was a new order for

deportation. Horrible scenes. Soldiers threw children who slowed down the

marching pace in the Euphrates, but even parents did it. It must be the

worst imaginable dilemma: or everyone dies, or sacrifice the weakest.

Grandma decided to kill Hayganas's little sister, a year younger than her.

The two sisters felt the threat and clung to each other. Grandma gave the

sleeping girl to another woman at night, who threw her in the Euphrates. The

three cousins had already been poisoned, by aunt. Grandma would later feel

strongly remorseful, Hayganas would have intense talks with her. But grandma

would persist that she had no choice.

 

They joined grandpa in Denizli again. After four years the political climate

had changed so that they could really return to Zemara. They even got their

belongings back but lost them again to refugees from Greece. Grandma wrote a

firm letter to Atatürk about it. For years already an Armenian was hidden in

a cave. A Turkish farmer knew about it. Every morning he laid a piece of

bread by the cave. Among the returning Armenians there was also the wife of

the cave-inhabitant. The Turkish farmer took the completely bewildered man

and brought him to his wife who would later bear him another daughter. It's

the same woman who threw Hayganas's little sister in the Euphrates.

 

Hayganas grew up, together with the daughter of a killed uncle and aunt,

with grandpa and grandma. When she turned eighteen she moved to Istanbul,

where grandpa already lived.

 

She talked about the Armenian atrocities with Turkish acquaintances there. A

woman had saved twelve Armenians. The family went to court to receive a

piece of land. The judge however demanded proof that no more heirs were

alive. There were birth certificates of the victims of the genocide but no

death certificates.

 

Bureaucratically they are still alive. "You know better that they were

killed!", they shouted at the judge. With that brutality they lost the case,

but it was relieving.

 

In the seventies her son moved Hayganas, her husband and two children to

Holland. Last year, her granddaughter traveled through Eastern Turkey with a

group of Armenians. She was at sixty kilometers from Zemara, but tension had

built around that trip and the guide strongly advised her not to visit the

village.

 

At the end of the conversation Hayganas also gives an account of the dead on

the scale of her family. Her paternal grandparents and parents died. Of the

seventeen cousins, four survived, one boy and three girls. In Istanbul that

boy sailed on an English ship full of orphans. He wound up in the Republic

Armenia. "I'm going to Assen for all those people", Hayganas says.

 

PHOTO 1 by Jörgen Caris: Hayganas Cordikoglu

PHOTO 2 by ABC: An episode from the Armenian genocide: the slaughter of

1904, this time by Tartars.

 

[ April 29, 2002, 03:35 AM: Message edited by: Rouben Malayan ]

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