| 16 ARMENIANS FROM IRAN, KILLED IN HISTORIC ARMENIA |
| Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - Asbarez.com - 16 Iranian-Armenian tourists visiting historic Armenia were killed and 32 injured Tuesday in a bus crash in eastern Turkey, Anatolia reported.
According to media reports, the driver lost control of the bus, sending it careening off a bendy road in Agri province late on Monday.
The crash took place in the town of Dogubayazit in the Agri province, whose governor Mehmet Cetin said that the injured were taken to the hospital.
The Armenian tourists had spent a week in eastern Turkey visiting historical sites as part of a 90-person group, Vatan newspaper reported.
Alik Daily newspaper, our sister publication in Iran, reported that Prelate of Iranian Azerbaijan, Bishop Nishan Topouzian headed a delegation to the crash site with Iranian regional government officials to assess the damage.
Kevork Vartanian, the Armenian community representative in the Iranian parliament from the Iranian-Azerbaijan region, through the Turkish Embassy in Tehran and other officials is coordinating activities to transport the remaining tourists back to Iran safely.
According to local officials, passengers from a second bus were safe and were transported to a local hotel near the crash site.
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CONDOLENCES FROM CYPRUS
Armenian Representative in the Cyprus Parliament Vartkes Mahdessian sent letters of condolences on behalf of the Armenian community of Cyprus, to his counterpart Kevork Vartanian in the Iranian Parliament, as well as Armenian Iranian spiritual leaders Bishop Neshan Topouzian of Aderbadagan region, Papken Yebisgobos Zarian (Isfahan) and Sebouh Yebisgobos Sarkissian (Tehran).
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| HUNDREDS OF TURKS VISIT DZIDZERNAGAPERT,
WHILE YOUNG TURK'S GRANDSON LAYS FLOWERS |
| Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - YEREVAN (Armenpress) - More than 300 Turkish citizens visited the Armenian Genocide Museum Complex at Dzidzernagapert during their visit to Yerevan for the Armenian-Turkish World Cup qualifier soccer match, the director of the museum, Hayk Demoyan, told Armenpress.
According to Demoyan, many of the Turkish visitors at the museum were students, sports fans, and NGO representatives. He said many of them visited the museum out of curiosity, with varying reactions to the exhibits, including sympathy, remorse, regret and denial.
The museum had earlier this month launched an exhibit chronicling the contributions of Armenians in Ottoman Sports. According to Demoyan this was the most popular exhibit frequented by the Turkish visitors, who were surprised to learn about the role of Armenians in the development of sports in the Ottoman Empire.
According to him, many of the visitors said they had not known about the contributions of Armenians to Ottoman Sports.
Meanwhile, the descendant of one of the three masterminds of the Armenian Genocide, Hasan Jemal, visited the Dzidzernagapert Armenian Genocide Memorial on Saturday where he laid flowers in memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The grandson of Jemal Pasha, Hasan Jemal is a correspondent for the Turkish daily “Milliyet.” Jemal wrote about his visit to Armenia in an article entitled, “Let's Respect Each Other's Pains.”
Jemal proposed a minute of silence to be observed in the stadium before the match “in memory of the tragic page in our common history and the suffering experienced by the Armenians and Turks in the past”.
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| THIS SUNDAY: POLITIS NEWSPAPER TO PUBLISH CHRONICLE ON GIBRAHAYER |
 We would like to inform you that on Sunday, 14 September 2008, the slip CHRONICLE that Alexander-Michael Hadjilyra wrote for the Armenians of Cyprus will circulate along with "Politis" newspaper.
The Armenians have been constantly living in Cyprus since 578. An industrious people with deep Christian faith, they particularly prospered during the Frankish Era. Despite the oppression during the Turkish Era, they managed to preserve their faith and to become prosperous entrepreneurs, although some became linobambaki (crypto-Christians). With the arrival of the British, some Cilician Armenians arrived in Cyprus as translators, while about 8.000 Armenian refugees sought shelter in Cyprus as a result of the horrendous slaughters by the Young Turks and the Armenian Genocide (1894-1896, 1909 & 1915-1923). By the 1960 Independence they were recognised as a religious group, along with the Maronites and the Latins. The CHRONICLE covers the history, demography, places of education / worship / repose, the religious identity and the activities of the Armenians, as well as the Armenian language and important figures of the community.
The article in question on the Armenian Cypriots will help all Armenians learn their great history in Cyprus, as well as non-Armenians to better know their Armenian compatriots. Finally, it will help all of us to appreciate the multiculturalism and the religious diversity of Cyprus. It is accompanied by a rich photographic material and an original demographic map.
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