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Message of His Holiness Karekin Ii Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians on the Occasion of the Commemoration of the Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide

Dearly beloved Armenian people in the Homeland and the Diaspora,

Today we pay our tribute to the Holy Martyrs of the Armenian Genocide, who gave their lives for the sake of faith and the Homeland.

During the Genocide, our people witnessed the slaughter of one and a half million of its children, the destruction of its national-spiritual values, our sanctuaries, monasteries, and churches, our villages, cities, and it lost most of its historical homeland.
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Address by RA National Assembly President Ararat Mirzoyan on Remembrance Day of Armenian Genocide Victims

Today we honor the memory of our compatriots who one hundred and five years ago were subjected to genocide in their historical homeland. One and half million men and women, elderly and children were massacred merely for being Armenian.
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Message of the President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide

Dear Compatriots in Armenia, Artsakh, and Spyurk (Diaspora),

This year, the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide is commemorated in accordance with a protocol forced on us by the pandemic. However, our tribute to the memory of our holy martyrs has never been measured by the visits to the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan or other memorials dedicated to the Armenian Genocide.

We remember our victims all the time and everywhere, no matter where in the world we are. We pray for them in our souls and minds, name by name. Remembrance and the pain of loss, intertwined with our resolve to win and achieve justice by being alive, has been with us for the last 105 years.
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Armenian Advocate Says Genocide Label May Lead to Reparations

By Engy Magdy
Special to The Tablet

MANHATTAN — The formal recognition that Turkey committed genocide against the Armenian people during the last years of the Ottoman Empire is important because it could pave the way for reparations, according to Vera Yacoubian, director of the Armenian National Committee of the Middle East Office.
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Reparations Expert Calls for Passage Armenian Genocide Resolution in Capitol Hill Speech

“TO RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS TO SEEK AFTER REPARATIONS; AND TO SEEK AFTER REPARATIONS IS, ULTIMATELY, TO SEEK AFTER JUSTICE.” – DR. JERMAINE MCCALPIN

WASHINGTON, DC – Genocide reparations expert Dr. Jermaine McCalpin stressed that Congressional passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolutions (S.Res.150 and H.Res.296) represents a key to countering the denial of this crime, seeking reparations and securing justice during the second installment of the Armenian National Committee of America’s (ANCA) Raphael Lemkin Policy Series.
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U.S. Appeals Court Makes a Wrong Decision on Armenian Demands

HARUT SASSOUNIAN
PUBLISHER, THE CALIFORNIA COURIER

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made a decision on August 8, 2019 to deny the appeal of two lawsuits brought by several Armenian-Americans demanding compensation from the Republic of Turkey and two of its banks for confiscating their properties shortly after the Armenian Genocide.
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Book Presentation: Armenia and Soviet-Turkish Relations in Diplomatic Documents, 1945-1946

YEREVAN, Armenia – On September 10, the American University of Armenia (AUA) Political Science and International Affairs (PSIA) program hosted Arman J. Kirakossian for a presentation of his book ‘Armenia and Soviet-Turkish Relations in Diplomatic Documents, 1945-1946’ published in 2018. Dr. Kirakossian currently serves as the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia to Austria as well as Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
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European Court Finds Catholicosate’s Suit Inadmissible, and Could Not be Appealed

BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN
PUBLISHER, THE CALIFORNIA COURIER

The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia (headquartered in Antelias, Lebanon) filed a lawsuit on April 25, 2015, against the government of Turkey seeking the return of its historic seat in Sis (present-day Kozan district of the Adana Province) which was confiscated in 1921.

The first of its kind lawsuit was filed in the Constitutional Court of the Turkish Republic because the claim raised issues of property rights that lower courts would not have jurisdiction to overturn the maze of laws adopted by Turkey in 1915 and succeeding years. At the recommendation of the Justice Ministry of Turkey, the Constitutional Court referred the Armenian Church lawsuit to the lower courts. The lawyers for the Catholicosate of Cilicia, however, decided to appeal the case directly to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, on December 8, 2016.
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Ümit Kurt Explores Turkey’s Laws on Armenian Genocide-Era Dispossession Cases (Video)

The Armenian Weekly

WASHINGTON—Dr. Ümit Kurt, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, outlined the complex laws promulgated by Turkey to systematically dispossess Armenians of their properties during and after the Armenian Genocide, in a Feb. 28 talk at George Washington University Law School.

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