April 23, 2015. Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin dan Presiden Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner semasa mesyuarat di Kremlin (April 23, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during a meeting in the Kremlin (RIA Novosti/Alexei Druzhinin)
SEMASA- Tiada sebab mengapa Rusia dan Argentina tiada mempunyai hubungan 2 hala, Presiden Argentina Cristina Kirchner berkata, menekankan bahawa ia adalah "tidak masuk akal" untuk menyifatkan Rusia ancaman. Kirchner bercakap dengan RT dalam satu wawancara pertamanya kepada media asing dalam tempoh 5 tahun.
"Saya percaya bahawa Rusia adalah pemain pada skala yang global, di seluruh DUNIA, penyertaannya adalah dilabur; ini adalah mengapa saya tidak nampak sebab-sebab mengapa tidak ada hubungan 2 hala [antara Argentina dan Rusia], "kata Kirchner apabila dia diminta mengulas hasrat Britain untuk meningkatkan kehadiran tenteranya di rantau ini, memetik pemanasan hubungan Rusia-Argentina.
Bulan lalu, Setiausaha Pertahanan UK Michael Fallon mengumumkan rancangan $ 271 Juta untuk mengukuhkan kehadiran tentera di Falklands untuk bertindak balas terhadap "ancaman yang sangat hidup".
"Saya berfikir bahawa, walaupun semua dakwaan bahawa Perang Dingin dan konfrontasi adalah pada masa lalu, bahawa kita hidup dalam DUNIA yang lebih global, ramai yang masih mengikuti double standard, apabila untuk kewujudan atau ketuanan mereka perlu musuh," Kirchner menjawab merujuk kepada Britain.
Sebagai pemimpin Argentina bercakap mengenai hubungan Rusia-Argentina, beliau menegaskan bahawa tidak Rusia, tetapi Amerika Syarikat masih "pelabur yang paling penting" untuk negara Amerika Latin.
"Kemudian kita perlu bimbang tentang apa-apa amaun rakyat Amerika di negara kita, terutamanya peristiwa-peristiwa semasa di DUNIA," Kirchner menegaskan. "Ia adalah benar-benar tidak masuk akal untuk berfikir bahawa Rusia adalah ancaman."
Pada hari Khamis, Rusia dan Argentina dimeteraikan pakej tenaga serta $ 3 bilion dalam tawaran.
Oleh itu, Rusia merancang untuk melabur $ 2 bilion dalam Argentina loji kuasa nuklear, dan Rusia Gazprom telah menandatangani satu perjanjian untuk meneroka bidang minyak dan gas di Argentina, projek yang bernilai $ 1 bilion.
Argentinian President to RT: ‘It is absurd to really think
that Russia is a threat’ . . .
There are no reasons why Russia and Argentina should’t have bilateral ties, Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner said, stressing that it is “absurd” to deem Russia a threat. Kirchner spoke to RT in her first interview to a foreign media in five years.
“I believe that Russia is a player of a global, worldwide scale, its participation is investable; this is why I don’t see reasons why there should be no bilateral relations [between Argentina and Russia],” Kirchner said when she was asked to comment on Britain’s intention to boost its military presence in the region, citing warming Russian-Argentinian relations.
Last month, UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon announced a $271 million plan to strengthen its military presence in the Falklands to respond to “a very live threat”.
“I think that, despite all assertions that the Cold War and confrontations are in the past, that we live in more global world, there are many who still follow double standards, when for existence or supremacy they need an enemy,” Kirchner replied referring to Britain.
As the Argentinian leader spoke about Russian-Argentinian relations, she stressed that not Russia, but the US remains “the most important investor” for the Latin American state.
“Then we should be worried about such amount of Americans in our country, especially given the current events in the world,” Kirchner stressed. “It is an absurd to really think that Russia is a threat.”
On Thursday, Russia and Argentina sealed energy package as well as $3 billion in deals.
Thus, Russia plans to invest $2 billion in Argentinian nuclear power plants, and Russia's Gazprom has signed a deal to explore oil and gas fields in Argentina, a project worth another $1 billion.
READ MORE: Russia And Argentina SEAL Energy package, $3bn in DEALS (BACA lebih lanjut: RUSIA dan Argentina Meterai pakej Tenaga, $ 3 bilion Dalam TAWARAN) http://on.rt.com/dzvj8b
"Pada pendapat saya, logik 2 ini 'rakan-musuh' perlu wujud di DUNIA, kerana selain banyak perkara lain, ia membawa kepada beberapa keadaan benar-benar tidak boleh diterima. Ini adalah mengapa hari ini [Presiden Rusia Vladimir] Putin dan saya menandatangani perjanjian yang menyertai kira-kira dialog, politik, diplomasi dan kerjasama pelbagai hala dan tentang peranan PBB sebagai satu-satunya faktor yang mungkin berhenti dan, akhirnya, penyelesaian konflik, "kata Kirchner.
Tiada konflik di Disneyland
Presiden Argentina, yang tempoh yang ke-2 akan berakhir pada 2016, percaya bahawa menjadi wanita secara mempengaruhi sikap beliau dan mencetuskan kritikan dari "bulatan pemerintah."
"Adalah jelas bahawa masih terdapat unsur diskriminasi wanita dalam politik," katanya. "Jika, sebagai seorang wanita, saya akan melakukan apa saja apa struktur kuat yang mahu, saya pasti saya kes mereka benar-benar akan memuji saya dan memanggil saya pintar dan berbakat. Tetapi, selain itu saya seorang wanita, saya juga tidak bertindak dengan cara yang mereka sayamahu, dan ini adalah satu kesalahan yang 2 kali. "
Namun, Margaret Thatcher memetik sebagai contoh, beliau berkata, sebagai seorang pemimpin wanita "tidak adalah syarat yang perlu untuk kritikan berterusan."
"Jika seseorang menjadi ketua Disneyland, sudah tentu dia akan disayangi; kerana semua orang suka Mickey Mouse dan Donald Duck . . . Tiada konflik di Disneyland. Jadi, jika anda seorang presiden Disneyland, sudah tentu anda akan disayangi kerana apa yang akan anda lakukan di sana? Berjalan di dalam hutan, taman-taman dan memberi gula-gula, "Kirchner bergurau.
Hasil wawancara dengan Cristina Kirchner akan datang pada RT.com
“In my opinion, this double ‘friend-foe’ logic should cease to exist in the world, because besides many other things, it leads to some really intolerable situations. This is why today [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and I signed a joined agreement about dialogue, politics, diplomacy and multilateral cooperation and about UN’s role as the only possible factor of stopping and, eventually, resolving conflicts,” Kirchner said.
There are no conflicts in Disneyland
The Argentinian president, whose second term will end in 2016, believes that being a woman does influence the attitude to her and triggers criticism from the “ruling circles.”
“It is obvious that there is still an element of female discrimination in politics,” she said. “If, being a woman, I would do everything what powerful structures want to, I am sure I that case they would really praise me and call me smart and talented. But, besides that I am a woman, I also act not the way they want me to, and this is a double sin.”
Yet, citing Margaret Thatcher as an example, she said that being a female leader “is not a necessary condition for a constant criticism.”
“If a person becomes a head of Disneyland, of course he will be loved; because everybody likes Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck…There are no conflicts in Disneyland. So if you are a president of Disneyland, of course you will be loved because what would you be doing there? Walking in forest, gardens and give out candies,” Kirchner joked.
Full interview with Cristina Kirchner coming up on RT.com
Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin berjabat tangan dengan Presiden Argentina Cristina Fernandez semasa pertemuan mereka di Kremlin di Moscow April 23, 2015 (Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow April 23, 2015 (Reuters/Alexander Nemenov)
SEMASA- Rusia dan Argentina akan berunding mengenai menggunakan mata wang negara di penempatan perdagangan bersama, Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin berkata pada sidang akhbar dengan rakan sejawatannya dari Argentina Cristina Fernandez beliau de Kirchner.
"Kami bersetuju untuk mengadakan rundingan yang menyeluruh mengenai persoalan menggunakan mata wang negara dalam pembayaran perdagangan antara negeri dan antara rakan perdagangan," kata Presiden Rusia.
Rusia telah menubuhkan skim yang sama dengan China, Iran, Mesir, dan Turki untuk memotong dolar Amerika Syarikat, orang tengah yang dipanggil digunakan dalam kebanyakan urus niaga.
Pada bulan Oktober, Rusia dan China bersetuju swap mata wang bernilai lebih daripada $ 20 bilion, untuk meningkatkan perdagangan dan perniagaan antara kedua-dua.
RUSSIAN and Argentina to DISCUSS Using local Currencies
in trade - PUTIN . . .
Russia and Argentina will consult on using national currencies in mutual trade settlements, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a news conference with his Argentinian counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
“We agreed to hold extensive consultations on the question of using national currencies in trade payments between states and between commercial partners,” the Russian President said.
Russia has set up similar schemes with China, Iran, Egypt, and Turkey to cut out the US dollar, the so-called middleman used in most transactions.
In October, Russia and China agreed a currency swap worth over $20 billion, in order to increase trade and business between the two.
READ MORE: Russia, China agree on more trade currency swaps to bypass dollar(BACA lebih lanjut: Rusia, China bersetuju mengenai lebih swap mata wang perdagangan untuk memintas dolar) http://on.rt.com/fvb51v
Terdahulu pada bulan April, Rusia dicadangkan menubuhkan sistem yang sama dengan Vietnam dan Indonesia.
Kedua-dua ketua negara juga telah menandatangani 20 perjanjian antara projek-projek tenaga, pembangunan ekonomi, pertanian, perdagangan, kerjasama ketenteraan, serta memorandum untuk meningkatkan perlindungan alam sekitar dan memerangi pengedaran dadah.
Antara negara-negara Amerika Latin, Argentina merupakan rakan dagang keempat terbesar Rusia, selepas Brazil, Mexico, dan Ecuador. Perdagangan antara Argentina di Rusia adalah 1.4 billion pada tahun 2014, berbanding dengan hampir 2 kali ganda pada tahun-tahun sebelumnya, disebabkan bekalan minyak dikurangkan daripada Rusia. Lebih daripada 84 % peratus daripada barangan Rusia mengimport dari Argentina adalah pertanian, seperti buah-buahan dan daging.
Cristina Kirchner telah melakukan lawatan rasmi ke Moscow sejak Selasa.
Presiden Argentina bertemu ahli perniagaan, ahli politik dan membuka pameran Moscow khusus untuk pemimpin spiritual Argentina Eva Peron. Tahun ini juga menandakan 130 tahun hubungan diplomatik Rusia Argentina.
Earlier in April, Russia proposed setting up a similar system with Vietnam and Indonesia.
The two heads of state also signed 20 agreements ranging from energy projects, economic development, agriculture, trade, military cooperation, as well as memorandums to boost environmental protection and fight drug trafficking.
Among Latin American countries, Argentina is Russia’s fourth biggest trading partner, after Brazil, Mexico, and Ecuador. Trade between Argentina in Russia was $1.4 billion in 2014, compared with nearly double that in previous years, due to reduced oil supplies from Russia. More than 84 percent of the goods Russia imports from Argentina are agricultural, such as fruit and meat.
Cristina Kirchner has been on official visit to Moscow since Tuesday.
The Argentine president met businessmen, politicians and opened a Moscow exhibition dedicated to the spiritual leader of Argentina Eva Peron. This year also marks 130 years of Russian-Argentine diplomatic relations.
Orang ramai berkabung di Tsitsernakaberd Genosid Armenia Muzium Memorial di Yerevan, April 21, 2015 (People mourn at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Museum in Yerevan, April 21, 2015 (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
SEMASA- Armenia dari seluruh DUNIA telah mengambil bahagian dalam perkhidmatan peringatan awam, untuk memperingati pembunuhan beramai-ramai 1915 sehingga 1.5 juta nenek moyang mereka di tangan orang Turki Uthmaniyyah.
Di ibu Armenia Yerevan itu, Presiden Serzh Sargsyan meletakkan kuning tunggal meningkat pada bunga yang mewakili gergasi lupa-saya-tidak bunga.
Millions Worldwide mark 100th Anniversary Of Armenian Genocide (PHOTO, VIDEO) . . .
Armenians from around the world have been taking part in public memorial services, to commemorate the 1915 massacre of up to 1.5 million of their ancestors at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.
In Armenia’s capital Yerevan, President Serzh Sargsyan laid a lone yellow rose at a wreath representing a giant forget-me-not flower.
"Saya berterima kasih kepada semua orang-orang yang berada di sini untuk sekali lagi mengesahkan komitmen anda kepada nilai-nilai kemanusiaan, untuk mengatakan bahawa tiada apa yang dilupakan, bahawa kita ingatselepas 100 tahun," katanya kepada penonton kenamaan antarabangsa, yang berkumpul di negeri Soviet bekas.
"I am grateful to all those who are here to once again confirm your commitment to human values, to say that nothing is forgotten, that after 100 years we remember," he told an audience of international dignitaries, who gathered in the former Soviet state.
(Kiri-KANAN) Catholicos Karekin II, ketua tertinggi Gereja KerasulanArmenia, Presiden Armenia yg Serzh Sargsyan bersama-sama dengan isterinya Rita, Rusia Presiden Vladimir Putin, Cyprus Presiden Nicos Anastasiades dan Perancis Presiden Francois Hollande meletakkan bunga pada majlis memperingati menandakan 100 tahun pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia oleh Uthmaniyyah Turki di Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015 (L-R) Catholicos Karekin II, the supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan together with his wife Rita, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and France's President Francois Hollande lay flowers during a commemoration ceremony marking the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015 (Reuters/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti/Kremlin)
Beliau diikuti oleh Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin dan rakan sejawatannya dari Perancis Francois Hollande beliau, serta berpuluh-puluh pegawai-pegawai lain.
He was followed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Francois Hollande, as well as dozens of other officials. "Tidak ada dan tidak boleh mana-mana justifikasi untuk pembunuhan beramai-ramai orang," kata Putin, yang tidak menjauhkan diri daripada memanggil peristiwa 1915-1922 pembunuhan beramai-ramai, walaupun bantahan lantang terhadap istilah dari Turki.
"Kata-kata penting telah berkata di Turki, tetapi yang lain masih diharapkan agar kesedihan dikongsi boleh menjadi hala tuju yang sama," bergema Hollande.
"There is no and cannot be any justification for mass murder of people,” said Putin, who has not shied away from calling the events of 1915 to 1922 genocide, despite vocal objections against the term from Turkey.
"Important words have already been said in Turkey, but others are still expected so that shared grief can become shared destiny," echoed Hollande.
PresidenRusia Vladimir Putin (R) menghadiri majlis memperingati menandakan seratus tahun pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia oleh Uthmaniyyah Turki di Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015 (Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) attends a commemoration ceremony marking the centenary of the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in Yerevan, Armenia, April 24, 2015 (Reuters/Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti/Kremlin)
Dari April 1915 kebanyakan Armenia yang telah dipaksaEmpayar Uthmaniyyah, diusir atau diletakkan di kem-kem tahanan, kononnya untuk memberontak dan tepi dengan Rusia dalam Perang DUNIA I. Turki mengaku bahawa ramai yang dizalimi, tetapi berkata bahawa jumlah yang sebenarnya mereka yang dibunuh telah dibesar-besarkan dan tidak ada dasar yang sistematik untuk menghapuskan minoriti Armenia.
From April 1915 most of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenians were displaced, deported or placed in concentration camps, ostensibly for rebelling and siding with the Russians in World War I. Turkey admits that many were mistreated, but says that the exact numbers of those killed have been exaggerated and there was no systematic policy to eliminate the Armenian minority.
Orang berkabung di Tsitsernakaberd Genosid Armenia Muzium Memorial di Yerevan, April 21, 2015 (People mourn at the Tsitsernakaberd Armenian Genocide Memorial Museum in Yerevan, April 21, 2015 (Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili)
Bilangan diaspora Armenian sehingga 7 juta orang, dan upacara besar telah diadakan di beberapa bandar utama di seluruh DUNIA.
Merpati putih dilepaskan ke langit selepas perkhidmatan di gereja Ortodoks Armenia di Moscow. Banci kebangsaan Rusia 2010 mengesahkan bahawa 1.1 juta orang Armenia tinggal di Rusia.
Di Perancis, lampu di Menara Eiffel telah dipadamkan sepanjang malam, untuk meratapi kematian orang Armenia yang terkorban.
Beribu-ribu di Los Angeles berjalan dari kejiranan etnik Little Armenia ke Konsulat Turki, memegang sepanduk dengan mesej "Kami menuntut keadilan" dan "Turki perlu membayarnya." Presiden Amerika Syarikat Barack Obama berjanji untuk mengiktiraf pembunuhan beramai-ramai sebelum pilihan raya pada tahun 2008, tetapi sejak dielakkan istilah yang jelas, untuk menenangkan TurkisekutuNATOutama.
The Armenian diaspora numbers up to seven million people, and large ceremonies were held in several major cities around the globe.
White doves were released into the sky following a service at an Armenian Orthodox church in Moscow. The Russian national census of 2010 confirmed that 1.1 million Armenians were living in Russia.
In France, the lights at the Eiffel Tower were turned off through the night, to mourn the deaths of the Armenians who perished.
Thousands in Los Angeles walked from the ethnic neighborhood of Little Armenia to the Turkish consulate, holding placards with messages “We demand justice” and “Turkey must pay.” US President Barack Obama promised to recognize the genocide prior to his election in 2008, but has since avoided the explicit term, to placate key NATO ally Turkey.
Penunjuk perasaan berarak untuk memperingati ulang tahun ke-100 pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia oleh Uthmaniyyah Turki, di Los Angeles, California April 24, 2015 (Demonstrators march to commemorate the 100th anniversary of mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, in Los Angeles, California April 24, 2015 (Reuters/Kevork Djansezian)
Banyak sekolah ditutup di Beirut, Lebanon, sebagai perarakan puluhan ribu orang, yang merupakan minoriti kecil tetapi vokal dalam negara berbilang agama, berarak melalui jalan-jalan.
Di Syria, sebuah negara yang terus menikmati hubungan yang sukar dengan masa kini Turki, ramai telah mengadakan di Damsyik dan Aleppo.
Many schools were shut in Beirut, Lebanon, as a procession of tens of thousands of people, representing a small but vocal minority in the multi-faith country, marched through the streets.
In Syria, a country that continues to enjoy a difficult relationship with present-day Turkey, masses were held in Damascus and Aleppo.
(Pengakap Armenian Syria membawa Syria dan bendera kebangsaan Armenian kerana mereka berarak di bandar lama Damsyik, 23 April, 2015, sempena ulang tahun ke-100 pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia di Empayar Uthmaniyyah pada tahun 1915. Gambar diambil April 23, 2015 (Syrian Armenian scouts carry a Syrian and an Armenian national flags as they march in the old city of Damascus, April 23, 2015, to mark the 100th anniversary of the mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Picture taken April 23, 2015 (Reuters/Omar Sanadiki)
Di Jerman, parlimen membincangkan lulus usul rasmi mengiktiraf pembunuhan beramai-ramai, dengan penceramah Norbert Lammert berkata "kita dapat melalui pengalaman kita sendiri menggalakkan orang lain untuk berhadapan dengan sejarah mereka, walaupun ianya menyakitkannya." Satu gerakan yang serupa telah diterima pakai oleh Parlimen Eropah.
In Germany, the parliament discussed passing an official motion recognizing the genocide, with speaker Norbert Lammert saying “we can through our own experiences encourage others to confront their history, even when it hurts.” A similar motion has already been adopted by the European Parliament.
Peserta memegang lilin dan tanda semasa perarakan peringatan oleh Armenia di hadapan Gate Brandenburg selepas perkhidmatan ekumenikal menandakan ulang tahun ke-100 daripada pembunuhan beramai-ramai daripada 1.5 juta orang Armenia oleh Uthmaniyyah tentera Turki, di katedral di Berlin April 23, 2015 (A participant holds a candle and a sign during a memorial march by armenians in front of the Brandenburg Gate after an Ecumenical service marking the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces, at the cathedral in Berlin April 23, 2015 (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)
Majlis-majlis penting lain yang telah diadakan di Iran, Jerusalem dan Jordan.(Other notable ceremonies were held in Iran, Jerusalem and Jordan).
ARMENIA, Turki masih BERSELISIH Abad selepas PEMBUNUHAN Beramai-ramai 1915 . . .
Penunjuk perasaan memegang lilin dan gambar-gambar mangsa Armenian semasa peringatan bagi mangsa-mangsa pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia oleh Uthmaniyyah Turki, di Istanbul April 23, 2015 (Demonstrators hold candles and pictures of Armenian victims during a commemoration for the victims of mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, in Istanbul April 23, 2015 (Reuters/Murad Sezer)
SEMASA- Sebagai Armenia menandakan 100 tahun sejak lebih satu juta negaranya dan wanita mereka disembelih oleh orang Turki Uthmaniyyah, Yerevan dan Ankara masih tidak dapat mencari titik persamaan mengenai isu sensitif dan mula hubungan diplomatik.
Beberapa 2 Juta Armenia tinggal di Empayar Uthmaniyyah pada permulaan Perang DUNIA I pada tahun 1914, yang meningkat kegawatan dalam bidang Timur Tengah dan membawa kepada kematian akhirnya itu.
Dalam tempoh 8 tahun akan datang, saiz penduduk Armenia di Turki menurun kepada kurang daripada setengah juta.
Armenia, Turkey still at odds a century
after 1915 massacre . . .
As Armenians mark 100 years since over a million of their countrymen and women were slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks, Yerevan and Ankara are still unable to find common ground on the sensitive issue and begin diplomatic relations.
Some 2 million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire at the start of the World War I in 1914, which increased turmoil in the Middle Eastern realm and led to its eventual demise.
In the next eight years, the size of the Armenian population in Turkey decreased to less than half a million.
Mangsa pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia ditemui di Salt dan dihantar ke Yerusalem pada April 1918 (Armenian genocide survivors discovered in Salt and sent to Jerusalem in April 1918 (Image from Wikipedia)
Pembunuhan beramai-ramai, yang ahli sejarah percaya membawa kepada kematian lebih 1.5 juta orang, bermula pada 24 April, 1915, apabila 250 intelektual Armenia dan pemimpin masyarakat telah ditahan oleh pihak berkuasa dan maka kemudian dilaksanakan dalam ibu kota, Constantinople (kini Istanbul) .
Keganasan itu telah dilakukan di bawah pemerintahan pergerakan Turki Muda, yang kemudiannya dikenali sebagai Jawatankuasa Kesatuan dan Kemajuan (CUP), yang membawa pemberontakan terhadap gerakan mutlak, tetapi pada masa yang sama beralih ke arah dasar nasionalisme Turki.
Di bawah kerajaan CUP berpusat, dapat-bertubuh orang Armenia telah diarahkan untuk disembelih dalam beribu-ribu atau tertakluk kepada perkhidmatan tentera dan buruh meletihkan. Wanita, warga tua dan kanak-kanak dipindahkan ke Gurun Syria, dengan di rogol dan pembunuhan oleh tentera Uthmaniyyah mengiringi perkara biasa semasa perarakan.
The mass killings, which historians believe led to the demise of over 1.5 million people, began on April 24, 1915, when 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were detained by the authorities and later executed in the then-capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul).
The violence was committed under the rule of the Young Turks movement, later known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), which led the rebellion against the absolute movement, but at the same time shifted towards policies of Turkish nationalism.
Under the centralized CUP government, able-bodied Armenian men were ordered to be slaughtered in thousands or subjected to military service and exhausting labor. Women, elderly and children were relocated to the Syrian Desert, with rape and murder by the escorting Ottoman troops commonplace during the marches.
Intelektual Armenia yang ditangkap dan kemudian dibunuh beramai-ramai oleh pihak berkuasa kerajaan Young Turk pada malam 24 April 1915 (Armenian intellectuals who were arrested and later executed en masse by Young Turk government authorities on the night of 24 April 1915 (Image from Wikipedia)
Orang Armenia sudah diwakili oleh banyak orang Turki untuk kejayaan mereka dalam aktiviti-aktiviti perniagaan dan untuk Ortodoks iman Kristian mereka. Walau bagaimanapun, terdapat juga kebimbangan bahawa Armenia akan menyokong pasukan Russia mara bukan Empayar Uthmaniyyah pada masa peperangan.
Tindakan balas dan pengusiran mengakibatkan penghijrahan besar-besaran orang Armenia, yang melarikan diri dan membentuk masyarakat diaspora di seluruh DUNIA.
Armenia merujuk kepada pembunuhan sebagai Medz Yeghern, atau Jenayah Besar, dan menuntut pelanggaran hak asasi manusia besar-besaran Empayar Uthmaniyyah diiktiraf sebagai pembunuhan beramai-ramai oleh masyarakat antarabangsa.
The Armenians were already resented by many Turks for their success in business activities and for their Orthodox Christian faith. However, there were also fears that Armenians would support the advancing Russian troops instead of the Ottoman Empire in wartime.
The reprisals and deportations resulted in a massive exodus of Armenians, who fled and formed diaspora communities around the globe.
The Armenians refer to the killings as Medz Yeghern, or the Great Crime, and demand the mass human rights violations of the Ottoman Empire be recognized as genocide by the international community.
Orang awam Armenian bersenjata dan unit pertahanan diri memegang garis terhadap pasukan Uthmaniyyah di Pengepungan berdinding Van Mei 1915 (Armed Armenian civilians and self-defense units holding a line against Ottoman forces in the walled Siege of Van in May 1915 (Image from Wikipedia)
"Kami mahu pihak berkuasa Turki moden untuk menumpahkan beban tindakan Empayar Uthmaniyyah," Presiden Armenia Serzh Sargsyan kepada RT pada Khamis. "Pihak berkuasa moden tidak melakukan pembunuhan beramai-ramai, tetapi apabila mereka cuba untuk mewajarkan, mereka mengambil tanggungjawab untuk itu."
“We want the modern Turkish authorities to shed the burden of the actions of the Ottoman Empire,”Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan told RT on Thursday. “The modern authorities did not commit the genocide, but when they try to justify it, they take responsibility for it.”
Turki - pengganti kepada Empayar Uthmaniyyah - telah enggan menerima label. Ankara berkata kematian adalah akibat tragis perang dan bahawa orang Armenia adalah tidak khusus disasarkan kerana latar belakang etnik mereka.
Selain itu, dengan mengakui jenayah terhadap kemanusiaan, Ankara boleh menjadi bertanggungan untuk pampasan, yang beberapa kumpulan hak asasi manusia Armenian menganggarkan dalam trilion dolar.
Turkey – the successor to the Ottoman Empire – has refused to accept the label. Ankara says the deaths were a tragic consequence of war and that the Armenians were not specifically targeted because of their ethnic background.
Moreover, by acknowledging crimes against humanity, Ankara could become liable to reparations, which some Armenian human rights groups estimate in the trillions of dollars.
Gambar ini, duta Amerika Syarikat menulis, "Pemandangan seperti ini adalah biasa di seluruh wilayah Armenia, pada musim bunga dan musim panas bulan 1915. Kematian dalam mereka pelbagai bentuk-pembunuhan beramai-ramai, kelaparan, keletihan-musnah bahagian yang lebih besar daripada pelarian. dasar Turki ialah pembasmian ini berselindung di sebalik dihantar pulang (Of this photo, the United States ambassador wrote, "Scenes like this were common all over the Armenian provinces, in the spring and summer months of 1915. Death in its several forms-massacre, starvation, exhaustion-destroyed the larger part of the refugees. The Turkish policy was that of extermination under the guise of deportation (Image from Wikipedia)
Ia juga akan menjadi tamparan kepada reputasi antarabangsa Turki sebagai perkataan 'pembunuhan beramai-ramai' tegas mengaitkan dengan Holocaust, pembunuhan 6 juta Yahudi oleh Nazi semasa Perang Dunia II.
Ankara pendirian mengenai isu ini telah menjadi agak lebih fleksibel pada tahun-tahun kebelakangan ini, dengan pemimpin Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan menawarkan takziah ke Armenia atas "tidak berperikemanusiaan" pembunuhan beramai-ramai.
Walau bagaimanapun, pada 25 April, Turki akan memperingati 100 tahun sejak Pendaratan Gallipoli, yang paling besar Perang DUNIA I kejayaan Empayar Uthmaniyyah, di mana tentera ditangkis serangan Tentera Bersekutu ke atas Constantinople.
Pengumuman itu menimbulkan kemarahan pihak berkuasa Armenia, yang mengambil ia sebagai aksi politik untuk menaungi ulang tahun pembunuhan Armenia.
Pada tahun 1997, Persatuan Antarabangsa Genosid Ulama sebulat suara diiktiraf pembunuhan beramai-ramai Uthmaniyyah dari Armenia sebagai pembunuhan beramai-ramai.
Turki baru-baru ini telah menjadi tertekan oleh masyarakat antarabangsa untuk mengikuti jalan yang sama.
It would also be a blow to Turkey’s international reputation as the word ‘genocide’ firmly associates with the Holocaust, the killing of six million Jews by the Nazis during World War II.
Ankara’s stance on the issue has become somewhat more flexible in recent years, with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan offering his condolences to Armenia over the “inhumane” mass murders.
However, on April 25, Turkey will be commemorating 100 years since the Gallipoli Landings, which was the Ottoman Empire’s greatest World War I success, in which its military repelled the Allied Forces’ attack on Constantinople.
The announcement angered the Armenian authorities, who took it as a political stunt to overshadow the anniversary of the Armenian killings.
In 1997, the International Association of Genocide Scholars unanimously recognized the Ottoman massacres of Armenians as genocide.
Turkey has recently become pressured by the international community to follow the same path.
Armenia berarak oleh tentera Turki, 1915.png lanjut Armenia sedang berarak ke penjara yang berhampiran di Mezireh oleh tentera tentera Turki. Kharpert, Armenia, Empayar Uthmaniyyah, April, 1915 (Armenians marched by Turkish soldiers, 1915.png More details Armenians are marched to a nearby prison in Mezireh by armed Turkish soldiers. Kharpert, Armenia, Ottoman Empire, April, 1915 (Image from Wikipedia)
Minggu lalu, Parlimen Eropah menerima pakai satu resolusi mendesak Turki untuk mengiktiraf pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia dan membuka jalan untuk "perdamaian tulen" di antara kedua-dua negara, yang akan termasuk mewujudkan hubungan diplomatik dan membuka sempadan.
Last week, the European Parliament adopted a resolution urging Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide and pave the way for “a genuine reconciliation” between the two nations, which would include establishing diplomatic relations and opening borders.
Menjelang undi, Erdogan menegaskan bahawa Ankara akan mengabaikan "apa sahaja keputusan" lulus Parlimen Eropah.
Turki telah berasa marah dengan kenyataan Pope Francis 'di mana Paus penghormatan ulang tahun ke-100 penyembelihan Armenia oleh Ottoman Turks dan menyebutnya "pembunuhan beramai-ramai pertama abad ke-20."
24 negara, termasuk Kanada, Perancis, Itali, Argentina, Perancis, Rusia dan Syria, telah mengakui bahawa pembunuhan Armenia oleh Empayar Uthmaniyyah adalah pembunuhan beramai-ramai.
Penafian Genosid Armenia secara rasmi jenayah di Switzerland, Cyprus, Slovakia dan Greece.
Pembunuhan beramai-ramai ini juga diiktiraf oleh 43 negara-negara Amerika Syarikat, tetapi bukan kerajaan persekutuan di Washington.
Walaupun masih senator, Presiden Amerika Syarikat Barack Obama berkata bahawa "pembunuhan beramai-ramai Armenia bukan satu tuduhan, pendapat peribadi atau sudut pandangan, tetapi lebih kepada fakta secara meluas didokumenkan disokong oleh sebuah badan besar daripada bukti sejarah."
Bagaimanapun, Obama tidak menunaikan janji untuk secara rasmi mengiktiraf pembunuhan Armenia sebagai pembunuhan beramai-ramai dalam 2 penggal presiden.
Ahead of the vote, Erdogan stressed that Ankara would disregard “whatever decision” the MEPs pass.
Turkey was outraged by Pope Francis’ statement in which the pontiff honored the 100th anniversary of the slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks and called it “the first genocide of the 20th century.”
Twenty-four countries, including Canada, France, Italy, Argentina, France, Russia and Syria, have acknowledged that the killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire were genocide.
The denial of the Armenian Genocide is officially criminalized in Switzerland, Cyprus, Slovakia and Greece.
The genocide is also recognized by 43 of the US states, but not the federal government in Washington.
While still a senator, US President Barack Obama said that “the Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion or a point of view, but rather a widely-documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence.”
However, Obama never kept his promise to officially recognize the killing of Armenians as genocide during his two presidential terms.
