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Dr. Khatchig Mouradian
Khatchig Mouradian is the Armenian and Georgian Area Specialist at the Library of Congress and a lecturer in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator of the project on Armenian Genocide Denial at the Global Institute for Advanced Studies, New York University. Mouradian is the author of The Resistance Network: The Armenian Genocide and Humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918, published in 2021. The book has received the Syrian Studies Association “Honourable Mention 2021.” In 2020, Mouradian was awarded a Humanities War & Peace Initiative Grant from Columbia University. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book on late-Ottoman history, and the editor of the peer-reviewed journal The Armenian Review.
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Wow, I visited the church a few years back with Armen Aroyan group and never imagined
that it could be renovated so beautifully under present political conditions. What a shocking
surprise to see that church so gloriously metamorphosed condition. Praise the Lord.
Just Wonderful and very touching indeed … Thank you for your reporting Mouradian…
Praise the Lord indeed… I got goosebumps when I gazed at the pictures above.. it was absolutely magical…
what is more magical was the mayor of Diyarbekir.. a Kurd who admits the truth and is willing to make it right… there is hope…
Bari Yekak Dzer Tun@. WOW I have no words. God’s power is manifest clearly in this dark society. Our home, our church, our faith, our right to our forefathers’ lands.
Thanks to everybody who helped to this big project. First kudos to Bolsahays, then to Osman Baydemir, and everybody else who made donation to build this fantastic church. One more time they showed that ( iravunke chen dar, garnen).
God bless all of you all the times. Amen.
The LORD is watching and giving HIS Grace and Love with a BIG SMILE.
JESUS said whatever you saw you reap.
Bedros Zerdelian
What a waste of money and time
to renew something which will be
bombed once again…
I can’t see any future…
The days will prove what i say…
Real propaganda…
“Who is a builder…can never destroy
who is a destroyer…will do it once again”
So don’t be amazed…
Don’t call Jesus …
Don’t call God
No one of Ours
Could live there…
Can you tell me…
How many real Armenians are living there
To keep the place…?
My grandparents come from there
My grandmother use to say,
Our house is near the church…
And we still have lands there
With 40 pieces of official documents (tapoo)
Can they give us back
what they got by slaying and by force…???
Sylva-MD-Poetry
It’s so amazing to see this. Thank you for all those who took part, donated, made the posters and made this happen. God Bless you guys.. It kind of makes me sad though that in Turkey our churches are being repaired while in Armenia, they are neglected by the clergy. I hope Echmiadzin does something about out churches in Armenia..Well began is half done :)
Kecce Hay Azg@..
Dear Karen in India,
I wish you the best in yoiur studies.Hope you complete them soon and then follow up ,if not in India in some other country wherever they will grant you a scholarship(our Benevolent people) . If you have inclination to political science, then pick that up or similar. Now to what you have pin pointed. I tries that some 4/5 yrs ago when in Yerevan,i.e. held a few meetings with people who are historians, travel Agency experts, to try to convince them that my scheme of 1 3-Day Pilgrimage/Fair next to every(beginning with a few near Yerevan) Monasteries in danger of falling apart…wherein ,at those Fairs(well advertised by Travel/Tourist Agencies, -we have aplenty-) to bring tourists to celebrate Saint name Day and one Mass onkly by priest that St.Etchmiadzin would kindly send over.Nearby villageers bringing their fare,i.e., food and handicraft and sell there.Each paying like in ¨Vernissage¨ of Yerevan a daily Fee,then some 20% for the REPAIRS RENOVATION OF monastery…and rest indeed for the villagers…
Our Etchmiadzin church, mired in our Genocide and too, the nearly 80 years of the USSR communistic controls… has leaders who remain in set modes -rather than advancing as with so many religions have learned to progress, to lead. They have much to learn from religious brethren in the free world – who have been moving forward and leading our Armenian religious efforts – as was evident with the recent visit to the USA of his Holiness from Cilicia. Too, today, more comes to light with Archbishop Barsamian’s recent visit to our resurrected Cathedral in Dikrangerd…. A church leader – accompanied with business-oriented cohorts… whither goest this group – in Dikranagerd.
See how Armenians Are living in Turkey
Millions Turkified
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIyxVwdOrns&feature=colike
Hi Sylva,
I was there for the opening. You are right. Not many Armenians are living there to keep the place. I don’t think it will be destroyed again, even though there is a possibility, but what I witnessed on that Sunday morning before the Badarak, thousands of people trying to get inside the church, and the amazing chorus of hundreds after that, singing Hayr Mer, just like it was during my childhood in Dikranagerd was worth every penny spent in restoration.
Michael Saroyan
Sylva´s ¨how many Armenians living inm turkey¨ and K.Mouradian´s powerfull message.
Yeah I just saw/heard on youtube what she had inserted up above and really felt bad,rather than sorry,for those wretched souls…
And thought what my grandfather and eldest uncle suffered on Death March…in the hands of those BEASTS-don´t find a better adjective…
My fight is to the end,regardless what TARC affiliated people or softened up Armenian compatriots(yes I still consider them as my compatriots ,just like those Sylva´s youtube described….) With only one difference THAT I SHALL NOT BEND,Like Monte Like thousands like him and in the past Murad,Antranik Gevork Chavoush and many others. This fight is to the end.If we show of weakness,they will bend us oveer.
Eh Avery, David and all others who are there like self and do not believe at all what they profess…
Waht can we do to alleviate the last perons´s PLEA?
Get really organzied and I don´t mean like the boys of latter day(the avengers) and /or the fedayees of yesteryear..No!!
I mean ECONOMIC POWER!!! our Diaspora(s) are capable of creating and EVERGROWING NATIONAL INVESTMENT TRUST FUND.ASK ME HOW…BUT PLEASE PUT ASIDE PALTRY ARMENIAN OLD TRAITS.NO I DO NOT WISH TO BE REFERRED TO AS LEADER OR ANY SUCH…I SUGGEST ONLY,GIVE THE SECRETS TO IT AND THEN YOU GUYS ORGANIZE IT….
FOR IF WE JUST BLA BLA AND WRITE HERE…DOING NOTHING,WE SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO HELP THEM AND SAVE THE LITTLE LEFT OVER THERE .NOT REALLY LITTLE PROBABLY OVER A MILLION,AS PER ABOVE YOUTUBE AND OTHERS SUCH AS THE ZAZAS,THE HEMSHENTSIS ETC.,ONLY WAY OUT IS HAVING A REORGANZIED DIASPORA WITH HEAD,I.E. A SUPREME COUNCIL WITH 5 DEPARTMENTS….AND ¨the fund¨
Hama Haigaggani SIRO,
Gaydzag Palandjian
A church without a flock of the faithful…what a sad paradox. One day 1,000 Armenians show up, the next day they are off on the retun to their home thosands of miles away. The moral of the story? The tie between these lands and Armenians is fading fast and probably severed forever. Go to Diyarbekir and the surrounding regions where Armenians once called home and see for yourselves. Will the readers of the Weekly ever return there? Will they even relocate to present-day Armenia? It’s an exercise in self-deception.
Rahageets, how sad that you accept the intended result of the Armenian genocide (the disconnect from the land) without hesitation. Or is it your intention to spread this propaganda of defeatism to Armenians? You are wrong friend. Armenians will gladly return to grow their country when they are given full economic and political freedom to do so. Even today plans are in the works to create cooperative enterprises with the Kurds of Diyarbekir. 100 years is merely a blink of the eye in the full scope of Armenian history. We know what is ours. We have not forgotten, Adana, Zeitun, Marash, Dikranagerd, Van, Ani, Ararat…
Bravo Vagharsh..
Your message is the POWERFULL one.It is disdainfull whar Rahageets writes,to say the least.As to Mr. Muradian´s,if it is meant to leave strong impression that our lands are calling us back and that we should MOBILIZE to do so ,fine.But if he means that we should -like in the past-depend on great Turkey´s bakhshish …then I oppose it.
WE can only depend on our own ECONOMIC POWER, indeed by the people and magnates to create my dream CHILD THE NATIONAL INVESTMENT TRUST FUND.FOR,without funds we cannot achieve anything!!!think about it please..
After reading so many sites…
i feel there are reason as many Armenians who are Turkified
And they want to have home and return to their faith, which is their church…
May be many Kurds have Armenian Blood
So they helped to repair the church…
Nothing arrives from emptiness
Now I changed my Mind …
There is reason for every thing…
Time will tell…
SP