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Raffi Bedrosyan

Raffi Bedrosyan

Raffi Bedrosyan is a civil engineer, writer and a concert pianist, living in Toronto. Proceeds from his concerts and CDs have been donated to the construction of school, highways, and water and gas distribution projects in Armenia and Karabakh—projects in which he has also participated as a voluntary engineer. Bedrosyan was involved in organizing the Surp Giragos Diyarbakir/Dikranagerd Church reconstruction project. His many articles in English, Armenian and Turkish media deal with Turkish-Armenian issues, Islamized hidden Armenians and history of thousands of churches left behind in Turkey. He gave the first piano concert in the Surp Giragos Church since 1915, and again during the 2015 Genocide Centenary Commemoration. He is the founder of Project Rebirth, which helps Islamized Armenians return to their original Armenian roots, language and culture. He is the author of the book "Trauma and Resilience: Armenians in Turkey - hidden, not hidden, no longer hidden."
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  1. Thru out our history of Armenia our clergies have been naive ,stupid and uneducated,thinking that they are priests they think of themselves beeing the kings of Armenia and that everybody have to listen to them. During Vartan Mamikonian it was a clergy that convinced Vartan to wage war against a 100 000 persian soldiers,and what happened we got destroyed and lost our lands just for a useless religion we became slaves to the Persians.Then during the Kingdom of Ani, it was again an armenian clergy who betrayed our king and gave the secret passage into the city to the Byzantium army to destroy the city.In 1915 it was again our clergy who listen to the Turks and had every one in the villages who were ready to fight and protect their family to give up their guns to the Turks and then we got cut up like a bunch of chikens .I am sorry to say but many of our armenian priests have betrayed us thru out history.

    • Your historical facts are incorrect…Vartan Mamigonian waged war to keep our identity alive who only less than 50 years before started its Golden Age with our alphabet.

      In 1915 clergy were the first to be slaughtered so much so there were only 2 bishops left from the house of cilicia and practically no clergy left to even inaugurate a new catholicos.
      Clergy in small numbers throughout our history were responsible for our nations identity such as mesrob mashdots and Khrimian hayrig, der vartan during Khanasor and ghevond yerets during vartanank…the recent clergy i’m not to thrilled about I agree…but dont put all rotten apples along with the good ones to spoil them all.

  2. Thank you for your report,although it is bad news in many ways, it is news and that is better than a vacuum.
    It is difficult to live under tyranny and remain hopeful but one lone voice in that church may light many beacons.

  3. So, what is the ARF doing to foster democracy within the Armenian community in Istanbul? On one page of the Weekly we read that the ARF is engaged in showmanship, attending the HDP conference, to show its solidarity with that party to foster democracy in Turkey. Here,the Weekly,publishes an Op Ed on the lack of democracy in the process to elect a new patriarch. The ARF remains a powerless opportunistic clique of wannabees.

  5. “In 2008, the Istanbul Patriarch, Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan, was diagnosed with dementia”— I read in an article where this affliction was “sudden”. I don’t remember hearing about medical help or what has happened to him. Did he die?

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