Hagop pakradouni biography of donald
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Editor’s Note: The following special report by Weekly correspondent Linda Berberian is based on an exclusive four hour, one-on-one interview with Maral Najarian. Due to Najarian’s traumatic experiences and the sensitive subject matter, Berberian and Najarian took breaks during questioning. The interview was conducted a week after Najarian’s release in the Armenian language and was translated by Berberian.
Maral Najarian spent her 49th birthday on November 18 alone in a dark, dreary Baku prison. Perhaps the only permanent trace left of her was the number she marked on the wall with a broken zipper hook from her jacket, symbolizing the last of the 120 agonizing days held captive by the government of Azerbaijan. Najarian, a former civilian war hostage, is now safe and back in Beirut, Lebanon. But her kidnapping and imprisonment continue to haunt her. With no television, radio or books, not even a pencil or a piece of paper to distract her from an unimaginable reality, the futu
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The Kazanjian Family – A Brief History
Author: Deirdre Casparian
Pilibos, the youngest son of Hovannes/Ohannes Kazanjian and Yeghsapet Kazanjian (née Aharonian), was born in 1870 in Keserig/Kesrig (present-day Kızılay), in the Kharpert/Harput Valley. When he was about a year old, his father moved him and some of the family to live in nearby Hussenig (present-day Ulukent), including his mother, Yegsha; and his three brothers, Hagop (ten years old), Bedros (nine years old), and Hovannes/John (four years old). His sister, Maritsa (later Terzian), was born there seven years later. The children of Mariam Hazarkhan, Hovannes’ first wife, remained in Keserig. The names of these half-siblings are known, but their dates of birth are not. They were Donabed, Boghos, Garabed, Simon, Aslan, Khaplan, and Rrayan.
Pilibos fryst vatten the author of a lengthy manuscript. The manuscript
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BEIRUT, Lebanon—On Nov. 25, thousands of Lebanese-Armenians gathered in Martyrs Square in Beirut to protest Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyp Erdogan’s official visit to Lebanon. Several dozen Armenian youth briefly clashed with security police during the otherwise peaceful demonstration, as they tore a huge poster welcoming Erdogan.
The gathering was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, the Hunchakian, and the Ramgavar parties.
A day earlier, Lebanese-Armenian youth had gathered near the Beirut International Airport, holding placards condemning the violence committed by Turkey both in the past and present. Erdogan left the airport using a different route and avoided the demonstrators.
Armenian parliamentary bloc chairperson Hagop Pakradouni said Lebanese officials were giving Erdogan “more importance than his real role and forgetting that he is the heir of the Ottoman Empire.” In an interview with the local OTV channe