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    ANC GRASSROOTS TO FEATURE MOURADIAN PRESENTATION ON TURKEY'S CONFISCATION OF CHURCHES

    By:Armenian Weekly
    Thu, Sep 29 2011

    Dynamic presentation to address key points raised by passage of
    Berman-Cicilline Amendment

    GLENDALE, Calif.-The Armenian National Committee-Western Region
    (ANC-WR) recently announced that Khatchig Mouradian will serve as
    a panelist in the ANC presentation "Confronting Truth, Delivering
    Justice: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide," which is part of the ANC
    Grassroots weekend that will take place from Fri., Nov. 25 to Sun.,
    Nov. 27, at the Sheraton Universal Hotel in Studio City. Mouradian, the
    editor of the Armenian Weekly and among the diaspora's leading public
    intellectuals, will speak at ANC Grassroots about the confiscation
    of Christian church properties by the Ottoman Empire and the Republic
    of Turkey.

    Mouradian speaking at the AC 2.0 conference in DC earlier this year.

    Mouradian's timely presentation comes on the heels of the passage of
    the Berman-Cicilline Amendment, which called on the Republic of Turkey
    to end all forms of religious discrimination and allow the rightful
    owners of Christian church properties to organize and administer prayer
    services without hindrance or restriction. It further called for the
    return of these properties to the Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians, and
    other nations that have lived in the lands of present-day Turkey for
    thousands of years. This religious freedom amendment-which came under
    attack from Ankara's surrogates in Washington-drew broad bi-partisan
    support, including from both Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and
    Ranking Democrat Howard Berman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee,
    the influential panel that drafted the legislation. Mouradian's
    presentation will cover the Ottoman era of Sultan Abdulhamid and the
    Young Turks through to the present-day Republic of Turkey. Drawing
    from a wealth of primary and secondary sources, including recently
    published scholarly works, Mouradian will present an overview of the
    process through which Armenian property, including church property,
    was confiscated from Armenians and transferred to the Ottoman and later
    Turkish state, and how the economic wealth stolen from the Armenians
    contributed to the creation of the Turkish national economy. Through
    a multimedia and photographic presentation, Mouradian will share
    a broad overview of the destruction, desecration, and disregard of
    Armenian and other Christian church properties, as well as present
    a detailed inventory of pre and post-genocide religious properties.

    Mouradian will then discuss the Turkish state's current policy towards
    Armenians and Armenian cultural and religious heritage in Turkey. He
    will also explore the moral and material remedies available to begin
    addressing the damages inflicted upon the Armenian and other victims of
    Ottoman and later Republican Turkey's genocidal campaign to eliminate
    the Christian populations within its borders.

    In addition to serving as editor of the Armenian Weekly, Mouradian
    is a doctoral student in Holocaust and genocide studies at Clark
    University, where he is writing his dissertation on the destruction
    of the Armenians in the Syrian desert during the Armenian Genocide.

    Mouradian has lectured extensively and participated in conferences in
    Armenia, Austria, Cyprus, Lebanon, Norway, Syria, Switzerland, Turkey,
    and across the United States. He has presented papers on media, human
    rights, and the Armenian Genocide at several academic conferences,
    including the 5th and 6th Workshops on Armenian-Turkish Scholarship,
    held at NYU in 2006 and at the Graduate Institute in Geneva in 2008;
    the 2009 International Conference on Genocide and International
    Law at Haigazian University in Beirut; the 2009 Middle Eastern
    Studies Association (MESA) conference in Boston; the 2010 Armenian
    Genocide Research conference at Clark; and the 2010 Armenian Genocide
    Reparations conference in Ankara, Turkey.

    ANC Grassroots is a three-day program of workshops and panel
    presentations that will inform participants about the issues presently
    facing Armenian Americans, and educate them about civic leadership
    arising from grassroots efforts. ANC Grassroots will bookend the
    ANCA-WR's Annual Banquet, which will take place on Sat., Nov. 26 at
    7p.m. The conference and banquet are open to interested individuals
    throughout the entire United States, and participants are encouraged
    to register early. Tickets for ANC Grassroots, which includes the
    Friday night cocktail in the Starview Room; as well as conference
    sessions on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which include breakfast,
    post-banquet dance, and a keynote luncheon on Sunday, are $150.

    Tickets for the Annual Banquet are $200. Those interested in attending
    the Annual Banquet and ANC Grassroots can purchase a package for $300.

    Students with valid ID can purchase discounted tickets to the banquet
    and conference.

    The Armenian National Committee of America-Western Region is the
    largest and most influential Armenian American grassroots advocacy
    organization in the Western United States. Working in coordination
    with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the
    Western United States and affiliated organizations around the country,
    the ANCA-WR advances the concerns of the Armenian American community
    on a broad range of issues.




    From: A. Papazian
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