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Dr. Henry Astarjian

Dr. Henry Astarjian

Dr. Henry Astarjian was born in Kirkuk, Iraq. In 1958, he graduated from the Royal College of Medicine and went on to serve as an army medical officer in Iraqi Kurdistan. He continued his medical education in Scotland and England. In 1966, he emigrated to the U.S. In 1992, he served as a New Hampshire delegate to the Republication National Convention in Houston, Texas. For three years Astarjian addressed the Kurdish Parliament in Exile in Brussels, defending Armenian rights to Western Armenia. For three consecutive years, he addressed the American Kurds in California and Maryland. He is the author of The Struggle for Kirkuk, published by Preager and Preager International Securities.
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  1. I wrote this letter to Amnesty International to stop torture.
    ______________________________________________

    If  President Obama cannot recognize First Genocide (1915-1923),
    The slayers will never stop will continue slaying the innocents. 
    The seed of slaying started from that date
    And will continue till the world end.
    He should not listen to any other than
    His clever Hearted-Mind.
    Can vanish the Slaying Genes.
    Every  honest educated human know Obama.
    He can achieve impossible tasks.
    With his real ‘Talented- Kind’ genes.
     

  2. 100 ar hareur asiga makour mdadzelagerb m@n eh. Amenen lav pajhin@ hedevyaln er:
    “We have to learn from others: the United States Armed Forces do not leave any soldier, dead or alive, behind. Israel has one captive soldier with Hamas, and they are raising hell to get him back. The issue holds a prime importance in their conduct of diplomacy to bring Shalit home. They are negotiating the release of a many Palestinian prisoners in return for the release of their one soldier.”
    ===================================================================
    Indeed, im undanik’s MORTETSIN!
    (my family tree)
    – many beheaded or driven into deserts where, as Dr. Astarjian once wrote, “Caravans of camelas could not survive, let alone caravans of humans!”
    75% dead
    12.5% penniless refugees in foreign nation’s orphanages
    12.5% stolen by Turks, Kurds and Arabs!
    (Forcibly changing religions of abducted children is Genocide by U.N. convention)
     
    This article is a clear C G E major chord across the finely-tuned piano
    with resonation that is neurally – pleasing
    since it is ringing of something we rarely hear so loud and clear
    . . . THE TRUTH!

  3. 100 ar hareur asiga makour mdadzelagerb m@n eh. Amenen lav pajhin@ hedevyaln er:
    “We have to learn from others: the United States Armed Forces do not leave any soldier, dead or alive, behind. Israel has one captive soldier with Hamas, and they are raising hell to get him back. The issue holds a prime importance in their conduct of diplomacy to bring Shalit home. They are negotiating the release of a many Palestinian prisoners in return for the release of their one soldier.”
    ===================================================================
    Indeed, im undanik’s MORTETSIN!
    (my family tree)
    – many beheaded or driven into deserts where, as Dr. Astarjian once wrote, “Caravans of camels could not survive, let alone caravans of humans!”
    75% dead
    12.5% penniless refugees in foreign nation’s orphanages
    12.5% stolen by Turks, Kurds and Arabs!
    (Forcibly changing religions of abducted children is Genocide by U.N. convention)
     
    This article is a clear C G E major chord across the finely-tuned piano
    with resonation that is neurally – pleasing
    since it is ringing of something we rarely hear so loud and clear
    . . . THE TRUTH!

  4. Dear Henry,
    About the Alevi’s, there are not “Sunni Alevi’s”. The Sunni’s have historically massacred the Alevi’s. There are Turkic Alevi’s, there are Kurdish Alevi’s… some Alevi’s consider themselves to be part of Islam, other consider themselves to be something else. The Alevi’s themselves do not agree about what they are. Yes, there are elements of Shi’ism because for the Alevi’s, Ali is extremely sacred. Alevi’s differ in their religious practice from Muslims in many ways. They do not pray five times a day, the do not go to mosque, the do not read the Koran, they do not fast at Ramadan (but do for Ashura). The Turkish government has steadily been trying to assimilate them by building mosques in or around Alevi villages.  Alevi’s are pressured to go to mosque by coworkers and neighbors in mixed or majority Sunni areas. During the 80’s and 90’s when there were forced migrations to the cities, Alevi’s lived in fear– many would get up and turn the lights on when the early morning call to prayer was heard so that neighbors would think they were praying like every one else. At times they were marked and massacred. Unfortunately, some Alevi’s aligned themselves with Kemalists, thinking that “secularism” protected them from the Sunni’s– some even seeing Ataturk as their protector, in spite of the fact that he ordered the operations (and genocide) of Dersim.
    for good information on the Alevis, see Martin Van Bruinessen’s work: http://www.let.uu.nl/~Martin.vanBruinessen/personal/publications/Alevi_revival.htm
    If you google “A journey to Dersim” you will also find a great article written by some travelers for the Royal Geographical society. Their report was published in 1914, but their travels were a few years earlier. They interview an Armenian Bishop who thinks the Alevi’s were Armenian (I find this assertion a bit comical, but it shows the closeness the two communities felt for each other.

  5. First I did not understand word ‘Alevi’ but when you mentioned their culture I was able to understand well.The correct  pronunciation  in Arabic is ‘Allawi’  probably with double Aa,  ‘Aallawi.’
    Like the same for name Saladin Al-Ayoobi , should be ‘Salah Aldeen’, in Arabic language they write it sepretly never a one word.

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