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Armenian Genocide

During the First World War, the genocide of the Armenian people took place in the territories of the Ottoman Empire.
The ultra-nationalist government of the Young Turks, an emanation of the "Union and Progress" Party, decides to Turkishize the Anatolian area and to deport and exterminate the Armenian ethnic group present in the territory since the 7th century BC.

In the memory of the Armenian people, but also in the estimation of historians, two thirds of the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire perished, approximately 1,500,000 people.

Over the years Gariwo has followed the difficult path of recognition of the genocide and the path of reconciliation, thanks to the commitment of the Consul Pietro Kuciukian, and of Armenian intellectuals, writers and journalists.

Ethnic cleansing in Karabakh: the latest failure of the European diplomacy?

Ethnic cleansing in Karabakh: the latest failure of the European diplomacy?

by Simone Zoppellaro

It took only a handful of days to empty Karabakh of its indigenous Armenian population, whose millennial presence, always a majority, has now come to an end. A few thousand deaths estimated, over a hundred thousand terrified persons who fled and have already taken refuge in Armenia. An ethnic cleansing that continues the work of wiping out the Armenian presence begun over a hundred years ago by the Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire. From Sarajevo to Tbilisi, from Kyiv to Stepanakert, European diplomacy over the past three decades and more has demonstrated its entire inability to prevent and manage conflicts within its borders. Saving little Armenia is no longer just a matter of altruism, nor of historical justice, for a genocide denied for almost a century. It is a European security priority, a defense against the overweening power of dictatorships, which now trample and flout law and democracy by making a mockery of any residual humanity.
The Armenians' massacre in Karabakh in the Western unconcern

The Armenians' massacre in Karabakh in the Western unconcern

di Simone Zoppellaro

The extent of the fighting on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 19 and 20, as reported by one of the region's leading experts, Laurence Broers, is 500 Armenian deaths confirmed. A massacre against a starving population that, unable to receive anything from Armenia, did not even have gasoline to transport the wounded in ambulances or medicine to treat them, as well as ammunition to defend themselves. A massacre that was announced like few others, and that no one (I repeat: no one) tried to avert. Karabakh is lost, for the Armenian majority who have lived there for many centuries. Now in danger is Armenia itself, which already a year ago was attacked, losing territories on its proper borders. How much further can the humiliation, violence and abuse suffered by Armenians be pushed forward?
Armenia, the warn of the scholars: there is a “significant genocide risk”

Armenia, the warn of the scholars: there is a “significant genocide risk”

International Association of Genocide Scholars condemned Azerbaijan for its attack on Armenia’s sovereign territory

The executive board of the International Association of Genocide Scholars condemned Azerbaijan for its attack on Armenia’s sovereign territory last month. It also warned of a “significant genocide risk” against the population of Artsakh. The group called on other international academic and rights groups to join the widening of chorus of condemnation of Baku’s continued aggression. It also called on Azerbaijan to withdraw its troops from Armenia.
“The Family of Genocides Represents a Universal Sickness of Mankind”

“The Family of Genocides Represents a Universal Sickness of Mankind”

A conversation with Professor Israel Charny

Israel Charny is an Israeli psychotherapist, a well-known genocide scholar, and the author of Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, and Truth versus Politicization of History (2021). In this interview, Professor Charny tells us about Israel’s attempts to cancel an international conference on genocides in 1982, Israel’s relationship with the Armenian and other genocides, and his personal involvement, as a psychotherapist, with genocides.
Teaching with Testimony: a new virtual tool for teachers and students

Teaching with Testimony: a new virtual tool for teachers and students

This new educational program provides activities to engage students with the Armenian genocide

Designed by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education, Teaching with Testimony is a new educational program that draws upon a vast library of audiovisual testimonies and provides activities to engage students with the Armenian genocide. The program includes a virtual field trip on the often-overlooked tragedy of the Armenian genocide.
Armenia Lost the Peace, not the War

Armenia Lost the Peace, not the War

by Simone Zoppellaro

I would like to write to the Armenians, as a friend, some uncomfortable words. Words that are not easy to write or hear – all the more so after a defeat, that of November, that has produced thousands of deaths, tens of thousands of refugees and displaced persons, and a humanitarian and political catastrophe that has no end in sight. It was not the first war in Karabakh, as we know, and it risks not being the last (according to many, this is almost a certainty). I would like to write as a friend, because friends, in the most difficult moments, do not only help and console us, but also make us think - without sparing us criticism.
Declaration and Appeal on the Value of the Righteous of Humanity, Celebrated by Gariwo

Declaration and Appeal on the Value of the Righteous of Humanity, Celebrated by Gariwo

106th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide (April 24, 1915 – April 24, 2021)

On the occasion of this anniversary, on April 24, 2021, I cannot look away from the suffering of my people. Above all, today, I feel I draw new energy from the Day of the Righteous, which is celebrated yearly at the Garden of Monte Stella and in many other places in Italy and around the world. Other figures of the Righteous for Armenians and other peoples will be honored, thus giving us new reasons for hope. Read the Appeal by Pietro Kuciukian, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Armenia in Italy
The Righteous are the Key to the Prevention of Genocide

The Righteous are the Key to the Prevention of Genocide

by Simone Zoppellaro

The prevention of genocide is one of the most important challenges for our generation. The path indicated by the Righteous and by Raphael Lemkin represents a fundamental starting point to get out of this prehistory of barbarism in which some men, from the dawn of time until today, aim not only to kill, but also to erase entire peoples and cultures. This is a universal challenge, which must involve us all regardless of national or political affiliation, because a genocide – this must become a moral imperative – does not concern only the people who suffer it, but the whole of humanity.
Recognition of the Armenian genocide

Recognition of the Armenian genocide

by Pietro Kuciukian

"And it is precisely the Turkish civil society that can be expected to push for change: let people think, know, “acknowledge” in the future, to prevent and give new generations the opportunity to deal with History openly and critically". By Pietro Kuciukian

Italy recognizes the Armenian genocide

Italy recognizes the Armenian genocide

the Chamber of Deputies approved

On 10 April 2019, the Chamber of Deputies approved with 382 votes in favour, no votes against and 43 abstentions, the unitary motion for the recognition of the Armenian genocide, the extermination of one and a half million people perpetrated by the Young Turks, between 1915 and 1917, in the territories of the Ottoman Empire against the Christian minority.
The Chief of Sindjar, a Righteous for the Armenians

The Chief of Sindjar, a Righteous for the Armenians

by Pietro Kuciukian

An excerpt from the book I disobbedienti (Guerini e Associati) by Pietro Kuciukian, Honorary Consul of Armenia to Italy and co-founder of Gariwo, about the figure of Hammo Shero, the Yazidi chief who sheltered the Armenian refugees during the genocide of 1915-16.
Ants and Cicadas

Ants and Cicadas

by PInar Selek

The word resistance has two meanings. Often, when you resist repression, you find yourself in a defensive position. I have reflected on this issues especially after the serious torture I have endured. By Pinar Selek
Hrant Dink's message still strong

Hrant Dink's message still strong

Ten years after his passing away

An advocate of dialogue between Turks and Armenians and pluralism in Turkey, Dink was also remembered in the commemorations in Istanbul and in France, Germany, Italy, England and Canada on the tenth anniversary since his murder committed by an ultra-nationalist

Germany recognizes Metz Yeghern

Germany recognizes Metz Yeghern

by Simone Zoppellaro

Editorial by Simone Zoppellaro, journalist
On 2 June the German Parliament, the Bundestag, recognized the Armenian Genocide, and it did so with an overwhelming majority, an abstention and only one vote against. This says a lot about the political support to…
​The Armenians between Baku and Istanbul

​The Armenians between Baku and Istanbul

by Gerard Malkassian

Editorial by Gerard Malkassian, Philosophy Professor in Paris
I arrived in Armenia on the last day of the clashes of 2-5 April between the Armenians and the troops from Azerbaijan. I had, on the same day and the following ones, numerous conversations with Armenians from all walks of life and…
Agos, 20 years of independent journalism

Agos, 20 years of independent journalism

following Hrant Dink's message

Founded by Hrant Dink and a group of friends as an expression of the Armenian community, it is aiming to further open its pages to democracy, minority rights and pluralism related issues in a country where political debate and freedom of expression face increasing restrictions by the executive power.
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