(IN) VISIBLE DIASPORA AGENTS: A REPORT ON THE PRESENTATIONS BY T. GRIGOR & H. BERBERIAN
Alain Navarra-Navassartian. PhD art history , PhD sociology A REPORT ON THE PRESENTATIONS BY : TALINN GRIGOR, Art Historian, University...
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HYESTART IS SYNONYMOUS WITH UNFILTERED COMMITMENT
 “Au-revoir, Piaf” by Aram Pachyan (Parenthèses Pub.) was the first book whose translation was financed thanks to Hyestart & the Vartanush Krikorian Fund for Armenian Literature & Freedom of Expression. Aram Pachyan was the first Armenian author to receive the EU Prize for Literature in 2021. |  On 19.9.24, the first anniversary of the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, the City of Geneva, true to its long humanitarian tradition, called for the "unconditional release" of the 23 Armenian prisoners unjustly held by Azerbaijan. Hyestart is strongly committed to the liberation of Armenian POWs as part of the Libertas campaign. See the press release of 19.9.24 below. |  Thanks to the support of the Hagop D. Topalian Foundation, Armenia has a stand at the Geneva Book Fair. Hyestart is responsible for the programming of the Armenian stand. Here, "l'affiche rouge" (nazi propaganda poster aimed at discrediting the resistance fighters of the Manouchian group), which was used as a poster for the 2024 program: "Résistance(s)". |  "Armenian Diaspora(s) in Motion". International Symposium co-organized and supported by Hyestart at the Condorcet Campus in Paris in 2024. |
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 Asli Erdogan at the Hyestart Conference on Freedom of Expression in Turkey (Geneva). |  Publisher Ragip Zarakolu (Honorary Member of Hyestart) at the Armenian Genocide Memorial (Geneva). Copyright: Demir Sönmez. |  Alain Navarra (President of Hyestart) speaking at the Lugano Human Rights Film Festival |
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Since its inception Hyestart has been committed to democracy and human rights in Armenia and Turkey. Our vision of a democratic Turkey that finally recognizes the Armenian genocide, a sine qua non of a peaceful region that respects human rights, has not changed.
The 44-day war of unprecedented violence unleashed in the fall of 2020 against the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, on the other hand, forced us to adapt. Hyestart has been committed to the right of the people of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) to self-determination as the only way to prevent an ethnic cleansing. Genocide experts such as Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC's first prosecutor, and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, have even denounced genocide. Although it was entirely preventable by the international community, the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, planned by Azerbaijan, tragically happened following the violent attack of Azerbaijan on Nagorno-Karabagh in September 2023, which itself followed an illegal and inhumane siege of Nagorno-Karabagh lasting over 9 months as part of a genocidal campaign. Achieving justice will be a long and determined quest, one to which Hyestart is fully committed to.
Hyestart also engages in various actions against what the European Parliament has rightly described as a "systematic, State-level policy of Armenophobia, historical revisionism and hatred towards Armenians promoted by the Azerbaijani authorities, including dehumanisation, the glorification of violence and territorial claims against the Republic of Armenia which threaten peace and security in the South Caucasus;" (10 March 2022 resolution) .
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