https://ann.org/features/yezidi-interviews/Recent content in Yezidi Interviews on Armenian News Network - GroongHugo -- 0.128.0en-usTue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20061024.htmlTue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20061024.htmlThe interviews form part of continuing research by Onnik Krikorian on Armenia’s largest minority and the division within the community regarding ethnic identity. Interviews that form the basis for later articles are made available through the Armenian News Network ` Groong in the interest of maintaining a plurality of differing views on this sensitive matter. ONNIK KRIKORIAN YEREVAN ARMENIA Interview with Dr. Christine Allison, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris.https://ann.org/orig/ok-20061011.htmlWed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20061011.htmlThese interviews form part of research on the division within Armenia’s Yezidi community regarding identity and reports that some Yezidi schools are refusing to accept new school text books printed in Cyrillic and a language recognized by the Armenian Government as ‘Yezideren’ or ‘Ezdiki.’ ONNIK KRIKORIAN YEREVAN ARMENIA Hasan Tamoyan, Deputy President, National Union of Yezidis, member of the National Minority Council, and Head of Yezidi language programs on Armenian Public Radio.https://ann.org/orig/ok-20061009.htmlMon, 09 Oct 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20061009.htmlHasan Tamoyan is Deputy President of the National Union of Yezidis, member of the National Minority Council, and Head of Yezidi language programs on Armenian Public Radio. ONNIK KRIKORIAN: Perhaps we could start with introducing yourself? HASSAN TAMOYAN: Everyone knows me. Just represent me as Hasan Tamoyan, but if you want I can tell you my title. OK: Please. HT: So, I am an Honored Journalist of the Republic of Armenia, Head of the Yezidi Programme on Public Radio, Editor of the Yezidikhana newspaper, in the President’s Office I represent the Yezidi Community on the Coordinating Council for National Minorities, and I am Aziz Tamoyan’s Deputy in the National Union of Yezidis.https://ann.org/orig/ok-20060925.htmlMon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20060925.htmlRostom Atashov was born in Tbilisi, capital of the Republic of Georgia in 1963, and received his law degree from Yaroslavl State University in Russia in 1987 and worked in the Prosecutor’s office after graduation. He returned home to Georgia in 1988 and joined the Ministry of Justice, sitting several terms as a judge. He currently serves as President of the ‘Union of Yazidis of Georgia’ NGO, the larger of two Kurdish organizations in Georgia.https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040916.htmlThu, 16 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040916.htmlAziz Tamoyan is the President of the National Union of Yezidi in the Republic of Armenia. This interview was held at the Union’s office in Yerevan on 13 September 2004 and is part of a follow-up series of interviews to work on the division within the Yezidi minority in Armenia conducted during June 1998. ONNIK KRIKORIAN: Perhaps you could start by introducing yourself… AZIZ TAMOYAN: Mr. Krikorian, this is the Yezidi newspaper [opens page to show census figures]…https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040915.htmlWed, 15 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040915.htmlHranush Kharatyan is the Head of the Department of National Minorities and Religious Affairs in the Armenian Government. This interview was held in Yerevan on 6 September 2004 and is part of a follow-up series of interviews to work on the division within the Yezidi minority in Armenia conducted during June 1998. YEREVAN, ARMENIA ONNIK KRIKORIAN: Perhaps I could start by asking what role this department has in relation to national minorities living in the Republic of Armenia?https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040914.htmlTue, 14 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040914.htmlAmarik Sardar is the Yezidi editor of Riya Taza, the oldest surviving Kurdish newspaper in the world. This interview was held in the Riya Taza office in Yerevan on 25 August 2004 and is part of a follow-up series of interviews to work on the division within the Yezidi minority in Armenia conducted during June 1998. YEREVAN, ARMENIA ONNIK KRIKORIAN: What is the present state of the Riya Taza newspaper?https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040913.htmlMon, 13 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-20040913.htmlHeydar Ali is the Caucasus Representative of the People’s Congress of Kurdistan (Kongra-Gel). This interview was conducted at the office of the Kurdistan Committee in Yerevan on 24 August 2004 and is part of a follow-up series of interviews to work on the division within the Yezidi minority in Armenia conducted during June 1998. Translation from Armenian to Kurmanji Kurdish and vice-versa was provided by the Yezidi Head of the Kurdistan Committee, Charkaze Rash-Mstoyan.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19981202.htmlWed, 02 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19981202.htmlGegham Manukyan is a member of the Central Committee of the Dashnaktsutiune, Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, HHD) in the Republic of Armenia. He was interviewed during festivities celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] organised by the Yezidi [Kurdish] community in Armenia, and staged at the Russian Theatre in Yerevan. The Russian Theatre was full to capacity with Yezidi dressed in the Kurdish colours of red, yellow and green, and waving PKK and ERNK flags while live Kurdish music played.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19981201.htmlTue, 01 Dec 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19981201.htmlSabri Kash is the Representative of the PKK and ERNK in Armenia and the Caucasus. He was interviewed during festivities celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] organised by the Yezidi [Kurdish] community in Armenia, and staged at the Russian Theatre in Yerevan. The Russian Theatre was full to capacity with Yezidi dressed in the Kurdish colours of red, yellow and green, and waving PKK and ERNK flags while live Kurdish music played.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19981130.htmlMon, 30 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19981130.htmlYEREVAN, Armenia – Sunday morning started with an Armenian coffee at a cafe on Abovian, allowing me to relax and pass the time before attending what I had been told was simply a Kurdish event at the Russian Theatre further on up the road. I knew I had the right day when a large group of both young and old people walked by - the women wearing the Kurdish colours of red, green and yellow.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980827.htmlThu, 27 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980827.htmlJune 1998 Paruir Hairikian is a former Soviet dissident, a Presidential candidate, and the current Presidential Advisor on Human Rights. OK: Could you please describe the function of your role as the Presidential Advisor on Human Rights, and the role and function of the Committee examining the basis for Constitutional Reform in Armenia. PH: The Committee is mainly on an advisory basis, and unlike other similar committees functioning all over the world it is not independent.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980704.htmlSat, 04 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980704.htmlAmarik Sardarian is the Yezidi editor of the Kurdish newspaper, “Riya Taza”. “Riya Taza” is one of the oldest Kurdish newspapers in the world and is based in Yerevan, Armenia. This interview was conducted by Onnik Krikorian during research undertaken in June for the Kurdish Human Rights Project investigating the situation of the Yezidi minority within the Republic of Armenia. As such, it forms part of a series of interviews with Yezidi, Kurdish and Armenian representatives.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980702.htmlThu, 02 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980702.htmlMahir Welat is the official representative of the National Liberation Front of Kurdistan (ERNK) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to Moscow and the former Soviet Union. He is also a member of the ruling Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The Turkish Government has to date made two assassination attempts on his life in Russia. Mahir Welat was visiting Armenia to attend a Kurdish academic event in Yerevan and to tour Yezidi villages.https://ann.org/orig/ja-19980702.htmlThu, 02 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ja-19980702.htmlFollowing yesterday’s Interview with Karlene Chachani by Onnik Krikorian, where reference was made to an article by Jackie Abrahamian, we felt it would be useful to bring this article to the reader’s attention. The Yezidi movement in Armenia First published in “Kurdistan Report”, September 1992 Since 1828 when the Kurds first immigrated to Armenia (fleeing the Russo-Turkish wars) Kurdish culture has flourished rapidly in the smallest of the former Soviet republics which in 1991 gained independence.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980701.htmlWed, 01 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980701.htmlDr. Karlene Chachani is a Yezidi living in Yerevan, Armenia. He is President of the Department of the Kurdish Writers of the Writers' Union of Armenia, and Chief Editor of “Friendship” - an Armenian-Kurdish political Journal. This interview was conducted by Onnik Krikorian during research undertaken in June for the Kurdish Human Rights Project investigating the situation of the Yezidi minority within the Republic of Armenia. As such, it forms part of a series of interviews with Yezidi, Kurdish and Armenian representatives.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980630.htmlTue, 30 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980630.htmlProfessor Garnik Asatrian is the Head of the Faculty of Iranian Studies at Yerevan State University. Born in Tehran in 1953, he moved to Yerevan in 1968. He has been prolific in his research into Kurdish tribal and linguistic tradition, and instrumental in the establishment of contemporary Kurdish academic study. He is Head of the newly founded Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies, and is editor of the publication “Acta Kurdica”.https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980611.htmlThu, 11 Jun 1998 00:00:00 +0000https://ann.org/orig/ok-19980611.html11 June 1998 Aziz Tamoyan is the President of the National Union of Yezidi in Armenia. This interview was conducted by Onnik Krikorian during research undertaken in June for the Kurdish Human Rights Project investigating the situation of the Yezidi minority within the Republic of Armenia. As such, it forms part of a series of interviews with Yezidi, Kurdish and Armenian representatives. A report on the situation of minorities within the Republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan, with a focus on the Kurds, will be published this year by the Kurdish Human Rights Project.