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He organised in Paris the first public conference with Turkish intellectuals on the Armenian subject : 1915-1998 : de la fracture au dialogue. In this new context, Jean-Claude Kebabdjian, with the help of Raffi Hermonn Araks, invited the Zarakolu to France and prepared meetings with the French Armenians. Nine years later, Armenia was an independent country, and a democratic movement was emerging in Turkey, with freedom fighters such as Taner Akçam or the Zarakolu teaching the history of the Armenian genocide and the Armenians to their society. Jean-Claude Kebabdjian is the author of Turquie-Europe : le dialogue des intellectuels est-il possible?, in which he asks, as early as in 1986, if an Armenian-Turkish dialogue is necessary. Pioneer in the Armenian-Turkish dialogue In 1981, Jean-Claude Kebabdjian co-founded the Groupement Interprofessionnel Arménien that later became Groupement Interprofessionnel International Arménien (G2IA).
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Groupement Interprofessionnel International Arménien The review was successful and received many contributions of prominent specialists, historians and intellectuals. Jean-Claude Kebabdjian was also the director of the review Ani, cahiers arméniens (5 issues – 1986, 1987, 1998, 1994), dedicated to armenology. "Arménie 1900" has been republished in 2009 by HC Editions under the title "L'Arménie d'antan". In 1977, Jean-Claude Kebabdjian founded the Astrid Editions, which published in 1980 the Armenian picture book "Arménie 1900", written by French historian Yves Ternon, with pictures of the CRDA. The CRDA was also a founding member of the Forum des Instituts Culturels Étrangers à Paris (FICEP). It has worked closely with French Ministry of culture, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the municipality of Paris. People were not familiar with Armenian history, and the Armenian diaspora was not an understandable concept.įrom 1976 to 2013, the CRDA has developed a vast amount of work and action in the field of Armenian culture, Armenian memory, Armenian genocide studies and promotion of the Armenian nation. The Armenian genocide was subjected to censorship by the media and the public. In the 1970s, France and other European countries had limited information about the extent of what had been lost by the Armenians in 1915. He is the president and founder of the Armenian Diaspora Research Center or Centre de Recherches sur la Diaspora Arménienne (ADRC - CRDA in French) created in 1976 in Paris. 1.4 Armenian Diaspora Memory and Innovation and OvenkĪctivities Armenian Diaspora Research Center.1.3 Pioneer in the Armenian-Turkish dialogue.1.2 Groupement Interprofessionnel International Arménien.