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The Annual General Assembly Meeting took place on Friday, February 27, 2004. Follovings are the new Executive Board of OIA for 2004/2005: GENERAL ASSEMBLY Hagop Zerunian President Dr. Ohannes K. Avedikyan Vice President Tilda A. Minassian, English Secretary Alin Donigian, Armmenian Secretary OIA BOARD OF DIRECTORS Simon Acilacoglu, President Edvin Minassian ESQ, Vice President Dr Mark Kosker, Eng. Secretary Onnik Balian, Arm. Secretary Raffi Gulsatarian CPA, Treasurer Hagop Halici, Vice Treasurer

The Very Revd. Fr. Manuel Yergatyan, entered eternal rest following long years of cardiac treatment, on February 11, 2004, in Almelo, the Netherlands. He was born on September 11, 1954, in Istanbul, Turkey, the second son of Haci (Armenian Orthodox) and Sabahat (Turkish Moslem). Baptised in the Holy Mother-of-God Patriarchal Church by the Revd. Fr. Garabed Balian on December 4, 1959, his godfather was the Revd. Deacon Antranig Hallajian and his baptismal name was Haig. He was a pupil at the St.

The Armenian Association of Film Critics and Cinema Journalists, the Benevolent fund of culture development, a number of other associations and entrepreneurs commenced on the organization of the first "Golden Apricot" International film festival in Armenia. The festival is supposed to have a main competition program (feature, documentary and animation films made 2002 onward), retrospective films of Armenian filmmakers and one or two of the best foreign film directors, films by students and debuts.

His Beatitude Mesrob II, Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul and All Turkey, who was involved in a road accident during a youth pilgrimage in the region of Antalya on 1st February, is steadily recovering at the Holy Saviour Armenian Hospital in Yedikule, Istanbul. The Patriarch underwent a successful operation on 2nd February in the late afternoon and ever since has been receiving physio-therapy under the daily surveillance of Asst. Prof. Ufuk Talu, MD, of Istanbul University Medical School Department

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PRESS RELEASE Armenian Patriarchate 34130 Kumkapi Istanbul, Turkey THE ARMENIAN PATRIARCH'S PILGRIMAGE INTERRUPTED BY ROAD ACCIDENT Participating in the pilgrimage organised by the youth of the community, His Beatitude Mesrob II, Armenian Patriarch of Istanbul and all Turkey, and his entourage had a road accident on a mountain slope about five km north of Antalya. Altogether 57 Armenian pilgrims from Istanbul went on a four day pilgrimage to Antalya in southern Turkey, visiting sites where St. Paul

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.c The Associated Press ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - The Armenian patriarch of Istanbul, Mesrob II, suffered a broken foot and nose in a traffic accident in southern Turkey on Sunday, news reports said. Mesrob was taken to a hospital in the southern Mediterranean resort province of Antalya, but his injuries were not considered life-threatening, private CNN-Turk television reported. The circumstances behind the crash were not immediately clear. Mesrob is the spiritual leader of most of the country's estimated