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2015 marks the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, which many wish to obliterate from the memory of the living. Cyprus Post and Armenia Post are jointly issuing a common design stamp in remembrance of this tragedy.

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JOINTLY ISSUED ON THURSDAY 2 APRIL 2015

IN THE REPUBLICS OF CYPRUS AND ARMENIA

JOINT ISSUE CYPRUS - ARMENIA

In remembrance 1915-2015

ΚΟΙΝΗ ΕΚΔΟΣΗ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ - ΑΡΜΕΝΙΑΣ

Εις ανάμνηση 1915-2015

FIRST DAY OF ISSUE: 2.4.2015

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2015 marks the centenary of the Armenian Genocide, which many wish to obliterate from the memory of the living. Cyprus Post and Armenia Post are jointly issuing a common design stamp in remembrance of this tragedy. The Melkonian Orphanage was founded in 1924 by the Armenian industrialists Garabed and Krikor Melkonian of Egypt in order to house and educate the refugee orphans who had survived the massacres that had taken place in Ottoman Turkey during the First World War. The first 103 orphans began to arrive in 1925. In later years the Orphanage was known as the Melkonian Educational Institute. The image on the stamp of Cyprus is based on a photograph taken in the 1940’s by the late Haigaz Mangoian, a renowned photographer, himself a refugee. The cypress trees in the foreground were planted by the orphans,in memory of their parents. On the stamp of Armenia the children in front of the same Orphanage are depicted. Text on this card by Markev Mihranian, Nicosia.

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Το 2015 σηματοδοτεί τα χρόνια από τη Γενοκτονία των Αρμενίων την οποία πολλοί επιθυμούν να ξεχαστεί. Τα Ταχυδρομεία της Κύπρου και της Αρμενίας κυκλοφορούν την κοινή έκδοση σε ανάμνηση της τραγωδίας αυτής. Το Ορφανοτροφείο Μελκονιάν ιδρύθηκε το 1924 από τους Αρμένιους Βιομήχανους Γκαραπέτ και Κρικόρ Μελκονιάν από την Αίγυπτο, με σκοπό να φιλοξενήσει και να εκπαιδεύσει ορφανά προσφυγόπουλα που επέζησαν των σφαγών που έγιναν στην Οθωμανική Τουρκία κατά τη διάρκεια του Α’ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Τα πρώτα 103 ορφανά έφθασαν το 1925. Τα επόμενα χρόνια το Ορφανοτροφείο έγινε γνωστό ως Εκπαιδευτικό ΄Ιδρυμα Μελκονιάν. Η απεικόνιση στο γραμματόσημο της Κύπρου βασίζεται σε φωτογραφία που λήφθηκε τη δεκαετία του 1940 από τον φωτογράφο Haigaz Mangoian, που ήταν και ο ίδιος πρόσφυγας. Τα κυπαρίσσια που φαίνονται μπροστά από το κτήριο φυτεύτηκαν από τα ορφανά σε ανάμνηση των γονιών τους. Στο γραμματόσημο της Αρμενίας απεικονίζονται τα παιδιά μπροστα στο ίδιο Ορφανοτροφείο.

Design-Artwork on this stamp by Yiota Tsiaklidou

Card designed by Chr. Achilleoudis and

digitally processed by Simos Simonis

The two buildings of the Melkonian Orphanage as they are 75 years later, in 2015. The cypress trees in the foreground, seen short on the stamp, are now higher than the buildings. (Photo by Chr. Achilleoudis)

CYPRUS - ARMENIA JOINT ISSUE

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Price per card EUR 12

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ALPHA BANK

42 MAKARIOS AVE. 2220 LATSIA, Nicosia Cyprus

Account name: ARMENIAN PRELATURE OF CYPRUS (CENTENARY)

Account No. 207-101-008155-8

IBAN: CY09 0090 0207 0002 0710 1008 1558

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Terms and Conditions:

1- We do not have a refund policy.

2- When the full amount is received, we shall send you the stamp card by registered mail to your address.

3- Please allow for up to 30 days until the delivery is made.

4- When the amount received is less than EUR 12 per card, we shall either send you the card by surface mail, or because the money collected will not cover the costs, the amount received will be donated and used for (5).

5- The net proceeds of the money collected will be donated to the Centenary Fund for the publication of a book in Greek and English that will present articles referring to the Armenian Genocide which appeared in the Greek Cypriot press between 1914 and 1923. The available material was researched with the assistance of the University of Nicosia.

6- Please make sure you write your name when transferring the money in order to help us trace the payment.

7- Bulk orders are allowed and will be sent to the address of the ordering customer.

8- There is no maximum limit on the number of cards to order.

9- The Centenary stamp card will be printed by the Cyprus Postal Department only once. There will be no other print runs.

10- The offer expires on 27 April 2015.

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