Garen Mouths Off
Articles by Garen Yegparian
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Erdogan’s Ego
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, coupled with his sycophants, dependents, and fellow-travelers in the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party), is appealing to the worst strains, aspects, parts, of the Turkish psyche. Of course, […]
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Dragged
That’s what happened. The lifeless corpse of Haci Lokman Birlik was DRAGGED behind a Turkish police vehicle with a rope that formed a noose around his neck. He was the brother-in-law of HDP (the pro-Kurdish […]
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More Things That Make You Go ‘Hmmm’
Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian seems to have developed a spine of late and has spoken out strongly about Azerbaijan’s incessant ceasefire violations, even having a very tense (mediated) meeting with Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar […]
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Things that make you go, ‘Hmmm’
Perhaps the most ongoingly jaw-dropping, cognitive-dissonance-inducing, and just plain annoying head-scratcher is the continued seat Azerbaijan is given in dignified circles. This is the country that is so unfree that the Europeans have decided not […]
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Voter Suppression a la Turkey
President of Turkey Erdogan has embarked on a risky and very bloody gambit to arrange for his Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party, or AKP) to regain its parliamentary majority so he can […]
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Yegparian: Are They Trying to Tell Us Something?
For years and years, since the 1994 Artsakh-Azerbaijan ceasefire, the Azeris have been violating that very same ceasefire. These violations come in the form of sniper fire, attacks, the downing of a helicopter, commando-style attempted […]
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A Suggestion to ‘Time’ Magazine
No doubt the editors at “Time” magazine are gearing up to choose their person/people of the year. You might recall it used to be “Man of the Year” before they broke that tradition and chose […]
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DIScontinuity
Two weeks ago I had the honor of attending a friend’s daughter’s bat mitzvah. That’s the coming of age ritual for Jewish girls. Aside from noticing similarities that were the result of borrowings from Judaism […]
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Egregiously Execrable Election
Yes, it’s coming, an unnecessary election designed to serve the interests of one party (at best) and, more realistically, one megalomaniac. This is not a diatribe directed at Mike Gatto, who has often been the […]