ANKARA (Combined Sources)–Kurdish demonstrators clashed with riot police in Istanbul and southeast Turkey on Saturday and Sunday following violent arrests of Kurdish leaders by Turkish security forces in 11 provinces, from Diyarbakir and neighboring cities […]
Mardiros Martin Kanayan died on Sat., Dec. 26 at the age of 71 after a long illness. Marty was born May 1, 1938 in Bucharest, Romania to Gayane Kanayan and the noted Armenian hero General […]
Born on Aug. 17, 1952 in the largest city in Canada’s Niagara region and the sixth largest urban area in Ontario, also known as St. Catharines, he went on to Ithaca College in New York […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Rep. George Radanovich (R-Calif.), a driving force behind congressional affirmation of the Armenian Genocide and vocal advocate of the concerns of the Central Valley’s active Armenian American community, announced on Dec. 29 that he […]
HAVERHILL, Mass. (A.W.)—This is about a group of residents inside a nursing home who knew little or nothing about Armenia until they were exposed to it one fine afternoon. It’s not just any nursing home […]
By Amberin Zaman The Armenian Weekly January 2010 Magazine Turkey’s continued insistence on linking the establishment of diplomatic ties and the re-opening of its mutual borders with Armenia to the latter’s withdrawal from at least […]
GLENDALE, Calif.—The United Armenian Fund’s (UAF) 154th airlift arrived in Yerevan on Dec. 19, delivering $4.6 million of humanitarian assistance. For this flight, the UAF itself collected $4 million of medicines and medical supplies donated […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Cambridge-based Ararat lodge of the Knights of Vartan (K of V) recently announced the arrival of medical equipment and supplies to hospitals and clinics in the Kashatagh region of Nagorno-Karabagh, under the Ararat […]
It happened earlier than usual this year. Perhaps it is a sign of our dismal economy and the fact that people need some “joyous light” in their lives. The line between Halloween and Christmas has […]
The following interview was published in the Armenian Weekly on April 5, 2008. More than a year and a half later, its message continues to resonate. The conflict in Darfur might be “frozen” but it […]
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