This report was filed by the Armenian Weekly’s Diyarbakir correspondent, Gulisor Akkum. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—A large crowd gathered at the Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality Theater on April 23 to commemorate the Armenian Genocide. The event, commemorating the 98th […]
HAVERHILL, Mass.—The Armenian tricolor will not be flying this year from the flagpole at City Hall, same as it has for decades upon end. Instead, it will take a more humble place inside the municipal […]
Many unanswered questions remain in the wake of the barbaric Boston Marathon bombings last week. In the absence of established facts, it is difficult to reach an informed conclusion and find a motive for the […]
WASHINGTON—On April 21, Armenian-Americans from across the Greater Washington, D.C. area called for an end to U.S. complicity in Turkey’s genocide denial at a White House rally held just days before President Obama’s annual April […]
The Armenian Relief Society (ARS) of Eastern USA has continued its efforts to assist the ARS of Syria, by purchasing the creative handmade needlework made by Armenian women in Syria. The inspirations for the needlework […]
BELMONT, Mass.—On Thurs., May 9, Prof. Seta B. Dadoyan will give a lecture entitled “Armenian History Beyond the Pillars of Hercules: Plus Ultra” at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) in Belmont. […]
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—There was a heavy police and military presence in Watertown on Fri., April 19, as police searched for 19-year-old Dzokhar Tsarnaev. The suspect, a resident of Cambridge, had gone on a violent rampage […]
WASHINGTON—America’s leading genocide prevention groups this week called upon Coca-Cola and Citigroup to suspend their participation in a conference hosted by an organization waging a public campaign that supports the Turkish government’s denial of the […]
Genocide Commemoration at State House Cancelled WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—On April 19, residents of Watertown woke up to a state of emergency, with SWAT teams going door to door searching for one of the suspects of […]
On Mon., May 6, famous criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos will speak at the St. James Armenian Church Men’s Club Dinner about his book with Pat Harris, Mistrial: An Inside Look at How the Criminal […]
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