Month: September 2014

Scholars, Activists Condemn Turkish Textbooks Vilifying Armenians

ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)—Turkish scholars, artists, and writers harshly condemned primary and middle school textbooks that are replete with anti-Armenian rhetoric…

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Poem: My Tender, Tiny Bird…

By Avik Derentz Translated by Tatul Sonentz   You flew away My sweet swallow, Towards distant, dreary, disconsolate skies, Before seeing…

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Turkey’s Kristallnacht

Special for the Armenian Weekly Sept. 6, 1955 started just like any other day for the Greeks, Armenians, and Jews…

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Topouzian, Sarkisov Score Repeat Wins in AYF Olympic Pentathlons

By Bob Tutunjian The women’s and men’s pentathlon events ended up being won by large margins by last year’s champions.…

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Lucineh Kassarjian Joins ATP Team as Country Director

YEREVAN—Armenia Tree Project (ATP) recently announced that Lucineh Kassarjian has been appointed director of ATP operations in Armenia. Kassarjian has…

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Hairenik’s Anniversary Hits Home

At a time when the ethnic press is teetering on the brink of change, both the Armenian Weekly and Hairenik…

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AYF Olympics Golf Tournament Draws Young and Old

By Ken Hachikian The 2014 AYF Olympics Golf Tournament was held this year at Warren Valley Golf Club in Dearborn…

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Ankara Poster Competition to Portray Armenians as Genocidal, Traitors

Winner to Be Announced on Dink Assassination Anniversary ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)—Ankara’s public Gazi University, in collaboration with the Embassy of…

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The Writing on our Foreheads

The destruction of the Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor Special for the Armenian Weekly By Rupen Janbazian “If…

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Research Project to Explore Armenian Presence in China

BEIJING, China—The Gulbenkian Foundation announced this month that former Armenian Weekly Editor Khatchig Mouradian was awarded a fellowship to study…

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