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Sassounian: Armenia Supports Catholicosate’s Lawsuit Against Turkey

More than 1,000 attendees of the Armenia-Diaspora Conference in Yerevan this month, organized by the Diaspora Ministry, cheered loudly when Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia made the surprising announcement that the Catholicosate would file a lawsuit in a Turkish court demanding the return of its properties confiscated during the 1915-23 genocide. His Holiness explained that before taking this important decision, he had consulted with international legal experts over the

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

3 Comments

  1. Get it right once and for all.

    Genocide Acknowledgment with Accountability. Accountability for Land, Reparation, and Restitution.

    For those who think accountability for Land is unrealistic, what do you think of Artsakh? Isn’t that Land? Turkey is openly threatening and asking Armenians to abandon Artsakh and warning Armenians on intervention in the case of Nakhichevan.

  2. turkey get on your knees & start praying the sword of Gideon is coming to …serve YOU Justice …. WE can not trust terrorists remnants of seljuks,tatars & ottoman-mongol barbarians …they only understand one language ….the one they used to invade our beloved Asia minor & in 500 yrs destroyed Byzantium .Greek ,Armenian & Assyrian cultures churches & holy relics .cemeteries & help ISIS destroy holy memorial in Der Zor..

    1. you cant nothing if there are reality if you trust yourself go and live in armenia and be ready to fight with them it is easy sitting in beirut cornische and written these

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