Tom Vartabedian

One Armenian Name that Backfires

What’s in a name? Plenty! Especially if it’s Appo or Apo, however you wish to interpret it. For the life of me, I know three people by that name. There’s an Apo Jeknavorian in my community who works as an EMT, associated with one of our more prominent families in Merrimack Valley. He’s a fireball, especially over a barbeque grill. Moving closer to Boston, we come across Apo

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Tom Vartabedian

Tom Vartabedian is a retired journalist with the Haverhill Gazette, where he spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and photographer. He has volunteered his services for the past 46 years as a columnist and correspondent with the Armenian Weekly, where his pet project was the publication of a special issue of the AYF Olympics each September.

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  1. Abdullah Öcalan, also known as Apo (short for Abdullah and “uncle” in Kurdish), is one of the founding members of the PKK.

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