Month: July 2015

Turkey: A Flip and a Flop with Benefits!

Dear Editor, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan could not pass up an opportunity to bomb the Kurds on his way…

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Diyarbakir, Dersim to Participate in Pan-Armenian Games

TORONTO (A.W.)—For the first time, teams from Diyarbakir and Dersim will participate in the Pan-Armenian Games in Yerevan. They join…

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An Obituary That Proved Erroneous

As an obituary writer in my previous newspaper life, I took great satisfaction at perusing the day’s death notices and…

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Hamazkayin Launches ArtLinks 2015

The Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Associations of North America are launching ArtLinks, the first youth forum to link a…

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Sassounian: Erdogan Is Pursuing His Self-Interests, Instead of Fighting ISIS Terrorists

Last month, only after losing his party’s parliamentary majority, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan realized that there are dangerous terrorists in…

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Chobanian Premieres ‘Der Voghormia’

BEREA, Ohio—Loris Ohannes Chobanian is professor emeritus and a composer-in-residence at Baldwin Wallace (BW) University, and his composition “Der Voghormia” (Lord…

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PKK: Truce with Turkey Has No Meaning

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said that its fragile truce with Turkish authorities had lost all meaning following Turkish warplanes attacked…

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Armenians Remember Lisbon Five

Thirty-two years after five young Armenian men gave their lives in the “Lisbon Five” operation, Armenians around the world—from Beirut…

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Aghjayan: The Paradox of Dersim

Special for the Armenian Weekly Recently, I spent a week traveling throughout the region of Dersim, now the modern Turkish…

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‘All I can do is cry’: HRW Sheds Light on Treatment of Terminally Ill Cancer Patients in Armenia

Special for the Armenian Weekly  Human Rights Watch (HRW) on July 14 released a comprehensive report on the inadequate treatment…

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