One of the major achievements of the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) regional offices and local chapters was to get Texas, Iowa, and Indiana to become the 46th, 47th, and 48th states to recognize […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly The facts are starkly simple. On Aug. 10, 1915, Arakel Sivaslian, a resident of Marsovan (today’s Merzifon, in Turkey), was offered a choice: Make a nominal acceptance of Islam and […]
ISTANBUL (A.W.)—Amnesty International said on Thursday that a decision to renew the detention of the organization’s Turkey Chair Taner Kılıç—hours after a court ordered his release—must be immediately reversed. “Over the last 24 hours we […]
PARIS—French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to add an Armenian Genocide commemoration day to the French calendar, making that promise during his address to the Coordinating Council of Armenians Organizations in France (CCAF) annual gala on […]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Since the signing of the “We will not be a party to this this crime” peace petition by more than 2,000 academics two years ago, the state of academic freedom has progressively deteriorated in […]
LOWELL, Mass. (A.W.)—The Armenian National Committee (ANC) of Merrimack Valley recently met with Congresswoman Niki Tsongas to present her with the Armenian National Committee of America-Eastern Region (ANCA-ER) Freedom Award. Tsongas was unable to attend […]
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