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Pro-Armenian, Pro-Kurdish Turkish Philanthropist Jailed in Turkey

It is widely known that the Turkish government deprives the rights of minorities living in the country, whether they are Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Jews or Kurds. However the Turks, who are the overwhelming majority of the public, are the biggest victims of the abuses of the Turkish authorities. Tens of thousands of innocent Turks have been jailed under false pretenses.

Osman Kavala at the Armenian Genocide centennial commemoration near Taksim Square, Istanbul, 2015 (Photo: Rupen Janbazian)

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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.

2 Comments

  1. Kavala is no true human rights defender and is certainly not pro-Armenian. His role is to help Turkey get away with the Armenian Genocide and keep Armenians of Western Armenia on the path toward extinction. Without land return, the entire Western Armenian civilization is finished.

  2. Mr Sassounian, you are not still fulfilling your commitment whgich requires publishing Turkish readers’ comments. You have sufficient education to know that the Kurdish people is not a minority.

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