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O.E. + R.o.T. = Continuity
It rhymes, doesn’t it? Say it out loud, nay, sing it. “O.E. + R.o.T. = Continuity”! Of course, O.E. = Ottoman Empire and R.o.T. = Republic of Turkey, and any Armenian knows about the continuity, […]
Articles by Garen Yegparian
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Armenia without Armenians
Who remembers this phrase nowadays, “Armenia without Armenians,” or “Hayasdan arantz hayeroo”? That was Ottoman policy — whether through forced conversions to Islam and subsequent Kurdification or Turkification, outright massacres, kidnapping of boys and girls […]
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Two rays of hope
The rays I’m discussing are so different that they might as well have emanated from Sol and Earendel. Nevertheless, as different as they are, they are still hope-inspiring, and we the Armenian nation need every […]
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Imagine…Erdogan’s Right!?!
As often occurs, I have fallen far behind in my reading, so imagine my amazement when I saw what the title suggests in a short, Armenian language item published in Asbarez a couple of months […]
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Drones for Armenia
A little over a month ago, I encountered an article in Foreign Policy titled ‘All It Takes is One’: Iran Gives Russia Help From the Air, discussing Russia’s use of Iranian drones in its war […]
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So Sad, Too Far Gone
A few months back, Zareh Sinanyan, the Republic of Armenia’s (RoA) High Commissioner of Diaspora Affairs paid an official visit to the US with various public and semi-public meetings held. I managed to get to […]
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Pomposity to Mask Ineptitude
The “Global Armenian Summit 2022” is underway in Yerevan. In the coming days, we’ll hear endless drivel about what a great success it was and what a wonderful time its participants had in the homeland. […]
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Multi-Continuations
Just a little shy of 33 years ago, I wrote my first piece since moving to the west coast. The title was, if memory serves, “A Successful Genocide,” inspired by an obituary in the LA […]
Garen Mouths Off
Disinformation, Near and Far
Earlier today (Sunday, November 8), a friend called asking me if I’d heard the news that Shushi had fallen to the Turkic invaders. I was stunned and saddened, since I’d been in the mountains for […]
Garen Mouths Off
The War, The Drones and The Money
We’ve been dealing with Turkish invasions, marauding, murder, war-making, cruelty, destructiveness and overall inhumanity for more than a millennium. Azerbaijan’s behavior, guided and supported by Turkey, while heartbreaking and infuriating, is nothing new for us. […]