Articles by Garen Yegparian

It seems we’re living in a time of apologies—some meaningful, some irrelevant; some asked or demanded, others received or refused; some for current and others historical offenses. Everyone seems to want to get into the […]

No, this article is not about the injustice being heaped upon working people in many states in the U.S. Rather, it’s about the aches and agony—self-inflicted—that Turkey seems to relish. One has to wonder if […]

Last week, it was Georgia. This week, it’s Turkey. We might be onto something here with the “church building angle.” Of course I’m referring to the Georgian Parliament’s opening the door to establishing the legal […]

Well, it looks like the Georgian government has finally done something (almost) right. The legislature and president have enacted a law that creates a path to establishing legal status for the Armenian Church in that […]

I’ve recently recognized a problem we have in our communities that I’m naming “porosity” because of the “holes” and “leakiness” it involves. Because Armenian communities in the U.S. (and in the Western world in general) […]

It’s really heartening. Though it might sound hokey, there is something romantic and symbolically important about people taking to, and over, the streets of Athens, the birthplace of democracy. Two decades ago, the old “Eastern […]