Everyone knows that ambassadors have to follow the foreign policy guidelines of their governments and cannot make their own decisions. Yet it is strange that successive U.S. ambassadors are not allowed to call the Armenian Genocide, […]
Pres. Donald Trump nominated on Sept. 4, 2018 career Foreign Service Officer Earle Litzenberger to serve as US Ambassador to Azerbaijan replacing Amb. Robert Cekuta who left Baku nine months ago. A month before the […]
The Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has made attracting overseas investors the priority of his new government. So far, it is too early to determine if foreign investors are interested in doing business […]
A while back, , a Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament from the Sirnak province of Turkey, delivered extremely critical remarks about Turks and Turkey on the floor of the Parliament in Ankara. I just discovered […]
The midterm elections held on November 6, 2018, will significantly restrain Pres. Trump’s rule of the United States as a dictatorship. In the first two years of his presidency, Trump often abused his powers by […]
John Bolton, the National Security Adviser of Pres. Trump, visited Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in October, conveying the White House position on regional and international issues. Bolton is known as a hawk on foreign […]
The heinous murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been exploited by leaders of several countries for their selfish political and economic gains, ignoring the vile nature of the crime. The main participants in […]
Not a week passes without the disclosure of another major scandal in Azerbaijan or Turkey. The latest such scandal was exposed by the Stockholm Center for Freedom in an article written by exiled Turkish writer […]
I wrote an article in September criticizing the Trump administration’s dismissal of the International Criminal Court. I considered the U.S. action to be a lack of respect for justice and the rule of law. Last […]
Despite the many violations of Armenian cultural and religious rights in Turkey, there are some Armenians in Istanbul who praise the Turkish regime and particularly its fascist president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. These few pro-Erdogan Armenians, […]
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