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.
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Sassounian: Armenians Should Stay Away from Turkey until Assassination Plot Is Investigated

The Turkish Cihan wire service made a sensational revelation last week—a Turkish hit squad had planned to assassinate a visiting…

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Sassounian: California Officials Honor Republic of Artsakh and its President

Bako Sahakyan, the president of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh (Artsakh), just completed his third visit to Los Angeles. Unlike…

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Sassounian: Conference Participants Support Elective Diaspora Leadership

After much anticipation and lengthy preparations, the Institute of Armenian Studies at the University of Southern California (USC) held on…

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Sassounian: Documents Reveal Bush’s Duplicity on Genocide

In a highly informative book, Children of Armenia: A Forgotten Genocide and Century-long Struggle for Justice, Michael Bobelian has exposed…

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Sassounian: Despite Major Shifts in Congress, Armenians Fared Well; Turks not So Well

The Nov. 2 elections were a referendum on President Obama. He had disillusioned most Americans by his failed economic policies…

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Sassounian: Biden’s Sensational Revelation of Phone Calls with Sarkisian

Armenians worldwide were scandalized last week by Vice President Joe Biden’s revelation that Pres. Sargsyan had told him: “look, do…

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Sassounian: Time to Take a Stand: Who to Vote for and Who to Vote Against?

The Nov. 2 Congressional elections are expected to have a tidal wave effect on America’s political landscape. Campaign ads and…

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Sassounian: Media Unfairly Bashes All Armenians Because of Alleged Crimes of a Few

The first problem with the widely circulated reports that several Armenians have defrauded Medicare out of millions of dollars is…

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Sassounian: Turkish Foreign Ministry Should Remove Lies from Website and Issue Apology

Turkish officials have been misrepresenting the facts of the Armenian Genocide for years. Even though this is saddening and even…

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Sassounian: Apology for Vilifying One Man, Yet No Apology for Killing 1.5 Million

In 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an Alabama-based non-profit civil rights organization, published an article titled, “State of…

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