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: Who Won Akhtamar Propaganda War: Armenians or Turks?

The Turkish government failed to attract the expected crowd of thousands of worshipers from around the world to the first…

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Sassounian: Senate Should not Confirm Bryza as Ambassador to Azerbaijan

At the request of Senator Barbara Boxer, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had postponed from early August to mid-September its…

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Sassounian: Top Three Armenian Church Leaders Boycott Turkish Show in Akhtamar

The Turkish scheme of luring Armenian Church leaders to participate in a religious show at Holy Cross (Sourp Khatch) Church…

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Sassounian: Congress Should Investigate State Dept. for Holding Back Aid to Artsakh

The State Department has acted negligently and possibly in contempt of Congress by withholding assistance that the latter had expressly…

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Sassounian: Complaint Against Azerbaijan in European Court Could Have Grave Consequences

In recent years, Armenian Americans have filed several lawsuits in U.S. courts against insurance companies, banks, and the Republic of…

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Sassounian: Why Would Armenians Go to Akhtamar, and Become Tools of Turkish Propaganda?

Ever since the genocide, after nearly a century of banning Armenian church services, the Turkish government has finally decided to…

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Sassounian: Unprecedented Action: Senators Block Ambassadors to Azerbaijan, Turkey

In a major embarrassment for the Obama Administration, Senators took an unprecedented action last week when they blocked the president’s…

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Sassounian: Armenians Seek Billions of Dollars in Lawsuit Against Turkey

After struggling for decades to get the Armenian Genocide recognized, and having taken legal action against western banks and insurance…

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Sassounian: Bryza Wrongly Tells Senators: Armenian Patriarch Is Dead

Barack Obama ran for the presidency on a platform of “change” and promised to bring a fresh approach to domestic…

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Sassounian: Turkey Has No Right to Interfere in Patriarch Election

Although the Treaty of Lausanne is supposed to protect the rights of non-Muslim minorities in Turkey—Armenians, Greeks, and Jews—these rights…

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