Reactions to Biden in Turkey
It has been more than a week now since US President Biden’s April 24, 2021 statement recognizing the Armenian Genocide. This was a long overdue acknowledgment by the US of an event that took place […]
Articles by Raffi Bedrosyan
What can the Diaspora do now?
Undoubtedly, Armenians all over the world are devastated by the 44-day war that resulted in the defeat of Artsakh and Armenia against the overwhelmingly large combined army of Azeris, Turks and jihadists equipped with much […]
Armenians and the Turkish coup d’etat of September 12, 1980
Forty years ago on September 12, 1980, Turkish generals toppled the elected government in Turkey which had been unable to stop the wave of killings between leftist and rightist factions. To establish law and order, […]
Turkish Brainwash
The world recently witnessed how the Turkish state ‘reconquered’ the 1500 year-old Byzantine holy church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, by converting it from museum to mosque. The chief Turkish Islamic cleric held a long […]
Hunters of Armenian Treasures
The word ‘talan’ has the same meaning in both Turkish and Armenian. It means plunder, pillage or looting. It is a historic fact that the rise and success of the Ottoman Empire was directly linked […]
Abdullah the Lizard
This is a story told by Hrant Dink. Undoubtedly a true story. It can partially explain the deep trauma of the Armenians who survived the 1915 Genocide but had nowhere to go and stayed in […]
Pandora’s Box for Istanbul Armenians
Only a few months after the long delayed election and appointment of Archbishop Sahag Mashalian as the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul) in December 2019, the Istanbul Armenian community is again in crisis. The latest […]
Remnants of the Sword
The term “remnants of the sword” or “kilic artigi” in Turkish is quite widespread in Turkey. It describes the members of an enemy group that survived the mass killing by Turks and now continue living […]
The 1942 Wealth Tax Disaster of Turkey
November 11 is known as Remembrance Day in the USA, Canada and other allied nations and a day to honor and remember the soldiers who died during their service to their country, starting from World […]
Sorry State of Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate
The seat of the Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate has been vacant ever since the Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan fell ill with dementia and continued to live in a vegetative state in 2008. Archbishop Aram Atesyan, who got […]