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Articles by Raffi Bedrosyan

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Significance of Hidden Armenians for Armenia and Project Rebirth Objectives

August 28, 2019 Raffi Bedrosyan 2

Hidden Armenians are the present generation descendants of Armenian orphans left behind in Turkey after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. These orphans, the living victims of the Genocide, were forcibly assimilated, Islamized, Turkified and Kurdified in […]

Literary Corner

Book Review: ‘Trauma and Resilience’

February 20, 2019 Raffi Bedrosyan 2

Trauma and Resilience: Armenians in Turkey  By Raffi Bedrosyan Published by Gomidas Institute, London, England, 2019 Available on Amazon.com, by emailing [email protected] or directly from the author. This book is a collection of articles about […]

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Hostages as State Policy

October 4, 2018 Raffi Bedrosyan 3

In August 2018, US President Trump angrily announced that sanctions will be implemented against Turkey, and personally against the Turkish ministers of interior and justice. What was the reason for Trump’s fury? The refusal to […]

Special Reports

Armenian Turks and Other Tragic Stories of Roots

March 19, 2018 Raffi Bedrosyan 18

Special to the Armenian Weekly  Last month, the Turkish government released a website where Turkish citizens can look up their ancestral roots all the way back until the mid-1850s. There are hundreds of stories in […]

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Op-Ed: The Failed Istanbul Armenian Patriarchate

February 12, 2018 Raffi Bedrosyan 6

Special to the Armenian Weekly  The neverending manipulations and power games at the Istanbul Patriarchate took a turn for the worse this past week. In 2008, the Istanbul Patriarch, Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan, was diagnosed with […]

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‘Gna Merir, Yekur Sirem’: Artsakh War Veteran, Outspoken Activist Sarkis Hatspanian Dies at 55

January 22, 2018 Raffi Bedrosyan 34

Artsakh War veteran, political commentator, and political activist Sarkis Hatspanian passed away on Jan. 20 in Lyon, France. He was only 55. Born in Adiyaman in southeastern Turkey (former Cilicia), he had left for France […]

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Returning to the Roots: Stories of Hidden Armenians

January 2, 2018 Raffi Bedrosyan 15

Special to the Armenian Weekly Over the years, I have met many hidden Armenians from different regions of Turkey. Each one has a unique story that can become an article or even a book on […]

Special Reports

Genocide Denied, Armenians Denied: Rejecting the Very Existence of Armenians in Turkey

December 18, 2017 Raffi Bedrosyan 11

Special to the Armenian Weekly Last week, while criticizing Israel and the United States on President Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated with great conviction, “There has never […]

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The Untold Stories of Turkey: An Armenian Island on the Bosphorus

October 3, 2017 Raffi Bedrosyan 24

  What makes Istanbul beautiful is the Bosphorus, dividing the city between Europe and Asia. And what makes the Bosphorus beautiful is a series of architecturally magnificent palaces, mansions, and mosques. Most of these architectural […]

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When Even the Dead Cannot Rest in Peace: Turkey’s Intolerance toward the ‘Other’

September 18, 2017 Raffi Bedrosyan 1

  Special to the Armenian Weekly   Just when one thinks the level of hatred and intolerance in Turkey toward minorities cannot get any worse, something shocking happens that surpasses even the worst incidents of […]

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