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Articles by Vartan Matiossian

Opinion

The Evil That We Do Not Know: ‘Medz Yeghern’ and the ‘Old Language’

December 12, 2012 Vartan Matiossian 10

Then he stopped and announced, ‘You know, there was on this land a medz yeghern, a great cataclysm,’ as the survivors called the genocide. —Aris Janigian (2009)1 The following spring, the Armenian and Turkish ministries […]

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When Dictionaries Are Left Unopened: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Turned into Terminology of Denial

November 27, 2012 Vartan Matiossian 2

You may want to know that ‘Meds Yeghern’ does not mean genocide; it means “Great Calamity.” Armenians used that term before the word ‘genocide’ was coined by Raphael Lemkin in the 1940’s. –Harut Sassounian1   […]

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The Turkish-Made ‘Great Calamity’: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Became ‘Büyük Felâket’

November 7, 2012 Vartan Matiossian 73

The “Metz Yeghern,” which means “Great Evil” in Armenian, is the name we Armenians use for the genocide. –Robert Attarian (2006)1 The quote comes from a lecture in Italian by the spokesperson for the Consiglio […]

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The Birth of ‘Great Calamity’: How ‘Medz Yeghern’ Was Introduced onto the World Stage

October 25, 2012 Vartan Matiossian 34

… Listen, O Lord, to the lament that rises from this place, to the call of the dead from the depths of the Metz Yeghérn … –John Paul II (2001) Words matter. Some people try […]

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Teotig: The First Historian of Armenian Printing

August 31, 2012 Vartan Matiossian 3

Special Issue: Celebrating 500 Years of Armenian Printing The Armenian Weekly, Sept. 1, 2012 (Download article in PDF)  The name Teotig meant little to the English reader until the recent publication of volume II of […]

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Matiossian: What Did Uruguay FM Actually Say about Karabagh’s Recognition?

September 21, 2011 Vartan Matiossian 0

An interesting new chapter in the Armenian-Azerbaijani diplomatic “war” seems to have opened in Latin America after declarations ascribed to Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Almagro during a seminar organized by the Armenian National […]

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