Typically, when writing about great events, articles are laudatory, extolling the virtues, significance and grandness of dates such as May 28, 1918. There’s no question as to the tremendous importance in the life of the […]
I thought this would be the best way to “honor” him on the occasion of his May 19th birthday. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, how grandiose, how pathetic, how sad, how destructive, […]
It’s been ten months since I complained about OPS (other people’s stupidity), so please bear with me on this gripe session. I also ask your forbearance regarding Wannabe-Sultan President Erdoğan’s prominence in my pieces of […]
Two utterly absurd actions over the past two weeks may have paved the way to some minor positive results—one was completely Turkish, the other American/internet. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as he is wont to […]
I’ve been remiss the last few years. Going to and ever-so-briefly chronicling as many Los Angeles-area Genocide commemorative events as possible is something I’ve always found important. Unfortunately, I haven’t done it, and now, it’s […]
In recent years, it has become somewhat fashionable to pooh-pooh, demean, argue against or perceive conspiracies in efforts to obtain recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the United States. I, too, may have contributed to […]
This piece is combination of five utterly non-interrelated paragraphs presenting five items that have “assaulted” my consciousness over the last few days. I met Don and Eileen Garabedian while in a doctor’s waiting room. It […]
As you already know, Turkey just wrapped up its local elections, which happen once every five years, on March 31. As with much of politics, a simple, direct answer to the question posed in the […]
With apologies to Ray Charles for using the title of his song, I have to confess that I, too, have Georgia on my mind. Of course, it’s a different Georgia, not the one in the […]
We may be on the cusp of getting some good news regarding a resolution in the Artsakh “frozen conflict” (as miscellaneous observers like to refer to this part of our national liberation struggle). The ANCA […]
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