Fresh Start for the New Year
New Year’s resolutions have always been a lesson in futility for me. Like the time I tried to give up my pipe. I lasted about two weeks before I went back to my tobacco. It […]
New Year’s resolutions have always been a lesson in futility for me. Like the time I tried to give up my pipe. I lasted about two weeks before I went back to my tobacco. It […]
The past year has been rife with intriguing developments on our Turkish (non-Azeri) front. So I thought it would probably be good to put those often-positive-seeming events in some context. Some 1,000 years ago, Turks […]
HAVERHILL, Mass.—The last memory I have of Sara Jaffarian was tapping on the window of her home, hoping to gain her attention. She didn’t answer. Odd, considering the whereabouts of a 98-year-old woman living independently […]
Sometimes a photo can speak volumes. Other times, it tells you just what you might not want to hear. It’s the week of New Year’s, when we’re well into the post-holiday blahs. Gifts have been […]
From time to time, people will ask what story has brought me the greatest joy and fulfillment. After 50 years, it’s a lot like picking which grandchild you love most. There are favorites, but after […]
The European Court of Human Rights issued last week a critical Armenian Genocide-related ruling in the case of Dogu Perincek vs. Switzerland. Perincek, the leader of a minor Turkish political party, had traveled to Switzerland […]
War. With the Republics of Mountainous Karabagh and Armenia. That’s what! Here’s how and why. By all accounts, Azerbaijan’s oil will run out, practically speaking, in a little more than a decade (most comprehensively explained […]
e333Mass is how much stuff there is. Density is how tightly packed the stuff is. It’s the old, “Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead” query. Which, in turn, begs […]
Reading the phrase “hell-bent on Armenian-Turkish reconciliation” at the end of Harut Sassounian’s most recent column triggered a profound revulsion coupled with a realization. Harut did nothing wrong. He was just referring to the losers […]
The wily Turkish foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, used every diplomatic trick to take full advantage of his presence in Yerevan during the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) conference last week. Davutoglu and his diplomatic team […]
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