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Obama, Turkey and Armenia
“Well, my views are on the record and I have not changed those views,” President Obama told a joint news conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gul. “I want to focus not on my views right […]
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Genocide Deniers in Congress Try to Shift Focus
A group of House members, who have traditionally opposed Congressional resolutions recognizing the Armenian Genocide, wrote a letter to the presidents of Armenia and Turkey expressing their support for what they called “lasting Armenian-Turkish rapprochement.” […]
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Confronting the Denialist Jewish Lobby: Mission Accomplished?
By any objective measure, the two-year-old campaign against the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) denial of the Armenian Genocide has been a spectacular success. The ADL, the Jewish American community, Israel, and Turkey were taken by surprise […]
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Letters: NAASR Panel Lacked Balance
On March 22 in Watertown, the National Association of Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) screened J. Michael Hagopian’s newest Armenian Genocide eyewitness documentary, “The River Ran Red,” before about 300 attendees. A panel discussion afterward […]
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‘Caveat Emptor’ When Shopping for Normalization in the Turkish Marketplace
It is fair to say that the Armenian Diasporan community, especially in the United States, has reason to be mildly euphoric. Presently the political “stars” seem to be properly aligned, encouraging the belief that recognition […]
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The Oppressed Nation Museum, Hrant, and Apology
The Sabiha Gokcen affair in February 2004 proved to be the start of Turkey’s soul searching vis-à-vis its Armenian problem. Finally facing this rather difficult question brought with it the advent of yet another era […]
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To Hell with the Roses!
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Armenian Weekly webteam features the opinion piece below, published in the Weekly on March 3, 2007. Over the past two years, the article, written by Weekly editor […]
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Letter: Just Say ‘NO!’ to the Young Turks
Dear Editor, MSNBC TV is thinking of filling their 10 p.m. spot with Cenk Uygur, currently of “The Young Turks” radio show. The Wikipedia entry for Uygur states that “After cable news network MSNBC announced […]
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We Are One People
This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Deceleration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948. The context of “freedom from want and freedom from fear” animated this […]
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Toward a New Ethic
Sustainable Development and Armenia’s Environment “The moral argument is that we have a duty to preserve irreplaceable gifts of creation, whereas we have no comparable duty toward transient commercial goods. The economic argument is that […]