By the 1960s, Armenians were awakening to atrocities of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, which had left an entire generation of parents and grandparents traumatized into silence. In the last sixty years, […]
After the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed never to mention the name of the terrorist responsible for those horrific actions. “Speak the names of those […]
If there’s anything I’ve learned running a Diasporan newspaper, it’s that there seem to be—at any given point—a million reasons for Armenians in the Diaspora to disagree with one another. We are by no means […]
It is ingrained in our psyche. We talk and write about it constantly—sometimes at the expense of other aspects of our civilization. It is the first thing we declare when sharing our history with others, […]
More than a century after the mass crime of genocide against Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks, most Turks still feel self-conscious as April 24 approaches and whenever someone refers to their Crime Against Humanity! Many Turkish […]
PARIS (RFE/RL’s Armenian Service)—French President Emmanuel Macron has declared April 24 as a day for the commemoration in France of the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. Macron announced the move late on Tuesday […]
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