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Let’s Kick Genocide Denialist Bill Shuster out of Congress
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com I reported last week on the Armenian-American community success in securing cancellation of Los Angeles City’s $845,000 contract with the Gephardt Group, for lobbying on behalf of Turkey against adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution by Congress. I expressed the hope that Arm...
Los Angeles Cancels $845,000 Contract With Turkey’s Lobbyist Gephardt Group
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com I wrote a column last August warning that the Armenian-American community and all people of good will would boycott the products and services of Anheuser-Busch, Boeing, Chevron, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Google, Los Angeles Airport, National Football League, ...
Who is responsible for turning Erdogan into a fanatical tyrant?
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com When the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, its founder, Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared like a devout Muslim seeking to eliminate corruption and improve the standard of living of Turkish citizens. During the last 13 years, Erdogan gradually turned into a corrupt de...
Nagorno-Karabakh: is a solution visible
By Edward Nalbandian, Armenian Minister of Foreign Affairs  It’s the history of a people who exercised their legitimate right to self-determination. A people who freely expressed their determination and who, for almost a century, have faced the hostility of those who have pretended to be their lords. These are the people of ‪Nagorno Karabakh‬. History Karabakh (wh...
Pan-Armenian Declaration Reveals Plans for Legal Claims Against Turkey
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com The Presidents of the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh along with leaders of major Diasporan organizations issued an unprecedented joint declaration last week, announcing the preparation of a comprehensive dossier of “legal claims” from Turkey to restore “individual, com...
Armenia’s Jewish Community Leader Lashes out at Pro-Azerbaijani Propagandists
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier, http://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/ Rimma Varzhapetyan-Feller, President of the Jewish Community of Armenia, recently wrote a scathing article titled, "World Jewry cannot become a tool in the hands of anti-Armenian propagators." She criticized all those who engage in such propaganda for writing "ordered and one...
Zuart Sudjian Sues Turkey to Reclaim Her Family Lands -- Diyarbakir Airport
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Armenians are in the process of organizing thousands of events all over the world to commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. These events aim to remind the world about the mass atrocities committed by Ottoman Turkey from 1915 to 1923 with the expectation that the internation...
The Independent: The Gallipoli centenary is a shameful attempt to hide the Armenian Holocaust
Here is an article by ROBERT FISK on The Independent web-site about Turkish shameful policy towards the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide.  When world leaders, including Prince Charles and the Australian and New Zealand prime ministers, gather at Gallipoli to commemorate the First World War battle at the invitation of the Turkish government in April, the ghosts ...
Greece Blocks Talat Pasha Committee’s Genocide Denialist Stunt in Athens
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Dogu Perincek, leader of the Turkish Workers’ Party, failed last week to repeat in Greece the denialist show he orchestrated in Switzerland 10 years ago. Along with members of his blasphemous Talat Pasha Committee, Perincek had planned to travel to Athens to challenge the recent Gre...
NY Times: The Two Faces of Azerbaijani President Mr. Aliyev
By The New-York Times, THE EDITORIAL BOARD The New-York Times newspaper presents an article about Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, which is presented below, without any changes. President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan does a masterful political Jekyll and Hyde. A cable from the American ambassador to Baku released on WikiLeaks described him as a Michael Corleone-Sonny Co...
Amal Clooney to represent Armenia at ECHR
By Harut Sassounian, The Californian Courier publisher Here is a surprising news item being disclosed for the first time in this column—Amal Ramzi Alamuddin, wife of prominent actor and human rights activist George Clooney, will be one of the attorneys representing Armenia next month at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Mrs. Clooney is a highly regarded attorne...
Azerbaijani-Israeli Propagandist Throws Stones at Armenia from Glass House
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com The JNS.org website (Jewish and Israel news) posted a venomous, anti-Armenian article by Arye Gut with a bombastic headline: “Anti-Semitism in Armenia: A Clear and Present Danger.” JNS.org identifies the author as “an Azerbaijani Israeli” who is “a board mem...
Sweeping Reforms Needed to Resolve Critical Pan-Armenian Issues
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com I delve this week into a thorny subject that has distressed much of the Armenian world: The uproar generated by the highly critical and harshly-worded letter posted on the internet by the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian addressed to His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of...
Lessons learned from national catastrophes: On the threshold of the 100th anniversary of the Armenia...
Here is the presentation of the Head of the Institute for National Strategic Studies MOD, RA, Doctor of Political Science, Major General Hayk Kotanjian during the Parliamentary hearings at the Standing Committee on Foreign Relations of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, December 8, 2014. "Honorable Mr. Chairman! Dear Members of the National Assembly of the...
Turkish Parliament Will Hide the Truth Should it Block the Genocide Resolution
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Last week, a Turkish Parliamentarian submitted a proposal to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, seeking condemnation of the Armenian Genocide, a series of atrocities, and other acts of state terrorism. In this document, Sebahat Tuncel, member of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...
Turkish Scholar Affirms: Turkey has Lost Battle for the Truth
By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier. www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com In recent years, a growing number of Turkish intellectuals, scholars, journalists and human rights activists have taken bold positions on the Armenian Genocide, in opposition to their government’s denials. Although their number is small and their influence on Pres. Erdogan negligibl...
Countries selling weapons to Azerbaijan are just as guilty for attacks on Artsakh
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com  Azerbaijan’s armed forces committed a criminal act on November 12, shooting down an unarmed Armenian helicopter inside Artsakh’s borders and killing three military officers. This is the first time since the 1994 ceasefire that Azerbaijan has attacked an Armenian aircraft...
Republican Congressional Majority Casts Dark Shadow on Armenian Interests
By Harut Sassounian, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Nearly all congressional candidates nationwide who supported Armenian -American issues were victorious during the November 4 elections. The outcome was similarly positive for other candidates running in state and local races. Consequently, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) announced that over 95% of its end...
Jabhat al-Nusra blows up Armenian church in Deir el-Zour: A savage blow that echoes through Armenian...
Source: The Independent Author: ROBERT FISK In the most savage act of vandalism against Syria’s Christians, Islamists have blown up the great Armenian church in Deir el-Zour, built in dedication to the one and a half million Armenians slaughtered by the Turks during the 1915 genocide. All of the church archives, dating back to 1841 and containing thousands of documents ...
Iran & Jordan, Alienated from Turkey, Warmly Welcome Four Armenian Leaders
By Harut Sassounian, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Armenians boosted their historical ties with the Arab and Muslim world last month with the simultaneous visits of Armenia’s President and Jerusalem’s Armenian Patriarch to the Kingdom of Jordan, and visits by the Armenian Prime Minister and Aram Catholicos of Lebanon to the Islamic Republic of Iran. While such...
The National Interest: Could Azerbaijan be ISIL's next target?
Author of The National Interest Audrey L. Altstadt writes: Could ISIL gain traction in Azerbaijan? Amid the welter of analyses about ISIL in Syria and Iraq, little attention has been paid to the potential impact of ISIL or other Islamic extremist movements in another important area--namely, the strategically sensitive south Caucasus region and especially energy-rich Azerb...
Strangely, Turkey did not Publicize Correcting Signpost of Armenian Church
Harut Sassounian, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com I just learned that the Turkish government has quietly corrected the signpost near the historic Holy Cross Church (Sourp Khach) on Akhtamar Island in Lake Van, by indicating its “Armenian” origin. For decades, Turkish authorities systematically concealed the true identity of thousands of Armenian churches and mon...
Why the UN Rejected Turkey’s Bid for a Security Council Seat?
By Harut Sassounian, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com The Turkish government got a big slap in the face last week when the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to turn down its application for a Security Council seat. In effect, the international community was rejecting Turkey’s hostile policies both at home and abroad. Turkey’s new Foreign Minist...
The West Must Offer Armenia Incentives Rather than Decry its Ties with Russia
By Harut Sassounian, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com On October 10, after lengthy heated debates, Armenia signed a treaty to join the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), composed of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia. The agreement goes into effect on January 1, 2015, subject to ratification by parliaments of the four countries. Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have also expressed an intere...
BBC: Azerbaijan cracks down while chairing Council of Europe
Here is article by the authoritative BBC news agency about Azerbaijan, about its shamefl policy of the human rights violations. The article is presented without any changes. "We are the last of the Mohicans," says Leila Alieva. "First the government weakened the opposition, then targeted independent media, and now us - the NGOs." Her research institute, the Centre for Nationa...
Blackmail on Europe
Armenian web-site Panorama.am and Times.am have presented series of materials which told about activities of Azerbaijani President’s administration with assistance of former human rights defender, journalist Eynulla Fatullayev. Especially, the administration creates dummy NGOs in the European countries and sponsors their left-anarchic and anti-Semitic movement to destabi...
UK Shifts Policy on Armenian Genocide After Jurist Robertson’s Report
By Harut Sassounian, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com Geoffrey Robertson, prominent British expert on international law, wrote a 40-page report in 2009, exposing the false and inaccurate statements on the Armenian Genocide by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Robertson’s investigative report, “Was there an Armenian Genocide?” was based on intern...
The American Interest: Time for Sanctions on Baku
The article is published on The American Interest by DAVID J. KRAMER AND RICHARD KAUZLARICH For years, Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenka has been called Europe’s last dictator, although Vladimir Putin is giving Lukashenka a run for his money, amidst the worst crackdown on human rights in Russia in decades. And now we might also add another leader in the r...
Genocide Conference in Romania Held Despite Turkish Protests
By Harut Sassounian, www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com I just returned home from two hectic weeks of travel. First, I participated in the Armenia-Diaspora Conference in Yerevan, where I co-chaired a panel on the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, and spoke in two other panels proposing the formation of a democratically elected Diaspora-wide structure to represent the seven m...
President Serzh Sargsyan's article in the newspaper International New York Times
Here is the article by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in the "International New York Times" newspaper.  One of the history’s dark, unfinished chapters: the First World War and the Armenian Genocide This year marks the centennial of the outbreak of the First World War, a human catastrophe unprecedented in scope and savagery claiming some 14 million lives — ...
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