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European Court of Human Rights Intervenes in Artsakh Conflict
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier It is noteworthy that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is holding simultaneous hearings on two rival lawsuits filed by Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Is this a mere coincidence or an attempt by the Court to intervene in a thorny dispute that political leaders have failed to resolve for over 25 years? This week, ECHR...
The National Interest published an article by Armenian authors
The National Interest published a joint article by Armenian authors, Vahan Dilanyan and Armen Sahakyan.  Dr. Vahan Dilanyan serves as the Chairman of the Political Developments Research Center (PDRC), a think-tank based in Yerevan. Armen Sahakyan is the Executive Director of the Eurasian Research and Analysis (ERA) Institute Washington, D.C. branch as well as an Analyst o...
Syrian President Finally Recognizes The Armenian Genocide
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier In a lengthy interview last week with Agence France Presse (AFP) on the tragic situation in Syria, Pres. Bashar al-Assad made an unexpected reference to the massacres of 1.5 million Armenians. This is the first time that any Syrian head of state has acknowledged the Armenian mass murders and identified the perpetrator as O...
How Can Benefactors Meet Armenia's & Diaspora's Many Needs?
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Peter Balakian, Professor of Humanities at Colgate University, recently wrote a thought-provoking commentary, titled: “A Broken Connection: The Armenian Financial Community and the Making of Culture.” In his article, Balakian deplores the Armenian-American community’s failure to support a proposed Armeni...
Armenians Should Counteract Countless Congressional Trips to Turkey
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier The Turkish government, its lobbying firms, and Turkish-American organizations have spent millions of dollars to take members of Congress and their staffs on all-expenses-paid trips to Turkey with the intent of buying their allegiance. This is standard practice for Washington’s influence peddlers. Understandably, Tu...
Canadian Turks Should Condemn, Not Condone, Genocide Denial
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Canadian Turks launched a petition last month seeking the removal of all references to the Armenian Genocide from the 11th grade curriculum of Toronto high schools. This petition is a part of Turkish denialists’ long-standing efforts to reverse the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) 2008 decision to educat...
Switzerland Must Appeal European Court’s Verdict on the Armenian Genocide
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier 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 in 2005 with the intention of daring the Swiss authorities to punish him for denying the Armenia...
Al Monitor: Turkish academia and the Armenian genocide
Al Monitor presents an article about Armenian Genocide, which is presented here: Thousands of master’s theses and Ph.D. dissertations in the social sciences are written each year in Turkey. The Higher Education Board (YOK) keeps an electronic database of their topics and titles. A search in the database of dissertations on the Armenian genocide returns a striking result:...
Davutoglu’s charm offensive during visit to Armenia
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier The wily Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu used every diplomatic trick to take maximum advantage of his presence in Yerevan during the Black Sea Economic Cooperation conference (BSEC) last week. Davutoglu and his diplomatic team had initially launched a disinformation campaign by announcing that he might not partic...
Turkey Joins UN Cultural Committee: Wolf in Charge of Guarding Sheep
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Earlier this year, I wrote a column describing the Turkish government’s bullying tactics to reclaim antique objects from European and American museums. It is ironic that Turkey, one of the greatest looters and pilferers of other nations’ cultural heritage, would so aggressively demand the return of these antiqu...
WikiLeaks Discloses Confidential U.S. Report on Armenian-Americans
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier It is always interesting to see how the Armenian community is viewed by outsiders. That perspective becomes more fascinating when the assessment is made by a U.S. diplomat in an internal report. The large number of classified U.S. government documents released by WikiLeaks include cables sent by the American Embassy in Ar...
A Proud Moment for Armenians: Courthouse Named after Gov. Deukmejian
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Two prominent Armenian-Americans were recently honored with exceptional accolades, making Armenians proud of their accomplishments. In July, the US Navy announced that a future guided-missile destroyer will bear the name of Paul Ignatius (Iknadosian), the highest ranking Armenian-American official in the Federal Governmen...
Washington Times: Obama won’t acknowledge Armenian genocide by Turkey, protesters say
by Washington Times, author Dave Boyer Protesters will use President Obama’s fundraising trip to Southern California on Tuesday to highlight his refusal to live up to a campaign promise to recognize the Armenian genocide in Turkey nearly a century ago.  The Armenian National Committee of America has organized an event in Glendale, Calif., calling on Mr. Obama ...
Between Moscow and Brussels: Ukrainian Dilemmas
By Vilen Khlgatyan For many months top officials in Kiev were indicating that Ukraine was going to sign an Association Agreement (AA) with the EU at the latter’s Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius on November 28-29. However, a weekend meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yanukovych, appears to have changed the calculus...
Azerbaijani government is in very difficult situation: faktxeber.com
After the presidential elections in Azerbaijan the government has appeared in really difficult situation. Opposite the advantages which were given to the USA, Russian Federation and Europe in energetic sphere the officila Baku couldn't keep the expectations. The USA and Europe dishonoured Azerbaijani governmnet in front of the whole world. Russia increased pressure on Azer...
Forbes: Azerbaijan is absolutely not a model for political reform
By Forbes, author Mark Adomanis Matthew Bryza, the former United States ambassador to Azerbaijan, wrote a stunning article the other day. I say “stunning” because it’s exceedingly rare to see a country with a human rights record as unremittingly bad as Azerbaijan’s feted for its efforts at “reform.” There’s a lot to digest, but by...
Playing Partisan Politics with Artsakh Damages Armenian Interests
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Since every Armenian around the world passionately upholds the interests of Artsakh (Karabagh), many wonder why the Government of Armenia has not officially recognized its independence from Azerbaijan. Armenia’s leaders are concerned that recognizing Artsakh’s independence prematurely would undermine the peace...
Armenia Should Renounce Turkish Protocols Long Before Genocide Centennial
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Expecting a public relations nightmare during the Armenian Genocide Centennial, Turkish officials are anxious to prevent further damage to their country’s already tarnished reputation. Even though they have no intention to open the border with Armenia, Turkey’s leaders are pretending to do so by constantly iss...
Land of the Rising Sun: Fertile Ground for Armenians
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier I visited the amazing land of Japan for the first time last month. The minute I set foot on Tokyo’s Narita Airport, it felt like entering a surreal country -- almost too good to be true! The first thing that one notices is the extreme politeness of the Japanese people. Their repeated bowing to greet guests is incom...
Turkey Returned Some Church Effects After the Genocide: We Demand the Rest
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier This is the amazing tale of the Turkish government handing over to Istanbul’s Armenian Patriarchate in the 1920’s some of the church effects looted during the Genocide. According to attorney Loutfig Kouyoumjian’s book, Hay Hamankayin Antsoutartser: 1927-1950 [Armenian Community Happenings: 1927-1950], pu...
The Guardian refers to the election in Azerbaijan: Free and fair elections are not just about pollin...
By The Guardian, Maina Kiai  Three weeks ago, the people of Azerbaijan went to the polls in a presidential election plagued by irregularities. Alleged violations included ballot-box stuffing, harassment of monitors, and – most infamously – the announcement of results via a smartphone app before voting had even started. The poll was roundly criticised by the i...
The next hackney of Azerbaijani propaganda is demolished
Name of the EP deputy Pino Arlacchi has become famous among Armenian and Italian citizens very quickly. But such “fame” hardly can be pleasant or useful for any politician. Just the opposite, it is an attaint which is impossible to clean. Name of Pino Arlacchi will now be associated with words “liar, hackney politician”, and not only in Italy and Armenia...
Azerbaijan: Pino Arlacchi Embarrasses Europe
The MEP of the Democratic Party states that the regime of Baku is "free, fair and transparent" while the Socialists in Brussels demand Pino Arlacchi’s expellant and taking disciplinary action against him. Regime or "free, fair and transparent" democracy? The last elections in Azerbaijan have swept the upper floors of Brussels like a tsunami, embarrassing the Foreign Affa...
MEPs must explain trips to Azerbaijan
europeanvoice.com Some MEPs appear to have indulged in electoral tourism. Crass stupidity or petty venality seem to be the only plausible explanations for a member of the European Parliament choosing to go to Baku as an unofficial observer of Azerbaijan's sham presidential election last week. There might be some high-minded MEP who would pay his or her own way, obtain unfett...
Reading the Runes in Baku
by THOMAS DE WAAL Ilham Aliyev has won reelection as president of Azerbaijan for a third term. The result was never in doubt. Nor was the fact that election observers would criticize the conduct of the poll—the OSCE monitoring team promptly released a statement describing a number of serious defects. Now it gets more interesting. As Aliyev begins his...
Justice Dept. Records Reveal: Azerbaijan Pays Millions to U.S. Firms
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Awash in billions of petrodollars, but lacking a moral compass, Azerbaijan has been busy handing out loads of money to anyone who is willing to heed its propaganda. Baku's bribery scheme, known worldwide as "caviar diplomacy," has now ensnared Washington's movers and shakers. Apparently, there is no shortage of Americans ...
NY Times: Observers Differ on Fairness of Election in Azerbaijan
by New-York Times, DAVID M. HERSZENHORN A prominent delegation of international election observers on Thursday sharply criticized Azerbaijan’s presidential election as unfair and rife with fraud, amid aggressive efforts by the Azerbaijani government and its allies to portray the vote as legitimate. According to official returns, President Ilham Aliyev overwhelmingl...
European Court of Human Rights Provides More Options to Sue Turkey
by Harut Sassounian While there is frequent talk about the pursuit of Armenian claims against Turkey in the International Court of Justice (World Court), the possibility of taking legal action in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is rarely mentioned, despite its distinct advantages. The key difference between the two courts is that only governments can file lawsuits i...
Commentary on Recent Armenian, Azerbaijani and Turkish Developments
By Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier Here are some thoughts regarding recent noteworthy news items: -- Prominent Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos, during his appearance on CNN last week, chided the United States for its double standard on the Armenian Genocide. When panelists Christiane Amanpour and Anderson Cooper were criticizing Iran’s denial of th...
Armenia’s Tectonic Shift to the East: Challenges and Possibilities
By Armen Sahakyan Following the meeting in Moscow on September 3rd, the Presidents of Armenia and Russia signed a joint statement, which confirms Armenia’s desire to join the Customs Union (CU) and willingness to participate in the formation of the Eurasian Union (EAU) by 2015. The government of Armenia on Thursday, September 19th, already approved an action plan to joi...
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Zhoghovurd: Foreign transfer rate lower in Armenia Blackmail on Europe Who will represent Armenia in the ECHR? John Kerry will visit Armenia Armenian press: V. Putin will visit Armenia with t... Russia will recognize Karabakh's independence, if.... What will Raffi do if S. Sargsyan doesn’t come to ... Armenian newspapers today: new Governmental progra... Armenian newspapers today: places in the Parliamen... Armenian newspapers today: tensions of Armenian-Az...
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