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Group of unknown attacked Caucasians in Moscow
On April 27, a group of unknown attacked people of Caucasian origin in Moscow. The attackers used non-lethal weapons, injuring one man. He was hospitalized, and in serious condition. A scuffle broke out between the young people; one of them fired several shots. The hooligans fled the location on [...]
Turkey should apologize to Armenians for 1915 massacres: Turkish MP
Turkish MP and member of Peace and Democracy party (BDP) Nezir Karabas stated that his country should apologize to Armenian nation for the massacres of 1915. Speaking at the congress in a Denizli Province party office, Karabas said: “Armenians and a number of historians assert that one and a [...]
U.S. should recognize Genocide: LA Mayor
The Los Angeles Times daily touched upon events organized by Armenians on 95th commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. Along with annual march in Little Armenia, protest outside the Turkish Consulate held in Los Angeles, several thousand people laid flowers at the foot of Armenian Martyrs Memorial [...]
Armenian genocide recalled in troubling group exhibition
BOURJ HAMMOUD: “Art is the expression of a nation’s soul,” opined Hagop Havatian. The manager of the newly founded Hamazkayin Art Gallery in Bourj Hammoud, Havatian, was explaining what he sees to be the role of culture in the Armenians’ struggle to safeguard their identity in the diaspora. [...]
Tens of thousands of Armenians march in Beirut to mark genocide
BEIRUT: Tens of thousands of Lebanese of Armenian decent rallied Saturday to commemorate the massacres of their relatives at the hands of Ottoman Turks almost a century ago, while organizers and political leaders expressed their worries at Turkey’s growing influence in the region and in Lebanon. [...]
Nearly a Million Genocide Victims, Covered in a Cloak of Amnesia
ISTANBUL — For Turkey, the number should have been a bombshell. According to a long-hidden document that belonged to the interior minister of the Ottoman Empire, 972,000 Ottoman Armenians disappeared from official population records from 1915 through 1916. In Turkey, any discussion of what [...]
SHAME ON YOU MR. OBAMA, YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THE REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S ADMONITIONS IN EXCHANGE FOR PETTY POLITICAL POSTURING.
President Obama shamefully chose to play linguistic gymnastics with Armenian and English euphemisms to no avail. Indeed, a devious and highly offensive ploy that will cost him politically more than he may think. Although the term Medtz Yeghern is not a legally accurate interpretation of the [...]
Obama again dissapointed Armenians
We post the statement of President Barack Obama on Armenian Remembrance Day, issued by White House. On this solemn day of remembrance, we pause to recall that ninety-five years ago one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century began. In that dark moment of history, 1.5 million Armenians were [...]
95 Years After the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocide
(AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan." Those were the words of Djevdet Bey, the governor of Van Province in Ottoman Turkey, who on April 24, 1915 lead 20,000 Turkish soldiers and 10,000 Kurdish irregulars in the opening act of the genocide of Assyrians, [...]
Lebanon’s Armenians prepare to mark 95th anniversary of genocide
BEIRUT: As Armenians from across Lebanon gather in Bourj Hammoud Saturday to mark the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, their political representatives are increasingly worried by Turkey’s growing influence in the region. While the killing of one-and-a-half million Armenians nearly a [...]