BY KHATCHIG MOURADIAN BEIRUT, Lebanon (Armenian Weekly), June 9—I have been following with horror the news on the Israeli attack on the flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza. The outrage here in Lebanon and the Arab world is palpable. What is even more evident is the pride with which people here speak about Turkey’s [...]

BY DONALD WILSON BUSH On the surface, the Woodrow Wilson International Center (WWC) for Scholar’s intent to honor Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, on June 17 th with this year’s WWC Public Service Award seems innocent enough. But, in my opinion, it is not-and those closest to the situation would certainly agree. Not least among [...]

Since the government announced in April its intention to modify the current law on language in order to accommodate the opening of foreign language schools in Armenia, several politicians, journalists and public service groups have been in an uproar. The decision primarily stems from the planned opening of a new private school in 2013 situated [...]

BY LUCINE KASBARIAN On May 12, at the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) in Watertown, Massachusetts, editors Emil Sanamyan of the Armenian Reporter and Khatchig Mouradian of the Armenian Weekly spoke about their recent trip to Turkey sponsored by TEPAV – a Turkish think tank that has recently been promoting Turkish-Armenian relations. TEPAV [...]

BY HAMASDEGH Once, many, many years ago (these words sound like the start of a fable…), in 1929, I went on a trip to become more familiar with our people’s sadness. Those were the years that the deportees of 1915, with heroic effort, enduring a thousand and one torments, had made it to some foreign [...]

BY RICHARD GIRAGOSIAN As yet another April 24th  commemoration of the Armenian genocide has passed, yet another American president has failed to accurately or honestly invoke the genocide definition for what he has termed the “Meds Yeghern.” Although the dubious distortion of the historical record was not a surprise, it does represent a disappointment. The [...]

BY ARA NAZARIAN For years, official Turkish policy was to sow seeds of division between Armenians who still reside in Turkey, those residing in Armenia, and the diasporans by categorizing them as the good, the workable, and the ugly. The Turkish government knew full well that the Armenians in Turkey had to be very careful [...]