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Breaking: Reports Indicate Sevan Nişanyan Has Escaped Prison and Fled Turkey
ISTANBUL, Turkey (A.W.)—According to reports, jailed Turkish-Armenian intellectual, travel writer, entrepreneur, and researcher Sevan Nişanyan has escaped prison and fled Turkey. Sevan Nişanyan...
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ARF Participates in Socialist International Council Meeting; Stands up to...
NEW YORK (A.W.)—The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) delegation at the Socialist International Council conference, held on July 11 and 12 at the United Nations in New York, effectively...
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Op-ed: It’s About Time the U.S. Tells Erdogan That Turkey is Not Above the Law
Rep. Dave Trott (R-Mich.) Pens Op-ed for the Armenian Weekly: ‘We have let Turkey off the hook for too long…’ Special for the Armenian Weekly In May, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s henchmen...
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‘Ungerutiun’: Camaraderie
This year, the Armenian Youth Federation (AYF) of Australia was invited to be a part of the biennial Tri-Regional Seminar of the AYF Eastern United States, AYF Western U.S., and AYF Canada. The seminar...
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Hamazkayin Artlinks 2017: Exploring Armenian Identity through Culture
Special for the Armenian Weekly WRIGHTWOOD, Calif. (A.W.)—Students and young professionals, 26 in all, gathered at AYF Camp in Wrightwood, Calif., on June 29 for the third annual Hamazkayin ArtLinks,...
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Letter to Yerevan (Part III)
Letter to Yerevan (Part III) The Armenian Weekly is periodically publishing the English translation of Andranik Tzarukian’s epic 1945 poem ‘Tught ar Yerevan’ (‘Letter to Yerevan’). If there was, in the...
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French-Armenian Georges Képénékian Elected Mayor of Lyon
LYON, France (A.W.)—According to preliminary reports, Georges Képénékian was elected Mayor of Lyon—France’s second-largest city—on July 17. Georges Képénékia Képénékian’s candidacy was proposed by...
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Turkey Says Activists, Amnesty International Director Must Remain in Jail
Amnesty Secretary General: ‘Today We Have Learned That Standing up for Human Rights has Become a Crime in Turkey’ ISTANBUL, Turkey—An Istanbul court ordered that six human rights activists detained on...
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The Story of a Silver Wreath: An Ethiopian Emperor, and an Armenian Jeweler
Special for the Armenian Weekly The Museum Resource Center in Washington D.C. hosted a reception on June 15 in honor of my father, Bedros Sevadjian, jeweler and silversmith “By Appointment to His...
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Artsakh Foreign Minister Mirzoyan Meets with OSCE’s Andrzej Kasprzyk in...
OSCE to Conduct Monitoring of Line of Contact Tomorrow STEPANAKERT, Artsakh—Artsakh’s Minister of Foreign Affairs received the Personal Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation...
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Armenia Places Third Out of 157 Teams at FIRST Global Youth Robotics Competition
Armenia’s TUMO Team Takes Bronze Medal Special for the Armenian Weekly “We are few, but they call us Armenians.” These words by Paruyr Sevak rang true at the FIRST Global youth robotics competition...
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Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan Re-Elected by Parliament
STEPANAKERT, Artskah (A.W.)—Artsakh President Bako Sahakyan was reelected on July 17, at a special session of the country’s National Assembly (Parliament). President Bako Sahakyan during an April 2016...
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Nişanyan to the Armenian Weekly: ‘This Regime is Going to go, and We Will...
WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)— In a recent interview with Armenian Weekly correspondent Gulisor Akkum, Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped prison and fled Turkey on July 14, said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
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U.S. Legislators Demand Erdogan Apologize and Extradite Perpetrators of...
WASHINGTON—Senior members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Ted Poe (R-Tex.), Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Co-Chairman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), and...
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Lapshin Sentenced to Three Years in Prison by Azerbaijani Court
BAKU, Azerbaijan (A.W.)— On July 20, an Azerbaijani court sentenced Russian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, who was arrested last December, to three years in prison on a charge related to his 2011...
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On Language: The Identity-Forming Element
Special for the Armenian Weekly The colloquial language of my hometown, Gyumri, is a concoction of the dialects brought from historic Erzurum and Kars, mixed with the occasional Turkish of the...
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Germany Says Erdogan Wants to Destroy the Foundations of Rule of Law and...
Berlin Overhauls Turkey Policy BERLIN, Germany (A.W.)—German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel blasted Turkey’s ongoing crackdown on those in opposition to ruling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a...
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Fatherland: Hairenik
By Hagop Housbian University of La Verne—Class of 2018 2017 ANCA Leo Sarkisian Intern It was the 18th of June, Father’s Day. I was sitting in Terminal 6 at LAX, anxiously waiting to board the plane...
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Tax Law Expert Congressman Sherman Leads the Way toward a U.S.-Armenia Double...
WASHINGTON—United States Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif.)—the top Congressional expert on international tax law – continues to lead the way toward a U.S.-Armenia Double Tax Treaty, a major...
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Iraqi Kurdistan: Going Forward with Independence Referendum on Sept. 25
“There will be no delay. The referendum [on independence] will take place on Sept. 25.” It was a clear message from Bayan Sami Rahman, the representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)...
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