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  • Treasurer Ordered to Repay $400,000 to Oakland's St Vartan Church

    OAKLAND -- A former treasurer of an Oakland church who stole more than $400,000 from parish coffers was sentenced to a year of electronic monitoring Friday and ordered to repay most of the money taken from the St. Vartan Armenian Apostolic Church.   In...
  • Zoryan: Genocide is not genocide in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

    An article titled, "Memory becomes a minefield at Canada's Museum for Human Rights," by Ira Basen in the August 20, 2011 issue of the Globe and Mail, provides an exposé of the controversy surrounding the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The appearance o...
  • Survey Suggests Turkish Society Becoming More Intolerant, Pro-Government

    Menekse Tokyay   ISTANBUL - The results of a recent poll by Yilmaz Esmer of Bahcesehir University under the auspices of the 2011 World Values Survey suggest important trends and changes in Turkish society.   The survey finds that six out of ten peop...
  • US Congress Ethics Committee Rules Schmidt Must Return $500K to Turkish Coalition of America

    CINCINNATI, Ohio - In a statement released on August 5, the House Ethics Committee ruled that Rep. Jean Schmidt has received multiple improper gifts totalling $500,000 from the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) between 2008 and 2010. The Committee ruled ...
  • Impressions from the 2011 International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference

    Dr. Rubina Peroomian   Genocide has long been a topic, or rather, one of the topics at academic conferences. The Association of Genocide Scholars (AGS), as founding member Roger Smith put it, was created to "have its own conferences with the possibilit...
  • Human Rights Review Praises Zoryan’s Genocide & Human Rights University Program

    "Educating a New Generation: The Model of the 'Genocide & Human Rights University Program,'" an article by Dr. Joyce Apsel, will be featured in the forthcoming issue of the prestigious Human Rights Review, describing and analyzing this innovative, hig...
  • Cyberspace and Elections: Online social networking, blogosphere viewed as ‘tools’ in upcoming Armenia polls

    By Gayane Mkrtchyan   The changing moods of the pre-election period in the Armenian 'virtual reality' - online social networks and blogospheres - will create a new political content, experts believe.   "The coming 2012 will see parliamentary and the...
  • Armenia's mission to UN interns in Security Council debate

    NEW YORK - On July 12 the United Nations Security Council held an open debate entitled "Children and Armed Conflict", which was presided over by the German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and attended by the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other fore...
  • Dink's Assassin Sentenced to 23 Years

    ISTANBUL - An Istanbul court sentenced the chief suspect in the 2007 assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink to nearly 23 years in prison on Monday, Anatolian news agency reported.   The court condemned Ogün Samast to lifewindow.locati...
  • Statement of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation of Canada’s 42nd Regional Congress (English)

    On the weekend of 15-17 July 2011, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation in Canada held its 42nd biannual Regional Congress. Present at the meeting were delegates from the Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Laval, Cambridge, St Catherines and Hamilton committe...
  • Review of Hajinian's The Armenian Genocide Denied: A Response to Turkey’s 13 Propaganda Spins

    Jirair Tutunjian   In the past two to three decades we have seen an avalanche of books by historians, genocide documentarians, jurors, journalists and human rights activists, in addition to eye witness testimonies, memoirs, poems, plays and movies abou...
  • Golden Apricot: Goudsouzian's film discovers true meaning of Armenian identity

    Armenian-Canadian director Hagop Goudsouzian shared his ideas on national identity at a news conference in Yerevan. His film Armenian Exile will be screened at the 8th Golden Apricot International Film Festival, running from 10-17 July 2011.   "In Arme...
  • Statement of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s 31st World Congress (English)

    In closely examining the politico-national state of the homeland and the Diaspora, the maximum potential of the Armenia-Artsakh-Diaspora trinity, the Republic of Armenia's current domestic, socio-economic, and ethical condition, as well as its principal c...
  • Armenian Cause 2.0: What a Way to Start off the Summer!

    Araz HasserjianLeo Sarkisian Internship, Class of 2011Director, Armenian National Committee of Toronto   From June 24th to June 27th, I was lucky enough to attend the Armenian National Committee of America's (ANCA) Armenian Cause 2.0 Leadership Confere...
  • Republican MP to Turkey: "We should continue playing football"

    Emine Kart   YEREVAN/ANKARA - A senior member of the Armenia's ruling Republican Party has called on Ankara to revive currently stalled efforts to normalise bilateral relations between the two estranged neighbours, while arguing that the improvement of...
  • ANCC Statement on New Genocidal Threats in Turkey

    Montreal -- The Turkish Derin Devlet (Deep State) is a generic term to refer to the ultra-nationalist group, comprised of the Turkish military, security, judiciary, and mafia, that has been governing Turkey as a state within a state since the creation of ...
  • Interparliamentary Assembly passes Armenian Genocide Resolution

    During its annual meeting in Paris, the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IPAO) unanimously passed a resolution on the Genocide of Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians in Ottoman Empire.    "We, participants of the IPAO meeting, which took place ...
  • A Tale of Two Turkeys

    Salpi Ghazarian   Each time I meet with a group of Turkish journalists (and that happens about three times a year thanks to the Hrant Dink Foundation usually) I am amazed at the things which amaze them.   I talk about Kemal Ataturk, about history an...
  • Who's Helping Ijevan Residents Move to Russia?

    Voskan Sargsyan   The office of an organization called "Harmonia", which promotes Russian culture, is located on the second floor of High School #5 in the northern Armenian town of Ijevan. It was there that I met with Seda Zarkaryan, who has been teac...
  • Armenian Revolutionary Federation Kicks Off 31st World Congress in Yerevan

    TORONTO -- The Armenian Revolutionary Federation's week-long 31st quadrennial World Congress kicked off on 24 June 2011 in the National Assembly Building of Yerevan, Armenia.  The meeting hosts delegates from ARF bodies around the world, as well as repre...