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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...