Column Archive
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20 Steps Turkey Could Take to Worsen Relations with France After Genocide Vote
Posted on February 8, 2012 | No CommentsBy Harut Sassounian Publisher California Courier Turkey’s leaders have been threatening France for months with various reprisals should the French government pass a law making it illegal to deny the Armenian Genocide. Ignoring Turkish threats and blackmail, the French Parliament adopted a bill on December... -
See You Next Year in Reunified Armenia
Posted on February 2, 2012 | No CommentsBy Appo Jabarian Executive Publisher/Managing Editor USA Armenian Life Magazine During the 2011 holiday season, I took the liberty to e-present to certain friends a new kind of New Year wish – “See You Next Year in Reunified Armenia!” Many of them wrote back, “I... -
As France Tightens the Noose, Turkey Reacts with Outrageous Words and Deeds
Posted on January 28, 2012 | No CommentsBy Harut Sassounian Publisher California Courier Turkish leaders routinely proclaim that they are not afraid of facing their country’s past. Yet, the minute someone reminds them of the darkest chapters of their history, they panic and overreact. The most recent example of Turkish officials’ irrational... -
Azerbaijan and Obama Suffer Setbacks As Amb. Bryza’s Service is Cut Short
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No CommentsBy Harut Sassounian Publisher California Courier As a result of successive political blunders by the Obama administration, Matthew Bryza was forced to abandon his ambassadorial post in Azerbaijan last week. Pres. Obama ignored repeated warnings that the candidate he was nominating as Ambassador to Azerbaijan in May... -
Turkey Besieged by Armenian Successes Long Before the Genocide Centennial
Posted on January 5, 2012 | No CommentsBy Harut Sassounian Publisher California Courier Turkish leaders made a serious tactical error in 2011. They were so preoccupied with countering the upcoming tsunami of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide in 2015, that they lost sight of the more immediate political storms facing them.... -
Turkey’s long road to reconciliation
Posted on December 29, 2011 | No CommentsBy Robert Fisk www.independent.co.uk Just for a moment, put aside the current Franco-Turkish war over the 20th century’s first Holocaust – of the Armenians – and remember that Nicolas Sarkozy’s electoral venality (500,000 French-Armenian voters want to hear him tell the truth) and Turkish nationalism... -
Congress Urges to Return Churches: First Successful Attempt at Restitution
Posted on December 22, 2011 | No CommentsBy Harut Sassounian Publisher California Courier Turkey suffered a major setback last week when the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a landmark resolution calling on the Turkish government to return over 2,000 confiscated Christian churches and other properties “to their rightful owners.” This victory... -
The Marriage from Hell: Jane Harman and the Woodrow Wilson Center
Posted on December 13, 2011 | No CommentsBy David Boyajian “Woodrow Wilson, the 28th American president, is looking down in horror at what the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC) is doing in his name.” I wrote that last year in two exposés: “The Selling of the WWC”[1] and “The WWC...
