Tag: commentary
Armenians and Turkey’s 1980 Coup d’Etat
17th September 2020
Forty years ago on September 12, 1980, Turkish generals toppled the elected government in Turkey which had been unable to stop the wave of killings between leftist and rightist factions. To establish law and order, ...
Biden’s Ethnic Engagement Director Has Ties to Pro-Erdogan Group
5th August 2020
Elvir Klempic, for executive director of Turkish Heritage Organization is now Biden’s National Ethnic Engagement Director BY ARA KHACHATOURIAN The campaign of Joseph Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, has appointed Elvir Klempic, the former ...
Amazon Halts Sales of Armenian Genocide Denial Book
15th July 2020
BY SHUNT JARCHAFJIAN In recent weeks we have seen and heard much about the need to address the historical vestiges of tyranny. For some it might mean taking down statues of confederate leaders, the renaming ...
Turkey, as usual, gets all wound up in the month of April, as Armenians around the globe commemorate Turkey’s genocide of up to 1.5 million of its Armenian citizens starting in 1915 and ask the ...