3107) A View From Yerevan by Amanda Paul/ TodaysZaman

I write this column from Armenia, where I have spent a week meeting with representatives from the government, the opposition and civil society. Two issues dominated the discussions: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the failed rapprochement with Turkey. As one senior official put it, “Things are really screwed up now.”For Armenia the rapprochement with Turkey broke down because of Ankara’s decision to link it to Nagorno-Karabakh. Yerevan considers...

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3106) Armenian Terrorism: A Reappraisal By Michael M. Gunter

ABSTRACTThis article reappraises the strategic impact of Armenian terrorism in the twentieth century. From 1973 to 1985, Armenian terrorists earned a deadly and infamous international reputation by murdering Turkish diplomats or members of their families, along with many other non-involved third parties killed in the crossfire, during 188 terrorist operations worldwide. By the mid-1980s, however, Armenian terrorists had fallen into mindless but...

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3105) Dear Taner Akcam,

Image Source I would like to point out that the expression in your book “we are debating the fact that about 1 million Armenians have been annihilated” does not agree with information I have obtained from other sources. However, while examining this subject, I ask you to accept up front that it would never reflect reality to understand this as an effort to minimize the issue by making a discount in the number of people alleged to...

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3104) Smuggled Out New Video: Israel’s Deadly Assault On Gaza Aid Flotilla/ Echoes Of The Conflict: Headlines Through Armenian Eyes

In a Democracy Now! exclusive, we bring you a sneak preview of previously unseen raw footage from the Mavi Marmara that will be formally released at a press conference at the United Nations later in the day. The footage shows the mood and the activities onboard the Mavi Marmara in the time leading up to the attack, and the immediate reaction of the passengers during the attack. We are joined by filmmaker and activist Iara Lee, one of the few Americans on the Mavi Marmara ship. Her equipment was confiscated, but she managed to smuggle out an hour’s...

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3103) Issues Of National Identity Preservation In The Armenian Diaspora: Social-Psychological Perspective by Sona Manusyan

Among the central problems of Diaspora communities and nations which have Diasporas, issues of the preservation of the identity take traditional place. In the context of globalization and transnational processes, alongside with the geopolitical, economic and cultural re-divisions, changes in the collective self-consciousness are taking place as well. The discourse of identity is particularly activated in reaction to the permanent processes of the revisions and reshaping of group boarders; efforts to maintain the borders of one’s own group are brought...

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3102) Vicken Hovsepian: US Citizen, Convicted Terrorist & Member of ARF’s World Bureau

Updated 10 Sep 2011 . . “LA Five” mirrored from TAT (case-study-in-punishment), the appeal judgment, which confirms that, according to FBI, the bomb was able to kill 2/3,000 persons: http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/841/841.F2d.959.85-5037-5039.htmlVicken Hovsepian was the guide of Howard Dean during his trip in Armenia, in 2005:Vicken Hovsepian is now an US citizen and a member of ARF’s World bureau. Good reinsertion for a convicted terrorist.841...

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3101) A Socialist View Of Ottoman Empire By Pat Walsh / Interview With Dr. Pat Walsh Author Of ‘Forgotten Aspects Of Ireland’s Great War On Turkey

Update 26 Oct 2010Britains Great War on Turkey: An Irish Perspective26 October 2010 See The Entry At The End of This Post Our understanding of the Ottoman Empire is deeply coloured by the British Great War propaganda of Wellington House, a secret department of the British State, established to wage ideological war on the enemy—whoever that enemy might be. In November 1914 the British war took on a new enemy—the Ottoman Empire. Propaganda was necessary...

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