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Dragged
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN That’s what happened. The lifeless corpse of Haci Lokman Birlik was DRAGGED behind a Turkish police vehicle with a rope which formed a noose around his neck. He was...
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‘Ben Büyük Taşakleri Var’: Recep Erdoğan
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN That’s what the President of Turkey is saying, “Ben büyük taşakleri var” = “I have big balls”!!! He, coupled with his sycophants, dependents, and fellow-travelers in...
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Upsides
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEPARIAN By its nature, the project of writing about ongoing issues of interest and concern to Armenians tends to lean towards addressing problems, pointing out the negatives,...
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I’m a ‘2,’ Are You, Too?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The ANCA Grassroots Conference last weekend was very interesting in multiple ways. I “re-met” people I hadn’t seen in a long time. I bought books. I noticed the far...
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Turks and Polls
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Let’s dispense with the easy one, first. Azerbaijan held an “election” on November first. Who noticed? Who cared? The result was so predetermined, the election such a...
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Bracing Breeze from the Bosphorus
Garen Yegparian I had the pleasure of feeling this breeze across my face a week ago when attending a small gathering to meet and interact with Sayat Tekir. Sayat is one of the half dozen founders of...
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Here We Go Again?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I guess it’s that time again. Every few years we’re treated to some nerve-wracking, gut wrenching, time-wasting, enraging, and just plain wrongheaded notions about...
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Thanksgiving… 120 Years Delayed
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN “Scientific American Supplement” ran an article titled “THE MASSACRES IN ARMENIA”, accompanied by a woodcut print captioned “TREBIZOND, THE SCENE OF THE ARMENIAN...
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Turkey’s Twaff* and Transparent Territorial Tomfoolery
Garen Yegparian Much is being said about the Russia-Turkey tiff over the latter’s shooting down of the former’s warplane which had supposedly crossed from Syrian airspace into a spit of “Turkish”...
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What game? Whose Rules?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Ever since the era of the 50th anniversary of the Genocide, we have been organizing and acting on the world stage pursuing recognition, reparations, and return of our...
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9 ½ Weeks
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN No, this is not about a dark-themed, three-decade old movie, but it does involve suffering of a different sort. It involves Turkey, and it’s wanna-be imperialist...
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Bland, Brutally Believable
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN You wouldn’t think failure to signal when making a turn with your car would deserve a death sentence, but… that’s what happened, effectively, to Sandra Bland. And,...
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Banks + Oil + Manats = Bluster
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPAIRIAN It seems to me I may have just realized why, over the past year and a half or so, Azerbaijan’s bellicosity and acting on that impulse have risen, costing dozens of...
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Self, Stress, Science, & Starts
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPAIRIAN I had originally titled this piece “Identity, Trauma, Epigenetics, & Openings” but was told that might scare readers off, so I went with the esses....
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Our RoA Problems
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I doubt any serious person has doubts that the Republic of Armenia has serious problems. A few might not grasp that much of it stems from the system in place that is...
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News Is Mixed
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It seems we can’t get a long, solid run of good news for Armenians because often bad news intervenes, or, even “good” news has its “bad” aspects. When the hacking...
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Sarsang Silliness and Stumble
Garen Yegparian GAREN YEGPARIAN Surely by now you’ve read about the two anti-Armenian PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) reports/resolutions, one of which passed and the other did...
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Erdoğan Exiting Hitler’s Closet?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN At first it was just a reference to governance in Hitler’s Germany as a positive example of the centralized presidential power Erdoğan seeks to establish in Turkey....
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Turkey Roll
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPAIRIAN You know those disgusting-tasting “rolls” that pass for meats, usually cold-cuts, of various sorts? Turkey is really becoming the turkey version of those. I know...
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Fruits of a Funeral
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I felt like a bit of an interloper at a Ferrahian school reunion when I attended Marilyn Arshagouni’s funeral last week, a sad but also uplifting occasion. It was...
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