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My GF, BM, and SHs
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN We saw the second “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie last weekend. It provided another opportunity for my GirlFriend to criticize my love for just about all things...
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More Tainted Fruit
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN As if it wasn’t enough that we are deprived of eating apricots grown in our and their native soil unless they’ve gone through Turkey’s economic system. As if it...
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What’d You Say?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Some Days ago, I read Hagop Gulludjian’s article “Atabdatzman Yev Eendegrman Oogheenerov” (Ադապտացման Եւ Ինտեգրման Ուղիներով) in Armenian. I marveled at how well this...
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Rude Roaring Rabbit’s Ridiculous Rantings
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN It turns out that the capital of Turkey, formerly known as Angora, has given its name to a variety of domestic rabbit. I learned this while snooping around the...
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Speaking Armenian: Everyman’s History
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I’m no anthropologist, historian, linguist, or sociologist. I do know how to watch and listen, and have for over four decades (and longer if you count grandmother...
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Whither the Diaspora?
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Yesterday, I was talking to a friend when a question posed prompted this topic of discussion. I’d been stuck, with no good ideas for this week’s piece, so I owe a...
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A Millennium On… Still Plundering
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The Turks in their various tribal incarnations hit the Middle Eastern scene about 1000 years ago. Since then, they don’t seem to have learned much. Despite massive...
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Inside, Outside, Upside Down
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN INSIDE, Turkey is a mess. Corruption is, though I suspect un(der)reported, once again fully present. Ended is the honeymoon of this century’s first decade when...
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Dam Turkey, Again
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Turkey’s on a dam binge, again. Building that is. It seems 22 more are slated to be built. So, why write about this? Many of the rivers being stopped up rise in the...
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Let Ankara Work for Us
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I was catching up on some reading when I ran a cross a news item from late March of this year. It seems one Mehmet Erdogan, an AKP member of Turkey’s parliament,...
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Carusoin’ for a Bruisin’
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Yup, that’s what Rick’s askin’ fer. You probably wouldn’t recognize the man based on behavior when compared with his Wikipedia biography where the introductory...
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Language vs. Spirit
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN The last few years have seen a resurgence of attention paid to the importance of Armenian, its use and continued viability, especially in the Diaspora and with a bit...
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Viewing Ukraine from Armenia
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Prompted by the New York Times reporting that North Korea may have gotten some of its best missile technology from a factory in Ukraine, I realized there was a...
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They’re All Wet
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Some two weeks shy of 12 years ago, I referred to hurricane Katrina for the first time. It was, unsurprisingly, in the context of environmental negligence and...
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Third Republic
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN No, this piece’s title is not a veiled reference to Nazi Germay or one of French statehood’s manifestations. It’s about the Republic of Armenia and the U.S. The...
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Jadrag
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN This is one of those infrequent articles that addresses a happy, positive, theme in our Armenian reality. Jadrag (Chatrak in its Eastern Armenian pronunciation) is...
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Checking in on the 26th
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Twenty-six years ago on September 21, the current Republic of Armenia (RoA) came into existence. It was the third manifestation of an Armenian republic. Since...
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Ardavazt’s Progeny
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN We’re on the cusp of Armenian Culture Month, October. This is based on when the translation of the bible into Armenian is honored with a church holiday...
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Wining Armenia
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN I’ve often advocated expanding Armenia’s tourism, specifically eco- and adventure tourism. But now, I’ve come upon what can be linked to that or stand on its own –...
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Wretched, Rapacious, Reckless, Reprehensible, Rogues
Garen Yegparian BY GAREN YEGPARIAN Readers no doubt reacted with revulsion to the revelation recorded photographically that three ratbags had hunted and killed two griffon vultures in the Republic of...
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