Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian

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Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale. His editorials dealing with political analysis on international affairs are reprinted in scores of U.S. and overseas publications.



He is the Founder and President of the United Armenian Fund, a coalition of the seven largest Armenian-American charitable and religious organizations. The U.A.F. has supplied $440 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia on board 140 airlifts and 1,300 sea containers since the 1988 earthquake.



As the Vice Chairman of Kirk Kerkorian’s Lincy Foundation, he oversaw the implementation of $150 million of infrastructure-related projects in Armenia, including the construction of 3,674 apartments, bridges, tunnels, highways, and city streets, the renovation of 34 cultural institutions, as well as providing $20 million of loans to small and medium-size businesses. He is currently overseeing Lincy's new $60 million projects to renovate schools, roads and streets in Armenia.



He was employed by Procter & Gamble in Geneva, Switzerland, as an international marketing executive from 1978 to 1982.



He served for 10 years as a non-governmental delegate on human rights at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. He played a leading role in the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the UN in 1985.



He has a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.



His most recent book, “The Armenian Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005, Documents & Declarations,” was published in April, 2005. The Arabic translation of his book was published in Lebanon earlier this year. The French, Spanish, Armenian, and Turkish translations are expected shortly.

Blog Entries by Harut Sassounian

Turkey Should Not Be Given a Seat On United Nations Security Council

Posted June 20, 2008 | 02:32 PM (EST)


The Turkish government is trying everything possible to secure a seat on the coveted United Nations Security Council, including resorting to all sorts of improprieties such as bribing third world countries to win over their votes in support of its candidacy.

These Turkish tricks were exposed in a recent issue...

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Turkish Ambassador Dismisses U.S. Scholar For Telling the Truth on Armenian Genocide

Posted June 3, 2008 | 05:56 PM (EST)


Back in 1985, Prof. Donald Quataert, Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston, and 68 of his pro-Turkish colleagues signed a joint statement questioning the veracity of the Armenian Genocide and asking the U.S. Congress not to approve a commemorative resolution on this crime against humanity. That denialist...

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Eli Wiesel is Right on Genocide Recognition; Wrong on Armenian Quest for Justice

Posted February 11, 2008 | 12:28 AM (EST)


The Philadelphia Jewish Voice published on October 28 an important interview with Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel . Reporter Charles Smolover asked him to comment on the fact that "some in the Jewish community are reluctant to touch this issue [congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide] for fear...

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First Nationwide Turkish Survey Reveals Millions of Turks Support Genocide Bill

Posted November 26, 2007 | 12:39 PM (EST)


The Assembly of Turkish American Associations recently featured on its website a reference to "the first nationwide public survey" conducted in Turkey on the Armenian Genocide and the congressional resolution on this issue. The poll was carried out earlier this year by "Terror Free Tomorrow" in collaboration with Istanbul-based "ARI...

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Secretaries Albright and Cohen Should be Removed from Genocide Task Force

Posted November 20, 2007 | 08:18 PM (EST)


How hypocritical of Madeleine Albright and William Cohen, former Secretaries of State and Defense, to announce the formation of a task force on prevention of genocide, when two months ago they wrote a letter to the U.S. Congress against a resolution on the Armenian Genocide!

One would have thought that...

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Foreign Ambassador's Improper Interference in U.S. Federal Lawsuit

Posted March 30, 2007 | 02:12 PM (EST)


Defying all acceptable legal norms, Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., Nabi Sensoy, recently sent a highly inappropriate letter to U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Morrow (Federal Court), asking her to dismiss a lawsuit by Armenian plaintiffs against the German Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank. A copy of this previously undisclosed...

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Murder of an Armenian Journalist In Istanbul Causes Unexpected Public Outcry in Turkey

Posted January 25, 2007 | 04:44 PM (EST)


The cold-blooded murder in Istanbul of Hrant Dink, the editor of the bilingual Armenian/Turkish Agos newspaper, has been condemned by leading officials and prominent individuals throughout the world.

Turkish leaders who reviled and mistreated him and took him to court repeatedly on trumped up charges of "Insulting Turkishness" are...

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Ahmet Ertegun Knew What Was Good For Turkey: Genocide Recognition

Posted December 27, 2006 | 10:55 PM (EST)


Ahmet Ertegun, the Founder and CEO of Atlantic Records passed away on Dec. 14, 2006 at the age of 83. He was the most famous Turkish American. His death was announced in newspapers and TV networks throughout the world. He was the son of Mehmet Ertegun, the former Turkish Ambassador...

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Have Turkish Agents Penetrated the Highest Echelons of US Government?

Posted October 6, 2006 | 10:34 AM (EST)


The Vanity Fair magazine published last year an investigative article alleging that the American Turkish Council (ATC) and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) had conspired, among other things, to make illegal campaign contributions to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, in return for blocking a congressional resolution...

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Sending Turkish Troops to Lebanon Could Unleash New Bloodshed

Posted August 9, 2006 | 05:55 PM (EST)


In the past four weeks, hundreds of innocent men, women and children have been killed and thousands injured on both sides of the Lebanese-Israeli border. While the bulk of the blame for the fighting falls on the warring parties, the United States, as the only superpower, has its share of...

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The Truth Shall Set You Free

Posted August 3, 2006 | 11:48 PM (EST)


And it can also get you fired, as the US Ambassador to Armenia John Evans found out. Evans, a career diplomat, has been recalled (not reassigned) by the State Department and the White House for daring to say, "I will today call it the Armenian Genocide." He made these remarks...

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