In Memoriam: Aris Sevag -- Making a Great City Greater
Over the years, Aris Sevag was the most humble of voices as he penned numerous articles, translations, commentaries and essays -- many devoted specifically to the lives of Armenian-Americans.
Over the years, Aris Sevag was the most humble of voices as he penned numerous articles, translations, commentaries and essays -- many devoted specifically to the lives of Armenian-Americans.
Courtney Cachet | Posted 04.26.2012
We know them and we know what you did. One such person was my grandfather, whom I knew as Marcel Cachat. Let me tell you about his life as it was told to me by him.
AP | Posted 04.24.2012
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is marking the anniversary of the massacre of Armenians in Turkey nearly a century ago by calling it a "one of th...
Sumit Galhotra | Posted 04.24.2012
Each year on April 24, Nalbandian and hundreds of other Armenians living in Israel gather at the St. James cathedral to commemorate the Armenian genocide. Currently, however, only 21 countries recognize the genocide.
Christopher Atamian | Posted 04.24.2012
Turkey can delay, it can hem and haw and try to dissimulate, but the reality is that Armenians -- and their Greek and Assyrian counterparts -- have truth on their side; and as we have seen before in the course of human history, truth has a strange way of winning out, eventually.
Rep. John Sarbanes | Posted 04.24.2012
On April 24, 1915, Ottoman Turkish authorities unleashed a genocide against the Armenian people. To view my statement on the floor of the House of Rep...
Mikaela Luttrell-Rowland | Posted 04.24.2012
During the Armenian genocide in 1915, an unknown number of young Armenians survived because they were adopted as daughters and sons of Muslim families...
Stephen Herrington | Posted 04.02.2012
I mourn for Trayvon. I mourn for Tulsa. I mourn for a hundred years of lynching. I mourn for three centuries of slavery as I mourn for Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears.
Posted 03.12.2012
During the NBA lockout Lamar Odom received an offer to go play basketball in Turkey, and he and wife Khloe were thinking about accepting it. Howev...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 03.09.2012
The mystery over who ran anonymous robocalls claiming to be from the unregistered Victory Ohio Super PAC continued to linger Friday as a spokesman for...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.06.2012
A discredited Council, even if it is constitutional, is not the guardian of the Truth, and, fortunately, the decision it has just taken cannot judge in advance the outcome of a battle the historians of genocides have long since won.
Yavuz Baydar | Posted 03.27.2012
The French Senate's passing of the bill which criminalizes the denial of the mass deportations and massacres of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 is simply an act of folly.
Robert Badinter | Posted 03.26.2012
Our long and tragic history should place us today on the side of international justice. It does not qualify us to appoint ourselves the judge of universal history and the moral conscience of the world.
Brent E. Sasley | Posted 03.03.2012
Erdoğan, and his government, should step back and reassess. Clearly, it needs to react to the French decision on the Armenian genocide. But it should do so more cautiously, with more thought put into the specifics of the reaction.
AP | By SUZAN FRASER | Posted 02.16.2012
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey's prime minister on Saturday sharply criticized France for a bill that would make it a crime to deny the World War I-era mass...
Lisa Derrick | Posted 12.12.2011
Requiem for the Forgotten: Armenian Genocide at the Avenue 50 Studio places Dia de los Muertos in a multicultural context befitting of Los Angeles' place as global hub and home to millions from every continent.
Stanley Weiss | Posted 11.15.2011
Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is less interested in preserving Ataturk's vision of Turkey as a secular state and more committed to bringing about "a return to the Ottoman Empire's glory days."
Harut Sassounian | Posted 10.11.2011
For his new super agency on "Mass Atrocities" to have any credibility, Pres. Obama should stop playing political games with genocide, recognize previous "Mass Atrocities", such as the Armenian Genocide, and draw appropriate lessons from them.
Lee Bycel | Posted 07.20.2011
As the decades pass, regrettably, the incomprehensible nightmare become part of history and seems to be replaced by new nightmares. We seem to be forgetting a lot all the time.
latimes.com | Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.03.2011
It's only a sign. But the large green message board unveiled next to the Pomona Freeway packed an emotional punch for those gathered Friday in Mont...
Elmira Bayrasli | Posted 05.25.2011
Turkey dodged yet another bullet in the U.S. House of Representatives when a resolution "recognizing" the Armenian "genocide" failed to reach the floor for a vote.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011
Over the years, Armenian-Americans have gradually shifted their attention from demanding recognition of the Armenian Genocide to pursuing various lega...
Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011
In 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) published an exposé of the Turkish government's efforts to pressure U.S. politicians and academics to deny the facts of the Armenian genocide.
Tom Alderman | Posted 11.17.2011
When all is said and done, the Facing History concept is quite simple: explore historical injustices to teach tolerance, understanding and participation.
Harut Sassounian | Posted 05.25.2011
After seeking genocide recognition for almost a century, Armenian-Americans will now devote their energy to pursue all legal avenues in order to recoup their massive losses and regain their historic rights.
Christopher Atamian | Posted 05.18.2012