Armenian Genocide

Turkish Ambassador Admonishes Pres.-elect Obama on Armenian Genocide

Harut Sassounian | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics


Harut Sassounian

Turkish officials are getting increasingly apprehensive over the repeated promises made by Sen. Barack Obama during the campaign to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Georgia at War: What I Saw

Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics


Bernard-Henri Lévy

Of all the great resistance fighters I have met in my life, of all the Massouds and Izetbegovics I have had occasion to defend, Georgia's Saakashvili is the one who is the most unfamiliar with war, its rites, its emblems, its culture - but he is dealing with it.

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

Harut Sassounian | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics


Harut Sassounian

The Turkish government has a scandal on its hands, thanks to the reckless behavior of its ambassador in Washington, who clearly violated the academic freedom of a prominent American scholar.

The Quest for Change

Bruce Fein | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics


Bruce Fein

The Obama-Clinton pandering to the Armenian lobby betrays the signature Washington habit of making promises now and thinking about them later.

First Nationwide Turkish Survey Reveals Millions of Turks Support Genocide Bill

Harut Sassounian | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics


Harut Sassounian

The long years of political advocacy for the international acknowledgment of the Armenian Genocide seem to be bearing fruit not only around the globe but also within Turkey itself.

Secretaries Albright and Cohen Should be Removed from Genocide Task Force

Harut Sassounian | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics


Harut Sassounian

In their repeated attempts to block the reaffirmation of the Armenian Genocide resolution, they have undermined their own credibility and lost the moral standing.

American Parochialism: Armenia, the Dalai Lama and the Jewish Question

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics


Benjamin R. Barber

Middle Eastern policy is only one among a legion of others that are made on the basis of a stunted American parochialism that filters all foreign policy through a self-indulgent domestic lens.

Turkey Turkeys

Bob Franken | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics


Bob Franken

Right now the Democrats are doing what they seem to do best...they're self-destructing.

Pelosi's Hamfisted Turkey Move

Ron Galloway | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics


Ron Galloway

It's this type of tactical dissonance that has made Pelosi's first nine months such a rousing failure, if congressional approval polls are to be believed.

Nancy Pelosi and the Armenians

Philip Giraldi | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics


Philip Giraldi

The Armenian Genocide resolution sailing through Congress is a great image builder for some politicians who want to register their disapproval of mass slaughter, but it is a terrible result.