(The following open letter was issued by the Hrant Dink Foundation, based in Istanbul, this past week.) We could not understand the reason why the conference on “Social, Cultural and[...]
Turkey was the beneficiary of pre-Soviet-era turmoil in the Caucasus, signing the Treaty of Kars of 1923; it continues to benefit also during the realignment of powers in the post-Soviet[...]
The Middle East is aflame and the political world is in an uproar over the third Turkish incursion into Syria under the code name “Peace Spring.” With this current invasion[...]
By Raffi Bedrosyan Ever since the last Armenian Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan fell ill with dementia but continued to live in a vegetative state in 2008, the seat of the Istanbul[...]
By David L. Phillips President Donald J. Trump succumbed to Turkey’s demand for a “safe zone” in North and East Syria, announcing overnight that the US is pulling back forces[...]
Armenia presided over the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) supreme summit, which began on October 1 in Yerevan. Much background politics and theatrics were at play. The session took place on[...]
By Philippe Raffi Kalfayan Special to the Mirror-Spectator I have never described the events of April-May 2018 as a “revolution” for two reasons. The first is that Serzh Sargsyan gave[...]
Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan assumed power in May 2018 by riding on a wave of populism that he had generated. On September 22, he tried to extend the momentum of[...]
For many countries, independence day is a routine date in the calendar, when the anniversary is remembered while many of the liberties and opportunities created by that independence are taken[...]
By Edmond Y. Azadian To state that Armenia and Russia are on a collision course does not make one an alarmist. Indeed, the anti-Russian rhetoric is heating up in Armenia’s[...]
By Aris Janigian Go back a couple of generations and nobody called us “white,” so we had no way of really knowing about our privilege. We were Armenian and Christian,[...]
