By Raffi Bedrosyan What makes Istanbul beautiful is the Bosphorus dividing the City between Europe and Asia, and what makes Bosphorus beautiful is a series of architecturally magnificent palaces, mansions[...]
By H.K. The sixth Armenia-Diaspora Congress in Yerevan September 18-20 is finally over. Much was written about it prior to the event, much is being written and discussed at the[...]
By Tom Perry and Suleiman Al-Khalidi Syria’s war has entered a new phase as President Bashar al-Assad extends his grip in areas being captured from Islamic State, using firepower freed by Russian-backed[...]
By Elif Shafak The Hungarian-British writer Arthur Koestler, born in Budapest at the turn of the last century, became, over the course of his life, intimately familiar with the dangers of[...]
By Cengiz Candar Soon after the insurgency in Syria got underway, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed his sensitivity about Aleppo for the first time. Around midnight on March 29,[...]
By Ruth Thomasian, Founder &, CEO of Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives Photography and writing bring people together as was the case with Tom and me — he, a journalist/photographer,[...]
By David L. Phillips Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a Trump national security adviser, has been paid by Turkish money laundered through a Dutch company to lobby on behalf of[...]
As the siege of east Aleppo enters its fourth month, how are medical staff coping? Doctors in east Aleppo are working in extraordinarily difficult circumstances, and there are shortages of[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator Living in Europe, the past envelops you like a warm garment, and is never absent, especially the recent past, say developments over the[...]
By Robert Fisk The ‘Liberation’ Mosque is a fine, neo-classical, almost Gothic construction with striped black-and-white stone banding, unusual for a Muslim holy place but a jewel in the Tepebasi[...]
By Jack Danielian It is so difficult to accept the loss of Dr. Martin Deranian. He was a close and enduring friend of mine. After 40 years of deep talk[...]
