Cover story: The changing face of Armenia

By Vartan Oskanian IN THIS SAME BUILDING where “people’s deputies” were nothing more than a rubber stamp for the Kremlin in the past 70 years, a new breed of leaders occupy the seats of the Parliament today – youthful, dedicated, patriotic and, most importantly, elected by the people. Under the watchful eyes of the Armenian
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Turks and Armenians agree; Karabagh is not a religious issue

By Levon Marashlian Virtually never do Turks and Armenians find common ground on anything. But rare glimmers of possible agreement could be detected in the media between January and March 1990. Hurriyet, Turkey’s largest daily paper, repeated Turkish writer Mehmet Ali Birand’s view in Milliyet, that the crisis in Azerbaijan and Armenia is “not” a
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Roots of a conflict; How the struggle over Karabagh began

By Ronald Grigor Suny Crowds moved quietly through the streets of Yerevan. Well into the night they marched, silently, confidently. Tens – even hundreds – of thousands of Armenians reverently engaged in the struggle for Karabagh had answered the first call for support from demonstrators in Stepanakert, Karabagh. Now the Yerevantsis were responding with the
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