Vahakn Dadrian: One Scholar’s Pursuit of Historical Justice
Friday, 31 December 1999
By Henry R. Hattenbach In a very real sense, Professor Vahakn Dadrian is a lone warrior in the oft-frustrating struggle to have the Armenian genocide recognized as history. Not that Dadrian is the sole scholar of this genocide that ushered in the 20th century, tirelessly grappling with those denying its historicity. Professor Richard Hovannisian immediately springs to mind. Yet
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Breaking the Wall of Silence: A Turkish voice joins the call for Armenian Genocide recognition. A Dutch journalist documents the effort fueled by the scholarship of an Armenian historian
Wednesday, 31 March 1999
By Salpi Haroutinian Ghazarian Dorothée Forma is a soft-spoken journalist of the European tradition. In the Netherlands, where media channels are clearly labeled as belonging to specific religious, ethnic or political groups, she works with a small broadcasting organization which supports humanist principles: Taking responsibility, having the right to make your own choices without being
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Man of the Year: The Lone Crusader; Peter Balakian; A Poet’s Political Coming of Age
Thursday, 31 December 1998
By Mark Arax It was the spring of 1997 and Peter Balakian, the author of four collections of poetry, was about to launch his first big book. He felt the unease that any author feels knowing that his baby, now in the hands of marketers and reviewers, was no longer his own. That the book,
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Sport: Parseghian kicks back; Notre Dame’s Ex-Football Coach Reviews His Career
Friday, 30 November 1990
By Harry Squires Baseball may be America’s national pastime in October, but during November the national attention is focused on the sport of football. And when one thinks of football and its heroes of the past, one also recalls the great football coaches of yesteryear. Among those outstanding coaches is Ara Parseghian, whose career as
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Cover story: Anatomy of a genocide; Turkish Strategies That Led To Atrocities Of 1915
Tuesday, 31 July 1990
By Christopher J. Walker In some respects, Armenians and Turks had been getting along rather well in the years before the Genocide of 1915. Armenians had played a significant part in bringing about the Ottoman constitutional revolution of 1908; in the years immediately following, many Armenians returned to Turkish Armenia from Russian Armenia, where conditions remained repressive
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Converging destinies; Changes in Guerrilla Tactics Stir Ankara to Harden Fist on Rebel Kurds
Tuesday, 31 July 1990
By Raffi Shoubookian Their tragedy started in the aftermath of World War I. Despite the promises of the Allied Powers, despite President Woodrow Wilson’s plans for the self-determination of indigenous peoples conquered by the Ottoman Empire, and despite the stipulation regarding a national homeland set forth in the 1920 Treaty of Sevres, their territorial, political,
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Turks and Armenians agree; Karabagh is not a religious issue
Tuesday, 31 July 1990
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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