Turkey Media Arrests: Erdogan Rejects EU Criticism
ISTANBUL (BBC) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at the European Union (EU) after it criticized the mass arrest of opposition journalists at the weekend. “The EU should mind its...
View ArticleArmenian Genocide Museum to Be Built in Uruguay
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (Armenpress) — The Armenian Genocide museum construction is on the way. In the first months of 2015, most probably, the government of Uruguay will provide a territory for the...
View Article‘With Giant Steps into the 100th Year’: Ragip Zarakolu Honored in Berlin
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN, Germany — No matter how meaningful it is that political institutions, whether governments or parliaments, have recognized the Armenian...
View ArticleThe Fateful Year — 2015
By Edmond Y. Azadian Armenians around the world will cross the threshold of the year 2015 with trepidation and anticipation. However, there is no magic in numbers — whatever did not happen in a full...
View ArticlePhilanthropist Flora Dunaians to Ride in First Armenian-American Float in...
PASADENA, Calif. — The Los Angeles Affiliate of the Armenian International Women’s Association (AIWA) announce that Flora Dunaians, one of its founding members, will ride on the first American Armenian...
View ArticleChildren of Armenia Fund Annual Gala Raises $2.4 Million for Expansion into...
NEW YORK — The 11th annual Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) Holiday Gala took place at Cipriani 42nd Street on December 12, 2014, in New York City. More than 450 guests attended the gala fundraiser,...
View ArticleOfficial 1915 Document Swept under the Carpet
ISTANBUL (Agos) — Journalist Murat Bardakçi announced this week that a Turkish Historical Society (TTK) official removed “dispatch registers” kept after the deportation law was issued in 1915 from the...
View ArticleChristmas Donations made to the Armenian Mirror-Spectator
Christmas Donations made to the Armenian Mirror-Spectator ADL and Tekeyan Detroit Chapters $500 Elizabeth Aprahamian, Northville, MI $500 Anonymous $500 Margaret Ahnert, Fort Lauderdale, FL $500 Sami...
View ArticleHoly Trinity Armenian Church’s Erevan Choral Society Brings Together Voices...
By Robert Dulgarian CAMBRDIGE, Mass. — The Christmas holidays have long been a time of faith and renewal, a celebration of the passing of the old year and the coming of the new, and a time to gather...
View ArticleA Story of Exile
By Florence Avakian NEW YORK — The Eastern Diocese’s Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center was the venue to hear a riveting account of childhood dreams crushed, the daily fear of violence, and...
View ArticleFirst-Ever Armenian Float in Tournament of Roses Parade Wins Presidential Award
PASADENA, Calif. — The first Armenian American Rose Float Association (AARFA) won the 2015 New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses’ President’s Award for most effective floral use and presentation for their...
View ArticleShoah Foundation To Add Armenian Genocide Survivor Testimonies
LOS ANGELES — In honor of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the University of Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education, is...
View ArticleAMAA’s ‘Stitched With Love’ Provides Hats, Blankets for Newborns in Armenia
PARAMUS, N.J. — Late in 2013, Betty Cherkezian and Nancy Burdman of New Jersey, came up with the idea of Stitched with Love, a program to provide newborn children in Armenia with much-needed hats and...
View ArticleBaby Who Was Sole Survivor of Attack on Family in Gumri Dies
Alleged Assailant, a Russian Soldier, to Be Tried in Armenia GUMRI (RFE/RL and BBC) — A 6-month-old boy who had been stabbed last week in what authorities say was a brutal attack by a Russian soldier...
View ArticleFrench Ambassador to US Clarifies Comment on Armenian Genocide
WASHINGTON — The Ambassador of France to the United States has clarified remarks he made earlier this week on the MSNBC show “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that sounded as if he were giving credence to...
View ArticleShift in Azerbaijan May Create Winning Scenario for Armenia
By Edmond Y. Azadian Pundits and observers of the Western press have noticed recently the intensification of criticism of the Azeri government and its authoritarian ruler, Ilham Aliyev. One can...
View ArticleAkçam Lectures on Publication Project of Genocide Survivor Stories in Aleppo...
By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On January 13, Dr. Taner Akçam, Kaloosdian-Mugar Chair in Modern Armenian History and Genocide Studies at Clark University, presented a talk at...
View ArticleThree International Composers Pay Tribute to Poet Daniel Varoujan
NEW YORK — The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) announced recently the winners of the 2014 Sayat Nova International Composition Competition. Hovik Sardaryan, 21, of Armenia was awarded first...
View Article‘Tevanik,’ Karabagh War Film, Travels the US with Director Avetisyan
By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff WEST NEWTON, Mass. – “Tevanik,” a dramatic film about the Karabagh war, was shown in various cities of the US in January, and its director, Jivan Avetisyan, came...
View ArticleLast Week’s Mirror-Spectator Got Buried
WATERTOWN — Dear readers, many of you have been calling our office wondering where your January 31 issue of the Mirror-Spectator was. Well, the incessant snowstorms that piled record amounts of snow in...
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