(His Grace Bishop Armash Nalbandian, Armenian Primate of Damascus speaking about the plight of Christians in Syria at the Heritage Foundation. January 27,2014) January 29, 2014 By Taniel Koushakjian This week, the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. held a panel discussion entitled “Marked for Destruction: The Plight of Syria’s Christians with Syrian Christian Leaders.” The panel featured Reverend Adib Awad, General Secretary of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and

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By: Hamlet Tamazian & Bobby Avakian The American spotlight on the unrest in Turkey has faded since the worst of the Taksim Square riots, Gezi Park protests, and anti-Erdogan rallies. However, there is still much turmoil in Turkey and the region, and new problems are developing – making old issues more complex. Still, the democratic and human rights progress made during the protests has registered a permanent cultural shift among the people of Turkey. The Turkish government is

Last time we brought you the Assembly Agenda the U.S. government was on the verge of a shutdown with no solution to keep the government funded in sight between the White House, Senate Democrats and House Republicans. Today is day 14 of the shutdown and, as of this morning, we are no better off now than two weeks ago. The latest talk on Capitol Hill is that House leaders have agreed to drop certain ObamaCare provisions in a proposal that would reopen the government though Janu

Discussion brings Armenian experts, media and youth together (L-R) Ekaterina Airapetian (Information Officer, Armenian Assembly of America Yerevan Office), Dr. Artak Shakaryan, Dr. Gohar Iskandaryan and Dr. Sargis Grigoryan YEREVAN, ARMENIA – On July 3, the Armenian Assembly of America’s Yerevan office held a press discussion with Dr. Artak Shakaryan, specialist on Turkey, Dr. Gohar Iskandaryan, specialist on Iran, and Dr. Sargis Grigoryan, specialist on the Middle East. The

(Image courtesy of Matthew Bouloutian) Armenian American artist Matthew Bouloutian of Havertown, Pennsylvania designed this poster on the 1915 Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey for Posters Without Borders. Their exhibition is currently on display at Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Alabama and will then travel to the University of Arizona, Tuscon and the University of Texas, El Paso. Graphic Art News has a nice write up on Bouloutian and all the designers and their posters h

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan (left) tells Israeli President Shimon Peres (right), “When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill,” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. January 29, 2009 By Taniel Koushakjian August 22, 2013 In the latest development of the Turkish government’s increasingly anti-Israel posture, this week Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan made the audacious claim that Israel was behind the Egyptian military’s ouster of Muslim

By AAA Intern Robert Avakian During the week of June 24th, the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) held two hearings that highlighted situations requiring the attention of the Armenian-American community – the war in Syria and the protests in Turkey. HFAC Chairman Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) oversaw the hearing, entitled “Religious Minorities in Syria: Caught in the Middle.” Chairman Smith and other sitting members hammered the State Department official witness on the inactivi

By: AAA Summer Interns – Robert Avakian, Hamlet Tamazian, Matt Hanessian, and Alex Azarian Turkey’s economy has grown tremendously over the last decade, but the fundamental rights and freedoms of Turkish citizens have not kept pace. A day before the beginning of the Taksim Square protests a report titled “Why Turkey is Thriving” was published. The report applauded Turkey’s economic achievements and went so far as to state that other countries should learn from Turkey’s exampl