by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published January 29, 2019
Pinar Tremblay, a Turkish reporter for Al-Monitor news website, exposed Pres. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent announcement to legalize the plantation of cannabis (a form of marijuana). Tremblay wrote in the January 24, 2019 issue...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published December 25, 2018
Throughout this past year, I have collected several examples of eccentric reports or rules imposed on Turkish society. Naturally, millions of liberal and civilized Turks are unhappy with these behind the times regulations, but...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published September 12, 2016 · Last modified September 13, 2016
A recently published book “Remembering for the Future: Armenia, Auschwitz, and Beyond,” edited by Michael Berenbaum, Richard Libowitz, and Marcia Sachs Littell, is a collection of scholarly papers delivered at a conference held at...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published May 17, 2016
In recent days, scathing speeches by Armenian and Kurdish deputies in the Turkish Parliament have been circulating on the internet. Last week, I presented the bold speech by Armenian MP Garo Paylan, delivered in...
by Harut Sassounian, Publisher, The California Courier · Published February 23, 2016
During the past one thousand years, the relationship between the two neighboring Islamic states of Persia and the Ottoman Empire vacillated between peaceful coexistence and outright war. The populations of these two states were...
