By Harut Sassounian            Publisher, The California Courier     

By Harut Sassounian Over the years, I have written countless articles describing the activities of U.S. lobbying firms hired by Turkey and Azerbaijan for millions of dollars. Fortunately, no matter

By Harut Sassounian The title is derived from a French expression which I have used to describe the situation in Armenia. After 30 years of independence, one would expect substantial changes in the

By Harut Sassounian The Azeri government does not seem to understand that you can’t alwaysget what you want by bribing and paying politicians. There is a limitto what money can buy. Sometimes, the

  By Harut Sassounian The Hoya, the student newspaper of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, published last week a lengthy investigative article about the demise of the Institute of Turkish Studies,

            By Harut Sassounian            Just days before the first anniversary of the 44-day war, the Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and the President of Azerbaijan

By Harut Sassounian I came across a Turkish-American website, “tenthousandturks.org,” which is described as: “Ten Thousand Turks Campaign.” The website includes the combined information of five

By Harut Sassounian Here we go again. Back in 2009, Pres. Serzh Sargsyan engaged in amisguided effort to sign an agreement with Turkey ostensibly to openthe mutual border. Even though Armenians around