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...place on the docket of the United States House of Representatives. This month, however, a particularly vivid example has materialized, and rightly so: The United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs has approved and submitted a bill that would recognize that neglected genocide of more than a million Armenian Christians by Ottoman Turks from...
...Birand. The real outcome of Wednesday's bill may be to strengthen a growing tide of ultra-nationalist isolationism in Turkey, fueled by public perceptions of being unwanted by Europe (it is seeking to join the E.U.) and ignored by the U.S. One recent victim was high-profile Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who was shot to death by a teenager with links to nationalist groups. His son, Arat Dink, and publisher Serkis Seropyan were sentenced on Friday to one year in jail for "insulting Turkishness" by referring to the Armenian genocide. They will appeal the verdict...
...writer is Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies...
...example, the professors situate the Israel lobby as just one lobby among a host of ethnic lobbies—something they did not do in the original article. The authors write that “ethnic lobbies representing Cuban Americans, Irish Americans, Armenian Americans, and Indian Americans have [also] managed to skew U.S. foreign policy in directions they favored...
...inaugural issue of New Society loosely focuses on Iran’s growing role in the region through the journal’s two featured pieces, one written by Abigail R. Fradkin ’09 and the other by Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell...