Articles by Harut Sassounian

About Harut Sassounian (296 Articles)

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the United Armenian Fund, a coalition of the seven largest Armenian-American organizations. He has been decorated by the president and prime minister of the Republic of Armenia, and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Sassounian: Zuart Sudjian Sues Turkey to Reclaim Her Family Lands, Diyarbakir Airport

Armenians are in the process of organizing thousands of events all over the world to commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. These events aim to remind the world about the mass atrocities committed by Ottoman Turkey from 1915-23 with the expectation that the international community [more...]

January 20, 2015 // 5 Comments

Sassounian: Greece Blocks Talat Pasha Committee’s Denialist Stunt in Athens

Dogu Perincek, the leader of the Turkish Workers’ Party, failed last week to repeat in Greece the denialist show he had orchestrated in Switzerland 10 years ago. Along with members of his blasphemous Talat Pasha Committee, Perincek had planned to travel to Athens to challenge the recent Greek law [more...]

January 14, 2015 // 3 Comments

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Sassounian: Amal Clooney to Represent Armenia in European Court

Here is a surprising news item being disclosed for the first time in this column—Amal Ramzi Alamuddin, wife of prominent actor and human rights activist George Clooney, will be one of the attorneys representing Armenia next month at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Mrs. Clooney is a [more...]

December 22, 2014 // 59 Comments

Sassounian: Azeri-Israeli Propagandist Throws Stones from Glass House

The JNS.org website (Jewish and Israel news) posted a venomous, anti-Armenian article by Arye Gut with the bombastic headline, “Anti-Semitism in Armenia: A Clear and Present Danger.” JNS.org identifies the author as “an Azerbaijani Israeli” who is “a board member of the [more...]

December 17, 2014 // 4 Comments

Sassounian: Sweeping Reforms Needed to Resolve Critical Pan-Armenian Issues

I delve this week into a thorny subject that has distressed much of the Armenian world: the uproar generated by the highly critical and harshly worded letter posted on the internet by the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem Nourhan Manougian addressed to His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All [more...]

December 10, 2014 // 13 Comments

Sassounian: Turkish Parliament Will Hide the Truth, Should it Block the Genocide Resolution

Last week, a Turkish parliamentarian submitted a proposal to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey seeking condemnation of the Armenian Genocide, a series of atrocities, and other acts of state terrorism. In this document, Sebahat Tuncel, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party [more...]

December 3, 2014 // 1 Comment

Turkish Scholar Affirms: Turkey Has Lost Battle for the Truth

In recent years, a growing number of Turkish intellectuals, scholars, journalists, and human rights activists have taken bold positions on the Armenian Genocide, in opposition to their government’s denials. Although their number is small and their influence on President Erdogan negligible, the [more...]

November 25, 2014 // 8 Comments

Sassounian: Countries Selling Weapons to Azerbaijan Are Just as Guilty for Attacks on Artsakh

Azerbaijan’s armed forces committed a criminal act on Nov. 12, shooting down an unarmed Armenian helicopter inside Artsakh’s borders and killing three military officers. This is the first time since the 1994 ceasefire that Azerbaijan has attacked an Armenian aircraft. Armenia should not only [more...]

November 19, 2014 // 16 Comments

Sassounian: Republican Congressional Majority Casts Dark Shadow on Armenian Interests

Nearly all congressional candidates nationwide who supported Armenian-American issues were victorious during the Nov. 4 elections. The outcome was similarly positive for other candidates running in state and local races. Consequently, the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) announced that [more...]

November 12, 2014 // 9 Comments

Sassounian: Iran & Jordan, Alienated from Turkey, Warmly Welcome Four Armenian Leaders

Armenians boosted their historical ties with the Arab and Muslim world last month with the simultaneous visits of Armenia’s president and Jerusalem’s Armenian patriarch to the Kingdom of Jordan, and visits by the Armenian prime minister and Aram Catholicos of Lebanon to the Islamic Republic of [more...]

November 4, 2014 // 1 Comment

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