Last Wednesday, in the historic Cannon Building on Capitol Hill, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined an impressive number of Congressmen to mark the 25th Anniversary of liberty in Nagorno Karabakh.

The Turkish Ambassador to the European Union, Egemen Bagis, recently compared the Assyrian Genocide to ’masturbation’. The comment was reportedly made during a discussion with a Swedish parliamentarian of Assyrian descent at an event organized by Assyrians earlier this year.

Already this year we have seen President Obama inaugurated as U.S. President on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday and the European Union declare 2013 as the year of the Citizen.

When the world starts to expose and vilify the State of Azerbaijan as a country rife with human rights abuses, as a promoter of massacres in its country, as an aggressor, and a warmonger, a state that imprisons opposition members and journalists, then one can finally believe that decency in foreign policy takes a front seat to considerations for Azeri oil.

While the Central Electoral Commission made its announcement last Monday on the bogus results of the February 18 presidential election in Armenia, the people on Yerevan’s Freedom Square dictated the real outcome of the presidential elections.

When hundreds of thousands of Armenians took to the streets on February 20, 1988 to demand the reunification of Karabakh with Armenia, a modern-day Armenian liberation struggle was born—a movement that still unites and mobilizes the Armenian Nation.

Armenian Weekly editor Khatchig Mouradian sat down in Yerevan Tuesday with political commentator, former parliamentarian, and Armenian Revolutionary Federation member Lilit Galstian, to discuss the Armenia’s presidential election.

The upcoming elections in Armenia do not bode well for the future of our nation. The absence of viable candidates, the lack of political debate, devoid of any discussion of national survival issues is tantamount to collective suicide.

Turkey set another precedent for its cozy relations with Islamist bent and Turkish-friendly terrorists and terrorist organizations such as Al Qaeda. Last week it was revealed that that Turkey has refused to extradite Al Qaeda leader Suleiman Abu Ghaith to United States.

Charter Communications, in its ongoing effort to stifle the voice of the Armenian-American community by arbitrarily yanking Horizon Armenian Television off the air on February 19, has resorted to blatantly lying to its customers by claiming that Horizon and Charter were unable to reach an agreement. That is a flagrant LIE.

Last week Sen. John Kerry – a long-time supporter of Armenian American issues – was confirmed as our new Secretary of State. In the process of his confirmation hearing, Kerry shied away from his continued stance on Armenian issues and revealed a new face, which in fact is the old face of the outgoing Secretary Hillary Clinton.

At a presidential campaign rally in the Malatia-Sebastia district on Tuesday, President Serzh Sarkisian told his constituents that Armenia will fight for the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

There are particular windows of opportunity in one’s life that are short lived, notably the years after grad school and before family commitment.

The Armenian Youth Federation Turns 80 today and with it provides an opportunity to highlight and emphasize the importance of youth in Armenia’s liberation struggle and nation-building process.