By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comArmenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan has invited several world leaders to Yerevan onApril 24to commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide.

By Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier www.TheCaliforniaCourier.com New York City, the unofficial Capital of the World, became the hub of major Armenian events last week on the eve of the Armenian Genocide Centennial.On Tuesday, March 10, the 100 LIVES initiative was launched by Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, jointly with entrepreneurs Ruben Vardanyan of Moscow and Noubar Afeyan of Boston.

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comThree young Armenian entrepreneurs rented a cart last month at the Americana -- a large shopping-restaurant-theater complex in Glendale -- to sell T-shirts, hats, and other clothing items advertised on their shop1915.com website.

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comI reported last week on the Armenian-American community success in securing cancellation of Los Angeles City’s $845,000 contract with the Gephardt Group, for lobbying on behalf of Turkey against adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution by Congress.I expressed the hope that Armenians would continue their efforts to have the remaining 200 clients of the Gephardt Group terminate their contracts so that Mr. Gephardt would ...

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comI wrote a column last August warning that the Armenian-American community and all people of good will would boycott the products and services of Anheuser-Busch, Boeing, Chevron, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Google, Los Angeles Airport, National Football League, Port of Oakland, and United Airlines, unless these companies cancelled their contracts with the Gephardt Group, one of Turkey’s notorious ...

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comWhen the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, its founder, Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared like a devout Muslim seeking to eliminate corruption and improve the standard of living of Turkish citizens.

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comThe Presidents of the Republics of Armenia and Artsakh along with leaders of major Diasporan organizations issued an unprecedented joint declaration last week, announcing the preparation of a comprehensive dossier of “legal claims” from Turkey to restore “individual, communal and pan-Armenian rights and legitimate interests.”

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierhttp://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/Rimma Varzhapetyan-Feller, President of the Jewish Community of Armenia, recently wrote a scathing article titled, "World Jewry cannot become a tool in the hands of anti-Armenian propagators." She criticized all those who engage in such propaganda for writing "ordered and one-sided articles...in pursuit of profits."Such writers attempt to exploit Israeli political circles and glorify Azeri-Israeli relations, ...

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comArmenians are in the process of organizing thousands of events all over the world to commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide.

By Harut SassounianPublisher, The California Courierwww.TheCaliforniaCourier.comDogu Perincek, leader of the Turkish Workers’ Party, failed last week to repeat in Greece the denialist show he 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 banning denial of the Armenian Genocide. He dreamed of becoming ‘a hero’ by filing a lawsuit against Greece in the European Court of ...