ADOLF HITLER KEPT a bust of Ataturk in his office. Heinrich Himmler considered moving to Turkey in the early 1920s. And Rudolf Hoess,...
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The forward trenches in the hills just beyond the abandoned village of Talish, in Nagorno-Karabakh, are reminiscent of World War I: long, endless,...
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For most of America, the heartbreaking faces of Syrian refugees this year have belonged to children. We have seen them drowned and we...
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Last Friday morning, Rep. Jim Costa placed a wreath in Fresno, California’s Masis Ararat Cemetery at the grave of an Armenian who died peacefully...
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Today I am in Manhattan. This morning I am at St. Vartan, the magnificent Armenian Cathedral on Second Avenue, for the Divine Liturgy....
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The photo can only be called exotic. It was taken at the end of the 19th century in an Ottoman city southeast of...
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Earlier this year, I journeyed from Vermont to Oslo to introduce myself to Marit Greve, an 86-year-old Norwegian who still swims in the...
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You know your moral compass is a little off when you censor a story about a gift to a U.S. president from a...
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The other day I watched an eight-year-old boy named Ulash (pronounced Oo-lush) spontaneously take a white plastic grocery bag and fill it with...
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A woman I met last month in southeastern Turkey is going to die, probably sometime soon. Asiya’s death will not be covered by...
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