2012 March - Armenian News By MassisPost

Azerbaijan Providing Israeli Fighter Planes Access to Airfields on Iran Border

WASHINGTON, DC — An article in “Foreign Policy” magazine, titled “Israel’s Secret Staging Ground,” quotes unnamed U.S. government sources as saying Azerbaijan is providing Israeli fighter planes with access to airfields...
Number of Eligible Voters Increased While Armenia’s Population Dwindling

YEREVAN — The number of eligible voters officially registered in Armenia has increased by nearly seven percent since the last national election four years ago, according to the voter lists updated...
Turkish Prosecutor Appeals Dink Ruling, Says Murder Work of Ergenekon

ISTANBUL — An Istanbul prosecutor investigating the 2007 murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has appealed a January court verdict that ruled out involvement of an organized criminal network in the...
Mental Health Services for Glendale and Vicinities

By Sahag Toutjian A select group of around 50 invitees representing various sectors and groups of the Armenian community of Glendale, California and the neighboring cities were present on Wednesday, February...
Armenia Fund Renovating Abovyan Maternity Hospital

ABOVYAN — Armenia Fund’s Montreal affiliate began the second phase of an extensive project to completely renovate the Abovyan Maternity Hospital in Armenia’s Kotayk region. Established in 1985, the three-story maternity...
Prof. Vahakn Dadrian to Present “Judgment at Istanbul: The Armenian Genocide Trials” at the Glendale Central Library

GLENDALE, CA — Glendale Public Library invites the public to a lecture and book signing, with Vahakn N. Dadrian internationally-renowned expert on the Armenian Genocide, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at...
Obama and Erdogan Discuss Karabakh Conflict and Armenian Genocide Resolution at Seoul Talks

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan held a meeting on Sunday, on the sidelines of the South Korea-hosted Nuclear Security Summit, to...
Armenian Defense Minister Meets with U.S. Counterpart at the Pentagon

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has met with Armenian Defense Minister Seyran Ohanian at the Pentagon for talks highlighting growing military ties between the United States and...
Police General Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Murder Cover-Up

YEREVAN — Former chief of the Armenian Police’s Criminal Investigation Department Hovhannes Tamamian has been sentenced to four years in prison at the end of a high-profile trial in which he...
Lost and Found in Armenia Screened in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — Lost and Found in Armenia, a new film directed by the award winning Gor Kirakosian, produced by Valerie McCaffrey and Maral Djerejian (of Red Tie Films) was first...
Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School 30th Anniversary Celebration

MISSION HILLS, CA — The C & E Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School recently celebrated the 30 th anniversary of the school’s founding at a gala banquet held at the Deukmejian Ballroom...
“Still Documenting the 1915 Genocide”: Politics, Prose and Poetry – II

By Alan Whitehorn After almost a century since the 1915 state-sponsored mass slaughter of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, one would think there would be few new pioneering books on...
U.S., Russia an France Renew Calls for Peaceful Settlement of Karabakh Conflict

The foreign ministers of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries have renewed their calls for a quick peaceful resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying that failure to achieve it would only...
Armenian Men’s National Basketball Team Introduced to the Community

GLENDALE — On March 22, 2012, The House of Armenia celebrated and officially introduced the Armenian Men’s National Basketball team to the community and media. The team, comprised of both Armenian-American,...
Four Armenians Convicted in Identity-Fraud Scheme

LOS ANGELES — After a five week trial, four defendants have been convicted for their roles in one of the largest bank fraud and identity theft schemes in California history, with...
Three Armenians Killed in Tehran-Yerevan Bus Crash

TEHRAN — Three Armenians were killed and several others were injured in a passenger bus crash in northern Iran on Tuesday. The bus that was heading from Iran to Armenia crashed...
Ten Injured in Grenade Attack in Yerevan Disco

YEREVAN — Officials in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, say 10 people — including nine Iranian nationals and an Armenian — were injured in a grenade explosion at a nightclub. Yerevan police officials...
New Armenian Genocide Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress

WASHINGTON, DC — Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) along with Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) officially introduced a new Armenian Genocide Resolution (S.Res. 399) in the United States Senate on Tuesday. The resolution...
German Foreign Office Archives Published in Turkish

TORONTO — Ragip Zarakolu, a publisher in Istanbul and a renowned champion of human rights, has collaborated with the Zoryan Institute to lay one more building block on the foundation of...
Dink Murderer to Disclose Details of the Assassination Plot

ISTANBUL. – Ogun Samast, the murderer of Hrant Dink has sent a 25-page letter from prison to the Taraf daily of Turkey, and informed that he is writing a book about...