But while Congress is again contemplating a resolution denouncing the genocide, it would do a lot more good for both Armenia and Turkey if it held back.
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan declared their independence two days later, on May 28 , 1918 as the First Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, respectively.
However, it would be hard for them to do that at the expense of history: almost every family in Armenia has some kin who were killed in or banished from Western Armenia.
Prior joining to McGill, she received both her bachelor's and master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Yerevan State University, Armenia.
By now my father, too, must see what his romanticism has long prevented him from seeing: Armenia is not free, not independent, not united.
IN 1925 Nansen visited Armenia on behalf of the League of Nations as one of a commission of five appointed to investigate the possibility of settling refugees from Turkish Armenia on the land.
In 1880, he said, "when Aleppo was the great cosmopolitan metropolis of Anatolia," his grandparents from Turkish Armenia halted here on the long pilgrimage to Jerusalem but found only crude accommodations.
Khachatur Nagapityan, a track and field coach, came here from Soviet Armenia just two years ago, but he is ready to return whenever he is needed to fight for what he sees as his people's survival.
"My grandparents are from Western Armenia – from Erzurum," she said.
NG received her BS and MSc degrees in Physics from Yerevan State University, Armenia in 2006 and 2008, correspondingly.
