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Canada's Horizon Armenian Weekly was first published in 1979, sharing its birthday with Armenia's first Independence Day, May 28.. Born as the official political organ of Canada's Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) Central Committee, Horizon was first conceived during ARF Canada's first regional meeting held in 1977.
The Social Democrat Hunchakian Party, an existing Armenian socialist and revolutionary party, initially agreed to join the "Federation of Armenian Revolutionaries." However, the Hunchaks soon withdrew due to disputes over ideological and organizational questions, such as the role of socialism in the party's program.
Sophie Areshian (Armenian: Սոֆի Արեշյան; 1881, in Tbilisi – 1971, in Montreal), also known by her pseudonym of Rubina, was an Armenian revolutionary and fedayi. She joined the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) after meeting several leaders of the organization in Baku , she became politically aligned with the far left under ...
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation sided at the time with the opposition March 8 Alliance. The official MP of the ADL party in the Lebanese Parliament after the 2009 elections was Jean Ogassapian as part of the same March 14 Alliance, although he is not a card-holding member of the party.
Giro (Kiro) Manoyan (Armenian: Կիրօ Մանոյեան) is an Armenian politician, one of the leaders of ARF Dashnaktsutiun and the head of its Armenian Cause Office. [1] Manoyan attended Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, majoring in Political Science. In the 1980s he was the executive director of the Armenian National ...
On 10 August 2020 the three traditional Armenian parties—the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, Dashnaks), Social Democrat Hunchakian Party (Hunchaks) and the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (Ramgavars)—issued a joint statement on the centenary of the Sèvres Treaty, stating that the treaty is the only international document defining ...
The Zoryan Institute of Canada, a center for contemporary Armenian research and documentation, was established in 1984. [51] The three traditional parties of the Armenian diaspora are present in Canada. The nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF, Dashnaktsutiun) is by far the largest and most influential with nine chapters. [4]
Armenian nationalism has notably been opposed to Turkish nationalism. According to Brannen, to the Armenian diasporic communities in the United States and Canada, historical memory of the Armenian genocide carried out by Ottoman Turks in April 1915 had become a focus around which formation of Armenian identity takes place. [12]