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Some Kurds in a struggle against Turkey began to identify themselves with the Armenians, the very people whom they were encouraged by the Ottoman government to oppress. Today, Turks of Armenian and Kurdish ethnicity coexist in peace. [27] The PKK leadership has recognized the Armenian genocide and apologized for Kurdish involvement. [28]
One of the major contributions of Armenians to American commerce was oriental rugs one of the first to do so in Boston was an Armenian named Hagop Bogigian. [3] Denholm & McKay employed many first generation Armenian Americans women. [4] The first Armenian church in the western hemisphere was built in Worcester on 1891. Picture taken in 1909.
In his annual report on state institutions operating under the Presidency at parliament's Planning and Budget Committee on 26 November 2021, Turkey's vice-president Fuat Oktay stated that Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı, MİT) played an active role in the Nagorno-Karabakh war in 2020, helping to shape ...
Following the 2022 Los Angeles City Council scandal, ANCA-WR's official response stated: . As victims of genocide, and targets of systemic racism and persecution for generations based on our ethnic and religious identity (including an ongoing Armenophobia campaign sponsored by Azerbaijan), the Armenian-American community is all too familiar with the unspeakable damage caused by continued ...
The Armenian National Committee of America works to initiate legislation on issues of concern to the Armenian American community, such as strengthening Armenia as a secure, prosperous and democratic state; supporting Nagorno Karabagh's right to self-determination and independence within secure borders; increasing U.S. aid levels to Armenia to ...
Established on May 23, 2008 by US Congressmen Lincoln Davis (D-Tennessee) and Joe Wilson (R-South Carolina), the Kurdish American Congressional Caucus is a bipartisan Congressional committee focusing on US-Kurdish relations, understanding Kurdish culture, and addressing overarching issues important to Kurdish-Americans in the U.S. and elsewhere.
During the 1910s, Kurdish-Ottoman relations were complex as some Ottoman Kurds had sided with the Committee of Union and Progress against the Christian minorities for opportunistic reasons, while others had positioned themselves against the Ottomans and sided with the Christians.
The third World Kurdish Scientific Congress, Stockholm, October 11–13, 2013. The Second World Kurdish Scientific Congress, Erbil, Kurdistan, October 11–15, 2012. Keynote Speech; "Genocide, Minorities and Memories", Symposium and Commemoration of the Armenian genocide, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 22 April 2012. Jews, Kurds and Palestinians.