Category: News
K-9 Officer Toumayan Shares her Passion with the Community
By Gabriella Gage Mirror-Spectator Staff CONCORD, Mass. — In 1999, Concord Police officer Sylvia Toumayan found a way to combine her passion for canine training with her dedication to helping fellow citizens as an officer of the law. For years Toumayan had dreamt of starting Concord’s first K-9 program because of the potential benefits she [...]
Court Rules Dink Murder Was ‘Organized’ Crime
ISTANBUL (Hetq) — Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals this week overruled previous decisions absolving suspects in the Hrant Dink murder case of any connection to armed criminal organizations, according to Hürriyet Daily News. The ruling states that the suspects are members of such groups and thus it opens the way to their retrial on charges related to [...]
Genocide Survivor Siran Kassabian Receives State House Proclamation
WATERTOWN — The Armenian Community of Massachusetts, with the sponsorship of several state senators and representatives, has organized the Armenian Genocide commemorations at the Massachusetts State House for the last 28 years. At the commemoration, survivors receive proclamations. This year’s commemoration was scheduled to take place on April 19 but was scrapped due to the [...]
Holy Trinity Armenian Church Hosts CNN’s Peter Bergen
CAMBRIDGE — As part of its Dr. Michael and Joyce Kolligian Distinguished Speaker Series, Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Greater Boston hosted a May 7 lecture by CNN national security analyst and journalist, Peter Bergen, who shared his first-hand experience of meeting al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden. Bergen, best-selling author of Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Osama [...]
International Delegation Commemorates Genocide Anniversary in Istanbul
ISTANBUL — An unprecedented joint delegation of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) Europe and European Grassroots Antiracist Movement (EGAM) comprising 20 people from 15 European countries, gathered here to commemorate the Armenian Genocide of 1915. They were invited by DurDe! (Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism), a Turkish organization that has been commemorating the [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Ruslan Tsarni Apologizes to Armenian Community
By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — On April 30, Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of alleged terror suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, contacted the Mirror-Spectator directly to issue an apology to the Armenian community for his recent statements referencing Armenians in his discussions of the Boston Marathon bombings. “Armenia has a very strong culture, therefore, [...]
All Eyes on Watertown
Becomes Hub of Activity as Police Chase Bombing Suspects There Actions Lead to Cancellation of Annual Genocide Commemoration at State House By Gabriella Gage and Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — An unprecedented, frightening and unexpected chain of events that paralyzed the city of Boston in the wake of the bomb attacks at the [...]
Filmmaker Eric Nazarian to Speak at NAASR, Show Short Film,’Bolis’
BELMONT, Mass. — Acclaimed filmmaker Eric Nazarian will give a lecture titled “Shattered Screens: Can Cinema Break Taboos About the Armenian Genocide?” and show his short film Bolis on Thursday, May 2, at 8 p.m. at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), 395 Concord Ave. Nazarian’s 20-minute-long film “Bolis” (2010) tells the [...]
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