Harut Sassounian
Harut Sassounian is the Publisher of The California Courier, founded in 1958. His weekly editorials, translated into several languages, are reprinted in scores of U.S. and overseas publications and posted on countless websites.<p>
He is the author of “The Armenian Genocide: The World Speaks Out, 1915-2005, Documents and Declarations.”
As President of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, he has administered the procurement and delivery of $970 million of humanitarian assistance to Armenia and Artsakh during the past 34 years. As Senior Vice President of Kirk Kerkorian’s Lincy Foundation, he oversaw $240 million of infrastructure projects in Armenia.
From 1978 to 1982, Mr. Sassounian worked as an international marketing executive for Procter & Gamble in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a human rights delegate at the United Nations for 10 years. He played a leading role in the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the U.N. Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities in 1985.
Mr. Sassounian has a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
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Erdogan Claims it’s not Genocide Because not All Armenians were Killed
Within days of releasing a shrewdly-worded statement on April 23, misleading some into thinking that he was acknowledging the Armenian Genocide, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan […]
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Armenians Should Thank Erdogan for… NOT Recognizing the Genocide
Thecaliforniacourier.com Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s statement on the ‘events of 1915’ released in nine languages last week was a major propaganda coup for Turkey, generating […]
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Turkey Still Haunted by Genocide A Hundred Years Later
Every time that the Armenian Genocide is mentioned anywhere in the world, Turkish officials protest hysterically like children caught with the hand in the cookie […]
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Erdogan waves finger at Obama during heated White House talk
Harut Sassounian 14:06 16.04.2014 Pulitzer-prize winning American journalist Seymour Hersh, in a sensational article “The Red Line and the Rat Line,” published in the London […]
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Why Turks Were Capable of Exterminating Armenians, but not Jews
Endless comparisons are made between the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish Holocaust. However, there is yet another comparison that is rarely […]
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What Should Armenians Learn From Prime Minister Erdogan?
The purpose of this column is to draw lessons from the recent attacks on the Armenian town of Kessab in Syria. […]
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Erdogan Claims it’s not Genocide Because not All Armenians were Killed
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Armenians Should Thank Erdogan for… NOT Recognizing the Genocide
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Turkey Still Haunted by Genocide A Hundred Years Later
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Erdogan waves finger at Obama during heated White House talk
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Why Turks Were Capable of Exterminating Armenians, but not Jews
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What Should Armenians Learn From Prime Minister Erdogan?