Global Voices First Post
My first entry as Caucasus Editor for Global Voices Online has now been posted and there are no prizes for guessing what it’s about. Even if the title of this post gives the game away, it wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to work out. Indeed, House Resolution 106 recognizing the Armenian Genocide is the main topic related to Armenia being covered not only in the blogosphere, but also by the world media.
It’s not often that Armenia makes international headlines across the globe, but when it does it’s usually because of one issue that remains fiercely debated until this day — the massacre and deportation of as many as 1.5 million Armenians from Ottoman Turkey in 1915-17. 22 countries recognize the events that occurred towards the end of World War I as genocide, a charge that the modern-day Republic of Turkey refuses to accept even though the term was devised by Raphael Lemkin in 1943 with the Armenian and Jewish experience in mind.
This and other roundups of posts from or about the Caucasus, which includes the demise of a leading Gay and Lesbian Armenian organization in France and new amendments to the political system in Georgia, can be found in the Central Asia & Caucasus section of the Global Voices Online site.
Congratulations on your debut! Great post.
Comment by Solanasaurus — October 22, 2007 @ 4:29 am
I would join Solanasaurus - congrats, Onnik! And thanks for your attention to my blogs.
Comment by artmika — October 22, 2007 @ 3:08 pm