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WALL STREET JOURNAL: "ARMENIA EMBRACES SYRIANS, WARILY"
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13:00, December 5, 2012
Joe Parkinson, the Wall Street Journal's Turkey Bureau Chief, has
been reporting from Yerevan this week.
His first article, Winning Move: Chess Reigns as Kingly Pursuit in
Armenia, deals with the government's 2011 decision to make chess
compulsory in schools.
Armenia Embraces Syrians, Warily, is Parkinson's most recent article
and covers the plight of Armenians who have fled Syria for safe haven
in Armenia.
It would appear that the Wall Street Journal still believes that
when it comes to describing the events of 1915 there are two sides
to the story.
Parkinson writes:
"For some here, the shock of being uprooted from their homes is
magnified by the ghosts of previous sectarian slaughter. The majority
of Syrian Armenians are descended from communities who fled what
Armenians say were the mass killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by
Turks during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Turkey rejects
the accusation, saying there were heavy losses of life on both sides."
Despite this misguided attempt by the WSJ to remain "objective",
the article does succeed in portraying the uncertainty that
Syrian-Armenians now face and how many now are caught in a temporary
limbo between Aleppo and Yerevan.
As to the title of the article, implying that the Armenian government
a further financial strain if more Armenians from Syria arrive,
the following words of Minister of the Diaspora Hranoush Hakobyan
are telling.
"We have said all Armenians are welcome, but our country is not in the
best economic situation. These people need jobs and they need income."
http://hetq.am/eng/news/21243/wall-street-journal-%E2%80%9Carmenia-embraces-syrians-warily%E2%80%9D.html
13:00, December 5, 2012
Joe Parkinson, the Wall Street Journal's Turkey Bureau Chief, has
been reporting from Yerevan this week.
His first article, Winning Move: Chess Reigns as Kingly Pursuit in
Armenia, deals with the government's 2011 decision to make chess
compulsory in schools.
Armenia Embraces Syrians, Warily, is Parkinson's most recent article
and covers the plight of Armenians who have fled Syria for safe haven
in Armenia.
It would appear that the Wall Street Journal still believes that
when it comes to describing the events of 1915 there are two sides
to the story.
Parkinson writes:
"For some here, the shock of being uprooted from their homes is
magnified by the ghosts of previous sectarian slaughter. The majority
of Syrian Armenians are descended from communities who fled what
Armenians say were the mass killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by
Turks during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Turkey rejects
the accusation, saying there were heavy losses of life on both sides."
Despite this misguided attempt by the WSJ to remain "objective",
the article does succeed in portraying the uncertainty that
Syrian-Armenians now face and how many now are caught in a temporary
limbo between Aleppo and Yerevan.
As to the title of the article, implying that the Armenian government
a further financial strain if more Armenians from Syria arrive,
the following words of Minister of the Diaspora Hranoush Hakobyan
are telling.
"We have said all Armenians are welcome, but our country is not in the
best economic situation. These people need jobs and they need income."