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Washington, DC, USA, 2019
AHEPA Supreme President George G. Horiates, flanked by members of the Order of AHEPA, participated in a protest in Lafayette Park, directly across the street from the White House. The Armenian National Committee of America…
AHEPA Commends the United States’ Decision to Impose Sanctions on Turkey
AHEPA commends the United States’ decision today to impose sanctions on Turkey for its procurement of the Russian S-400 missile defense system, announced Supreme President George G. Horiates. “Turkey has demonstrated it is an unreliable…
Armenian Rally for Peace at Philadelphia Art Museum
Philadelphia, PA – Armenian Americans around the Delaware Valley gathered yesterday on the Philadelphia Art Museum steps to help raise awareness and bring peace to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. The afternoon featured protestors waving flags,…
AHEPA Stands with the Armenian American Community
AHEPA Stands with Armenian American Community as Turkey Instigates Further Aggression in the Region. Supreme President George G. Horiates has issued the following statement: AHEPA stands with the Armenian American community as the conflict has…
AHEPA Protests at Turkish Embassy
Supreme President George G. Horiates joined a delegation of AHEPANS who participated in a Rally coordinated by the Hellenic Cultural Center. The AHEPA delegation also had the Executive Director Basil Mossaidis, and members of the…
State Department Responds to AHEPA’s Concerns on Turkish Provocations
In an August 4 letter, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Palmer, who responded at the request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to a July 22 letter sent by…
Primary Sources, And Their Power: The Greek Genocide In American Naval War Diaries
Savvas Koktzoglou is a retired mechanical engineer, a Greek American from Chicago, Illinois. He is a native of Drama, in Greece’s province of Macedonia, a child of Pontic Greeks from the Black Sea who settled…
Hagia Sophia – A Need for Action
The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) released a commentary piece authored by Supreme President George G. Horiates titled, “In Wake of Hagia Sophia’s Status Change, A Need for Action. Let’s Start with…
When “The Big Powers” Called The Shots
How the Aegean Islands Escaped Returning to Turkey It is almost axiomatic, to hear the typical Greek statement: “It’s all controlled by the Big Powers, we’re just little pawns.” Often this is used as a…
Citizen Hanks, Greece Needs You
Let me start by saying that I have always loved Tom Hanks. He is a fantastic actor with a range possessed by few. From humor in Volunteers, where he met his Greek-Pomak-American wife, Rita Wilson,…
Greece, Turkey, and the Exclusive Economic Zone Dispute in the Aegean
Nations have extended their sovereign territorial control over their adjacent seas, usually by means of military (naval) strength. Long ago, this territory was 3 miles, as far as a cannon shot could reach from the…
Samos at the Edge
There is an island, in the far east of the Aegean, the closest island, in fact, to Asia Minor, where a tiny strait separates the island from the Turkish mainland. Its scenery is beautiful, its…
