4 May 2010
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Can't be a correspondent without a pretentious headshot.
Hello all! One little bit of news I had been keeping from all of you is that I have just recently gotten started as the new Armenia correspondent for the Faster Times, a cool new online newspaper that is trying to change the model of journalism — hopefully to something that makes its workers money.
Anyways, since I’m a new guy there are still a few kinks in the system to work out, but my first article is already up.
I would be remiss, as the correspondent, to ignore the various announcements and changes regarding the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation protocols, and although I was a bit late getting a piece out on it due to illness and a trip to Abkhazia, I still was able to get my two cents on the issue out there. Enjoy!
Last September, Slate columnist Christopher Hitchens wrote that “engaging with Iran is like having sex with someone who hates you.” If that’s true, then the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process is something like an orgy of mutually despising interlocutors, each only agreeing to do it in the one position the other one hates.
With that visual in mind, it shouldn’t be surprising that after a year of back-and-forths and ups and downs the process came to a screeching halt last month as Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan announced he was “suspending” discussion of the reconciliation protocols — a move that was enthusiastically welcomed by his constituents.
But don’t worry, this doesn’t mean it’s back to the silent game.
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