Scout Tufankjian
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Photojournalist. Journalist safety fanatic. @risctraining consultant. Former @barackobama , @pressfreedom . Lover of chi kufte and manti. 🇦🇲
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Does the
@nytimes
have access to a fact checker? Or say- a map? These aren’t clashes and they aren’t in Nagorno-Karabakh. They are strikes on cities and towns inside the internationally-recognized borders of the Republic of Armenia. Getting VERY tired of this inaccuracy.
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Amalia was born in Martakert in 1920.
She is now a refugee.
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Keys hang from a tapestry at a school in Aralez, Armenia, representing the keys of homes left behind by the survivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915
This school is now welcoming in children from Artsakh who have been forced to flee their homes in 2023.
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PSA: My fellow Armenians, Arabs, Persians, Kurds, Turks, Greeks, and other people of the Middle/Near East. Update your phone's OS. The evil eye emoji has arrived!
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A young Armenian boy tries to comfort his new classmate, a young refugee from Artsakh, Aralez village, Ararat Marz.
Thanks to
@TeachForArmenia
for their emergency work helping the kids of Artsakh.
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A woman weeps as she crosses the border from Artsakh into Armenia.
“You know,” said my friend
@SiranushSargsy1
. “It was only when the volunteers handed me food and water after the crossing, that I realized that I am now a refugee.”
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Artsakh refugees, Goris, Republic of Armenia, September 28, 2023
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Sevak, Areg, Alissa, and Anna Poghosyan, Karmir Shuka, November 23, 2020.
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Artsakh refugees, Kornidzor, Armenia, September 28, 2023
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The first time I was in Turkey, a woman in Ankara asked me, with genuine curiosity:
“Oh yes. There used to be a lot of Armenians around here. Where did you all go?”
Armenians have lived in Karabagh for 3000 years.
And they just, one day, randomly, for no reason, just got up and voluntarily left.
This what Azerbaijan wants us to believe.
Wait no they left because they’re racist against Azeris. That’s the official narrative.
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Very very excited and very proud to be a newly minted citizen of the Republic of Armenia! 🇦🇲🇦🇲
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Massis Harutyunyan, age five, in Stepanakert on his way home to Karmir Shuka.
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Refugees from the village of Vank, Artsakh on their way to shelter in Syunik, Armenia.
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April 24, 2014: The remains of Sourp Sarkis Armenian Church, Diyarbakir/Amed/Tigranakert
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In Goris with Paris Mayor
@Anne_Hidalgo
and other French politicians, as they lead a convoy of trucks bearing food and humanitarian aid to try to end Azerbaijan’s blockade of Artsakh that has left 120,000 people without access to food, medicine and other necessities.
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Artsakh refugees from Vank, the Gates of Syunik, October 1, 2023
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Going home, Yerevan, December 2020: Nineteen year-old Robert Charchyan jokes around with Karo Pogosyan, who has been his roommate at Armenia’s National Burn Center, while packing up his things to finally return home again.
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Armenian men play cards under the watchful eye of Ataturk at the çay evi in Vakifli. Once one of the six villages that made up Musa Ler, Vakifli is the only Armenian village left- not only in Musa Ler, but in the whole of Turkey.
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Pomegranate and missile fragment, Martakert, Artsakh, November 2020
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Saying this again - Armenian Americans - if the Dems win both Senate seats in Georgia - this man will be the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations committee. I can't think of a single thing in American politics that could benefit Armenians more than that.
Menendez statement on developments in South Caucasus
@SenatorMenendez
(D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Russia-negotiated agreement to cease fighting in the south Caucasus region.
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So I am taking Armenian classes twice a week, and I have just come across the concept of collective nouns (like մերոնք and Արամենք) and they are SO wonderful and SO useful and every language should have them (but obviously Armenian does because this is how we live).
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Bella waits with her family on the streets of Goris after fleeing her home in Artsakh.
According to
@UNICEF
and
@SavetheChildren
, almost a third of the refugees from Artsakh are children.
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Trumpers are mad at the ANCA for endorsing a Dem instead of…an Armenian Genocide denier.
Absolute clowns.
The ANCA is proud to endorse
@JohnFetterman
for their principled, powerful advocacy for policy priorities of special concern to Americans of
#Armenian
heritage and all our community and coalition partners.
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I'm not sure what is worse, the UN one, this one or the Israeli one.
Beyond tone deaf.
Thanks for nothing, you bastards.
Happy Independence Day, Armenia! The EU congratulates Armenian citizens on a day of celebration of Armenian statehood and democracy. We encourage Armenia to continue building a fully-fledged democracy, ensuring good governance, the rule of law and the protection of human rights.
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The absolute useless bastards.
BREAKING - United Nations mission visiting Nagorno Karabakh as we write to assess the humanitarian needs on the spot. First time this occurs in around 30 years.
Source:
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Happy Independence Day, Armenia (and to these absolute queens).
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We opened on of the last Artsakh-produced bottles of Kataro for Christmas dinner. Thinking of all my friends in Artsakh and hoping to see them all soon.
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Artsakh refugees, whenever possible brought with them whatever was most precious to them.
This family from Stepanakert brought their cat, Sonya.
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Best friends from Stepanakert, Artsakh.
Now refugees sharing a tent outside of the Masis Municipality.
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I have no words large enough to encompass the sheer horror of this.
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Y'know, it might be nice if articles about the possibility of Genocide recognition didn't spend so much time discussing how difficult it is for Turkey, and instead engaged with the possibility of how amazing a Turkey that both acknowledged and celebrated its diversity could be.
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A young girl from Artsakh waits for her family outside of a crowded refugee registration center in Goris, Syunik, Armenia.
According to UNICEF and Save the Children, almost a third of all refugees from Artsakh are children.
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Artsakh refugees wait outside of a crowded registration center in Goris, Armenia.
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A young Armenian refugee looks out the window of her grandfather’s truck onto the mountains of Artsakh, mountains that had, until that morning, been her home.
According to
@UNICEF
and
@SavetheChildren
, almost a third of the Artsakh refugees are children.
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A young girl sits outside of a refugee registration center in Goris, surrounded by everything her family could save from their home in Herher village, Artsakh.
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A refugee family from Stepanakert, Artsakh, now in Masis, Armenia.
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The current attacks have been within the internationally recognized border of the Republic of Armenia NOT Karabakh. This tweet is incredibly misleading.
BREAKING: Armenia says that 49 soldiers were killed in nighttime attacks by Azerbaijani forces. Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in a decades-old conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The best time to stop a war is before it begins.
There are multiple signs pointing to a huge increase in weapons and troop movements in Azerbaijan. The movements could be exercises, as they claim, but the increase in weapons imports from Israel makes this much more concerning.
Fourth Azeri heavylifter to Israeli AFB Ovda in one week - now over Turkey.
🚨Will be the 102nd! heavylifter (in 7yrs) at the base
📷Silkway got exempt by Israeli authorities to fly explosives via secluded desert airstrip
🛩️4k-az40
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Artsakh kids play outside of a refugee registration center in Vayk, as their mothers try to figure out their futures.
According to UNICEF and Save the Children, almost a third of the Artsakh refugees are children.
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Books belonging to an Artsakh refugee, Goris, Armenia, September 30, 2023
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Just a reminder that the ADL spent *years* lobbying against Armenian Genocide recognition and has less than zero moral high ground.
ADL is now demanding the IRS and FBI go after college orgs that advocate for Palestinians:
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A small dog sits, forgotten, in a building used to house young soldiers on their way to the front. Aygestan, November 21, 2020
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A young Artsakh refugee waits for his mom to pick him up after school in Aralez village.
Huge thanks to
@TeachForArmenia
for supporting these kids.
Almost a third of all refugees from Artsakh are children.
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Happy Independence Day, Artsakh!
With much love to all of my friends struggling to provide for their kids despite Azerbaijan’s horrific blockade.
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TFW you have imprisoned all the English speakers and end up accidentally recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
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There's definitely some level of irony in the difficulty I am having in legally proving my Armenian-ness to Armenia, when Turkey just assigned me an Armenian-coded ID number right off the bat, without my even mentioning my ethnicity.
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I can’t believe it took me this long to realize that Baby Yoda is just a green Cheburashka.
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And yet
@USAmbUN
is doing absolutely nothing about the 120,000 people being deliberately starved by the Azerbaijani government.
The US and EU could stop this blockade in about five minutes, but choose not to.
An absolutely disgraceful dereliction of duty to humanity.
.
@USAmbUN
: In a world abundant with food, no one should ever starve to death – ever. This is a humanitarian issue, this is a moral issue, and this is a security issue. And we must address the most insidious driver of famine and food insecurity: conflict.
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These kids are straight up heroes.
All respect and love to the young gamavors of Goris.
Bright and beautiful faces of the young Armenian volunteers of Goris, Armenia, who greet the Artsakh refugees with food and water, and most importantly with the love and care the heroic people of
#NagornoKarabakh
deserve. Thank you!
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A massively overlooked issue is that the world seems to expect Artsakh Armenians to be perfectly fine with going from being governed by a vibrant democracy to being ruled by a dictatorship that is known globally for massive and horrific human rights violations.
It is madness.
The
@BBCWorld
:
"You know what level of human rights violations occur in Azerbaijan. With their entire hatred policy, how could you expect that there would be a good attitude towards Armenians in Karabakh?"
#StopArmenianGenocide2023
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Grandmother and granddaughter, displaced from Shushi, Nor Noragyugh, Artsakh
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My family is from Musaler and Kharpert, and throughout my travels in the Old Country, I have spent a lot of time in Ainteb, Marash, Diyarbakir, Urfa, Adana, Malatya, Aleppo, Kessab, and many many other cities living through the horror of this earthquake. My heart is with them.
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A young Armenian volunteer tries to cheer up two year-old Tatev, who was born in Tsovategh village in Martuni, Artsakh and is now a refugee.
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Armenian friends- I want to do all my Christmas shopping from places that have either had or are having fundraisers for Artsakh refugees. And I’m having a depressingly hard time finding places. So let’s get a list together of stores helping Artsakhtsis.
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And still, in September the newspapers claimed that the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh “came out of nowhere.”
Never mind that they were deliberately deaf to our screams.
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A young Artsakh refugee sits with her new classmates in the school gymnasium in Aralez village.
Almost a third of all Artsakh refugees are children.
Thanks to
@TeachForArmenia
for their emergencies work with these kids.
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Oh god
💔
4-year-old Mika, a refugee living in a restaurant in Bambakashen with 30 others, overheard me speaking in the Artsakh dialect today while we were with the
@AGBU
program providing food. His eyes filled with hope as he asked, "Did you come to take us back home?"
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Doesn't count as Russian gas if it's laundered through a third country (Azerbaijan), right
@vonderleyen
?
Absolutely outrageous hypocracy.
The EU’s gas storage has reached 90%, well ahead of schedule.
This will help us be safe this winter.
Together, we are weaning ourselves off Russian gas.
And we keep working in parallel on more diverse energy supplies for the future.
#REPowerEU
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Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet, Yerevan, Armenia
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Very proud that some of my work is in
@hyperallergic
’s special Artsakh issue (along with
@simonforco
, and many others). Huge thanks to
@hragv
for making this happen.
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Writing about the Armenian Genocide in the answer to a essay question about events around WW1 in middle school history.
My teacher had never heard of it and marked the answer as incorrect.
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Artsakh refugees, Kornidzor, Syunik.
The AZ govt blockade cut the Armenians of Artsakh off from all vital goods- so this boy had not had candy in months, until he was handed chocolate by a volunteer after his family crossed the border.
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It is absolutely outrageous that Azerbaijani government-sponsored fake “eco” protesters and so-called Russian “peacekeepers” have been able to completely blockade 120,000 civilians- separating families, cutting off access to food and medicine with ZERO major media coverage.
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This just arrived from Paris, and I am over the moon. It is an original brochure from 1944 printed by the Nazis along with the more famous Affiche Rouge in an attempt to discredit the Manouchian Group- the French Resistance fighters led by my personal hero Missak Manouchian.
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Ա is for Ավետիս։
Huge thanks to the amazing Koral Ladna at
@Inkedmag
for the gorgeous tattoo and to
@MalayanRuben
for the beautiful trchnakir.
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I spent a few days with
@WCKitchen
, who in partnership with
@agbu
,
@alinekamakian
and a squadron of amazing volunteers- many from Artsakh- have been helping to feed the Artsakh refugees, including this tiny baby- the youngest of three who had to flee her home in Stepanakert.
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Someday, I will learn not to show up on time to an Armenian event.
But not today.
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Holy shishkebab, we are in the
@nytimes
.
Huge congrats to
@AMrjoian575
and all of the amazing contributors!
🧿
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🧿🧿🧿Ok you guys - I'm posting this so I keep myself honest (and do my homework!), but I'm starting Armenian language classes later this week! 🧿🧿🧿
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