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About Dr. Henry Astarjian

Dr. Henry Astarjian was born in Kirkuk, Iraq. In 1958, he graduated from the Royal College of Medicine and went on to serve as an army medical officer in Iraqi Kurdistan. He continued his medical education in Scotland and England. In 1966, he emigrated to the U.S. In 1992, he served as a New Hampshire delegate to the Republication National Convention in Houston, Texas. For three years Astarjian addressed the Kurdish Parliament in Exile in Brussels, defending Armenian rights to Western Armenia. For three consecutive years, he addressed the American Kurds in California and Maryland. He is the author of The Struggle for Kirkuk, published by Preager and Preager International Securities. More Posts

Armeno-Kurdish Relations: Love Fest or Divorce Settlement Meetings?

August 19, 2012 // 15 Comments

Like a first date with a potential lover or a last meeting to settle divorce property with an ex, Armenian and Kurdish individuals are in a fest, both knowing full well that negative feelings hover over the canopy under which they are sipping champagne. Both …

Astarjian: A Second Xoybun?

March 22, 2012 // 38 Comments

In the present turmoil in the Middle East—characterized by massive political upheaval, renewed genocidal military operations, threat of nuclear proliferation, and massive population shifts—the Kurdish Cause occupies a central position of concern to the governments of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, and of course us, …

Astarjian: Trick or Treat? An Historic Halloween!

October 11, 2011 // 18 Comments

It is a historic political Halloween! It was disappointing, all right: How a nation that has suffered so much by the hands of Europe and the Nazis, that lost six million of its children to the Holocaust, could be so callous as to deny the …

Astarjian: The Armenian Phoenix

August 11, 2011 // 21 Comments

Seldom in history have so many conglomerated opportunities mandated action in such a short time, on such a wide span of geography, to revive such a major cause related to nationhood, statehood, independence, and sovereignty. The major question is whether we have leaders who have …

Astarjian: Our Muslim Brothers

June 24, 2011 // 395 Comments

Even after 65 years I can almost feel it: the backhanded slap my father unleashed on me for expressing an opinion that was as sinful as condoning adultery. It hurt, and I carried its psychological scars until very recently. That was not the norm for …

Astarjian: National Inventory and a Roadmap

February 23, 2011 // 10 Comments

At the cost of saying I said so, I reiterate my belief that we Armenians, individually and as a nation, are on the wrong track politically, strategically, and tactically to reaching our national goals. We have been so for several decades now! The idea of …

Astarjian: Tales of Winter (Part II)

January 19, 2011 // 4 Comments

I had to stay home. A Nor-Easter had paralyzed Boston except for emergency services; the governor had ordered it so. Billy had plowed some 14 inches of snow from my driveway only an hour before, yet there were two inches on the ground masking the …

Astarjian: A Geopolitical Trisomy

October 30, 2010 // 3 Comments

A tripartite genetic chromosomal derangement otherwise known as Down Syndrome accurately describes the geopolitical entities at play in the Armenian reality today. Armenia, Turkey, and the Armenian Diaspora, separately and in combination, have occupied the political position of Chromosome 21 in the geopolitical cell forming …

Astarjian: Akhtamar: Wrong Church, Wrong Pew!

September 7, 2010 // 30 Comments

Once again Turkey is yanking our chain! Once again they have us, the hounds, chasing the plastic rabbit in a dog race—this time, in the form of a church in Akhtamar. Turkey, in a shrewd move, has allowed an Armenian pilgrimage to the ancient monastery …

Astarjian: A Broken Compass

August 19, 2010 // 5 Comments

Poverty of thought, one manifestation of Alzheimer’s, characterizes the Armenian nation; today we are suffering from it and from global dysfunction of our collective higher mental faculties. We have lost our orientation to self, time, and place, and we have lost our ability to calculate, …