Yeghia Tashjian is a Lebanese-Armenian political activist, researcher and blogger. He founded the New Eastern Politics forum/blog in 2010. Currently, he is the regional officer of Women in War gender-based think tank.
Comment: While Kurdish leaders carefully distance themselves from the attempted coup, Erdogan is now even less likely to compromise or grant political rights to the Kurdish community, writes Yeghia Tashjian
Blog: Two men uprooted from their homes found sanctity in the Armenian district of Beirut. Amid war they found peace and shared the solidarity of the dispossessed, writes Yeghia Tashjian.