Baikar
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Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Owner(s) | Baikar Association Inc. |
Founded | 1922 |
Language | Armenian |
Relaunched | January 2018 |
Headquarters | Watertown, Massachusetts |
Baikar(Պայքար meaning 'Struggle' inArmenian) is anArmenian languageweekly published by the Baikar Association Inc., inWatertown, Massachusetts,United States.
It was established in 1922 and published in Armenian as a daily and was an official organ of theArmenian Democratic Liberal Party(ADL) also commonly known as Ramgavar Party. It is considered as a continuation of the publicationTsayn Hayrenyats(inArmenianՁայն Հայրենյաց meaning Voice of the Fatherland) established in 1899.
After publishing for decades as a daily, it was changed into a weekly and later on ceased publication.
Baikaris the sister publication to theEnglish languageArmenian Mirror-Spectatorand published from the same premises.
Re-launch
[edit]The publication was renewed as a weekly starting January 2018. Headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, the newBaikaris widely available as a print publication in California and Lebanon and is available online elsewhere.[1]
Distinction
[edit]There were a number of lesser important Armenian publications also calledBaikarcompletely unrelated to ADL'sBaikar:
- Baikar,a literary, political, economic and general interest Social Democratic publication with participation of Bolshevik (Communist) and Menshevik Internationalist Armenians. It was published from 1915 to 1519 first as a weekly then as a daily. After a 100 issues, the communists withdrew and started their own publicationPanvori Grive(in Armenian Բանվորի Կռիվը) with the Mensheviks controlling Baikar.
- Baikar,a Turkish Armenian cultural and general interest publication published 1967 to 1971, and after a hiatus of three years, relaunced in 1994.
- Baikar,an underground political and cultural monthly published 1989-1993 by Armenian Socialist Artsakh Party, an unofficial front of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Artsakh Committee. Ceased and eventually replaced byAbaraj(inArmenianԱպառաժ) the official organ of ARF Artskah.
- Baikar an Armenian-language electronic publication in 2008 in support of Levon Ter-Petrossian's movement
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- Armenian-American culture in Massachusetts
- Non-English-language newspapers published in Massachusetts
- Armenian-language newspapers published in the United States
- Newspapers established in 1922
- Watertown, Massachusetts
- Armenian Democratic Liberal Party
- 1922 establishments in Massachusetts
- Newspapers published in Massachusetts stubs
- Armenia stubs