The Importance of Being There: A First-Hand Look at the Many Faces of the Pro-Turkey Lobby in DC

Shaunt Tchakmak and the ANCA LSI 2015 team in front of the Brookings Institution

BY SHAUNT TCHAKMAK
York University, Class of 2015
ANCA Leo Sarkisian Intern 2015

A majority of the work the Armenian community does to advance the cause happens in our own home towns”“the meetings with officials, the events that we host, the letters that we write. And then, there are the times that you have to be in the room where the ideas are being shaped and recommendations are being made ”“ on Artsakh, Armenia, the Armenian Genocide and the whole host of community concerns.

The ANCA Leo Sarkisian team learned the importance of our presence in Washington first hand at a “think tank”