Armenian Revolutionary Federation
Name ( in Armenian ) Type Date est Location Language ( s ) Website
Yerkir ( Երկիր ) weekly 1991 Yerevan , Armenia Eastern Armenian www .yerkir .am
Aparaj ( Ապառաժ ) weekly Stepanakert , Artsakh Eastern Armenian aparaj .am
Alik ( Ալիք ) daily 1931 Tehran , Iran Eastern Armenian alikonline .ir
Housaper ( Յուսաբեր ) daily 1913 Cairo , Egypt Western Armenian
Aztag ( Ազդակ ) daily 1927 Beirut , Lebanon Western Armenian www .aztagdaily .com
Asbarez ( Ասպարէզ ) daily 1908 Los Angeles , California , U.S Western Armenian , English asbarez .com
Hairenik ( Հայրենիք ) weekly 1899 Watertown , Massachusetts , U.S Western Armenian hairenikweekly .com
Armenian Weekly weekly 1934 Watertown , Massachusetts , U.S English armenianweekly .com
Haytoug ( Հայդուկ ) youth magazine ( AYF ) 1978 Los Angeles , California , U.S Western Armenian , English www .haytoug .org
Horizon ( Հորիզոն ) weekly 1979 Montreal , Canada Western Armenian , English , French horizonweekly .ca
Ardziv ( Արծիւ ) youth magazine ( AYF ) 1991 Toronto , Canada Western Armenian , English , French ardziv .org
Artsakank ( Արձագանգ ) weekly Nicosia , Cyprus Western Armenian , English www .artsakank .com .cy
Azat Or ( Ազատ Օր ) weekly 1945 Athens , Greece Western Armenian , Greek azator .gr
Kantsasar ( Գանձասար ) weekly 1978 Aleppo , Syria Western Armenian www .kantsasar .com
Armenia ( Արմենիա ) weekly 1931 Buenos Aires , Argentina Western Armenian , Spanish diarioarmenia .org .ar
Media
ARF and its affiliate organizations worldwide publish 12 newspapers : 4 daily and 8 weekly . Also , there are two TV channels , including one online . Two radio stations are aired everyday , including one online . Periodicals
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) (classical Armenian: Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն, ՀՅԴ),[a] also known as Dashnaktsutyun[b] (in a short form, Dashnak), is an Armenian nationalist and socialist political party founded in 1890 in Tiflis, Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia) by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian. Today the party operates in Armenia, Artsakh and in countries where the Armenian diaspora is present. Nowadays it constitutes a minor party, and as of December 2018 was represented in two national parliaments with 7 seats in the National Assembly of Artsakh and three seats in the Parliament of Lebanon as part of the March 8 Alliance. The ARF has traditionally advocated democratic socialism and is a full member of the Socialist International since 2003, which it had originally joined in 1907. It has the largest membership of the political parties present in the Armenian diaspora, having established affiliates in more than 20 countries. Compared to other Armenian parties which tend to primarily focus on educational or humanitarian projects, the ARF is the most politically oriented of the organizations and traditionally has been one of the staunchest supporters of Armenian nationalism. The party campaigns for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the right to reparations. It also advocates the establishment of United Armenia, partially based on the Treaty of Sèvres of 1920. The ARF became active within the Ottoman Empire in the early 1890s with the aim of unifying the various small groups in the empire that were advocating for reform and defending Armenian villages from massacres that were widespread in some of the Armenian-populated areas of the empire. ARF members formed fedayi groups that defended Armenian civilians through armed resistance. The Dashnaks aspired towards the wider goal of creating a free, independent and unified Armenia, although they nearly always set aside this goal in favor of a more realistic approach, such as advocating autonomy. In 1918, the party was instrumental in the creation of the First Republic of Armenia, which fell to the Soviet communists in 1920.