Baikar
Baikar is an Armenian language weekly published by the Baikar Association Inc., in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States.
It was established in 1922 and published in Armenian as a daily and was an official organ of the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party also commonly known as Ramgavar Party. It is considered as a continuation of the publication Tsayn Hayrenyats established in 1899.
After publishing for decades as a daily, it was changed into a weekly and later on ceased publication.
Baikar is the sister publication to the English language Armenian Mirror-Spectator and published from the same premises.
Re-launch
The publication was renewed as a weekly starting January 2018. Headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, the new Baikar is widely available as a print publication in California and Lebanon and is available online elsewhere.Distinction
There were a number of lesser important Armenian publications also called Baikar completely unrelated to ADL's Baikar:- Baikar, a literary, political, economic and general interest Social Democratic publication with participation of Bolshevik 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 publication Panvori Grive 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 by Abaraj the official organ of ARF Artskah.
- Baikar an Armenian-language electronic publication in 2008 in support of Levon Ter-Petrossian's movement