''Baikar'' (Պայքար meaning 'Struggle' in

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) is an

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weekly published by the Baikar Association Inc., in

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, 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 The Armenian Democratic Liberal Party ( hy, Ռամկավար Ազատական Կուսակցութիւն), the Ramgavar Party, (known before 1921 as the Armenakan party) ( hy, Արմենական Կուսակցութիւն), also known by its Ar ...

(ADL) also commonly known as Ramgavar Party. It is considered as a continuation of the publication ''Tsayn Hayrenyats'' (in

Ձայն 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. ''Baikar'' is the sister publication to the

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Armenian Mirror-Spectator ''The Armenian Mirror-Spectator'' is a newspaper published by the Baikar Association, in Watertown, Massachusetts. Among others, Arthur Derounian (John Roy Carlson) wrote for it. ''The Armenian Mirror'' The origins of the newspaper goes to 19 ...

'' 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.Hairenik Weekly: «Պայքար» Շաբաթաթերթը Վերստին Կը Հրատարակուի (Baikar weekly newspaper restarts publication

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 (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 publication ''Panvori 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 by ''Abaraj'' (in

Ապառաժ) 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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