Joe Parkinson, the Wall Street Journal’s Turkey Bureau Chief, has been reporting from Yerevan this week.

His first article, Winning Move: Chess Reigns as Kingly Pursuit in Armenia, deals with the government’s 2011 decision to make chess compulsory in schools.

Armenia Embraces Syrians, Warily, is Parkinson’s most recent article and covers the plight of Armenians who have fled Syria for safe haven in Armenia.

It would appear that the Wall Street Journal still believes that when it comes to describing the events of 1915 there are two sides to the story.

Parkinson writes:

“For some here, the shock of being uprooted from their homes is magnified by the ghosts of previous sectarian slaughter. The majority of Syrian Armenians are descended from communities who fled what Armenians say were the mass killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Turks during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Turkey rejects the accusation, saying there were heavy losses of life on both sides.”

Despite this misguided attempt by the WSJ to remain “objective”, the article does succeed in portraying the uncertainty that Syrian-Armenians now face and how many now are caught in a temporary limbo between Aleppo and Yerevan.

As to the title of the article, implying that the Armenian government a further financial strain if more Armenians from Syria arrive, the following words of Minister of the Diaspora Hranoush Hakobyan are telling.

"We have said all Armenians are welcome, but our country is not in the best economic situation. These people need jobs and they need income."