YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 11 – According to a report by the Turkish newspaper Radikal, official Ankara intends to abstain from bilateral relations with Washington until April 24, when president Obama turns to the Armenian people with his speech.
The newspaper reads that particularly after the adoption of the Armenian Genocide resolution by the US House of [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 11–Turkey is extremely unlikely to ratify its fence-mending protocols with Armenia at this juncture, a senior Turkish lawmaker and deputy chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Thursday.
In an interview with RFE/RL’s Armenian service in Yerevan, Suat Kiniklioglu made clear that Ankara continues to make the normalization of [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 9—”The whole beauty of the document, discussed in the last five years in the Karabakh settlement lies in the fact that as a result of its implementation, Karabakh will receive an intermediate independence and security guarantees, while keeping hope of full independence in the future,” said British journalist Thomas de Waal on [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 9—The press service of the Ministry of the Armed Forces of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday reported a breach of the ceasefire by the Azerbaijani army.
According to the report, the violations of the ceasefire were reported in some sections of the contact line between the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and Azerbaijan, from March [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), March 9–Although solidarity with Azerbaijan has led Turkey to tie the approval of the Armenian protocols to progress on Karabakh, there are questions as to whether Baku sufficiently opposed a recent Armenian Genocide resolution in the US Congress, reports Turkish news source Hurriyet Daily News and Economic Review.
A key partner in US- [...]
(Reuters) March 9 — A US resolution that branded as genocide the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One will seriously damage US Turkish relations, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on March 6.
NATO member Turkey, an ally crucial to US interests in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East, has expressed its [...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL), March 5–Just hours after recalling its ambassador to Washington, Turkey urged the U.S. government on Friday to thwart further progress of a draft congressional resolution that describes the mass killings and deportations of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu also warned President Barack Obama against using the word “genocide” [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 05—The Foreign Minister of Armenia Edward Nalbandian said that the adoption of the Resolution on the Armenian Genocide by the US Congress Foreign Affairs Committee is a testament to the American people’s devotion to universal values, the Armenian TV channel Yerkir Media reports.
On March 4, the House Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a resolution on [...]
YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 4—Armenian President Serge Sarkisian at the meeting held on Wednesday with a delegation headed by the President of the European People’s Party, Wilfried Martens, discussed the prospects of Armenia’s European integration.
President Sarkisian also highlighted the importance of the visit of the senior officials and said that such visits open new horizons to the [...]
(Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters), March 3–The US aerospace and defense industry is urging House of Representatives lawmakers to reject a measure that would call a World War One-era massacre of Armenians by Turkish forces genocide, warning it could jeopardize US exports to Turkey.
The chief executives of Lockheed Martin Corp, Boeing Co, Raytheon Co, United Technologies Corp [...]