By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 31 — Turkey will start its second United Nations Security Council presidency on September 1. Turkish news sources confirm that the presidency term is for one month. Turkey joined the UN Security Council as a non-permanent member in January 2009 and will have the seat until the end of 2010. [...]
By Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, August 30 — The Iranian Vice President and Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization Chief Hamid Baghai during the conference “Iran: the Bridge of Victory” announced that the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against the Armenian people, Turkish news agencies inform. The conference was devoted to the 70th anniversary of the Iranian conquest [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, August 20–The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Ahmet Davutoglu said that he personally regretted the reaction of the Turkish government, which was sent to the European Court of Human Rights in response to a claim of the successors of Hrant Dink. “When I heard the defensive speech of the government [...]
By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, July 19–Turkey won’t open the border with Armenia for the “Armenia-2010″ joint military exercise within the framework of NATO “Partnership for Peace,” according to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. “Opening the border is out of the question,” he said during the OSCE Informal Ministerial that took place in Almaty. He added [...]
YEREVAN (Tert.am), June 18–Yesterday the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC) gave “Public Service Award” to the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmet Davutoğlu. According to Turkish mass media the rewarding ceremony took place in Four Seasons hotel in Istanbul. Recently Gary Ackerman, chairman of the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Middle [...]
BY DONALD WILSON BUSH On the surface, the Woodrow Wilson International Center (WWC) for Scholar’s intent to honor Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, on June 17 th with this year’s WWC Public Service Award seems innocent enough. But, in my opinion, it is not-and those closest to the situation would certainly agree. Not least among [...]
BY DAVID BOYAJIAN Woodrow Wilson, the 28th American president, is looking down in horror at what the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (WWC; WilsonCenter.org) is doing in his name. Most Americans are not aware of the DC-based organization, or that their taxes comprise one-third of its multi-million dollar annual budget. The WWC was created [...]
