By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, February 2 — US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone called Armenian and Turkish scientists upon meeting and jointly studying the events of the common history. “Right now it’s hard to say what statement President Obama will make on April 24, but as President Obama said earlier, Turkish and Armenian people must [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 25 — Bedros Sirinoglu, the head of Turkey’s Armenian community and the chairman of the board of trustees of Surb Prkich Hospital, criticized the passing of the bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide. According to him, France must firstly apologize for the French byword “bad Armenian.” Sirinoglu noted that [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 20 — Turkish President Abdullah Gul said the fair and transparent court decision on the murder case of Hrant, Turkish journalist of Armenian origin, is but a serious challenge for Turkey. “The fair and transparent court decision is especially essential for us, because it refers to one of our non-Muslim [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 12 –Famous Turkish writer, publisher and human rights activist Ragip Zarakolu who is also the director of Belge Publishing House and is currently imprisoned, has presented a petition to the Turkish Grand National Assembly via his lawyer. The petition calls the Assembly upon recognizing Armenian Genocide on the eve of the 100 year anniversary of the [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, December 6 — “Karabakh conflict is close to resolution, because all the states in the region, particularly Russia and the Republic of Armenia realize the significance of the conflict regulation, while the continuation of the Karabakh conflict harms these countries,” said Haluk Ipek, the co-founder, Board Member and Deputy Chairman (Organizational [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 25 — WikiLeaks published a cable of the U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, in which it touches upon the letter of the then Armenian President Robert Kocharyan addressed to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan from April 25, 2005 and the comments of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Republic [...]

By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, August 6 – U.S. President Barack Obama ordered new measures to boost the U.S. ability to stop mass atrocities such as genocide and bar perpetrators of war crimes from entering the U.S. The order sets up an Atrocity Prevention Board of Government agencies to coordinate responses to such events within the administration. In [...]