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 Eva Sahakyan YEREVAN, September 15 — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) announced its verdict on the Hrant Dink murder case, finding Turkey guilty for violating five points of the Human Rights Convention. According to Public Television of Armenia, the European Court of Human Rights decided that Turkey had violated the right to [...]
By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 31 — Former Eskisehir Police Chief Hanefi Avci’s claims on the fact that the assassination of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was not the work of a criminal network have been met with strong reactions from lawyers representing the slain journalist’s family. Lawyers Fethiye Cetin and Arzu Becerik said it [...]
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 LUCINE KASBARIAN On May 12, at the Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) in Watertown, Massachusetts, editors Emil Sanamyan of the Armenian Reporter and Khatchig Mouradian of the Armenian Weekly spoke about their recent trip to Turkey sponsored by TEPAV – a Turkish think tank that has recently been promoting Turkish-Armenian relations. TEPAV [...]
BY KARINÉ MACRI The blatant disregard for life is no more apparent than in Turkish Prime Minister Recip Tayip Erdogan’s most recent flippant declaration of his willingness to deport over 100,000 illegal Armenian migrant workers from Turkey. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8572934.stm) Erdogan told the BBC that of 170,000 Armenians living in Turkey “70,000 are Turkish citizens.” He goes on [...]
ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday he had no immediate plans to expel illegal Armenian workers after his threat to do so sparked a barrage of criticism at home and abroad. Erdogan however urged Western countries to stop branding the massacres of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as “genocide,” slamming such [...]
