YEREVAN (Novosti-Armenia), March 14—The only Muslim Congressman on the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Keith Allison, explained why he voted for the adoption of the resolution on the Armenian Genocide. According to the newspaper “Chorord Ishkhanutyun,” Ellison said that his decision is not directed against the Turkish people and that he respects the [...]

YEREVAN (RFE/RL)–Official Yerevan dismissed on Tuesday Turkish warnings that a US congressional resolution describing the 1915 massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide would set back the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations. It also emerged that a group of mostly pro-government Armenian parliamentarians is heading to Washington in an apparent effort to facilitate the [...]

BBC News, January 26–The head of Turkey’s armed forces has responded angrily to a newspaper report accusing the military of plotting to overthrow the government. Gen Ilker Basbug delivered a televised address in which he warned that the military’s patience over a stream of allegations had limits. He insisted coups were a thing of the [...]