By Matthias Bjørnlund From 1915, the Danish relief worker and teacher Karen Jeppe witnessed and experienced the Armenian Genocide first-hand in the Ottoman town of Urfa: the death marches, the[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach With these words Percy Bysshe Shelley concluded his “Ode to the West Wind,” and they serve as well to characterize the mood pervading the commemorations in Germany[...]
By Peter Balakian Siamanto was arrested on April 24, 1915, in Constantinople/Istanbul along with the famous group of about 250 Armenian cultural leaders; he, along with one segment of that[...]
By Ümit Kurt The question in one sentence: “What happened to the Armenians on April 24, 1915?” What happened on April 24 in fact is one of the significant radical[...]
ECHMIADZIN – On April 23, the Armenian Church is canonizing the martyrs of the Armenian Genocide at the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin. The service will be led and presided over by Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch[...]
The sun has set. The final rays of light stretch out from the edge of the clouds. The mountaintops remain snow covered. And I walk. The passers-by, the workers, their carts,[...]
By Alin K. Gregorian I have spent a lifetime hearing about the events of 1915 and I can say that this is an anniversary whose commemoration I have both looked[...]
By Peter Sourian This story occurred several years ago at Bard College in upstate New York, where I taught Literature and Writing for the last 45 years, until June 2010.[...]
43 US States Which Recognize the Armenian Genocide Alaska 1990 (Senate), 1990 (Governor) Arizona 1990 (Governor) 2009 (Municipal: Scottsdale, Tempe) Arkansas 2001 (Governor) California 1986 (Governor), 1991[...]
ANKARA (Agence France Presse) — The first ever member of Turkey’s Armenian community to hold the post of senior advisor to the Turkish prime minister has retired, an official announced[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Turkey finds itself more and more isolated on the sinking boat of denialism, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said in an interview, when asked to describe Turkey’s[...]
