By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — As the Turkish military offensive in Afrin has escalated, the caretaker government in Germany has come under growing pressure to[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Gyumri has good reason to celebrate. One of its most prominent sons has been chosen as the honorary consul of[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator COLOGNE, Germany — On the 11th anniversary of the murder of Hrant Dink in front of his Agos office in Istanbul, Turks[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — One by one, and at a painfully slow tempo, German journalists and intellectuals unlawfully imprisoned by the Turkish authorities are being[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator POHLHEIM, Germany — Pohlheim is a small town in Germany, near Giessen in the state of Hessen, with just under 20,000 inhabitants. But[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — It was a refreshing change to see such an initiative in the German capital. As Aurora Humanitarian Initiative co-founder Ruben Vardanyan[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BOCHUM-LINDEN, Germany — This year 2017 Germans celebrated the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. Dubbed as “Luther Year,” it[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — On November 4, retired Gen. Eckhard Lisec delivered a lecture in Darmstadt, Germany entitled, “Marshall Liman von Sanders – An Honorable[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — The news on October 26 that a Turkish court decided to release German human rights activist Peter Steudtner from prison, and[...]
By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Among the hundreds of commemorative events organized to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation over the past year —[...]
FRANKFURT — “World poetry is world reconciliation.” This line is from a poem by the German poet and philologist Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866), whose greatest gift to future generations was his[...]
