Armenian Genocide

GLENDALE — On Thursday, August 17, the Armenian National Committee of America-Glendale held a press conference at the Americana at Brand to update the media and the community at large[...]

BELMONT, Mass. — Dr. Henry Theriault, recently elected as president of the International Association of Genocide Studies (IAGS), will be in conversation with National Association for Armenian Studies and Research[...]

NEW YORK — On August 14, the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), in partnership with Survival Pictures, the production company behind “The Promise,” and major Armenian organizations in North America,[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — The walls of Varagavank monastery in Turkey’s Van province are being constantly demolished, Yeniozgurpolitika.org reports. Ali Kalchik, president of the union of preservation of historical buildings and[...]

TEL AVIV (Armenpress) — Israeli politician Yair Lapid, the founder of Yesh Atid political party called on the authorities of his country to recognize the Armenian Genocide, the Jerusalem Post[...]

WATERTOWN – Yervand Ter-Khachatryan, a prominent literary critic from Armenia, will be in the United States on a book tour sponsored by the Tekeyan Cultural Association (TCA) of the United[...]

ANKARA (AINA) — As part of a package of measures aimed to change internal procedural rules of the Turkish parliament, the legislature’s constitutional committee on Thursday approved a provision banning[...]

By Dr. Eric Esrailian The world has been fighting for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide for years. At a time when some global politicians are once again stoking the[...]

PHILADELPHIA — From Horror to Hope, a collection of stories of Armenian Genocide survivors, was named a Finalist by the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Award in the memoir category[...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The new literary journal Pangyrus includes several pieces by the Armenian feminist writer Zabel Yessayan in its recently-released third issue. Originally published in 2015 as an online[...]

BERLIN — If the Armenians were the ones who suffered the greatest losses in the 1915 genocide, they were not alone. Other Christian minorities in the Ottoman Empire were targeted,[...]