WASHINGTON (Glendale News Press) — After a joint letter from more than 30 members of Congress, a letter from local Armenian leaders, years of community pressure and a petition drive[...]
ISTANBUL (Combined Sources) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech on April 23 in which he expressed his condolences to those who “shared pain,” was interpreted by many in the[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Just about one week before the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, Peace of Art was notified by Clear Channel that the Armenian Genocide commemorative billboard, which had been[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — On Sunday, April 27, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and the Harvard Foundation are cosponsoring “An Evening of Remembrance: Armenia, The Holocaust[...]
By Lauren Abdel-Razzaq DETROIT — Ramela Carman was just a baby in 1915, when the Turkish government began exterminating Armenians or exiling them to other parts of the Ottoman Empire. Her[...]
BOSTON — This year marks the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In recognition of the occasion, the annual State House Commemoration to honor and remember those who suffered through[...]
WATERTOWN, Mass. — The Armenian Orphan Rug… “still remains orphaned,” as Dr. Hagop Deranian said during his presentation at the opening of the Armenian Museum of America’s latest exhibit on[...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite heavy opposition by pro-Turkey lobbying groups, the California State Assembly voted unanimously on Jan. 29 to pass Assembly member Adrin Nazarian’s bill, AB 659, encouraging schools[...]
PRAGUE (RFE/RL and Armenpress) — Czech President Milos Zeman said this week that the mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey amounted to “genocide.” “Next year it will be 100[...]
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) — Denying that mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 were genocide is not a criminal offence, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on[...]
By Philip Kennicott WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — The rug was woven by orphans in the 1920s and formally presented to the White House in 1925. A photograph shows President Calvin Coolidge[...]
