ISTANBUL (Deutsche Welle) — Selahattin Demirtas, the former co-leader of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been detained for over three years in Turkey’s Edirne high-security prison despite scant evidence[...]

ISTANBUL (IOHR) — Turkey, which arrested four journalists from Kurdish left-wing agencies in December, remains the world’s worst jailer of journalists, the International Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR) said on January[...]

ISTANBUL (Bianet) — The defendant in the case of Sevag Balikçi, an Armenian citizen of Turkey who was shot dead during his compulsory military service, has been sentenced to 16[...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, National Assembly Speaker Ararat Mirzoyan, Secretary of the Security Council Armen Grigoryan, Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, as well as[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — President of Armenia Armen Sarkissian met with President of Rwanda Paul Kagame on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week Forum in the United Arab Emirates[...]

DRESDEN, Germany (Panorama.am) — Azerbaijani opera singer Yusif Eyvazov has refused  to perform on the same stage with Armenian singer because of the latter’s nationality which is said out of[...]

ISTANBUL — On January 11, Bishop Sahak Mashalian (Masalyan), Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, was enthroned in a ceremony held at Istanbul’s Sourp Asdvadzadzin (Holy Virgin) Armenian Cathedral. Mashalian was elected[...]

Pundits and politicians this week have been holding their breaths and trying to guess what will happen next, after the assassination of Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the[...]

ISTANBUL (Ahval) — Turkey has a serious productivity problem because its government has compromised the independence of key institutions and failed to encourage the development of new thought and technologies, said Daron[...]

ISTANBUL (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Turkish journalist, writer and columnist of Armenian descent Etyen Mahçupyan has been named among the leaders of Turkey’s Future Party (“Gelecek Partisi” in Turkish), Ermenihaber.am says[...]

DILIJAN, Armenia — Just over a year ago, Aurora Humanitarian Initiative announced the establishment of the Charles Aznavour Scholarship. Aznavour lent his name and his energy to Aurora from the[...]