International

By Amberin Zaman ISTANBUL (Al Monitor) — “I am firmly convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages.” These were the words that Henry Morgenthau, American ambassador to the[...]

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Rudaw) — The recommendation by Turkey’s Council of Ministers for an extension of a state of emergency on Monday, April 17, should be reversed by its government or[...]

BERLIN — The “Yes” vote in the Turkish referendum may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Not only was the reported margin in favor[...]

CAMBRIDGE, UK — On April 11-12, the third Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies was held at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. This prestigious academic symposium was organized by the Symposia[...]

BAKU (Armenpress) — Blogger Alexander Lapshin has appealed the decision of Baku Nasimi District Court on prolonging his incarceration for another three months, Lapshin’s lawyer told the Azerbaijani Trend agency.[...]

PARIS (Christianity Today) — A fire erupted in the Armenian Evangelical Church of Alfortville, a suburb of Paris, at around 6 a.m. on the morning of April 2, in what is being described[...]

By Adam Davidson WASHINGTON (New Yorker) — The ranking Democratic members of the Senate’s Foreign Relations, Banking, and Judiciary committees have written a joint letter to several Trump Administration officials asking[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — A welcoming ceremony was organized for elected Locum Tenens Archbishop Karekin Bekjian at St. Mary Church of Istanbul’s Armenian Patriarchate, Agos reported. Apart from Bekjian and Chairman[...]

BERLIN — The news that the Turkish intelligence agency MIT was not only spying on German citizens in their home country, but had requested help in this pursuit from the[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — The Locum Tenens of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, is scheduled to arrive in Istanbul on April 2, Istanbul’s Armenian Jamanak daily reports. Earlier Bekjian had said before[...]

By Fatih Gökhan Diler GENEVA, Switzerland (Agos) — A Swiss court on March 22 dismissed the last objections concerning an Armenian Genocide monument that is planned to be built there. This[...]