By Edmond Y. Azadian The social unrest sweeping across the Middle East has caught up with Egypt, long considered one of the most stable nations in the region and a[...]
JANUARY • One of the “leftovers of the sword,” Fethiye Cetin, 60, a prominent civil rights attorney in Turkey, had her sense of identity shattered when she learned from her[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — Yerevan’s Mayor Gagik Beglarian was forced to step down on Wednesday after reportedly beating up a member of President Serge Sargisian’s[...]
YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — President Serge Sargisian said broader international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is essential for preventing more crimes against humanity as he opened an international conference in Yerevan[...]
LONDON (Jerusalem Post and AP) — Documents expected to be leaked allege that Turkey allowed citizens to smuggle weapons into Iraq, and that the US helped Kurdish[...]
UNITED NATIONS (ArmeniaNow) — Armenia has accused Azerbaijan of using its oil wealth to fuel “military adventure” amid mounting tensions between the two South Caucasus countries over a disputed region[...]
WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted last week in favor of the administration’s nominee, Matthew Bryza, to serve as the next US ambassador to Azerbaijan, reported the Armenian[...]
ISTANBUL (Wall Street Journal) —The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday, September 14 ruled that Turkey was guilty of failing to protect ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink when authorities[...]
YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — On September 4, Armenian President Serge Sargisian received French actor Gérard Depardieu, who was on a visit to Armenia as a guest of the Karot (nostalgia)[...]
VAN (RFE/RL) — In a dramatic about-face, the Mother See of the Armenian Apostolic Church has decided to boycott the upcoming liturgy at the Surp Khatch Church on Akhtamar, now[...]
NEW YORK — The United Nations, a center of world diplomacy located in New York City, itself one of the most international cities in the world, is a plum posting[...]
