Turkey

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Garo Paylan may be a familiar name to the Armenian diaspora, but there are currently two other ethnic Armenians serving in the[...]

ISTANBUL (Public Radio of Armenia) — As part of Dink case, the 9th hearing of the trial of public officials kicked off in Istanbul today. Before the start of the hearing Friends[...]

By Julian Borger The high-profile murder of a Russian diplomat in Ankara has inspired fearful comparisons with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 — and prompted some to[...]

By Elif Shafak The Hungarian-British writer Arthur Koestler, born in Budapest at the turn of the last century, became, over the course of his life, intimately familiar with the dangers of[...]

By Allison Kaplan Sommer WASHINGTON (Haaretz) — The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations will co-host a Hanukkah party with the Azeri embassy at the Trump International Hotel[...]

By Baydzig Kalaydjian CHUNKUSH — Recai Altay was married to the grandaugther of Asya, an Armenian who had escaped from the Armenian Genocide. Recai was a Kurd that was murdered[...]

ANTELIAS, Lebanon — On December 6, the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia filed a suit at the European Court of Human Rights demanding the return of the Catholicosate[...]

By Amberin Zaman ISTANBUL (Al-Monitor) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems omnipotent, but few doubt that he is grooming Berat Albayrak as his successor. Foreign officials have described Albayrak[...]

By Cengiz Candar Soon after the insurgency in Syria got underway, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed his sensitivity about Aleppo for the first time. Around midnight on March 29,[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Member of Parliament Garo Paylan, who represents the HDP party, on December 6 submitted questions at parliament to Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus, who had made an inflammatory[...]

By Bilgin Ayata A century after the Armenian Genocide and its ongoing denial by the Turkish state, there has emerged a notable and unprecedented interest in the Armenian past and[...]