ISTANBUL (New York Times) — Lawmakers from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s governing party pushed through an amendment to the Turkish Constitution on Friday, May 20, that would strip members of Parliament[...]
By Constanze Letsch ISTANBUL (The Guardian) — A push by the Turkish government to strip parliamentarians of their immunity is a clear attempt by the president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to target opposition MPs[...]
ANKARA (Combined Sources) — A rally was scheduled to take place on May 11 in Yerevan, in support of Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament, whose assault was[...]
MISSION HILLS, Calif. — The Ararat-Eskijian Museum presents the award-winning movie “The Cut,” followed by a conversation with screenwriter Mardik Martin, moderated by independent producer Ani Hovannisian, on Sunday, May[...]
By Elif Shafak Amid the political turmoil in Turkey this week, culminating in the prime minister’s announcement that he’ll stand down within days, it was Oscar Wilde who became the subject of[...]
ANKARA (Armenpress) — Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish parliament representing the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), said in an interview on the Turkish Bianet website on May[...]
ISTANBUL — On April 24, Garo Paylan, a parliamentarian of Armenian origin, had the courage to remind his fellow MPs of the dozen Armenian members of the Ottoman parliament whose tragic[...]
LONDON (BBC News) — A UK-based magazine has offered a prize to the author of the most offensive poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is suing a German comedian[...]
WATERTOWN — The Armenians of Istanbul faced extraordinary conditions in the 1920s. Reeling from the chaos and losses of the World War I Genocide, they had little to guide them[...]
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The deputy chairman of a Swedish-Turkish association has resigned after derogatory comments he made about Armenians last week. Barbaros Leylani, who called for death “to Armenian dogs”[...]
BERLIN (Guardian) — In Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s inability to take a joke may hardly be news. But after the Turkish government asked for the prosecution of a German comedian[...]
