Istanbul

ISTANBUL (Turkish Minute) — A Turkish court has sentenced nine defendants to life in prison in the retrial of public officials accused of complicity in the 2007 assassination of Turkish-Armenian[...]

ISTANBUL — Hrant Dink, who was assassinated 18 years ago in front of the Sebat Building, where Agos Newspaper’s former office was located, was commemorated by thousands of people on[...]

WASHINGTON (Middle East Forum Observer) — On December 22, 2024, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rallied a crowd of his Islamist supporters in Mardin, not far from the Syrian border.[...]

WATERTOWN — Project Save Photograph Archive presented as part of its “Conversations on Photography” series an illustrated talk on October 24 by Erhan at its new Watertown headquarters, which was[...]

ISTANBUL — On the occasion of the 155th anniversary of the birth of Gomidas (Komitas) Vartabed, on Saturday, October 26, a concert was organized in Beyoglu Holy Trinity Armenian Church,[...]

ISTANBUL (Stockholm Center for Freedom) — A journalist in western Turkey was detained and subsequently fired from her job after she expressed condolences for Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen during a live[...]

Just over a century ago, Turkey and the Soviet Union signed the Treaty of Moscow. The agreement fixed the border and formalized relations between the two countries. Shortly after, the[...]

ISTANBUL (Public Radio of Armenia) — The 500-year-old Surp Sarkis Armenian Church in Diyarbekir will soon undergo major renovations, Anadolu Agency reported on June 4. One of the historical Armenian[...]

WATERTOWN — The Society of Istanbul Armenians of Boston (SOIAB) held a successful dinner dance at the Tekeyan Cultural Association’s hall in the Baikar Building on May 18, where the[...]

By Alex Marshall ISTANBUL (New York Times) — The Istanbul Biennial, one of the European art world’s major events, was thrown into disarray on January 19 when its lead curator[...]