Istanbul
ISTANBUL (New York Times) — The Turkish police forcefully dispersed a group of activists, some of them women in their 80s, over the weekend, breaking up a regular vigil in[...]
By Andrea Shalal and Leo Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) — Germany on March 6 said it would review Turkey’s request for the extradition of a Syrian Kurdish leader on constitutional grounds[...]
ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Armenian-Turkish Member of Parliament representing the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Garo Paylan has sent an inquiry to Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu regarding the Istanbul government’s interference and[...]
By Raffi Bedrosyan The never-ending manipulations and power games at the Istanbul Patriarchate took a turn for the worse this week. In 2008, the Istanbul Patriarch Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan was[...]
ISTANBUL (Financial Times) — Police arrested senior members of the Turkish Medical Association on Tuesday, January 30, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan branded the group “terrorist lovers” for calling for[...]
ISTANBUL (Public Radio of Armenia) — Saida Ohanyan, President of the International Association of Hamshanuhi of the Armenian women of Hamshen, announced that they nominated the HDP Armenian deputy Garo[...]
There was a time when the nine-year-old crisis at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul was close to a resolution. But new developments have given a different spin to the problem,[...]
ISTANBUL (Panorama.am) — The municipality of Istanbul adopted a decision to name Toshabag Street in the Beyoglu District after renowned Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, Ara Guler, Agos newspaper. The source says the[...]
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Turkish Parliament on Tuesday, October 10, in its first legislative session of the new term, stripped Kurdish lawmaker Besime Konca of her membership[...]
By Tugce Ozsoy and Selcan Hacaoglu ISTANBUL (Bloomberg) — Markets in Istanbul tumbled after the US and Turkey stopped issuing visas for each other’s citizens in a spat related to last year’s failed[...]