Turkey

WASHINGTON – House Resolution 296, recognizing the Armenian Genocide and opposing its denial, was accepted by the US House of Representatives by a lopsided majority of 405 to 11 (and[...]

LOS ANGELES — Arpa (Los Angeles) and Pomegranate (Toronto) Film Festivals have slated Ani Hovannisian’s new documentary “The Hidden Map” for their 2019 festivals in November. Prior to any public screenings,[...]

(The following open letter was issued by the Hrant Dink Foundation, based in Istanbul, this past week.) We could not understand the reason why the conference on “Social, Cultural and[...]

By Kareem Fahim and Sarah Dadouch ISTANBUL (Washington Post) — Russia agreed on Tuesday, October 22, to help remove Syrian Kurdish fighters from a large swath of Turkey’s southern border,[...]

Turkey was the beneficiary of pre-Soviet-era turmoil in the Caucasus, signing the Treaty of Kars of 1923; it continues to benefit also during the realignment of powers in the post-Soviet[...]

ISTANBUL (Panorama.am) — Archbishop Karekin Bekchian, one of the candidates for Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, issued a letter on October 21 addressed to Bishop Sahak Mashalian, the locum tenens of[...]

YEREVAN (Combined Sources) — Armenia condemned the Turkish invasion of Syria, according to a message from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, released on October 10. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan[...]

The Middle East is aflame and the political world is in an uproar over the third Turkish incursion into Syria under the code name “Peace Spring.” With this current invasion[...]

ROME (Panorama.am) — Italy’s Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora has urged the European football governing body UEFA to reconsider the decision to play next year’s Champions League final in Istanbul after Turkey’s[...]

By Raffi Bedrosyan Ever since the last Armenian Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan fell ill with dementia but continued to live in a vegetative state in 2008, the seat of the Istanbul[...]