Turkey

By Amberin Zaman ISTANBUL (Al Monitor) — “I am firmly convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages.” These were the words that Henry Morgenthau, American ambassador to the[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — A welcoming ceremony was organized for elected Locum Tenens Archbishop Karekin Bekjian at St. Mary Church of Istanbul’s Armenian Patriarchate, Agos reported. Apart from Bekjian and Chairman[...]

ISTANBUL (ARA News) — The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has complained that there is a media embargo on the party by the Turkish media with a limited number of[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian Byzantine laws in Turkey have contributed to the delays and complications in the election of a new patriarch in Istanbul. For nine years, the authorities have[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Relations between Berlin and Ankara, already strained by the German Bundestag’s June 2 resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, have ratcheted down since,[...]

By Barney Yates LOS ANGELES (News Blaze) — The following is a conversation between Barney Yates, an American journalist, and Nora Armani, an international actor, playwright and festival producer, about[...]

By Anush Martirosian, Ruzanna Stepanian YEREVAN (RFE/RL) — The Constitutional Court upheld on Tuesday the legality of Armenia’s normalization agreements with Turkey amid continuing protests staged by nationalist groups opposed[...]

By Dan Bilefsky ISTANBUL (New York Times) — Fethiye Cetin recalled the day her identity shattered. She was a young law student when her beloved grandmother Seher took her aside[...]