Topic: Turkey

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach, special to the Mirror-Spectator ROSENMONTAG, Germany — If it were not so tragic, it would be comical. That might be one way of reflecting on current political[...]

ANKARA (Agos) — The Constitutional Court on February 28 turned down an appealed filed by Member of Parliament Garo Paylan (HDP), demanding the reversal of the sentence he had received[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Jemal Pasha’s grandson Hasan Jemal, a Turkish reporter who has recognized the Armenian Genocide, has been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months’ imprisonment for writing an[...]

By Birce Bora STRASBOURG (Al Jazeera) — Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has filed an application at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) regarding the continued arrest of its[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian The Istanbul Armenian community is one of the most isolated in the diaspora, participating in minimal interaction with the rest of the Armenian communities around the[...]

By Garo Paylan Recently, HDP MP Garo Paylan had been banned from the parliament for 3 sessions and subjected to verbal assault for he used the word “genocide” and his[...]

DAMASCUS (ARA News) — Kurdish officials on Monday accused the Turkish army of shelling the villages of Maranaaz, Vilat al-Qadi, Sheikh Issa east of Afrin district and entering Syrian territory. Turkish[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Selina Dogan, a Turkish-Armenian member of parliament, said this week that banning lawmaker Garo Paylan from the Parliament’s sessions is a blow to freedom of thought and speech,[...]

BELMONT, Mass. — Dr. Umit Kurt, currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, will give a talk titled “The Curious Case of Ali Cenani[...]

WATERTOWN — An emotional program on Sunday, January 22, at the Keljik Hall of St. James Armenian Church paid tribute to the memory of Hrant Dink, a man whose death[...]