Topic: Turkey

Below appears the full text of the speech given by Rakel Dink, the widow of the late journalist, Hrant, on the 10th anniversary of his assassination. It was translated by[...]

By Selcan Hacaoglu and Firat Kozok ANKARA (Bloomberg) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s campaign to secure sweeping executive authority won parliament’s approval early Saturday, January 21. Turks will have the final say[...]

ANKARA (Combined Sources) — Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament, was suspended from parliament for three sessions by the authorities for mentioning “genocide against minorities” in a speech during a debate[...]

By Bruno Waterfield BRUSSELS (Times of London) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey planned to purge opposition forces in the military before July’s attempted coup, according to a secret EU[...]

ZURICH (Swissinfo.ch) — With the backing of Europe’s top human rights court, a Turkish politician keeps testing Switzerland’s tolerance for freedom of speech. Dogu Perinçek, chairman of the Turkish Patriotic[...]

By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A murder almost a decade ago and a genocide a century back impacted one woman so much that she altered the[...]

STOCKHOLM (News.am) — On Wednesday, December 14 made a formal judgment on the case of former Deputy Chairman of the Turkish National Association of Sweden, Barbaros Leylani, who had made several[...]

By Raffi Bedrosyan ISTANBUL — What a difference a year makes. It was August 2015 when Project Rebirth organized trips to Armenia for a large group of hidden Islamized Armenians[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) —UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye met with the members of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey on November 15, Turkish Demokrathaber.net informs. In the meeting with[...]

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,[...]