‘Armenia’ Archives
Sunday’s Zaman: Turkey should face what happened in 1915 without any foreign pressure
Thanks to a kind of strange Turkish exceptionalism, military generals should speak every day so that people will see their intellectual caliber and so the army’s meddling with politics will no longer be tolerated, Ihsan Yilmaz, observer of Sunday’s Zaman, wrote in an article he titled [...]
DurDe: Erdogan’s threat calls to mind the Ottoman policy of 1915
The Initiative for "Say Stop to Racism and Nationalism" (DurDe) of Turkey has slammed the statement, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made on March 16, during an official visit to London. “The expressions suggest that the Prime Minister, who has been infuriated by the votes of the [...]
29th conference US-Turkey relations postponed due to passage of Armenian Genocide resolution
The 29th Annual Conference on United States-Turkey Relations, which is organized by Turkish-American Business Council, or TAIK, and American-Turkish Council, or ATC, every year in April, has been postponed. Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey, or DEI.K, stated that the conference, which [...]
Picket in defense of Javakheti Armenians held in Moscow
A picket in defense of Armenians of Samtskhe Javakheti was held in Moscow on March 30. Some 15 people (the number of demonstrators was limited by Moscow authorities) marched with Armenian flags and distributed leaflets telling about the persecutions of Armenians in Georgia. The Javakheti [...]
Azerbaijan, signing truce with NKR, actually recognizes Nagorno Karabakh’s independence
Statements by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev are direct evidence that Baku is not ready to a constructive dialogue over the Karabakh conflict resolution, Shavarsh Kocharyan , Armenian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs said, commenting on the recent statement by the President of [...]
Media Should Appeal to Azerbaijan to Sign Agreement Not to Use Force: Sarsgyan in Euronews Interview
The history is well known. Nagorno-Karabakh has not been part of independent Azerbaijan, said Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in an interview with Euronews TV channel yesterday, in response to the interviewer’s statement that the international community is of a different opinion to that [...]
‘Why Award Ahmadinejad with Honorary Degree?’ Sargsyan Responds
We cannot oblige our neighbours to think as we do, said Serzh Sargsyan in an interview with Euronews TV channel late yesterday evening, responding to the interviewer’s question as to why Yerevan State University would award Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an honorary degree in [...]
Petrol Prices in Armenia Just Keep Going Up and Up
Once again, companies that import and sell gas in Armenia connect this usual raising of the cost of petrol (gasoline) in Armenia with the recorded exchange rate fluctuations of the Armenian dram and the US dollar and with the increase in the cost of oil in the global market. Local Armenian [...]
At Least 8 out of 22 Banks Should’ve Gone Bankrupt, Says Armenia’s Former PM
In a very short period of time, the dollar’s fixed price is going to lead to inflation and Armenia’s economy will collapse, said former prime minister of Armenia Hrant Bagratyan at a press conference today. “Today, the government is searching for approximately 2 billion dollars. If it [...]
If Turkey wants to step over its past, it should not overreact to its mention
“If you want an ugly reminder of the past to stay there, you shouldn't throw a fit whenever someone brings it up. This is a lesson Turkey ought to learn sometime,” reads Tim Giannuzzi’s article in Calgary Herald. Being one of free and well-developed democratic states in Muslim world, [...]