‘All News Headlines’ Archives
Turks accuse PM Erdogan of racism
More than 100 protesters took to the streets of Istanbul Friday, accusing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of racism over his threat to deport illegal Armenian workers. Between 100-150 demonstrators marched along the Istiklal Avenue, the main commercial street on the European side of [...]
UN Sec. Gen. to visit Middle East
March 20-21, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will hold talks in Palestine and Israel in the course of his Middle East tour. He will meet with a number of high-ranking officials, including Israeli President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Palestinian Premier Salam [...]
Turkey has no moral right to impose any conditions: RA President
RA President Serzh Sargsyan delivered an interview to Euronews TV channel Q.: President Sargsyan, with 23 votes in favour of the resolution and 22 against, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has decided to declare that the 1915 massacre of over one million [...]
European Armenians condemn Erdogan’s statement
Assembly of Armenians of Europe (AAE) condemned recent statement by Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that if needed he will deport 100.000 illegal Armenians from the country. “This fact also comes to prove that in modern Turkey too xenophobia is spread, particularly intolerance towards [...]
Thousands flights cancelled due to British Airways strike
March 20, as many as 12.000 stewards of British Airways went on strike. Thousands flights are cancelled, hence within next few days each third passenger will not travel anywhere. Conflict between the trade union and airline management lasts for already 6 months. British Airways employees are [...]
Who are you, Mr. Erdogan?
Erdogan is a man of strong words, while two of three are pretty good, the third one messes things up, reads the article by Mustafa Akyol in Turkish Hurriyet Daily News. The author calls the Premier’s recent statement about deportation of 100.000 illegal Armenians living and working in Turkey [...]
Levon Aronian defeated Vugar Gashimov
March 19, Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian defeated Azerbaijani Vugar Gahsimov in the sixth round of Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament in Nice, France. The results of the sixth round are as follows: Dominges (Cuba)-Karjakin (Russia)-rapid 0:1, blind 0:1 Kramnik (Russia)-Smeets [...]
The genocide problem – states, parliaments and people
There is a heated debate in Turkey following the decisions of the Swedish Parliament and the US House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee on the Armenian issue. If we put aside Turkey’s well-known official thesis on this subject, we must admit that there must also be a theoretical [...]
Lionel Shriver How I failed my best friend
I met Terri in the early 1980s at an arts camp in Connecticut. We were both in the metalsmithing workshop, and this sharply featured, appealingly surly Armenian taught me some new tricks. Her speciality was rivets and other "cold connections", an apt expression in her case. She was a wilful, [...]
U.S. congressional panel recognize as genocide 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks
The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915 remains an emotional issue. A major U.S. congressional panel has described the massacre as genocide. In this report from Washington, Senior Correspondent André de Nesnera looks at the ramifications of the congressional action for the [...]