‘World’ Archives
‘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 [...]
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, [...]
Turkish PM steps back from Armenian expulsion threat
ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday he had no immediate plans to expel illegal Armenian workers after his threat to do so sparked a barrage of criticism at home and abroad. Erdogan however urged Western countries to stop branding the massacres of [...]
Erdogan became jest for world media
Erdogan’s words that media misinterpreted his statement on deportation of 100.000 illegal Armenians from the country, aroused sarcasm of foreign media. German Der Tagesspiegel refers to CNNTurk’s ironic quotation: “The guilty are found – it’s media representatives,” Erdogan said. The [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]