DIYARBAKIR, Turkey—Armenians in Diyarbakir celebrated Easter at home today amid the coronavirus lockdown, continuing—at a distance—a tradition that has brought community members together in recent years. Dara Melike Günal celebrated Easter at home with her […]
Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it—and like too many other such persecutions of too many other peoples—the lessons of the Holocaust must never be […]
The Empire Strikes Back, not in a science fiction movie, but in a French court! For several years, the French-Armenian community has been trying to pass a law to penalize Armenian Genocide denial, similar to […]
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (A.W.)—The city that only a few weeks ago hosted several thousand Armenians during the opening of the Surp Giragos Church is squarely confronting its past again this weekend. From Nov. 11-13, Diyarbakir hosted […]
A giant 100-foot-long stone statue, located in Kars, Turkey, about 30 miles from the Armenian border, rubbed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan the wrong way earlier this month, and is now caught in the […]
VAN (A.W.)–“Victory is in the realization of mad men’s dream…” This, written in big Armenian letters along with a photo of Akhtamar Island’s Holy Cross Church, ran on the front page of the local daily […]
Journalists, political analysts, historians, and activists discuss the implications of the vote with the Armenian Weekly. On Sept. 12, Turkey voted in favor of constitutional amendments that could usher in an array of reforms and […]
It was an unusually hot and very exciting day. It would be the first time that critics of Turkish intellectuals’ discourse about the “Armenian issue” would voice their arguments at a public meeting in Turkey, […]
The following is a statement issued by the Ankara Freedom of Thought Initiative (AFTI) in support of Ismail Besikci, recently accused of ‘PKK propaganda’ by the attorney general in Istanbul, Turkey, for words he wrote […]
ANKARA, Turkey (A.W.)—On April 24, as genocide commemoration events were being held one after the other in different locations in Istanbul, a groundbreaking two-day symposium on the Armenian Genocide began at the Princess Hotel in […]
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