Hidden Armenians are the present generation descendants of Armenian orphans left behind in Turkey after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. These orphans, the living victims of the Genocide, were forcibly assimilated, Islamized, Turkified and Kurdified in […]
Trauma and Resilience: Armenians in Turkey By Raffi Bedrosyan Published by Gomidas Institute, London, England, 2019 Available on Amazon.com, by emailing [email protected] or directly from the author. This book is a collection of articles about […]
In August 2018, US President Trump angrily announced that sanctions will be implemented against Turkey, and personally against the Turkish ministers of interior and justice. What was the reason for Trump’s fury? The refusal to […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly Last month, the Turkish government released a website where Turkish citizens can look up their ancestral roots all the way back until the mid-1850s. There are hundreds of stories in […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly The neverending manipulations and power games at the Istanbul Patriarchate took a turn for the worse this past week. In 2008, the Istanbul Patriarch, Archbishop Mesrob Mutafyan, was diagnosed with […]
Artsakh War veteran, political commentator, and political activist Sarkis Hatspanian passed away on Jan. 20 in Lyon, France. He was only 55. Born in Adiyaman in southeastern Turkey (former Cilicia), he had left for France […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly Over the years, I have met many hidden Armenians from different regions of Turkey. Each one has a unique story that can become an article or even a book on […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly Last week, while criticizing Israel and the United States on President Trump’s recent recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated with great conviction, “There has never […]
What makes Istanbul beautiful is the Bosphorus, dividing the city between Europe and Asia. And what makes the Bosphorus beautiful is a series of architecturally magnificent palaces, mansions, and mosques. Most of these architectural […]
Special to the Armenian Weekly Just when one thinks the level of hatred and intolerance in Turkey toward minorities cannot get any worse, something shocking happens that surpasses even the worst incidents of […]
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