Pinar Tremblay, a Turkish reporter for Al-Monitor news website, exposed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent announcement to legalize the plantation of cannabis (a form of marijuana). Tremblay wrote in the January 24 issue of Al-Monitor […]
Turkey and several other repressive governments are increasingly abusing their membership in the Interpol to harass and punish their opponents. Interpol, or the International Criminal Police Organization, is composed of 194 countries and focuses on fighting […]
According to the Early Warning Project of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Turkey is ranked 8th among countries with the highest risk of committing mass killings. Azerbaijan is wrongly ranked much lower at 87th, and […]
We’re at the onset of a new year, a (cautiously-optimistic) “new Armenia,” and a new (33rd) Armenian Revolutionary Federation World Congress. The date for this quadrennial (roughly) assembly has shifted a couple of times, most […]
The British Guardian newspaper exposed in its Dec. 21, 2018 issue the latest financial scandal involving the daughters of Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev. Leyla and Arzu Aliyeva sought to purchase two luxury Knightsbridge apartments in […]
Throughout this past year, I have collected several examples of eccentric reports or rules imposed on Turkish society. Naturally, millions of liberal and civilized Turks are unhappy with these behind the times regulations, but as […]
Armenia’s Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced last week that his government is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Turkey, however, without any preconditions. This announcement came as a surprise to most Armenians who were […]
Everyone knows that ambassadors have to follow the foreign policy guidelines of their governments and cannot make their own decisions. Yet it is strange that successive U.S. ambassadors are not allowed to call the Armenian Genocide, […]
Pres. Donald Trump nominated on Sept. 4, 2018 career Foreign Service Officer Earle Litzenberger to serve as US Ambassador to Azerbaijan replacing Amb. Robert Cekuta who left Baku nine months ago. A month before the […]
The Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan has made attracting overseas investors the priority of his new government. So far, it is too early to determine if foreign investors are interested in doing business […]
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