Turkish Armenians are still not able to elect a new patriarch, partly due to the government’s delay and partly due to a conflict of ideas within the congregation. If the Interior Ministry does not announce a date for the new election within 60 days of notice, the Armenian community is planning to take legal action, [...]
A team from an Armenian local television has arrived in eastern province of Igdir on Thursday to shoot a documentary telling about Armenia’s bordering neighbors. The six-people team from Gala local television of Armenia’s Gumry city made interviews with residents of Igdir on “point of view of Armenia’s bordering neighbors about Armenia, opening of border [...]
Projects for a historical bridge that is expected to connect the two sides of the Ani ruins between Turkey and Armenia are being accelerated. International Council of Monuments and Sites Chairman Gagik Gyurjian says the bridge should become a peace passage between the two countries. Others, however, say the project’s goals should be more international [...]
Turkey’s parliament speaker said on Thursday that historians should solve the conflict over the incidents of 1915. Delivering a speech during his meeting with Erika Forster-Vannini, speaker of Switzerland’s Council of States, Turkish Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Sahin said that Swiss authorities’ imposing punishment on those denying the incidents of 1915, was a disappointing act. [...]