An Istanbul university’s language academy is organizing the only courses in Armenian at the post-secondary level as part of an effort to enhance regional dialogue between businesspeople and academics. “Turkey has become a major player in the region, socially, culturally, economically and politically. Thus we decided to teach regional languages rather than the classic foreign [...]
President of the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) Lincoln McCurdy said Sunday that U.S. President Barack Obama’s statements on April 23 was a continuation of the mentality of a missionary that disregarded the great pains caused by the ethnic cleansing of Ottoman Muslims. In a written statement released Sunday, the TCA said that five million [...]
Turkey on Sunday voiced “deep regret” over US President Barack Obama’s remarks on Armenian massacres under the Ottoman Empire, slamming them as “one-sided”. “The statement distorts the historical facts. Therefore, we find it very problematic and deeply regret it… One-sided statements that interpret controversial historical events by a selective sense of justice prevent understanding of [...]
US President Barack Obama marked Saturday the anniversary of the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, calling for a “full” acknowledgment of the killings hotly contested by Ankara. While denouncing the “horrific events” of 96 years ago, Obama stopped short of labeling the killings a “genocide,” despite vowing to use that exact term during [...]
In response to the President’s annual statement on Armenian Remembrance Day, G. Lincoln McCurdy, President of the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA), issued the following remarks: “Yesterday, President Barack Obama issued his annual presidential statement marking Armenian Remembrance Day. Turkish Americans across the country share the grief of all who lost their family members during [...]