Selman Can’s research on 19th century Ottoman architecture reveals the real architects of Ottoman buildings. ‘The Balyans, known as the architects of in the Ottoman, were actually contractors,’ he says Istanbul’s Çırağan Palace’s history consultant Associate Professor Selman Can said the Balyans, one of the well-known Armenian families of the Ottoman Empire, were not the [...]
The Surp Vortvots Vorodman Church in Istanbul’s Kumkapı district, which was recently reopened for worship after 100 years, will host a concert Jan. 22 as part of the “Bach Before and After” events. The event, organized by the Hakan Erdoğan Production every two months, will feature Czech violinist Jiri Barta and pianist Stanislav Gallin.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that an Armenian resolution at the French Senate may cause great harm to Turkish-French relations if it gets adopted there. Answering questions of the media at a joint press conference with his Norwegian counterpart Jens Stoltenberg in Ankara, Erdogan said that there were around 550,000 Turks living [...]
Amid controversy over a bill accepted last month in the French National Assembly that penalized denial of the “Armenian genocide,” a circle of academics have suggested that the Ottoman Empire’s acts against the Armenian community in Eastern Anatolia cannot be considered “genocide” due to a lack of intention on the part of the Ottoman Empire [...]
French Senator Nathalie Goulet has criticized a law penalizing denial of Armenian genocide allegations, saying she will go on a “crusade” to prevent the law’s approval by the Senate. “I will go on a crusade against Valeri Boyer’s draft law,” Goulet said, referring to a law that sought to penalize the denial of Armenian genocide [...]