Armenian-American lawyers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Turkish government and two banks seeking compensation for the heirs of Armenians whose property was allegedly seized nearly a century ago as they were driven from the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
Lawyers were seeking class-action status for the suit, a process that attorney Brian Kabateck said could take […]
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs held a hearing on Wednesday morning titled “Turkey’s New Foreign Policy Direction: Implication for U.S.-Turkish Relations.”
The chairman of the Committee, Mr. Howard Berman, in his opening statement described the meeting as “the first full-committee hearing devoted exclusively to Turkey” because of questions “about Turkey’s orientation and […]
European Commission said Wednesday EU’s job was not to judge history over Armenian allegations regarding the incidents of 1915.
In response to a question asked by extreme right winger members of the European Parliament whether or not EU recognized Armenian allegations, EU’s enlargement commissioner Stefan Fule said EU’s job was not to judge history. He said […]
Excerpted from an article published in the Huffington Post on March 9, 2010 by Alon Ben-Meir, Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs.
(…) The recent resolution adopted by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs-to officially recognize actions against the Armenians in 1915 as genocide committed by the Ottoman Turks-has less to do with the […]
Foreign Ministry sources say the reference in an Armenian court decision to a declaration rejecting even the questioning of the 1915 killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire is against the essence of the normalization process with Yerevan
A top Armenian court’s reference to the 1915 killings of Armenians in its reasoned decision […]