A video apparently showing the U.S. vice president telling an Armenian-American activist that the Armenian president asked the United States to hold off recognizing the 1915 killings of Armenians as “genocide” has stirred anger in Yerevan, reports have said. An Armenian presidential spokesperson on Wednesday denied that such a conversation took place between President Serge [...]
A U.S. civil rights organization has published a retraction and apologized to a renowned U.S. historian for blaming him for spying for Turkey. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has apologized to historian Guenter Lewy for suggesting that he was “a Turkish agent” due to his opponent stance regarding the Armenian allegations on the incidents of [...]
A U.S. appeals court in Massachusetts on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that prevented the insertion of literature denying an alleged genocide against Armenians into a state school curriculum. The Armenian Assembly of America said the ruling “marks a major defeat” for a 2005 lawsuit brought by the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]