Famous French-Armenian musician Charles Aznavour has been criticized for statements he made on television channel France 2 regarding the World War I-era deaths of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. “A different word should replace ‘genocide’ to reopen the Turkish-Armenian border and to start dialogue with the Turks,” Aznavour said. He also expressed a wish to [...]
Turkey’s main opposition’s foreign policy specialist and former Ambassador Osman Korutürk has criticized the government’s policies toward Armenia while reiterating his party’s election promises following his visits to the religious leaders of Turkey’s Armenian, Greek, Syriac and Jewish minorities this week. “The painful [events of 1915] were reciprocal; we need to talk tete a tete [...]
According to an interview held with the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman, Howard Berman, many Congressmen that formerly refrained from supporting the Armenian Genocide Resolution now agree with the procedure as Turkey’s involvement with the IHH has caused massive resentment. However, Berman states that in either case the resolution would not affect [...]
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 [...]
The British House of Lords has rejected to further a measure to recognize as “genocide” the Armenian-Ottoman tragic events of 1915. Lord Hylton in his remarks at the meeting stated that he did not support the term “genocide” to describe the events of 1915 and suggested that parliamentary action would undermine Turkish-Armenian normalization efforts. Lord [...]