Reporters Without Borders in Paris urged parliamentarians to refer the bill adopted on Monday to make it a crime to deny Armenian allegations on the Ottoman era incidents of 1915 to the Constitutional Council. A letter by Jean-Francois Julliard, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, said that parliamentarians must demand the bill’s referral to the [...]
In an article published on January 19, the Los Angeles Times has said that the “French Senate should reject a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian allegations pertaining to the incidents of 1915″. Titled “Speech crimes and France” and written by Timothy Garton Ash, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and [...]
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 [...]