The recent increase in the number of visitors from Armenia and its diaspora to the eastern Turkish city of Van prompts the publishing of an Armenian-language tourism guide to the region, where the renovation and reopening as a museum of the Surp Haç church on Akdamar Island has drawn much attention.
The reopening as a museum […]
A Turkish deputy prime minister said on Sunday that Armenian allegations regarding the incidents of 1915 were overshadowing relations with the United States.
Turkey’s State Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said that Turkey had nothing to worry about the Armenian allegations.
“History will confirm it sooner or later irrespective of who says what,” Cicek said […]
United States President Barack Obama has called on Turkey and Armenia to stick with their efforts to normalize relations.
Releasing a statement after his meeting with Armenian President Serzh Sargsian, Obama urged the two countries to take any necessary step for the parliamentary ratification of two protocols Ankara and Yerevan signed to resume diplomatic ties and […]
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Foreign Minister Ali Babacan has warned Barack Obama’s incoming administration that any US recognition of the Armenian claims of genocide could derail reconciliation efforts between the two neighbors.
“It would not be very rational for a third country to take a position on this issue… A wrong step by the United States will harm the process,” […]