The presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Serzh Sarkisian and Ilham Aliyev, met in Paris on October 27 for a further round of talks under the aegis of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group tasked with mediating a peaceful solution to the deadlocked conflict over the future status of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Few observers seriously believed that the Par ...

Hollande offers to start drafting of comprehensive peace agreement It is necessary to start drafting of a comprehensive peaceful agreement to move forward on Karabakh. This was an offer voiced by President of France Francois Hollande during his talks with Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders on Monday. During the summit, President Hollande noted the need to effectively reduce tensions in relations between the p ...

  Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia Press Releases Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian participated in the inauguration ceremony of the President of Turkey 29.08.2014 On August 28 Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian attended the inauguration ceremony of the newly-elected president of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara. The Presidential handover ceremony from former President Abdul ...

  President Serzh Sargsyan sent telegram of condolences to Turkish President Abdullah Gul Today, President Serzh Sargsyan sent a telegram of condolences to the President of the Republic of Turkey Abdullah Gul concerning the accident in Turkey’s Manisa province which took away the lives of hundreds of Turkish citizens. The President of Armenia extended his deepest sympathy to President Gul and Turkish p ...

The normalization of relations between estranged neighbors Turkey and Armenia is hostage to Turkish domestic politics, said Richard Giragosian, founding director of the Yerevan-based independent think tank Regional Studies Center (RSC), on Tuesday. According to Giragosian, a recent statement from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regarding the 1915 killings of Armenians in eastern Anatolia, in which he ex ...

Turks and Armenians – we must follow Erdoğan's lead and bury our common pain Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish foreign minister In offering condolences for the events of 1915, Erdoğan has presented the chance for reconciliation. Let's take it History is replete with squandered opportunities. The challenge for those in power is to assess in real time the risks of missing these moments. I had a sense back in 2009 when ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan’s declaration regarding the 1915 Armenian killings was not, in itself, a surprise, coming just ahead of the April 24 commemoration date. However, the conciliatory language used in the statement was quite different than previous Turkish characterizations of the events during which the Armenian community of the Ottoman Empire underwent deportation and near total destructio ...

  Thomas de Waal   2015 begins today. The statement by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the “Armenian Question” goes further than any other Turkish leader before him. Never before has a Turkish leader offered condolences to the descendants of Ottoman Armenians. Erdoğan said that he and his government “wish that the Armenians who lost their lives in the context of the early twentieth ...

Today we commemorate the Meds Yeghern and honor those who perished in one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century.  Ninety-eight years ago, 1.5 million Armenians were massacred or marched to their deaths in the final days of the Ottoman Empire.  We pause to reflect on the lives extinguished and remember the unspeakable suffering that occurred.   In so doing, we are joined by millions across the world an ...

  “The statement was certainly as dramatic and impressive as it was unexpected,” Richard Giragosian told me, speaking about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s message on the Armenian tragedy. The director of a Yerevan-based think tank, Giragosian was in Istanbul to also take part in a commemoration that will take place in Istanbul. As he rightly pointed out, there have been several historic ...