Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has won a convincing victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, consolidating his authority. His bloc won more than 70% of the vote, the country's election commission said. A journalist turned politician, Mr Pashinyan spearheaded a peaceful revolution in April. He now has a parliamentary majority to push through his programme of tackling corruption and r ...

Trump administration plants US flag in Armenia A visit by National Security Advisor John Bolton made clear that the past practice of looking the other way as Armenia deepened ties with Iran is over Richard Giragosian For the small country of Armenia, the past several months have marked an impressive emergence on the world stage. In a first-ever visit by a German leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Arme ...

" My family, my grandparents are from Erzrum, Van and Bitlis and there is a history behind my own family.  Why not start talking about the relations between Turkey and Armenia? Why not speak about our individual stories?” In the run up to the centennial of the armistice that put an end to World War First to be marked on November 11, 2018, Armenian President Armen Sarkissian urges world leaders to recognize ...

Electrical generation, gas pipelines and hydro power are all being considered, as sanctions on Iran have been dropped By Najam Abbas LONDON Armenia is negotiating a series of major trade and investment deals with Iran, in the wake of international sanctions being lifted. These include: -- Iran-Armenia railway -- Iranian gas transit through Armenia -- Armenia-Iran power transmission line -- North-South highw ...

20.07.2015 President Serzh Sargsyan sends condolence letter to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Serzh Sargsyan has sent a letter of condolence to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Republic of Turkey on the blast in Sanliurfa province which claimed multiple lives. The letter reads as follows: “Your Excellency, It was with deep sorrow that I learned of the explosion in the town of Suruc in Turkey’s ...

'İnsanlar 1915'te sadece ölmedi ki, yerlerinden edildi. Herkes bir yere dağıldı' Türkiye’de ‘vajinismus tedavisi’ denince ilk akla gelen isimlerden olan Prof. Dr. Arşaluys Kayır, 1915 Ermeni kıyımıyla ilgili olarak, “Annem anneannemin öldürülüşünü anlatırken ‘annem nefes alırken üzerine toprak atıldı’ derdi. İşte ‘nefes darlığı’ kuşaktan kuşağa bize yadigar kaldı. Annem de çekti ben de nefes darlığı çekiyor ...

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan speaks to Hürriyet correspondent Cansu Çamlıbel. Yerevan is prepared to normalize its relations with Ankara without any preconditions, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has said ahead of April 24, “Genocide Remembrance Day” for Armenians. “I declare that we are ready for the normalization of relations with Turkey, for starting a process of rapprochement between the Armenian ...

Ahmet Davutoglu did acknowledge that Ottoman Armenians died in deportations   The prime minister of Turkey has said the country will "share the pain" of Armenians whose ancestors were killed 100 years ago in what was then the Ottoman Empire. Ahmet Davutoglu also said a memorial would be held for the first time in Istanbul on the 24 April anniversary. However, Turkey still refuses to recognise the killi ...

A woman places lit candles in a renovated Armenian church, perched on Akdamar Island in Lake Van, near the eastern Turkish city of Van, March 29, 2007. (photo by REUTERS/Umit Bektas) The Armenian monastery of Varagavank stands teetering on the brink of collapse in the mountains above Lake Van, in eastern Anatolia. Built a thousand years ago, and once the seat of an archbishop, it was forsaken in 1915. The m ...

  Reminding that the bilateral accords with Turkey have been withdrawn, Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan said it didn’t mean that all relations are over between Turkey and Armenia. “It doesn’t mean that we are cutting all our ties with Turkey,” Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan said, referring to the recent withdrawal of peace accords with Turkey which were signed in 2009. Speaking at “At the Foot o ...