Armenian-Turkish protocols must be implemented without delay. David Lidington, Minister of State at the UK Foreign Office, as Minister for Europe, made such statement in a joint press conference with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian in Yerevan, Monday. The British minister reaffirmed London's support for normalizations of the Armenian-Turkish relations. In this light, Lidington welcomed Mi ...

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 ...

  Asya'yı Avrupa'ya bağlayacak demir yolu için merkez olan Kars'ta büyük bir hareketlilik yaşanıyor. Kentte kurulan Organize Saniye Bölgesi'nde yer kalmazken, Ruslar şehirde yatırım için arazi avına çıktı. Kars'a yapılacak yatırımlarla kentini mini bir Çin'e dönüşeceği ifade edildi. Herkes 3.Köprü, Kanal İstanbul ve Avrasya Tüp Geçit Projesi gibi popüler projelere odaklanmışken ülkenin en doğusunda ses ...

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 ...

Türk Ermeni İş Geliştirme Konseyi'nden Noyan Soyak, Başbakan Erdoğan'ın Ermeni mesajını bir 'Merhaba' olarak niteliyor. 'Başsağlığı bir Anadolu kültürüdür. Acınızı paylaşıyorum demek Anadolulu için soykırım kelimesinden daha önemli' diyen Soyak, 'Böyle bir dönem hiç olmamıştı ve ilk defa olan bir şey. Ben bunu bir son olarak görmüyorum. Bence bu bir merhaba. Bir başlangıç.' dedi. Türkiye'deki Ermeni toplumu ...

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 ...