Mediamax’s interview with Thomas de Waal, Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - First of all, let me congratulate you with your new book "Great Catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the Shadow of Genocide". What is the main message of your book and who you consider the main audience: Turks and Armenians, or the Western world?- Thank you. The starting-point for all my book ...

  What does it mean for neighboring businessmen and customers when an abstract line on the ground called “country border” suddenly rise and become a concrete wall? This is the story behind the closed Turkish-Armenian border. Arsen Ghazaryan  “It would be a huge benefit for the Armenian economy if Turkey would open its border.” said Arsen Ghazarian, a prominent businessman and co-chair of Turkish-Armeni ...

The Ghazir Rug is an Armenian style rug woven by orphans of the Armenian genocide in Ghazir, Lebanon. Also known as the Armenian Orphan Rug, it was gifted to President Calvin Coolidge in 1925 and kept in storage at the White House until being put on display in the White House Visitors Office in November 2014. (photo by Wikimedia Commons) The White House’s decision to put the “Armenian Orphan Rug” on public ...

  Turkish-Armenian relations need a new game-changer ÜNAL ÇEVİKÖZ As Turkey prepares itself for the centenary of Gallipoli and chairing the G-20 summit in 2015, some other forces around the world are perhaps preparing inconspicuous scenarios to increase the duress on Turkey to “recognize” the events in 1915 as “genocide.” Turkish-Armenian relations, as well as Turkey’s bilateral relations with a number ...

Former Turkish special envoy suggests opening border with Armenia   Yerevan /Mediamax/. Retired Turkish diplomat Unal Cevikoz believes Turkey should come forward with a new initiative to overcome the current impasse between Yerevan and Ankara. He stated about it in his article “Turkish-Armenian Relations Need a New Game-Changer” in Turkish Hurriyet Daily. Unal Cevikoz was the Political Director at Turk ...

  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 ...

  Ermeni katliamıyla sonuçlanan 1915 olaylarının 99'uncu yıldönümünden bir gün önce Başbakan Erdoğan tarafından yayınlanan taziye mesajı AFP tarafından 'ilk açık yorum' olarak yayınlandı. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti tarihinde ilk kez, Ermeni katliamıyla sonuçlanan 1915 olaylarının yıldönümü vesilesiyle, Başbakan düzeyinde Ermenilere taziye mesajı yayınlandı. Yayınlanan taziye mesajı bir ilk olması sebebiyle dü ...

  “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 ...

  David L. Phillips is Director of the Program on Peace-Building and Rights at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. He has served as Senior Adviser to the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Bureau for Near Eastern Affairs, and Bureau for European and Canadian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and as Senior Adviser to the United Nations Office for the Coordinatio ...