Communicate with real people and not ghosts Diana Yayloyan During my two-year stay in Turkey (I am working on my master’s thesis on the Armenian Genocide at the Faculty of Political Science at Ankara University) I have been surrounded by and have been communicating with Turks, and every day I am getting more and more convinced about the need for communication and dialog. One of the main issues of the Ar ...

YEREVAN. – President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has addressed speaker of Armenian parliament Galust Sahakyan informing about his decision to recall Armenia-Turkey protocols from the parliament. In his letter, President Sargsyan said he imagined all possible scenarios since the launch of Armenia-Turkey normalization process. “We were ready for comprehensive normalization of relations through ratification of t ...

  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 ...

  Armenian institutions have engaged in a campaign to blame Turkey on the centenary of 1915 Armenian killings, and Turkey should have a strategy in the event that it fails to counter the claims, according to a senior Turkish diplomat. “I have just come back from Washington, and I saw the preparations there,” Ambassador Altay Cengizer, who currently holds the position of director-general for Policy Plan ...

  Büyükelçi Altay Cengizer, Türk Dışişleri geleneği açısından ezber bozan bir çalışmaya imza attı. Halen Bakanlığın Siyaset Planlama Genel Müdürü olarak görev yapan Altay Cengizer, tarihçi şapkasıyla bir kitap yazdı. Diplomatların görevdeyken kişisel yaklaşımlarını açık etmesine alışık değiliz. Cengizer’in ‘Adil Hafızanın Işığında’ isimli kitabında ‘tarihin içinden geçme’ çabasının kendi bulunduğu pozi ...

By Rodney Dakessian Judge in Lebanon If the claims made by Armenians on Turkey in relation to the 1915 Genocide are to be discussed, we should determine who can legally represent them: Should it be the Republic of Armenia? Or the Armenian Diaspora – who is not a legal entity? Or the descendants of the victims of the Armenian Genocide – in Armenia and the Diaspora? Rodney Dakessian, a Lebanese judge and Doct ...