‘Worldwide’

  • Don’t Turn Your Back!
    Watertown, MA – During the month of April, 2012, Peace of Art, Inc., will display the commemorative billboards of Armenian Genocide on Mount Auburn and Arsenal Streets in Watertown, MA, with the message “Mr. President, Don’t Turn your Back! Recognize the Armenian Genocide.” This year, Peace of Art will display a second message on a digital billboard...
    April 14, 2012 9:07
  • Turkey’s Foreign Minister In Search of ‘Soft’ Armenians
    Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey’s ‘man on the run,’ has added to his extremely busy schedule the new task of travelling around the globe trying to recruit ‘sensible’ Armenians. Davutoglu has embarked on such a desperate initiative after the failure of all Turkish attempts to divide and conquer the Armenians and weaken their resolve to pursue their just...
    April 11, 2012 7:30
  • Turks and Azeris Alarmed that Tuvalu May Recognize Republic of Artsakh
    March 16, 2012 was like any other day at the United Nations, when the representatives of Armenia and Tuvalu signed a joint declaration establishing diplomatic relations. Tuvalu is a tiny state in the South Pacific, much smaller than Manhattan, with a population barely over 10,000! Who would have thought that such a routine announcement would alarm Turkey and Azerbaijan? This...
    April 4, 2012 8:27
  • Turkish Gray Wolves emerged in Paris and act against Armenians – Le Point
    Armenian News-News.am presents the article of Claire Menial on the facts of the Main Directorate of France’s Internal Intelligence on the activities of Turkish extreme nationalist elements against Armenians in France published in Le Point French e-Journal on Thursday. In the space for ‘Date and aim of the event’ the informer wrote – Challenging the criminalization...
    March 31, 2012 13:15
  • Youth Protest in Azerbaijani Capital
    Scuffles as police move in after rock singer insults president. More than a thousand young Azerbaijanis braved driving snow to gather in Baku’s Sabavil district on March 17 for a demonstration against corruption and the jailing of journalists and activists. It was the first rally to be granted official approval in the capital since 2005, and was organised by the Youth...
    March 30, 2012 21:35
  • State Dept.’s Disgraceful Censorship Of a Report Blacklisting Turkey
    Each passing day brings new revelations of the Obama administration’s shameful schemes to cover up Turkish misconduct. The latest scandal involves the State Department’s covert attempt to alter the contents of a report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), condemning the Turkish government’s violations of the religious rights of Christian...
    March 28, 2012 8:18
  • Azeri Journalist Defies Blackmailers
    Secret filming and open threats, coinciding with unsubstantiated claims in pro-government papers? The target, Khadija Ismayilova, thinks the trail is pretty clear. Khadija Ismayilova, an Azerbaijani journalist famous for her investigations into the ruling Aliyev family, has said she will carry on regardless of blackmail, threats and a spy video posted on the internet. “I...
    March 21, 2012 16:49
  • Armenian Patriarchate’s Bold Move To Sue the Turkish Government
    We must commend Acting Patriarch Aram Ateshian and the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul for making the bold move of suing the Turkish government for the return of historically significant Armenian properties. Turkish officials normally view such legal actions with hostility and exert great pressure on judges to reject property claims filed by minorities, making it extremely...
    March 21, 2012 7:27
  • Five Syrian Armenians injured in Damascus blast
    Five Syrian Armenians were injured in the terrorist attack in Damascus, Nouvelles d`Arménie reports referring to its sources. The magazine says their lives are not in danger. Earlier it was reported that an Armenian woman Araxie Bedrossian was among the fatalities of the terrorist act that occurred in the Christian section of Aleppo, Syria, on March 18.
    March 19, 2012 16:39
  • Clinton Should Resign for Making Offensive Remarks on Armenian Genocide
    How many times can Secretary of State Hillary Clinton break her pledge and make insulting remarks on the Armenian Genocide before she is called a liar and forced to resign? Armenian-Americans are fed up with Mrs. Clinton and her boss Barack Obama who also has not kept his promises on the Armenian Genocide. And the problem transcends their views on the Armenian Genocide....
    March 14, 2012 9:23
  • Armenian Church presents to Turkish Parliament offers on new Constitution
    ISTANBUL. – Vicar of the Patriarch of the Constantinople Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC) Archbishop Aram Ateshian delivered a speech at the Constitutional Council of the Turkish Parliament on Monday presenting the offers by the Armenian community regarding the new Constitution. Ateshian said that he will present the offers both orally and in the written...
    March 13, 2012 11:12
  • Lithuanian web-site depicted Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh as united territory
    Lithuanian’s mountaineers and campaign Association depicted Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh as a single area. Armenpress reports citing Azerbaijani web sites. Lithuanian mountain climbers dwelled on the campaign of Lithuanian climbers in the fall of 2011. This action drew Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry furious. Embassy of Azerbaijan to Lithuania was ordered to envisage...
    March 12, 2012 17:01
  • Armenians arrested in Los Angeles prostitution sting
    Armenians were arrested by Los Angeles police in Sun Valley on Wednesday. Thirty-four people were arrested during an undercover prostitution sting, theLos Angeles Daily Newsreports. Among the arrested are Edik Hakhnazaryan, 34, Charles Stepanian, 62, Sarkis Tunyan, 62, Saribek Pogyosyan, 52, Edik Hazarian, 51, and Stepan Karapetyan, 62.
    March 9, 2012 7:50
  • Constitutional Council’s Scandalous Rejection of French Genocide Bill
      Armenians inFranceand throughout the world reacted with utter indignation against the Constitutional Council’s scandalous decision rejecting the Genocide denial bill.   The National Assembly and Senate recently adopted a bill that would set a penalty of a year in jail and $60,000 fine for anyone denying the genocides recognized by the French government.Franceofficially...
    March 7, 2012 8:15
  • Sumgayit – world’s ugliest city
    Australian travel guide – travel.ninemsn.com.au published a story on the world’s ugliest cities, where Sumgayit is named the ugliest city. “Sumgayit is Azerbaijan’s third-largest city, and due to its seaside location, was at one point going to be a resort town. But then industry moved in. A massive power station was built to service the burgeoning oil works...
    March 5, 2012 17:21
  • New bill on Armenian Genocide to be considered in next legislature of French Parliament
    PARIS. – It is necessary to wait till the next legislature to submit a new bill on criminalizing denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, after the ban of the Constitutional Council, Secretary General of the ruling Union for Popular Movement (UMP) party Jean-François Copé said on Wednesday, Le Monde reports. Earlier the UMP representative commented on...
    March 3, 2012 23:34