Hrant Dink

ISTANBUL-Anadolu Agency Thirteen years since his assassination on the steps of an Istanbul-based newspaper he once ran, Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink's office has at long last been reopened to the public as a memorial. Founder and editor of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos, Dink was gunned down in broad daylight in…

Los Angeles’s Armenian community, focused in East Hollywood and especially Glendale and its environs, gets its day on the small screen with Eater’s PBS show No Passport Required led by host Marcus Samuelsson. In Monday’s episode, which airs at 9 p.m. (check local listings here), Samuelsson explores the Armenian diaspora…

Not during the fierce competition of Harvard Law School, or the rough-and-tumble of life as a federal prosecutor. Not when he convicted the first FBI agent accused of spying for a foreign government. Not even when he won one of the most furious campaigns for …

ISTANBUL-Anadolu Agency Going beyond well-trodden hotspots, a new smartphone app will help visitors to Turkey's largest city discover the metropolis' rich multicultural legacy through guided walking tours. The app, called KarDes (“kardesh”) -- meaning “map” in Armenian and “sibling” in Turkish -- was launched last week by the Istanbul-based Hrant…

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Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter is the NBAs latest political wunderkind, a basketball player as comfortable talking policy with conservative lawmakers and Democratic presidential candidates as he is blocking shots and garnering rebounds. Standing almost se…

The German government is negotiating with Ankara over plans to create Turkish schools in Berlin, Cologne and Frankfurt, the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Friday. These are three of the five largest cities in Germany and home to significant …

It comes as an enormous relief that the Pentagon has ruled out following through with President Donald Trump’s threat to target Iran’s cultural sites, acknowledging that to attack heritage sites with no military value would be a war crime. It would also be a…

Summary Over the past two decades, and especially since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014, the Kremlin has intensified its engagement with international institutions. This paper evaluates the drivers of this involvement, Russian views of three of these or…

The ancient Persian symbol of victory in Persepolis, capital of the ancient Achaemenid kingdom in Iran. Delbars via Shutterstock It’s simply not possible to do justice to the value of Iran’s cultural heritage – it’s a rich and noble history that has had a fun…