Hrant Dink

Who remembers the annihilation of the Armenians? Hitler asked in August 1939. Raphael Lemkin did. In 1944, Lemkin, a Polish-born Jew, published the theory of genocide. Lemkins models were the ongoing genocide of Europes Jews, and the Meds Yeghern, the Great C…

Huge crowds of Armenian Americans marched in Los Angeles on Wednesday in an annual commemoration of the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians under the Ottoman Empire. The march was intended to press demands that Turkey the successor of the Ottoman Empire recogniz…

PARIS: France held its first "national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide" on Wednesday (Apr 24), provoking an angry reaction from Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Troops from the Ottoman Empire - which preceded modern-day Turkey - were respon…

The terror began on April 24, 104 years ago, in Constantinople, the ancient city now known as Istanbul. On the orders of military authorities, more than 250 prominent Armenian intellectuals and civic leaders were arrested and taken from the city -- and from A…

The ceremonies organized in France on Wednesday fulfilled a pledge made by French President Emmanuel Macron during his 2017 election campaign, and confirmed to the country's large Armenian community in February. In 2001 France became the first major European…

Armenia and Turkey have strained relations due to their different views on WWI history. Armenia says that around 1.2 million of its people were killed or starved to death by the Ottoman Empire during the war. Turkey has repeatedly denied accusations, claiming…

PARIS  France held its first "national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide" on Wednesday, provoking an angry reaction from Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Troops from the Ottoman Empire which preceded modern-day Turkey were responsible for mas…

To sum up what being Armenian means in one story is an *extremely difficult* thing to do. For myself, its the undeniable superstrength of my great-grandmother who somehow made it to Azerbaijan while the rest of her family did not survive. The delectable food,…

“If we look at those trying to give lessons on human rights or democracy to Turkey on the Armenian question and the fight against terrorism, we see that they all have a bloody past,” Erdogan said in a televised speech Wednesday, during a symposium on archives…

Today Raqqa, on the banks of the Euphrates in northeastern Syria, not far from modern-day Turkey, is infamous as the onetime capital of the ISIS caliphate, its name synonymous with the horrors suffered under the caliphates barbaric Salafi rule. But the citys …