Issues that the ARF-D is following with interest and/or concern.
STRASBOURG — Turkey failed in its duty to protect the life of slain Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink and to effectively investigate his murder, the European Court of Human Rights declared on Tuesday [Sept. 14, a day before Dink’s 56th birthday]. In a long-awaited ruling endorsed unanimously, the court also included a reference to possible links…
Emil Danielyan RFE/RL Armenian Service After repeated denials, Azerbaijan on Thursday confirmed Armenian claims that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev presented his Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts with a new plan to end the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict at their meeting in Saint Petersburg last month. Elkhan Polukhov, a spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, was reported to say…
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, 17 July 2010 – The Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair countries, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov, Foreign Minister of France Bernard Kouchner, and Deputy Secretary of State of the United States James Steinberg, released the following statement today: The Heads of Delegation of the OSCE Minsk…
By Nanore Barsoumian The Armenian Weekly At 8 p.m. on July 13, television viewers in Turkey who tune in to watch Haberturk TV station’s “Teke Tek” (“One to One”) debate show will instead see a program prepared by the Turkish state’s television and radio monitoring agency, the RTUK. Teke Tek was recently penalized by the…
AYŞE KARABAT Today’s Zaman Some segments of the Turkish Armenian community are uneasy about the appointment of a general deputy patriarch instead of electing a new patriarch to replace seriously ill Patriarch Mesrob Mutafyan, or Mesrob II. The uneasiness has been brought to the agenda by Taraf daily columnist Markar Esayan and the Turkish-Armenian weekly…
