Tag: Turkey
Armenian buried as Muslim in Turkey to be reburied as Christian
5/7/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net - The body of a Turkish citizen of Armenian origin, who was buried in a Muslim cemetery due to financial problems, will be ... Read More
The Phanar meeting
YUSUF KANLI 6/7/2012 It was “just” a return visit for a visit by Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew to the Religious Affairs Directorate a year ago ... Read More
Turkey urged to ease up on Greek Orthodox seminary
5/7/2012 Turkey’s top Muslim cleric has supported calls for the government to allow the reopening of a Greek Orthodox seminary. Mehmet Gormez said that Thursday ... Read More
Armenian Church of St King in Turkey returns to Armenian Fund
25/6/2012 Council of funds operating under the Department of Funds of Turkey, meeting the claim of Armenian Aramian-Umujian School and Cemetery Fund, passed a decision ... Read More
German Parliament Resolution Supports Embattled Assyrian Monastery in Turkey
18/6/2012 Assyrian International News Agency Berlin -- The German parliament decides today, on Thursday evening, on an application introduced by the parliamentary groups of the ... Read More
Turkey’s Greek Orthodox urges reopening of Halki seminary
MURAT YETKİN 19/6/2012 A small police car is one of a handful of motor vehicles on Heybeliada (Halki) island off Istanbul. A small police car ... Read More
Muslims in Turkey demand conversion of renowned Christian church site to a mosque
By: Nicola Menzie Christian Post 14/6/2012 Thousands of Muslims in Turkey, preparing to celebrate the Ottoman conquest of the country 500 years ago, are demanding ... Read More
Cyprus archbishop asks Russian Church to help wrench the north from Turkey
Nicosia, June 8, Interfax - The head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church asked the Russian Orthodox Church on Friday to help achieve the liberation of ... Read More
Red Crescent assists Fener Patriarchate
Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr 5/6/2012 The Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay), for the first time in its history, provided 200 boxes of food and clothing aid to ... Read More
Maloney Meets With Patriarch Bartholomew I
6/6/2012 Congressmember Carolyn Maloney, co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, met last week with His All Holiness, Bartholomew I, a major ... Read More
Turkish Ambassador Visits Armenian Primate of Germany
4/6/2012 Archbishop Karekin Bekdjian, Primate of the Armenian Apostolic Church Diocese in Germany, says he’s been visited by Turkey’s Ambassador to Germany Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu ... Read More
Ghosts and a Sole Survivor: A visit to a former Armenian district in Turkey
Photo: Gayane Mkrtchyan/ArmeniaNow.com By Gayane Mkrtchyan ArmeniaNow reporter 4/6/2012 Reminding of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, abundant vegetation hangs like emerald bracelets in the stretching ... Read More
Malatya: Post-Armenian life in modern Turkey’s once Armenian city
By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN ArmeniaNow reporter 30/5/2012 Armenian brothers Arman and Murad, who live in Turkey’s southeastern city of Malatya, open the doors of the 250-year-old ... Read More
Turkish, Armenian journalists traveling throughout Turkey, Armenia and Georgia
30.05.2012 A group of Turkish and Armenian journalists are traveling throughout Turkey, Armenia and Georgia from May 24 to June 6 in order to gain ... Read More
Turkey’s leader discusses a promise not yet fulfilled
John Kass jskass@tribune.com 23/5/2012 Why hasn't Turkish government reopened Greek Orthodox seminary? Turkish President Abdullah Gul, in Chicago for the NATO summit, sat down with ... Read More
Expert: 40 % of Turkish population does not want to live with the Christian neighbor
18/5/2012 Today head of the Armenian science department of “Noravanq” educational foundation, expert on Turkey Alistakes Simavoryan and expert of the same foundation Vahram Hovyan ... Read More
Armenian church in Turkey is used as garbage dump
27/4/2012 The 11th-century Armenian church in Yenipinar village of Turkey’s Batman Province is used as a garbage dump by the locals. Village resident Ali Ucar ... Read More
A Letter to Etchmiadzin and Cilicia Catholicos
Nilay VARDAR nilay@bianet.org İstanbul - BİA Haber Merkezi 25/4/2012 The defenders of human rights sent a letter to Etchmiadzin and Cilicia Catholicos and declared that ... Read More
Armenians mark genocide with march to Turkish Embassy
Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star 25/4/2012 ANTELIAS/ RABIEH, Lebanon: Nearly 25,000 Lebanese-Armenians marched to the Turkish Embassy in Metn’s Rabieh Tuesday, calling on Ankara to ... Read More
123 Armenian Genocide survivors live in Armenia
24/4/2012 123 people, who survived the Armenian Genocide organized in Ottoman Turkey in 1915-1922, are currently living in Armenia, the head of social statistics and ... Read More
5,000 to protest on 97 anniversary of Armenian Genocide
The Daily Star 23/4/2012 BEIRUT: On the 97 anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, 5,000 people are expected to protest Tuesday in front of the Turkish ... Read More