Tag: Turkey
Turkey moves to fetch Syriac Patriarchates
ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News 10/3/3012 Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr Turkey has rolled into action to bring the Syriac Orthodox and Catholic Patriarchates in Syria and Lebanon ... Read More
Senate Introduces Return of Churches Resolution
9/3/2012 Religious Freedom Measure Calls on Turkey to Return all Stolen Christian Church Properties. WASHINGTON–Senators Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) ... Read More
Turkey: Istanbul Funeral Home Fosters Muslim-Christian Understanding
9/3/2012 More than 40 years ago, Kirkor Çapan, an ethnic Armenian, and his father set up what today is one of the last Christian funeral ... Read More
Armenian Deputy Patriarch of Constantinople complains about discrimination against Armenians in Turkey
5/3/2012 ISTANBUL. – Archbishop Aram Ateshyan, the Armenian Deputy Patriarch of Constantinople, and the spiritual leaders of Turkey’s Assyrian Catholic and Orthodox communities also attended ... Read More
The meaning of Davutoğlu’s visit with Patriarchs
ORHAN KEMAL CENGİZ o.cengiz@todayszaman.com 6/3/2012 Last week, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu visited with the Greek and Armenian Patriarchs, as well as held meetings with the ... Read More
Turkey’s Syriacs Lay Out Vision for New Constitution
3/3/2012 In an unprecedented move, the political and community representatives of the Syriac Christians visited parliament this week to express their demands for a new ... Read More
US Congressmen applied to H. Clinton: support to return Armenian Churches in Javakhk
3/3/2012 US Congressmen applied to the US State Secretary Hilary Clinton with an issue connected with Armenia once more. As asbarez.com writes quoting to the ... Read More
A City Under Siege
Adem Altan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A cinema in Ankara, Turkey, on Feb. 27. The film “Fetih 1453,” or “Conquest 1453,” has proven enormously popular ... Read More
Aram I: Armenians’ Genocide reparation demand valid
28/2/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net - His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia delivered concluding remarks to the international conference on the Armenian Genocide ... Read More
ANCA chairman calls for justice for Genocide
28/2/2012 Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Chairman Ken Hachikian offered a broad vision of how Return of Churches movement reflects and also materially reinforces ... Read More
Armenian community’s Paylan: Constitution should have no superior identity
27/2/2012 YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN, İSTANBUL An Armenian community leader who is working in civil society platforms to develop ideas on how to write Turkey's new ... Read More
Aram I calls for return of stolen Armenian Churches (Report,Snaps and Video)
International Conference on the Armenian Genocide, part 1 International Conference on the Armenian Genocide, part 2 26/2/2012 A two-day international conference titled “The Armenian Genocide: ... Read More
1500 year-old ‘ Syriac ‘ Bible found in Ankara, Turkey : Vatican in shock !
24/2/2012 The relic was ‘rediscovered’ in the depositum of Ankaran Justice Palace, the ancient version of bible is believed to be written in Syriac, a ... Read More
Meeting of Religious Leaders at the Phanar
21/2/2012 On Saturday, February 18, 2012, a meeting of religious leaders and representatives of the various Christian Communities in Turkey was chaired by His All-Holiness ... Read More
Ecumenical Patriarch makes history in Turkish Parliament
22/2/2012 Göksel Bozkurtgöksel.bozkurt@hurriyet.com.tr ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew and Syriac Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation head Kuryakos Ergün speak at Turkish Parliament, ... Read More
Turkey reaches out to its minorities in another step for writing new constitution
22/2/2012 ISTANBUL // Leaders of Turkey's small Christian community have hailed as historic a meeting with Turkish lawmakers to discuss the country's new constitution, but ... Read More
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Historic monastery in Cyprus near collapse
22/2/2012 A historic monastery where an apostle of Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles is close to caving in and needs immediate repairs, ... Read More
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Armenians in Syria
BY NANORE BARSOUMIAN From The Armenian Weekly 19/2/2012 ALEPPO, Syria—Two suicide car bombs targeting Syrian regional military and security headquarters shook Aleppo on Feb. 10, ... Read More
Steven Spielberg refutes reports about making movie on 100th anniversary of “Armenian genocide”
17-02-2012 Spokesman for famous film director: We are not going to make such a movie Armenian media reports that famous American film director Steven Spielberg ... Read More
Armenian Singer from Turkey, Sibil, to Make Metropolitan New York Debut
15/2/2012 HACKENSACK, N.J. — In 2010, a young singer in an Armenian Church choir named Sibil captured the attention and hearts of Turkey’s population. The ... Read More
Patriarch Bartholomew to demand non-Muslims have place in state
TODAY’S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL 14/2/2012 Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I will present a package of proposals to Parliament next week, emphasizing the restricted rights of minorities ... Read More