Tag: Turkey
Congressman Chris Smith’s US Helsinki Commission Hearing on “A Century of Denial: The Armenian Genocide and the Ongoing Quest for Justice”
http://bound4life.com/ Washington, D.C. May - June 2015 On Thursday, April 23, 2015, the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki ... Read More
CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA LEADERS AND LAWYERS OUTLINE LAWSUIT SEEKING TURKEY’S RETURN OF HISTORIC CHRISTIAN SITE
May 2015 Leaders and lawyers representing the Catholicosate of Cilicia held a press conference earlier today at the National Press Club to discuss their lawsuit ... Read More
The Catholicosate of Cilicia demands its Property in Sis from the Turkish Constitutional Court
April- May 2015 On Tuesday 28 April 2015, the attorney of the Catholicosate of Cilicia in Turkey submitted a brief to the Constitutional Court in ... Read More
WE CLAIM JUSTICE…
April- May 2015 A legendary Armenian poet, Daniel Varoujan, before his murder by the Ottoman authorities in 1915, wrote: I firmly believe that the coming ... Read More
Armenian Genocide/Orthodox Holocaust
telegraph.co.uk Orthodox Insight - 27/4/15 With the focus on April 23 of the Armenian Genocide commemoration, which included the canonization of the martyrs, public debate ... Read More
Assyrians Call on Turkey’s President to Recognize Armenian Genocide
27/4/15 (AINA) -- An open letter addressed to Turkish president Erdogan, and signed by 22 Assyrian, Kurdish and Turkish organizations, calls on the president to ... Read More
Pictures of Genocide Centennial Rallies Throughout the World
Baghdad Beirut Chicago Los Angeles Stockholm Tehran Yerevan 26/4/15 (AINA) -- "We have made a clean sweep of the Armenians and Assyrians of Azerbaijan" -- ... Read More
German Parliament Discusses Armenian, Assyrian Genocide
http://sites.miis.edu/ http://www.dw.de - 25/4/15 Bundestag President Norbert Lammert opened the debate to mark the centenary of the killings by himself directly referring to the mass killings as ... Read More
Turkey stops plane: Prevents Bosnian Serb leader’s trip to Armenia
Turkey on April 22 stopped Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik’s plane from flying over its territory, preventing him from attending a ceremony to mark the ... Read More
100 bell rings worldwide symbolize Armenian Genocide centennial
23/4/15 The ceremony of canonization of the Armenian Genocide martyrs at the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin concluded at a symbolic hour, 19:15. Bells in ... Read More
Assyrians in Turkey Begin 100 Hour Hunger Strike to Commemorate Genocide
Assyrians hunger strike in the Mardin, Turkey, to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the Turkish genocide of Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks. Assyrians hunger strike in ... Read More
100 Years of Turkish Genocide
21/4/15 (AINA) -- On April 24, 1915 the Turkish genocide of Assyrians, Greeks and Armenians began very simply, without pomp and circumstance. "We have made ... Read More
The ideology of Pan Turanism was the basis for the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire – His Holiness Aram I
20/4/15 Following the Mass commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, where Pope Francis reaffirmed the Armenian ... Read More
We demand Recognition of the Armenian Genocide and Reparation from Turkey Stated His Holiness Aram I
12 April 2015. In the morning, a special Mass was celebrated in Rome at St. Peter’s Papal Basilica to mark the 100th anniversary of the ... Read More
European Parliament Votes to Recognize Armenian, Assyrian, Greek Genocide
BRUSSELS/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -- The European Parliament backed a motion on Wednesday that calls the massacre a century ago of up to 1.5 million Armenians by ... Read More
Admitting past faults purifies nations
Metropolitan Abba Seraphim The British Orthodox Church - 13/4/15 In a response to the news that the Turkish Republic has recalled its envoy to the ... Read More
His Holiness Aram I received representatives of Syriac National Political Party
April 2015 9 April 2015. On Thursday morning, three members of the Syriac National Political Party’s International Committee met with His Holiness Aram I, in ... Read More
Hunger Strike Planned to Mark Centenary of Assyrian Genocide
Fides News Agency - April 2015 To commemorate the genocide of their ancestors in 1915, members of the Syriac community in the city of Midyat ... Read More
Children Animated St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral on Palm Sunday
30 March 2015. On Palm Sunday over a thousand children holding palm leaves and candles, accompanied by their parents, came to celebrate Palm Sunday and ... Read More
Turkey’s Orthodox and Protestants Mend Centuries of Mistrust
Interior stonework of Mardin Protestant Church, March 2015 (photo: World Watch Monitor). Courtyard of long abandoned Mardin Protestant Church, March 2015 (photo: World Watch Monitor). ... Read More
Armenian Government Recognizes Turkish Genocide of Assyrians and Greeks
The Armenian National Assembly recognized the Assyrian and Greek genocide perpetrated by Turks in World War One. 25/3/15 Yerevan (AINA) -- The Armenian National Assembly ... Read More