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The Armenians who stay and resist in Aleppo
The Armenians who stay and resist in Aleppo
There are Aleppo Armenians who stay there; they are resisting and struggling for their lives… Maybe they have to stay there, though they would prefer to leave; maybe they don’t have anywhere else to go or they don’t want to be refugees no matter what…
28 August 2015 Vahakn Keşişyan
Ex-MP Türmen: President Erdoğan can rule Turkey as he wishes with the instruments in his power
Ex-MP Türmen: President Erdoğan can rule Turkey as he wishes with the instruments in his power
Turkey is on the way to a “re-election” with a temporary parliament. Turkey, since June 7, has been experiencing many things for the first time. Some of these things are certain powers which are not practiced before, but the President Erdoğan has chosen to exercise. We talked to Izmir MP Ex-MP Rıza Türmen, who is one of the most competent people on the field of international law in Turkey and who worked as a judge at European Court of Human Rights, about this process that brought about debates on “civilian coup” and other issues related to this process.
27 August 2015 Fatih Gökhan Diler
A call regarding September 6-7 pogrom from Greek community to the parliament
A call regarding September 6-7 pogrom from Greek community to the parliament
Atina-based Istanbul Greek Universal Federation asked the parliament to condemn September 6-7 Pogrom and to encourage people who wish to come back.
27 August 2015 Uygar Gültekin
Ateşyan: Government should conclude this process with peace
Ateşyan: Government should conclude this process with peace
Patriarchal Vicar of Constantinople, Archbishop Aram Ateşyan spoke about the postponement of the ceremony at Akhtamar. Stating that the ceremony was cancelled due to security concerns, Ateşyan made a call: “Government should conclude this process with peace in all conscience.”
25 August 2015
Monastery fire in Sason is on the Parliament’s agenda
Monastery fire in Sason is on the Parliament’s agenda
HDP Batman MP Ali Atlan brought the fire that had broken out in and around an Armenian monastery in Meşeli village in Sason district of Batman on August 15 to the parliament’s agenda.
25 August 2015
The ceremony at the Akhtamar is cancelled
The ceremony at the Akhtamar is cancelled
The ceremony that was planned to be conducted on September 6 in The Church of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island is cancelled due to security concerns. Many people from Armenia and Armenian Diaspora was expected to attend the ceremony that has been conducted since 2011.
24 August 2015
Undergraduate education in Syriac will be launched, and Armenian is next
Undergraduate education in Syriac will be launched, and Armenian is next
After the MA program in Syriac Language and Literature that Mardin Artuklu University has been offering for six years now, preparations for launching an undergraduate program in Syriac Language and Literature within the Faculty of Arts were started. The next step is to launch departments of Armenian Language and Literature and Hebrew Language and Literature.
20 August 2015 Gözde Kazaz
Headstones were used as manhole covers
Headstones were used as manhole covers
Malkara Mayor Ulaş Yurdakul said that the old headstones belong to the graves that vanished years ago and these headstones were put into use as manhole covers in some places of the district in the past years.
19 August 2015 Uygar Gültekin
Why do 'bad guys' always flee to Armenia?
Why do 'bad guys' always flee to Armenia?
It was declared that the wanted prosecutors Zekeriya Öz and Celal Kara went to Germany, but their Armenia adventure is still considered as a given fact. Alin Ozinian traces the “fleeing to Armenia” perception in Turkish official authorities and media.
19 August 2015 Alin Ozinian
A survival story from Aleppo to İzmir
A survival story from Aleppo to İzmir
21 years old law student Claudia Brounsouzian first went to Mersin with her mother. Then, she went to Cyprus and tried to go to Europe from there. However, she couldn’t have managed to go to Southern Cyprus and because of that, she returned to Turkey; but this time, she went to İzmir. We talked to Brounsouzian about her story of migration from Aleppo to Turkey.
17 August 2015 Vartan Estukyan
Robert Fisk: The Syrian War has occupied Turkey
Robert Fisk: The Syrian War has occupied Turkey
In a recent article, Robert Fisk, the senior Middle East correspondent of the Independent compared Turkey to Pakistan in the 1980s and said that the recent air bombardment was no surprise given that all powers in the region have betrayed the Kurds. We spoke to Fisk both about the details of the matters he touches on in his article, and whether power balances have changed in the Middle East. Fisk comments that Turkey has become a market place and when seen from this perspective there are more important issues at stake besides whether or not Turkey will enter the war in Syria: “I believe that Syria has started penetrating Turkey. Suruç is an example of this. From this view, the Syrian War but not the Syrians have occupied Turkey. It is not the reverse.”
6 August 2015 Gözde Kazaz
Civil society organizations voice concern: War is not a solution
Civil society organizations voice concern: War is not a solution
Following the Suruç Massacre, and the murder of two police officers in Ceylanpınar, military operations and clashes have resumed. A wave of police operations across Turkey continues. İHD (Human Rights Association) has announced that 41 people lost their lives in the week from 21 to 28 July, and that 1038 people have been detained. Reports of deaths continue to come in every day. President Erdoğan’s demand that the HDP MPs’ parliamentary immunity be lifted has caused further alarm. Human rights organizations and civil society organizations have expressed deep concern regarding recent developments.
30 July 2015
Demirtaş: “We will not allow you to drag this country into a civil war”
Demirtaş: “We will not allow you to drag this country into a civil war”
HDP Co-Chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş has responded to journalists’ questions regarding operations targeting the PKK and ISIS.
27 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Peace March banned
Peace March banned
Rally planned for Sunday in Istanbul by Barış Bloku, the Peace Block, has been banned by the Istanbul Governorate.
25 July 2015
PKK and ISIS camps bombed
PKK and ISIS camps bombed
Turkish Armed Forces fighter jets departing from the Diyarbakır 8th Main Jet Base have targeted PKK camps located within the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq.
25 July 2015
The story of a photograph
The story of a photograph
A selfie of three friends, Ezgi Sadet, Polen Ünlü and Dilan, taken at the celebrations in Bakırköy following HDP’s success in the general election when it won 80 seats in parliament, has become widely shared on social media following the Suruç Massacre.
23 July 2015 Uygar Gültekin
Լաւ չենք, լաւ պիտի չըլլանք*
Լաւ չենք, լաւ պիտի չըլլանք*
(*We are not well, we shall not be well)
23 July 2015
Paylan: “The target was the solidarity between Turkey’s west and Kobani”
Paylan: “The target was the solidarity between Turkey’s west and Kobani”
HDP Istanbul Member of Parliament Garo Paylan, speaking to Agos about the bomb attack in Suruç, reminded that the building that was targeted was a crisis centre for solidarity with Kobane, adding, “This solidarity was targeted today”.
20 July 2015 Gözde Kazaz
SGDF members were attacked in Suruç - Their plans for Kobani: A nursery, a library, a memorial forest
SGDF members were attacked in Suruç - Their plans for Kobani: A nursery, a library, a memorial forest
SGDF, the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, the target of the bomb-attack in Suruç today, had made a list of its plans for Kobani: Building a hospital, school and a nursery, a memorial forest for those who died defending Kobani, and for Berkin Elvan.
20 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Bomb attack in Suruç: Many dead and injured
Bomb attack in Suruç: Many dead and injured
An explosion has taken place at the Amara Cultural Centre in Suruç, Şanlıurfa, where 330 Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF) members had gathered. The SGDF members were waiting to cross into Kobane where they were to support the reconstruction efforts of the town.
20 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Municipality withdraws support from Science Congress for using the term ‘Genocide’
Municipality withdraws support from Science Congress for using the term ‘Genocide’
The Karaburun Municipal Directorate has withdrawn its support to the 10th Karaburun Science Congress because of the use of the term “1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocide” in its call for attendance.
14 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Targeted pianist Hamasyan: Hate is not the reason we came to Kars
Targeted pianist Hamasyan: Hate is not the reason we came to Kars
Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, who visited Turkey within the scope of his “Luys i Luso” tour, and later became the target of a discourse of hate from the Kars Ülkü Ocakları President, has published a statement.
14 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Agreement reached in Iran nuclear talks
Agreement reached in Iran nuclear talks
An agreement has been reached between Iran and six world powers at the nuclear talks held in Vienna, Austria.
14 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
First stay of execution for controversial ‘Green Road’
First stay of execution for controversial ‘Green Road’
The first stay of execution ruling has been issued regarding the government’s controversial ‘Green Road’ that would connect the Black Sea highlands. A court has suspended the permission given for the Avusor-Haczane section of the road.
14 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Police attacks and disperses Yerevan barricades
Police attacks and disperses Yerevan barricades
On 6 July at noon, the police forced protestors, who for the last two weeks had taken to the streets to voice their opposition to the electricity price rise, out of Baghramyan Avenue in Yerevan.
7 July 2015 Haber Merkezi
Yerevan protests dwindle
Yerevan protests dwindle
Protests against an electricity price rise appear to have lost momentum: The government’s suspension of the price rise for “re-examination” as well as differences in opinion and indecision among protestors have played their part.
2 July 2015 Alin Ozinian
‘Race code’ to be abolished in education
‘Race code’ to be abolished in education
The procedure of investigating the ‘race code’ of students in state records for students applying to non-Muslim schools is to be abolished. A public mandate has been prepared to end the procedure that received a very strong reaction. According to the public mandate that will be published in the Official Gazette in the coming days, headmasters will have the authority over school registrations. Schools will now also have the right to recommend teachers of cultural courses in Turkish to the Ministry of National Education.
2 July 2015
Armenia: LGBTI community forced to conceal identity to avoid trouble
Armenia: LGBTI community forced to conceal identity to avoid trouble
Nvard Mafaryan, Pink Armenia Project Coordinator, travelled from Armenia to Istanbul to take part in the panel titled “LGBTI Struggle in Neighbouring Armenia” organized on the occasion of the 23rd LGBTI Pride Week, and spoke to AGOS about the LGBTI community in Armenia that is trying to protect its existence against the homophobia of the State and media, and the intersections between the rights’ struggles in Armenia and Turkey. The conversation then inevitably led to the continuing protests in Yerevan.
26 June 2015 Gözde Kazaz
Yerevan resists electricity price rise
Yerevan resists electricity price rise
Last night, police attacked the group that had resisted in Yerevan’s Freedom Square protesting against an electricity price rise.
23 June 2015 Haber Merkezi
Mithat Sancar: Tel Abyad is a continuation of Kobani
Mithat Sancar: Tel Abyad is a continuation of Kobani
The victory YPG and Burkan al-Furat won in the Tell Abyad region of Syria has become a topic of broad debate both because of the refuge influx into Turkey, and the heavy defeat suffered by ISIS. We talked with HDP Mardin MP Mithat Sancar, who follows developments in the region closely, about the importance of saving Tell Abyad from ISIS, and the accusations directed at YPG.
18 June 2015 Emre Can Dağlıoğlu
The secret everyone knows in Diyarbakır
The secret everyone knows in Diyarbakır
The tension in Diyarbakır has increased once again following first the bombings at a HDP rally, and then the murder of 4 people. Helsinki Citizens Assembly Member Nalan Erkem and Mazlumder Diyarbakır Board Member Reha Ruhavioğlu, who were in the commission that visited the city for observations, have recounted the situation in the city. According to eyewitnesses, a jihadist streak has become more prominent in the region for months, and although everyone including the police has been aware of this, no one has acted to prevent the events.
18 June 2015 Gözde Kazaz
‘We want to screen this documentary at Police Academies’
‘We want to screen this documentary at Police Academies’
Police violence once again arrives on the silver screen with the documentary ‘Article 16: Right to Life’. Co-director Yılmaz Kılıç says, “We did not shoot this documentary, it’s all the work of the police. All we did was to transmit their work.”
15 June 2015 Gözde Kazaz