Armenia

Armenia’s focus on 2015, not mending ties: Turkey

Turkey remains committed to normalizing its relations with Armenia, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu has stated, while underlining that Turkey will be monitoring Armenia’s “accelerated campaigns” in third countries, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the mass massacres of Anatolian Armenians, which many countries recognize as genocide.

'Food for diplomacy' project hosts Armenian chef

Kadir Has University’s Lifelong Education Center, in collaboration with its Culinary School, has initiated a project that blends food and diplomacy, with an award-winning Armenian chef from Yerevan cooking dishes with students Khashntur Vahagni, an ancient lamb dish named after the Armenian god of war, Vahagni, a pre-Chrstian deity, was the main dish cooked by award-winning Chef Grigori K.

France hosts Karabakh talks

French President Francois Hollande hosts leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan today as Europe makes a fresh push to end the festering conflict over Nagorno Karabakh.

Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited both countries last week after a sharp escalation in violence over the disputed region in recent months as war raged in Ukraine.

Police launch probe into ‘racist’ attack on Greek Armenian

Police have launched an investigation into the beating of a Greek of Armenian descent who claims to have been set upon last Saturday in Mandra, western Attica, by a group of around 20 assailants who, he alleges, were led by a man who ran as a would-be regional councilor in the May local and regional authority elections.

Turkish-German director Akın says his new movie ‘doesn’t apologize’ over Armenian issue

“The Cut,” Turkish-German director Fatih Akın’s new movie based on the 1915 events, made its long-anticipated world premiere at the 71st Venice Film Festival earlier this week. The film has received a mixed response from critics so far, but Akın says it has “fulfilled its purpose.” 

Fatih Akın says he is ready for polemics over his film on 'Armenian genocide'

Turkish-German director Fatih Akın’s recent film “The Cut,” which takes the Ottoman killings of Armenians in 1915 as its starting point, is one of the films competing for the coveted Golden Lion award at the 71st Venice Film Festival.

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