Armenian Genocide

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sent a message to a religious ceremony held in the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul on April 24 to commemorate the victims of the 1915 killings of Armenians under Ottoman rule, addressing Patriarch Aram Ateşyan, general vicar of the Armenian patriarch of Turkey, and citizens of Armenian origin.

Cosmos Philly, a web-site with Greek-American news from Philadelphia, published a small but important analysis that sheds light to the Genocide of the Greeks of Asia Minor by the Ottoman Turks.

It compares it with the Jewish Genocide and it attempts to answer the question, why it is that so few know of the Genocide of the Greeks of Anatolia.

The Greek-Canadian Senator Leo Housakos delivered a speech in the Canadian Senate about the Genocide of the Greeks of Pontos from 1916 to 1923 and the need to be recognized by the Canadian government.

A Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker was temporarily suspended from the Turkish parliament on Jan. 13 for using the word "genocide" in reference to the World War I mass killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915, during heated discussions on changes to the constitution.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has condemned the parole of a convict in the U.S who murdered a Turkish diplomat in the 1980s. 

A court in Los Angeles accepted on Dec. 14 a defense attorney's demand for the conditional release of the Armenian-origin convict, Hampig Sassounian, who killed Turkish Consul General Kemal Arikan in Los Angeles on Jan. 28, 1982. 

Turkey's top soldier and technology minister got engaged in a row with an Armenian lawmaker on Nov. 20 during the 62nd NATO Parliamentary Assembly Annual Session held in Istanbul.

Turkey may leave the Creative Europe Program due to a continuing row over the mass murder of Armenians in 1915, Culture and Tourism Minister Nabi Avcı has said, adding that Turkey would not be harmed by the decision. 

The rationale provided by German deputies, including those of Turkish origin, for supporting the non-binding parliamentary resolution in the Bundestag that refers to the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 as "genocide," is that this "will contribute to healing the wound between Turks and Armenians," and "will also help normalize ties between Turkey and Armenia."

BELGRADE - Turkish president Erdogan has threatened to "leave" Europe to deal with its migrant crisis alone, saying that Germany "blackmailed" Ankara by recognizing the Armenian Genocide. He also called out the Germans over their "history" of mass killings.

The German parliament has passed a resolution calling Turkish crimes against Armenians in 1915 and 1916 genocide.

During the voting, only one MP abstained, and another voted against the resolution, entitled, "Remembrance and commemoration of the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and 1916."