Armenians in Turkey

Armenian church in Istanbul hit by storm awaits permission to get repaired

Kuzguncuk was a multicultural neighborhood in Istanbul's Üsküdar up until the 1960s. The alleys are still full of old Rum houses and are home to two big Armenian churches, a GreekOrthodox church and several Jewish synagogues spread around the quarter. But the Surp Krikor Lusavoriç Armenian Church, on the main street by the Bosphorus, is having a hard time these days.

Turkish-Armenian writer who escaped from prison says he applied for political asylum in Greece

Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from prison two weeks ago after having been jailed in 2014 on charges of illegal construction, has announced that he had applied for political asylum in Greece and got his residence card there.

"We have applied for political asylum in Greece and got my residence card," Nişanyan said in a post on his Facebook on July 26.

The Ottoman lieutenant

Over the weekend my wife and I went to see the film "The Ottoman Lieutenant," directed by Joseph Ruben. It narrates the story of the love between an Ottoman officer and an American nurse in Van, the city that became a milestone with an Armenian insurgency in 1915. 

“Superman” promotes awareness on Armenian Genocide (video)

Former Superman Dean Cain is taking on a much more serious subject than most men in tights these days. The actor has produced a new film, “Architects of Denial,” which delves into the Armenian genocide and the denial by the Turkish government and other authoritative bodies that atrocities ever took place.

102 years later, the World still fails to come to grips with the legacy of the Armenian Genocide

On this date in 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals – Christians, for the most part – were forcibly deported from the Turkish capital of Constantinople. The number soon escalated into the thousands, and most were eventually murdered.

Erdoğan commemorates victims of 1915 Armenian killings

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.

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