Armenians in Turkey
Turkish Armenian named Istanbul State Opera and Ballet director
The Turkish Armenian conductor of the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet Theater choir, Kevork Tavityan, has been named the new director general of the theater.
Tavityan was appointed to the position when the former director, ?amil Gökberk, retired after reaching the age limit.
Armenian pianist performs at Ani ruins
Award-winning Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan performed a concert on June 21 in the historic ruins of Ani, located on the Turkish-Armenian border.
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Armenian politician vows to 'oust' leader of Turkey's Liberal Party
A young politician has set his eyes on becoming Turkey?s first Armenian party leader by ?staging a coup? inside Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
The LDP?s Istanbul deputy candidate Arda Karap?nar told Turkish news portal Radikal on May 28 that he is ready to replace the party?s seasoned chair, Cem Toker.
12 crypto-Armenians from Dersim baptized in Istanbul
Twelve Armenians from Dersim, an older name of the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli, were baptized in an Armenian church in Istanbul on May 9, daily Agos has reported. The baptized group came from families who had concealed their Christian and Armenian heritage out of fear of social prejudice.
Luxembourg envoy defends 'genocide' resolution with democracy
Luxembourg Ambassador to Ankara Arlette Conzemius has defended the Luxembourg parliament?s move to recognize the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide by underlining the existence of the democratic system in her country.
Demolition of Istanbul Armenian orphanage pauses, amid outcry
Efforts to demolish Kamp Armen, an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul's Tuzla district that was expropriated in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, began early May 6.
ASALA victim calls for friendship
The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was an Armenian terrorist organization that operated from 1975 until the early 1990s. It conducted a series of assassinations against Turks throughout the 1970 and 1980s, killing 46 and injuring 299 people. Some 42 of the assassinated were Turkish diplomats.
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Turkish nationalist group lays wreath in front of Armenian newspaper
A group of Turkish nationalists left black wreaths in front of Agos, the bilingual Turkish-Armenian weekly, in the early hours of April 24 in an apparently aggressive move against the newspaper, whose editor Hrant Dink was murder by a nationalist in 2007.
Istanbul police disperse students commemorating 1915 massacres
Police dispersed Istanbul Technical University (?TÜ) students on April 24 as they attempted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the events of 1915, which Armenia and a number of countries recognize as genocide, Do?an News Agency reported.
Turkish scholar claims Ottoman Armenians killed their own people
A scholar from a university in central Turkey has claimed well-disguised Ottoman Armenians attacked their own villages in 1915 to win independence from the crumbling Ottoman Empire.