Armenian Online News

Ankara “strongly criticized” Canada on Thursday for referring to the killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying that it was “unacceptable, unfair and incompatible with friendly ties.” Read the rest of this entry »

Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian who is currently in Brussels met with Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union, the RA MFA press office reports. Giving a positive estimation to the Armenia-EU relations Vartan Oskanian said Armenia wishes to deepen political dialogue with the European Union. Read the rest of this entry »

Los Angeles Times Managing Editor Doug Frantz is facing accusations of discrimination for refusing to run a report about the Armenian genocide written by Mark Arax, a seasoned LAT writer of Armenian origin.  Frantz claims Arax was biased in his take on the issue, but Armenian community leader Harut Sassounian says there’s a much bigger story behind Frantz’s move. Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. President George Bush in his annual April 24 speech did not use the word “genocide” again. George Bush’s statement particularly reads as follows, “Each year on this day, we pause to remember the victims of one of the greatest tragedies of the 20th century, when as many as 1.5 million Armenians lost their lives in the final years of the Ottoman Empire, many of them victims of mass killings and forced exile. I join my fellow Americans and Armenian people around the world in commemorating this tragedy and honoring the memory of the innocent lives that were taken. The world must never forget this painful chapter of its history. Read the rest of this entry »

During World War I, the Young Turk political faction of the Ottoman Empire sought the creation of a new Turkish state, extending into Central Asia. Those promoting the ideology called “Pan Turkism” (creating a homogenous Turkish state) saw Turkey’s Armenian population as an obstacle to the realization of that goal. During the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923), the Young Turk Government systematically forced 1.5 million Armenians out of their ancestral homeland in present-day Turkey and annihilated them. Read the rest of this entry »

The United States Congress has recognized the Armenian Genocide long ago, the H. Res. 106 only confirms this historical fact and calls on President Bush to use this term in his annual April 24 address,” “Hay Dat” office head Giro Manoyan stated to a press conference in Yerevan. He said, already 191 House representatives and also 38 senators expressed their support for the Resolution. Read the rest of this entry »

In remarks delivered yesterday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressional Armenian Caucus Co-Chairman Frank Pallone sharply criticized the United Nations for caving in to Turkey’s pressure to block a long-awaited exhibit on the Rwanda Genocide because one of its display panels included a reference to the Armenian Genocide. Read the rest of this entry »

“Today we are participating in a glamorous ceremony honoring Karen Demirchyan, one of the outstanding figures of post-soviet Armenia,” RA Defense Minister Serge Sargsyan announced at the inauguration of the museum after Karen Demirchyan.

Rima Demirchyan, the director of the museum, was very excited, “I am convinced that Karen’s life wasn’t aimless, people assessed his work and devotion to the country,” says Ms. Demirchyan. Read the rest of this entry »

The names of two NKR presidential candidates are already known: Bako Sahakyan, the head of the NKR National Security Service, and Dr. Vania Avanesyan, professor of Artsakh State University. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Yerevan faced its regular shootings. This time the victim was Aram Vardanyan, authority known as “Vstrechi Aper”.

At the sight of an explosive shell, his friend and he tried to defend themselves with gun shootings.

As a result, a person got wounded and a child was injured. Due to our information, Aram Vardanyan is safe and sound.

A law suit was brought into action. Read the rest of this entry »