February 21, 2015, Saturday/ 17:00:00/ LAMİYA ADİLGIZI / ISTANBUL Centennial commemorations of the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I initiated by the Turkish government and to be celebrated on April 24 of this year — the same date as the centennial commemorations of what is called the “Armenian genocide” — have been cancelled due to…
Rick Feneley News and features writer The Sydney Morning Herald A row over monuments to historical atrocities is testing some of the assumptions of a harmonious, multicultural state, writes Rick Feneley. Japanese Australians worry their children will be bullied, as they say youngsters have been in the United States. Turkish Australians say they will become…
BOGOTA Hurriyet Daily News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called on Armenia to examine the 1915 events through the lens of “science, not politics,” criticizing the rejection of Ankara’s invitation to representatives of the country to attend war commemoration ceremonies in Turkey. “Let’s remove the 1915 events from the area of politics and refer…
By Brett Atkinson The New Zealand Herald Modern history is a presence in Turkey that confronts visitors, writes Brett Atkinson. For Kiwis, though, the welcome is always warm. They take breakfast seriously in the lakeside city of Van in remote southeastern Turkey. An entire street is filled with restaurants that serve only the most important…
On Feb. 6, human rights organizations in Turkey issued a statement urging world leaders to reject Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s invitation to take part in ceremonies commemorating the Battle of Gallipoli on April 24 this year. Instead, they asked that heads of states show solidarity with the descendants of survivors of the Armenian Genocide…
ANKARA Hurriyet Daily News The American administrative system, composed of three separate but co-equal branches of government, is the result of 238 years of experimentation and refinement, with a rigorous set of checks and balances so power is distributed across all three branches, the U.S. envoy to Ankara has said, indirectly joining an intense local…
ISTANBUL Hurriyet Daily News Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s invitation to ceremonies marking the centenary of the Battle of Gallipoli in Çanakkale in late April, which coincides with the remembrance day for the victims of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians, was “cynical and shortsighted,” Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has said. “They say any measures…
By Raffi Sarkissian International Business Times Armenian Genocide A picture released by the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute dated 1915 shows soldiers standing over skulls of victims from the Armenian village of Sheyxalan in the Mush valley, on the Caucasus front during the First World War.(Getty) According to Prime Minster David Cameron, a national service of commemoration…