This is not something new – but it is something we too often forget Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 24 May 2018 Up to 1.5 million of its people were killed during the First World War Getty How do you organise a successful genocide – in Turkish Armenia a century ago, […]
On an Istanbul street, have I just witnessed a positive step in history? The people of Turkey are leading the way over the Armenian genocide. We wait to see if their government will follow by Robert Fisk, The Independent A few hours before I sat down to write this article, […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT What’s in a name? Let’s start with the Persian Gulf. Or the Arabian Gulf. Or just the Arab Gulf. I’m indebted to reader (and surgeon) Ross Farhadieh for complaining to me last week about my use of “The Gulf” – bland, dull and historically anaemic […]
STORY SUMMARY Armenia on Tuesday invited Turkey’s leader to events next year marking the 100th anniversary of World War I-era massacres that Armenians say amounted to genocide, despite Ankara’s fierce rejection of the term. Relations between the two countries have long been soured by disputes over the massacres, in which […]
“About 50,000 Armenian refugees were flooding down the road… It was an amazing and tragic sight,” British Army medical officer Alan Glenn wrote years after he saw the survivors of […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Thursday 1 May 2014 Last week Turkish Prime Minister Recep Teyyip Erdogan expressed sorrow over the incidents involving Armenians that took place in April 24, 1915 during the Ottoman rule. This was the first time in the history of the Republic of Turkey that any top […]
She was a child of the Great War, born on a faraway killing field of which we know little, one of the very last witnesses to the last century’s first […]
Note by the editor: The headline is FAKE!!! The real headline should read: ‘Church restored by Muslim ruler’. I just wanted to see which of the two headlines will get […]
Perched spectacularly amid thickly forested mountains about 100 kilometres northeast of Yerevan, Haghartsin monastery is a masterpiece of medieval Armenian ecclesiastical architecture. Founded in the tenth century, the monastery – […]