"I will line them up against the walls. They will be laid down on the asphalt of the main square in Avshar," a village in Armenia's Ararat province where acting Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan was holding an election rally. "I will (...)
Until this week, former US president Ronald Reagan was the only US president to refer to what happened to Armenians living in the former Ottoman Empire in 1915 as "genocide".
But even then it was not part of a statement on the issue. Instead, the (...)
“Where you see destruction, death, robbery and violence, you know the Turks passed there,” said great Frenchman, novelist and poet Victor Hugo.
Aware of the Armenian nation's past and present sufferings, French President Emmanuel Macron seems to be (...)
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed her alarm at the continuing indiscriminate attacks on populated areas in and around Nagorno-Karabakh in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Monday, warning that the attacks (...)
As the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region enters its fourth week, the population of the disputed area continues to experience massive suffering. This latest crisis in the Caucasus has led to extensive military and (...)
Heavy fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia continued for the second week on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, predominantly inhabited by ethnic Armenians.
On Monday night, the spokesman for Nagorno-Karabakh's president announced the (...)
Armenia reported the first death on its soil after Azeri shelled the Armenian town of Vartenis Tuesday morning, Reuters reported. Azerbaijan and Armenia accused each other of firing into each other's territory far from Nagorno-Karabakh, the conflict (...)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues to make life more difficult for Christians and Muslims alike, both inside his country and in the world outside.
On Friday, a top administrative court in Turkey paved the way for the most visited monument standing in (...)
In our modern world, most of the peoples and nations living on Earth seek to live in harmony and peace. But seemingly not Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Last week, a Turkish court heard a petition seeking to convert the Hagia Sophia museum (...)
Turkish journalist Hakan Aygun was sent to prison on Friday over Twitter posts thought to insult Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's call to raise funds to aid victims of the coronavirus pandemic.
Aygun's posts were critical of Erdogan's (...)
On the day the Armenian community in Egypt, together with the Western world, celebrated Palm Sunday, head of the community, Primate of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Egypt Bishop Ashod Mnatsaganian, revealed to Ahram Online his community's donation (...)
Ever since the planet went into a state of quarantine as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, with severe measures being taken by governments across the world to halt the spread of the virus, many people's behaviour has changed, at least within (...)
It was only a year ago that I decided to use the first line of the Cairo Metro, opened in 1987, to go to work. With some hygiene and technology upgrades on the metro system in Cairo recently, I thought it would be a time-saving and exciting (...)
The 75-year-old Houssaper Cultural Association will celebrate its foundation in Egypt on 29 November with a concert and folk dance performance at the main hall of the New Generation International School in Obour City.
In the cultural programme's (...)
For many years, the US Congress and successive American administrations have refused to use the term genocide to describe the atrocities the Armenian nation suffered a century ago under the Ottoman Empire — ostensibly for fear of offending Turkey. (...)
Not Arab, not Persian, not Turk… but Kurdish.
A video went viral on social media of a Syrian woman cradling her daughter's dead body, grieving, as she fled the Turkish bombardement in southern Syria. “I left my husband behind not knowing if he is (...)
In the 12 May episode of “Iftar with Nihat Hatipoglu,” aired on the Turkish ATV during Ramadan, a 13-year-old Armenian Christian child was forced to convert to Islam, in a live broadcast from Istanbul's Sultan Ahmet Square, by performing the Muslim (...)
In his speech Saturday, at the 28th Consultation and Evaluation Meeting of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the “events of 1915 and the Armenians' claims” of being subjected to (...)
In his speech Saturday, at the 28th Consultation and Evaluation Meeting of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Ankara, President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the “events of 1915 and the Armenians' claims” of being subjected to (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron last week announced that France will “make 24 April a national day of commemoration of the Armenian Genocide”. Speaking to the Armenian community at a dinner in Paris organised by the Coordinating Council of Armenian (...)
For the second year in a row, Lebanon's Homenetmen Antelias women's basketball team were crowned champions at the Arab Clubs Championship, defeating Egypt's Ahly 83-57.
The Lebanese-Armenian team, part of the Lebanese League, remained undefeated in (...)
We all have our favourite Aznavour song. For some, it could be all of them.
Born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian on 22 May, 1924, the French-Armenian legend died Monday morning at the age of 94 in the village of Mouriès, South of France. The internet (...)
We all have our favourite Aznavour song. For some, it could be all of them.
Born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian on 22 May, 1924, the French-Armenian legend died Monday morning at the age of 94 in the village of Mouriès, South of France. The internet (...)
Born in Yerevan in 1990, Armenian Minister of the Diaspora Mkhitar Hayrapetyan, who begins an official visit to Egypt this week, earned his Master's degree from the Department of Oriental Studies at Yerevan State University in 2013. In 2011, he (...)
“Egyptian-Armenian relations are centuries old, and they will continue to grow, as we are witnessing today,” Primate of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Egypt, Bishop Ashod Mnatsaganian, who was appointed in 2006.
“All our community members enjoy the (...)