Armenians of the Ottoman Empire
The Armenian presence within the geographical area of the Ottoman Empire is a very ancient one. In reality the area that eventually became the Ottoman Empire contained the lands of ancient Armenian royal dynasties, from antiquity to the Middle Ages. These regions are mostly included in present-day Turkey’s eastern provinces – and today’s Republic...
Armenia Offers Aid To Quake-Stricken Turkey
President Serzh Sarkisian reaffirmed Armenia’s readiness to send rescuers to earthquake-stricken Turkey on Monday as he and Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev jointly spoke to their Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul by phone during talks in Moscow. The 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern Turkish city of Van and surrounding areas on Sunday afternoon, killing at...
Cradle of Medieval Architecture
A sad report from National Geographic Daily News published in October 23, 2010, exactly a year from now. Still nothing has changed to improve the situation. Photograph by Umit Bektas, Reuters Damaged frescoes in the Church of St. Gregory of Tigran Honents tell a story of neglect in the medieval city of Ani, now...
‘Armenians are the foundations of Turkish theater’
This is an article from 2011 – Hürriyet Daily News Istanbul Municipal Theater is getting ready to stage famous Armenian writer Hagop Baronyan’s ‘the Eastern Dentist’ in its new season. The Istanbul Municipal Theater will stage Hagop Baronyan’s “Eastern Dentist” (Adamnapuyjn Arevelyan) as a musical in the new season, marking the first time an...
