“Europe is open to our fashion. When I say ‘our' I mean that which we have created. Nobody is saying that we should all wear the traditional Armenian costume, but even a small detail in the Armenian style – a sewing design, color or cut – would interest Europe,” said Mikayel Danielyan, fashion designer and head instructor at the Atex fashion center.
In Istanbul on January 19, 2006 at about 5 p.m., a sixteen-year-old Turkish boy named Ogun Samast gunned down the 52-year-old editor of the newspaper Agos and well-known Turkish-Armenian public figure, Hrant Dink.