An Azerbaijani Member of Parliament said Monday that OCCRP was biased by Armenian interests in its selection of Ilham Aliyev as OCCRP's "Man of the Year" according to the News.Az website. MP Fuad Muradov claimed to have inside information that Edik Baghdasaryan, director of HETQ and Armenian Investigative Journalists, influenced the selection through his position on the board of directors of OCCRP.
Contrary to their previous assertions, senior executives at the embattled Swedish telecom TeliaSonera were fully aware they were working with the daughter of Uzbekistan's dictator's when they opened a subsidiary in that country, according to emails recently submitted to the Swedish courts.
A petition has been started on the US president Obama administration web page to call to open the Turkish-Armenian border. Those who have signed the petition want the border to be opened, at least for refugees from Syria.
We, the Hetq staff, wish to extend our heartfelt condolences to reporter Ani Hovhannisyan and family on the passing of her father, Mr. Marat.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) in Bethlehem has had a rethink regarding its stance vis-a-vis the protocols in practice at the city's Nativity Church, rescinding a recent decision that had threatened to pit one Christian church against another.
On January 18, linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky will give a lecture dedicated to the memorial of Hrant Dink in Bogazici University, Istanbul. The title of Chomsky's lecture was announced as "Turkey and The Emerging World Order".