On January 18, the eve of the anniversary of the 2007 murder of journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul, Mr. Eilian Williams, leader of the Cardiff organization “Solidarity with the Victims of All Genocides”, and one of his colleagues were physically attacked by the members of the Turkish Embassy in London when they wanted to deliver a letter of protest to the Ambassador Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz.
Most of Armenians leaving their country would prefer to move to Turkey with the entire family. The way it usually works is that one member leaves, finds a place to live, earns some money, and then sends for the others. They also bring the kids to Istanbul, who wind up working as exploited labor.
This is the last article penned by Hrant Dink. It appeared in the January 10, 2007 edition of AGOS, nine days before Hrant was murdered outside the AGOS office in Istanbul.
After Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream came to power in a peaceful way through the parliamentary elections in Georgia, we can notice interesting developments in the foreign policy of that country.
29 year-old Kristineh Mikayelyan fell in love with a man she only knew over the telephone. Over the course of a year, the young woman handed over some 3 million AMD in cash and gold jewelry to a man she had never seen in person.
The absurdity in all this is that on January 10, the Vanadzor Municipality’s website boasted: “We are continuing the difficult snow removal work.” Oh really? Perhaps the municipality’s snow removals crews got lost somewhere on the way to the job.
The RA Police today issued a statement that as of today there are 2,507,960 registered voters on the official electoral rolls.
US regulators have ordered banking giant JP Morgan Chase to revise its money laundering protection systems, which they said contained “deficiencies” that could leave the bank vulnerable to use by criminal groups.