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Yerevan Police Stop Protocols Protestors from Approaching Presidential Palace

Activists with the “Teghut Defense Group”, headed by Heritage Party MP Zaruhie Postanjyan, staged a demonstration outside the Armenian Government Building in Yerevan on Thursday protesting the recently signed Armenia-Turkey protocols.

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Open Letter to the Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu

Respected Minister, I read with interest the text of your speech of the 21st of October at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. My impressions were mixed. However, I mainly felt that you wished to present what was desirable, instead of what was real.

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Environmental Groups Protest Protocols in Yerevan; Police Crack Down

On October 22, a number of Armenian environmental groups staged a demonstration outside the Armenian Government Building in downtown Yerevan, protesting the recently signed Armenian-Turkish protocols.

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ARF To Demand Snap Elections if Sarkisian Makes Concessions on Karabakh

An Armenian opposition leader said on Tuesday President Serzh Sarksyan lacked public backing to make concessions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict to secure ties with foe Turkey and demanded elections if he tries.

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Turkey Accord Rings Alarm Bells

Armenians do not share world’s joy over protocols, fear Ankara has a hidden agenda. By Naira Melkumian and Gayane Mkrtchian in Yerevan, and Karine Ohanian in Stepanakert (IWPR) Armenia’s diplomatic and border agreement with Turkey, signed in Zurich on October 10, comes against a background of strong misgivings at home and even stronger concerns among [...]

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Thousands Protest Protocols In Yerevan’s Charles Aznavour Square

Thousands gathered at Yerevan’s Charles Aznavour Square Friday afternoon to continue their protest against the Turkey-Armenia protocols signed last Saturday. The document, scheduled for ratification by the Armenian Parliament in the coming weeks, will establish normal relations between Armenia and Turkey at the cost of Armenia signing an agreement that calls into question the Armenian Genocide, undermines the security of Armenia, and threatens the right to self-determination for the people of Karabagh.

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ARF to Seek Regime Change If Needed to Stop Protocols Ratification

YEREVAN—The Bureau of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation on Monday issued the following declaration after Saturday’s signing of the protocols on the establishment and development of relations between Armenia and Turkey in Zurich: Declaration The protocols on establishing relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey were signed on October 10. On this [...]

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Oct 17: ARF to Defy Government Ban to Rally Again in Yerevan

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation said on Wednesday that it will defy a government ban and again rally supporters in Yerevan this week in protest against the controversial Turkish-Armenian agreements penned in Switzerland on October 10 and scheduled to be ratified by the Armenian Parliament.

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Raffi Hovannisian: Open Letter to Nation on Protocols & Preconditions

The history of the Armenian people has been an ordeal of suffering, tragedy, and genocide. In this millennial series of misfortunes, however, never has the nation invited destruction upon itself.

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Genocide Survivors in Armenia Oppose Protocols

Farkha Hakobyan was born in the village of Sinan, located in the Ottoman villayet of Diyarbekir, in 1908. She doesn’t remember how old she was when she lost her mother.

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Over 60,000 Protest Protocols in Yerevan

Yerkir Media reported Friday morning that over 60,000 people in Yerevan participated in a procession to the Armenian Genocide Memorial Dzidzernagapert, urging Armenian President Serge Sarkisian not to sign the Turkey-Armenia Protocols. The rally, organized by the ARF, is the culmination of weeks of protests in Yerevan and in Diasporan communities around the world–sending a unified “Stop the Protocols” message to Armenia’s leaders.

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Will They Forgive Us?: Thoughts on the Protocols from a Citizen of Armenia

I wonder, will my grandfather and his sister, who lost their parents and were orphaned at the age of 10 and 5 respectively, forgive me. Will my grandfather and his sister, who were the only ones in their family to survive the Armenian Genocide, forgive you.

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