The Armenian Community & Church Council of Great Britain (ACCC) has followed with deep concern the developments which have on the 10th of October 2009 culminated in the signing of the Protocols for the establishment of Diplomatic relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey.

The Armenian Revolutionary Federation unveiled on Friday a detailed plan, which it called a “roadmap to regime change”, saying that for Armenia to persevere and survive, fundamental changes are needed to its socio-economic, political, and governmental structures to ensure the pursuit of a national agenda.

As the Armenia-Turkey protocols were being signed on October 10, over 300 Armenians in Toronto gathered at a protest rally at Nathan Phillips Square in front of the Winston Churchill statue to voice their opposition to the agreement.

STEPANAKERT (Hetq.am)–Representatives of political parties in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, at the initiative of the ARF, assembled at the party’s offices in Stepanakert to discuss the possible ramifications of the current normalization stage of Armenian-Turkish relations on the Karabakh conflict settlement. The political representatives expressed their concerns that diplomatic negotiations now underway between Yerevan and Ankara [...]

Stratfor, a private intelligence organization based in Texas has called a recent accord between Turkey and Armenia to normalize relations and open borders a “hollow” agreement that can be “easily reversed.”

On Oct. 8, William Schabas, the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), addressed an open letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian, in which he said: “Acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide must be the starting point of any ‘impartial historical commission,’ not one of its possible conclusions.”

Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian arrived in the Turkish city of Bursa on Wednesday ahead of the Turkey-Armenia soccer match and during a meeting with Turkish leaders he said he was not asking the Diaspora’s permission about the protocols but rather telling them of a government decision.

At 11:16 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Saturday Armenia and Turkey signed the protocols on establishment and development of relations after a ‘glitch’ that delayed the signing for hours, requiring mediation by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The signing of an accord to restore diplomatic ties between Turkey and Armenia was delayed at the last minute Saturday due to concerns by the Armenian side over the wording of the Turkish side’s final statement.

The Hunger Strikers on Friday delivered a letter to the Armenian Consulate, requesting it be forwarded to Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian. The letter called on Sarkisian “to heed the voice of the Armenian people and refrain from signing these dangerous protocols,” which are set to receive their first endorsement by the Armenian and Turkish Foreign Ministers Saturday in Zurich.

YEREVAN (A1+) – Serzh Sargsyan’s pan-Armenian tour ended with a visit to Rostov-on-Don where he met with representatives of Armenian communities of Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. As reported by “Yerkramas” newspaper, there was nothing new in the speech by Serzh Sargsyan. What was more interesting was the idea that the National Assembly of [...]