The Armenia-Turkey protocols were submitted by President Serzh Sarkisian’s office to Armenia’s Constitutional Court three days ago, reported Court Chief of Staff Aroushan Hakopyan.

When reviewing the recently signed Protocols regarding diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey, given that settling the border is a sovereign right, that Armenia’s elected leaders have never stated they have territorial claims on Turkey, and that the Karabagh conflict is not explicitly part of the Protocols, what remains for debate is the “sub-commission on the historical dimension.”

The recent signing of protocols by the governments of Armenia and Turkey that was brokered by leading states of the international community marks the beginning of a process that would lead to establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries. Constituencies in both countries find some or all of the protocols problematic. We the former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars write to you to express our concern about one of them: the establishment of a historical commission to study the fate of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

A respected international watchdog reported on Tuesday a further slight increase in government corruption in Armenia, ranking it among the 60 most corrupt countries of the world covered by its annual surveys.

Despite the propaganda efforts of the mainstream media, US government, Turkish government and even the Armenian government to try to convince the world that the Protocols are opposed only by the Diaspora, there is an enormous amount of evidence that shows it is equally seen as detrimental by the citizens of Armenia itself. A poll [...]

By Appo Jabarian Los Angeles (USA Armenian Life Magazine) -  The Noyan Tapan News Agency reported this week that Arkady Ghukasyan, the former President of Artsakh, currently Armenia’s Ambassador-at-Large, and the Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of Armenia Fund has been visiting the United States and Canada tosolicit donations ahead of the upcoming Thanksgiving [...]

By Shahan Kandaharian Lebanon (Aztag Daily) – The criticism of the prominent Swiss newspaper against its government is characteristic. The “Neo Zuricher Zeitung” newspaper criticizes the country’s foreign ministry, for mediating between Armenia and Turkey in the process of normalization of their ties as well as signing of the protocols. The main issue of the [...]

On Nov. 6, representatives from five prominent Bay Area Armenian-American organizations met with the Armenian Prime Minister, Tigran Sargsyan, who was in Silicon Valley from November 5-8 attending the government sponsored ArmTech Congress ’09.

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By Razmig Shirinian As Turkey and Armenia attempt to rebuild their strained relationships, political suspicions, deeply rooted in history, resurface between the two. The implementation of a “roadmap” for restoring relations between the two countries could certainly change the political alignments in the Caucasus region. Turkey, however, seems to be aiming beyond the Caucasus and [...]