Support Grows for Dink Resolution

BAGHDAD (BBC) — Turkish warplanes have attacked some 70 Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq, the Turkish military says. It says the raid began in the early morning on February 3 and its planes returned safely after successfully completing the mission. Kurdish officials say several border villages were bombed. There are no reports yet of [...]

BRUSSELS (Itar-Tass) — The European Union (EU) has opened permanent offices in Azerbaijan and Armenia. They were inaugurated during visits to the South Caucasus countries February 4-6 by the EU Commissioner for External Relations and Neighborhood Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitri Rupel, whose country holds the EU rotating presidency.
During the trips to Armenia [...]

ISTANBUL (BBC) — It is a story that has set Turkey abuzz with rumor and speculation.
At its heart is an ultra-nationalist gang known as Ergenekon, exposed when 33 of its alleged members were seized in a police raid in late January.
The claims widely reported in the Turkish press ever since read like a thriller. They [...]

WATERTOWN, Mass. — The city of Newburyport last week formally withdrew from the Anti Defamation League’s (ADL) No Place for Hate (NPFH) program, reported the Armenian National Committee (ANC).
Newburyport has become Massachusetts’ 11th municipality to end relations with the NPFH program due to the ADL’s failure to unambiguously acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and its continued [...]

NEW YORK — On February 4, Charity Navigator gave the Fund for Armenian Relief (FAR) a four star rating.
Charity Navigator, America’s premier charity evaluator, highlights the fine work of efficient charities and provides donors with essential information needed to give them greater confidence in the charitable choices they make.
FAR earned its second consecutive four-star rating [...]