Armenian Religion
ARMENIAN RELIGION. The Armenians' remotest ancestors immigrated to Anatolia in the mid-second millennium BCE. Related to speakers of the Thraco-Phrygian languages of the Indo-...
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Armenians
The Armenians emerged as a people in about 600 BCE, occupying a rugged region in the Transcaucasus in western Asia. Although at various times the Armenians created an independent state, whic...
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Armenian Americans
Overview
The estimated 700,000 Americans of Armenian ancestry are descended from an ancient nation located at the borders of modern Russia, Turkey, and Iran. Through much of the pas...
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House sponsors of a resolution that would label as genocide the 1915 killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks have asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi to delay a vote on the measure because they feared it woul...
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Fifty-three Nobel laureates are calling on Turkey and Armenia to open their border and resolve their differences over the mass killings of Armenians by Turks in the early 20th century.In a letter r...
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An ancient Armenian church, perched on a rocky island in a vast lake, has become a modern symbol of the divisions and fitful efforts at reconciliation between Turks and Armenians whose history of b...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday the U.S. should not be involved in a dispute between Turkey and Armenia over whether the killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians almost a century a...
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Israel's government expressed concern Thursday over the U.S. congressional debate on the mass killings of ethnic Armenians in Turkey 90 years ago, but tried to deflect pressure from Turkey to take ...
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Turkey's foreign minister said Tuesday a proposed resolution in Congress to condemn as genocide the early 20th century killings of up to 1.5 million Armenians would harm Turkish-American relations ...
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers have introduced a resolution urging the government to recognize as genocide the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians at the end of World War I.The measure is likely t...
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A journalist who faced constant threats and legal proceedings as one of the most prominent voices of Turkey's shrinking Armenian community was shot to death Friday at the entrance to his newspaper'...
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A House panel defied President Bush on Wednesday and approved a measure that he said would damage U.S. goals in the Middle East.The measure that would recognize the World War I-era killings of Arme...
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