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In February some Azerbaijani American community leaders ask public officials to sign Khojaly Remembrance Day proclamations. They are generally inaccurate and victimize those who have suffered persecution and genocide by Turkey and Azerbaijan. The mayor of Portland, Maine, agreed to a request made by the president of the Azerbaijani Society of Maine to issue a Remember Khojaly Day proclamation. Additionally, the Maine Holocaust and Human Rights Center (HHRC) cosponsored this matter. There may be similar instances across the U.S. and the globe.  Also, in February, Armenian American communiti...

While Turkey hit the headlines last week with a ban on paying for items with cryptocurrency, the government of India appears to be moving towards outlawing cryptocurrency completely. An unnamed senior government official told Reuters last month that a forthcoming bill this parliamentary session would include the prohibition of the “possession, issuance, mining, trading and transferring [of] crypto-assets.” Officials have subsequently done little to dispel the concern that they are seeking a full cryptocurrency ban: in response to questions by Indian MPs about the timing and the content...

China looms large in Turkey’s controversial waterway project Turkey is reportedly gearing up to partner with China in the construction of an artificial waterway parallel to the Bosporus, a project with likely implications for Russia and the United States in the Black Sea. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (back-L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (back-R) attend a signing ceremony ahead of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on May 13, 2017. April 12, 2021 While Turkey remains stuck between the West and Russia on a number of strategic issues, its dilemmas might grow even more com...

Opinion: Saudi Arabia should sue Turkey for stealing Prophet Muhammad's relics By Harut Sassounian The Arab News published on March 28 an article titled, “Book by Saudi author unravels Ottoman atrocities in Madinah.” The book was written by Saudi historian Muhammad Al-Saeed who exposed Ottoman atrocities against the Muslim population of the holy city of Madinah in Saudi Arabia in 1918 when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Al-Saeed, in his book, “Seferberlik: A Century on from the Ottoman crime in Madinah,” tells the seldom-known story of the deportation and killings of the populatio...

Last Updated: Italy Strongly Disapproves Two-state Deal For Ethnically Divided Cyprus Italy FM said that he underscored his “complete solidarity” with Cyprus over “provocations and unilateral actions” that harm the island’s sovereign rights Italian Foreign Minister on March 9 said that the nation strongly disapproves of any deal to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus that doesn’t conform to an already agreed-upon federal framework that’s spelt out in UN resolutions. According to AP, Luigi Di Maio said that he assured his Cypriot counterpart, Nikos Christodoulides, that Italy ...