NEWS

HDP’s co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş answered Yetvart Danzikyan’s questions about current issues on “periscope” broadcast.

The symbol of the confiscation of the properties of Armenian society, Kamp Armen’s deed is returned to Gedikpaşa Armenian Protestant Church Foundation. Foundation’s lawyer Sebu Aslangil declared that the returning process is done.

Report prepared by Diyarbakır Bar Association covers a detailed examination of all the facts and incidents took place in Cizre town between 4 and 12 September 2015.

European Court of Human Rights said the final word on controversial Perinçek case which has been going run and run for about ten years. Grand Chamber decided that Switzerland had violated Doğu Perinçek’s freedom of expression by a majority of 10 judges against 7.

An investigation against publisher, journalist and human rights activist Ragıp Zarakolu is launched.

What is the actual extent of the relation between Armenia and Russia? We talked to Gevorg Ter-Gabrielyan, the Director for Armenia-based Eurasia Partnership Foundation, about the relation between Armenia and Russia.

Switzerland-Armenia Association, which filed the first criminal complaint against Perinçek, evaluted the ruling of ECHR to Agos:

Many of the 25 public officials who are included in a bill of indictment as part of Dink case are accused of murder in the first degree, leadership or membership of an armed crime enterprise, destroying the official documents and some of them are accused of murder by omission and some others are accused of official misconduct.

Diyarbakır Bar President Tahir Elçi is released by the court to which he was taken with an arrest warrant.

Working on the Christians in Turkey and Middle East, journalist and historian Sebastien de Courtois was in İstanbul to attend “Minorities in Middle East: A Tough Future” conference that was held in French Cultural Center on October 9. We talked to Courtois about the Shingal exile, refugees’ condition in France and the ancient minorities of Middle East.