AGOS Weekly / English

Political weekly focuses on issues such as democratization, minority rights, coming to terms with the past, the protection and development of pluralism.

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📌 The Silent Language of Armenian Needlelace

✒️ Aylin Vartanyan

▪️ Such tiny objects. Yet entire worlds survive inside them. Satinig’s hands touched these threads before her death.

https://t.co/p4AccYJF7Y

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📌 We Are Here

✒️ Maral Tavitian

▪️ Supported by funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and accompanied by photographer Alexis Pazoumian, I structured my reporting around one question: What does it mean to be an Armenian in Turkey today?

https://t.co/G8OGHoumKb

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🔴 May 1st in Istanbul: At least 80 detentions

◾️ Approximately 80 people have been detained so far following police intervention against groups wanting to go up to Taksim.

https://t.co/qFaO1sF5qx

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📌A Visit to Western Thrace: “Do Not Forget Us”

✒️ Vahé Tachjian

▪️ After successfully completing the work in Athens, Kokkinia, and Thessaloniki, our team had now arrived in Western Thrace to locate and digitize Armenian written traces here as well.

https://t.co/okf3OFHLR5

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Colonial Order: The Time of Patriarchy and Whiteness

✒️ Talin Suciyan

💬 "What is the connection between Frantz Fanon and Zaven Biberyan?"

https://t.co/E730XE9qvO

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🕯️Baydzar Toroslar, wife of Ferman Toroslar, has passed away

▪️ Baydzar Toroslar, the wife of Ferman Toroslar, author of the book "Exile" (Sürgün) published by Aras Publishing in Turkey has passed away in New Jersey at the age of 84.

https://t.co/w4sfVuAYYG

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🔴 ARMENIA TOWARDS THE ELECTION

📌 Is the government's claim "If the opposition wins, war will break out" realistic?

✒️ Ari K. Demircioğlu

https://t.co/ysWND5Hp6O

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🐰 Շնորհաւոր Սուրբ Զատիկ / Mutlu Paskalyalar / Happy Easter

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📌 You can say "Armenian Genocide," but not on the radio!

✒️ Ilgaz Gökırmaklı

▪️ The court considered the individual use of the term "Armenian Genocide" as freedom of expression, but did not evaluate its use in a radio broadcast within the same scope.

https://t.co/vURc8DlkuZ

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📌ATTACK ON CHRISTIAN REGION IN SYRIA: "Attackers must be held accountable"

▪️ "We demand that the security forces involved in the incident be held accountable and demand compensation for property damage.

https://t.co/MHkFb4EAJT

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🎭 Hangardz’s new play “52 Hertz” takes the stage

📌 A farewell to memory, loss, and invisibility

▪️The independent theater group Hangardz’s new play,
“52 Hertz,” brings the story of four women on an island on the brink of extinction to the stage.

https://t.co/KaxibzjAJu

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🗳️ Alen Bağ becomes the new president at Taksi̇m Sports Club

💬 "We achieved the impossible; we thank the members who did not spare their support"

https://t.co/jZKOLftqkg

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📌THE UK’S FIRST FEMALE ARCHBISHOP

💬 "In my youth, I certainly could never have imagined being where I am today"

https://t.co/29jqZR3cXq

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📌 "Digital Exiles" from Iran to Armenia

▪️Yerevan is no stranger to the influx of first Russian, and now Iranian digital exiles. In 2022, the city became a primary destination for thousands of Russians fleeing the fallout of war and financial sanctions.

https://t.co/Gg1OcCUP4a

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📌 ECHR Convenes for Osman Kavala

▪️ The ECHR is meeting once again for businessman Osman Kavala, who was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in the Gezi Park case. The final ruling is expected to be announced without delay in the coming months.

https://t.co/2FxekbNsLA

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📌 Hrant Dink School Hosts Huys Association

▪️ The Huys (Hope) Association, established to benefit individuals with special needs within the Armenian community, visited the Gedikpaşa Hrant Dink School.

https://t.co/3ApXhawZzi

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🗣️BAHÇELİ SPEAKS AT THE GROUP MEETING

📌 "A Terror-Free Turkey is the stance of the crescent against those who carry a cross in their bosom"

https://t.co/FilYm2rvBH

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🗳️ ARMENIAN ELECTIONS JUNE 2026 | A referendum of trust in the shadow of the undecided

✒️ Ari K. Demircioğlu

▪️ The voter wanted neither the return of the "old regime" represented by Robert Kocharyan nor to give a new blank check to Nikol Pashinyan.

https://t.co/XqVvKJv2z7

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📌 Seven Days in Silivri: Justice is There, Far Away

🖋️ Melike Çapan

▪️ In seven days spanning two weeks in Silivri, ten defendants finally had the opportunity to explain themselves before a judge for the first time.

https://t.co/jSMdhRMsAz

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📌 Where Did We Learn Not to See? Gaze, Power, and the Politics of the Body

✒️ Aylin Vartanyan | @parrhesiameet

💬 "In the Epstein case, documents are being opened and names circulate publicly. Yet the narrative still revolves around powerful men."

https://t.co/mrFFiPmeXc