Armenian diaspora

The international auction house Sotheby's said on May 31 it would proceed with the auction of a painting by a famous Russian artist that the Russian authorities had said was stolen. 

Delighted Armenians have celebrated victory after a controversial demolition plan for Kamp Armen was shelved, as the land owner of the building donated it to an Armenian foundation.

Efforts to demolish Kamp Armen, an Armenian orphanage in Istanbul's Tuzla district that was expropriated in the wake of Turkey's 1980 military coup, began early May 6. 

Among outstanding Armenian politicians and intellectuals, 235 of them were arrested in Istanbul on April 24, 1915; their fate is unknown. Armenian religious leaders sent a telegram to the U.S. president, ?Turks are slaughtering Armenians.? Thus the date April 24 is adopted as the alleged genocide date. 

Turkey has summoned the Vatican's ambassador in Ankara over the Pope Francis's comments on the mass deportation of Armenians in 1915 during a solemn mass in Vatican April 12.

Pope Francis referred the killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as "the first genocide of the 20th century," citing a statement signed by John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch in 2001.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has challenged the Armenian diaspora to come up with ?documents? to resolve the intractable political issue surrounding the mass killings of Ottoman Armenians 100 years ago.

Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, sent to prison over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink

Former head of Turkey's police intelligence, Ramazan Akyürek, was sent to prison late on Feb. 27 over the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, according to police sources.
      

Many people from Turkey’s Jewish community are leaving the country after increased threats and attacks, a prominent businessman from the community has written in an article for the Istanbul-based Jewish newspaper Şalom.