Hbs Yerevan Launches the Armenian Translation of David Leupold's Book On April 29, the Heinrich Boell Foundation Yerevan Office – South Caucasus Region, the Turpanjian Institute of Social Sciences (AUA), and the Oral History Matters (OHM) initiative (AUA) hosted the official book launch of the Armenian translation of David Leupold's Embattled Dreamlands: The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish Memory in Akian Art Gallery at the American University of Armenia.
Reckoning with the Armenian Genocide. The Politics of Memory in Turkey Cengiz Aktar critically analyses the enduring impact of the denial of the Armenian Genocide on Turkey's state formation, social ethics and political culture, arguing that unresolved memory perpetuates systemic decay. By Cengiz Aktar
The State of Armenia-Turkey Relations 2018 is shaping up to be a consequential year for Turkey and Armenia. Both countries have been experiencing fundamental transformation of their social and political fabric. This short review discusses the influence of these changes on Armenia-Turkey relations. հայերեն By Philip Gamaghelyan and Pinar Sayan
Performance “Linking our stories Beyond Borders” (2014) (closed project) Breaking stereotypes, linking and humanizing the lives of people considered being “enemies” – this is the main reason why a group of young women from Armenia and Turkey have united.
Turkey-Armenia Journalists’ Dialogue Programme In the fourth year of the programme, aiming to strengthen ties between journalists from Turkey and Armenia and to establish direct means of exchanging news sources, journalists, columnists, and bloggers from Armenia visited Turkey and learned in-depth about various issues on Turkey’s agenda.
Ani Dialogue II in Istanbul After signs of a breakthrough in 2008 diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia are in a bottleneck again. At the same time there is increasing interest in both societies in overcoming legacies of the past, exchanging experiences with neighbors and aiming towards an open border. Since its inauguration in October 2010, the Ani Dialogue — organized by the HBF South Caucasus, the HBF Turkey and the Caucasus Institute in Armenia — is dedicated to bottom-up reconciliation and normalization of mutual ties between Turkey and Armenia.
Ani Dialogue kick-off conference reveals great potential in Turkish Armenian civil society cooperation The first meeting of the Ani Dialogue has ended with great achievements in building relations and preparing the ground for future joint projects between the Turkish and Armenian civil society. A new bottom up process was inaugurated, which aims at contributing to a better understanding of both societies and, in a long term, to a relaxation in Armenian Turkish relations.
