Four Turkish human rights and anti-racism groups sent a letter to the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev urging him ”to urgently put an end to the lynching campaign against Ekrem Eylisli” for his positive portrayal of Armenians.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has stripped a prominent novelist of the title of “People’s Writer” as well as his presidentially awarded pension for writing a book that casts a sympathetic light on Armenians.

Amnesty International called on the Turkish authorities to carry out a prompt, thorough and impartial investigation into the series of attacks on elderly Armenian women in Istanbul.

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) publishes dozens of juicy stories every year. But very few of them generate the kind of response the group has received this month after naming Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev corruption’s “person of the year” for 2012.

Turkish airports operator TAV plans to apply jointly with shareholder Aeroports de Paris (ADP) for prequalification for rights to operate New York’s LaGuardia airport, TAV’s chief executive said on Wednesday.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev announced a sharp hike in military spending and again warned Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Three Kurdish women were shot dead in Paris in killings that appeared politically motivated, police and other sources said Thursday.

The European Parliament-Armenia Friendship Group was launched Wednesday inside the parliament building, headed by Dr. Eleni Theocharous (Group of the European People’s Party, Cyprus) and with the presence of 25 delegates from the Armenian National Assembly, lead by Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan.

The funeral of 84-year-old Marissa Kuchuk (Küçük), who was brutally murdered in her apartment in Istanbul, was held on Jan. 5, amid fears that violent acts against the country’s Christian minorities will continue to be swept under the rug.

Members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey argued over who killed the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, Turkish newspapers reported on Jan. 3.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has won the first ever Organized Crime and Corruption Person of the Year bestowed by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

In a debate that lasted more than 90 minutes on Thursday, members of the British House of Commons highlighted Azerbaijan’s gruesome violation of human rights and urged the British government to take action about the continued oppression of journalists and political opposition by official Baku.

Three months after extraditing axe-murderer Ramil Safarov to Azerbaijan, where he was pardoned and pronounced a national hero, Hungary opened its first ever trade office in Baku earlier this month in hopes of advancing economic relations with the very government that applauds ethnically motivated murder.

Vandals sprayed anti-Christian graffiti on Jerusalem’s Monastery of the Cross and at an Armenian cemetery overnight, Agence France Presse reported.