Armenian children gather at the Akhalkalak Youth Center to for an annual Fall festival, where they celebrate Armenian culture with unique song and dance performances and plays.

The Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group have been tasked with preparing a statement for the OSCE summit in Astana that could be signed by both Baku and Yerevan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with the Voice of Russia, voicing hope that the Co-Chairs would succeed.

Two scientific publications have recently included reports on research conducted by the Cosmic Ray Division of the Artem Alikhanyan National Laboratory (formally the Yerevan Physics Institute) in Armenia. The research addressed in these two articles deals with terrestrial cosmic rays produced in the Earth’s atmosphere.

In Tuesday’s online edition of the German Der Spiegel–one of five international media outlets that published the WikiLeaks cables–a piece entitled “America’s Dark View of Turkish Premier Erdogan,” pieces together the serious concerns by US diplomats about Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the American perspective of the Turkish leader.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and other Georgian leaders deeply offended official Yerevan by repeatedly ignoring phone calls from their Armenian counterparts during Georgia’s disastrous 2008 war with Russia, according to a leaked U.S. diplomatic document.

Heads of State and Government from the 56 OSCE participating States and 12 Partner countries are in Astana for the OSCE Summit, set to start tomorrow in the Palace of Independence.

Turkey’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan “simply hates Israel” on religious grounds, US cables released by WikiLeaks say, reflecting growing US misgivings over Ankara’s foreign policy.

The USC Institute of Armenian Studies and the Armenian Review have organized a commemorative academic conference on the ARF’s history, current activities and future prospects. Today, we introduce the speakers and topics of the third panel of the conference, titled, “The ARF Between Nation and State.”

Turkey’s foreign minister has brushed aside a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable that described him as “exceptionally dangerous.”

Ahmet Davutoglu told reporters in Washington on Tuesday that documents released by WikiLeaks “will not affect our foreign policy.”

In a report about Erdogan and the AK Party after two years in power, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman notes that the study of history in the country is subject to “to rigid taboos, denial, fears, and mandatory gross distortions,” noting that without facing its past, Turkey cannot take on the challenge of becoming an EU member. “Until Turkey can reconcile itself to its past, including the troubling aspects of its Ottoman past, in free and open debate, how will Turkey reconcile itself to the concept and practice of reconciliation in the EU?” asks Edelman.

Official U.S. documents leaked Sunday and Monday not only have the potential of damaging ties between Turkey and the United States, but they offer a telling insight into Washington’s perception of Turkey’s government over the past eight years, the Turkish Hurriyet Daily reported.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday commented on the release by WikiLeaks of dozens of classified U.S. diplomatic cables that raise a series of concerns by US diplomats and State Department officials over an increasingly unreliable Turkey.

Classified documents released Sunday by WikiLeaks will likely make the final months of Gabby Levy’s term as Israel’s ambassador to Ankara even more challenging amid already-deteriorating relations between the two countries, the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review reported Tuesday.

A report sent to the State Department by U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman, and carrying the subject line “turkish p.m. Erdogan goes to washington: how strong a leader in the face of strong challenges?” attempted to sum up Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s character before his scheduled visit to Washington. The “confidential” report, leaked by WikiLeaks just yesterday, was dated Jan. 20, 2004 and was scheduled to be declassified on Jan. 7, 2014.