Turkish authorities are building a 30 centimeters wide and 3 meters high concrete wall in Kuşaklı village of Reyhanlı town on Turkish-Syrian border in order to prevent “border violations”.

Canada’s CBC and Radio Canada are doing a documentary for the 100th anniversary of Armenian Genocide. bianet interviewed Ines Faro, owner of the idea and the journalist of the documentary.

What did Armenians think about Erdoğan’s speech on April 24? Elif Akgül reported from Yerevan.

From the early hours of yesterday morning, thousands flocked into the Armenian Genocide Monument in Yerevan, leaving flowers in memory of those who lost their lives in 1915.

Most commentators have turned a blind eye to some of the more unsavoury aspects of either Putin and the Maidan, depending on their ideological background. Hypocrisy is everywhere, but that doesn't mean we should be ambivalent about what's happening in Ukraine.

The Armenia-Turkey border is shut down by Turkey since over 20 years. Being pressed in this difficult corner of the world, the issue of the closed border is the bleeding wound of Armenia, which is languishing the country everyday. This is an issue that even the friends of Armenians in Turkey are still hesitant to talk about it.

On the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, bianet interviewed Hayk Demoyan, Armenian Genocide Museum Director in Yerevan. “Turkey must recognize the Armenian Genocide for the sake of its people and democratization,” Demoyan said.

Experts, monitoring organizations, journalists including bianet have met around “Safety Net for European Journalists” project to make a difference for media freedom in Europe.

“I felt that my tears were not enough. It was a big tragedy and I should do something. I should tell people why such a young boy escape and come to their country.”

“Tahrir, Taksim, Tempelhof” can be taken, therefore, as a provocation to rethink the similarities and differences as well as the connections between these sites, one located in Europe, another in the Middle East, and a third bridging the two.

Twitter officials Crowell, McSweeney and Nieto are currently visiting Turkey. The company reportedly declined the government’s demand to open an office in Turkey.

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee released a statement saying that they were unable to confirm whether a candidate is admitted for the prize.

Tensions between Kurdish students and ultranationalist Turkish students in Near East University left with the arrest order of 16 students for 3 days. The police is looking for 164 suspects.

The pilot of downed Syrian jet spoke in the hospital in Latakia and he defended himself that he had never transgressed the border.

Michael Dickinson, an artist who has been deported after facing prosecution for his caricatures on PM Erdoğan, moved to an occupation house in London.

Ayşe Nana, an Istanbulite Armenian who allegedly inspired Fellini’s La Dolce Vita with her flamboyant dance performance, died in Rome at the age of 78.

PYD Co-Chair Salih Muslim told bianet that the stakeholders in Geneva 2 talks didn’t represent the Syrian people. “They can’t enforce a ceasefire given that they didn’t have any influence on the opposing groups in Syria,” he said.

Gizem Akhan, one of 30 Greenpeace activists who have been arrested for protesting the oil drills in the North Pole, shared her arrest days with bianet.

Despite enjoying a fair bit of local support, local human rights organizations (LHROs) in the Global South are still largely dependent on foreign funds. To better tap into local resource pools, LHROs will have to rethink their funding strategies, and perhaps reconsider some of their activities.

After observing the latest KCK trials, PEN Norway Delegation raised their concerns over the lack of evidence regarding the accusations towards journalists and writers.